[This is a human/demon au! Characters still use their Cookie names to avoid confusion!]
PLEASE BE WARNED that this au consists of a lot swearing, death, violence and/or gore, insinuation of mature topics, and other heavy topics!!
Beginner's Guide To Hell's Oven Demons (NEW)
Hell's Guide To Demons For Dummies (OLD)
Hell's Oven AO3 Series
Demon Masterlist (Canon Characters)
Demon Masterlist (OCs)
Tag Glossary
Hell's Oven Spotify Playlist
While I welcome OCs being put into this AU, DO NOT them Rank 1s (only 7 exist)! In addition, please DO NOT make any canon characters a demon unless you're a friend and we've discussed it!
Song: Another Love Story ('Love Story' Minor Key Villain Parody) by RafScrap ft. LyraPyon
Sometimes I hear a song then I black out and a video appears in my files that's crazyyy- ft. Heavily edited ibispaint free assets shout out to the asset library.
As always, AU by @hells-oven-au ! I only designed Demon!Pumpkin!!
Da Pastry! A Rank 4 Envy Demon with the individual ability to cast illusion magics and to create arrows (or bolts) out of dark magic to use as attacks, with a horned viper disguise!
And to clarify, Pastry walks on her palms, the front leg positions are just bcs she's quirky like that-
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Hi! Been a while, but I figured I'd have to write it one day. It also just so happens to be on christmas too so. merry christmas to you, @hells-oven-au! (I also relined PL's demon form. she looks much better now.)
I'm back from purgatory (internet issues) so here's a Demon!Comté redesign idea that I'll flesh out once I have an actual computer to draw more comfortably, bc I've been meaning to do that for a while and Demon!Almond too shhh).
Oh and also here's the last chapter of "Oh, The Day I Died" because I forgot to post it here;
Original AU: @hells-oven-au , I just put my OC in it lmao
I'm currently obsessed with this version of them and we are moving by the end of the month and that probably means I won't have internet for a while, I needed to get this out my chest before then hhh-
I never dwell on Clotted's perspective of things that happen on this AU much, I'mma fix that a little!
If you read my fic about this specific AU on how Pumpkin died, you know their deal already, but I also want to elaborate on their relationship a bit because that fic is deliberately written with an unreliable narrator (and also because I want to ramble);
They got together because they were lonely.
If it wasn't obvious by the whole "sleeping with a guy you just met for like a month" thing, I'm saying it now. Is not explicitly stated, but at the time Clotted was under a lot of pressure of keeping up this image of "model citizen" of the Crème Republic because of his father being an elder of the convocation, he didn't have a lot of genuine friends as a result. And Pumpkin was dealing with practically being in Madeleine's shadow, everyone in the Paladin Academy just favored his brother more even if Pumpkin was just as, if not better, than Madeleine academically speaking.
In a way, Clotted and Pumpkin had a lot in common... They just went about it a bit backwards.
It started as a friends-with-benefits situation at first and then they rushed into an actual romantic relationship without much thought about the possible consequences, because they craved that connection they were previously denied.
But Clotted genuinely loved Pumpkin regardless of the circumstances that brought them together.
And well... You saw how that story ended.
Clotted basically spent the rest of his life not knowing the REAL cause of Pumpkin's dead, going back to be the unreachable man with no real connections.
Then he became the Consul of the entire nation, and the rest is story.
yap fest incoming i'm so sorry. it's to make up for me forgetting how to draw people
Paper Lantern (Who rather goes by PL post-death), a middle-tiered Rank 2 Wrath Demon! Their cause of death was smoke inhalation during a targeted arson attack (not fun). The demon form shown is their neutral state.
They have pyrokinesis, can cause strong stunning shockwaves by hitting the ground (enhanced in their anger state), their Rank 2 breath ability (fire breath, yet refuses to breathe smoke), and of course her normal Wrath Demon ability.
If Life is a person, then PL was their punching bag. So many bad things happened in their life, which acted as the fuel that started the fire, her anger. Her emotional reaction to bad things? Never sadness, only anger. They were somewhat easy to tick off while alive, and it's easier now as a demon. All those bad experiences shaped their way of viewing the world, everyone wants to hurt you, and anger is the way to survive.
How they never fully snapped is beyond me.
You can imagine when their festival was burned to the ground with them in the middle of it, they were more than livid. Even when their body calmly gave up on her, their mind was only filled anger and hatred.
That's a grudge they'll forever hold, anger that'll fuel them.
Welcome to Hell, Rank 2.
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If I had a nickel for every TBD member who became a demon in death I'd have two nickels. that's crazy
Oh yeah their wings are based on the lilienthal glider
AU is by @hells-oven-au / @the-wereraven sorry this took a while lol
Since @hells-oven-au is my current obsession at the moment, I decided to come up with my own take about how angels work in this universe since the AU doesn't really focus on them, which is fine bc it's more about the demons and the edginess (/pos love the AU Raven <3)
Much like demons, angels have their own hierarchy— more so in the form of Tittles rather than Ranks; with Archangels at the top and the common angel at the lowest of the hierarchy.
And like the demons, a contract system between humans and angels In the form of blessings. However, the rules of said contracts are way more strict than those of their "savage" counterparts.
Firstly, they're only reserved for mortals who are the most devoted to the Devine; prominently, paladins of light magic. Once a paladin finishes their training, they pray on a shrine and say their oaths to receive a blessing from the Devine; depending on the oath, an angel will appear to them on a dreamscape-like place and make a pact.
Make an oath of devotion and the angel will grant you powerful protection magic like forcefields of light, make an oath of redemption and the angel will enhance your healing magic tenfold.
Be careful what kind of oath you make, as a malicious oath will give you no blessing; it's difficult to tell when a paladin has no blessing, so liars are not uncommon... Of course, the angel may strip you of your blessing at any given moment if the Divine deemed you unworthy of it, it's rare for a paladin to gain back their blessing after they'd lost it.
Paladins with powerful blessings by high ranking angels may even grow wings! These paladins have the highest honor of speaking directly with their angel patron whenever they want, either for guidance or... to see a deceased someone if their soul is there.
A bit of a rough concept still, but that's all I have for now! I'll love to hear suggestions anyone has /lh
