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i left my brain at home today ◊ @conventionapart // @simplyechoes

          ❝ That’s —— ❞ There’s a pause, then. What were you meant to do when a demon decided to make jokes about your death ( aside from contemplating your own mortality )? 

         ❝ That’s not very nice of you. ❞ Her tone is scolding, hands firmly on her hips as if she were disciplining a young child, a glimmer of hurt slipping through as if to insist on the fact these types of remarks hurt people. She wants to stand her ground then, desperately. However, despite her best efforts, she cannot help but feel her tone and demeanour sound fake and weak and practiced and wavering. She had never gotten to be anything close to a mother or authority figure, and her only scale of comparison was her own ( and Vanessa never sounded fake or weak or practiced, and she had definitely NEVER wavered, so clearly Delia was failing at this. Not that anyone would be surprised ).

         It did not help that Beetlejuice was not wrong. Meanspirited, definitely, but not wrong. Delia figured that a lot of people would laugh when she eventually passed away, his only another name to add to a long list. A joke in life and a joke in death. Mind flashes back to her name, printed on a game-show stand, and the knot and weakness and wavering in her throat gets worse. 

                   ( Don’t let him win. ) 

         She needs to hold her ground. ❝ Apologize. You MIGHT laugh, but you cannot be sure of anything until it happens. ❞  

[sinnerbefore]

TWITTER CALL  •  @conventionapart

“At least they don’t keep renaming you, do they?” To say he’s more than a little bored of the escapades of humans would be an understatement - give him another century or so, of course, and his opinion will change a little when a particular gang of them summon him, but he’s not there yet.

He’s been so many things to them before now. A god, or a fallen angel, locked in mortal combat with another. King of the Gods, or King of Hell. Bringer of life or of destruction, by turns seen as benevolent or vengeful depending on which group of humans thought they were the ones making the rules at any given moment. He’s had as many names as he’s had depictions, but he answers to Baal, these days - and he calls himself a demon.

He prefers it this way, honestly. The company is much less insufferable, for one.

“They used to change mine about as often as the weather changed. At least when they need to summon you, the only problem they face is their own ability - or lack thereof - to pronounce your name.”

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BARBARA MAITLAND’S STARTER CALL  •  @conventionapart​

“If you’re going to stay in here, can you at least - I don’t know, try to be quiet?””