This is a long list of headcanons (sfw/nsfw), a tangent about background history that might stray from canon, and personal thoughts I have + additional music thoughts.
if there's anything anyone else has to add, I'd love to hear it ! (´ ꒳ `)
The same problem that I had with Sano/Akira has arose once again. However, I will power through ! This is for BTD2, but with some of the Biblical Cain, and Zeitgeist thrown in ! (Even though Zeitgeist is like 5 lines of dialogue from Cain)
Personal Spotify Playlist: Cain Zeitgeist
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HEADCANONS | Mixed NS/SFW |
SFW:
Catholic Family Man™ (no spouse, absent child)
(terrible) painter with a taste for renaissance/old religious paintings
extremely into classic literature (Sade, Shakespeare, Lovecraft, Alighieri)
^ into reading in general and completely a picky cunt about it
possibly writes his own poetry... (didn't say it was good)
sweaters everywhere (he dresses like an old librarian)
coffee>tea
^ much like Rire, Cain has a seasonal rotation and is also a picky cunt about this
angel tattoo on his right arm, roses and vines going down his left (when he got them done, who knows)
needs his house to smell like something, preferably sweet, but something nonetheless, it gets stagnant in Hell
English Literature degree, should've- been Historian (he's got shit tons of letters from over the years)
totally went to public executions (LOVED the Colosseums)
obsessed with romance/relationship drama, eavesdrops on gossip all the time
mimicry? yeah, he's doing it all the time. which means he's on earth more than Rire is.
he is the most beautiful biblically accurate angel, and he should not exist
NSFW:
50/50 chance on it being extremely violent, or vanilla, no in-betweens
pouring expensive waxes (scented !) on you that he got from all over the world
collection of whips, ranging from average to barbed wire
BSDM room 100% (he's got one somewhere in his house)
tries out new rope bondage techniques on you almost every week
^ finds himself lost in tying them at times
totally into cannibalism it's not funny
RELIGION KINK (you? the nun, the non-devoted, the desolate. him? the priest, the guardian angel, the devil)
^ he's making you recite passages and prayers while he whips/fucks you
Master/Sir/Father (no daddy kink, make it religious)
church sex. doesn't matter what type of church, or even what religion, he's fucking you in one regardless
There's a lot missing for Cain's canon background, possibly because it's just the biblical Cain and EP didn't want to change much? I didn't want to change a lot either, I just altered some things here ! (ᵔ⩊ᵔ)
Background: I do believe Cain (BTD2) and Cain's (Biblical Figure) backgrounds are similar at the start, save for the reason for killing Abel, and his relationships with mythological Gods + his.. mother..
I remember that Cain in Canon was banished to Caina for a few hundred(?) years or so, before breaking out and wandering where the Reapers couldn't get to him. I'm 100% keeping all of that, except adding a little on the side about this particular banishment coming after the creation of the city of Enoch, and around the time where the flood wiped the earth.
Rire and Cain's meeting timeline hasn't been set, or even their circumstances. However, I think it was a couple hundred years ago, possibly at a 'public execution of some political figure' in Hell (and by that I mean the King's downfall/Rire's uprising). Cain wasn't too interested in Demon politics, and definitely wasn't liked by anyone in Hell (you know, for being fucking Cain), but attended these Battle Royales anyway.
He's been wandering around since then, poking his head around Rire's sector ever so often for fun.
Personal Thoughts: I like Cain a lot. Or, actually, I like writing him. He's got a lot of potential when it comes to religious horror/trauma, and allows me to tap into old literature/historical texts. I get to be further educated on things, and I get to dump it all on him, a win/win situation. However, in BTD2, or just EP's writing for him in general, it's kinda.. eh. It's something. Cain is self-centered, yes, and sadistic, absolutely, but the other things he is (romantic, lonely, y'know.. religious) aren't really utilized, and fair enough, the game was pretty short and had a shit ton of other characters in it.
I'm trying to make up for that. I think Cain can be very sweet, and maybe loving at times, I mean he is still partially human in there after all.
Musical Thoughts:
Ohhh.. Off the top of my head..: Pompeji (Deftones) | Would That I (Hozier) | Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley's cover)
They're all such beautiful songs, very soothing to listen to. Pompeji especially, with it's harsh, rough contrast at points in the song. I have that song listed first because I don't think there's one out there that hits as hard, or as deeply, and matches him more.
To be fair, the entirety of Ohms fits Cain well.
But, Ohms isn't the album I'm assigning. Actually, I think there's something deeply wonderful, and disturbing about the religious guilt and shame that comes from..
Perverts (Ethel Cain)
When writing The Phoenix (Cain's chapter in Song of Imaginary Beings), that is the one I took the most inspiration from. It's a long listen, but a listen I recommend for everyone at least once !
Miscellaneous:
Voice Claim... Sebastian Michaelis (Kuroshitsuji)..? It matches Rire's..
I think he preens a lot, obsessively so, even though no one sees his feathers
needs a Bird Beastkin asap. he's a chaser for them, I'm serious.
he's the top in the hateful situationship with Rire
type of guy to start drama to watch someone's downfall (Rire better watch his back)
I really don't understand the blood around his house how does he stay so clean ??
Closing Thoughts: Cain is like Rire if Rire was even more of an egotistical douchebag (love you Rire), and even more evil somehow. He's overpowered in his domain, and outright mimicking human forms outside of it. He's able to twist himself to wear the face of your loved ones, or a friend, or just a nice middle-aged priest looking to give advice. No matter how romantic, how sweet, how caring he can be, it'll never make up for what he is, or the things he has done.
There's two fics I really love: Carnelian, and Holy Libation (both by Rotpeach.) They're both really well written and poetic, strongly recommend !
"*sigh*.... right, I should've just beaten your ass throughout the centuries. Now im gonna beat your ass again for your goddamn mind control thingy. Crow brain." 🪽
Yeah notice how his eyes changes to yellow..
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I haven't seen the continuation of this comic but I'm putting that anyway. K.al beating his ass again.
