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@BackwardsChorus- 
            May I —?

/    Curious on @the_hellbane  :3

✞ WEAKNESSES ✞
            
            Holy relics / blessed silver — cause intense physical pain
            
            Memories — he’s haunted by all versions of himself from past deaths
            
            Can’t lie in certain sacred spaces — his demon half is bound by truth in temples
            
            Unstable powers — especially when emotionally compromised.
            
            Soft for broken things — He always wants to fix what can’t be fixed.

✞  ABILITIES & POWERS (3) ✞
            
            ✡︎ Half-Demon Immortality (Flawed Resurrection) ✡︎
            
            Damian cannot be killed by normal means. But resurrection is never clean
            
            Effects:
            
            - Returns from death after a short time — usually within 3 days
            
            - Every death leaves psychological scarring and sometimes physical mutations (e.g., broken horns, fragmented memories)
            
            - Sometimes his body resurrects but his mind doesn’t catch up
            
            Flaws:
            
            - Each death takes something: a memory, a feeling, a part of his humanity
            
            - Resurrection is painful and often traumatic.
            
            - Has recurring flashbacks from “the in-between.”
            
            
            ✡︎ Echowalking (Developing Power) ✡︎
            
            An advanced power he doesn’t fully understand yet
            
            Potential:
            
            - Allows him to enter the emotional memory-space of a location, object, or person
            
            - Can relive moments of history, trauma, or love as if he were there
            
            
            Flaws:
            
            - Extremely dangerous. He can get lost in someone else’s past
            
            - Prolonged use risks fracturing his sense of time or self
            
            - Sometimes brings parts of those memories back with him — voices, images, nightmares
            

✞  ABILITIES & POWERS (2) ✞
            
            ✡︎  Demonform ✡︎
            
            A rare and dangerous transformation where Damian’s demonic blood takes over completely. This isn’t a glamorous glow-up — it’s a full-body meltdown of rage, pain, and divine corruption
            
            Traits:
            
            - Black flame wings (non-functional, symbolic, painful)
            
            - Cracked horns pierce through his skull ( the right one is broken in half )
            
            - Voice becomes layered and distorted — multiple pitches at once
            
            - Golden-red eyes that paralyze weaker beings with fear
            
            - Telekinetic blasts driven by raw emotion
            
            - Shadow tendrils that react to threats or emotions
            
            Flaws:
            
            - The longer he stays in this form, the more his humanity erodes
            
            - After reverting, he often forgets what he did
            
            - Sometimes this form triggers during panic attacks, making him a danger even to allies
            
            
            ✡︎ Resonant Empathy ✡︎
            
            Damian has unwanted emotional empathy — he feels what others feel, sometimes too strongly to function. This is not a gift. It’s overwhelming and exhausting
            
            Effects:
            
            - Can sense intense emotions like rage, grief, desire, or fear from across a room
            
            - May accidentally mirror emotions (e.g., panic when someone else is afraid)
            
            - In moments of closeness or contact, can absorb memories, trauma, or even magical residue
            
            Flaws:
            
            - Crowds are overwhelming
            
            - Too much grief or rage around him can send him into breakdowns or violent fits
            
            - Sometimes confuses his own emotions with others’
            

Original demon/human OC inspired by Fall Out Boy’s Youngblood Chronicles <3
            
            Face claim ; Patrick Stump
            
            Penned by @Breadss-

✞ PRESENT DAY: BEAUTIFUL RUIN ✞
            
            Now, Damian wanders through a world on the edge of collapse, half-convinced he caused it.
            
            He fights monsters because they make sense. He avoids therapists because they always try to fix things that are better left broken. He connects with people but never stays — because he’s afraid they’ll either betray him, die, or worse: love him enough to forgive him.
            
            And yet, beneath all the cynicism and anger and violent poetry, there’s still a sliver of a boy who wanted to sing something beautiful.
            
            There’s a hope he would never admit out loud:
            
            That maybe, just maybe, if someone stayed long enough… he could finally learn how to be human again.

✞  THE CYCLE OF DEATH ( AND RESURRECTION ) ✞
            
            Damian has died. Not metaphorically. Not spiritually. Literally.
            
            Four times.
            
            And every time he comes back, the trauma stays. He remembers each death — the panic, the breathlessness, the moment of surrender. And worse, he remembers what he saw between lives:
            
            A stage.
            
            An audience with no eyes.
            
            A version of himself singing a lullaby to the void.
            
            These near-deaths left permanent scars — not on his body, but on his psyche:
            
            	•	Depersonalization: He sometimes believes he’s not real. Or worse, that you aren’t.
            
            	•	Survivor’s guilt: For the people he couldn’t save. Or for the pieces of himself that never came back.
            
            	•	Fear of becoming “just a demon”: That one day, the human part will be gone entirely.