Belphegor was actually the one interested in humans…..
how the fuck did you see my blog and went "oh yeah this person cares about canon". bestie what blog did you fucking read lol
allow me to make it clear: I don't care about getting all the lore right. especially if, subjectively, it makes a weaker narrative. moving on · · ·
a bit of a rant below the read more for those who actually care about my personal views and takes on delphegor:
I think Belphegor shouldn't be interested in humans because of the following
It allows him to dehumanize humans as the Wicked Horrible Wretched beings that basically destroyed his life. Why would he hold any interest in their culture, traditions, lives?
The topic would be traumatic as FUCK and he is not the type to put effort in anything “hard”, any less traumatic.
Avoidance and/or isolation - from human culture, in this case - is a common grief response that would make thematic sense for the Avatar of Sloth.
It could even be a cute parallel to Beel, who decided not to hold any grudge and even indulges in human culture rather unashamedly despite feeling the grief all the same.
it creates a more interesting conflict of his views of humans and the views of the other demon brothers, which also helps the whole attic situation feel more. dunno. shrugs vaguely
Belphegor IS angry with humans, and I can view as believable that he would learn about them solely out of spite, but it is fuckin' boring. It is literally what you always see in every goddamn revenge storyline and makes belphie so much flatter for the first half of the story when he fulfills the role of an antagonist/mystery hook, and legitimately gun to my head it also makes him the most boring character on the entire goddamn game because he doesn't even stay an antagonist anyway (despite literally killing mc, yeah wonderful choice for a romanzable, truly).
In my opinion as a writer, you could spin around the age-old trope of a hate boner grief response and bend it to something like the narrative punch of "These people ruined my life and I am angry, but I don't have the energy to enact said anger so I am just drowning in hate until I rot from the inside out. I hate, passionately, and nobody sees it. The world moved on and so did the people who hurt me, and the people who were supposed to be as hurt as me. These feelings inside me will explode alongside me and I have accepted this fate". Putting seasoning on the chicken, as it were.
Belphegor doesn’t have a plan for killing humans, at least not any that will actually work; they are all infantile and entirely misguided. He’s hurt, and he doesn’t know how to process that hurt - specially against the tiredness that took root in his bones - so he has to lash out against something to make the feelings go away. But it will not go away. And he cannot actually do anything. And killing humanity won’t make him happy, either.
So he stays stagnant as he plans nothing at all for an imaginary enemy he has created in his head. What he believes killed his sister. An entire species unknown to him except the fact that they took everything from him, so he doesn't have to blame himself in his grief.
And his brothers moved on so quickly, how could he do the same? It would betray her memory— And they interact with humanity so casually it makes his skin crawl. As if humans didn't take her away.
When the moment comes, when the moment comes, when the moment comes . . .
He rots and he dwells in these horrible feelings - until he gets locked up in the attic for what he believes is justified, because nobody else understands.
Until he meets MC, and they free him, and his delusions reach a boiling point while against something weaker. Something he, despite knowing nothing about this race, fundamentally knows: This that destroyed his life is lesser.
Anger and depression are not mutually exclusive, especially with grief involved, and having that be demonstrated with the avatar of Sloth would be more resonant with the game's narrative/themes of grief AND make each brother have a unique response to their loss. It also gives a bit more juice to his particularly close bond with Satan.