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About Me
My name is Dana Rose but most know me as RoseyDanes. My visual arts background is in fine art and traditional 2d animation. I am classically trained in figure studies and received my degree in Art and Performance from the University of Texas at Dallas. My visual art style is somewhere between graphic and semi-realistic.
My performance background is in music and theatre. My training in this area began when I was a child and has been ongoing ever since. I have performed in black box, art museum, club venue, religious, and outdoor festival environments. I have commercial audio engineering experience and enjoy creating electronic compositions/sound designs.
After a few decades in the professional worlds of art and higher education, I found myself burnt out and in need of something playful, something to make art fun again. I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to focus on fan projects now! So I love fan art of all kinds. And I love working with new talent to bring my fan works to life. It brings me much joy and allows me to still apply my skills without the jadedness of the industry. I enjoy mentoring as well.
About Killer-Red
Fan fiction, my training taught me to avoid it. I was told in academia, that it was less than a tacky romance novel one might read on a boring flight. Apart from a goofy Darkwing Duck story I’d written in private for myself when I was feeling especially nerdy, the closest I’d come to making fan fiction was something called, Didder Play (sisters playing).
My sister and I mixed and matched pop culture icons with our favorite fictional characters to make up a comedic role-playing game, which we recorded on about 150 cassettes during our teenage years and it was really fun. I spent a good portion of my college years digitizing the Didder Play tapes and converting some of the storyline into Fairview, a series with my own world and characters. But I’d never, full-stop, written fan fiction before (except Darkwing of course), nor fathomed its popularity online.
In 2019, I felt compelled to explore this genre and decided I wanted to write Sonic fan fiction because man, I really ship Sonadow. That turned into eight stories and the formation of Team Diamond. Pleasantly surprised that anyone was interested in reading my Sonic stories, let alone acting them out and drawing them, I kept going and decided I wanted to honor my love for Teen Titans next. So, upon being introduced to Devil May Cry by my husband, I wrote Devil in My Mind, a crossover story about Dante replacing Trigon as Raven's father.
After I finished writing Devil in My Mind, I sketched, initially as a joke, a picture of Ninja Theory's Dante with Red X as Jason Todd. I drew them flipping the viewer off like two punks that decided, that very day, that they were gonna be besties forever. I started imagining what magical force of nature could bring them together and concluded that clearly, another story was in order.
Familiarizing myself with DmC: Devil May Cry's version of Dante was simple. His story is self-contained in one game, with him making a few appearances in a prologue-esque comic and a couple of mascot brawlers.
For Jason Todd, there was a lot more media to explore. I ultimately went with a combination of three versions of him: Red X (fanon lore), Titans (live action), and Arkham Knight (my favorite).
Killer-Red is a title I created. In this fan fiction, the title belongs to Jason Todd. In my own inner universe, the title belongs to a female character I created for an original story. I intend to eventually publish that story on this same website.
About The Art
Using a stylus pen and a non-display tablet, I created the artwork for Killer-Red, including Painting of an Angel, which is inspired by Benjamin West's Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis. In the story, the painting holds supernatural properties. It is the sister piece to Killer-Red in the Wood of Suicides, another drawing I am working on, inspired by Gustave Doré's wood prints depicting the Wood of Suicides in Dante's Inferno. In the story, these woods are a physical location just outside of Limbo City.
On purpose, I've paired two characters despised by their own fandoms. Jason and Dante are both burdened by audiences that believe these two characters' creators have personally wronged the fans.
Here, you'll find no social media feeds, no ads, no opinions of strangers. I’ve removed these two comfort characters from the noise to tell a story that means something to me, my team, and a niche but sincerely hungry audience. What's beautiful about fan fiction, is there is a lot to take in when this story ends. These characters don’t end here and I am tremendously grateful for their creators. These two characters, to me, are works of art.
That's why Killer-Red pairs Jason Todd, voted dead by comic readers, with Ninja Theory's Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry, a controversial character whose title sends gamers into a frenzy. In Killer-Red, Jason and Dante go against the fates of Hell, via a journey that's meant to break your heart in the most confrontational, yet tender way.
Killer-Red contains characters that are property of Capcom and DC. I am in no way affiliated with these companies, nor is my creative team, Team Diamond. All of my fan fiction projects are free to enjoy and are not available for sale or reuse.