#🌒 astaroth | headcanon

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Muses

Hellaina

With a soul technically belonging to her boss, Hellaina is the second most powerful person in Vogitek.

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Astaroth

Deals, nightmares, and sloth, Tara is one of the original fallen Angels who started Hell.

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Belphegor

Prince of Sloth, and ruler of the Sloth ring, Belphegor is one of the single most powerful people in Hell... provided you can keep him awake long enough.

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Adelard

The kindly uncle to all of Hell, Adelard is the closest thing Pentagram city has to a librarian... and library. A former plague doctor, Adelard is probably the oldest sinner most people interact with.

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Dia F. Hyde

Cannibal, pathologist, and loving wife to Vox's PA. Dia is one of the regulars at the Cannibal colony.

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Svetlana Leonidovna

Russian cosmonaut who got lost in space. Now she's made of the fabric of it, and trying to find her way home.

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Metatron

The Voice of God-- Metatron is the first creation, and older and more powerful than that. Right now is is also a false God.

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Jayden

Velvette's PA-- he's pretty sure it's mostly for the joke, but that's alright. He's been dead for about a year and a half and has not stopped screaming yet.

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Tara | In Battle, Your Muse...

bold what applies - italicise sometimes. repost, don’t reblog.

fights honorably / fights dirty

prefers close-quarters / prefers range

chats during / goes silent

low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance

attacks in bursts / attacks steadily

goes for the kill / aims to disarm / fights defensively / strikes first

is provoked easily / provokes their opponent / teases

gets visibly frustrated / shouts while attacking

uses strategy / focuses on the battle / experiences conflicting thoughts during battle

rushes in recklessly / tries to read their opponent before engaging / fights wildly / fights calmly / fights apathetically / fights with anger / fights with excitement

fights because they have to / fights because they want to

fights without regard to wounds / runs away when wounded / hides wounds / takes a blow to protect another

prefers a blade / prefers a gun / prefers hand-to-hand combat / prefers a bow / prefers a shield / prefers a personalized weapon / prefers magic alchemy or spells

their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional

transforms for battle / fights as they appear

relies on strength / doubts their strength / relies on speed

uses everything they have / proceeds with caution / hides their full potential

exhausts quickly / has high stamina

behaves arrogantly / brags after landing a hit / belittles their abilities

uses psychological tactics / uses brute strength

avoids civilians / strikes down civilians

damages surroundings / avoids damaging surroundings

signature fighting style / makes it up as they go

mastered skill-set / learning their skill-set

messy fighter / elegant fighter

accepts defeat / refuses defeat / begs for mercy

compliments their opponent / insults their opponent

uses unnecessary movements / moves efficiently / barely moves

prefers to dodge / prefers to block

defends their blindside / has no blindside / leaves blindsides vulnerable

uses all available advantages / strictly uses one main method

plays around / holds back / fights ruthlessly / shows mercy

waits for an opponent to be ready / strikes when opponent isn’t ready

fears death / fears pain / fears killing

has ptsd / avoids fighting

has lost a fight / has won a fight

has killed / refuses to kill

wants to die standing / would succumb slowly

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🌒🌒 | Tara’s relationships tend to be casual. Her best friend is a narcoleptic unionist who’s half a step off quitting, her friends with benefit’s idea of stress relief is finding her for a night of drinks or a fight. Her ex is lord of lust.

Beyond Belphegor and Mephistopheles, the people she interacts the most are mortals she’s temping to making deals with. They want an assassin or a mercenary for hire that can’t be tracked? Alright. They want to sleep with her? Well their soul seems too high a price to pay, but she’s not going to complain. They want money, power, and a brand new car? Well people never change.

Sex is a game, or a fight, or a curiosity, but it’s not… serious. It’s on the same level that anything else is. Lust is part of the job, it’s monetizable. She didn’t love Asmodeus, and she doesn’t love Mephistopheles, and she especially doesn’t care about the random mortals so that has no part to play in it for her.

Sin is a part of the job, this is just something she gets more out of than playing the demon behind the magicians curtain.

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An example of the sort of outfit Tara wears most days! Her earrings tend a bit dangly, her hair stays tied back. The boots are a pretty continuous thing, but her whole aesthetic tends a bit punk, a bit goth.

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Tara's tags!

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👗 + Astaroth's idea of comfy lounging clothes.

