#Ashton the Chaos Demon

[arting-on-vibes-alone]

The boyyyyy! I used a model on Clip Studio Paint to make the pose, I like how he came out! I spent...too long on this pfft. It's been like...seven hours I think TwT Ya gurl got hyper fixated on finishing this, sorta pfft.

[danwhobrowses]

Ashton "I serve the weak, I serve the forgotten, I serve the dirt beneath our feet" Me "Saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?"

[dailydemonspotlight]

Slime - Day 59

Race: Foul

Arcana: Chariot

Alignment: Dark-Chaos

June 20th, 2024

...What is there even to talk about here? It's- it's just a slime, man!

Vee-ho, come on! There's gotta be something there! Just look beneath the surface!

I'd rather not?! Look at this thing! It's disgusting!

cOme OooN mAn.. yoU doN'T gotTA Do mE liKe thaT...

Don't you dare insult my friend, ho! Look, even with all generic monsters, there's stuff to dig into, right? Besides, this skit is get-hee-ng annoying! Vee-ho, just go ah-hee-d and start!

...Jesus Christ, okay. How do I even begin with this? SMT has plenty of classical monster tropes that it has its own spins on- whether it be werewolves, vampires, or, well... slimes. Especially in the earlier games in the series, when the concepts of demons were far less well refined, fantasy monsters that some would call generic were dime-a-dozen, and slimes were no exception. In fact, they were everywhere! Sludge Slimes! Green Slimes! Blobs! However, as the series went on and the identity of a demon was given far more thought, most of these extra slime variants began to fade, leaving us only with the classic Slime and his big brother, Blob.

The thing is, nobody is really sure where the concept of Slimes came from, as there has been no single mythological mention that can definitively trace to the idea of a slime itself. This leaves us with a big issue, though! What the hell is this things deal?! I think I have an idea, but it's a bit strained. Slimes as we know them today originally appear all the way back in the first edition of D&D, back in 1974, but it's believed that the idea can be traced back even further, into the 1930's.

In fact, I think I have an idea that has been attested to by... Reddit. Yeah. Slimes may be based originally off of a type of monster described in the Lovecraft book 'At the Mountains of Madness' called a Shoggoth, combined with ideas of slime mold, and a general need for a generic enemy type. Shoggoth are described as massive amoeba-like creatures that glow gently and have eyes blinking all over them, able to form any organs and limbs they need at will. To quote,

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

This idea can be further traced back to the idea of the Demiurge in the Hyperborean cycle, a series of short stories written by Clark Ashton Smith, but... that's when the trail runs cold. Clark was good friends with Lovecraft at the age, and they took many cues from each other, and I couldn't even find a good date for the original story that Ubbo-Sathla, the deity I'm referring to, originates from. What makes this even more frustrating is that I can't find a good hook to go into with this! What do I focus on? What do I circle around?!

Just think! C'mon!

You're not helping... but okay.

Slimes could also be based on the classic movie 'The Blob,' and combining that idea with Shoggoths could have given rise to this classical idea, but the thing is, linking an actual origin is difficult. It's incredibly possible that slimes are just the brainchild of a bunch of nerds who wanted to come up with an enemy for their very first TTRPG, and it stuck around ever since, becoming a staple of the fantasy genre for years upon years to come. Shit, slimes are insanely popular everywhere you look! There are entire manga revolving around them, the Dragon Quest series's main mascot and icon is a slime, the first boss in Terraria is a slime, and it's the most popular enemy type- shit, Gelatinous Cubes are some of the first things most people think of when they think of D&D! I gotta respect the fact that, in spite of the frustrations in researching these things, they're both cute and incredibly popular.

OoOoooO, dO I haVe faAns?

I'm getting a headache... I'm gonna go lay down.

She-hee left her computer on... I guess I'll wrap this up.

Overall, in the see-hee-ries, Slimes actual-hee have a rather unique disposition, especially in the Devil Summoner games! I really do enjoy the fact that they don't look too fri-hee-ndly in a lot of the games- as opposed to the marketable mascots of several other series, slimes in Megaten can be downright gross looking. Sorr-hee for the BTS drama in this one, I promise we'll get right back to it soon! Slimes are just a bit hard to look into, y'know.

