Devil The Arcana

Personality

Since he is one of the major Arcana, he is an archetype, a form of pure and ancient energy in the human subconscious. His archetype represents self-inflicted suffering and the toxic thoughts and behaviors of humanity that lead to the feeling of being trapped. As an individual, the Devil is a manipulator and a charismatic tactician. Although almost scarily cordial, he is in no way warm with his words, nor his presence. He speaks in almost riddles, giving away none of his true intentions in the honeyed promises and deals that he offers to the main cast. His deals are always too good to be true, as he plays on his words to convince those he deals with that they're making the right decision.

Mind

Interestingly enough, he shares a similar thought with the rest of the love interests: a distaste for Count Lucio. He claims that Lucio "was [his] underling" and looks to "liquidate [his] assets" involving Lucio, calling him a "bit of a liability" at this point. In all three routes, he makes it known that he isn't fond of or happy working with Lucio. The Devil wants to permanently merge the Arcana realm with the human realm. He wants to see what will happen in a world where the power of the Arcana and the unpredictability of human magic mingle. Doing so would wreak havoc and create a world where nothing changes, and nothing ends. His motive behind this plan seems to be that of a bored child's curiosity. He simply wants the entertainment that chaos would bring. He wants people to take action to satisfy his desire for entertainment, and eggs them on in hopes of something he finds interesting happening.

Appearance

The Devil appears as a humanoid goat with white fur. His eyes are red with black sclera. Unlike Lucio's ghostly goat form, the Devil has two pairs of black horns. One pair curls around his head, while the other curls upward. His ears are long and droopy, unlike Lucio's stiffer, pointer ones. He has a black, vertical eye-like marking on his forehead. His claw-like hands are a black that fades into dark brown, and then into the white of the rest of his body. The Devil is clothed in a short red drapery that resembles a scarf, and a black and gold vestment similar to a liturgical stole. The form he takes, the goat-headed Devil, is the same as the image on the Devil card of Asra's deck

Likes

red wine, making deals, seduction, manipulation

Dislikes

not obeying him, boredom, not holding up to the end of the deal, Lucio

Hates

someone interrupting in his plans, inncopetent people

Loves

good companian, classic people, someone who can easily fall to his manipulation, competent people

Abilities

He appears to be able to shapeshift, much like the Magician. He takes the form of the High Priestess in both Books XIV and XV of Nadia's route, and the Hanged Man in Book XV of Julian's route. When someone makes a deal with him, they become bound by invisible chains. The more deals with the Devil someone makes, the more corrupted they become, until they eventually become a demon. These demons are then bound to his will with no escape. He has made deals with Lucio, Valdemar, Vulgora, Vlastomil, Volta, Valerius, Aisha, and Salim, all with the goal of furthering his devious plans. He claims in Nadia's route that it is "within [his] abilities to remove Lucio from the equation for good" in three days time as long as Nadia did not interfere with him. However, he does not explain how he would go about this, remaining ambiguous on his methods of removing him. He claims something similar in Julian's route. Instead of offering to kill Lucio, he instead offers the cure to the plague, telling both Julian and the Apprentice he will be able to end it for good. He makes no mention of how he will cure the plague, however he does say that stopping the plague is "only a trivial effort for one as [him]self." This seems to imply that he would handle Lucio, as the Count is the source of the plague. It is also possible that the plague itself comes from the Devil's powers, as Vlastomil, the one who made a deal with Lucio, gets his powers from the Devil.

