A Host of New Demons
Posted by Meg
Here is the first entry from Mia.
Hi. My name is Mia and I’m apparently addicted to demons. Photos are of my demon menagerie or graduates of my Coreling Certification Course perhaps. A couple of emails will follow of demons I’ve backstories for. Didn’t really plan to send anything when I started, but they were so much fun to make I just had to share. So this isn’t really a contest entry, especially since I didn’t follow some rules. It’s my way of saying I’m really looking forward to The Daylight War.
Using the second photo as a guide, from left to right they are: cupping demon, spectre demon, cairn demons, hollow demon, prickly demon (the black and white in front), modular demon (long and snakelike), split demon (in split form — one on top of the hollow demon, the other on top of the modular demon).
The .doc file is of the only demon I created without a figure, just a story. I thought of it and wrote it on the subway! Brett style! Don’t forget, however, that I’m not a writer so be kind or maybe read it after a few drinks.
The Cluster
Dusk. The sun wanes as the moon rises, a seesaw of opposing lights. When the sun shines, it signals safety – for work, for play, for the simple freedom of being outside. The rising of the moon is as a siren warning of danger, urging people to take refuge. To be caught outside is to wager one’s life. The moon and the night belong to creatures that revel in fear, pain and mayhem.
A boy intently gazes at the horizon from his bedroom window, scarcely blinking. He’s on the lookout for ‘The Gang’, a group of corelings emerging from deep in the ground, stirring pain deep in his gut. Small and airborne, these demons work in perverted synergy to overcome their prey. Vox demons descend, spraying a victim’s mouth with a tar-like spit to seal it shut and silence any cry for help. Hummingbird-sized sonorous demons disable with shrieks that burst eardrums. While victims are doubled over with pain, oculus demons swoop in like vultures to claw at eyes. Mute, deaf and blind, one despairs of an effective defense or even rescue.
The boy knows the winged fish-like body and giant maw of the sonorous demon, the winged torso of the oculus demon with its disproportionately small head and clawed appendages, and the brachycephalic head and stout bill of the vox demon. The boy watched his father die from this window, caught outside the maze and surrounded by corelings. The boy saw his father clutch at his face, then his ears. Finally, he saw demons jostling one another to peck, claw and tear at his father as he was disoriented and writhing. The boy holds tight to this memory of his warrior father dying helpless and alone, as tight as a hungry baby suckling on a mother’s teat. It fuels his rage and steels his determination.
The boy watches ‘The Gang’ every night, observing every move, spying weaknesses, mentally noting stalking and attacking patterns. One day, the boy will be old enough to be a warrior. One day, he won’t be looking out his window anymore but will be face to face with ‘The Gang’. One day, he will avenge his father’s death.
One day. And everyone will know his name.
The last four are just closeups of the ones without written backstories yet.
The cupping demon is green with a body is full of suction cups.
Next photo shows the cairn demons (4 varieties), masters of camouflage and stealth.
The third is the spectre demon, most vicious in shadows and experts at obfuscation and confusion.
The last 2 are photos of the modular demon in 2 modes: deconstructed and integrated.
Thanks to Mia for sending in her demons! What a fantastic spread of corelings.
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