...dO I gEt My caNdY noW?

Yeah, gimme a sec.

[dracoroma]

To me, this last episode, particularly Ashton's talk with the titan, highlights where the nuance is failing.

Matt is attempting to show every possible possible outcome as equally viable, without giving it any downsides.

We don't get an exploration of the pro-god perspective because then we'd feel the consequences of the gods being eaten by Predathos

We don't see how the gods harm mortals because then saving the gods keeps us in that eternal cycle.

There are other forces keeping sealed evils at bay, and other sources of divine magic, so we don't need to rely on the gods here

Maybe the world hasn't had enough chaos, and getting rid of the gods would be good. But maybe there was too much chaos before the gods came.

And all of this really feels like when people say "question the man", but don't follow through on it. The questioning is little more than attitude and defiance because "the man", "the authority", "the throne," exists. This is Ashton.

This being in contrast to chesterton's fence (which I briefly mentioned in a previous post on this topic). It's the concept that before in a previous post, but to go more in depth, Chesterton's fence says you should understand why a law, tradition, or structure is in place before removing it. And this is Imagen's perspective.

Overall, the only feedback we're getting is "here's the benefits of this course of action", woth none of the downsides presented. And that's why Bells Hells has been so indecisive. Imogen and Orym can talk all they want about the good things the gods do, but it's abstract and not present for Ashton and Dorian. Ashton and Dorian can talk about how the gods hurt people, but Imogen and Orym don't have the proof that it outweighs the good they do.

We need to see trade offs here

Keep the gods around, they still do good, but here's the too much control they have that you can see for your own eyes

Kill the gods and enact freedom, maybe predathos destroys a bunch of shit, and the gods aren't here to keep many demons and natural disasters at bay

Chase most of the gods away, keep the demons and natural disasters at bay, but Asmodeus (and almost assuradly Vecna) will circle back

These are the kinds of options we need, that are viable not because they're all net positives, but because we have to weigh the positives and the negatives. Rather than "do what you want, the world will keep spinning"

Bells Hells are desperately searching for answers of what effects their actions will have, and Matt keeps giving them an "I dunno"

[lunarrolls]

i know that taliesin was probably just really excited to try and use his hammer’s new feature (which is fair i am too what does it DO) when the opportunity arose in combat with imogen’s lightning bolt but holy shit the idea of ashton seeing imogen start trying to throw lightning and going OH HEY IMOGEN. COULD YOU LIKE. HIT ME WITH THAT. is SO funny to me. it’s so fucking feral. pov you’re imogen temult just trying to cast a quickened lightning bolt on some demons in a haunted forest and your unhinged chaos barbarian wants to get hit with your spell so that he can scatter it unpredictably across the battlefield for, like, no reason,

[cringefaecompilation]

i see a lot of class swaps with bell's hells, but not backstory/power/species swaps. so here's that!

fearne is a ruidusborn with psychic powers that let her hear everyone's thoughts and speak to them. she takes full advantage of this and enjoys screwing around in people's heads and goes with the flow and the incessant buzzing of noises. it's fine. it distracts her from how lonely she is.

imogen is a ruidusborn gorgynei that has kept her secret from everyone, even her father. she transforms into a were-coyote and is trying to find some way to keep herself from turning other people. at least it helps her with her horses.

orym was killed in the attack on keyleth, but returned as a hollow one. he left town as soon as this happened, ashamed of his failure. very tempted to say asmodeus is somewhat involved in this because of exu parallels.

laudna is a cobbled together warforged that was clearly remade out of a terrifying set of gothic armor. she may or may not have a demon powering her. she still has pate, but he's a little more of a cobbled together freak because she doesn't quite know how animals work.

ashton was soft once but a freak accident shunted them into the feywild as a kid and now they're a collection of wild magic and chaos, barely held together with luck. still probably titan-y.

chetney is an air genasi that claims to be as old as the wind itself and has only survived this long by being blown around wherever he deems best. instead of woodworking he works with glass blowing.

fresh cut grass is a sweet little earth elemental guy that's hitched their wagon to ashton. no reason. totally not tied to the titan thing. honest.

