Oh, not at all. Even my masters I have disliked are not boring. Any who would be willing to strike up a Covenant with me are rather inherently interesting. After all, Horos and Kenos both are interesting places that are entirely unlike the world of humans I came from.
[ And that is where the challenges came from, mostly. So his explanation serves to answers two curiosities at once. ]
For one, my kind were largely considered religious myth rather than something real. We were not able to step into the world of man freely, and what was necessary to summon us to their world required acts that a normal human would not consider. The boring are inherently pruned out by that alone. For example, my last master sacrificed his twin brother so that I may appear.
[ And in Communion, there’s a twinge of dark, hungry delight when he says it. It’s easy to attribute it to a demon’s bas personality, but it was much richer than that. “Ciel’s” circumstances had been uniquely tragic and delicious, but also irrelevant for the explanation. So, he continues. ]
And then once I am there, simply being in the human world presented challenges. I could not be so cavalier about my existence, for one, lest it inspire a religious fervor that may see a village reduced to ash. And for no reason! They could not kill me, so it just turned into a massacre, you see. So, my existence is a secret I keep tightly guarded, generally speaking. I would have here as well, had circumstances in Horos not forced my hand into honesty.
[ And clearly from his tone, he’s glad to not have to. ]
Then there are the eccentricities of my masters to tend to. I do prefer to keep them content, largely speaking. And give someone powerless a vassal who is capable of nearly anything? Why, you can guess the sort of challenges that may come up. Any hedonistic pleasure you can imagine, I have surely delivered, as the predictable example.
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[ And that is where the challenges came from, mostly. So his explanation serves to answers two curiosities at once. ]
For one, my kind were largely considered religious myth rather than something real. We were not able to step into the world of man freely, and what was necessary to summon us to their world required acts that a normal human would not consider. The boring are inherently pruned out by that alone. For example, my last master sacrificed his twin brother so that I may appear.
[ And in Communion, there’s a twinge of dark, hungry delight when he says it. It’s easy to attribute it to a demon’s bas personality, but it was much richer than that. “Ciel’s” circumstances had been uniquely tragic and delicious, but also irrelevant for the explanation. So, he continues. ]
And then once I am there, simply being in the human world presented challenges. I could not be so cavalier about my existence, for one, lest it inspire a religious fervor that may see a village reduced to ash. And for no reason! They could not kill me, so it just turned into a massacre, you see. So, my existence is a secret I keep tightly guarded, generally speaking. I would have here as well, had circumstances in Horos not forced my hand into honesty.
[ And clearly from his tone, he’s glad to not have to. ]
Then there are the eccentricities of my masters to tend to. I do prefer to keep them content, largely speaking. And give someone powerless a vassal who is capable of nearly anything? Why, you can guess the sort of challenges that may come up. Any hedonistic pleasure you can imagine, I have surely delivered, as the predictable example.