#demonic detachment

[owlygem]

Manifesting this at the end 💛

#and maybe crowley can start to wear more colour too #maybe add red #to signify their detachment from their toxic roots #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #yellow is pretty #like a certain demons eyes #myart

[navarice]

what i love so much about wei ying is how much he actually loves children. like he canonically is a good mentor/father figure and he wants to have kids of his own someday. it tears me apart inside thinking about how much he suppresses with jin ling because…that’s his shijie’s son, and in another world, he would’ve been the best uncle jin ling ever had. and with a-yuan being his “little one”, he was so heartbroken every time he thought a-yuan probably didn’t make it out of the burial mounds. in yi city, he was the ideal teacher: giving the disciples chances to figure out the solution for themselves and getting some hands on experience by guiding them on what to look for when night hunting…

lan zhan and wei ying’s dynamic with children is so special because anyone with half a brain can tell they care so much about all the kids they come across. truly after the war, with all the orphans and complicated family dynamics, to watch two people who mutually love and support each other through hell and back also simultaneously adopting every broken child is so healing, even when it doesn’t work out in the end.

#mdzs #mao dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan zhan #when comparing the three: sqq is okay w kids #and tbh it only worked out bc he knew so much abt lbh #xl is better than sqq but children doesn’t suit him like that #he and hua cheng are more passive and detached with their care #but goddamn wwx is he good #he has that soft spot and he’s silly and he spoils the kids he comes across rotten #he could never even punish them if they do something bad #at most he’ll probably express disappointment (which would be soul crushing tbh) and hand them to lwj to do it for him #it’s the middle of the night #and I’m crying about fatherhood in a fictional book #good night #someone send help

[gooperts-gunk]

im so crazy over the tragedy of everything q!bbh does being under a demon pretense even though he's a fallen angel.

do u think he just accepts the demon label because it's easier. do u think he believes it too, and catches himself in his thoughts with "oh, right. im not exactly that". and maybe he believes that he did this to himself? do u think what he did was to protect himself or someone? no matter the fall, he still has so much kindness to give and his brain just isn't wired the way a natural-born demon would be, he can't hold back instincts when time demands it, maybe that's why he fell in the first place.

and when he's finally bad, not good, it's treated like the end of the world, without empathy on why he would act out. do you think this keeps happening? the same scenario, multiple times, every timeline? he has to be used to it. so he has to take it in stride. he's good until he lashes out under extreme pressure, and suddenly he's called demon. and once again he's what heaven made him out to be. what he made himself to be, his brain would ruthlessly provide...

i don't think he wants to be that, though he hides secrets behind secrets of which neither identity is a home... but i don't think he wants to have to change, either. and i don't think that's wrong of him.

...you collapse atlantis ONE TIME and all of a sudden YOU'RE the bad guy and SURE it was FUN but REALLY now,--

#lots of expansion on this in tags beware #this is a draft from 2:40AM the day before i just felt something within me and i needed to write about fallen angel q!bbh angst NOW #this post is brought to you by q!bbh in purgatory and post-purgatory i will never forgive you purgatory 1 #no one can bear to have a healthy conversation about q!bbh's behaviors let alone TO q!bbh. BUT IF Q!BAGHERA WASN'T STUCK ON THE ISLAND... #i miss u bbh + baghera interactions let me see u soon pls #he isn't impossible to communicate with ur just not jiving with his autism right u can get through to him i swear BUT TOO LATE he DIED #now he doesn't remember!!! (unless that part of the library is recovered) u lost ur shot!!! (ur issues with him will rise again) #now every time bagi goes “'cause he's a demon” with bbh i go OH MAN SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT'S MORE... it hurts how flippant it is sometimes #because WE KNOW OH MAN WE KNOW IT'S MORE and this concept of him being fallen adds SO MUCH CONNOTATION to EVERYTHING he does #it isn't just DEMON THINGS it's GOD MADE ME THIS THINGS and i just can't wait to know WHY what did you DO!!! #your instincts are to be nice though cautiously detached when your life restarts so WHAT DID YOU DO IF YOU ARE NOT INHERENTLY BAD??? #goopert talks qsmp #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo

[baradyke]

craziest tags i've seen today

#this is about a cishet ace person btw #like they are so detached from reality #like if being ace and gay doesn't make you less gay #then being ace and straight doesn't make you less straight...lol #txt #i won't put this in the discourse tag today. the demons won't win

[aurorartz]

