Astaroth

He doesn't remember anything before a couple of years ago, the first thing he can recall is lying on cold, hard and slick ground, the pebbled bank of a river. After that it was nothing but a blur. People finding him, clothing him, feeding him. Talking to and interacting with mounds of flesh without faces was weird at first, but he got used to it. Always with a straight face, always the same, passive, undergoing whatever they deemed fit. Eventually they aged and died, he wandered further, and further, into civilization where even more people passed by, sometimes took care of him, then died. And he was unmoved by it all. Not too long before the current time he got scooped up by a seedy couple of individuals who were after his pretty face, they thoroughly used him for their underground magazines, guro especially. Around this same time he took in Luciël, his black cat with an abnormally long tail. This went on for a couple years, his face and name becoming increasingly known throughout the underground scene and he made enough money to have a roof and food for Luciël, but barely. He didn't really mind his situation after all, he just wanted to take care of some plants and his cat. Eventually the modeling bureau Katja works at managed to track him down and she became his manager after a little convincing. Proper jobs pay better after all, and he wasn't about to object to an easier way to keep Luciël taken care of. And more space for plants.

Past

! major spoilers for the comic List•less not yet published !

As a Messenger, or as the people from the Overworld have taken to calling their kind, angel, his job was to keep the balance of the world by pulling the strings of fate for the humans and humanoids. Messengers are the link between the Gods' will and the Overworld and have to remain neutral. Messengers aren't perfect though, not like the gods, and sometimes a Messenger starts to take a liking to a particular person, or an aversion to causing harm. Keeping a creature from tripping once isn't such a big deal, but if they do it numerous times, if they pull the strings too favourably for too long, the scales will tip towards the good for humanoids. After which they will attempt to right themselves and clap back with an age of suffering for the Overworld, maybe even cause the overworld to be overrun by a wave of demons. To prevent this unwanted fate, the Gods punish any Messenger that is at risk of gaining too much emotionality.
Astaroth was one of these Messengers.
He gained too much empathy for those creatures of flesh, he started to keep them from harm, made them find their soulmates, ignored commands to scab and scar. The Messenger closest to him, Eligor, his best friend you could say, was the one to report him. Eligor couldn't let Astaroth keep going, he couldn't let his friend drive the world into chaos. No matter how much he cared for Astaroth. So the court of the Heavens was called, and Astaroth was banished to the Overworld and robbed of all empathy and emotions, doomed to wander the plane for all eternity, watching the creatures he held so dearly live and die over and over again.

One day he will remember all of this, and the years of neglect and apathy will break through his foggy mind, and he will realise. Without a way to express any of it.

List•less

The comic that explores his whole story and the world he lives in will be 6 chapters long, it will focus on Astaroth remembering his past and the decision he makes when his memories return. Currently three chapters have been fully written out, and the sketches for chapter one are underway.
I hope you look forward to seeing Astaroth and the many colourful characters of the Unpre Atoll in action. Because I sure do look forward to drawing them.