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    Devi

    Character » Devi appears in 6 issues.

    Devi is the main character in I Feel Sick and an important character in Johnny The Homicidal Maniac

    Short summary describing this character.

    Devi last edited by Abra_Kapocus on 09/24/23 09:59PM View full history

    Origin

    Little is known about what Devi’s life was like before she became embroiled in the drama of the comic world that she appears in. What is known for sure was that she came from an unsupportive home with overprotective parents, that she discovered a love of painting when she was a little girl, and that she has always had bad luck when it comes to dates.

    After yet another bad date where the man had a fit that mixed a panic attack with explosive diarrhea, she decided to ask out another man she met at the book store that she was working at. For three months, they only had conversations over literature. After so long, she asked Johnny C. out on a date. A decision that would make her into the person she is today.

    Creation

    Devi D was created as a way to round out and humanize Johnny. Compared to him, she is the exact opposite, being confident, gregarious, pleasant and sane. While she could have been the foil that complemented Johnny’s role, she ended up representing something more within the series.

    Character Evolution

    Personality

    One of the first things that is learned about Devi is her love of art. Her skill as a painter and her love of movies and books are made apparent during conversations with most people she meets. Her skills as a conversationalist are amazing, and she is able to charm most people he speaks with. She is even able to diffuse most tense situations with her conversational skills.

    Though talented and pleasant in demeanor, Devi is not without her faults. Like many with an artistic disposition, she believes herself to be culturally elevated above others, and looks down on people who don’t ‘get’ her art. She also is quite defensive about her choice of style, which draws sometimes unwanted attention. Oftentimes, she’ll rationalize this as her detractors being beneath her, comparing them to monkeys.

    After her first encounter with Johnny, her outlook on everything changes drastically. She becomes suspicious of everybody. Even of close friends. More disturbing than that, she becomes bitter and hostile to everyone she meets. Worst of all, she begins to lose her distinctive artistic touch.

    Appearance

    Devi is an attractive young woman with some rather alternative tastes in wardrobe. Throughout the course of the comics, she is seen mostly wearing dark clothes with stylistic touches, such as strategic tears, form-fitting leggings, two-tone coloration, DIY accessories, layered tops, and several other unusual flourishes.

    Her clothing is complemented by her makeup, which mostly consists of dark eyeliner with matching lipstick. Her eyebrows often change shape, meaning that she may be drawing them on. Besides that, her makeup is mostly minimal.

    What changes the most between each of her appearances is her hair. Sometimes she wears it down. Other times she wears it tied up in a high ponytail. But her most iconic hairstyle is when she wears it in twin pigtails. Throughout her life, her hair color has changed, but she dyes it purple in her current appearances.

    Debut

    When Devi first makes her appearance, she is a perfectly pleasant young woman, if not slightly pretentious. First seen during a date, she displays her aptitude for charming people with her winning personality. None of that seems to matter as her date ends in disaster anyway.

    This particular part of the story was mainly meant to introduce her as a character, rather than to establish any role that she had to play in the larger story. Still, it was an important step in her development as a character.

    Heartbreak

    Devi’s character would be slightly more fleshed out in this part of the story. We see a side of her that is slightly unpleasant, putting her character flaws on the forefront. But like most flaws, they serve to strengthen her good points more. What else is displayed in this story arc is her relationship with Johnny.

    What began as an attraction to a fellow outcast turned to horror and disgust after he turned out to be the worst date she ever had (and just when she thought they couldn’t get any worse). This event would change her for the worse, and she would take away more than trauma from it.

    A * Call

    The outcome of Devi’s encounter with Johnny had changed her greatly. Her personality took on a much darker edge, and her psyche is much more fragile. Her role by this point seems to be symbolic as the last shred of humanity that Johnny has left. She is the one person who nearly brought out Johnny’s better nature, but she has paid dearly for it.

    While she had changed as a character, she still didn’t have much of a role that anchored her into the story. But that would change by her next appearance.

    Last Contact

    By this time, Devi began to come into her own as a character. Here, we see her reject her role as Johnny’s last saving grace so that she may live her own life peacefully and without fear. In her final denouement with Johnny C., Devi became a stronger woman who could finally move on from her trauma and become the person she used to be.

    Or so she thought…

    I Feel Sick

    This would be Devi’s starring role. Now that she was the main character, Devi was able to really shine in her stories. More of Devi’s backstory is explored, so that we are able to see how she ended up being the person that we know by her first appearance. Her social life is also explored beyond her bad dates, dull job and frustrating artistic pursuits.

