Posting about my metal subgenre guys under the read more because I feel bad for posting art of them with basically no context (yay)
So, I’d like to think that most music genres have some sort of soul, just based on humans and their connection and love for music. My characters are basically a physical manifestation of that; corporeal representations of the music genre they represent. They’ll exist as long as people out there actually give a shit about the music, and considering how passionate metalheads are about their music, they won’t go away any time soon.
Since they aren't human, they don't need to do stuff like eat or sleep, but they can choose to do so.
The horns and tails that the extreme metal subgenres have are just for show and are only there to make them more distinctive in design. They aren’t demons or anything. I just like goat horns.
“How do they integrate into human society?” It’s not like they’re out of their element or anything. They behave like the fans of their music do. The only thing that would really impact that is their eclectic fashion sense/extra body parts, but I think it’d be funny if humans didn’t care about that sorta thing after a while, so it’s just not a huge issue in-universe.
"So what subgenres have you personified? What are their names?" Everyone tends to classify metal subgenres differently and there's so many depending on who you ask, so I'm only using 12 of them. Sorry if your favorite subgenre isn't on here! I just want my life to be easy.
Heavy Metal (basically whatever you think of when you think about English heavy metal bands from the 70s-early 80s.): Graham
Hair Metal: Roxanne
Doom Metal: Björn
Thrash Metal: Rocky
Death Metal: Cris
Black Metal: Orcus (Sven)
Power Metal: Hannes
Folk Metal: Vesa
Prog Metal: Jean
Symphonic Metal: Annette
Industrial Metal: Johann
Nu metal: Wes
"What are their ages?" I guess they're the same age as the subgenre they represent. Mentally and physically, though, they're like...20 somethings. Their ages don't really matter, but if you're worried about that kind of stuff they're all adults, so it's whatever.
I don't have any huge thing planned for them at the moment. They're just silly guys that I like to draw. I do plan on going back and tagging all the art featuring them as "posers" since that's what I call their universe. I'll probably go back and tag each character too if I'm not lazy.
Thanks for reading!
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