Hi there, looking to build a demon character and hell world with a character I've been working with. I'm generally on daily at least once and and open to joint world building. My characters name is Scratch and hes a demon sent up as part of his job to kidnap humans to use as disguises so him and other demons can go to the human world to blow off some steam. Hes got a roomie who's pretty cool, as well a larger demon whos more of a bully character to him and others. Scratch is a rule bender and has a lot of friends as well as enemies in hell, those happy for the large amount of bodies he brings in and those wondering why the boss doesn't punish him for breaking rules. I'm okay with people playing human victims or other demons or whatever sounds interesting and fun for all. Heres a little starter if you're interested. I marked it as explicit because theres gonna be language, probably violence, and generally hell like behavior.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>The air was starting to get cool and crisp as the wind blew through the vibrantly colored leaves, taking a few with it as it passed. Days were slowly growing shorter and nights longer. This was the easy time of year for Scratch, when finding victims came almost effortlessly as humans sought a good scare inline with the seasons theme.<br/><br/>He'd been figuring out his itinerary and getting the portal lads together for the upcoming jobs. "Okay but really though, you gotta go midwest. I know it's cold but that's where the best bar food is, and any state that drinks hard is a state that's gonna party hard. Theyll have the best of what we're looking for." He assured the portal team, who complained of the cold. Sighing like an annoyed parent he reasoned again. "Look, out of all the places in the world, America does halloween the biggest, out of all of America the places with the best bar food are places where it gets cold. So we're talking Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, you know around that area, maybe as far as Ohio. Those are the people who get slammed and go out looking for a good time and no one questions when they vanish because they're probably also drunk." He said, making his point.<br/><br/>The portal demons eventually agreed to go with to a little haunted attraction called, unoriginally, 'Sleepy Hallow Haunted Trail'. The promise of nice greasy cheeseburgers after work enticed them even further into agreement. "Look, you got the easy job, all you gotta do is keep that portal open and you can even stay on the warm side of it if you want. I gotta sit out here in the cold." Scratch said, setting everything up. "Yeah but we also gotta process them." One piped up, but Scratch just shrugged it off.<br/><br/>He had taken over a little wooden shed, just far enough away from any actors in the real attraction not to be noticed by them, but close enough to the trail to siphon people off it as they moved between scenes. He had a few human things, collected over the years, that he liked. A speaker, a music player, some party lights, a camp chair and an outdoor gas heater. He set up the lights and started the music when he heard the opening bell for the haunt blare its warning for all actors to get ready, and sat down in the camp chair eagerly waiting.<br/><br/>One of the portal demons popped their head around the corner of the back door of the shed and asked: "Are you ready? Shouldnt you be in disguise?" The creature asked nervously. Scratch waved off concern nonchalantly. "I'm glamored enough. It's a haunt. Humans expect you to look weird. Besides, the boss knows my methods and he dont care. I dont get in trouble." He said confidently, though the portal demon looked concerned. "Trust me this ain't my first rodeo." Scratch teased.<br/><br/>Scratch had a partial disguise on, more of a glamor really, a stolen essence of someone. Where his face had more of a split septum and flat nose, a human face wearing light make up shown instead. His long horns looked like cheap rubber props, tied on with a bandana, and his ears, though still pointed, looked like glue ons. Very boring red gloves covered long black claws of his hands. His tail looked like a keychain hanging off the back of his favorite denim jacket, which was covered in a multitude of patches from several horror movies. He wore a long sleeved tshirt, sporting the picture of a metal band, and black shorts which boldly enough he allowed his real legs to show under. Red, velvety, with longer fur around the ankle and two toed hooves instead of feet at the end. He stood around six foot eight at full height. Draped dramatically across the folding camp chair he bobbed his head to the beat of the music and stared out into the darkness, waiting to see humans come in to view.<br/><br/>The first groups started out onto the trail and it wasnt long before Scratch heard the familiar sound of chainsaws and screaming from the haunt site before his. "Oh good, I have an audio cue this year." He thought to himself, familiar with the haunting trope of chasing customers with a bladeless chainsaw. He could see the outline of people approaching in the darkness and waited with baited breath to see if theyd find their ways back towards his shed. The customers seemed a little disoriented, laughing at one another for the last scenes scare.<br/><br/>The group stopped and Scratch could see them consider if they should go back or not and eventually they left, staying on the trail. He cursed under his breath and sighed, frowning at the speaker, he risked turning it up a little. "See anyone yet?" The portal lads asked. "Stay put. Theyll come. Humans are like moths, you put up enough lights, maybe play some tunes and theyll show up. They're drawn to it." He said confidently.<br/><br/>Eventually a group showed up and started back towards the shack. "Fuck yeah, here we go guys." He said, warning the portal team. The group approached the shack, six collage aged boys all clustered together, joking and laughing. "Hey what's this now?" One asked judgingly. "Looks like a party?" The other answered. "Hello, hello! Welcome to the dance party!" Scratch said charismaticly, opening the door wider for them. They jumped back from the jump scare and laughed. "Dance party? Hell yeah let's go!" The group leader said, prompting the others to pile in the small shack and jump around in a silly manner to the music. Scratch enthusiastically joined in for a moment before quieting the group down.