Luminescent

Date Night

Confusing people on whether you're a male or a female is really fun and something I enjoy doing a lot. I think Rin would enjoy it too, with encouragement from his boys.

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Rin recovered steadily and began to learn how to handle his new powers. As the Demon King of Love, he could see the bonds between people and his empathy was much more powerful. He'd had to be isolated for days and slowly get used to being around multiple people without being overwhelmed.

As the King of Tartarus, he had very....interesting new skills–he could look down at the students from Mephisto's office at the school and see the color of their souls. Souls went to Heaven, Azazel's domain, or Tartarus. Azazel's domain in Gehenna was like Asphodel. All the neutral, ordinary souls went there.

Tartarus was the Eternal Pit of Damnation and housed those who had done something bad enough to get them tortured forever. Rin was not looking forward to seeing people like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, or Bin Laden when he got there. The people that were already damned and would stay that way unless they changed had darker colored souls that shined with negative light, the worst being completely black souls. He'd only seen one black soul so far and it was unsurprising to him. He'd watched an Illuminati spy slink around amongst the students for a while before pointing him out to Mephisto. They only learned he was a spy once he was caught and interrogated. He went nuts before they executed him after seeing he was just an underling.

Being able to see people's souls was a terrible thing sometimes. Rin was always afraid to look at the souls of the people who meant the most to him. He knew without looking that none of them were going to Heaven. Because aside from Amaimon and Mephisto, they were all damned for helping him.

Rin finally gave in to curiosity and was mesmerized by the colors of Mephisto, Amaimon, and Bon's souls. Mephisto's soul was a vibrant purple, with rings of turquoise, dark blue, orange, pink, and green. Glittering gold shimmered in the middle of the myriad of colors and faded to white in the center. Rin almost couldn't look away.

Amaimon's soul was shades of green, fading to yellow-green and then shining gold in the very center.  There was an outer ring of browns, like rock. Between the browns and the greens, there were thin rings of purple, orange, and pink. Rin could stare into the gradient forever and still be fascinated.

After looking into the souls of the two Demon Kings, he wondered if Bon's would be that of a normal human's or if it would be different. He'd told Rin about his deal with Karura, how he'd be the Phoenix once Karura was part of him. When he finally got the chance, Rin looked into Bon to see his soul.

It was mostly in shades of dark burgundy, reds, oranges, and yellows–just like fire. Between the burgundy and the fiery colors were thin rings of pink, purple, and green. His soul glowed like a real fire. The bright colors were burning away the dark burgundy around the edges. Rin figured Bon had been damned for both loving multiple men and fraternizing with the Son of Satan and two Demon Kings.

Rin wondered what his own soul looked like. Would it be in shades of blue? He hoped not. He was beginning to hate the color blue. It was all he ever knew. Blue eyes just like his mother's and blue flames everywhere he turned. These damned flames were the reason he could never be a normal person.

One day, he stood in front of a mirror and looked into himself, just to see if he could.

He first saw a thin ring of electric blue around the outside. Then, bright reds and pinks on the inside, where it faded to white, with blacks, greys, purples, greens, and oranges ringing the outside under the blue. It looked like him. His status as the son of Satan didn't represent him. He liked going by his status of King of Love the most and being the King of Tartarus was unknown territory so far, but he didn't immediately hate it like he did his flames.