#i was listening to the audio while sketching something and straight up stopped to type this

[risarchives]

“(…) we can just fall asleep together, like e’laetum and min’ara did.”

gavin, in his Baking a Cake With Your Incubus Boyfriend audio, mentioned that they're figures from an empathy daemon bedtime story, but he also mentioned that they may have been based on real people at some point. as years progressed, they turned more into ideas that help empathy daemons find purpose.

i had a thought, though. what if those mentioned names belonged to very old empathy daemon— or, generally, just demon— gods who had somehow passed away? fell asleep together? died together? can you imagine caelum and freelancer following their paths and filling in their positions— falling asleep together? dying together? (not romantically!)

freelancer and caelum are best defined by their empathy and compassion all throughout their storylines. when caelum’s rift took him to a place full of pain and suffering, he entered and tried to save the two humans stuck in the cruelty of a sadism demon. when xavier died, freelancer's first instinct was to approach him. not a single thought about the shades getting to them and eventually draining their life force.

they both fall into the archetype of a caregiver. their self-given and almost innate mission is to care for others in all the ways they usually can't/wouldn't for themselves. a caregiver’s weakness can either be as small (not really) as being exploited, or be as severe and harmful as living in martyrdom, or perhaps, dying for it.

if e’laetum and min’ara really did die together for a reason somehow directly connected to their empathy, then it can also be possible for caelum and the freelancer by the end (...hmm...) of the entire plotline. hopefully not, but if it goes so like this, it would, i think, be beautiful as it would resemble a poem and its rhythm. a cycle that never ends. a sand timer that never runs out of both sand and time. two hearts that never failed to beat for the right reasons.