If I see one of those Abilify depression clouds sneaking up on me, I'm go to punch it real hard in its fluffy gray face!

Depression was definitely something he seemed to have when I first met him, that's actually common for newly minted demons.

Although Reggie doesn't seem to be having any issues on that part.

But now that he's past that.

He's been identified by all the enemies of Orcus as the heir of Orcus, maybe even Orcus reborn and all of Orcus's demonic, titanic and divine enemies are about to be out gunning for him,

He's already got Oorstemoth hunting him down, Lilith has tried to kill him once and will again.

Tiernon and the Five Siblings are scheming rather fearfully what to do about him.

Finally, he is also the focal point of all the hopes, dreams and aspirations of all the D'Orcs and the orc people riding on him, all while fearing failure and be revealed as a fake...

What could he possibly be depressed about?

Not seeing it. Nope.

Well, the one thing Inethya has going for her is that he's already been intimate with her mana stream.

It did get a bit more air time then, mainly because I wanted to bring out the very carnal nature of demons, and in particular Jenn's reaction to it.

Also, since I've written net porn, including demon porn, between the stuff in book 1 and book 2, I sort of got that out of my system. However, there is still some very kinky stuff to come. I very nearly included a scene where Reggie learns how his mistress and associate intends to "fill him up with souls/seeds" to implement their plan. That scene just wasn't ready yet, on the timeline, but should be in book 4.

I think across the board, book 1 is much harsher than book 2 and 3, at least in terms of the evil nature of demons, their lusts, crimes, perversions. And to some extent, that was playing off Jenn and the wizards. Their view of evil demons caused them to be much more conscious of any perversions and evils. When the focus switched more to the demons and D'Orcs, such things are pretty much just normal and they don't think about it too much. Jenn is rather sexually repressed, and I do think her lack of page time has cut things back. But its not just sex, wanton violence and random vicious mayhem to non-regnerable people is down as well. And that I think is because of whose perspectives we are seeing. Demons really don't think that much about the consequences of horrific violence against mortals, against each other, it's just fun and games. Orcs are a bit similar in that regard.

The adult level has shifted some, part that is mainstreaming, I suppose, but also some is just where the story is now (see kinky Reggie stuff to come above). I do think that Tom's libido has been going a bit too low, but that's probably because he doesn't have a focus for it, and he's also very stressed out at the moment. He's been having existential crises, which for someone trapped in their head, as he often is, such crisis tend to have a libido suppressing effect.

It's been a few decades since he told me the story, but that was exactly a problem an acquaintance of mine, oddly, also named Tom--he went by Thomas--encountered after he traveled to a magical land. His libido had been rather depressed by both his anger and resentment at being a leper and by the leprosy, when he got to a place where his leprosy could be and was healed, his emotions were running very strong and he sort of--uhm--lost control and raped someone. He felt pretty miserable about it.

Where in the multiverse does this Lei Fung guy exist? Woa...

Ah, Thomas is grumpy, but he's not as bad as Linden Avery--someone so cheerful she makes Jessica Jones seem like Lucille Ball....

Interesting, but not so sure on the fictionalized Jesus bit.

During the 'wrap party' for Book III, Hilda and I got to talking, apparently she knows Jesus, they are in the same inter-pantheon wine club. They sit around drink wine, gossip, and have their illuminaries wash their feet. Apparently it's sort of a kink for him, ever notice how he goes from house to house demanding people wash his feet while he drinks their wine (or makes his own)? Kinky! I'm thinking it might be kind of fun though, in fact twice as fun for me!

Converted using deep learning artistic style transfer from a propaganda poster model and:


Training the model took me 11 hours on a beefy GPU EC2 instance.

Wouldn't it have been faster to use Photoshop and a color/pattern replacement tool/brush?

OOOH!

Now that is cool. Well worth the 11 hours!

Are you now saying that gender is a choice?



But, yes, I suppose Demogorgon could.

I can't, of course, being but a simple fiend, but powerful demons can.