#Supreme Mathematics

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

“- Indians have been waiting for Kalki for 3,700 years.

- Buddhists have been waiting for Maitreya for 2,600 years.

- The Jews have been waiting for the Messiah for 2500 years.

- Christians have been waiting for Jesus for 2000 years.

- Sunnah waits for Prophet Issa 1400 years.

- Muslims have been waiting for a messiah from the line of Muhammad for 1300 years.

- Shiites have been waiting for Mandi for 1080 years.

- Drussians are waiting for Hamza ibn Ali for 1000 years.

Most religions adopt the idea of a “savior” and state that the world will remain filled with evil until this savior comes and fills it with goodness and righteousness.

Maybe our problem on this planet is that people expect someone else to come solve their problems instead of doing it themselves! ”

Riccardo Dablah

[sygstudios]

WHAT IS GREATER THAN ONE WHO HAS “FAITH.”

[whoxohm]

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[vidavalor]

A theory about Aziraphale, Crowley, Mrs. Cheng, and high sensitivity

What's up with Aziraphale sensing love in Tadfield and thinking Maggie might be able to hear Heavenly trumpets and with Mrs. Cheng pausing weirdly at the bookshop door before entering The Ball?

What if bad spelling isn't demonic and sensing love isn't angelic? What if Aziraphale (an angel), Crowley (a demon), and Mrs. Cheng (a human) all actually just have the same ability? What if they are all HSPs-- highly sensitive people?

Aziraphale's ability to sense love is something that has spanned both seasons now and I know some people think this is an angelic thing but there's evidence, imo, that it's not. The show has been putting forth a message that angels, demons, and humans are really not that dissimilar. They have different life spans and abilities but they're all under the same kind of umbrella and none are superior or inferior to the other. They suggest this with the symbolism of labeling all of them all as insects (humans are ants, angels are bees, demons are hornets, flies are Beez's department) and as different kinds of waterfowl. Pat's example magic trick of The Professor's Nightmare-- the rope trick-- during The Blitz, Part 2 is also this as well. You have three different ropes that seem like they're different lengths: the big one (angels), the medium one (demons), and the small one (humans) but if you put them all together under the same light and you pull (like the force of gravity, that Gabriel and Crowley talk about in S2), you see them as all the same length.

The idea then is that angels and demons are just like humans, in terms of their needs and wants, and some don't recognize it because their supernatural abilities inhibit their ability to consider why they might also have human corporations in the first place. All of the angels and demons really need to eat and sleep and to not feel alone. Some of them, like some humans, might be interested in romantic love and/or sex, and some of them, like some humans, might not be. Things the show has coded as "demonic" at times-- like being terrible with language-- they also quietly illustrate as not being fully true. It can't be that all demons are terrible spellers who aren't great with words because Crowley is a demon and a literal poet while Gabriel was the Supreme Archangel of Heaven-- and he once suggested that keeping the status quo would keep things "static and, uh, quo-y." Who is better with words: Lord Beezlebub or Sandalphon? Beez, by a long mile, right? But Michael is also better with language than Hastur. The point is that it doesn't matter if you're an angel or a demon or a human-- some people are good with language and some are better with other things.

So, just some of the demons are bad spellers-- which doesn't actually mean anything. There are plenty of terrible spellers who are very intelligent and who are just better at different things-- which is something that is true of humans as well, right? What if we apply those same ideas to the sensitivity thing?

For one thing, if all angels-- or, even, just a lot of angels-- had a high sensitivity to love like Aziraphale does, the end group scene in S2 should have gone differently. The only angels experiencing or sensing love in the bookshop during the Ineffable Bureaucracy scene are Gabriel (who is the one feeling it) and Aziraphale. Being in the presence of love did nothing for Michael, Uriel, Saraqael or even our sweetheart Muriel (who, to be fair, wisely had their nose in a book in the back of the room the whole time but still probably should have been able to sense something if that's actually an angelic power.) The only angel actually overwhelmed by the love in the room is Aziraphale... which is, mathematically, kind of interesting. Aziraphale is one-sixth of the angels in the bookshop in that moment, which equates out to the roughly 17% percent of the human population estimated to be HSPs, or highly sensitive people, some of whom are also empaths.

