Seven Deadly Sins series: Lust by SwordGuardian on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

So I'm getting back to that think I started a fair while back where I was drawing personifications of the seven deadly sins just for the heck of it. I submitted some sketches a fair while back, so now I'm submitting some new drawings of the same characters. They will not all be portraits, they won't be to the same scale.

Anyway, this one is lust. She's rather close to both wrath and gluttony. Lust is not purely about sexuality, but also about any indulgence in desire. For example, one can lust after someone else's things, but not necessarily to possess them like greed or envy, instead to simply indulge in them or use them, like taking someone else's car out for a spin. Similarly, when someone is ecstatic in combat, the phrase used is "blood lust".

As a character, Lust is one of the most intelligent deadly sins, along with Gluttony, as they are primal forces of the mind and have to be resourceful. In other words, eating and reproducing are basic functions of all creatures, and only creatures that are good at both survive.

Being intelligent, Lust isn't simply a "slutty" character, but someone who will figure out what it takes to get what she wants, and will pander however she can to get it. She may play coy, she might try to be hard to get. Perhaps she'll simply mislead people, even if her desire is someplace other than sex. Wit is a powerful weapon, no?

This is an awful lot to say in a description...