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ZhaoBatos? I feel like it could be cute and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on it ....

it's okay if not though of course 🫶🏽 also HIII KIN HOW WAS YOUR HOLIDAY ??? i hope it was fantasmical

HI HELLO SAM i've a great holiday! the break was much needed and i got some nice treats and have had an all around nice time

now! zhaobatos..... my immediate thoughts are the following concepts:

guy who DIES if he doesn't have someone specific to take care of + guy who takes care of everyone except himself

guy who meticulously measures and pre-prepares all of his ingredients and seasonings + guy who just bungs whatever he has in the fridge in the pan and completely makes up everything else

guy who wears all his clothes like a mannequin wears perfect display clothes in the store + guy who doesn't even have the right buttons in the right holes half the time

guy who bakes highly elaborate french desserts with mountains of icing + guy who finds regular chocolate chip cookies too sweet

which all delight me greatly. some more specific thoughts!

Specifically I can see IK growing up and adopting a very Satan-like smug smile. or the way she puts her hand to her chest like Lucifer when she's thinking very hard.

if any of the brothers point this out I imagine she has a midlife crisis "i'm turning into my fucking father/brothers" moment which is objectively hilarious to them

when she puts on Mammon's jacket she starts walking around with her hands on her hips casually. yeah I'm super normal

ik and satan both have that cat-with-knife-pointing-at-it smug smile and when they do it at the same time it's both very cute and very threatening (What did they do.)

(wait brief derailment— smiles in general. she beams big like mammon when she's pleased and grins shy like levi when bashful. and when she's being a bit of a jerk on purpose her smirk is 100% lucifer's)

also ik having habits built around the devildom's different environment and demons in general being weirdos. her roommates notice that she always jumps to get into seats even if they're like, normal size, because every chair in the devildom is too high off the ground for her. she's constantly bumping her head on shelves and things because she's used to being small enough to just not worry about those things

Like, the pacts themselves acting on her emotions, and she has to learn how to ease herself/not react rashly (is that the word?) or else the pact magic will wig out and try to save her

I feel like obvious ones would be like for Mammon or Satan, where Mammon's pact would temporarily grant her speed as a means of escape, or Satan's pact would make her blazing hot to the touch (though she wouldn't feel it) or whatever is perceived as the threat gets engulfed in green flames......

These ones aren't super solid in my head, but maybe Asmo's pact could turn her invisible/make her indistinguishable in a crowd?? Ooh and maybe Belphie's would make her completely silent, like her steps and her breath.....idk i'm just thinking about inadvertent security measures via the brother's protective magic/energy......so cute

OOBHH i love this idea bunches... your huge brain strikes again

i'm thinking some effects are specific power-based, and others are more like a brief moment of psychic connection. e.g. for the former, levi's pact has a mild healing/painkilling effect (after he unlocks healing in his chapter of think back) or like, an on-command static electricity zap. and for the latter ik will briefly gain his ability to immediately locate a quiet, dark, enclosed space to hide nearby

beel's could be a flash of super strength, although human hysterical strength does have ik reasonably covered so i'm thinking maybe something more broad like tenacity or stamina. belphie's might have a secondary ability to dispel nightmares or otherwise ensure peaceful sleep

all her friends are just like yeah okay. and its normal for her because its basically the same situation as RAD where everyone is like hey look at this little guy. hell yeah man

i struggle imagining her older as well and this is a delightful image

I was thinking.....right..... you know how in Steven Universe, each of the gems has a room in the temple that can only be accessed by their gem? Pearl has the waterfall room, Garnet has the boiler room, and Amethyst has her crystal cave, etc.

What if the House of Lamentation was set up like that?? like each brother has their own specifically decorated room already, of course, but what if they were more ✨️magical✨️ and were only able to be accessed via each brothers' own brand of magic ?

AND FURTHERMORE, what do you think IK's room would look like? :DD I know she doesn't have magic, so the room couldn't attune that way, but maybe there's some other fiddly storyline stuff that could lead to IK having a cool magic concept for a room

I definitely think Asmo's would be a flower garden, and Satan's could be a sprawling woods with bookshelves carved into the trunks and flying books and maybe a super cool spring.........thinking

HI HELLO SAM i'm doing good!! i watched the original dhmis web series for the first time with my friends earlier this week and i'm still thinking about it ngl

i've always liked the idea of the house of lamentation sort of being its own creature so maybe ik gets her own room after the house decides she's part of the family, as a little gift

i feel like the scope of it is fairly small (compared with the brothers/the gems in the show at least) since ik can't really conceptualise the things the magic can do. it'd be like a cool treehouse in a little clearing, with a pond filled with colourful fish, and the treehouse itself also has lots of secret little doors and passages. there are lots of comfy squashy armchairs and beanbags, one of those bunk beds where the bottom bunk is a space for a desk, and a big table with enough room for allher friends :)

(and when she's mad at the brothers the doorways shrink and the ceilings lower - they can still get in but they have to stoop the whole time and it's really awkward)

I also think it would be adorable if the brothers collabed with IK and Luke and made what would be essentially their version of the collab Lil Uzi Vert did with Babymetal

I feel like they'd could make such a good bittersweet song. I dont know how to describe it but I feel like the only tome/vibe they could meet in the middle on is something strangely soothing with a really reflective message

wait we can have both... a bazooka is only really good if she can stay away from the main area of combat (maybe their whole thing is that luke draws most of the fire with his shorter range magical wand, and then ik blasts them from afar)

and obviously the more savvy demons will realise this quickly, so their strategy is to back her into a corner, assuming that multiple targets at close quarters will overwhelm her. it does not. she tosses away the bazooka and just starts comboing street fighter style. imagining her fighting the brothers and as they retreat she can hear one of them saying "she BROKE my NOSE, i didn't know we even HAD breakable bones, am- am i bleeding??? can we bleed??"

I feel like her taste would vary WILDLY between the most random nonsense you've ever seen and then lore videos that are hours long that she can't fullybcomprehend but watches anyways

sbbsff ik is equally entranced by all the regular baby sensory stuff AND extremely long in-depth video essays. no one can tell what she's getting out of it, given that she never has any interest in their subject matter and does not have the literacy required to understand the point, but she gets mad if anyone tries to switch the video and is somehow able to recognise an unfinished video and remember how far she got through it before she stopped

But only on the weekends, for the safety of the angels and all their valuable property

It's like seeing your other side of the family that you only go to see every three or so Christmases, and there are some cousins that you really like but everything else is awkward and weird

oh my god that would be so funny. a giant beam of light appears from the sky on saturday morning and mammon looks out the window, groans, and yells for ik to get her bags - the angelic equivalent of honking the car from outside the house because your ex-spouse always snarks at you if you knock at the door

god takes on a mundane humanoid form just so He can pore over the forms with lucifer and argue with him about the terms of the custody agreement. celestial war? getting exiled? not even on anyone's mind. lucifer is too busy telling his father that "you're deluded if you think we're letting you have her more than once a month"

"OKAY THEN I WANT HER DURING THE HOLIDAYS"