The Devil

## OFFICI**Λ**L DESCRIPTION

### Upright

Oppression, addiction, obsession, dependency, excess, powerlessness, limitations

### Reversed

Independence, freedom, revelation, release, reclaiming power, reclaiming control

## Production Information

### Debut

The Arcana, V: The Hierophant (mentioned), XV: The Devil

Serving as The Arcana's main antagonist, **The Devil** is the fifteenth of the 22 Major Arcana in a tarot deck. He's first mentioned in *Chapter V: The Hierophant*, when Indirah Alnazar discusses that she, along with Kellan Xalvador, her brother, Sapphire Chauvera, and Xylon Lozano, were being hunted by his beneficiary, Lucio Damaris. He is the the voice Indirah and Kellan listen to when they draw the card of the same name.

His realm is a red throne room with a heavy and suffocating atmosphere.

## PERSON**Λ**LITY

Since he's one of the Major Arcana, he is an archetype- being self-inflicted suffering and the toxic thoughts and behaviors of humanity that lead to the feeling of being trapped. As an individual, the Devil is manipulative and a charismatic tactician- he talks in riddles, giving away none of his real intentions in his offers. Like most of the characters, the Devil shares the same distaste for Lucio Damaris and isn't actually fond of or happy working with him.

He plans for permanently merging the Arcana realm with Astraea (and maybe even Earth)- he wants to see what will happen in a world where the magic of the Arcana and the human magic lies. The motive behind his plan seems to be that of a "bored child's curiosity", as Indirah describes; the Devil wants the entertainment that chaos would bring.

## **Λ**PPE**Λ**R**Λ**NCE

The Devil appears as a humanoid goat with white fur, and his eyes and scleras are fully red. He has two pairs of black horns: one pair curls around his head, while the other curls upward. He has a black, vertical eye-like marking on his forehead. His claw-like hands are a black that fades into dark brown, and then into the white of the rest of his body. The Devil is clothed in a short red drapery that resembles a scarf, and a black and gold vestment similar to a liturgical stole. The form he takes, the goat-headed Devil, is the same as the image on the Devil card of Indirah's deck.

## POWERS & **Λ**BILITIES

* **Shapeshifting**- All Major Arcana can shapeshift (except the Fool and the Tower), so the Devil can take the form anyone wants them to imagine taking.
	+ **Summoner Possessing**- He can possess the fortune teller who's trying to reach out and call for him, and turn their eyes into his eye color. He could overlap his and the fortune teller's voice since they possess their body.
	+ **Via Cards**- The Devil could communicate with the tarot card holder to "speak" to them using his "voice", even if he's not explicitly saying words as a card; he creates various sounds in order to communicate with them whenever they use the cards, and manipulate the card's temperature.
* **Chain Binding**- Whenever someone makes a deal with the Devil, they become bound by invisible chains. The more deals with the Devil someone makes, the more corrupted they become, until they eventually become a demon, and these demons are then bound to his will with no escape.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* If the Devil hadn't been binded to his own realm, he would take Lucio's heart instead, and Lucio would be a demon underling inferior to the Devil to would help carry his wishes.
	+ If Indirah fails to call out for the Magician's help, the Devil would take Indirah's heart and she will be the demon underling, corrupting her.
* A running gag is that every one of the mains yell, "Fuck you, Goatman!" at one point. This is a reference to Buzzfeed: Unsolved's Shane Madej saying the exact same thing as an insult to the *Goatman* guarding the Old Alton Bridge, also known as The Goatman's Bridge.
* The color palette used on Lucio's combat outfit is based on the Devil's; red, white, black, and gold