commission for @shaylistic of their oc shay and vanilla ice!! tysm for commissioning me again, i will never get bored of drawing these two ;v; (and i get better at it every time 😎)
Enya the Hag having to play head of HR at Dio’s thot house, trying to figure out what insurance form to use when you employ a fucking orangutan, and if paid statutory holidays applies to babies with a stand, or if hiring an ancient Anubis-posing magic sword counts as hiring a retired worker.
Umm Al Duwais is an evil jinn from the folklore on both sides of the Persian gulf. (And a reoccurring character in my comic)
Das/Duwais in her name is the Persian word for sickle. (Tho the word is also used in the Arabic side of the gulf, where alot of Persian words have entered the regional dialect. )
Basic facts: Umm al Duwais/Takes the form of a beautiful woman, the enchanting aroma of perfume emanates from her, she lures her victims(mostly men) to her and then chops them up with her sickles.
There's a lot of variety when it comes to stuff like where her sickles are so Im going to list as many as I know.
*her hands are sickles.
*she is holding sickles in her hands
*one of her legs is a sickle, the other is a donkey's leg.
*both her legs are camel legs. (This variation I think only exists on the Arabian/khaleeji side of the gulf)
*both her legs are sickles and she chops men in half while ... 👀 You know ..
*she appears in the sea, calls sailors to her and drags them underwater and chops them up with her sickle legs (this variation only exists on the Persian/Bandari side of the gulf as far as I can tell)
The D3aid3eh or D3aide3 haunts Kuwait. He's honestly a bit of a mystery to me because he seems to be throwing everything in the book at the fine people of Kuwait.
While a lot of these creatures have a specific MO, this guy; lurks in freshwater springs and drags people under the water, lurks in date palm groves and attacks people, throws unripened dates at people's houses at night, appears as a light leading people astray, ect.
He usually appears as an old man wearing rags, but can take other forms and mimic voices
Despite going through all this trouble my sources (my sister's Kuwaiti friends) say they never heard of him.
Danyal tends to keep to flavored tobacco and is fond of anything with cinnamon, but on occasion he’ll take to apricot, too. It’s not something he indulges in too often; as it is a more social activity and he doesn’t own a hookah himself, he only does so when visiting specialized bars with his group of Stand Users from Iraq before all heading off to Turkey together by 1979. After then, trips to those bars and cafes would be much more commonplace, especially with the added stress of being forced into asylum after escaping conflict
If he can help it, Dan prefers to smoke out of something expensive-looking. In all honesty, he’d probably scowl at whatever you offered if he thought it wasn’t enough for his tastes — unless he was desperate. Aside from that, I can see him using a mouthpiece that’s long and thin that he can wave around all snootily. He’d absolutely attempt twirling it between his fingers despite having the hose to work around
i decided to flex a little bit of my 80s anime muscles in this one :O i used to have an anime artstyle but art teachers and cringe culture beat it out of me lmao
ANYWAYS i need to watch this anime now. or read the manga bc the anime is STUPID hard to find gchvj. mine and tamami's vibes AND a chubby main character???? sign me UP
Not sure if I misunderstood the "ask me about my f/o" reblog, but seeing you're the certified Nilla expert and the flagrant lack of official content, I wanted to ask about your ideas regarding his nationality, childhood, family and what led him to serve Dio?
sorry in advance for sitting on this ask for so long 🥺 i’ve been trying to figure out how much is too much to post because i have WAY too many ideas for him 👁👁 — they’re all personal headcanons obviously, and i have a few blanks to fill in yet but,, y e a h — i’ll try to keep it brief but i might make a longer post later since i have so much if anyone’s interested but,, we’ll see
⋆ i headcanon him to be egyptian-american, more specifically an american mother and an egyptian father
⋆ he’s the youngest (and tallest) of three sons - his older brothers’ names are mahmoud and zahur — his birth name is abasi kulthum (عباسي كلثوم), not vanilla ice; that name change happens later on and i have an idea for it but i need to brainstorm it a bit more
side note: kulthum comes from egyptian singer umm kulthum because i can and will assign musical references at every opportunity
⋆ he grew up in new jersey, which i picked because of the state’s significant egyptian population
⋆ because his father was from alexandria, he’s familiar with arabic but he’s nowhere near fluent; he’s better with spoken word than writing and can hold a conversation but if the conversation strays from basic words, he’s lost
⋆ he was very close to his dad growing up so it was devastating when his father suddenly passed away when vanilla was only seven — his father’s passing sent his mother into a deep, inconsolable depression which caused her to give the boys up as she could no longer care for them — and because the boys had no other family this side of the atlantic, they were separated and shuffled thru different foster homes over the years
⋆ cream manifested when he was eight years old after he came down with an intense fever nobody thought he’d survive. of course little vanilla had no concept of stands at the time and thought he was being haunted by a “demon” for several months – he later figured out that he could hide inside of him and even vaporize things so he tended to get a bit anxious that this “demon” would accidentally destroy something important.
another side note: we know that cream has a void, but i think that represents the void that was in vanilla’s heart after losing his dad and subsequently the rest of his family — cream’s void vaporizes everything except for himself because he was in dire need of a safe space away from the hell that was the foster home environment; a spot where onlyhe could go.
⋆ as soon as he was legally able to, he dropped out of high school and moved to manhattan in a bit of a “fuck it, why not” moment, where he met an old fortune teller that practically took him in and showed him that cream wasn’t a demon, but a stand — i have a lot of brainstorming left to do in this part but basically the name change happens somewhere here, as well as him finding this lady dead one day, and this pushes him to his breaking point because he’s lost so many people he cares about in his life, so he sinks to the lowest low he’s been in yet.
⋆ as for meeting dio… there’s some kinks i have to work out here too so i’ll save that for later so i can brainstorm it a but more, but so far i have that he met dio in 1986 on one of his american escapades, and because vanilla was so despondent, his brain sees dio as some kind of “saving grace” —— i have no idea how to explain this without it being really long so i’m sorry about that 😔 but anyway because vanilla was so close to his father, he clings to every thing even remotely related to his heritage - which is why he instantly agrees and doesn’t question it when dio mentions cairo; both that and the opportunity to start over sealed the deal there —— and like, since the d’arby brothers are american, who says dio wouldn’t just,, collect a bunch of weirdos /affectionate over there to work for him?
anyway,, i think i’ve rambled enough and i hope that answers your question 🥺👉👈 again, i can make a longer post if anyone cares for one but i don’t wanna dump everything i have here,, orz
I swear the feeling of coming back here and realizing that I’ve literally never mentioned anything, even about stuff like Dan and Alessi smoking hookah —
I’ve been anything but active here on tumblr and there’s so many things I haven’t gotten to saying, but I’m hoping that making a dedicated writing blog for headcanons and requests could hopefully remedy that
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