Demonology: The Journal of a 20-Something Cambion

[DoctorNorth]

DEMON SHIELD 
ISSUE 1: MISERY LOVES MURDER

PROLOGUE
I think I've fallen in love with a Death Doll named Misery. 

Where's my psychiatrist when I need him? Oh that's right, I got no healthcare, my psychiatrist is some cheap AI interface from Bangalore. 

But yeah, I dig this girl. 

Which is weird, because she's hunting me.

It's my shield you see. Ghost Widow technology fused with a Circle of Thorns curse. Wonderfully weird, but powerful. Which is Misery's vibe.

I can tell she digs me, Demons can tell. We can smell lust or wrath on mortals like sulfur. Lust and wrath smell remarkably the same. 

The thing is, I got Misery arrested, on some cheap Superadine scheme that I stumbled into. She was set up to fail though, ratted out. Skulls do that. The "Lords of Death" are dumb, paranoid and badly addicted to their own sauce.

So I felt bad for her. And we were flirting the entire time we fought. 

So I gotta testify now in court now, to get her convicted.

But, I figure if I don't show...she goes free. 

And then I can ask her on a date or another fight, maybe both.

This is how 22-year old Cambion's think. I am just journaling all this for posterity, for you demonology types. I know you're out there. 

So I do that. I skip the witness stand. She goes free..

You know what happens next? 

A tale I like to call "Misery Loves Murder"...
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SYNOPSIS: 

Desperate to get an inside source on the Lords of Death, Demon Shield attempts to befriend a high-ranking Death Doll named Misery. The two play cat and mouse all issue, leading to murder and betrayal for both cat and mouse...

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REVIEWS: 

"The hero is called Demon Shield. Because he's a demon and he has a shield. Get it? Yes, that's how stupid this comic is." -@CaptainObviousComics
 

"This comic has a message in it and the message is: "Beware". This is not a comic for reading. This is a comic for laying down and avoiding." -@AussieIdleComics
 

"If you ever thought, "yes more rehashed, overly nostalgic love letters to City of Heroes that are decades too late"...then I guess this comic is for you." -@SoAboveItComics 

"This comic is just a huge love letter to the Skulls from a game called City of Heroes in this comic. If you love CoH, you might dig the take on Paragon's most prolific gang led by the notorious "Lords of Death" -@ParagonFanBoy
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Edited Friday at 04:49 PM by DoctorNorth

[DoctorNorth]

ISSUE 1 - MISERY LOVES MURDER
EPILOGUE:
Longbow Medical Facility - Talos Island 
**Misery is on a hospital bed with her mask removed and a respirator on. The mask of the respirator looks eerily similar to her normal "skull" mask. Three Longbow surround her.**

Captain Allison: She gonna make it?
Doctor Martinez: No Captain, life support, but she's gone. Deep coma. 
Captain Allison: Lieutenant? The demon that did this?
Lieutenant Shulman:  Escaped. Whereabouts unknown. The events are unclear Captain. 
Captain Allison: They met, they fought, one of them is dead. Seems pretty cut and dry to me Lieutenant. 
Lieutenant Shulman: Yes sir. 
Captain Allison: Find him. By sundown. And Doctor?
Doctor Martinez: Yes Captain?
Captain Allison: Keep her alive as long as you can. I have a contact at Pandora's Box I want to bring on this...

((Apologies for usurping Misery to create a little fanon from this fun quest arc: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mission:The_Superadine_Ring_-_Part_Three:_Marked_For_Death  ))