[nephriteknight]

sometimes when you're brainrotting two things, the only way to cope is to smush those things together. therefore: how i think bells hells would do at Blood On The Clocktower! (or social deduction games in general.) some of this is mechanical some of it is textual some of it is Just Vibes

Orym: Not the best at lying, but very good at figuring out when someone else is. Tends to hold of on claiming for a while unless he's like a top 4. Probably follows Fearne and/or Ashton around too much, regardless of their characters/alignments. If he's ever evil with one of them he gets very excited to the point that it's almost a tell. Orym is the guy who knows exactly who everyone has been talking to, he is watching EVERYONE in his peripheral vision.

Imogen: Deception queen, nobody clocks when she's lying, but she's not the best at coming up with strategic bluffs. Initially found playing evil Very Stressful, but i think she'd come around to it. DEFINITELY talks with Laudna first every single game.

Chetney: on the fucking case. this man is a genius at this game; if he's evil, nobody can tell bc he always acts this weird, it's no different, and if he's good, he solves the game when evil least expects it. not good at lying but gets by via the power of Lying Always For Shits And Giggles (And Also Tactics)

Ashton: mister -2 to charisma cannot lie for shit. they love the game anyways, but if he's the imp he's star passing pretty much immediately (orym is going to catch him if he doesn't lmao). enjoys interrogating ppl and trying to figure out their characters. probably downplays their own usefulness to the good team but often provides big pieces of the puzzle.

Laudna: absolutely loving it. the storyteller perchance? (altho i could see orym or ash getting in on it too? I May Be Projecting.) i think laudna gets very excited to be on the evil team (maybe too obviously excited), but overall is just having a good time, solving the mystery or being the demon. yeah the more i think about it the more i think she'd really like storytelling. i mean i wore my laudna dress the first time i hosted a clocktower party the vibes are right

FCG: probably one of those people who feels bad about lying in lying games lmao. i think they'd get really into it eventually though. i don't think he'd be good at bluffing while evil, but i think he'd have a really fun time as good and get really into solving it and figuring out wtf is going on.

Fearne: Pure Chaos. you can never tell if she's evil because she is always unpredictable. will commit to the bit always. will offer you the mez word as a good player. has turned several people evil bc they thought she was joking about the mez word and she was Not. she's def not BAD at the game, she's observant and she's good at bluffing, but she is An Experience, and i say that with the most love. very fun to play with i think.

Dorian: probably a little overwhelmed by the complexity (of clocktower specifically). he is, in the words of fearne, "a very bad liar". enjoys it nonetheless, but he is not the clocktower champ by any means (again, said with so much love). still, he's a good sport about it and he's having a good time, and that's what matters! i could def see him storytelling as well. (BONUS, if he brings dariax: he follows dorian around and asks him questions about how the game works constantly. catches ppl off guard w good bluffs sometimes but only when he lucks into good strats or a teammate tells him what to bluff as.)

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Azathoth, perhaps the first NAMED cosmic character to appear in Lovecraft's fiction, is generally interpreted by fans and students of his works as a physical entity not unlike all his others. He is often illustrated as a bundle of tentacles or just a demonic grimacing face floating in outer space. Certainly Lovecraft used a variety of language to reference Azathoth, including frequent alternatives like 'Chaos'. Some of the discriptions are more 'poetic' and probably meant as 'Traditional' names than others. Early on Azathoth is cited as "The Daemon Sultan", possibly meant as a translation of a name given to him by someone of 'Arabic' origins. Abdul Alhazred, being a likely origin for the 'Sultan' reference. In later stories and the FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH sonnets, AZATHOTH particularly, the idea that Azathoth is more than an isolated physical entity is unquestionably posed by Lovecraft. One might bristle at the apparent inconsistencies, but one only need look at the similar diverse and illogical concepts of "God" in traditional Christian art, and scripture, to see that such is nothing unique. Writer Fritz Lieber was perhaps one of the first to recognise that HPL meant Azathoth to be more than purely a leader among demons. In one of his early essays on Lovecraft Leiber Jr states that HPL conceived Azathoth ultimately as "GOD". Even Derleth in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith admitted that Azathoth was the ultimate source of all the other fictional entities, including Cthulhu. Despite knowing this Derleth went on to structure the Cthulhu Mythos as Cthulhu- Centric. (Exhibit 489)

[elahogn]

Top of my head reaction while watching CR3E89 below, there's some discussion about the gods and the world, contain some SPOILERS so here's a warning.

