"Cain is a BL multimedia project about a biblical character descending into the world of modern conspiracy.
In reality, Cain is an original character and a decade worth of art.
When I was a nerdy, christian child I got really into anime. The problem is that I hated going to church and everyone in there. So I imprinted like a baby duck onto the biblical Cain. Years passed and I realized I was gay, so Cain also became gay.
Don't get Freudian on me.
Cain: The first killer, the last action hero.
At it's core, Cainsploitation is a simple story about a fantastical duo of immortals going on action-horror themed adventures. There's nothing else much to it. The mythology they live under is a reflection of the paradoxical systems that govern modern captalism.
Since my influences are very unorganized and I love to overthink and overanalyze simple topics; Cain's world is a disjointed and ahystorical. Time and space are noneuclidian. Marx and Einstein, but also Chandler and Nagai.
The only truth is that God wants us dead and we must have gay sex to survive.
More direct influences include:
- Pulp and violent anime, Obviously "Devilman" but also things like "Wicked City", and since I was a nerd in middle school "Hellsing".
- 2000s "Eurojank" horror games. Big shoutout to games like "Kabus 22" and 2008's "Alone in the Dark"
- Conspiracy theories in general. I'm a big fan of them, some ironically, some not. The alt-right psycho sexual obsessions with Devil worshipping is funny, if obviously dangerous. While more "left-wing" conspiracies like Kennedy assassination, MK Ultra or Paperclip are wildly fascinating topics.
- Yaoi. I'm too much of an ADHD zoomer to read things, but I'm a big fan of Nitro Chiral stories. Shoutout to "Hashihime of the Old Book Town".
Maybe someday we will be free to love.
If you wanted to put Cain on some kind of chronology...
2009-2012:
When I, as a young boy, was drawing an anime demon hunter with emo hair named Cain
2016-2020:
After some time apart being invested in other things, I redesigned the character to be a suit wearing tragic action hero. Inspired by a love of the espionage genre, Cain became a characted invested in politics. Also, I was developing faggot tendencies so a new character was invented: Lucifer!
2021-????:
Where we are now, Cain got bigger, hairier, and gayer. Lucifer turned from a meek and emotional boyfriend to an abomination that can be described as "The Thing" meets "Crash". This is also where I shifted focus and recently finally began writing the establishing story for them.