BODY # 2

#cyberpunk 2077 #valheri rosario cruz #i have come up with a hc that she has a detachable head with two bodies ; one 'organic' body & her netrunning shell #tier 5-6 netrunning gear is far superior than a fully ganic frame! --vik helps her into both when she needs to switch! ] #le pink demon c:

[banesberry-anomoly]

Plotting for my Dealer design

#Banesberry art #altoclef.exe #Hes gonna be a fucked up eldritch spider fae creature with demonic motifs #No satan dealer for you today #You get fucked up abomination with too many limbs (he is going to have like 8 detachable floating arms n hands) #buckshot roulette #buckshot roulette dealer #buckshot roulette art #the dealer #BSRL #<how Im abbreviating it #Torren Arache

[chikinan]

And since we're on this dorohedoro isn't nonsensical. it's not funny wacky I mean it is but the fact that the world is extremely cruel and horrific yet people live as normal is not absurd it's just a hyperbolic version of what real life's like for the working class.

#its abt class division jesus christ #its not. subtle. #shakes you about #mati barks #theres an in text word for ppl who can detach thenselves of the horror #and think the worlds just fine #its demon #jdjdjgbdkghksjfjjr

[revvethasmythh]

like, I get why people don't like edgelord style characters and find them exhausting, i really do. but I was raised by a style of book that exclusively features edgelord protagonists that intentionally bars them from experiencing a single moment of dignity in their entire lives, and I think that explains why I love them, actually

#an edgelord character allowed to retain dignity? boring. who cares #an edgelord character who is made the center of an insane slapstick comedy routine at least once a day? you have my attention #like yeah all these UF protagonists wear black and leather and are ''badasses'' #they are also losers constantly losing fights. their best friends are hairless cat demons or detached vampire heads kept in a gym bag #or a perverted miniature unicorn who can talk and lives in your underwear drawer #(all real examples. yes they are ALL real) #to truly be an edgelord the narrative must rob you of all dignity. it is a MUST #rosie reads #(every day i get closer to writing some absurd dissertation about UF protagonists that no one but me would care about) #i mean there are absolutely UF series that take their protags too seriously and anyway that' why i don't fuck with gena showalter #or kevin hearne (derogatory) etc etc #karen chance writing the dorina basarab series though? she understood the assignment better than most ever will

[travalerray]

what if I wrote a TMA AU. What then

#lan wangji #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #nie huiasang #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #kk's writing tag #tma #note: I need to actually go back and catch up on the lore in question so do not quote me on any of the alignments #however my very controversial (/j /j) opinion is that LWJ is more Corruption aligned due to the whole Lan clan drama being Making Bad #Decisions In Love. I see why people give him the Lonely alignment because of the whole detachment/sheltered thing he has going on #but! Think of the whole consumed by love thing! #(yes I did post him at the Archives because one of his main things apart from running after wwx does happen to be looking after the library #pre timeskip. No I don't think that the Eye makes sense for him as a character.... However the eye freaks most people out in tma due to the #whole being watched business. However I needed a starting point so I kept the Lans as the archives #for now. It might change later. I am thinking NHS would be a fun spin on Tim with their whole brother business yk? #as for JC and WWX.... I mean Vast and End work but I don't know if I want JC to become an Avatar. I think it would be fun if he did get som #abilities but didn't fully become one. Anyways LXC is a very hm point for me because of the whole trust and mediator business..... #but that's a thought for later. I don't think any characters from a different series can actually be fit into neat categories here #esp with mdzs's love and devotion and self sacrifice themes along with the class inequality)

[krikidilly]

Thinking about Aiko....

#such a weirdo #realized a while back that Aiko is basically the shadow to Enmus sonic because um #i made them when i was getting back into demon slayer and at that point i hadnt seen mugen yet #so. they are incidentally.. so very similar😭😭 FUNNIER STILL IS I LIKE TO TINK AIKO TOGETHER WITH DOUMA. I HADNT A CLUE... #demon slayer #kny #demon slayer oc #my art #their whole thing is being really whimsical and being detached from reality.. Enmu would be furious with me. identity theft.. #at the very least Aiko is a lot kinder than Enmu.. they just have a thick layer of oddity on top #like they think everyone around them is bugs but in a very very affectionate way #they believe humans and demons can get along but in the same vein they kinda dont think highly of demons #to them demons are like pitiful sick animals sorta #their relationship with douma is also very odd. they take turns studying one another like ameoba

[inkdemon-whore]

bit of a continuation of this post, this art, and maybe also this art, bendy, having made hundreds, if not thousands of different versions of audrey to try and appease joey and set itself free, grew attached to a select few over the time he's made and re-made her.

the one drawn in the bendy basically being a dad image, is his most favorite. he doesn't name her, or any of the others, so anytime he talks about her, he just says "My Favorite." and thanks to some of my own ideas, and this lovely lil comment uwu

his "favorite" might have given him, at least a bit of a change of heart, just for a while at least.