Lucio

Count Lucio is one of the six available love interests. He used to rule Vesuvia with his wife, Nadia, until he was murdered three years before the start of the game. Allegedly, he was burned alive in his bed by Julian Devorak on the night of the masquerade – a citywide birthday celebration he threw himself. Now he haunts the palace, but he is not out for revenge. His patron Arcana is The Devil. Lucio is a fair-skinned man with blond hair and silver eyes. During the plague, the normally white sclera of his eyes turned red and bloodshot. His eyebrows are very arched, and naturally darker than his hair. He has a sharp nose, and his lips curve up into an near constant smirk. Lucio typically wears black eyeliner that sharply curves under his eyes. He typically dresses in a white, fitted suit with no shirt underneath. Over the suit, he wears a red and golden sash decorated with many military medals. Attached to the suit with a ruby red brooch is a fur trimmed black cape. Lucio also typically wears tall, black, high-heeled boots. He has an enchanted, golden prosthetic in place of his left arm, with removable gold armor plating. The arm has veins of light between the pieces and joints, which are white in official artwork but red during the plague. While in between realms, Lucio appears as a one-armed, anthropomorphic phantom goat. He has silky white fur and tall, twisting horns. Rather than hooves, he has hands with long, knobby fingers. His left arm ends just below the shoulder, capped by a thick scar. This appearance closely resembles his depiction in the Feast painting, although in the painting he has both arms and is clothed. Lucio is frequently described as High-Class Trash by the developers. He is vain, volatile, selfish, and denies things he disagrees with in an exceptionally petulant manner. Lucio is largely obsessed with himself, and expects others to love him as well. He lives exclusively for his own pleasure and is incredibly entitled to things he has not earned. He refuses to take responsibility for when his entitlement and incompetence cause problems. Although he functions as a villain during the other character's routes, he is an ineffectual hindrance at best. This is subverted during Muriel's route, where he is actually driven to complete his deals, fuses with The Devil, and becomes a true adversary. During his time as Count, he perceived himself as beloved by the people, but his provocative nature and cruelty show that this was untrue. His actions ranged from throwing an artist in the dungeons over artistic disagreements, to setting people on fire for insulting him.[citation needed] However, it has been said that he was never abusive in any of his relationships. During his own route, the Apprentice's empathy helps Lucio become a better person. Although initially unwilling to accept the realities of his mistakes, Lucio eventually feels true remorse for his past actions and is able to take responsibility for them. His growing care for the apprentice allows him to become less self-centered. Lucio also shows off his love for heroics and fighting, frequently putting himself in harm's way to protect the apprentice, although he is surprised when the apprentice shows true affection back. Lucio loves animals, especially his dogs Mercedes and Melchior, and has a fondness for magic despite his lack of skill in it. Lucio was born to parents Morga and Lutz under the name Montag Morgasson, the self-proclaimed 'prince' of their warlike tribe in the cold lands of the south. This clan was called the 'Scourge of the South', identified in tapestries by voracious beetles and feared by other tribes. On his 18th birthday, Lucio believed he would become the official heir of the tribe due to his adulthood, and that a ceremony would be held in his honor. Upon being told by his mother Morga that leadership of the clan was earned, not given, Lucio was embarrassed and enraged. That night, he snuck out of the settlement to find the serpent of destruction, Vlagnagog, to gain the power to kill his parents and thus acquire the leadership he so desperately craved. The serpent was one their clan revered, and they frequently gave tribute to the wyrm. However, after performing a known summoning ritual, Lucio was met not with Vlagnagog. Instead, another wyrm appeared, revealing that Vlagnagog was dead and that Lucio had summoned the worm of pestilence. Lucio dealt with the worm regardless, and heedless of any potential consequences. In exchange for the ability to sicken and weaken his parents, he would bring the worm of pestilence his parents' hearts after he killed them. However, if Lucio did not provide the hearts as promised, he would not be free of the worm. After his deal was sealed, he was imbued with the worm's "foul sickness" and fell unconscious. Upon returning to the clan settlement the next morning, Lucio was questioned by his mother about his whereabouts the night before. After quickly deflecting her wary questions and poorly covering his tracks, his father arrived. He drew them both into an embrace, passing both of them the sickness he carried. The worm's sickness worked with ease on his father, who succumbed to it within a day. Lucio challenged his bedridden father to a fight to the death, and was able to overtake him with ease. Presumably, he gave his dead father's heart to the worm. However, unlike his father, his mother battled the sickness and survived day upon day, always keeping an eye on him. After an undetermined amount of time, Lucio finally questioned his mother's decision to not stay in bed. In response, Morga told him that the sickness was nothing but 'a summer cold' when compared to the nine months she spent pregnant with him. When confronted with his lack of maturity and survival skills, and his pathetic claims to not wishing their family harm despite killing his father, he was left speechless. Instead of killing her son, however, Morga 'spoiled him one more time' by giving him a head start in running before she would come to kill him. From there, Lucio ran away on foot, and didn't look back. As he ran, he discovered a red beetle crawling up his neck. Although oblivious to it at the time, this would be the beginning of the Red Beetles following him wherever he went and subsequently spreading the plague alongside them.