NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A - DELTARUNE
he looks like the devil jk he has fuschia skin that fades to blurple at his horns and tail and chartreuse yellow hair thats a little above shoulder length (he just tells ppl hes blond lol). if you know what yellow mildliners look like it's that color. or like if a blond person swam in a chlorine pool every day. its pretty light colored tbh like platinum blonde but neon. the shadows for his hair are closer to teal (like more bluish) than green. he has dark eyebrows tho don't ask me how that works. his eyebrows have like little horns on them but i usually draw them as ram eyebrows to simplify them (like link legend of zelda's brows)
his eyes are dark grey w no visible iris or pupil (but he does have them) and the pupils are light reflective (like the way animal's pupils reflect light) so you'll know if he's looking at you at least. also his eyes are kinda downturned and he always has them half closed (he just has a lot of eyelid). also his bottom eyelashes are more prominent than the top ones i always draw him w an eyelash at the corner and one at the center of his bottom lashline.
his suit is also light reflective bc he likes gaudy shit. his tie and shoes look more black than this pic its just that i made the lineart dark purple so i just rolled with it, they look black at a glance but when light hits them they look more purple. absolutely nothing about him is inconspicuous.
when he's not wearing Business Attire, he dresses very 80s. so like colorful windbreakers + button ups with funky patterns that are unbuttoned just enough to look a Little slutty <3.
At home he wears those really ugly graphic t-shirts because he thinks they're really funny (he gets a lot of them from anthe lol). Examples of this would include the shakira akira shirt, the garfield neon genesis evangelion shirt, and the shirt that says pennsylvania in the castlevania logo font.
he has scarring along his forearms but they're from magic overuse and not physical damage i don't have a ref for it yet but they wrap around his forearms and are just a little lighter than his skin color. also he's left handed!
he has unstyled hair because he thought it would fit the asshole businessman look, but he usually changes his hair up a lot (both the hair length, style, and color)
some hairstyles he's worn in canon:
art: 1. suit in normal lighting; 2. suit being light reflective (idk how to color light reflective shit ngl); 3. fullbody turnaround by katdoods/lesbigne
Mangus originally set out to attend some really prestigious wizarding school (the same one his older sister was attending at the time) to learn transmutation magic, but then he realized he absolutely hated school lol. What really pushed him to drop out and start doing what he currently does is that while he was celebrating the end of his first semester with some bros he ended up pissing off one of the strongest beings in the known universe </3.
so he like bought a round for his friends and was like lol i'll just put the tab on some rando in here and as he was walking out of the bulding he felt a hand on his shoulder. he turned around and saw a gloved, white hand attached to a loooooong fuzzy arm. as this cloaked figured approached him the arm slowly unstretched back to its normal length. while this guy wasn't exactly imposing, mangus could tell they were gonna get his ass for putting the tab on them.
the person offered to settle the tab over a game, which was much more entertaining than the alternative. mangus agreed, but as they started playing, he noticed that they were hardcore cheating. he ended up exposing that mf so hard it was honestly pretty humiliating, regardless of who was winning at that point.
needless to say he succeeded bc hes actually really good at gambling games but it kinda backfired once he realized his opponent was none other than Rickey Rat, the Archdevil of Entertainment known as the Herald of Darkness. who happens to 1. hate looking bad (and mangus totally made him look like a dumbass) and 2. losing money (guess who had to pay the tab lol what a loser). so he reacted the only way an evil mascot would: he was like kh2 mickey mouse voice "You'll pay for this..." and promised that next time he saw him he'd come to fucking collect (mangus' soul). but like he had a backlog of souls to collect already so he'd be back in 10 years.
once mangus processed what the fuck happened, he realized he wouldn't be able to amass the amount of power he needed to survive The Ratpocalypse by just wizarding it up at school. so he decided he'd turn to...other means. being related to both a famous warlock and a devil who rickey rat could retailate against, he decided he'd do all his work in a way that kept it unassociated with his family. and thats how his worksona vesper was born <3
as a warlock he treats his pacts more like contracts, being able to work for higher beings in exchange for power. BUT he doesn't have to do anything binding like handing over his soul or devoting himself to them in any way. he's generally pretty informal towards them, as he was partially raised by one, which definitely pisses some of them off - but honestly he's so good at his job that nobody really says shit to him.
at this point, he's worked for fiends, celestials, the raven queen, a great old one, and an archfey. his constant exposure to magic that's over his level and the power higher beings radiate can mess him up a little, but he'll worry about that After the rat is taken care of.
MANNY: this is who alric actually is i guess
ARIAL: he kind of made a poor first impression on her (as he usually does) and looked really stupid but he was able to fix it once they both had that silent Oh Youre Gay Too moment. they are very mlm wlw hostility. He got kinda annoyed when she would work out in their shared doorway but he's slept in her room enough times that he just kinda got used to sharing stuff with her. He also likes sparring with her since she's strong asf and making wagers with her (its 1:1 but alrics won more money from both so whos the real winner ;) ). She does accounting shit for his sales stuff bc she knows hes shit at math and does it under the guise of rubbing his mistakes in his face but hes just glad shes better at it than him LMAO. He doesn't know how to feel about how willing she is to take hits for him in battle tbh he's just gonna keep making her "Thanks for saving my life again" carbonara <3 They both poke fun at each other and get on each other's nerves but alric still considers arial his first friend at petaldive since she was the first person who made an effort to get to know him (even if it was by trying to figure out if he was into kon LMAO also the answer was yes).
