Mephisto appearing behind him: “Something the matter?”
Shirou glances wearily at Mephisto, but isn’t startled at the sudden intrusion.
Shirou:“Nothing important. I just don’t know if I should bother celebrating the holidays with the boys. I didn’t have a happy childhood and don’t believe in much, so makes it hard to be jolly …but they see the displays around town and ask why we don’t do anything ourselves.”
Mephisto:“Well, you could always celebrate Christmas, you being a priest and all.”
Shirou: “Yeah but apart from mass, there’s just Santa, and I don’t want to start lying outright to them about a fat guy bringing presents.”
Mephisto: “Well, there’s always Krampus. He’s very real. I could even have him put in an appearance.”
Shirou: “You mean invite a baby snatching demon …to visit my two small children?”
Mephisto: “Hardly. He’s grossly misrepresented in the media.”
Shirou:“He snatches kids, puts ‘em in a sack, beats them and does God knows what else to them!”
Mephisto, affronted: “I beg your pardon! It was one time and quite an unfortunate misunderstanding! For the record, they were two strapping young lads from the village near my gingerbread-styled villa! They came willingly to participate in yuletide merriment and I was nothing but a gracious host. We had our fun then they stole quite a bit, running off saying I tried to cook and in my oven and eat them after getting them into the ‘sack’! That sort of behaviour was frowned on back then and they vilified me! I had to uproot that house and put it in a spare dimension before rioting villagers could burn it down. It had cost a fortune and you wouldn’t believe how long it took to construct.”
Shirou: “I don’t know what disturbs me the most in what you just said, but keep you and your sack away from my kids.”
Annnnd here’s a sketch of Mephisto’s take on the original story of Krampus.
Mephisto: “See? Totally legal, consensual and all parties involved are partaking in the yuletide fun. No children, let alone children in sacks.”
Pencil and marker on water color paper. No references used, so forgive the vague anatomy.
Happy holidays. X)
Shirou, from somewhere offscreen: “Yeah, STILL not appropriate! Put some clothes on, you old goat!”
Coloured! Mostly coloured markers and coloured pencils. Meph looks too pink and healthy lol.
Mephisto said even he doesn’t have the power to alter an existing timeline, so we’re stuck with what 2020 was. Our alternate selves apparently had a blast. Lucky them.
My part of the art trade with the beautiful and immensely gifted @kiome-yasha. I hope this always brings a smile to your face! I had such fun making it (apart from program crashes lol)
Another watercolor illustration of Amaimon. Demon form, as promised! XD
Tumblr mobile was a jerk and deleted my post when I tried to update the images to ones taken in sunlight to get better clarity and color. So, I’m sorry to those who saw the previous post and liked/commented! This is the second time this has happened to me since joining the community… and oddly enough, both times were for Amaimon fan art.
Enjoy!
Reblogging the 3 year old piece since its relavent again! Yay!
Really want to see Amaimon and Shiemi’s fight in the coming chapters. I wonder if it’s happening before or during the other scene we are seeing with the rest of the gang. Don’t really want her to “subjugate” him, but beat him then work as a team.
