#checknicki

something something gay nerd and their cool hot childhood best friend that turns into a monster and tries to kill them

i'll probably redo this some other time but i've been saying since day one how similar needifer is to hawkmetri

obviously had to EXPAND on my last edit bc the parallels are insane SO i'll just get into it

pre-possession

childhood best friends eli and demetri

super hot super cool and popular eli with his nerdy dorky best friend demetri

never beating the gay allegations

demetri's best friend sam and eli HATE each other but demetri convinces them to play nice around him (sam thinks demetri lets himself be mistreated by eli, who she thinks is selfish and toxic) (eli thinks sam is annoying, judgmental, and trying to replace him as demetri's best best friend, which is never gonna happen let's be honest)

eli takes demetri to a bar to see an indie band he's been tracking online bc he has a crush on the lead singer

fire breaks out, eli's in shock and goes with the band, demetri droves home alone in shock and calls sam through a panic attack, etc etc, y'all know the movie

post-possession

after moon and yasmine's deaths, eli finally tells demetri what happened after the fire (the band tried sacrificing him to the devil but without knowing he's not actually a virgin and therefore got him possessed)

demetri stays away from eli and tries to tell sam about his research on demons but she plays it off as "i already knew eli was a soul-sucking demon that eats people to make himself hotter and more popular, demetri. i'm glad you're finally entering reality."

eli, angry at the lack of demetri's attention (oh i'm sure he is), asks sam to meet with him to talk about demetri's strange behavior lately but (obviously) he ends up killing her and runs off when demetri finds them

demetri immediately follows eli back home, eli fights back until demetri rips their matching binary brothers friendship necklace from eli's neck, which leaves a vulnerable opening for demetri to kill him (but not without a bite that leaves him with a bit of eli's powers wink wink cough cough revenge on the band cough cough)