AGLET: at first he didnt know how to talk to her bc she was so customer service and arial was so gay so he would just kinda leave them on their own. when she saw him drawing on mspaint she was like omg that is soooo cool and then he jokingly told her to read a how to draw manga book (thankfully she didnt i think?) but she did start drawing and became a multimedia artist. tbh he thinks her art is soooo cool and is =:) that she got into art bc of his silly little get out of working hobby. once she started freaking out more he kinda felt compelled to look after her, and once he realized she had issues with rickey rat and buisney he understood why. he also appreciates that she definitely knows some things about himself that he's tried to keep secret but is upfront about not wanting to pry. he also wants to be there for her but knows that talking about her shit sometimes gives her literal psychic damage so. idk they are both there for each other and will talk about it eventually. also he likes to rag on her for being a fruit. peace and love
KON: he has a little crush on him and is making it everyones problem. also he realized he could have met kon like 10 years ago and his life would have probably been wildly different, but it didn't happen. he's attempting to have an ethical office + warlock/patron + "we're both trying to kill the same dude" romance
THYME: tl;dr listen to the name of the game by abba that basically tells you everything you need to know. they've allegedly only known each other since alric started working at petaldive, but they've actually been dancing around each other for about five years now. he fucking loves hanging out with this dude but sometimes thyme makes him feel very cared about out of nowhere and he doesnt know how to feel about it (the feeling is that he likes and trusts him).
TARO: they both stay up late so they usually run into each other when they're getting their midnight snacks. He is the roommate of both of Taro's...lovely office workers so they run into each other in the living room in the middle of the night pretty often. Taro stays over a lot but he doesn't mind because they eat midnight snacks together.
ARISA: she thinks he's suspicious and he took that personally. she reminds him of another boss he had and things are kinda dicey between them now...so whenever arisa breathes he's like Oh god this is just like the time when The Raven Queen-
QUIZMASTER: he thinks this guy gives pretty sound advice and is also super chill to hang out with. he's glad that he didnt have to take the "am i gay quiz" with them. they still need to talk about how he's getting married!!!!
PEEBY: he thinks peeby is a little baby and is so cute. BUT he wishes peeby would just ask him about what he does directly instead of asking his friends about him (and showing them like random footage of alric doing weird shit). it is worrying to know that peeby is watching and recording like everything he does but he is granted more privacy just because he Needs it. unfortunately the holes in peebys Alric Info are what prompts them to ask others to fill in the blanks in the first place.
GARDENIA: alric's lowkey scared of her because she's his boss but also potential mother in law and he doesn't wanna look bad yk? also she knows literally everything about him because she had been tracking vesper's actions which terrifies him but it's ok because he made a deal with her to never sell his info ever. he hopes that she likes him bc he wants her to be cool with him and kon and thyme dating LMAO
LEMON: HE HAS A 9 Y/O DAUGHTER??!?!? WITH KON AND THYME IN THE FUTURE???!?!? tbh he's only known lemon for a day but if anything happens to her he'd kill everyone in the building and then himself. he totally forgot she exists because no spoilers but in the brief time he knew her it was very comforting to know that it was possible for him to survive The Ratpocalypse and live long enough to have his own family and shit.
SEN: his actual real corporate boss in sales & marketing who he thinks has a stick up his ass. sen and alric actually have a lot in common since sen is an ex merc but alric is still in that business and he would rather die than tell sen that he's vesper. its especially bad since they actually met and got along back in the day BUT SEN DOESN'T RECOGNIZE HIM BECAUSE OF THE DISGUISE LMFAO. alric likes to antagonize him even though sen is the only one who will actually kill him over it because if he stops then sen wins. maybe if things were different they could have been friends...maybe even- no, forget it...(been good coworkers).
ZACK: alric's best friend 5ever you will never understand the strength of their bond. alric was zack's cause of death (the second time) but there's no hard feelings about it because they both respect the rules of 1v1. also zack has a nice job and doesn't have to be on the run anymore (unlike alric lmao) so it kind of worked out! they also explored each others bodies because they used to be the extremely popular tag team pro wrestler duo The High Rollers.
BANI: his older sister whos a weirdo in the mad scientist way (she's an alchemist whos into transmutation magic) and is the pride and joy of the family. she calls him super often bc theyre very close and get along well. shes the family member alric talks to the most because he lowkey avoids most of his family but he could not shake her off shes so nosy /celebratory. she's the only family member who knows about him being vesper (but not about how he's beefing it with the rat). at work he tells ppl her name is alice starbrand.
DURAYIN: alrics human grandpa, god basically said copy/paste @ the two of them. hes basically like Omg ur just like me son <3 and alric cant even be mad bc its unfortunately true. durayin's like the family member who would pretend to be alric's dad whenever he got in trouble so his parents wouldn't chew him out for it. he did his mage apprenticeship under him, but he handles his warlock stuff differently so people don't associate them. he worries that durayin knows more about his situation that he lets on because he's the type to silently intervene (he does and already has lmao). he appreciates that durayin still tries to keep him out of trouble, even if it's in his weird 5d chess way.
ANTHE: alric's devil grandpa. he has more in common with durayin in terms of facial structure and personality, but he and anthe both like flashy things and pyrotechnics. hes glad that despite their entanglement with the chain, anthe is still able to live his life as usual and have fun. he did his Devil Nobility Education Speedrun (jic) and pyrotechnics apprenticeship under him. alric takes his advice to heart and is where he got his slacker tendecies from lol ("work less it's good for you"). he worries about how rickey rat would retaliate if he found out the two were related.