The Dead Man's House

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Who is Christopher Carrion? He’s a villain from The Books of Abarat, Clive Barker’s young adult series. (Did you know Clive Barker had a YA series? This too, is tragically slept on.)

Points in his favor:

He is unattractive. Like. Straight up Not Hot by any conventional standard. This makes him perfect for us freaks.

He has a large translucent bowl around his neck, where his nightmares slither out of his brain and swim around like snakes made of smoke and lightening in the liquid it holds. When they brush his skin he relives his nightmares. Amazing. 10/10.

His lips are scarred from where his grandmother sewed them shut when he mentioned the word "love" once as a child. Fucked up family history? A necessity.

He was in love with/obsessed with a princess, and when she rejected him he sent a dragon to kill her and her love interest. And succeeded! Love us an unhinged romantic. (I know this come off as cliche, but this is Clive Barker: he makes cishet romance into true horror. So, the obsession is creepy in the best way.)

The protagonist of the books is a teen girl named Candy Quakenbush (seriously, read this series), who maybe reminds Christopher Carrion of his now-dead princess. He responds...normally. (This is a lie.) Star crossed lovers in the worst way possible. Makes me gleeful.

He's a powerful magician. He can summon a giant moth from bones and talk to the dead. Which is all I really want from a man.

He's manipulative. Of course.

I loved his character arc. I mean, your mileage will vary, but I thought it rocked.

His name is Christopher Carrion.

If you want an honest answer, it's that most of the concept of dæmons was inspired by Renaissance paintings of ladies with odd animals in their lap.

Socrates had some sort of divine/daimonic sign he sometimes saw indicating what he shouldn't do - at least that's how it's described in Plato's Apologia. It's unclear how it manifested but it likely wasn't animal-like at all. Dæmons or Daimons in Greek myth is mostly an alternative title to god, which was used for gods such as Aphrodite. Plato later sort of solidified that to a specific type of divine entity that was between the gods and humans, but it's still a type of divine entity. The concept of every mortal having one may have been tied to the idea of fate.

just curious.