Question for the mun: What drew you to Dantalion in the first place?
I went into the muse decision process with some reasonable restrictions in place: I wanted a demon from the Ars Goetia who was not already represented among the muses of the rp blogs I was following and wanted to interact with. Basically, I already had a slot I needed to fit a muse into, as well as a nice, contained list to pick from.
Many of the Goetian demons struck me as ill-suited for rping, such as, for example, Vepar, whose notable characteristics include being able to make the sea look like it has lots of ships in it, and making wounds get worms in them. I wanted someone that gave me more to write about, but also who wasn’t too OP to write without writing myself into a corner (as with a future-teller, of which there are just SO MANY). Thus, the list was very quickly pared down to a shortlist of ten or fewer options.
Eventually I whittled it down to four options. Y’all almost got a Bathin, a Sitri, or (most entertainingly) a Zagan.
Ultimately, I decided that Bathin was just the mild to Dantalion’s spicy, Zagan’s quirk for changing things into other things could only be played for laughs for so long, and (if I considered the long term) Sitri’s power to make people take off their clothes just didn’t quite hold a candle to the ability to read and alter minds.Really, me choosing Dantalion was a process of elimination from a list of 72.
Once I’d chosen him, though, everything fell into place fairly quickly. I had all the major beats of his backstory planned in detail before I created this blog, even though they wouldn’t become relevant for a few months after. From the time I decided to rp a Goetic demon to the time I started the blog proper was less than a week, but in that time, the Tal you know and love was fully developed as a character. (Which is not to say, of course, that he does not continue to develop!)Later, I tried again with one of the demons from my reject pile (Crocell), but my original fears bore out: Some demons are just harder to write than others. That blog is on an indefinite hiatus.
