#loooooooore

So how did Miss Lizzy accend to goddesshood? (Proud of her)

Secret Story of Soul Sanctum in Symphony

Cover art thanks to fiocovirus

Haven't seen a detailed enough analysis of my favourite track, so I made one myself.

I am now invested in these boys' noncanon children and how they work.

What I'm gunna discuss here is briefly some nonvisual differences between humans, demons and angels and how their hybrids tow that line. Also some differences in how humans and demons are raised.

The differences I mean are how they learn and what type of powers they have.

Also this is long as hell. Sorry.

Angels are the simplest. They don't learn. All the knowledge they need for their species is cooked into their brains at birth and they have no capacity to learn outside of that knowledge. Sure they can learn emotional things and develop as a person but straight up book knowledge is a nah. They have a wide range of powers but generally whatever powers you're born with, you're stuck with. The only exceptions are powers given to certain titles that you earn through hard work and dedication. Knowledge instantly zapped into your soul for the most worthy. So spells of immortality, destiny, future, past, healing and all existential stuff. The only one that is currently not available is the ability to predict the future, a power that should have gone to the angel of destiny but was stolen by a very smart, very chaotic, and INSANELY lucky (mostly)demon.

Demons can learn but only a limited amount, they are insanely good at learning, can start learning from the goddamn womb, and can learn general spells and master spells specific to their species/mixed of species. Baby ain't even fully cooked yet and they can speak three languages. However any spells specific to a species outside of their wheelhouse is a no go. (This means I am also slightly deviating from canon by saying Diana can't use that one spirit animal spell. That is specific to animal demons). They can gain the instant knowledge that angels are able to obtain but they'd have to steal it and you would be a fool to even try and be thankful if you lived with a lost limb.

Humans are the most versatile but also the weakest. They aren't born with knowledge and can't learn until a certain age but their curiosity and ability to learn is where they shine. Humans can learn anything. And I mean ANYTHING. Multiple dead demon languages have been lost because demons didn't have the curiosity to find the missing pieces and reconstruct the language meanwhile humans do while living lives five times shorter. They can also learn any spell and any magic including magic specifically for a species of demon or a type of angel (if any angel bothers to write down their abilities) but at a weaker amount. They can't really master anything outside of general magic. So they're the jack of all trade, master of none. Though sometimes that's better than the master of one.

Because of these differences, angels, demons and humans are raised differently. For sake of simplicity, I'll save angels for another time and just get into demons. We know how humans are raised.

Demons are raised with many rituals, even the poorest, most unfortunate demons have rituals for their young and themselves. This could be for giving the child a name, worship, power, health, knowledge, on even just an unofficial call on whatever god(s) they believe in for help. Rituals are a staple among demon children. They don't have schools or stuff but they do learn the trades their parents use, raising is usually very hands on with an emphasis in family. The parents may not love each other but they do (usually) care about their kids. Demon kids are also usually raised around other kids though this tends to be dependent on culture and hierarchy. You're more likely to see poorer demons or more tribal demons do that social bonding than you are to see richer or more governmental demons do that. It's mainly for social ties and to see if your kid finds someone strong enough or that they tolerate enough to eventually populate with.

With that being said, where to cambions fall on this? Not anywhere in particular. As a general thing, cambions are pretty disliked by everyone. If humans knew about the not human side, they'd probably try to kill them, demons try to kill them, angels literally hunt them. They ain't doing too well. But it's not all doom and gloom. Cambions fall on a spectrum, and like mixed-raced humans, they can sometimes fall on an extreme end of their human-demon origins and can essentially be raised fully human or fully demon. Examples of that being Twila and Sirius(Erik/Mika child) for human-passing and Leilani(Matthew/Mika child) for demon-passing. Yes, if Leilani put on the cultural outfit with her taint and went into the Abyssal Plains, demons would be none the wiser as she is very powerful and almost indistinguishable from other demons. It's really just the eyes that set her apart and they don't look human either.

Most cambions, however, fall in the middle and need to be raised with both. They need their curiosity satiated, they need friends and a stable home but they also need rituals and that very hands on experiences that humans have slowly phased out of with technology. The most blatant example of what happens when you raise a cambion to be too much of one extreme is Ray (James/Mika child).

If we're talking OG James and Ray, James tried to raise Ray as if Ray was human and it left him feeling empty and disconnected, like something (the rituals) was left out of his life. James was definitely more hands on than most "human" fathers are expected to be (and more hands on than his parents were) but he was lacking by demon standards, Ray needed that and it's why he turned out so angry and chaotic. He's lashing out from a core need not being met. Hell, notice, I've never mentioned a demon name for Ray. He has one. It's called "Inviolis" but you might as well not know that as James never uses it. In his attempt to prevent Ray from putting himself in danger by knowing about the demon world, James accidentally denied Ray basically a part of his soul. And in classic prophecy action, James preventing Ray from knowing about the Demon World causes Ray to eventually go to the Demon World.

On the other hand, if we're talking about the King James timeline (the nicer one where James doesn't completely go mad) we get the opposite problem. Ray (Now Inviolis) is being raised too much like a demon. He doesn't have a human name nor any of the stabilities of a human life. His curiosity is denied, he's being smothered by servants that dislike him, the rituals are too much and too often, there is no safety or time to sleep. Where Ray is the demon version of neglected, Inviolis is the human version of smothered with his individuality denied. And then he has a bad relationship with his father so great job, Raestrao. This, like the OG, causes Inviolis to run off, this time to earth. Ray, like most cambion, need both. Give them only one and they'll never be happy.

WIP

a father, yet no ones son.

an elder, yet never young.

powerful, yet no restraint

an endless soul, willing to taint

the innocence of progeny

to drive wild and dammed the colonies…

Yes!

✨Long post ✨

Y'know, I honestly haven't thought about the specifics of that lore very much. But I love brainstorming/overanalyzing, so. . .(Plus, I'm not sure if I'll be writing about the colony and the new planet, since I'm focused on The Pentas Family/[The Future Mob Project] and other personally-driven stories.)

@sammys-magical-au has written about the new planet already being inhabited by a peaceful alien race who agreed to share their territory with the colonists. (I highly recommend you go to their blog and check out those stories, by the way.)

I really enjoy the ideas like that—especially if the aliens in question are equally curious about humans as their new human neighbors are about them. There'd be so many educational opportunities on either side!

Since I love creature designs, I'd be both excited and indecisive as all hell to write about the new planet's fauna. (Bonus points if said fauna looks scary/threatening, but turns out to be as docile as a puppy.) Just now, I thought of animals that sort of resemble cats, but also have six eyes, eight legs, and barbed tails.

And don't even get me started on the potential geography. Think about it: rivers/lakes/creeks filled with healthy, sweet-tasting water that constantly changes color. Caves full of amazing gemstones and minerals unlike any other. Trees that almost seem to squirm in place, their branches bearing all sorts of strange fruit and flowers that glow in the dark. (THAT'S NOT EVEN MENTIONING HOW THE COLORS WOULD NATURALLY CHANGE IN TIME WITH DIFFERENT SEASONS!!!!)