If you go back to S1, when Aziraphale and Crowley enter Tadfield and Aziraphale starts experiencing love, he says to Crowley: "I'm astonished that you can't feel it." This comment alone might be suggested to say that the high sensitivity that Aziraphale has is something that isn't an angelic ability. By saying he's surprised that Crowley can't feel it, Aziraphale is saying that he knows that Crowley is sensitive in the same way that Aziraphale is. Crowley, too, is then what humans would probably call a HSP. Crowley balks at the suggestion in S1 but we can see in S2 that it's true when Crowley has his version of being overwhelmed sensing emotion and, in his case in that moment, it was waves of distress. Who else experiences it at the same time as Crowley does? A human. Mrs. Cheng.

Mrs. Cheng is the only other character who gets the heebie jeebies during the arrivals at The Ball. Both she and Crowley actually experience it before the demons come up Whickber Street, around the same time. Crowley attributes it to the demons and his own anxiety over Hell circling closer to the shop while Mrs. Cheng gets pulled into Aziraphale's magic and forgets what she felt at the door. Why did Mrs. Cheng feel something when others who came to the door did not? Because she's a highly-sensitive person.

Aziraphale is an angel, Crowley is a demon and Mrs. Cheng is a human. They are all highly-sensitive people. They all have the same high level of sensitivity.

Maggie shown to be a bad speller? Maybe she's just a human who can't spell, like many humans and demons (and angels) are. Why does Aziraphale think she could hear the Heavenly trumpets sounding the arrival of angels? It could just be because Maggie runs a music shop. Maggie is a musically-sensitive human. Aziraphale thought that might make it possible that, if anyone could hear the trumpets, it might be Maggie. He's not really sure how this all works. Aziraphale thinks that if he can feel love between humans then maybe humans that know music well might be able to hear Heavenly trumpets.

Back in S1, we see in a couple of scenes that Adam has what Crowley calls "an automatic defense thing-y" that keeps him from being found-- and seen, to an extent. A shield of sorts keeps Anathema from reading Adam's aura, showing that such a thing is in place and intact. Because Adam is the antichrist, his power overrides the other demons shy of Satan, so the presumption could be made that those of us who think that the reason why it's when they cross into Tadfield that Aziraphale begins to feel overwhelmed by love is because Adam's shield overrode Crowley's own "automatic defense thing-y" are correct because, let's be real, Crowley with his sunglasses and his Bentley has never met a defense thing-y he's never given a whirl. It fails when they cross the Tadfield line and Aziraphale is then feeling Crowley's love for him.

This is also why Aziraphale is overwhelmed by it again at Tadfield Manor. At the moment that he has to stop walking, Crowley is looking up at the place and, inevitably, remembering dropping the antichrist baby off there eleven years earlier and how he was supposed to be with Aziraphale that night instead. He's thinking about his own love for Aziraphale and Aziraphale senses it and has to stop walking for a moment, overwhelmed. Adam does love Tadfield but Aziraphale is not sensing his love for his hometown. Adam wouldn't remember being born in a religious hospital that has now become a corporate bonding retreat and wouldn't feel an overwhelming love for the place that he's probably never actually been inside since he left it as a baby. Aziraphale is sensing Crowley, who has probably had an automatic defense thing-y up for most of the time for millennia because, otherwise, Aziraphale would be in a constant state of near-faint.

Maggie may or may not be more than we think she is. She might wind up yet being some kind of supernatural being but she also might just be a human who is a bad speller and can't hear Heavenly trumpets. Mrs. Cheng may or may not be a mysterious figure with more going on than we think but she also might just be a highly-sensitive human who helps to illustrate a commonality between angels, demons and humans by having the same ability to deeply sense emotion that Crowley and Aziraphale do.

[nateofgreat]

the jedi aren’t even the highest authority in the galactic republic so what the hell is this show trying to say? they’re underneath the senate! they’re under the supreme chancellor of the republic! otherwise people would be kowtowing to whatever they want and they’d have way more power than they actually do.

