felinguistic | (no subject)

That's an understatement. [Hilariously this would have tipped Junpei off to Hizamaru being the culprit so good thing this is backdated!!!]

Who's "our" in this case? The demons? [Something else? Ugh.] What happened after you came to? Are your ears ago?

[ the timing is entirely intentional, my dear. ]

Even if the demons don't get along, perhaps they have a common truth they're working towards too. Not so different from us, if you look at it that way.

[I FIGURED. THANKS.]

So it's a war between us and them after all. So...we should also be looking at what their goals are. I feel like there's probably more to it than "fuck and die."

[ :D ]

They're insistent on the sex part, and there are consequences for other for not doing it, and potentially even if we do.

...

Think it's a sort of energy, or fuel for them?

...probably. The mistrust and deceit could be the demons passing themselves around through us. "Energy drawn" and they're "thriving", so to speak. I wish talking to them gave us better results.

They never seem willing to share when we're about to dowse them in holy water and kill them.

Well I've talked to some of them before that. In their holding room on Saturday? Some of them are more obnoxious than others but we've had some interesting results all the same. I didn't check in with the one that was using Illumi, but whoever it is this week I might try and see what'll happen.

Might be worth it. What their motivations are, why they chose who they chose -- if they're all individual there might not be much stock in finding a pattern behind their actions. But it can't hurt.

One of the things I've heard is that they at least choose based on what might hurt the host the most. So that's something to consider, you know? Any kind of lead is good enough as far as I'm concerned. Even if it isn't much, we can try to work with it.

Hm. So you could be going after your fox bride, as an example?

[ interesting to note. ] Or pitting the brothers against each other, that sort of thing.

That's one example, yeah. Tamamo and I talked about this and even she agreed that if she were possessed, she thought that she'd come after me first. It's one of the most solid theories we have right now.

It would make it easier for the demon to get close enough to their victim, wouldn't it?

They’d have the element of surprise and potentially the benefits of their target not wanting to hurt the body they possess. Overall that’s a huge benefit for them, and a huge obstacle for their potential victim to overcome.

Not impossible, but potentially improbable.

I mean look at what happened with Monika and Prompto. He's not a bad shot and he still purposefully missed her because he didn't want to hurt her. I'd say they're totally aware of that.

...but getting people to be less hesitant about hurting their former friends isn't the easiest job either.

[ laughs in redacted ]

You don't really know what you'll do until you're faced with that situation, hm? Maybe if you think of them as a demon and a lost cause first and just took them out...

That's expecting people--normal people to be pragmatic and emotionless. I don't know if you've noticed but that's most likely not happening here. [There's a light frown.] How easily do you think you could kill any of us if we were demons?

[ He tilts his head, thoughtfully. ]

If I was ordered to...? Easier than you might want to hear. Otherwise, I don't know. That's why I'm talking in hypotheticals.

We can hypothesize all we want, but...maybe it's not enough. [Just musing out loud, he doesn't expect an answer.]

...why are we sitting in the dark, by the way?