Topical Tuesday: Create Your Personal Demon

[quantum mechanic]

Name: Demon of Ambition
Power: Makes the afflicted person go with the most hardcore, difficult option available to them even if something else would be more fun or more appropriate.
Nemesis: the Angels of Realism and Acceptance
Example: Me. I always take the hardest courses I can along with demanding extracurriculars. I'm currently signed up for a physics class that I don't technically have the prerequisites for.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Name: Demon of abnormality
Power: Makes me act abnormally, often with funny results
Nemesis: An arsehole. Seriously, who else but an arse would want to get rid of abnormality?
Example: Mental logic jumps. I hear something, make a few mental relations until I'm at a random internet quote, or a song, or a theory, then I say said 'end result' out loud. Most of the time the 'end result' is seemingly unrelated.

 

[Lullabye]

Name: Demon of coincidence.
Power: Makes stuff happen to eachother.
Nemesis: Theory of complete order.
Example: You run into your mom at the Metallica concert you swore you weren't going to.

 

[Ishpeck]

Demon name: Demon of Loading Screens
Demon power: Stalling until people get bored and wander off
Heavenly nemesis: Punctualis.
Example of its influence in your life: You've seen him.

 

[willofbob]

name: darath, manipulator of incredibly awkward moments
power: manipulate your speech until everything you say can have infinite (all...strange) meanings
nemesis: escapist video makers, the only ones he cannot touch
influence: you've seen it

 

[sh0tgunenclave]

Name: Detritus The Distractor
Power: lure you away from homework, writing, work, or anything else that might be important, but is not fun for you.
Nemesis: higher authority figures such as Parents, Teachers, Supervisors and Editors.
Influence: Can cause loss of job, lower quality of work, and lack of attention during class, Etc, Etc.

 

[damax999]

Demon Name: Schadenfreude

Demon Power: Schadenfreude

Heavenly Nemesis: St Francis and Mother Teresa

Example of its influences in my life:
The fact that I can laugh when someone fat has a heart attack or when a person incapable of intelligent thought realizes how they will never be good at math.

 

[LandoCristo]

Demon Name: Demon of Self
Demon Power: Makes you enjoy any misfortune upon others that doesn't hurt you, and laugh at cripples.

Heavenly Nemesis: Angel of Empathy
Influences on Me: Laugh when somebody falls down the stairs, but not when they were carrying your Coca-Cola.

 

[Joe Kilner]

Demon Name: The Arch Demon Procrastinaton
Demon Power: Voracious consumption of time.
Heavenly Nemesis: The righteous twins Organisation and Concentration
Influences on Me: What does it look like I'm doing now?

 

[Darenus]

Demon name: The Allmighty Slothdog (Omnipotense ignavia canin)
Demon power: Convincing the most energetic of people to shift gears
Heavenly nemesis: Adonis' horn-dog brother
Example of its influence in your life: Bleh, dunno.

 

[Brainplant]

Demon name: Demon of remembering unimportant stuff
Demon power: Burns pointless trivia into you memory whist wiping vital information from it
Heavenly nemesis: Angel of prioritizing
Example of influece in your life: I can recite the entire Argument sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus word for word. I can also tell you every single person who has ever been in the band Iron Maiden, including the current six. I sometimes forget how old I am.

 

[Fortuan]

Here comes the D&D geek in me
Demon Name: Chadra
Powers: 3 breath weapons (acid,fire,ice), death ray (1/day), teleport (at will), and make you worry about stupid things
Nemesis: Quatle (flying snake thingy)
Influence in Life: fear of inexplicable and impossible situations.

I actually made this demon in the game once.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Demon name: Al-Kuhl, Demon of the Drinking Hole.
Powers: Can make you think one more wouldn't hurt, that guy is looking at you funny, and that phoning your ex would be a great idea.
Nemesis: Dawn, Angel of the Early Shift.
Influences in my life: Where to start.....

 

[Declaro]

Demon name: Demon of Questionable Sanity.

Demon power: Making other people doubt your sanity, making you talk about really weird stuff for no reason. Usually visits when caffeine and/or sleep levels are low.

Heavenly nemesis: Angel of Mental Health, hormone pills.
Example of its influence in your life: Yesterday, after not enough sleep and with a lack of caffeine in my system, someone made the mistake of telling a half-funny joke. I wound up with my head on the table in tears of insane, loud laughter, and I'm pretty sure half the people around me were giving me strange looks.

 

[Chaos999]

Demon name: CHAOS

Demon power: To be everywhere and nowhere

Heavenly nemesis: To powerful to have one

Example of its influence in your life: No plan ever works. Everything ends in CHAOS.

 

[Saulkar]

Demon Name: Vassago

Demon Power: Is a large red dragon, can see into the past and future, bring about the finding of lost trinkets, ruling over twenty-six legions of demons, and has a pleasent nature.

Heavenly Nemesis: None, he rarely attempts to draw the ire of others.

Example of his influences in my life: I am a body builder so I in advertantly scare people. I have a high highly developed memory (see into the past) and I can anticipate what people are about to say (looking into the future). I do not rule over 26 legions of hell but I can own on Mechwarrior living legends. Finally I like to socialise under pleasent circumstances.

 

[Grahav]

Demon Name: Ver, the demoness of your conscience
Demon power: the ability to make you regret everything you've done, and remind you of it constantly, as well as making you go through it in your head.
Heavenly Nemesis: The Angel of Letting Go
Example of that influence: remember when you screwed up with that person you like? And all you could think about was how you could have done things, what could have been? And no matter what, you couldn't stop thinking about it? And at the same time, you were thinking about how you accidentally killed your pet fish, got kicked out of a class, were bullied by someone, and so on and so forth. Yeah, that's her fault.

This is my personal demon. Please make her go away.

My personal too. I call it "Culpa" (guilty) and the angel "Foda-se" (fuck it).

 

[Grahav]

Demon name: He Who Procrastinates.

Power: The ability to convince people that they can leave whatever task they may have until later. "Pfft. Do it later, it'll be fine!"

Heavenly nemesis: The embodiment of punctuality.

Example of its influence: I once put off writing an English essay until the night before, when I stayed up until 4:00AM to finish it and ended up getting 2 hours sleep and, as a result, snoozing through maths. Many other examples.

This jerk appears to a lot of people here. Including me.

 

[Grahav]

Demon name: Demon of shyness. Kin to the demon of fear
Demon power: Making you believe you are not good enough.
Heavenly nemesis: Angel of confidence.
Example of its influence in your life: That girl won't like you. I now leave you to the demons of self-hate, hate and envy.

 

[Grahav]

Demon name: Demon of despair. Kin to apathy
Demon power: It will not have happy endings.
Heavenly nemesis: Angel of hope.
Example of its influence in your life: Death thoughts.