<br/><br/>"Okay okay, so you know why your here right?" Scratch asked, pretending to be an actor. "Yo, I like your drip dog." One guy said. Scratch looked a little confused and nodded. "Yeah, thanks.... but yeah, y'all know what you're here for yeah?" He repeated to eager head shakes from the group. "You guys get to be sacrificed, whoooo!" Scratch said, pumping a fist the air. The group laughed and cheered along with him, asking details.<br/><br/>"Who are we sacrificed to, you?" One asked, prompting Scratch to laugh and shake his head. "Oh, no, no... to the cause!' He explained to an amused but confused group. "You see, we need your faces. Yall look human and you look old enough to see an R rated movie, yeah?! You get to be turned into human disguises for me and my demon buddies, yaaaayyyy!!" Scratch explained, keeping a cheerful, fun tone to his voice. The group laughed and cheered with him. "Okay so do I get it back when you're done?" One guy asked. "Oh, no, you just die." Scratch answered enthusiastically, the group cheered. "Yes! Finally, I cant wait!" One guy said, and it was clear not a single one of them was taling this at all seriously. Scratch cheered as well and laughed. "I love this generation, all so eager to die, its fantastic!" He said, prompting another round of laughter from the group.<br/><br/>"All right then, if you'd just move through this door here, you'll pop right through the portal and be processed, its super quick. You'll be dead before you know it! I mean, who knows, maybe I'll take your face to go get tacos later! Wont that be fun!?" Scratch said enthusiastically, guiding them out the back door. They left laughing and joking amongst themselves but the moment they left the doorway no voices could be heard and the doorway appeared to lead outside once more.<br/><br/>After a brief moment a portal demon popped their head in and asked if anyone was currently coming. "Hmm? Nah, all clear, what's up?" Scratch asked. "What the fuck are you doing?! Why are you telling them what we're gonna do?!" The portal demon scolded an unbothered Scratch. "Because they wont believe me. They have no reason to. We are in a place where they expect weird shit to happen, and after that they expect to go safely back home to their little, predictable lives. Historically ain't none of them ever been portraled to hell before, so they dont believe it to be a real thing. You gotta loosen up, dude." Scratch said nonchalantly.<br/><br/>The portal demon looked frustrated and concerned. "If anyone finds out how you're doing things, you know how severe punishment is." They warned. Scratch leaned forward, his usual casualness gone in that moment and he looked both tired and annoyed. "Yeah, I do. I might as well have some fun and have earned it. I'm getting fucked over as it is anyways." He said bitterly, falling back into his chair a little more comfortably to stare into the darkness. "You'll get in trouble too." He added, back to his jaunty casualness once more. "You know, for allowing this, ..not.. keeping me on a leash so to speak. So get over yourself and let me work the way I known best." Scratch warned, not looking at the other, instead he seemed to have a hunters focus on the path. "Go back through, theres more coming." He warned.<br/><br/>The next group arrived, just missing the portal demons dismissal and it was a young family. A couple and two young kids. Scratch gawked awkwardly he figured out the shapes in the darkness growing closer. As the family approached, he noticed one kid was already close to tears. "Ohhh, it's okay honey. They're not real." The young mother tried to comfort her son. Scratch didnt like this, he wasn't fond of harming kids, and knew this was gonna be a problem. "Hey there, you're ~very~ young. Did the chainsaw person scare you?" He asked consolingly, kneeling down a little. The kid hid beside his mothers legs and nodded cautiously at the demon. "Yeah, they scare me too. But you got away from them and, let's see. One, two, three, four, oh, you got all your limbs! That's good." Scratch said, comically pointing out the kids arms and legs. The child seemed less anxious and even smiled a little. "Ohh, what's this scene? I like your lights." The mother said, trying to distract her kids with scenery. "Ah, well, you found a... devils dance party! This is my party shack!" Scratch said cheerfully, getting up and pulling a couple dance moves. The mother leaned down and smiled at her kids reassuringly. "Isnt that fun? A dance party!" The mother said, trying to get her kids to interact.<br/><br/>Glancing at the back, portal door, Scratch stood between them and it and knelt down again to kid level. "Hey you guys did great, you're pretty brave to come out here." He said, reaching into his pocket to pull out a few candies. "Here you go guys, happy Halloween. Trail goes back out that way, have fun!" He said, ushering them back out the front door and back to the original trail.<br/><br/>"The fuck was that?! You know the rules! You let them see you...as mostly you! They know we're here now, and you let them go?!" The portal demon scolded again, popping out the moment the family was out of range. Seeming unfazed by the scolding, Scratch frowned at the darkness. "Who brings kids that young to a place like this?" He said, mostly to himself. "Hello!? If they talk about you to anyone else, or shit, maybe even the owner of this damn place, we'll be found out! Is that what you want?!" The portal demon shouted, growing indignant. Scratch frowned at him in annoyance. "They were too young. You think kids like that can get into a movie on their own? Or have any money for takeout? They werent usable." Scratch explained, as if that were his only reason. "Is that all you think about?! I'm never working with your punk ass again." The portal demon growled, stomping back to his station as another group arrived.