(this is a bit long and slightly fan-fic-y, so i'll put it under keep reading)

(also look at the tags they got tw's, that's kinda important)

when ripping parts of himself to make audrey, he digs out pieces of himself. pieces that seem insignificant to him now, but when isolated, might act out in ways he couldn't expect. there may have been versions of audrey that where horrible monsters, killing things just like him, or little ones full of rage, envy, sorrow, or loneliness.

with him having so much of those emotions to go around, having those parts of him torn off, he isn't too surprised, and it doesn't really phase him.

but at some point, he dug a little deeper, just in the right spot, to pull out something that all those negative emotions buried.

now, i also hc that at this point, the ink demon was/is mostly an abusive parent. being rather neglectful, and only starting to care a little, at least for the audrey's appearance, in the hopes that so long as she looked human, he could be freed. he would call all of them names, and say "you'll likely die" whenever it was time for them to meet joey, and he was always right, so he never bothered. he'd push his own creations away, because of his own trauma.

but this one. this one he calls his "favorite". at some point started to realize that, despite the ink demon saying mean things to her, he was rather kind, and didn't hurt her. despite him killing and eating people, around her, he was rather protective, maybe a little too protective. even if he would threaten her life, or get close to eating her, she wouldn't seem scared. (it could also be that she just freezes, or dissociates due to abuse)

he could call her a hideous, ugly wretch, that no one would ever truly love, while still having cleaned her, and tried to make her look pretty, and she would pick up on that. "you don't rrreeeaaallly think i'm ugly, do you? you spend all this time fixing my dress and my hair. if you really think i'm ugly, maybe it's because you're not very good at making pretty things."

a majority of the time, the ink demon would be straight up with her, saying "i eat people, because i enjoy tormenting them. ripping them apart limb from limb, and hearing them scream, and cry, and beg." and anytime he even seemed like he was lying, mostly in contradictions between his words and actions, she'd ask him about it, and he wouldn't really have an answer for her. and not having an answer made him feel vulnerable.

sooner or later, he slowly becomes more kind to her, taking her to heavenly toys, or bendy land, just spending time with her, if at a distance and seeming detached or aloof. still insulting her and being a bit abusive, but not physically hurting her all that much. he even brings her supplies to draw, and watches her on occasion. he starts extending his time with her, enjoying her company, occasionally wondering if he should play "the end" reel on himself, simply to spend even more time with her.

but her time is coming to and end, and joey is getting impatient. once it's time for her to go, he's finally nicer with his words, if not still blunt and distant. she ask him if joey will like her, and he coldly says no. she ask if he can come with her, and once again he says no. she ask if all those horrible things he said about joey where true, he says yes. she's squeezing a bendy doll he gave her, holding back tears, "is he... really going to kill me if i'm not perfect?"

... something in him finally clicks, and for once, he honestly, genuinely tries to reassure her. that she doesn't have to be "perfect". she doesn't have to be "born right" to be beautiful, or deserving of love. that what imperfections she has means something to him, and make her who she is. and for a moment, he doesn't want her to go.

but she goes...

and she's gone...

she's dead...

like the rest of them...

and he regrets not being kinder to her...

and he hates himself for not having more time with her...

and he eats her, like he'd done the rest, dug around, hoping to get that little piece of him back once more, to see it just for a moment, but could never find it, and could never rebuild it again...

just more sad, angry, or detached audrey's, that sure, began to look more human, began to be more human, but slowly became more and more of a blank slate. more of a marry sue even, but it took a lot out of him (pun intended) to just get that.

audrey may be perfect... but she is not his Favorite.

