Is it acceptable to write demons as slightly edgy or monstrous people with horns? Or do they always have to be always-evil, irredeemable monsters?
Is it acceptable to write demons as slightly edgy or monstrous people with horns...
Adam Rogers
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Ryder Brooks
At that point you just have a race called demons that only have 2 noticeable traits.
-Horns
-Edginess
They are nothing conceptually like a demon or evil spirit at all. You might as well just name them something else if you want to have horned waifus.
Joshua Jenkins
It depends on your setting’s definition of “demon”.
In several settings a “demon” is really just “any extra-dimensional entity”, with one particular human novel series having the main character quite often be a “demon” himself with all the dimension-hopping he ends up doing.
So you actually first have to define what a “demon” even is, which is an extremely variable thing in fiction.
Daniel White
Yeah, call them Capricornians or something.
Angel Fisher
I'd say no. The word demon is intrinsically tied to otherworldly-ness, not to superficial appearance. Tell me the demon is a ball of arms from a mirror dimension where broken reflections of real world emotions are reality? No problem. Tell me the demons are just animist spirits tied to geographical features who can be kindly or wicked and are worshiped by many as gods? Cool. Make them a race of flesh and blood edgy mortals who look like stylized 90's pop culture demons? Now I'm afraid you've lost me.
Nathaniel Cruz
Or draenei.
Juan Wilson
>Tell me the demons are just animist spirits tied to geographical features who can be kindly or wicked and are worshiped by many as gods? Cool.
Not to me. Better off just not translating it than using a translation that shitty.
Jack Gomez
>Is it acceptable to write
It depends on the execution. This is true of anything and everything. There's no subject you can and can't write so long as you write it well.
Jose Miller
>one particular human novel series having the main character quite often be a “demon” himself with all the dimension-hopping he ends up doing.
i need to know this series
for scientific reasons
William Campbell
that sounds like en.wikipedia.org