#since the latter is simply created by infusing magic with water.

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honestly just rambling a bit more about magic within the demon AU, because why not, it's fun.

I think magic is something that all humans can fundamentally learn to use, it's just not commonly spoken of. There's a lot of information control going on to prevent the abuse of magic and demons, to the point where most people just assume they're stuff out of fantasy novels that don't exist in reality. Most magical knowledge is passed through family lines, typically in the hands of exorcists, but people can learn about it elsewhere. It used to be a lot more common in the past, but in the modern era it's definitely a deliberately lost art.

Shiro was trained as an exorcist from a young age, but it was never the right fit for him. He always dreamed of the stars and space instead, so his family let him go. He still knows several basic spells, mostly for protection and defense, and has basic knowledge of how to exorcise a demon and how to summon a familiar. He has never done the latter, since he didn't see any reason to since he wasn't planning on becoming an exorcist.

Ironically, that same knowledge comes in handy during his time in the arena as Champion.

Demons are creatures of pure magic, and in a way, I'd say that their most apt comparison is actually the rift creatures. They are just a more advanced form of them that have evolved alongside the creatures of their planet into what they currently are today. They can take on many forms, though in the modern era most of them prefer to take on a humanoid shape, though not all. More powerful demons can create corporal forms all on their own, others need to 'borrow' theirs from other beings.

Because they're creatures of magic, most demons spawn fully formed. The few who don't are usually half-demons, rare but they do occasionally happen. Half-demons usually have flesh and blood bodies, but their souls are the same composition as a normal demon's. They have a finite (if long) lifespan, and are the only times demons ever serve as a 'parent'.

Which means that to other demons, eighteen year old Keith is literally a baby to them. But since demons have no real concept of 'babies' they don't treat him like one. He's more like a fun novelty.

Keith, despite having a large part of himself be made up of literal magic, is fundamentally bad at it. This is because his magic is a literal blend of demonic and Galran, resulting in him being good at neither. It also nullifies his own demonic energy, making him virtually undetectable and allows him to completely pass as a human aside from an odd allergy to silver.

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Name: Danielle Aersir Aradia

Name: Tasmin Calounger Aradia

Age: Danielle was only 19 when she created Tasmin, but this was the better part of two hundred years ago. Tasmin remained unaged, because Danielle transferred that spell to her when she made her, so that her pursuers would believe it was her. It wasn’t until nine years after that she realized Tasmin had never died, and had to reapply the spell to herself then.

In the latter days of the 19th century, Charles Leland published a book titled The Gospel of Witches. It described the religion, ceremonies, and history of several local covens. He claimed that he was given the book by a witch named Aradia, a self proclaimed goddess amongst witches. She claimed to be the child of the Roman goddess Diana, after her rape by the angel Lucifer, preformed through a cult dedicated to his worship. There has yet to be any proof of this, but no one who has tried to disprove it has succeed, or survived, either.

Aradia gave him the book as a method of safekeeping, because for the past forty years, she had been on the run from her old covens, though all parties involved refuse to say what her great transgression was. 

Eventually, though, even her skills ran out, and she was found. In her rush, the only method she could think of to escape was to sacrifice herself. So, taking a significant amount of her power, Aradia crafted a clone of herself, and infused it with just enough power and her internal spell craft to deceive her old followers, then used another spell to alter her own appearance, and left the new version of her to die. And so Aradia, now calling herself Danielle, escaped.

What she didn't’ count on was her construct being just so.... resilient. When the clone died, the spell craft remained, simply absorbing into the soil. In the next year, the land where she was buried was used to grow crop, and the woman who tended the garden made food from the tomatoes there, and she took the spell into her. So, when she and her husband finally conceived, they gave birth to the same clone, sans memories, and dubbed her Tasmin.

Danielle lived happy, oblivious to Tasmin and her drain on her magic, assuming it was just taking time to regenerate after the violent death of her clone. That is, until Tasmin turned nineteen, the age when the first clone died. At that point, almost all the magic moved over to Tasmin, recognizing “itself” and that it should be there.

This, obviously, was quite alarming to Danielle, and she spent the next few months sans magic, hunting for who or what had stolen her power.

During those months, Tasmin simply bloomed. She obviously had no idea where the power came from, she was led to believe it was some sort of divine gift for her wedding day. She excelled in most spellcraft, and used every drop of power she had to help her village and her church and friends. She became almost something of a saint in her community, revered even to this day for all the good she had done, though the magic bits are left out.

When Danielle finally found Tasmin, she struggled to believe it, even though the evidence was right in front of her. As soon as she was near enough to Tasmin, she could feel her power, and was able to start siphoning it away. As soon as she had enough, she tried crafting a spell to unmake the clone, since it was clear it wouldn’t simply stop on its own. Before it could be finished, though, an accident in Tasmin’s husband’s forge caused a fire to break out and Danielle, wrapped up in the magic like she was, didn’t notice until she had suffocated, letting the power rush back to Tasmin.

Tasmin only felt... some vague sense of fear. Of need. She followed it, and discovered Danielle’s corpse. She felt an immediate, powerful, unstopable connection. In truth it was like a drop of water reaching the ocean and feeling whole, but Tasmin, unable to know this, attributed it to some form of love at first sight. Desperate and needing this strange woman to be well again, she poured all she could into Danielle, the raw force of the power leaving her causing her to age before the other woman’s eyes as she came back to life.

When she had recovered, Danielle decided to abandon the idea of undoing Tasmin, seeing how useful someone able to resurrect her would be. Instead she moved into the town, content to live there until the husband died before moving on. Of course, this was useless, since Tasmin died of a form of cancer only six months later.

Despite this setback, Danielle knew what to expect this time. She planted a tomato plant, and when it had bloomed appropriately, she took the fruits of her labor and put them in a stasis spell, taking it with her until she found a woman worthy of bearing Tasmin. When she did, she posed as a cook, and found a way to get the woman to eat it, absorbing the spellform into herself, and then work to get said woman laid. And as soon as Tasmin was born again, she made herself into a nurse, to help raise the child, and tell it the truth about them, to remind the girl of her true name, Tasmin, and the bond they share.

This has only happened twice more in Danielle’s life.

The first was when the two were trying to make a deal with Czar Nicholas the Second, only to be interrupted by the Russian Revolution in 1917. Danielle escaped, Tasmin... did not.

The second was when the two were hiding out in a small village in Japan, in 1945. When the fallout hit, Danielle was killed. Tasmin, succumbing to radiation poisoning already, used some of her final breaths to resurrect her.

The most recent Tasmin was born in 1940, in Chicago. According to Danielle, she’s the secret affair child of Sam Giancana. Though, like most things Danielle boasts, this fails to be substantiated.