I don't know, Leslyle Headland seems to believe that the Jedi are some kind of elite government enforcer who walks around imposing their will on the Republic. Like some random shop keeper talks about their "dominance" as though he's personally witnessed them lording over people when I'm not even sure what conflict the Jedi could possibly with someone like him.

Mathematically, the odds of even running into a Jedi in the SW universe are slim to none unless you go out looking for them.

They showed a couple of Jedi at Master Torbin's enclave being rude to some kid that was messing with their droid (while failing to sense Obvious McEvil sneaking in behind them). So I'm guessing that was the show's way of trying to depict them as being arrogant/rude.

I'm sure they'll eventually depict the Jedi as randomly being cruel to the common people but this doesn't really work given they themselves live a monastic lifestyle. They live in a nice temple, sure, but they're not some cabal of super rich people. They're do-gooder monks who're more likely to try and help the common man rather than be mean to them.

[1americanconservative]

1.5% of lawyers are black women.

LSAT score average:

White test takers,

153 Asian test takers,

153 Black test takers,

142 An entire NY state Supreme Court bench is composed of black women.

The mathematical probability of this being random and based on merit is literally zero.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1761725058043519421?s=20

[trivalentlinks]

quora (a q&a social media site, like yahoo answers, but higher quality) used to have a lot of questions of the form "how would you explain X to your grandmother?" Where X was usually some mathematics or physics concept. Things like:

How would you explain quantum mechanics to your grandma?

Category theory?

General relativity/space-time?

Bayesian statistics?

(this was before quora made it so that you got paid for asking questions that generated engagement, thus inundating the site with troll questions; back then quora had decent questions)

One of my friends, who had a fairly large following on quora, had two grandmothers (out of four, including step-grandmas) who had PhDs in mathematics. He used to love answering these questions like,

"I would say [extremely abstract explanation with analogies to far more esoteric concepts than the question was asking],

But my grandma's an algebraic topologist, so your mileage may vary."

One time some fellow quora users we knew irl asked him about this, since he's generally very sweet and opposed to trolling/being needlessly rude to people online, and someone asked him why he didn't feel bad about ignoring the spirit of the questions, and essentially poking fun at them in front of his large following,

And he said, "well the thing is that these questions are actually kind of rude to grandmas. they act like all grandmas are the same, just some blank slate for you to explain things to, when in fact grandmas can have quite varied interests and knowledge. I'm just responding to the questions' offensiveness in kind"

And then he mentioned how nobody asks "how would you explain [science concept] to your dad?", right?

Because society thinks of fathers as diverse and varied, so why aren't grandmas viewed as a similarly diverse group, when they actually are, and as someone with four grandmas (through divorce and remarriage), he would know (even though two of his grandmas apparently had very similar interests to each other, lol)

.

And I just. Those questions always left a bad taste in my mouth, too, but I had never thought to explain it this way (which I guess is why he was a quora influencer and I wasn't, lol)

I also had more than the normal number of grandmas (grandpa was double married (poly marriage was legal back then)) and like, yeah, each of my three grandmas had a very unique and interesting story.

Two of my grandmas ran away from home to go to university when their families didn't approve of women getting educations. One of these became an electrical engineer.

The other studied law (fully funded on government merit scholarship) and became an understudy to the equivalent of a justice of the supreme court (under the nationalist government, which unfortunately led to her being subject to denunciation rallies later on). She was also into martial arts and knew some gorgeous forms with a sword. (She was the grandma I was closest to because she raised me for a few years when I was a kid)

The other grandma (the one who didn't go to university, grandpa's first wife) was an avid storyteller who could keep all the neighbourhood kids entertained for hours from stories told from memory (her language had no writing system), and also a master at embroidery. She also easily won over my mother and my aunt's love even though they only met her in their early teens (my grandpa had hidden her from their mom, his second wife) and she didn't speak any Chinese, and my mom and aunt only spoke Chinese.

Like, yeah, grandmas are a diverse group and it does suck that society generally doesn't regard them as such

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

Black/Blackness has a ancient meaning

Credit: @kamjiverse Instagram and YouTube

[beardedmrbean]

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made a "mathematically absurd claim" about Black newborns in her dissenting opinion in the affirmative action decision, attorney Ted Frank wrote in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed. 

