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Concubus

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More demonesses!! Yay!

This is my take on the succubus/incubus, design partially inspired by ideas presented in Ao no Exorcist and the rest from my own ideas/stories and knowledge of the occult.

According to the Malleus Malleficarum (The Witches' Hammer), the succubus and the incubus are in fact one demon that is able to change sex. Taking this idea, I wondered what such a being should really be called (since in my opinion, the terms succubus and incubus are pretty sexist anyways...the former means "to lie under" and the latter "to lie on", as in on top of...). So I came up with the term "concubus", using the latin word that as far as I know means "with" and the verb "cubare" which is what both of the other terms use. So now it's just sexy instead of sexist, haha.

More notes on the design: I gave them two tails to hint at their dual natures; male and female, wise and bestial, givers of pleasure and death. I made the wings "soft" looking--I've got to work on it a bit, but that's what I was going for--to make them more appear more inviting. Smaller horns to lessen the appearance of danger. The blind fold is because the brunt of their power resides in the eyes, and is just as effective against spirits as it is mortals (if not as enduring), so as not to create unnecessary enemies amongst their kin they keep the guns holstered, as it were. <--that last bit is an original idea of mine (or at least, I didn't get it somewhere).
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SilverMantid's avatar
I thought of this word many years ago, I just didn't really know what it meant