Also contain some discussion and spoilers about the gods and world building of the 2 podcasts Legend Lark (Dames and Dragons) and Spout Lore. They are both very good and coming to an end of a long campaign, so check them out if you want to feast on some delicious delicious world buidling.

This whole discussion of whether the gods are necessary for the world to function comes up ever so often in this world of Critical Role and once again in c3e89. True to what Travis said, I think there're tons of missing links here. The only written record of what the gods done to Exandria is definitely by the followers of the gods, given it is by Vasselheim or by the Colbalt Soul (they are the followers of goddess Ioun, regardless of how neutral she is, still one of the gods). That's so obviously unavoidable bias to the gods! No one knows what was going on before the gods arrived. What was called chaos can be orders, just to a different standard. As an aware-but-not-religious person, I'm so deeply related to Ashton (Taliesin)'s sceptical pov on the gods, especially in this world! It's complicated in this fantasy world because the gods are somehow present and physical, and some people actually meet and talk to them. It's true that some people have special power connecting with the gods, it's true that the belief keep the world in order and there's some impact from the gods to keep other realms away from the material plane. But also because they are believed to be bringing orders and peace that there's no way to know what would be without them? It's true that the gods grow stronger with worship and followers. It's also true that they only look out for their own followers. So it's even more questionable whether they would even care if the world is destroyed if not for the dent in their own power.

In Legend Lark (Dames and Dragons) podcast, they also fight gods. The gods in this world are somehow enormous, intangible forces but also so human and selfish. The main big bad, Torva - the Conquerer, is one of the strongest gods, who is known to be the main cause of several destructions of civilizations. His motivation is so selfish, but so true to the chaotic nature of his domain and the grey moral of being one of the strongest gods that live so close to the mortal realm. In short, he wants to destroy the world and deconstruct the pantheon, dethrone the primordial forces to free his love from the cycle, a goddess who ascended from mortal who, in every lifetime, has to reborn herself and dedicate everything to care for her people (I'm not saying she's a selfless entity tho). An amazing thing is that throughout the campaign, it comes to light how humanity doesn't really need the gods to continue as a society. They are aware of the gods' existence, and some receive the blessing and power from the gods. Much at all, in the world history, the gods are recorded as the main force of destruction than anything.

Spout Lore podcast also has a very interesting take on the gods and the world. Interestingly, the world of Spout Lore has 3 realms, the material, the spirit, and the fairy. In which the gods, fundamentally, embodie forces of nature that walk across the three realms but bring the most destruction to the material realm. But somehow, the world survives, and the people live without much attention to the gods at all. The campaign is still going on at this point, but much to my understanding, the big bad, the Gibbous man, was a powerful god, still quite a god, but punished by other gods to be entangled with the human world. He is trying to free himself from the punishment while entangling himself stronger into his own chain. And the force of evil in the world materialised as demons, stem from his power, plague the world with greed, violence, and destruction.

On another note, back to CR, what even is Predathos? There's still so little information about this main reason that this whole campaign even has any plot at this point! Why is it called The Gods Eater? What did it do? What is it doing right now with the flares and the connections with the Ruidus borns? Somehow, this lack of explanation about the main force of the plot makes this campaign feel little like a drag sometimes. I know a lot of people saying that Bells Hells keep trying to avoid the main mission. But also, I feel now that they are on the main mission, all these moments of role-playing character development feel like roundabouts (!?). I don't know if it is a good choice to have the big final boss looming in the distance so early on the campaign with no return like this. Or is it better to establish the characters and story and as the story progressing, buidling up to the reveal of the villain?

