How do you put a fresh spin on demon slayers?

They do not want to believe demons exist.

They very clearly DO exist, but they really, really try hard not to believe it. As they are violently smashing up a demon, they are all like "NOPE. NOPE, NO DEMONS HERE. DO YOU SEE A DEMON? I DONT SEE ANY DEMONS"

So Anima Inquisitors AKA Professional weaponized autism and hypocrisy?

This comes off like some sort of gay fantasy.
>"Oh yes, let's have some cake and peppermint tea after I have cleaved this demon in half."
>"Don't you love how my muscles bulge as I swing this hefty greatsword?"
"Oh my, all I can think about right now is rubbing my rippling muscles down with scented oils after a hard day's work. I should ask that young lad down at the stables to help me with that."

Make them a government agency that is actually mostly not corrupt, or edgy. You can have them work openly and have them be awed by the public, or have them be basically be MiB.

>demons are gay
makes sense

So from my limited knowledge, the biggest tropes are

1) Van Helsing badass
2) detective who is doing his job and nothing more
3) nerd who obsesses with the occult
4) nonchalant animu demon killer who acts apathetic but in reality fights evil because of some tortured past
5) priest or paladin

I thought of three maybe less common takes on it

1) A bard named Johnny who kills demons with his music (a la Devil went down to Georgia)
2) Serpico who dresses and acts like a cultist, who is looking for his brother who became a demon, so he can slay him and free his soul. Kills all demons he sees for that reason
3) A British expedition hunter in a pithy helmet who is after the most dangerous game of all

He's hunting them because they are delicious and he runs the most fabulous high end restaurant in the realm.

Have the hunter themselves be a demon, who is hunting down others of their own kind not out of the goodness of their black heart, but because it is their job to put down those who have stepped out of line, traversing the mortal world and making deals with mortals without the necessary rights to do so.

Bring demon slayers to the modern era and beyond.

>3) A British expedition hunter in a pithy helmet who is after the most dangerous game of all
I like this

Short, two big axes and a ginger Mohawk... manling.

They are cursed by an elder god, to only find sustenance from the flesh and blood of demons.
It's the only way for them to stay alive, and although this gives them great powers when food is plentiful, it slowly changes their soul and body, tiny piece by tiny piece, into an abomination of demonic traits, until none of their earlier being is left.

What's to say? They're educated specialists dedicated to combating the works of malevolent forces that dwell outside of material reality that harbour ill intent towards others, even their own by nature.

How they use that knowledge to do their jobs is completely down to their discretion.

this guys gets it.

So Psychonauts?

Not that I'm complaining. Sounds dope.

THAT'S A HUGE BITCH

I want you to run us a Doom game in Deathwatch or something.

demons don't change much.

no reason for demon hunters to change. Except get better ways to kill demons.

>They do not want to believe demons exist.
>They very clearly DO exist, but they really, really try hard not to believe it
Even better the demons themselves also don't believe in demons
>Villagers: AHGGHHH A DEMON!
>Demon: Holy shit what? where? don't scare me like that

>Person: YOu're a demon
>Demon: Don't be silly there is no such thing!
>Person: You're ten feet tall!
>Demon: I ate my vegetables
>Person: You have horns!
>Demon: yeah? they run in my family what's your point?
>Person: Your body is constantly consumed by flames!
>Demon: it's a skin condition

They fight using ice spinners.

>How do you put a fresh spin on X
Learn to write.

>Person: Your body is constantly consumed by flames
>Demon: it's a skin condition
I'm not sure I could kill something so cutely ignorant like that

demon layer

If you're talking a DnD type thing I have an answer. The Demon Slayer is non corporeal. They slay demons by taking over their bodies by beating them in a possession check, based on whichever stat you find fitting. From there they slowly devour a demon's life force while inhabiting the body. More powerful demons can be possessed longer beford giving out.

Like the Ghostbusters but with demons. The demon threat for the most part is a spooky nusicance so you get your local blue-collar disgruntled shlubs on the job!

They're from the no-sex-allowed crowd and all demons are hot succubi.

>REEE stop summoning demons in order to get laid!

I travel deep into the Dark Continent and the Ancient Amazon, where the light of Christendom has yet to reach. Where savage peoples still pray to beings of fire and shadow. I hunt these beasts so foul, so beyond human imagination, not because i am a man of god. I do not seek to convert these cults nor discover their history. I hunt so that I may hang the heads of these disappearing - creatures cosmic - upon the wall in my study. So that I may peer into the jaws of hell as I enjoy the finest tea of the Empire

....is this from a dating sim?!

They don't slay demons, because demons can't be killed.

Instead they try to convince them to stop doing evil and offer them redemption. Most demons aren't actually that bad, just misguided or resentful.

cringe

Is that a Cyberdemon?

I love this.

I've always wanted to write a book about a psychonaut team who have to investigate presidential candidates and purge them of their worst neuroses.

Most all the monsters in the setting are either demons from the dark world, or the offspring of demons born here in the light world. Any old mercenary who fights monsters is a Demon Slayer.

Good point, how are you supposed to fug a gal that big?

Demons are manifestations of unaligned chakras and bad karma. You cannot fight against them with violence, but with peace. You cannot see them with your eyes, but with your mind.

TLDR: hippies who prefer to call themselves soul healers rather than demon slayers.

Demon slayers are actually just hired hitmen by more important demons to murder demons that owe them shit or that they want out of the way.

Jolly good indeed, chap!

Persona?

Where do I pre order?

Madoka Magica?

Rise is best girl

Artstyle looks like Star vs. the Forces of Evil, so it can't be that.

When I get desperate enough to write things like this.

>The Bard and his family

>A demon already possessed the noble long ago, but he keeps the game going to hunt down his competition back in Hell

and what about vampire slayers fucking said vampires on a semi-frequent base?

Good taste, theres also chihaya and aigis
Love that toaster

It's Tom's parents.

Its from episode with Toms parents
His dad is so alpha he tamed a demon with his dick

All their weapons, armor, and equipment are demons. Not made from demon flesh, but actual demons themselves warped into

Good base idea, poorly written specific examples.

That just means she has huge guts.

Mr. Johnathan, as you can see from my book, "From the Jungles to the Sands of Hell, an Autobiography" the beast you have encountered amidst these wylde men is none other than the possession by a Darkling, a low ranking Daemon with a penchant for mischief and spoiling crops. Whilst this may seem harmless, they bear ill omens of far greater daemons. In my professional opinion you will need to hire a man of honour and integrity to hunt these beasts down, and I humbly accept your invitation to create the expedition. By the time you receive this communique I will be well on my to you in those foul pands south of the Empire proper
Your Dear Friend,
Lord Donald Barnaby

Vampirism is an STD, good luck fag.