#helluva boss striker
With the colder weather finally getting where I live (it takes longer to get here), I wanted to draw Solrina is sweaters. Thing is, ho can someone wear sweaters when you live in Hell, the hottest place in existence? Either one of two things happened, 1. Hell froze over, or 2. The angel and her little cowboy decided to go to Earth’s coldest places to witness the Northern Lights.
Either way, poor Striker’s gonna get too cold for his liking and is likely gonna need to stay in bed all day with Sol as company.
The drawing with Striker and the restored Applejack plush was based on @rhues’s picture of the Helluva characters as babies with the MLP characters (which BTWs is adorable) and @detectiveashcroft was the one to bring it up.
“HERE I AM
ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE!!”
Blitzo: … … … *is smugly holding back laughter as he’d side eyes Striker, who is covering his face*
Moxxie: “…Wait, isn’t that song abo…” *Millie covers his mouth, also smiling smugly as she side eyes Striker*
*Loona, also smugly smiling a lil shit, is recording the performance to upload later*
Thank you @detectiveashcroft for these reactions XD
I mostly wanted to experiment with angles with this one, but I don’t think I did a good of a job as I wanted. Someday angles will be mastered!
Anyway, after getting the bullet out and patching Striker up, the two planned on leaving the motel as soon as first light peaked through since it wasn’t safe for the two to stay in that area for too long, especially after the death of an overlord.
Despite the need to get to bed early, Striker couldn’t sleep and not because of Sol’s glowing hair, rather… just her actions were keeping him up; despite being an imp, she treats him as her equal, perhaps as something sacred to her. Maybe not all angels act as if they’re above everyone… Either way, she’s too heavenly and she needs to get back to Heaven somehow.
After Sol was rescued from Valentino, she found out that Striker had been shot in the ordeal. Being the stubborn imp that he is, he brushes her off, telling her he needs to get her somewhere safe, otherwise more demons are gonna try and take her away and do Satan knows what to her.
Once they get to a motel, she persists she get the bullet out, afraid that he might get infected from the bullet.
Knowing she was gonna pester him about it, he finally agreed to let her get the bullet out. Even though Sol’s an angel, the process was still gonna hurt like Hell.
My first time drawing Blitz, let’s goooo!!!! \(owo)/
Solrina has been accepted as a Mom friend. Lowkey though, why does Striker look jealous of Blitz here?
Told you I was gonna upload the other color variants. All these colors strangely enough fit Solrina really well and that’s what caused me to get really conflicted on choosing a color for her dress.
The black one I was able to exclude because black is a wedding color in the Hazbin/Helluva universe (But who’s to say she doesn’t get married in that dress), but I did wanted to see how Sol would look like in a black dress so I’d say it’s a win-win.
So I had the option to draw Solrina as a Southern Bell or a Burlesque Dancer, and the verdict was Southern Bell (it fits her the most anyway).
Let me tell you, choosing the color was the hardest part of drawing this because the experimenting with hues was an absolute nightmare (a good one mind you)! I’ll upload the other colors later because ya’ll are gonna suffer with me! Also she floofs :>
Funky little monkey
She’s a twisted trickster
Everybody wants to be
The sister’s mister
Coca-Cola rollercoaster
Love her even though
I’m not suppose to
She keeps me up
(I keep you up)
She keeps me up
(I keep you up)
All night!
(All night!) - “She Keeps Me Up” by Nickelback
I kind of have to blame @helluva-hazbin-stuck’s (I don’t blame you though, this was fun to draw) post about Striker listening to Nickelback. Seeing as I listened to a lot of Nickelback back in the day, I found a song that seemed a little fitting.
Sol’s been wanting to surprise her cowboy for quite sometime but she was never able to figure out how. Thanks to a few of her friends (Angel Dust and Verosika), and a few lessons, Sol surprised him with a private show. >:3c
Before Striker took Solrina in, she was still left roaming the seven rings with a means of contacting him. Almost running out of the money, she knew she was going to have to look for a means of work. Along comes an overlord who over hears her about her money situation, offering a job and a place to stay.
Being the naïve little angel that Sol is, she happily accepted right away, only to feel faint shortly after. The next thing she knew, she was in a cage with a ball and chain on her ankle. What she didn’t know was that the Overlord that offered to ‘help’ her was Valentino, and boy… did he have plans for the little angel.
Despite owning Strip Clubs in Hell, Valentino never used Solrina as a dancer or had her pleasure his customers. Rather, he had her on display like a trophy that everyone could look, but they couldn’t touch. Occasionally he would have her display those wings of hers, but if she were to disobey, she would receive a shock to stimulate her wings to extend (his smoke never worked on her). The voltage increasing with time just for sick kicks for the Moth demon.
At times like this, Solrina wondered when her Cowboy would come and save her.
When you wanted to do slightly NSFW work, but you’re too baby to do it X///X
Sometimes an angel just needs to hear the heartbeat of the imp who saved her life. Nothing more. Even if he won’t admit he loves the attention.
More chibis! @whenimgoodandready thought it would be cute if I drew both Chibi Striker and Chibi Solrina together, this was the result.
I feel like this represents their dynamic perfectly; Solrina blissfully ignorant of the danger she’s in, meanwhile Striker just killed a target behind her back to keep her safe.
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Latest chapter of Cowboys and Angels is up.
Solrina is left to her own devices in the house.
As stated in the previous post, Solrina has an imp form to travel from ring to ring. However, Striker hates her imp form, not because of her looks, but because of what’s painted on her back.
Scars on an angel are non-existent unless the angel wants them, but on Solrina’s imp form she has electric burns on her back from her imprisonment with Valentino. While it’s true that Solrina possesses the ability to shapeshift her form and her colors, not even she could fix the existence of those scars (trust me, she tried).
Her scars are Striker’s reminder that he wasn’t fast enough to prevent them, but the warm reminder for him was that Sol was still alive.
So there was a bit of an incident that happened on Tiktok with Striker. In the ‘Wake Up Sleepyhead’ video, there were a few people who mistook Striker for Moxxie which led to another video for fun (@whenimgoodandready knows about that video), but after that, that led to another video idea and here we are.
Don’t lie, he’s absolutely rocking the suit.
Knowing Blitzø’s sneaking streak, I wouldn’t be surprised if he decided to drop in on Solrina and Striker every now and then.
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Chapter 6 of Cowboys and Angels is finally up.
I might have had a little too much fun with this one, but can you blame me?
Heavy spoilers for Cowboys and Angels, but I just couldn’t wait as soon as I heard this audio on Tiktok.
Even though this wasn’t the exact moment Sol fell in love with Striker, I just had to do the meme :3
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Cowboys and Angels Chapter 4 is up. Hope ya’ll enjoy.
