Valak
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- 2 years, 11 months ago
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Valak
✦ Basics
Likes
- Good food, especially meat.
- Taking naps
- Nature and children
- Warm wather
- White gold and sapphires
- Arts, in general
- His family. He really likes his parents and sisters.
Dislikes
- Getting his loved ones hurt
- Being tricked
- Feeling dumb...
- Anybody touching his hair (Now. He used to like it)
- Mind games
- Cold
About
A demon with a very straightfoward personality and a forever deadpan face. He isn't interested in harming or eat humans like many of his kind do. He wants to fight strong peeps, and it's clear to him that humans are not worth it. He thinks very lowly of them, in such way that they seem very uninteresting in his eye. His demon kind doesn't feed of humans or souls so there's no use in try to hunt humans either. He likes meat, but humans usually look so... thin? Give him a nice and round chicken or a chubby cow!
He currenlty only wants to live a quiet life with good food, interesting company, and a place for himself.
PERSONALITY
"And what can I do to make clear I still can provide?"
Arrogant | Protective | Feral | Impatient | A bit innocent
Valak is a short-temped, prideful, sarcastic, grumpy demon. He comes from a totally different culture, in which they measure their value over strength, so, to him, losing a battle is an humillation and a sign to make him show submission, which he isn't happy to do.
He is innocent in the way of not knowing much about human culture or mortal realm for how he never had any interest towards them or their world, so he often is confused or makes a mess of very basic stuff.
Valak posses a huge sense of honor, so, once he sees you as family or colleague, he will do anything in his hand to provide, pamper and make sure that you are warm, well feed and happy, which are the most important things to him too (basic much?)
About his pride, besides how proud he is of his strength, he knows and is very glad of his looks- or at least he used to be. Before of the incident he used to have very long hair and his two eyes. Losing these stuff makes him feel unatractive, a totally new feeling for him, but it doesn't stop him of trying to take good care of his (now) short hair and wearing a bit of make-up or delicated sapphires and white gold.
Liking pretty things and taking care of his looks doesn't make him less masculine, being, in fact, a very arrogant and brutal demon. Being pretty and soft-looking never made him less dangerous.
He adores training and doing exercise.
His race of demons can heal in no time, so his skin is soft and with no marks... if you ignore the scar on his eye, which were caused by very potent poison. His eyeball is teared and white in some parts.
He is a fallen prince, somewhat? A wild one.
✦ Summary
An ex-patriarch who lost everything after being defeated in a fight with a demon full of tricks. He's been exiled and is trying to find a new place since then. It's going to be hard for him because he ended up in the human realm and he has nothing to zero idea about how humans live.
Early ages
Born in a noble demon family, in a rich territory near a river, he had to fight for his right to be the next leader once the last one (His mother) decided that she wanted to retire after so many years as a matriarch. Valak did surprisingly good, and his mother left to a forever honeymoon with her husband.
As the leader of his clan, Valak was the strongest among them all. Prideful and arrogant, he knew his value. Although he was very young, he was a good patriarch, as he always took care of his people and managed to protect, feed and guide them. Valak knew how to treat other demons, and he organizated hunts, feasts and festivals very often, keeping a very good life level in his little city.
His territory was rich in livestock, agriculture and ore, so they had everything they could wish for. Over time, and when other clans and territories noticed that his place had an unmarried leader, many different demons (from his clan or far lands) tried to court him, but Valak's only interest was marrying somebody who could defeat him in a fight. He had a flirty fight almost weekly, making his pride grow everyday for how he was one undefeatable and two, definitely very pretty to have so many people interested in him! He couldn't wait for his next court fight! And who knows, maybe meeting his soulmate that way...
What changed everything
Nothing changed for a few years until a foreign snake demon asked for a fight, and in almost no time managed to defeat him using a poison especifically created to damage demons of his kind, rotting away their flesh.
That demon defated Valak, cutted his hair, and rejected his plea to marry him so they could rule the clan together. He didn't want the hand of a trash like Valak's, he said, with a half smile. He only wanted to conquer the rich territory.
Humillated and hurt, Valak had to give the right to rule the land to that new demon, getting nothing in return. He felt very lost.
After a few days of the fight, although Valak had no place to live since his palace did belong to that new demon now, he was meet with the kindness of his people, who put a roof in his head and tried to tend his wounds, especially his eye. They noticed how something was wrong for how their ex-leader's eye wasn't healing at all... But nobody knew what to do, being that poison a rare one. They tried to clean and treat it, but it keept bleeding and smelling... no good. What started with a scratch in his eyelid and an eye only a bit wounded, little by little started to scalate.
He was lucky that one of the elders of his court, who happened to be a healer too, decided to reach him, take a look at his eye, and then /truly/ heal it, stopping the poison to spread more. The wound acted strangely and left scars and a blind eye 'tho... Valak felt even more lost and confused after that. In every almost-deathly experence, with how many times he almost lost a limb, his body, flesh and bones healed and left no mark... what was wrong now?
