#contractor bears the weight of sin and gets a boost in power

[cornix-the-void-crow]

Your RHD owned by the Vees AU has caught my attention. I like it A LOT. It’s very 👀👀👀, and I’m dying to know more.

I saw you write stuff in the tags on some of the posts about wanting to know if anyone was interested in hearing more details/infodumping/etc. and, me. I am. I’m very interested. Please do tell whenever you have time. <3

Oh my gosh! I have so much stuff to tell!

One of those stuff is actually what happens with demonic contractors and contractees.

Demonic forms seem to be influenced in part by sins that each particular sinner has committed or vices they indulged in. Those sins have effect on the powers demons have, it's like a flavouring to their soul. In cases of more powerful demons, this flavour of sin is more present, more noticeable. The addictions become harder to resist indulging in, especially if they don't hurt the demon. Yet. With new souls, contractors actually receive not just the power boost, but also the good chunk of that sin flavouring, which is more intense the more powerful the soul they acquired. So, for example, if one was to win some hypothetical gambling overlord's soul, this lucky lucky demon may become more likely to take on risks with odd not exactly in one's favour. And because that is a gambling overlord we are talking about, the intensity of what is essentially a long-effect curse made it just a matter of time before the gamble did not play out in that demons favour.

Then, if one was to get an overlord-killer's soul with strong flavour mix of old time aesthetic and cannibalism, with some additions of spite and disrespect of status quo... well, aren't Velvette's tastes lean more savoury recently? And started wearing more accessoriesin art deco style?

On other end of the leash, contractees are left with more dulled version of their sin flavour. It's not the only thing that's muted, in a lot of cases natural vibrancy of more powerful demons gets dimmed once they are under contract. Some colours in their appearance may even shift the hues to certain degree. For example, did you know that in his half full demonic form Angel's eyes are less reddish hue than in his normal form? And his normal form's eye colour is actually relatively closer to pinkish red of Valentino's smoke, which is similar colour to Val's eyes? That's not even counting Vox's assistant, who almost casually cosplays resident TV objecthead.

The exchange is obviously not fair, but this is Hell we are talking about. At least there is hope that one's sin would be the one to break their contractor's back and cause their undoing. Though, some people may claim that having their sin no longer clouding their judgement is actually a benefit of being under a contract. But typically soul contracts are not actually made in contractees interest