Lust

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## Lust

### Relatives

Wrath (brother)
Pride (brother)
Envy (brother)
Greed (brother)
Gluttony (brother)
Sloth (brother)

### Affiliation

House Lust
The Wicked

## Appearances

### Appears in

*Kingdom of the Wicked*
*Kingdom of the Cursed*
*Kingdom of the Feared*

**Lust** is the one of the seven princes of Hell, and the ruler of House Lust.

## Biography

### Early Life

Like his brothers, Lust is one of the Wicked, or the Malvagi.

### *Kingdom of the Wicked*

Emilia is introduced to Lust when she comes across the bonfire on the beach in Palermo Lust is hosting. He influences Emilia with his namesake sin, and then suddenly takes it away, leaving her hollow. Lust tells Wrath that he's needed at home immediately, adding that he'll watch over Emilia while Wrath is gone and threatening to tell her stories "of demons and witches. Villains and heroes. Curses and a king's vengeance." Wrath then stabs him in his chest with his House dagger, effectively banishing his brother back to the Seven Circles.

### *Kingdom of the Cursed*

Upon Emilia's arrival in the Seven Circles, Lust, Envy, and Greed have all shown interest in hosting her. House Wrath receives their House cards, and they've specifically requested her presence at their Feast of the Wolf celebrations.

Lust is the first prince to arrive at the Feast of the Wolf and immediately begins indulging. He approaches Wrath and Emilia in the gardens of House Gluttony. He tells Wrath that he needs a moment with him in private, and Wrath then tells Emilia he'll find her later. The two princes then disappear for hours and most of the night.

Lust has a tentative alliance with Wrath, Sloth, and Greed.

### *Kingdom of the Feared*

Wrath crowns Emilia in the Sin Corridor in front of his brothers, Vittoria, and Domenico. She is now Queen of the Seven Circles, princess of House Wrath, and the goddess of the underworld and the Shadow Realm. Lust and Gluttony combine their efforts for Emilia's coronation celebration. It is held at House Lust.

## Appearance

Lust is "golden skinned, dark haired, and has a body Michelangelo probably used as inspiration for his sculptures." He immediately makes people need him. They crave his attention and long for his touch. His eyes are charcoal in color and penetrating. Looking into them, one sees a "bottomless pool of desire." His feline smile is "crafted of beautiful nightmares." A circlet of flames sits on his head. Lust wears an unbuttoned, silver suit jacket without a shirt and matching trousers that incredibly low on his hips. His voice is unearthly pleasure mixed with pain.

## Personality

Lust enjoys gossiping. Lust mostly toys with a person's happiness, things that bring all manner of pleasure and joy, not just carnal urges.

## Abilities

Lust rules over all forms of pleasure. He takes the pleasant emotions and inflates them. Afterwards, people experience a void because his influence rapidly depletes a person's supply of pleasant feelings. It's a hell in its own way as it's giving someone ultimate pleasure, only to rip it from them before they fully grasp it. Lust can leave a person hollow. Done often enough, it drives mortals mad. His magic feels as if all of a person's pleasure receptors have been spelled a hundred times their normal rate. His power and influence make you feel so good and happy that you forget who you are and what you want. Time loses all meaning and anything but feelings of happiness and pleasure is forgotten. His magic feels like “complete and total freedom from all thought,” and a “cocoon of oblivion.” He can make people forget and want things they should fear. Lust can cause invisible physical sensations. These are manifestations of a person’s desire. Lust “twists goodness until it’s cloaked in evil.” "While he tends to siphon feelings of happiness to enhance his power, he does participate in other forms of temptations when they're offered to him." Parties such as the one thrown by Gluttony tend to feed his sin on multiple levels.

As a prince of Hell, Lust is an immortal being, and thus is ageless and his wounds heal almost immediately. He has supernatural senses, reflexes, and speed. He can move faster than humans eyes can track. He can travel between realms using *transvenio* magic. He has the ability to cloak himself with a type of glamour.