[saigontimemd]

Thoughts After C3E107

I think I'm getting irritated with Campaign 3. It took me a while to figure out why, but after the conversation with the Archheart, I think I've got an answer.

It's the huge mismatch between the story the DM wants to tell and what the characters of the party are capable of as people. I don't mean combat-wise, I mean personality-wise.

The narrative issue - what to do about Predathos, what to do about the Weavemind's forces, etc. - is one that requires characters to make a commitment to a course of action that takes all factors into account, and Bell's Hells as a collective are not fundamentally capable of doing that. Most of them are either apathetic to the gods or actively hostile to them; a lot of their attitudes are myopic and selfish.

The forces of the Red Moon are set to invade and colonize the planet, killing hundreds if not thousands of people as they assert themselves in whatever way they want.

Everything held in place by divine magic - such as it is currently - will be unleashed if the gods depart. We've seen that in small form with the demons that overran the Iridon Bastion - a lesson none of the Hells seemed to have realized will happen to the whole of Exandria without the gods' magic.

Ludinus clearly has designs on conquest, and he's arguably the most powerful arcane magic user in Critical Role right now, to say nothing of any powerful servants or sycophants he's able to draw to himself.

Almost none of the Hells seems to realize this - or at least give a shit about it.

Ashton blames the gods for every terrible thing that's happened to him, and hates them on principle anyway, petulant child that he is. FCG would be horrified at his friends' actions.

Dorian is consumed with vengeance, a dark inversion of his father's experience with far-reaching politics, and would rather see the gods destroyed if he could work his will, ignorant and/or apathetic of the countless lives that would be lost just to avenge his brother.

In spite of being revived by the Everlight - a life-changing, paradigm-shifting experience for most people - Laudna continues to be apathetic at best about the gods, seeing them as distant and irrelevant.

Fearne, even having made strides in not being so mindlessly selfish, is still too enticed by the chaos and possibilities of a world without the gods to feel too strongly about saving them. She's got power approaching divine within her very being at this point, and she can theoretically protect her friends, so who cares about the rest of the world.

The rest are wild cards.

Imogen still isn't quite sure what she wants, whether she wants to even be rid of her powers or not. She's shown signs of understanding the bigger picture, but she'll go whichever way she feels in the moment.

Chetney has seen kingdoms rise and fall and understands that dramatic events are necessarily the end of the world, but also seems to recognize a catastrophic possibility when it presents itself. He's concerned about himself (and the rest of the Hells to a lesser extent) but as long as the decision doesn't pertain to one of his few hangups, he's made historically sound decisions.

Orym, Captain Exandria, is about the only member of the Hells with his head screwed on straight, but his complete inability to see himself as anything but a disposable bodyguard has prevented him from taking the reigns of this unwieldy beast of a party in spite of proving himself hundreds of times over to have more sound judgment than anyone else. He doesn't care much for the gods in general, but out of anyone he's the one who understands their necessity in both the wider ecosystem of Exandria and their aid in the coming conflict.

Now, the party is not alone in this. Matt, for better or worse, has not only put this monumental decision - save the gods or not - before a party that mostly dislikes the gods, but has almost completely failed to impress upon them the value of keeping the gods. There have been moments (the bull in Uthodern, the Iridon Bastion) that's shown a world without them, but the players aren't transferring this information from the context it first appears in to a greater understanding of the consequences of the path they're on. They're not fucking getting it. If anything, he's continued to present various perspectives on getting RID of the gods, to the point where it's been obvious there's a disconnect at times between what the players as people want to do and what the characters they're playing would do.

I'm still enjoying the performances and storytelling, but it's been an increasingly frustrating experience watching the characters stare the fate of the world in the face and just kind of give a shrug. Campaign 2 was my introduction for CR, and it felt like that campaign had a good balance between morally ambiguous heroes and doing the right thing, but Campaign 3 feels like it's gotten lost in its own moral complexity. I don't mind an 'evil' campaign, but this just feels like watching a bunch of selfish assholes twiddle their thumbs over the end of the world.