#batim #batdr #audrey drew #ink demon #tw verbal abuse #tw parental abuse #tw parental neglect #detached parenting #stockholm syndrome #or at the very least sorta kinda those vibes #bro accidentally pulled the good outta himself #had it call him out on his bs #made him feel a little less like a monster #and was like 'please don't leave' #and then it DIED #og henry and his favorite are the only things #keeping him from loosing his mind entirely #and he's already p close #angst #daddy ink demon au #favorite!audrey

[seikatattoo]

Spirit gun

#art #my art #oc #demon #detached horns #she's charging a spell

[gaystreetsmarts]

why did crowley's feet burn in the church but not in heaven?

#good omens spoilers #good omens #gomens #on one hand i can see it as him becoming less demonic? like maybe as he's detached himself from hell things like consecrated ground dont #hurt as much? but on the other hand like #theres no proof of that in any other instance #and aziraphale shows no sign of being less angelic #theres also possibly the idea that crowleys hiding pain #given that he goes about poisoning himself and walking through churches to save angels #hes quite self-sacrificing #i also now have the idea of him before he has the plan for the holy water involving shadwell and stuff #of him trying to slowly like #acclimatize himself in walking on consecrated ground #like walking around the edges of holy sites and trying to force himself through the pain so that he can one day go in a church himself #and get the holy water himself #OR alternatively not for the holy water #but in the rare event he may have to rescue aziraphale again #('rare') #perhaps from a church or even heaven #idk

[wreckedhoney]

ohhh not the moralizing of apartment/close quarters living here on tumblr dot com ohhhh no....

#and the demonization of detached housing and the metaphor for being close vs isolated from society gggh the romanticizing is going too far #im glad op's apartment living is going well but the experience is. not universal ;v; #also most places with detached houses are not like. the extreme suburbs or idek what the imagery was with this one. the wilderness. #the farmland like how detached was this. this imagery going for #i'm detached and i can hear my neighbors talk and when their phone rings. is that too far lol

[cryptojuice]

take this with a grain of extremely drunk but at this point I'm my journey? now? I'm like literally the idealest person in the world and I think everyone else has something wrong with them

#is it autism? is that why people don't just fuckin communicate with me? #my autistic superpower is im TOO GOOD at communicating and everyone else is behind me. #im already in the 'so how do we meet our needs' stage when other people are in the avoidance stage or the self awareness stage #idk. idk. fuckin tired of it #tired of games tired of excuses tired of IMMATURITY #tired of being more grown than people in their mid 30s. tired of being more grown than my parents in their mid 50s #tired of being the ONLY person i know ACTIVELY working on their flaws and making progress #maybe others are just working on things i dont notice and maybe others dont notice what im doing. but idk. people have seemed to notice. #is it because im becoming buddhist? am i like more fucking enlightened or something? #i would hope that wouldn't be the only thing causing such a disconnect cause that sounds fucking pretentious #im drunk cause i was upset. remember yhis if you're reading these tags #im not upset anymore cause i got drunk. and made a really good omelette #but yeah i feel so different from other people. so much better and also so much worse. hashtag paradox #best communicator deepest thinker most compassionate soul. also most horrible awful sinner #↑obsessed with the concept of sin in a fascinating way for someone who doesn't Believe in it #yes im a sinner yes im a real sex demon from hell no hell doesnt exist yes reincarnation is real yes i am buddhist yes i believe in ghosts. #i contain multitudes #anyways #i was supposed to *** ** ***** *** today and i didn't so I got grumpy i guess #i really need to practice the principles of detachment #I've gotten a lot better at patience and calm and meditation but i still care so much about inconsequential shit. enough to drink it away i #i should sleep i was trying to fix my sleep schedule the last two nights #but i don't want to. i want to drink and have fun and maybe cry #we'll see #doubt anyone is gonna read this it's mostly for me #gonna tag this #therapy #so i can find it if i need it #i just miss my girlfriend man. but she stood me up again without a word and it's disrespectful #and i know I'm gonna forgive her

[imsosocold]

If you think Matt’s ‘ personality turn’ is a result of DID and that his actions are just a result of this condition, you’re not only missing the entire point of his character but you’re also ableist.

#His whole character is a breaking of previous tropes and story conventions of Ace Attorney #a cautionary tale of privilege and detachment #the fact that both the mask and the face underneath is Matt is the whole point #There is discussion to be had about a lack of identity and the placement of personas #And there’s nothing wrong with hcs or projection #But l swear most of the time the ‘ Matt has DID” takes are all just “ he did bad stuff cause he’s crazzyyy” #People demonizing an already stigmatized disorder #ableism #tw ableism #gyakuten saiban #ace attorney #matt engarde #noelle’s rants