Jackson argued in her dissent that diversity "saves lives" and that it was essential for "marginalized communities."

"It saves lives. For marginalized communities in North Carolina, it is critically important that UNC and other area institutions produce highly educated professionals of color. Research shows that Black physicians are more likely to accurately assess Black patients’ pain tolerance and treat them accordingly (including, for example, prescribing them appropriate amounts of pain medication). For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die," she wrote.

Frank responded to the argument in his Journal opinion piece: "A moment’s thought should be enough to realize that this claim is wildly implausible. Imagine if 40% of black newborns died—thousands of dead infants every week. But even so, that’s a 60% survival rate, which is mathematically impossible to double. And the actual survival rate is over 99%." 

Frank, a senior attorney at Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners in SFFA v. Harvard, according to the WSJ.

"How could Justice Jackson make such an innumerate mistake?" he wrote. 

Frank wrote that Jackson's claim came from a 2020 study, according to a footnote in the dissent, but added that the study didn't match Jackson's claim. 

"The study makes no such claims. It examines mortality rates in Florida newborns between 1992 and 2015 and shows a 0.13% to 0.2% improvement in survival rates for black newborns with black pediatricians (though no statistically significant improvement for black obstetricians)," he said. 

The Supreme Court rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions at the end of June, citing a violation of the 14th amendment. 

In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that, "A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrim­ination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination."

Frank said the study cited in Jackson's dissent was "flawed."

"So we have a Supreme Court justice parroting a mathematically absurd claim coming from an interested party’s mischaracterization of a flawed study. Her opinion then urges ‘all of us’ to 'do what evidence and experts tell us is required to level the playing field and march forward together.' Instead we should watch where we’re going," Frank continued. 

Wall Street Journal article here for ya if you don't like fox

[harrelltut]

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[whoxohm]

Wii Got this. O' Yhea even Wii

What's hard and soft and echos all over?

#Tesla did (That's Nikola)

#Nickelless Nikola

#exorsist of caution (ZAP)

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[boxfullaturtles]

For the fake fic title meme: "Endlessly the noise goes on and on"

Raph pushes the Mind Meld too far in his attempts to keep in contact with his brothers while they're out on a mission.

Now he can't turn it off.

He hears everything.

Mikey's flame bright ideas that pop like fireworks, bursting with flavors, spinning and jumping just like Mikey himself. Recipes and half formed art projects, smears of color and the rush of adrenaline. (Mikey's thoughts are the easiest to deal with for Raph but their constant onslaught is still hard to deal with.)

Leo's rabbit-fast thoughts jumping from one thing to the next, making connections so rapidly that Raph could never hope to keep up. Plans made and discarded in the blink of an eye, the same song on a loop for hours, the easy lies that cover up hard truths.

And Donnie's complicated, multi-level processes, pieces clicking and twisting and turning, a puzzle box of the most supreme difficulty. Ideas of revenge chased away by mathematical equations so long Raph can't remember their beginning by the time they get to the end, blue prints layered over blue prints, and the sour discontent when things don't feel/taste/look/sound Just Right.

Raph doesn't tell anyone at first because hey! What a great way to keep track of whatever stupid bunk his brothers might try to get away with! And he always knows where they are! He can keep them safe this way!

But then the waters get muddy.

Raph starts seeing through his brother's eyes. He wakes up and can't figure out if he's in his own body, or in someone else's. Is he Raphael? He thinks he is, but the echos in his head are Leo's voice--Donnie's--no they're Mieky's! And poor Raph's mind is starting to crack under the pressure.

So it does what it does best to escape. It goes SAVAGE.

Only now there's feedback leaking through the mind meld. Mikey, Leo, and Donnie are now aware of what's been going on. And they've got to find a way to get Raph back to his senses before Savage state makes them regress to a feral state too.

[inventors-fair]

From Nothing, Victory: The Origin Winners

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Our winners this week are @genericaura, @horsecrash, and @nicolbolas96!

