Now I Want This Card So Badly :(

Now I want this card so badly :(

You Always Ride Shotgun is absolutely rivaling Staying Home Together in terms of my favorite Mammon-related Devilgram. It's so sweet, and i love the bits of Mammon and MC just being goofy together and being chill, not like constantly romancing and waxing red. I mean, yeah, it has that too, but, like...

Like, yes, please, I would absolutely enjoy just Mammon and MC having more interactions being silly and having fun and general friend stuff. I know a lot of the focus is obviously gonna be on romance and shit, but a solid foundation for any relationship is to be friends and the ability to have down moments compared to constantly being in love and pining for the other person. I adore Mammon from almost all angles, but I would love more antics to just be funny and laugh together and grow closer through small things outside of romance. Once that honeymoon phase is played out and there's no solid foundation after that then the relationship will crumble.

Also

this bitch just pops in without warning and turns salty when MC complains about him knocking, so he goes back out, knocks, and then comes back in. Yes, more bitchy Mammon being petty and MC being exasperated by his high salt levels when rightfully chided, lmao.

I'm also going to want more moments of MC just admiring Mammon while he's enjoying himself and having casual fun. Yeah, Mammon's going to probably always get flustered, but it's what he deserves and what I crave.

Speaking of craving...

The last couple of Devilgrams for Mammon have been a little dry on romance, which I'm okay with, but I'd still like more intimate moments. Ofc, there's a moment that breaks up the sexual tension when Mammon accidentally slips into the pool and takes MC with him, but his immediate concern is their safety and if they're okay

Once the well-being of MC is confirmed, the the sexual tension picks right back up, because of Mammon's admission of, like, his feelings and urge to be with MC without any tsundere scrabbles or, like, "hint hint, wink wink" innuendos. I know there's been progress, but this instance just felt more rightly timed and paced with his mood.

Like, my heart swelled with just his ease to be open about his emotions and physical needs. He's done bits and pieces of this in the past, yeah, I know, but like MC states this is a mature pick for him, and he really is showing levels of maturity that weren't there at the beginning of meeting him. Hell, even a year after meeting him.

It's progress and character growth and character maturity. Mammon is growing and becoming more than his sin. He's actively doing stuff for MC that is out of his pocket and sincerely when before meeting MC he barely did anything genuine for himself except for when he really wanted something, like his Demonio car. Nowadays he's willingly working jobs to earn his own money so he can buy MC gifts that he wants to give with real thought and love behind it, because he genuinely loves MC so much.

He's still conniving with plans to earn money and can be entitled and selfish and sticky-fingered, obviously. He's not gonna outgrow his attitude and habits that fast, but Mammon is much more selfless and open and making strides to, like, do more genuinely. There's care and love behind his actions with MC, and that means so much to me to see.

Mammon is my absolute favorite in terms of character growth and change, and I hope the others can get defined like this eventually too.