#One of those 'huh' things

[y-rhywbeth2]

Actually, re: the soul getting stripped of memories and much of its personhood thing, could someone get turned into a lemure without undergoing that process, in that you would have a devil that still has all of their prior memories and personality?

I presume it's potentially possible, given, say... Zariel, who remembers her time as a Celestial (although she didn't become a devil the same way at all, from the little I understand)

(whether or not anyone WOULD is a completely different question)

Hmm...

Zariel isn't the same as a damned mortal, no. She's an archdevil, which is a different being to the rank and file. Several archdevils are fallen celestials, or rumoured to be. Were she not an archdevil, according to some sources, she would be classified as an erinyes, which are unique amongst the baatezu due to having a celestial rather than mortal origin and tend to look down their noses at the rest of devilkind because of it. And then back in 2e we had Planescape just having them as a regular rung on the promotion ladder: DnD! (There is the question of mortals turned celestials turned fallen, I suppose. I recall Planescape once saying that only the lower planes reproduce via mortal souls, but then there are definitely celestials like Selûne's Shards who are former mortals, so eh. Deities.)

Descent to Avernus has it that Lawful Evil mortals who die on the plane simply spawn as lemures direct from the styx, but that doesn't give them memories (and the styx destroys memories on contact anway). Lemures have sometimes been noted to retain some semblance of their former selves, like their face and a vague sense of loss, but it mostly just drives them mad with pain and grief knowing they've lost so much but not being able to comprehend it. (You can also use polymorph and take the shape of a lemure, but that's not quite the same thing)

If you sell your soul to a devil on the Fugue to avoid judgement then the devil is obligated to give you a better deal than usual, which can include skipping a few promotions higher than the lemure stage (I think that's just 'turn into a lemure and then get insta-promoted though). You could in theory bargain to keep your memories, I suppose. It might just make being a fiend worse though.

Likewise, some deities have deals with the Lords of the Nine may have their followers undergo the process to turn them into devils. These devils belong to the god rather than an archdevil, and deities may chose to have their regular petitioners keep their identities, so I guess a Banite or Loviatan could enjoy a brief stint in lemurehood, a promotion to some higher, more useful rank, and their deity will slap the personality back on if they want their follower that way. Maybe.

I'm sure somewhere in the history of DnD there's been at least one devil that retained some semblance of self. Even if not, it's DnD, there will always be unique one-in-a-million cases.

[gravitysoda]

using his cuteness to manipulate the target...

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I've never been more normal in my life.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[muzsmocsing]

Some underrated moments in book 2

🤍 When Xie Lian admitted if it weren't for his cultivation method, he 100% would've read the smut mortals write about Pei Ming already.

🤍 When Xie Lian described Mu Qing as a ✨Standard Pretty Boy™✨

🤍 The way Fangxin MOANED when Xie Lian took it in his hand after hundreds of years of separation.

🤍 Mu qing's worst fear being muddy scalies.

🤍 Qi Rong's poetic soliloquy about STDs.

🤍 When Shi Qingxuan disarmed Feng Xin, a powerful martial god with centuries worth of experience, just by running into him tits first.

(Book 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

[isuggestwishcraft]

i think isafrin dynamic, especially postcanon, is so funny to me because (among other things) isabeau is the notorious Gets Scared When The Horrors Appear type of dude, but also happens to be madly into a guy who, for lack of better words, can be aptly described as The Horrors

[noxious-fennec]

Watch it man you got a kid on board

[aj-artjunkyard]

ToA daemon AU where humans have daemons but gods dont. Gods aren’t people and don’t have souls. They still have animals which are associated with them, but they’re just symbols. 

Apollo, as Lester, gets a daemon for the first time. He didn’t have a daemon for his previous human punishments since he was a god in mortal form - now he is a full mortal. 

At first he thinks the unbearable pain in his chest is just the broken ribs from his free-fall from Olympus. After the fight with the muggers and his introduction to Meg, he finds he can’t walk ten steps from the dumpster he landed in without collapsing. 

Meg rolls her eyes at his utter bafflement as he squawks about being on the brink of death. She and her small hare daemon cast their gazes about the alley, then in the dumpster. She reaches in and pokes something, and Apollo gags in pain. Meg seems satisfied, and announces that he can’t leave because his daemon is stuck in the dumpster. Apollo snaps that he doesn’t have a daemon, he is a god! Gods are self-sustaining, they do not rely on puny- ack! Meg had poked the thing again.

Frustrated, Apollo pulls himself up to investigate and explain to this silly mortal why whatever-it-is in the dumpster cannot be his daemon. Then he sees it. 

It’s a tiny white mouse. Suddenly he notices the pain in his chest is not just broken bones, but a distinct emptiness. Something is missing. As soon as he locked eyes with the mouse, he knew that it was supposed to be filling that hole. 