[nochi-quinn]

campaign 3 episode 68: I'm not making the 'nice' joke about next episode bc last time I did that someone died

okay let's see if I can get through this one without having a panic attack ten minutes in

(that's why there wasn't a liveblog last week)

I was making a sandwich during sam's ad and came back to Suddenly Bear

and then I saw "Baldur's Gate 3" in the subs and it all made sense

"that is your wife" which wife, laura, marisha or liam?

a teensy weensy little demon pact

oh, we have that autobots shirt sam's wearing

kiddo wears it to school for jersey days :D

Graz'tchar

NO

throw it in the hole

talking weapons: not even once

ashley what

swordmance

per spoilers in the group chat, Sword Bad

that thing is twice his size isn't it

ashton has the brain cell

"I don't care about you" letters

King of Fuckingwhere

A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON

travis' face

but who's on the council

ashton: please hold

grizzly man

ashton is the best narrator in this moment

yeah yeah hell yeah

fcg in his mind palace

matt doing the mass effect codex voice

prince fruitoftheloom

s a m u e l

STOP GIVING TRAVIS CURSED SWORDS

travis

sam

both of you

fresh cut "I can fix him" grass

fcg: the vibes are rancid

nigerian demon prince

"you can eat my ass, this is my card right now"

king butterknife

oh hell

hate THAT

NICE

"he barely listens to us"

liam :(

how fuckin old is ludinis

kiki :(

kiki!

keyleth pace urself

I love that cloak so fucking much

the Hand of the Tempest does sound really fucking cool

liam you can't make me cry that's illegal

everybody hates the raven queen but keyleth especially hates the raven queen

(okay they don't all HATE the raven queen, I'm just saying)

liam: that winged man, that beautiful angel, that absolute specimen of masculinity -

matthew so help me god not the tr - I HATE YOU

"those who call themselves gods" dang

it must be nice, it must be nice, to have asmodeus on your side

but no dogs. no dogs on the moon.

they just run right off the damn thing

just do dark moon magic in the room of the head of state who just recovered from an assassination attempt, nbd

until her what now

travis and marisha

"I've got wind chimes where my name should be"

"fuck off, ghost!"

oh y'all were gonna get blood fountain'd

vox machina road trip

"there was an accident and here I am"

ashton lore ashtON LORE

TITAN BLOOD

travis: that was me! :D

oh we got chair perch

"vast and frightening"

the key is to stop trying to apply logic to your friends

I'm assuming this is the blight tree from - IT IS THE BLIGHT TREE

"the enemy of my enemy is a dick"

marisha: you KNOW what I'm saying, just TELL ME

"all our allies are dead or doin' stuff"

what IS dorian doing. give me my boy back.

liam and his tea

keyleth's BEEN elementals. several of them!

"how are we gonna make fun of that name, it's too hard to pronounce"

oh kiki :(

stop saying entities

quick go find milo

cut ludinis off at the root

highlander the bitch

vecNA

"I READ BOOKS >:("

"you battled an earth titan" "I mean TECHNICALLY"

delilah alarm weewooweewoo

fearne would be a choice chaos deity

milo-joe dream team

"don't tell him I said that"

"he is a brilliant mind with specific limitations"

"I can feel my heart rate rising!" and then he went into cardiac arrest

I fully recognize ashton's tone re: fcg trying to contact dancer, that is a parent's "redirecting a child away from an inappropriate choice" tone

I feel like it's dancer tbh

it's time to d-d-d-d-duel

"oh changebringer, what the FUCK does that mean"

it IS dancer

"the changebringer…..sucks"

matTHEW

listen, I remember some of those vm planning sessions, this is high strategery

marisha: leave me aLONE

you're gonna carry that weight

oh no I'm gonna cry again

SAVIOR BLADE

oh shut the fuck up

just put me in the fucking ground

can laudna get a tattoo? would the skin just kind of. fall off?

