#cdta leviathan

as with most cdta characters, there was a bunch of different things i used as inspiration for leviathan!

for start, a kind of. biblical mythology as interpreted by pop culture thing i gathered was that leviathan is associate with envy. elijah's arc in PYHA deals w/ his envy of other internet creators' success n what he's willing to do to find n keep his own success, so that's how i decided the Ouija Demon would be leviathan! that same theme of envy informed how i wanted to characterize them, like they think they can do a better job dealing w/ joshua than luce n that's why they take a chance on "haunting" elijah's house

as for their design, based on vague cultural osmosis i think the biblical version of the character is some kind of giant sea snake thing? but i wanted leviathan to have limbs for torturing joshua purposes, so i used east asian dragons as a base for the design, and added some marine life details! here were some references i used for the main dragon design:

and here's a list of the marine wildlife references:

leafy sea dragon for the frills along their spine & tail

bleaching coral for their antlers

comb jellies for the lil iridescent strings in their beard & hair

-Error505

there aren't really "contracts" in cdta, but there are pacts like what isaac unintentionally did to get joshua out of the Nightmare Sand Pit!

when it comes to demands, all devils recognize blood (bc its basically a person's life force), and the amount scales with how powerful the devil is. a weak idiot baby like joshua only needed a few drops to make something happen, but for a Goetic. you'd probably have to kill a few people at minimum

i'm not sure a pact like that would fully work with a Goetic though. Goetics (ESPECIALLY Luce) are very temperamental and would probably just kill the person attempting a pact if they were asked to do something they didn't already want to do (causing death suffering chaos etc)

"What's an unsavory detail about your OC or opinion they have (to their peer group)?"

"What does your OC lie about?"

"What fills your OC with envy? Alternatively who does your OC envy and why?"

"What physical trait(s) is your OC insecure about?"

What's an unsavory detail about your OC or opinion they have (to their peer group)?

luce: honestly the rest of legion isn't super into how bad and easily triggered luce's temper can be. both in the sense that his rage will often get turned towards his devil, and in the sense that it clouds his judgement and can make him a pretty shit leader lol

leviathan: legion thinks its pretty humiliating that they only managed to get out of hell bc Some Random Human fucked around with a magic board and found out. in general The Boys think leviathan's little subplot with elijah prior to joshua showing up in canada to be a wild goosechase

What does your OC lie about?

luce: often its how confident he actually is in his apocalypse schemes. there's been a lot of "NO GUYS THIS IS GOING TO BE THE ONE THIS TIME FR I CAN FEEL IT" going on for centuries lmao. only his attempts at speeding up WWII and his plan for joshua in 2009 were plots he truly, 100% believed would work

leviathan: kind of a boring answer, but its all that's coming to mind rn 😅 anyway, leviathan spent a lot of their time in elijah's house pretending to be elijah's own inner thoughts, trying to steer him to doing more extreme acts for both their own amusement and a blind search for leverage to get the other Boys out of hell, especially luce

What fills your OC with envy? Alternatively who does your OC envy and why?

luce: well the obvious answer would be his creator lol that is like Thee One Thing i've absorbed about his character through cultural osmosis. but slightly less obvious is that he's fairly envious of cairyx's shapeshifting abilities, particularly cairyx's ability to craft a unique human form. not much more i can say abt this bc it gets detailed a little more in the next CTS chapter 👀

leviathan: another obvious answer, but they're super envious of luce getting to call the shots all the time and how luce is constantly the closest to bringing about the apocalypse all The Boys have wanted for so long. that's part of why they stuck out the elijah subplot for so long; they were just that desperate to not waste their shot at making something major happen while on earth

What physical trait(s) is your OC insecure about?

it's the same for both of them: their monstrous appearances after falling from heaven (i think thats how it works for leviathan? again relying on pure cultural osmosis here)

like imagine you used to be this buff androgynous humanoid with pretty long hair and luminous eyes and after taking a massive L now you look like The Creature lmao

The only way I can imagine a situation between them is that the other six throw their things at Luce when He arrives back, and then he throws his own in some random direction and watches as the others start a whole ass brawl to get it. If that's not a Luce thing to do, I don't know what is

woah this actually fits them super well @_@

the prophecy has been fulfilled lol

and well... you asked for this >:3

luce: house of leaves dick

leviathan: evil cloaca

cairyx, celyx, cindryx etc: no genitals or any sex characteristics, also lack genitals in human form

michael: no genitals in angel form, visibly regular dick & balls in human form but without any functionality

bestian & tenebrae devils: no genitals

pre-Soup cael devils: parts adjacent to human genitals, functionality varies

pre-reversion cael devils: regular human genitals, but completely infertile

Levi: Are you a vampire?

Celyx: ....No?

Levi: So you saw your own reflection, and you still elected to appear to our meeting looking like that?