Doodles - Beauty among the devils (nsfw) (Patreon)

Prompt - mia6363: I've been getting into some regency monster romance books-- and I'm inspired! Could we have a prim-and-proper gentleman in all the frills riding a gargoyle at sunset, edging him between stone and not-stone state? That would be so hot, like maybe the implication that the gargoyle was edged before turning to stone and had to wait for release. NSFW >////<

He thinks it's a natural erosion at first. He doesn't think it should happen so fast; the west facade is freshly restored. The grotesques that line the gallery are brand new. It's why he began to visit the cathedral so often, despite not being a religious man; the gothic chimeras and gargoyles of the towers fascinate him, and Le Stryge, as he has been recently called by the artist Meryon, has especially entranced him.

But erosion would work the other way around, he thinks day by day, as the bump emerging from the stone balustrade beneath Le Stryge's elbows grows more pronounced, until... Until he thinks, oh, oh my, it looks like...

So that's what finds him in the towers in early evening, having hidden away from the priests after an evening mass, and in the twilight gloom he climbs into his precarious position... He is a mad man, possessed, but seeing Le Stryge's face for the first time - that sharp nose, that lewd tongue - he is assured, and sinks himself onto the stone cock.

And then, the stone moves.

Content warnings: hazardous s/ex, monster smut, objectophilia (until it's not)

Okay can I tell you about a JOURNEY... When I was a teen I was massively into gargoyles and grotesques (not the cartoon, like, the statues lol) and so I ended up nerding out and doing a bunch of research for this pic... Here are the things I learned:

-"Le" Stryge is probably "La" Stryge since stryge refers to a type of female demon (but is referred to as "le" and spoken about as a male demon in almost all english references to it); I had no idea until I stumbled over the french wiki article for this specific statue. So uhhhhh this is a genderswap I guess??? **added note my roomie pointed out to me that the gargoyle based on Stryge in Disney's Hunchback is a lady too... I feel silly...

-The specific grotesques in the "Gallery of Chimeras" weren't added until a restoration project in the 1840s... And unfortunately the Regency era ended in 1820, oopss. When I started sketching I was under the impression they were medieval. I should have used a different church as reference...

-This chimera sits on the west facing side of Notre-Dame; so they would get to watch the sunset :)

-The chimeras in the gallery were credited to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and were supposedly based on his drawings but I cannot find a complete set of his sketches for the renovation ANYWHERE and I don't know if they exist. One source I read implied he was an antisemitic dumbass who based the chimeras off existing gothic iconography without actually knowing what any of it represented so he accidentally made them kinda horny (but idk how true THAT all is...)

Charles Meryon's engraving from 1850

Charles Nègre's photograph of Stryge in 1852 

My artwork was inspired by this artwork from before 1924 by Paul Renouard, called "Beauty among the devils." If this chimera actually is a female then you can say I did a double genderswap lol~

If any of you know a lot about this stuff pls educate me lolll I love these nasty little guys