Lester AKA The Bogeyman - Tumblr Posts
Do note that this is my most recent Smaugust drawing, (8-8-2021), and that there are at least 10 drawings that have been completed between the previous post, (The Puppet Dragon), and this one. I posted this one now because I am so proud of this one, and how I wrote his “origin” story for this mythological AU.
(I will be continuing the drawings from the previous post, (The Puppet), from tomorrow and further on).
Name: The Bogeyman
Specific Dragon type: Bogeyman
Specie mix: Lester/AKA the Bogeyman, the creature that his prosthetics are based off of (Cockroach), and a dragon.
Design notes: I tried, and successfully designed, to make his lower half look like he accidentally caused himself to mutate while trying to heal himself from a near fatal/otherwise fatal damage to his lower half, meaning, it will look kinda gross, also while pushing the cockroach theme.
Origin Story: Lester’s origin story is very similar to his typical/original origin story in my SugarGlider comics, which is where his comic origin is.
But he is also very different than any of the other dragons in this universe.
Rather than being born/hatched as the odd dragon specie that he is, instead, he began as a dark high elf, simply known to elf and human children alike as The Boogeyman/The Bogeyman, as he often broke into houses at night and abduct children who lived there for unknown, but most undoubtfully, nefarious purposes.
Even for a dark high elf, who are/were known to use dark magic in their life styles, a kind of magic that normal high elves typically refuse to touch, Lester/The Boogeyman/Bogeyman, had a kind of magic ability that he could use without the use of amulets, spells, and rituals.
He could somehow hypnotize most people of low magic to do his bidding just by maintaining eye contact for a good period of time, and his most common choice of victim for this was, and still is, children. The reasoning behind this is most likely, but hasn’t been confirmed as of yet, is because no one suspects that the children could have a much more sinister reason to be thieving the things that Lester sends them out to steal for him.
Despite having this unique ability and evil genius level of intelligence, he always had a goal of becoming more powerful, and the only thing he could think of that he would admit is more powerful than he was, was a dragon.
Another thing to note, before anyone forgets, is that he also had a healing spell that worked wonders and never failed. Never had any bad side effects to him either. Or at least, at this point in time.
After a while and plenty of searching through the lands for a spell, amulet, ritual, or something similar to turn him into a dragon, or at least give him the power of one, he finally succeeded.
Now, sometime after this, he made the horrendous decision to annoy and eventually start a fight with SugarGlider’s Dave Dragon, (which I have not designed yet as of posting this), by taunting him, being over confident and too braggy about himself, he was dealt nearly and otherwise fatal damage to his waistline and below.
He tried using his healing ritual again, to heal his wounds, but something about the ritual/item/amulet that turned him into or gave him the powers of a dragon corrupted this healing ritual, causing him to horrifically and painfully mutate into the cockroach mutant boogeyman dragon that he is today.
The reason why this healing ritual was corrupted is because the ritual was specifically made/planned to be used ONLY on pure Dark High Elves, and with Lester turning himself into part dragon, (although artificially), it did not continue to work as intended.