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Oh the weather outside is frightful...

☀THE WARM AND TOASTY MEME☀
The situation: It is dreadfully cold. Think 'ice cave where all those slash fics are set'.
The goal: Keep each other warm tonight!

☀ STEP ONE: Comment with your characters. One comment for each character.
☀ STEP TWO: Other people reply to your characters.
☀ STEP THREE: Both participants are aware that they should/must keep nice and warm. To do that, you need to bundle up nice and closely, however grudgingly. No, killing your threadmate and cuddling the body doesn't count.
☀ STEP FOUR: Keep 'em warm! Hot cocoa, hot coffee, hot tea, hot mustard, or other suitably warming beverages will be provided if you cooperate.
☀ STEP FIVE: Lulz ensue!

((Basically just a winter-themed cuddle meme, with evil ideas from Shae and Col. Add some cuddle urges in the air if your characters won't otherwise cooperate but you want them to.))

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"I appreciate that," Katara said, giving him a smile. In her own way, she sort of understood how a demon operated. She had heard what Damion said of them, but in truth, as all humans weren't the same, who was to say the same could not be said of demons? "I'd prefer to be stronger by learning from someone who's hard."

She looked a little startled by that. "Are they really? What sort of people are they?"

"Thieves. Murderers. People who've led worthless lives," Zetta said. "Their souls get sewn into the body of a Prinny, and then they either do good deeds for free in Celestia, or work terribly for barely any wages in the Netherworlds, till they earn redemption."

Katara was silent for a moment. The prinnies had seemed so cute before, but now she was rapidly changing her mind. "Never mind then," she said. "Maybe they need to find redemption in their own way."

Oh, they ARE cute, Katara! It's just that it's okay to laugh at their suffering!

"Yep. Of course, sometimes the Netherworlds can't actually manufacture enough Prinny bodies, then it gets all weird, but usually the system works."

She wondered about this Netherworld he kept talking about. "I'm kind of curious: what sorts of things do demons do, in these Netherworlds. Most of the people I know, and even in my world, demons are thought of as pure evil, corrupting...yet you don't seem like that in a way. You think with logic and wait for more opportunity to take what you want. Is that why you're so high up there as an Overlord?"

"All sorts of things, really. I'm the Overlord, so I just lord it over everyone and travel the cosmos being awesome -- but there's your usual run of jobs. Warriors, medics, gate keepers, vassals, servants, shopkeepers... It's not like you'd think from human fiction, where we all just sit around in the middle of the brimstone and lava and plot evil.

"...I mean, we DO do that, but not JUST that. We have lives too."

She still didn't quite get what he meant.

"What do you mean about 'your usual run of jobs?' Are you saying all the jobs you just mentioned are also ones in the demon world? I mean, there isn't much that I know about how humans view demons other than the whole 'they are evil and unclean part.' If you have lives like you say, what do they involve?"

"Well, we have stores, and those need to be run. Castles that need to be cleaned, so we have servants and whatnot. Tracts of land that need lords, so we have vassals, and peasants. Mercenaries and armies... low-level peasants... I mean, sure we're evil, but unclean is really a matter of personal preference." Lord Zetta is, of course, a little bit of a slob.

"From what little I've seen of human worlds, aside from the nature of the residents, it's a lot more normal than most people would think."

"That is a lot: it sounds a bit like running a kingdom," Katara said, thinking a lot about the circumstances in her world. "So everything is sort of organized, even though you have to use that time to plot your evil too? That's a lot to think about. But I have heard that your sort of touch is supposed to be dirtying, somehow tainting. I don't believe it completely though."

She nodded. "It does sound pretty familiar."

"Dirtying and tainting, huh?" Zetta snickered, which slowly grew into outright laughter. "It's because we're so much more badass, any human who meets us can't stand knowing how bad their own kind is in comparison!"

"I doubt that's the reason," Katara said. "Not that I believe that of course: I hardly know anything about demons except what people tell me on the ship. Daimon for instance, thinks that if you guys, but I don't think he's just human either."

"Wait, was that the guy who claimed demons could be banished with salt and... sparkling tonic water, or something? And that they all should be?"

Zetta sneered a little. "I'm not sure he knows anything about anything. He couldn't take me if his salt was weaponized and his tonic water came at the tail end of a fusion reaction."

She giggled. "It does sound pretty silly, but its in his world. For all I know, he might be able to channel his own inner power and empower what he does. There's you, Evangeline, and that little girl demon on the ship, yet I can at least understand how you think."

She laughed aloud here. "He might take offense to that!"

"Let him take offense." The book looked downright irritated. "The guy talked a lot of smack, but didn't even bother trying to back it up. That pisses me off worse than people who talk smack and can't back it up at all."

"Its not like he could just up and attack you without reason," Katara said, a little unhappy that Damion would have talked so discourteously about Overlord Zetta without even knowing much about him.

"I'm sorry you went through that. Like I said, I don't know much about demons, but you could at least get to know someone before you say anything like that to them."

"I'm a demon, Katara!" Zetta said, smiling with sincere amusement. "'Because he's there' is reason enough for me! Besides, what's to apologize for? We demons may not be inherently 'unclean', but we ARE evil."

Seems Zetta's still holding to that line.

She laughed. "I suppose that's true, but being all evil is what tends to frighten others way. I guess that's what you're going for though."

Honestly, and Katara would never say it aloud, she wouldn't have called Overlord Zetta outright evil. She'd save that list for certain other members of the ship.

"Hey, it's true. I'm not gonna pretend otherwise. But being evil doesn't mean being stupid."

With Zetta, it was just coincidental.

"I'm not gonna go around stomping people. There's no one worth stomping here, for one, and for another... the Ohm are the real targets."

Katara nodded. "Honestly, most of the time the evil people get the idea that attacking others on the ship is counterproductive: you don't see the Ohm coming around trying to make pacts, they want to get us all. It's some of the supposed good guys that feel like they have to threaten others.

She shook her head. It didn't make a lot of sense: even if evil guys WERE evil, why tell them you were going to fight them? That was like painting a target on your back.

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