[huntinglove]

Hi Ghosty. I have a couple questions about your tags. I’m on the mobile version of tumblr. Do I have to add the heart or star on the tags in order to blacklist them? If so, how do I add the heart or star to the tag, are those emojis? Sorry if this is obvious 😅

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❥ love with a dash of poison (Gyutaro)

❥ emotions greater than words (Kyogai)

❥ the ghoul and the reaper (Grell)

❥ ghastly knock out! (K.O)

❥ turbo hauntings (T.K.O)

❥ my one true ruler (White Diamond)

❥ the love virus (Ashton)

❥ the sun sets over the ocean (Tanjiro)

❥ death can't do us part (Emily)

❥ special lover's discount (Howdy)

❥ you make my heart smile (Barnaby)

❥ welcome home my love (Wally)

❥ you make hell feel divine (Stolas)

❥ the duality of love (Todoroki)

❥ snoozing together (Beau)

❥ naps and kisses (Sherb)

❥ a ghost and a half (Napstabot)

❥ a laugh for a kiss (Undertaker)

❥ cultist royalty (Douma)

❥ forgive me father (Muzan)

❥ us against all else (Alois)

❥ glistening on the battlefield (Bismuth)

❥ bonely hearts (Sans)

❥ at the center of the ring (Joker)

[amplexadversary]

I'll state from the beginning that I'm going way off-prompt here, but this feels like it would be good for an AU Laudna of Critical Role 3 fame. That idea kind of doesn't fit the "not a dark story" part though because the demon in this analogy would be Delilah Briarwood.

OP's prompt could be Laudna's backstory to a whole Mahou Shoujo AU for CR3 though. She wants to be a magical girl and all that entails, and Ghost!Delilah Briarwood sees her as an opportunity to crawl back to the world of the living.

Imogen and Fearne would be magical girls whose intended mascot/mentor actually is evil; something like a twisted version of Sailor Moon where Liliana-as-Queen-Serenity actually allies with Ludinus-as-Queen-Beryl (and the CR characters you would expect mapping on to Queen Beryl's other lieutenants.

Imogen's mom sends her nightmares telling her to run away from the cutesy mascot they've sent her; the mascot eventually drops her transformation trinket on her bed.

Fearne still lives with her grandmother, and while she also gets a transformation trinket, she kind of dismisses it, because her abilities as a sage that she picked up from her Nana are more useful to her by the time she gets it. (Almost analogous to if Rei/Sailor Mars ditched the trinket and instead drew power from her spiritualism and shrine maiden training)

Orym has a Badass Normal/Tuxedo Kamen thing going, but for every magical fighter in the city; his husband and father got got by one of Otohan's monsters of the week.

Dorian picks up a knockoff mahou-idol situation that more often than not favors girls but isn't exclusive*.

Ashton doesn't have a mascot; they just have a stray transformation crystal embedded in them (the glass in their head isn't a dome in this one - it's the Silver Crystal from Sailor Moon, but Chaos powered.) He's also more than a little angry that the whole "transforming magic warrior" thing make people assume they're a girl*.

FCG and Chetney are both victims of the "ordinary person gets turned into the monster of the week" trope that several Mahou works have (including one arc of Sailor Moon).

FCG is still a robot in this one, and in this version of events Ashton actually defeats them before adopting them. Whatever the villains are doing to turn people into monsters has a weird interaction with FCG being a robot and can't be completely removed, which gives another reason for Ashton to look after them.

Chet got turned the same way, but his transformation ran out of magic before anyone got around to defeating him. He's able to control it a little after that, both when he wolfs out and what he does during. His choice to keep the curse as well as his introduction to the rest of the party remain very similar to canon.

Eshteross and Bertrand's presence go against the standard for magical girl works by giving the magical warriors, for a brief period of time, someone outside the whole magic system to support and inform them. I'm imagining a situation similar to the magic shop in later seasons of Buffy, where Eshteross is a business owner that lets the newly-acquainted mahou team operate out of his store, while Bertrand Bell becomes an employee who is kind of

*I think it would be interesting for the different magic systems in an AU like this to have different relationships re. sex and gender to the concept of the Magical Girl. I think Ashton's trinket being kind of regressive in the gender department would give them one more very worthy thing to be angry at.

Magical girl who had wanted to be one so badly but never had that magical mascot/mentor encounter so she summoned a demon to contract with instead.