@genericaura — Nilix, Scholar of Nothing

First up is this curious specimen, taking a distinctly mathematical approach to the idea. D'you think their associates ever tease them about their title? At any rate, this is a fascinating piece of design. Copying spells is by no means untrodden ground in these colors, but the requirement for the spell to have been free is such a bizarre wrinkle that I can't help but be enthralled. It's a pretty hefty buy-in to get the effect online, too, so the card feels more fair than you'd think something centered around cheating mana costs to be. There's a decent amount of depth to the use cases, too. Sure, chaining this into a Mind's Desire is positively rapturous, but there are plenty of spells that are already free, or cast something for nothing as more of a formality, and suddenly those become worth their weight in gold. This really got the wheels in my head turning, and I can't really ask for more. Although, it is kind of odd to have a bird without flying. An ostrich aven, perhaps? That's just nitpicking, though. Good show!

@horsecrash — Hogaak, Tide of the Dead

Hogaak's back, baby! And hopeful not about to ruin a format this time. I saw a design like this tossed around several times this week, a card with a cost reduction mechanic that gets a bonus if you manage to shave it down to zero. None of them require quite this much reduction, though! The chance to get a huge beater that also traumatizes you (which is a sentence I don't get to say often) is a supremely tasty carrot on the end of the stick, though, and it sets my self-mill loving heart aflutter. Consume makes a fascinating companion to convoke here (although I'd also be interested in seeing what you can do with it by itself), allowing a real scale of quite how hard you want to commit. That's assuming you want the mill in the first place; an 8/8 trampler on the cheap is nothing to turn your nose up at. I appreciate the reminder text clearing up any confusion around the intersection of the mechanics, and I could see plenty of times when you'd rather tap but not sacrifice something. I'm not quite as sure about the inverse, but it's always good to keep the option open. My one concern is that the fact that any way to get this onto the battlefield without casting it (so reanimation, blink, or what have you) also counts for the effect feels a bit against the spirit of the card, but it's hardly a dealbreaker.

@nicolbolas96 — Desperate Necromage

Yeesh, desperate is right! This is one of those beautiful cards that completely reshapes the game around itself the second your opponent is aware of it, because now every single decision they make has to be made in respect to it. Cards with both first strike in deathtouch can often be unblockable if they don't give your opponent a compelling reason to interact with them, and while that's true of this for most of the game, boy does that flip on its head the second your life hits zero. It really does crystalize that feeling of being on the brink of death, but just one more good hit and you can take them out! I do really think the life loss on attack is deceptively important here. Obviously it advances the card's win condition, but by doing that it encourages you to be aggressive with a card that would otherwise sit back as a deterring blocker. Even more than that it introduces a real sense of riskiness, because if this is removed too early, even before you hit zero, you can suddenly find yourself in a very bad position. After all, a deck designed to lower your life total probably isn't packing many tools to raise it, and the lower you go, the more risk you run of being abruptly blown out. All in all, this is the kind of intersection of flavor and gameplay that just captivates me.

Runners-up to follow shortly, then commentary (hopefully) later today. See you then!

@spooky-bard

[echojulietfoxtrot]

Hello.

In a two party system, the only good reason not to vote for someone is if you like the alternative more. Because that is the effect - if you do not vote for A, B is more likely to win.

It really is that simple. You know it is. You can't debatify it into anything else.

The fact is that - like it or not - withholding a vote for A has exactly the same mathematical and practical effect as voting for B. This is a law of cause and effect about on par with gravity.

And it is the only effect of your action - not voting for A means B is more likely to win. Then you will live in a country B runs, and everyone else will live in a world where your country behaves as B dictates, and you'll have chosen so, one way or the other.

Where there are only two possible futures on the ballot, you decide which world everyone has to live in both by who you vote for and by who you vote against.

The only voting action against B winning is voting for A. No amount of prose, yelling, sulking, sneering or abstract political theory can change that. It cannot be wished away; you cannot simply manifest a Candidate C out of thin air to simplify things for you. You live in the real world, and the laws of reality apply here. You can't negotiate an opt out from them even if you do find them unpalatable.

So unless you really do want to live the reality of life under Trump's regime - and that is what he's promising, a regime, make no mistake - vote for Biden.

Not voting for Biden has exactly the same effect as voting for Trump. That's all there is to it. Trump has not made any secret of his malignant and fascistic intentions. If you don't want to see him make them reality, and make them your reality, and that of any number of people around you, don't give him the means to.

