• Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    Sure, that’s a certain kind of scary, but imagine the experience of being forcibly given a desire you’ve never known. Imagine you’ve been living as a more or less average human your whole life, and suddenly this creature turns up that instills a mind-warping hunger for something essentially mundane but culturally, slightly embarrassing or inconvenient to satisfy, like a growing need, only temporarily satiable, to have someone else’s finger in your mouth. You can fight it, sometimes holding out for days at a time, but you experience a continuously intensifying, survival instinct level drive to lick, or suck, or simply hold in your mouth, someone else’s warm, living fingers.

    ‘We call this creature The Dentisubus.’

  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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    Im all for tropes where the ‘desire’ branches beyond the most base of drives. (Sex and wealth).

    I feel like there’s a really great example from a video game that’s escaping me right now. It wasn’t Dragon Age, because Origins and 2 definitely leaned on the sex angle. And I don’t recall Inquisition’s ‘choice spirit’ to be particularly memorable.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      Eh. Depends on the setting. They are usually shapechangers anyways which makes most labels iffy anyways.

      According to the forgotten realms wiki:

      In fact, with their shapechanging powers, incubi and succubi could both change their sex with ease, though most had a preference for one or the other.

      I would therefore say that (at least in the forgotten realms) if this instance of fiend prefers he/him pronouns but is presenting femme or they consider themself a succubus and prefer being feminine but are currently presenting masculine the combination of pronouns he/him and label succubus seem perfectly normal.

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        Yeah but what really happened was OP fucked up and we’re politely covering for them.

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        AFAIK in actual mythology they are also considered sexless spirits that can incarnate as either male or female depending on the situation/target. There’s even tales about such spirits seducing both sexes after each other in order to cause impregnation, since they cannot actually procreate themselves.

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      While that is traditionally correct, I prefer to think of succubus, incubus, and concubus as relating to whether they top. My demons are very progressive.

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      It started out as a succubus, but it defeated the rest of your party and turned into an incubus.

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    You mean demons that personify seduction would know how to exploit your weakness beyond just carnal desire?

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    an incubus finds an asexual person. the incubus asks “would you rather: unlimited bacon, but no more video games, or games, unlimited games, but no more games”

    the person is killed by the incubus for not understanding the question

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    Remind me that larp when my character ended-up being an Eunuch. Use it as a resistance against a mass orgasm spel, that was a hilarious moment, and didn’t changed much the outcome