Imp Headcanons

(All information is copy and pasted from here.)

On the topic of Imps themselves, most of them if not all have a surprising amount of knowledge about romance, sexuality, romantic orientation, and gender identity. This is because in their culture, it is completely normal for topics like that to come up because it’s a daily occurrence because they grow up with this kind of society. Pretty much all Imps are supportive of this system because it’s kind of ingrained into their culture and history.

So there’s some background knowledge on my headcanon for Imps prior to the main part. Now, I also imagine that Imps also have a small form of hypnosis, and can be made stronger with practice. Another thing to keep in mind is that I do imagine that there are such thing as Imps with elemental magic as well, instead of dark magic- for example, an Imp with ice based magic (especially as the Mage class didn’t get any ice based spells cri), fire based magic, electric based magic, etc.

Let’s get into the juicy parts, shall we?

If we remember correctly, the Imp enemy is sided with the Dark Lord. However, you’re also given the option of fighting with the Imp job. I thought about this for awhile, and here’s my take on it, though I’m kind of basing this off of my Miitopia fanfic so be warned:

The Imps lived in Nimbus, peacefully and in harmony. In fact, before the Dark Lord came, clashes with the Cats were less intense, and they even allied before that. That was when the Dark Lord appeared, demanding an alliance with them, ordering it from their ruler. Why? This was because the Imps were, simply put, much better suited for helping the Dark Lord than the Cats. They had advanced technology, elemental magic (though it was rare), dark magic, and had more numbers than the Cats did (a kingdom and a village is a lot). However, their ruler refused, wanting nothing to do with imprinting terror onto the world like their ancestors before them (headcanon that Imps used to be harbingers of terror in decades past, but changed their ways). At first, the Dark Lord left them in peace. And then, the ruler of them starts acting strange- almost as if they were being controlled. As it turns out, the Dark Lord used their own dark magic (which can be considered much more powerful than an Imp’s, considering they can steal faces) to use the ruler of them like a puppet, and eventually all of the Imp Kingdom. So basically that’s part of my headcanon on how the Dark Lord gained more power and could be considered more of a threat to miikind.

So then this started the major spat between Imps and Miis, which is why Imps generally aren’t liked. Then there’s also the Imp monster- which I’ll be getting to now. Why is there an Imp job and an Imp monster, with one on the side of good and one on the side of evil?

Well, simply put, I’ve began to headcanon that the Imp monsters are corrupted Imps that were altered and experimented on by the Dark Lord; some to enhance their power, others were failed experiments with the mind control at first. Regardless, they are all corrupted and tortured, only to be at the claws of the Dark Lord.

Here’s some more darker stuff: See, after the main hero defeats the Darkest Lord, all the monsters disappear, right? Those corrupted Imps technically are monsters, who were formerly Imps that had nothing to do with the Dark Lord in the first place. All those Imps disappear, and even then, there was hardly that much of a chance for them to be purified in the first place. Most of the corrupted Imps had lost their remaining shreds of sanity and morals, and their status as monsters in the game can prove just that.

## References

1. ↑ https://anthraviolets.tumblr.com/post/189450987444/a-thoroughly-detailed-headcanon-about-impscats