    What more is explored here is how her encounter with Johnny has affected her. While there is still some trauma that lingers on, we find out that Devi has potential to experience something much worse. Some small part of him has remained with her, and begins to change her for the worse.

    This story would mark Devi D’s final appearance in comics. From her debut to her finale, she has gone through a series of changes. Some good and some bad.

    Major Story Arcs

    A Date with Diarrhea

    In her debut appearance, Devi was on a date with a man who she was set up with by a friend. She talks with him over dinner at a Chinese restaurant about the latest Batman movie, which they had just seen at the theater. Soon after, the conversation takes a turn to Devi’s artistic ambitions. But it wouldn’t last for long.

    The date took a dark turn when the man she was seeing stood up abruptly and pooped his pants before he could reach the bathroom. Even though he tried to cover it up, Devi began to grow concerned over her date’s odd behavior. And it all came to an embarrassing (albeit amusing) end when her date ran out of the restaurant with messy drawers.

    Heartbreak

    For the first time in her life, a date had gone as well as she expected. After only having a friendly, platonic relationship with Johnny over conversations about what books they were reading at the book store, she decided to ask him out. And it was the first time that she ever had a date that went well. In fact, her date with Johnny had gone so well that she asked if she could accompany him back to his place.

    The trip back to Johnny’s place was the furthest that she had ever gotten with anybody on a date. And she was enjoying herself. She shared an enjoyable conversation with Johnny, where he recapped her date and talked about how much fun she had just talking with him. Most of all, she told Johnny how much she had come to like him. Their conversation ended on a high note with Devi joking about how she’d kill Johnny if the date took a bad turn. And they shared a hearty laugh.

    Even though the attraction between them was mutual, Devi was surprised by how Johnny ran away before she tried to kiss him. Curious to the nature of his departure, she followed him to the room he ran off to. That would be the biggest mistake that she made that night, as Johnny tried to kill her so as to immortalize that moment of near-passion with her.

    Barely escaping with her life from that harrowing encounter, Devi turned into a paranoid, jumpy, agoraphobic shut-in.

    A * Call

    Besides going to work, Devi hadn’t left her apartment for weeks by the time we see her again. Feeling helpless to the situation she found herself in, she has become a shell of her former self, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by her friends.

    Even though she found the experience with Johnny to be the most terrifying of her life, she actually found herself conflicted about it. She hated Johnny, but only because she ended up liking him so much. It was these feelings that made her take up her friend’s offer to try and call him, just to see if he had skipped town.

    Last Contact

    Months have gone by. Devi had only slightly recovered. She found her artistic muse again, but only used it to cope by painting pictures of Johnny. A sudden phone call from him nearly sent her into a spiral. However, if only from sheer morbid curiosity, she listened to as much of Johnny’s speech as she could stomach.

    Without even bothering to let him finish, Devi burst into rage. She could tell that nothing Johnny said was sincere, and saw much of his own fear and self-loathing in herself. Right then, she vowed to not be like Johnny and break through the fear she felt for the greater fear of watching her life pass her by. She angrily hung up on Johnny and went to live her own life.

    I Feel Sick

    Devi’s been working on her art more passionately as of late. Unfortunately, passion means nothing without an artistic direction. And Devi’s muse has left her. By this time, she had fallen deeper into a slump that left her bitter, isolated, angry and bereft of any artistic inspiration. Not even a surprise visit by her best friend can make that better.

    All of her free time has been taken over by her latest project, a painting of a doll that she has named Sickness. And she begins to suspect that the doll is some sort of sum of all the bad things that she has experienced in her life up to that point. All of her lousy dates, lousy friends and just plain lousy luck can all be conflated as the image of Sickness.

    Unknown to Devi, Sickness has more sinister plans. With every stroke of the brush, she becomes stronger and sucks up more of Devi’s artistic ability and gains more power over her. Just like what happened to Johnny. Now, Devi faces the very real prospect of becoming a waste-lock. And she plans to fight it with everything she has left.

    Skills & Abilities

    Artistry

    Devi is a skilled artist. Her preferred medium is oil pastels.

    Conversation

    With her approachable disposition and clever choice of words, Devi is able to glean information, deescalate hostile situations, or just make an unexpected new friend.

    Combat Skills

    When her back is to the wall, Devi is able to dish out some serious physical punishment.

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