Nobody is gonna give a shit about a philosophical distinction that exists in your mind only when Trump is lifetime-appointing more wackadoo right wing Supreme Court Justices to do as much damage as they can. Or rounding up ~undesirables~ with his private army of fashie thugs, or dismantling civil rights people died to win for decade after decade, or gifting Eastern Europe to Putin's revenge, or letting the assets of international chaos agents and Evangelical Endtimer loons steer international policy.

There are only two tracks left for the trolley. That's it. Grow up and grapple with that, because it'll make itself real for you soon whether you want it or not.

[talonabraxas]

Azoth The Solar Temple Talon Abraxas

The Azoth or Universal Medicine is, for the soul, supreme reason and absolute justice; for the mind, it is mathematical and practical truth; for the body it is the quintessence, which is a combination of gold and light. In the superior or spiritual world, it is the First Matter of the Great Work, the source of the enthusiasm and activity of the alchemist. In the intermediate or mental world, it is intelligence and industry. In the inferior or material world, it is physical labor. Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt, which, volatilized and fixed alternately, compose the Azoth of the sages. Sulfur corresponds to the elementary form of Fire, Mercury to Air and Water, Salt to Earth. --Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi

[celestial-quill-n-ink]

Quick Ramble-y OM Headcanon Post!

(Humans, Demons, and the nature of Sins)

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I've always liked the idea that each and every individual human has a dominant sin, and that demons of that respective sin are better equipped to tempt those souls due to that connection.

This also goes along with my headcanon that every demon is assigned into one of seven categories from birth, colloquially known as the Seven Deadly Sins. It's a natural and instinctual part of their existence, where they can sense the sins of humans and prey upon their lack of knowledge and ignorance.

It would, of course, be especially prevalent with the Brothers, as they were assigned as the Avatars of these sins by the Demon King.

Most lower level demons have the baseline magical compulsion to prey on humans with a compatible sin, but that doesn't say anything about their skills in magic and manipulation. They likely run on base instinct alone unless they are supremely passionate about their education at RAD XDDD

The Brothers, on the other hand, are naturally very powerful and, whether some actually appear this way or not, are also very intelligent (at least when it comes to their sins!)

Basically, you can't underestimate any of them, because if they really want something, they'll do whatever it takes to get it.

As an example, I view my MC's main sin to be Pride, and she just so happens to bump heads with Lucifer on many an occasion, precisely because of their similarities! And just as much as he can understand her on a fundamental level and use that to his advantage, my MC is smart enough to be able to do the very same back to him!

I mean, any human arguably could as well, but I'd imagine Lilith's genes definitely help my and many others' MCs out a great deal in those cases too XDDD

They're both too stupidly prideful for their own good, trying to one-up eachother like a couple of kids. It's almost like a feedback loop; where my MC attempts to get Lucifer to childishly rise to a challenge by using his pride to her advantage, but even when she succeeds, Lucifer can still relish in the feelings of her own pride at succeeding!

I feel like there would be some sort of spell or magical item that can allow a human to get an almost mathematical breakdown of their sins, kind of like a pie chart or some other type of visual, which I imagine would be beneficial knowledge for any sorcerer or witch preparing to interact with demons to any extent.

I believe that any human is susceptible to any demon's temptations, but there are certain combinations that allow for a higher success rate than others.

As another example, my MC's second most prominent sin would likely be Sloth, and so she has received one too many solicitations for naps from Belphie, who can sense exactly when would be the best time to ambush the idea onto her XDDD

I also like the idea that when a Demon makes a pact with a Human, their ability to sense that Human's sins is significantly heightened. (I'm hoping to write about this particular element in more detail for the brothers sometime soon 🤞)

Where in a non-pact situation, a Demon may only sense a sin if a Human is really struggling with it at that current point in time - in a situation where a pact is formed, both parties have agreed to open a magical bond where in exchange for the Human having power over the Demon with commands, the Demon can more freely take power from them without necessarily obtaining their soul.

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Since I've not had much time to work on my character specific headcanons, I figured I'd post a more rough-around-the-edges sort of post where I don't really have to proofread and can just infodump for fun XDDD

- Celeste

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