The Kiss😘
more hua cheng’s moving castle!!
( + detail shots)
Ch 5 part 2
MC, summoning Asmodeous:
Stupid Bitch
Come here
I summon thee thot
PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM
I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.
Asmo: Mammon, your advice didn't help at all!
Mammon: That's cause ya didn't FOLLOW my advice!!
Asmo: THAT'S BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FOLLOW YOUR ADVICE!!! BUT YOU'RE THE DIRECTOR SO IT'S STILL YOUR FAULT!!!!
The fact that this seems to be an Asmo focused lesson is awesome. Also, we're learning that Asmo doesn't know how to be himself or express who he really is on the inside and thus only can express himself through aesthetic and physical, outside means, is pretty. Idk I feel like that explains some things.
Asmo represses everything about who he might be inside because he can't control that stuff as much. The idea that someone doesn't want to see him being beautiful, cares about what's inside, that that's something he should show to be loved, he's completely skeptical about it. He doesn't believe Mammon when he says it--and even if he did he doesn't know how to express the Asmo inside or, hell, even the Asmo outside that isn't just the most attractive being there is. He can't follow the advice because he doesn't think that that's what anyone wants to see and thus he never learned to show or express that.
Even earlier when Belphie asks if he's okay he brushes it off with a smile--bring unhappy isn't attractive, being worried isn't attractive, people won't love him if he has concerns and feelings. He has to be confident and people can't know he has problems.
He understands how relateable that can be when it's others but he sees the expectations for himself as different. So he doesn't show anything less than perfect--except his perfect is so apperance based he hides any feelings or individuality that isn't expressed by his looks deep in his walk-in closet in a locked chest behind the strongest magic barrier he could get Solomon to make for him.
Hell, in the Proud Brothers Devilgram he wants to hide his brothers' quirkiness and oddities from Solomon lest they reflect poorly on him and tries to only present them as cool, powerful demons. He wants him to meet his family but his family is full of weirdos--if they're seen Solomon will think he's weird too. And he can't have that.
Basically he probably doesn't realize it right now but he's the worst kind of perfectionist and his own harshest critic. And he presents himself in such a way that there isn't a personality to judge--because if there's nothing to fault he cannot have faults.
It's pretty sad when you get down to it. I'm looking forward to seeing him sort it out.
*gets inside your mind*
* makes you gay*
*leaves*