Apollo had been associated with mice for some millennia. He had been called Apollo Sminthius since before the siege of Troy; Lord of Mice. They were useful for spreading plagues, and rather cute, but not something he’d ever thought of as similar to him. He was no mouse! He was a mighty lion, a sweeping falcon! He was a god, the very top of the food chain! He was no ones prey! 

But there it was. A tiny, insignificant creature that looked as if it belonged in the dumpster. Not unlike Lester Papadopoulos. Perhaps Apollo was a great dragon or a fearsome wolf, but he supposed, with crushing disappointment, that Lester was about as close to a mouse as any living being could get. 

[vaguely-concerned]

just had the thought 'in the end the most important thing varric taught rook was how to make a home for, with, and in other people' and then I had to go lie down on the floor and clutch at my head in unceasing agony for a few hours, as you may well imagine. hawke and the kirkwall crew........ in the end you kind of saved the world a bit in the most characteristically indirect and chaotic of ways. not by anything in particular that you did or achieved or accomplished (lmao imagine!), but just by -- having existed, and by the love that was always there, despite it all, in all its imperfections, even when no one was saved by it in the end. you're not here right now and you're not quite haunting the narrative but I hear your voices bickering and arguing and laughing from the other room. (and so, I think, does varric. all the time.)

'did you think you mattered, hawke? did you think anything you ever did mattered?' yeah actually, varric says with da2 and keeps saying through the series. you were here. and I loved you. and as it turns out that mattered more than almost anything in the world, no matter how long it lasted or how fucked up it was at the time or what else happens, because varric manages to pass that feeling, that intangible... home, that echo of you all as you were together, that love, hopefully the best parts of it, on to someone else for them to bring with them on their journey, with their family. and maybe the world will be kinder this time. you never know. merrill's line of 'Everything affects everything. We were born, a bunch of things happened, and now we're in a mess with our friends.' varric's greatest fear of becoming his parents. even through the wreck and the ruin of the world, ghosts upon ghosts upon ghosts of love -- malcolm hawke, who we never even see, but his life touched hawke's and hawke's touched varric's and varric's touched rook's and rook is passing it on to the family they're creating. the unbroken legacy of love shines through in ways that are stronger and stranger than any magic. help

[ratatatastic]

https://youtu.be/RbgDHyeQNdE?si=WXnghZZuAyvgumVL

Keith saying him and Matthews fiancé do the cooking for him and he just sits there and heckles them. So on brand.

"And how about your barbecuing skills? It looked like you knew what you were doing behind that grill!" "Well, Matthew is pretty useless so! Unlike Brady—Brady can, you know, does things on his own but Matthew likes when I'm down there so I do cook and his fiancée, Ellie, does a great job so. He just sits back and critiques us but forgets that we're the ones doing all the work for him. Which—hey! It was playoffs! I'll do anything for my children."

NHL Tonight: First Shift | 10.16.24 (x)

unfortunately tracks for him and im still crying into my hands its always the one who cant cook for shit thats the mouthiest about it

and considering this clip from faceoff it really does track

[statementlou]

soooo I need to sell some Louis stuff... I have listed elsewhere but priority to the tumblerinas (and tumblrinos), if one of yall wants to buy the 3 6 9 FITF cassette bundle or red and black splatter vinyl FITF (all sealed), talk to me about it

[lesbianherald]

I was thinking... It seems to me that you mostly like the post-canon character states of Jayce and Viktor? I think you like the more confident and self-aware post-trauma Jayce (when he is present) and the more insecure Viktor, or... As if he has an enormous guilt to overcome.

Will there ever be something more naive from you with their more naive, hopeful and yearning versions?

Coming home (but not to you)

(also, i do have something planned for after my medieval au if the hyperfixation is strong enough and the fandom doesn't tire me out)

update im adding to this because i cant stop thinking about it do people find my coming home jayce... confident? i was very much going for an 'i'm sorry for my migraines' and 'when I'm in the airport in the security I think I magically have a gun' kind of vibe KDLFJHSDkl

also said this in the tags but season 2 didn't even start coming out until chapter 11 the full thing wasn't out until chapter 12 so if they came off post canon inspired that is very unintentional DKJFHSLDFj

[ticklepinions]

No more t*ckling scenes in media. PLEASE

Why is it the ones that circulate always sprinkled with an unhealthy amount of *weird*

Or is it just me because I'm hyperaware of seeing my own interest on the big screen

What happened to lighthearted pokes in the sides why is it so deeply non consensual or used in a way to make fun of it.

Like PLEASE be fucking normal about it!!!! Whether it's as a kink or not don't make it weird 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Reading an article on how no one truly knows how to read a book front to back anymore is making me so terrified I literally don’t gaf if I’m a biochem major it’s looking more and more every day like I’m going for that literature master’s degree for no reason other than to feel something

[andiv3r-drawing]

11 year old me meeting current me is a fun concept. (ID in alt text)