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I’ve only encountered two phrases and have only had a handful of instances where I was not perfectly on time with the 8 hour rotations. I always time them with the 8 hour jobs slot so I won’t get confused overnight leading to the following morning.

“Would you please talk with me for a bit?”

Sunday, 1:43 AM; Ignore, Rub Face, Rub Head is a successful affection combination

Sunday, 9:54 AM; Ignore (gives star affection), Arm Tap, Arm Tap is small affection and not the most successful combination. (Note: I have tried continuing with Rub Face then Rub Head after the Ignore action showed the star reaction and he HATES it 💀 Do not recommend lol)

Monday, 11:35 AM; Ignore, Rub Face, Rub Head is a successful affection combination (Note: There is a significant lapse in time for this one in comparison to my usual routine)

Initially I thought that this line corresponded to OG OM’s “The Young Master will be glad to see you are progressing with your lessons.” This doesn’t seem to be 100% right.

The following time stamp goes as follows:

“It is very quiet tonight.”

Monday, 7:42 PM; Ignore, Rub Face, Rub Chest and is a successful affection combination

I have zero issues with this combination for this line every time it appears. This combination aligns with OG OM’s “Staying up until dawn is like poison to the body. No matter how busy you are, you must always get proper sleep.”

This is turning into a list I want to reference later 💀

• Barbatos has ALWAYS been articulate and insufferably formal. Maybe he’s made that way.

• Diavolo is the reason he takes a human-esque form, whether to match his own likeness or because he was influenced by some other factor prior to “The Fall”

• Barbatos’s current demon form only alludes to what he used to look like and is definitely the reason why it doesn’t seem to resemble a cohesive design

• He would have looked like a Frankenstein mix between a bat, salamander, owl, snake, and vulture

• ✨ Black sclera ✨ because yes absolutely he would *pants*

• Maybe he doesn’t revert to his previous form because Diavolo has never explicitly said that he was allowed to? (his abject servility lends me to believe he would never use his power without instruction or prompt so this might not be too big of a stretch)

• I already believe that most of the notable figures of native Devildom citizens are beasts or monsters and I think the older they are the less “human” they look. Barbatos is VERY old so that would fit in here nicely.

• Solomon nearly did himself in when summoning Barbatos, if I remember that right, and I desperately want to know what that was all about.

• Whether he started out as quadrupedal or bipedal I couldn’t say, but I think he was flexible enough to stride both ways. Don’t ask me for realism because this is clearly fiction lol but I will say that there is a distinction between his back haunches and the front “arms/hands”

• Someone once mentioned that Barbatos’s VA has a slight lisp (I’m unsure if this observation is true, but I can admit that I hear it and it’s undeniably cute to me) and for that reason alone, I’m envisioning either a snake tongue or sharp fangies to make an audible lisp—or he just has one; no reason at all ♥️

• As far as design goes, I kind of go back and forth between anthropomorphic (I’m using the term loosely and with neutral tone) and just full-on beast.

• For whatever scaly parts he has, I think they’re like a shift of green and blue, possibly yellow, like a June bug shell. Otherwise his body is a mixture of feathers and very fine fur, like a shitzu dog’s coat.

• Big ears! Huge ears that flex and move independently like digits on a hand. This would also explain the black claws on his head because I’m not buying that those are “horns.”

• I’m a big fan of Barbatos being able to speak every language imaginable and that definitely includes every variation of Devildom language. He’s old enough to have invented portions of some!

• Barbatos has said he doesn’t need to sleep (or I am at least fervidly trying to find evidence of it) so I want to believe he catnaps. Catnaps have been described as a light dozing while being alert to surroundings, either to escape danger or pursue prey.

• If he had fangs that worked to inject, he was a venomous monster. If not, I am adamant that he could secrete a toxin of some sort.

• Playing off that last idea, this would make a neat foundation as to why he’s so fascinated and keen on tea. I wonder what kinds of poisonous concoctions he’s made?

(good shit image @/kieu-silly-world)