Canon is DDD, that one Type-Moon thing. Possibly apping to DDD, that one reverse jamjar thing.

[genuinedemon]

Hm... I think Sorrow would suit you best, but there's no need to cut off your leg just yet. After all, it's no use if I can't send it to you.

The offer is on the table for later.

Comments

[technologic]

Cut her leg off- ... What?

[genuinedemon]

You seem so surprised. Is it a rare offer?

[technologic]

Well, yeah, it's, um... not something you would normally hear. W-why would she need to cut her leg off?

[genuinedemon]

If she wanted to use mine, it's a necessity.

[technologic]

Use your... [Staaaare.]

... W-why would she want to use yours, though?

[genuinedemon]

Mine has certain special properties that a human leg would not. For example, it eats emotions.

[technologic]

Oh... O-oh, I get it now...

... How can it do that?

[genuinedemon]

A demon will take away someone's pain and emotions for themselves - in that sense, it could be considered a contract. I would be quite happy to loan Sorrow out for that reason.

[technologic]

[Nod, nod.] I see... Well, it doesn't sound too strange now that I know what it means.

[genuinedemon]

Few things do. But demons can be said to be the most illogical things on an Earth created by God.

[technologic]

Ehe, I guess so... Does that mean you're a demon, then?

[genuinedemon]

Not at all. Only my limbs are.

[technologic]

Demon... limbs? [Blink. And then she shrugs lightly.]

Well, ah, I've heard of stranger things.

[genuinedemon]

It's certainly good to be open-minded, but you shouldn't believe everything you hear. Well, I'm not lying, but...

[technologic]

Ehe, I guess. But just cause I sometimes nod and go along with it doesn't always mean I believe it. [April is pretty good at playing the fool, even when she doesn't mean to.]

[genuinedemon]

You often are told things like that?

[technologic]

Sometimes. Home is pretty weird.

[genuinedemon]

Tell me more about it.

[technologic]

[Blink. Huh, this is the first time someone has flat-out asked...] It's an apocalyptic wasteland, basically. And there are a lot of mutants who have different abilities, as well as people who are a bit... weird.

[genuinedemon]

I suppose you could call the demon possessed mutants...

[technologic]

I guess so. Though mutations back home are caused by a chemical... Unless the demon possessed doesn't actually mean possessed by demons.

[genuinedemon]

It doesn't mean that. That's why I don't like fakes much.

[technologic]

... Fakes?

[genuinedemon]

The people called "demon possessed" who have nothing to do with actual demons.

[technologic]

Then is it... a sort of mutation, then?

[genuinedemon]

Much like that.

[technologic]

How does it happen?

[genuinedemon]

It all stars with mentally disturbed human. In mild cases, all it is is a change in personality.

[technologic]

And then it just escalates from there?

[genuinedemon]

Stress can distort how the body functions to a high enough degree that it has to learn how to function as something other than a human in order to survive.

[technologic]

I-I see... Wow, I've never heard of anything like that before.

[genuinedemon]

The cases are relatively low in number. There is a sudden rash in my city, however.

[technologic]

Does anyone know why?

[genuinedemon]

I'm afraid not.

[skullfudgingmotherfunker]

... Let me guess- you're a demon of some sort, right?

[genuinedemon]

That is the rumor...

[skullfudgingmotherfunker]

See, I don't even pay much attention to rumors, never was much of a gossip, it's just that in my experiences those who just casually offer to cut someones legs off tend to be either very very off, ooor demons. Mostly demons.

[genuinedemon]

In this case it must be the first, because only my limbs are demons.

[skullfudgingmotherfunker]

...

Okay, doesn't that sort of make you a demon per se? I mean, how much of ones bodymass is taken up by the limbs? 40 percent? Almost 50? It's almost 50 percent, isn't it? In that case couldn't you say that you sort of are a demon, or at least half-demon?

[genuinedemon]

But I can take those limbs off. In that case, it would be simple to say 100% of me is human.

[skullfudgingmotherfunker]

Wow. You can- all of them? Like, you can just will them to detach and turn yourself into a very scrawny, floppy pillow, just like that?

[genuinedemon]

Oh, no, I need help. It's impossible to take one's last arm off yourself after all. But they're prosthetics.

[skullfudgingmotherfunker]

Demon prosthetics. I've seen men eat their own hearts, I've been turned into paper and shot a giant goat-man in his genitals, but this? This is honestly news to me.

[genuinedemon]

They're quite useful. I'm surprised you haven't encountered them.