What is Alduik warden of? Are there many other sapient creatures around(like, who calls his the warden/old one, who gave him those titles). Does he have a community around him that he acts as a wise elder for or is he just some weird cryptid-like presence slumped over in the back of a cave somewhere that teenagers on a dare go looking for or what?
(also, why has no one given him a big heating pad & a bottle of bengay to soothe his achey everything >:O )
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how did this demon come to being?
A few world things to set up this explanation: The Belles are basically a police force/old-west-sheriff type of group, they keep the peace in Belvite, which is a quasi-lawless town on the borderlands between two fae and human territories.
A long time ago it was kinda,,,a rough place to be, mostly populated by criminals/other types who have reason to pick up and move to the middle of nowhere. The Belles were founded as a protective force against the fae originally, to keep people from being taken/go and look for them if they couldn't do that. Over time they had an honorable reputation to them and people would just come to them to settle disputes as a third party & they morphed into general peacekeepers.
Having that kind of power and influence started attracting just, shitty people to the job, and over a bit more time their ranks were overrun with the sort that abuses that power to get what they want, or just be abusive assholes with no repercussions.
It caused a lot of unrest in the community, especially in those groups most targetted by the Belles as a result of prejudice. There was protest & demand for change, which was really only met by more violence on the Belle's part & a refusal to see a problem on the part of the Belles' friends/people who just, were lucky enough to not be constantly targetted by people who were supposed to be protecting them.
One of the leaders of the protest ends up mysteriously dead while jailed.
Coincidentally, Vengeance shows up that very same night and makes a huge bloody mess out of every Belle that had accusations made against them. And probably made a little 'Don't make me do this shit again because I will' speech & peaced out until it inevitably DID Have To Do That Shit Again.
Is it friendly with other demons?
Vengeance....Isn't really friendly with anyone? It's either murdering you or not interacting with you, there's not a whole lot of in-between. Which I suppose makes it friendlier with demons than the average demon tends to be? But then again it is a summoned demon(rare for one of its age), and kinda programmed to just do the one thing, so it doesn't really have the mental faculty to be territorial vs a naturally-birthed demon.
Orca-design aside, what else inspired the creation of Vengeance?
It was initially a version of my boi Maverick in an AU where he carved a summoning array into his own flesh while he was imprisoned & summoned a big angry monster with the remains of his energy upon his death to just fuckin slaughter his jailers/oppressors. I liked the idea enough that I wanted to keep it but didn't want to have it be Maverick's actual story so I just made it its own character! That's why they share the red/blue/black color scheme, and I've associated Mav w/ angry cannibalism since his inception so the decision to just give Vengeance a mouth full of pointy flesh-rending teef and no other facial features came from that.
also, Fuck The Police™
Also, why does it like peanut butter LOL
It's ambiguous whether it's its own person or if there are fragments of the protest leader's soul inside it? It likes peanut butter because they liked peanut butter. I don't remember why I decided specifically on peanut butter as the common ground between them?