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THIS.

OH SO VERY THIS.

I miss the days when outsiders were truly horrific entities. They acted in ways wholly inhuman because they were inhuman, and not in a HURRR I KEEL EVERYTHING manner. When they become humanized, especially en-masse, it becomes disappointing to me. =[

I hope to rectify that problem with some upcoming posts of mine. Will definitely be fun to explore just how terrifying something can really be.

Not exactly saying sorry. Just asking that'll you'll return to active duty.

No? Did you? I haven't played him in a looooong time unless its a non-canonical bout with Spiegel or a non-canon cameo. He was killed by Roen's maid one night ( I think he was drunk at the time ) and eaten. There's nothing left of him, as I recall.

Regarding devils, continued,

Outsiders of the devil and angel type have always been expressions of human temperament. Cog is right that both angels and demons should be terrifying entities, but then demons and devils differ from a D&D standpoint ( and my own, by extension ). The demons are more the hulking, brutish types ( who can cause all sorts of wanton chaos and horror ) but are predictable in their varying composition. The devils equally so, for their designs and goals are always wholly self-centered.

I guess it's like Luke Skywalker says, the bad guys are always too predictable.

Granted, 40k takes this in a different direction. Cog wants to do the sort of thing I like to do for vampires ( at times ) which is reinvent the mainstream depiction by not holding back. Letting yourself go as a writer ( and hoping not to get banned ) is what brings you into all sorts of crazy that Jak reads and masturbates to.

Which brings us right back to where all these pansy-versions of vampires and devils and angels came from, which is mainstream media. These shows want to feature these creatures that interest us, but anime featured on TV can't really depict all the depraved acts of hell. Even...

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This is all like, term paper length topic. I'm going to just end the rant. D:

Ha-ha. Awesome.

I've never played anything that I intended to be a truly inhuman ******** of a character... but whenever I do play nonhuman characters I make an attempt to keep them from being human. Demonic entities should not just be a 'bad boy' wearing a leather jacket and sucking himself off while leveling a city. That's a megalomaniac with a bomb, not an outsider.

Even if you don't want to try and play their personality as something of a complete departure from the human norm, you'd still need to consider what their non-human way of life brings to the table. Dwarves should feel as uncomfortable in the rain as elves should be in downtown Durem as vampires should be in a room full of warm-bloods as a devil should be telling the truth... etc.

...Sawyer? That character does not get enough screen time.

The latest showing of her was sick. Like, vomiting sick in the way she was describing cleaning those bodies.

Vince fell out of all of that nonsense.

Does a devil need a reason? To destroy it and rule over mankind.