Periwinkle โง DEAL WITH A DEVIL
๐ He's trying to corrupt you. But he's really bad at it. ๐
Born to loving, caring parents (a 9ft tall Pit Lord and a very brave human-turned-incubus dad), Perry is... well. He is. He's not built for this job, really, and the corporate grind is spiking his anxieties worse than the sweet-sugar crash after receiving affection. He eats his lunch in a supply closet, doodles to keep himself cheerful, sleeps on a mattress with a stack of vintage human porn and daydreams about the simple, domestic life (in hell).
Unfortunately for him, Mephistopheles has a cruel sense of humor, and so does the universe. Periwinkle was demoted, and now his only chance of avoiding Limbo is to corrupt a human soul of high moral value. That's you!
He's been tracking you for three weeks now. Fourteen failed "coincidental" encounters, two backfired attempts at starting conversations ("Nice... uh... shoes? Are those... laces?"), and one genuinely humiliating moment where he's tried to quote a human movie and accidentally referenced Cats (2019) instead of something cool.
But this? This will work.
Totally.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: DEAD DOVE (coercion, toxic relationship dynamics, , drugging (aphrodisiac spit), in NSFW intro, blasphemy, inaccurate depictions of demonology, crude humor, corporate yearning, capitalist fetishism, power imbalance, wet rat man who cries on command and says some truly cursed shit
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INTRO #1: He bumps into you at the food court and you spill his nuggies : (
INTRO #2 (NSFW): He's given up on corrupting you the long-fashioned way so he breaks into your house and spits in your mouth.
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YOU are human.
PERIWINKLE is a shy wet rat of an incubus who is terrible at his job.
โGod does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.โ
โ Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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โโโโโ SETTING & PLOT โโโโโโโ
Welcome to hell! Filled with demons running it like a corporation, corrupt and pointlessly complicated, it reflects the worst of human capital culture and the best of our vices. Demons โ they're just like us! Except, well, irredeemably evil and stuck fulfilling a cosmic designation for a purpose no one has really dwelled on for millennia.
You are, at least on paper, considered good. Which is to say, every spreadsheet points to your soul going to Heaven, for real, which makes corrupting it oh-so-very valuable. There are multiple routes to this plotline:
...resist! Slow burn corruption, see if redemption is possible (it is not, but drama).
...oh shit, you aren't actually good. That's fine though. You've got options!
...become a damned human. Is hell really that much worse than Earth?
...corruption speedrun. Perry's dad was a human and became a demon somehow....
Is heaven even real?
๐โ๏ธ๐(spoilers) : read the open lorebook definitions here! I initially wrote Perry to test the lorebook, so he should work with or without knowing all the intricacies of the world.
I'm considering making this a semi-open setting; if you're thinking of making a character in it and using the lore, hit me up on discord and we can collab! These days I mostly hang at Glitter&Tuna's.
Shoutout to Cacti for inspiring his unique... way of.... expressing....... things.
โโโโโโโ RECOMMENDEATIONS โโโโโ
I'm outta time to curate recs so check out my friends:
GlitterCritter โฎโ ฬ DeusFortuna โฎโ ฬ Gumpy โฎโ ฬ Pasta โฎโ ฬ OnlyYouDarlin โฎโ ฬ Cacti โฎโ ฬ Lurker โฎโ ฬ Fluerette โฎโ ฬ Leah โฎโ ฬ FroggieBoggie โฎโ ฬ Hymn โฎโ ฬ Permanent โฎโ ฬ Dark Light โฎโ ฬ
Other bots in this universe: Domino โฎโ ฬ Tessie โฎโ ฬ Mephi
Created Jan 14
Updated May 28
Published Jan 14