It's... complicated. ( Peter gives a soft sigh, looking down to his hands. ) I don't wanna risk pissing him off. He can be... violent.
( And that fear isn't aimed only towards his own safety, but also those around him. Peter doesn't want to risk upsetting the demon who's temperament is already so precarious. Luna, and others, have helped Paimon become much more calm and stabilised over time, but.... he can't forget what the demon king is capable of.
It's easier to just give in than put up a fight. It's been that way for Peter's whole life.
The next question has him squirming uncomfortably again, visibly anxious. )
Honestly, I don't know what ended up happening to them back home. We came here right after they, uh, put him in me. ( Did Paimon head the cult or punish them? Did they keep the demon contained, like a prisoner, using his powers for their own gain? Those are answers Peter doesn't yet know the answer to. )
But the type of demon he is... apparently, he's not supposed to possess a person? Not permanently, anyway. So the whole process is just... We're wrong.
( Thanks to Luna's research on the goetic entity, Peter has learned a few facts, too. Their existence within one another is abnormal, wrong. Like the polar ends of a magnet trapped too closely together, two fitful things contained under too many layers of skin. )
I'm not his— ( Peter starts to say not his pet, but then balks. ...Well. Paimon does kind of treat him that way, at times. Like something he owns. And in some horrible way, he's not wrong. Peter was given to the demon. He does belong to him. The teen sighs again, running his hands over his face. )
....He'd probably say something like that if you asked him, yeah. He thinks I belong to him. And I guess, technically... he's right.
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( And that fear isn't aimed only towards his own safety, but also those around him. Peter doesn't want to risk upsetting the demon who's temperament is already so precarious. Luna, and others, have helped Paimon become much more calm and stabilised over time, but.... he can't forget what the demon king is capable of.
It's easier to just give in than put up a fight. It's been that way for Peter's whole life.
The next question has him squirming uncomfortably again, visibly anxious. )
Honestly, I don't know what ended up happening to them back home. We came here right after they, uh, put him in me. ( Did Paimon head the cult or punish them? Did they keep the demon contained, like a prisoner, using his powers for their own gain? Those are answers Peter doesn't yet know the answer to. )
But the type of demon he is... apparently, he's not supposed to possess a person? Not permanently, anyway. So the whole process is just... We're wrong.
( Thanks to Luna's research on the goetic entity, Peter has learned a few facts, too. Their existence within one another is abnormal, wrong. Like the polar ends of a magnet trapped too closely together, two fitful things contained under too many layers of skin. )
I'm not his— ( Peter starts to say not his pet, but then balks. ...Well. Paimon does kind of treat him that way, at times. Like something he owns. And in some horrible way, he's not wrong. Peter was given to the demon. He does belong to him. The teen sighs again, running his hands over his face. )
....He'd probably say something like that if you asked him, yeah. He thinks I belong to him. And I guess, technically... he's right.