That very same night, Valak's clan decided that it was enough. They despised their new leader due how he seemed like a spineless and coward demon to them, plus he wasn't especially charismatic or caring towards them, being a selfish and cruel leader. Seeing that Valak was finally feeling better, they started a plan to murder the snake to make Valak their pratriarch again. They didn't want to be ordered around by somebody who had to use tricks to bring down a perfectly fair leader.
What they didn't notice fast enough, is that the new demon already had spies who warned him, making a bit of a massacre of some of the brawlers. For the new demon it was clear: Their bravery came from having Valak around. He, then, left a direct message for Valak using the same elder who tended his wound ('I know you still have contact with him, so be of use and let him know his options') of going into exile if he didn't want him to keep going with the massacre of his people.
Valak never hesitated to leave, he knows his limitations and he was in no good shape to fight again for his crown or people. Plus he loves his siblings way too much to put them in a danger alike the one he suffered with his eye...
After he left, the new demon made the people think that Valak just abandoned them. Most of them didn't believe it at first, but what is true is that without him they felt lost and hopeless, and are a bit more docile...
That's how Valak, half-blind, weak and confused ended up in the human realm... And that's how his story starts.
☆ APPEARANCE
· His right eye is teared apart. It had to suffer a poison which acted as an acid, so it really doesn't look well at all and Valak will hide it for the rest of his life. Luckly it's clean now, but it has no way to regenerate itself.
· He likes to use light make up in his eye, sometimes in his lips too!
· The marks in his face are birthmarks! He doesn't have them in his human disguise.
· He doesn't like wearing clothes in his half top, freedom for his demon tits!
· His tail has a sharp end which he can use as weapon.
Trivia
- As how a lover of beautiful things he is, he appreacites art very much. He especially likes poetry. He liked to bring bards and storytellers into his palace to listen to them carefully. It was an honour to them.
- Valak isn't very good with demonic magic. He can use some hypnosis decently and a few tricks, but he leans a lot in his style with weapons and force brute.
- He admires clever people, especially erudites.
- He's very good with kids, he used to train them when he was a patriarch.
- He used to have a bear/tiger demon pet!! Valak raised her and it seems like she's been looking for him in the past months.
- Valak was the mid child among his siblings. He had to fight his older sister hard to get the right to be a leader, almost killing her. She's alright now and without hard feelings, 'tho! She was proud of her younger brother being able to fight that fiercely. Siblings fighting is the way noble demons get stuff, after all. They were very close before he had to left.
- Valak has two older sisters and a yonger brother. His younger brother despise him and is acting as the pet of the new leader's now... Such a rat.
- He resembles very much to his father, but with his mom's attitude.
- The elder who healed him and had to give him an ultimatum tried to join him into the exile, but Valak fighted to be left alone. He could only hope that the more decent people were left in his old territory, the better (And especially one who could, maybe, heal and save other people affected by the same poison as him)
- Since the incident he is a bit paranoid of poisons.
- Valak used to have very good relationships with other clan leaders, being best friends with the leader of a rich in gems territory in the south. Now that he's gone this guy is trying to start a war with Valak's old territory...? (What is he thinking? Thankfully, Valak doesn't know anything about this)
- Valak is 0% attracted to humans, they all look too small and weak to him. Plus demons tend to have waaaayyy fairer features so he finds most humans kinda ugly OOPS.
✦ Related
"Mhm. -Soft smile- They are strong and pretty, of course they all are good."
Or so he hopes. He especially admires his mother, and he feels extremely ashamed to the fight he lost, losing their territory too... To be honest, he doesn't want to meet his mother again because he isn't sure how to face her after failing that hard. He deeply wishes that his siblings can defeat that snake and snatch the territory again, not because he wants to come back (He doesn't think he deserves to do that) but because it's very shameful having somebody else ruling their place like that...
"...He was right."
A summer memory, a nap in the grass, laughing until your ribs hurt, bright blue sapphires mixed with golden jewelry.
Thinking about their last interaction feels humillating.
"For the last time, I'm not going to tell you anything about my (What did you call it again?) ...'tea'?. Get a life."
The fox demon who found him lost after getting into the human realm. The older demon took pity on him and decided to give him an opportunity to survive. Meyer taught him some stuff about this dimension and tips not to get killed by humans, for how such a violent race they are ('They especially dislike The Different so, kid, we are doomed kahahaha'). Valak feels kinda ashamed of the fact that this old man saw him in his lowest.
"He has so much energy for such a small body. I sometimes feel like I am being watched by a tiny ball of sunshine. Mhm. He will do well in life"
His first contact with a child demon in this realm! Only when he started to get close to him he realized how much he missed teaching to kids how to fight or other random little things. It was very easy to get close and care for him, and he really hopes the little kiddo to grow strong and well. He's a bit annoyed with how he does smell a bit of non-demonic magic from him... What does that mean? Isn't him half human after all?
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