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Angel and Devil Brothers:
Version I:
The Fetch Version
The brothers should be adversaries
Instead, they are the best of friends
The elder is celestial
The younger, infernal
They work together
Help each other
Two parts of
One soul
Love
~Cie~
Notes:
I do not know the source for the image I used.
I used Google Image Search and still could not find the origin
If anyone knows it, I will be glad to credit them
Otherwise, I guess they can sue me
I have a crappy mobile home with no working furnace or shower and a mold problem, or I have a beat-up 1998 Subaru Forester.
Neither is worth much, take your pick.
I hate art thieves. I would never use anyone's work and claim it as my own.
However, I am an adult, and sometimes I get tired of being lectured about being an errant shitbag if I can't give super duper ultra proper credit on every picture I use to illustrate a poem or story which is never going to earn me a dime but which I feel properly illustrates the work. Keep in mind, I write because I can't draw. Unless you're wanting a pre-school level story illustrated with stick figures. That I can do.
I am making zero profit off my writing. Quite the opposite, in fact. I could go to my place of employment and pick up more hours during the time that I'm wasting on writing. Most of the time I don't even get any comments. I hardly think I'm any kind of threat to anyone's livelihood.
I tried to find pictures of angel and devil brothers. I found a lot of cute cartoons. I chose one of a chubby cartoon angel and devil couple to use in a forthcoming project.
I also found a lot of sexy, scantily clad, young, conventionally attractive white women and a lot of hunky, scantily clad, young, conventionally attractive white men. This is not what I was looking for.
The poem is both explanatory and illustrative of the dynamic between Gerry and Paul Clifford, the brothers who are central to Team Netherworld's work in progress, probably never to be entirely completed novel, Fetch.
Gerry and Paul's basic physical appearances, personalities, and the dynamic between them were inspired by real-life brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. Beyond this, Gerry and Paul developed into their own beings. They are not clones of the Young brothers.
In other words, hunky young studly angel and devil dudes would not be an accurate illustration of Gerry and Paul, who are diminutive older men and were never considered conventionally attractive.
As well, although Angus has a tendency to wear less and less clothing as a performance goes on, he doesn't have the chiseled abs of a male stripper, nor does he get his rather hairy chest waxed.
Malcolm generally wore tank tops and he did have muscular arms from many years of playing the guitar, but he was still tiny in stature and did not fit the Sexy Male Stripper Angel image.
Paul doesn't wear a schoolboy uniform. He opts instead for a conventional business suit, and by the end of a show, he is down to a Speedo.
I have a nice photo of Angus and Malcolm Young which I considered using but figured I'd be written off as "fangirling," so I chose the image at the top instead. Which I couldn't find the source for. So I'm, you know, evil and a crappy person and all.
Speaking of art thieves, my dear friend Kamidiox is a talented artist from Mexico City. Art thieves stole much of her Supernatural-related fan art and tried to pass it off as their own, selling it on t-shirts and cups via Teespring. This caused no end of trouble for Kami, bringing undue stress into her life and wasting her time. I can't abide people who would do such a thing. I think them to be the worst of losers.
Kami made the above image for me. She even managed to make me look cute (no small feat that!) while remaining true to my appearance. (Hint: I'm not young or thin, and you'll never see me posing as an angel or devil hottie.)
I'm thinking about having the guys made into tattoos, one for each arm.
If you would like to commission Kami's talents for an idea of your own, she can be found at kamidiox.tumblr.com
In any case, I do not claim the picture I used to be my own work, I am making no money from this, and I'll gladly credit the creator of the image if I can find them. It's possible that I purchased the image from 123rf and didn't file it properly, but I wasn't able to find it there.
Fetch borrows from various mythologies, particularly the Cthulhu Mythos, but also including elements from more modern works, such as Supernatural. Bonded platonic soul mate pairs follow the example of Dean and Sam Winchester, where Dean is the vessel for the celestial element (Michael) and Sam is the vessel for the infernal element (Lucifer).
However, in the mythology of Fetch, instead of being vessels, the characters are entities embodying celestial and infernal elements. Gerry is the celestial element, Paul the infernal. Pepper (the troubled medium assisting the brothers) is the celestial partner in a platonic soul mate bond with her infernal brother Carrington.
I am also creating a Supernatural version of this poem just for my friends in the fandom. I suppose that's fangirling. Oh well.
~The Cheese Hath Grated It~
