Kraavinia, the Main Character of My First Web Comic
Os Contos de Kraavinia Esmagadora de Crânios
(The Tales of Kraavinia the Skull Crusher)
A long time ago, I saw a very beautiful Gothic girl getting on a bus. I thought that the way she was dressed made her look like a comic book character, almost like an angel. After arriving home, I started imagining her story. She would be an angel living in Purgatory. I imagined her entire story in my mind, including the villain she would fight and how her story would end. I called her Baquistine, inspired by the family of asteroids that included the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
At the beginning of the story, I created a power that allowed her to instantly recover from mortal wounds and return to perfect health, always in a favorable position to strike back. However, I made the mistake of trying to explain this power. I imagined that she would enter a higher-dimensional realm where she could recover herself. In that dimension, there would be a god who was the creator of everything.
Later, I started creating another dimensional level above the previous one, with another god who had created everything. Then I made the same mistake again by trying to explain his origin. I think I have a serious tendency to give an origin to the creator of everything.
Eventually, the focus shifted from Baquistine to this supreme god who had created everything. He had to be physically powerful and possess the powers of Time and Space. Since my story was inspired by Greek mythology, I searched for the Greek gods associated with time. I found three of them: Chronos, Aion, and Kairos.
According to Wikipedia:
While Chronos (or Kronos) referred to chronological, sequential time (ticking clocks and passing days), Kairos represented the qualitative nature of time—the "supreme moment," "due measure," or "the right time" to do something.
Aion (or Aeon) is the Hellenistic and Greek primordial god of unbounded time, eternity, and the cyclic ages. Unlike Chronos, who represents linear, chronological time, Aion embodies cyclical, eternal time—often depicted as a youth inside the zodiac wheel, holding a scepter, and surrounded by seasonal imagery.
Kairos was the one I chose. Therefore, I created his son:
Kaifros, the Emperor God of Time and Space!
I drew Kaifros, but I never published him. However, I wrote part of his story, created his origin, and made Baquistine his daughter.
Since this would be my first web comic, I did not want to start with Kaifros's universe. The risk of ruining the story because of my lack of experience as a writer seemed too high, so I needed something less ambitious.
At that time, I was playing Diablo IV with my female barbarian character, whom I had named Kraavinia. She became the inspiration for a new story. I made her another daughter of Kaifros. Together with Baquistine, she became one of the Five Sisters of Destruction.
As part of a warrior ritual, Kraavinia was sent to exterminate 99% of the population of the planet Arenae. However, after killing millions of people, she was consumed by guilt. As punishment, she was banished from the Clan of Time, most of her powers were sealed by her father, and she was imprisoned inside a crystal for one billion years.
When she was finally released, the planet had changed dramatically. It had become a vast desert divided among countless nations constantly at war.
Kraavinia can only be forgiven and welcomed back into the Clan of Time if she succeeds in killing every remaining person on the planet.
I decided to use tales to tell her stories, as this format gives me more flexibility. Usually, a tale will not start with Kraavinia herself, but she will appear later to change the course of events. The first tale is called "Povo Pequeno" (Little People), and it is divided into chapters. The first chapter is titled "Deus das Noites e Deusa das Luas" (God of the Night and the Goddess of the Moons).
Those who have followed my artwork, which is based on more than a decade of commissioned work, know that I often draw very violent scenes. That will remain the same, as Kraavinia's Tales will be extremely violent. I am somewhat uncertain about the sexual content, though. I admit that I would like to create something similar to Druuna: Morbus Gravis, but it would be so explicit that it would not be allowed on many social media platforms. Perhaps I could make two versions: one completely uncensored and another toned-down version suitable for social media.
Character: Kraavinia Antheros Demboros
Class: Cupid; Cupid of Solitude; Anti-Cupid; Black Cupid of Solitude; The Solitude of All Who Love
Combat Class: Barbarian and Warrior in her adult form
Affiliations: Clan of Time; Sisters of Destruction
Father: Kaifros Antheros Demboros
Mother: Livelit Ereshkigal Inkomen
Weapon Summoning Chant:
"May the blood that falls upon the sands
Cause their seeds to bloom,
Crush Gazania!"
Powers: Superhuman strength, teleportation, super speed, and sand manipulation magic.
The training undergone by members of the Time Clan is extremely harsh and can last for thousands or even millions of years. Time itself is an ally of the Clan's members. From childhood, the most promising individuals are taken away to be educated by masters of magic and combat. They are forced to kill from the very beginning of their training and are taught to suppress empathy and compassion toward their enemies.
This was always a problem for Kraavinia. Being close to her sisters and influenced by them, she was encouraged to kill and suppress any feelings of remorse. Her mother belongs to the Clan of Life, the Goddess Empress of Life, Livelit, whose people cherish all forms of life, even the simplest ones. In contrast, the Time Clan, a branch of the Cupids created by the God Emperor of Time, Kaifros, who traces his origins back to the Elemental Goddess of Love, Venus Aphrodite, believes that life should only be valued if beauty exists within it.
Kaifros: "Everything that is not beautiful should not exist!"
Kaifros: "Destroy all that lacks beauty, so that something new and beautiful may be born!"
Kraavinia constantly suffered from this inner conflict, having to suppress her feelings of empathy toward other forms of life. This eventually affected her mental state. When she unleashed the Milinova spell, she destroyed a great city, killing eleven million people on the planet Arenae. Faced with such an atrocity, she fell into panic as she felt the pain and death of every single being.
When she refused to continue destroying the remaining cities, she was punished by her father, Kaifros.
