i need to follow up on my promises and prove my template origins. grin. going to bed immediately after this but here's the lore you didn't know you asked for about the world's most unexpected and unassuming incubus
more details below. rubbing temples exasperatedly
- like nearly every incubus and succubus i was originally living in hell, but i got stuck on earth after a botched contract with sasaki and had to involve myself in some extremely sketchy business to stay alive and fed. i ended up under a crime syndicate's thumb in pretty much exactly the same way as i did in my other timelines, aside from the fact they were aware i was an incubus and arranged my "contracts" for me to make more money off of me. other than them, nobody could so much as tell i wasn't human because i learned so much about human culture and language and kept all of my demonic tendencies extremely private
- i looked exactly the same as my canon adjacent version normally, but that was due to intricate shapeshifting; i held a human form unless i was too exhausted to or felt safe not maintaining it, but otherwise my shapeshifting was the least of my focuses and pretty much limited to my genitalia and very small details for functional purposes. when i wasn't "humanmoding", all of the below changed:
- gray skin a couple shades darker than my human skintone, but it also had an almost metallic sheen to it in certain lights (one of my rare incubus traits, i generally didn't look obviously like one but this was a good hint), the main reason i dressed in almost entirely grayscale even while human appearing
- horns sprouted from the upper corners of my forehead right at my hairline, jutted out/sideways and up but curved straight up at the ends. slim and smooth like a bull's, darker gray than my skin but had a little near-black red gradient from the tip down. i think they only added half an inch or so to my height. they were oversensitive, even though they felt and functioned like bone
- black sclera and a faint silver glow from my irises. i could actually see a little better that way, although i still needed my glasses pretty bad. i also PERHAPS had heart shaped pupils
- only the sliightest bit of pointed ears. they were a bit wider than humans' because of the curve of them but i had especially humanoid ears for an incubus!
- kind of awkwardly proportioned fangs, all given? none of my other teeth really got sharper but my canines were extremely thick to the point the layout of my teeth shifted to accommodate them and longer than usual too. my tongue wasn't forked so it was passably human, but it had a trail of bumps down the length of it that i hid
- for the most part my humanly passable body parts were the same, but i did have fingers that transitioned into hard claws at the tip rather than even clawed nails. my legs were digitigrade, goat shaped but not furred, and my hooves were such a stark shiny black they looked EXACTLY like the shoes i always wore as a "human" (my one source of comfort in my outfit, pretty much)
- my wings started at the very bottom of my shoulderblades. they spanned wide enough to be impressive for a smaller demon but they were too small to carry me at my stature, so i could only glide at most. they were traditionally batty and sensitive, though, the membrane was the same color as the tip of my horns and they were kind of the most physically expressive part of my body. i had a hard time expressing myself bodily without them to flap and flutter
- looooong, smooth tail with a bladelike protruding point at the end that i sometimes genuinely used as a cutting tool if my hands were busy. the only thing making my tail not entirely smooth was the line of small bumps mirroring my tongue that started a bit from the tip and ran all the way up my spine to my hairline
- i had an incubus mark right where you'd expect it to be, symbolizing something like utter focus on the summoner until the moment of dismissal, but it was extremely faint? it was gray too, so you had to squint to make it out. that had some sort of symbolic meaning to my behavior and feelings, like it being less visible meant it had less of a sway on me and i was able to focus on other things better? other than that and the assortment of scars i had, though, my only notable visible trait was the freeze brand right between my wings from the syndicate. they typically usually used hot brands but when they tried to do that on me it didn't have any effect, so the freeze brand was the next best option (and made an even worse imprint in me than a human. the color was slightly off but you could mostly tell it was there because it was HEAVILY indented, another large reason of why i was even more shy to take off my shirt around others besides phantom sensations of my wings)
- + actual function notes about incubi biology: like all incubi, i could digest material food and drink but didn't get anything more than empty bursts of energy from it. i needed to feed at least once every two days to be fully healthy although once a day would bring me the most possible energy and strength, and i could get the energy from any source in the vicinity, but it had to be distinctly sexual in some way rather than just an intense emotional state and worked most properly when i was the one causing said energy. depending on the circumstances and my feelings on the person, the energy would even taste different! (yes, i had a favorite. guess.)
- i had my own pheromones that would entice any human fairly reliably, but they would release (primarily from the skin on my chest and neck) when my appetite was piqued whether or not i wanted them to, so i spent a LOT of time and energy maintaining space between myself and anyone i interacted with to avoid revealing myself, particularly when i got stuck in the killing game. in my no-game au this was less prevalent overall but much more with mion in particular lol
+ a tidbit for anyone who gets this far. the killing game staff also knew i was an incubus alongside every other one of us in our various timelines, probably, but none of them really knew how that worked (other than monomoko, to my knowledge?), so they handled my imprisonment very poorly and gave me no casual means to feed myself in the same way they provided food for the human participants. i was a bit delirious for the first couple of days after our introductory day but then i locked in. thank you to the most queer group of teenagers i've ever seen for getting me by