It's not a dark story or anything, the magical girl is just as cute and cheery and friendly as factory standard and never loses that faith and optimism, she's just Pact-bound to a frightening demon from the underworld instead of a cute teddy bear mouse.

[theoccoven]

❝Let's spark some chaos up in here!❞

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⇢ Name[s]: Angel "Ashton" Leblanc ⇢ Other Name[s]: Ashton [Middle Name] ⇢ Nickname[s]: Little Demon [Loki], Purple One [Set], Buddy [Most People] ⇢ Like[s]: sweets, pie, black magic, boba, tea, coffee, caffeine, forests, fire, cigarettes, vapes, weed, sneakers, clothes, fashion, makeup, fx makeup, nail polish, bracelets, going to events, being active [can't stay still, but might geet overwhelmed], purples [the darker the better] ⇢ Dislike[s]: being in the sun for too long, medications, needles, confrontation

⇢ ˗ˏˋ 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 ࿐ྂ

⇢ Species: Warlock Demon Hybrid ⇢ Gender: Male [They/Them] [Doesn't Mind He/Him] ⇢ Sexuality: Bisexual [No Lean], Polyamorous Questioning, Demisexual ⇢ Age: 22 [Current] [10.27.2002] [Gemini] ⇢ Height: 5’5” [165.09 cm] ⇢ Abilities: Coming Soon... ⇢ Special Item[s]: Coming Soon... ⇢ Birthplace: The Kingdom of Druisau [Astaria Equivalent to Montreal, Canada] [Dad is from District 1//The 1st Ring in the Underworld] ⇢ Residence: The Village of Votraria, The Mainland [Magic Realm] [Current] ⇢ Status: Alive

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⇢ Occupation[s]: FX Makeup Artist [Current], Tattoo Artist [Just the Drawings, Current Hobby], Instagram & TikTok Influencer [Current Hobby], Streams on Twitch [Current Hobby], OnlyFans [Side Hustle, Nothing Too Spicy], Plays the Drums [Current Hobby] ⇢ Affiliation[s]: Instagram, TikTok, OnlyFans & Twitch [Current] [Human Realm] ⇢ Former Occupation[s]: None

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⇢ Family: Mum [Name Coming Soon], Dad [Name Coming Soon], Cousin [Name Coming Soon] ⇢ Friend[s]: Ace, Loki, Set, Fenrir, Anubis, Andr, Aurora ⇢ Romantic Interest[s]: Ace [Precious Angel, Crush] ⇢ Enemies: Lily ⇢ Others: N/A

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⇢ Representative Symbol[s]: Herbs, Tropical Drink & Plant Sprig Emoji [🍹 & 🌿], Different Shades of Green ⇢ Faceclaim[s]: Kail Peery [@/ohkailno on instagram] ⇢ Voiceclaim[s]: N/A ⇢ Other Claim[s]: N/A

⇢ ˗ˏˋ 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 ࿐ྂ

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⇢ ˗ˏˋ 𝙏𝙖𝙜𝙨࿐ྂ

⇢ #📓angel work [Stories, Works, Etc.] | #📌angel sticky note [Random Blurbs, Normally Written on a Sticky Note Before Putting It On Here], #📷angel picrew [Random Picrews I Made] | #🎵angel music [Just Music] | #🖍️angel moodboard [Moodboards!]

⇢ There will be more added as time passes!! Some things might also change!!

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[galaxysystemxx]

Hello!

Hi! We are The Galaxy System - We don’t feel the need to share our headcount

Collective Name: Chaos/Galaxy

Collective pronouns: Any, usually They/Them

Body age: A minor (15-17)

Frequent posters:

Spider - They/Them - Anxiety Holder - Non-human; Demon - Sign off: 🕸️ or 🕷️

Ashton/Ash - It/Aer - Mood booster - Human - Sign off: 🖊️

Do not interact if:

You don’t support systems

Endogenic systems or supporters

Homophobic or Transphobic

Racist

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WE PROBABLY WON’T POST MUCH ABOUT BEING A SYSTEM! More about Fandom Stuff and maybe role playing, but that isn’t my thing - 🕸️

[strless]

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