@novinare | They double as her sparring clothes, which is usually with Mephistopheles, with a variety of weapons, or hand to hand, though in that case she usually takes off the ribcage layer and the jacket.

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I'm not sure why this occurred to me, but I feel like if Tara ever has to attend official court functions of some sorts, she would probably look at lot like Arlecchino from Genshin. The tied back white hair, the pants, the fancy heels. Tara doesn't go for traditional robes or super femme, but I can see her rocking something like this when she bothers to do more than her usually look.

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Which of the muses is most likely to consume (in some form or another) marijuana?

Hellaina: Not her drug of choice-- she is more likely to go for uppers of some sort. But even then, not something she uses much of.

Dia: Nope! Was a medical student for too long.

Tara: Has, but doesn't usually. If she does, it's more of a social thing.

Belphegor: No, it would just put him to sleep, and he has enough trouble staying awake as is.

Adelard: Surprisingly yes. He grows it, like a lot of other plants. it was being used and cultivated in Medieval Europe, so it's hardly some new foreign thing. He was using it in life too.

Svetlana: Nope, like with Dia, she's too aware of the effects on the body. She was training to be a cosmonaut that she didn't go near a lot of sugars and fats much less drugs!

Metatron: Could probably benefit from some occasionally, but no.

Jayden: Yes, but in the sort of awkward giggly way of someone for whom it was a crime for most of their life.

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Where does your muse fall on seeing Barbenheimer?

Hellaina: Oppenheimer, with Vox, and then Barbie with Dia. Has not dressed in theme.

Dia: Sees both! Dresses up for both. Oppenheimer first.

Adelard: Confused by the whole thing, if he hears about it at all. Sees neither.

Jayden: BARBIE!!! He’s dressed in full Ken getup.

Svetlana: Goes to neither, will probably end up watching them on her own with Russian subtitles.

Belphegor: They arrive later to Sloth. He sees both, but Barbie is the hit on the ring. He sees it first.

Astaroth: She and Mephistopheles go on Earth, but in opposite order. They both dress up, if not as dramatically as some do! She sees Barbie first, and then steals his period accurate coat as the main point of her second outfit.

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✨✨| Electrostim, yay or nay?

Dia: Yes! She's adventurous, and not opposed to pain, in either role. Vox shocked her once because she was curious about how much control he had and it was an... enlightening experience.

Hellaina: Her boss is a live-wire and her wife is... curious, she's been shocked intentionally and accidentally on more than a few occasions, but it doesn't really do anything for her.

Adelard: Tends to stay away from electricity in general. He knows its not witchcraft but that's not really a point far enough in it's favour.

Tara: Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Belphegor: Not against trying, but hasn't. In all honestly, it would probably do wonders keeping him engaged, instead of nodding off.

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🎵 for Astaroth!

A New Hope by Broken Iris

Always, always just out of reach from my Over-frustrated, shameful hands And I never, never expected that I Would ever, no never, take for granted our precious time

To your grave, I spoke Holding a red, red rose Gusts of freezing cold air Whispers to me you're gone

Spent a lifetime of holding on just to let go I guess I'll spend another lifetime Searching for a new hope

When Tara was born, she didn't know what death was, none of them did. What did an end mean to a creature that knew only creation? Light and life and the green things of the world. Forever doesn’t mean as much when you honestly think that’s what you have.

And then comes the Rebellion, and the Fall. Some pretend that the ones still alive were the only ones that Fell-- they say that the sins can’t die. Tara knows better now. Not everyone survived and they all left people behind: father, sister, brother, lover. They did it, mostly, because they believed in what Lucifer was saying, some did it because they didn’t want the alternative.

And yes, most of the them survived the Fall, but nothing comes without a cost. So she holds onto Belphegor, and she goes out drinking with Mephistopheles because not everyone did, and she doesn’t want to wake up one day to find out that the Angels have decided to purge the rest of Hell alongside Pride. The sinners were meant to be God's children too.

Tara doesn't like the thought that the people she loved once could kill them without flinching, but she’s also not certain they wouldn't anymore either. There is a difference between death in war and slaughter.

She also knows that if that day ever comes, if anything ever happens to either Belphegor or Mephistopheles, that she’ll take up arms again, this time against Lucifer. She marched away from her father and the only life she’d ever known once, and if it ever comes to it, she’ll splinter the family even further apart.