Lolita
Demon Slayer
Lolita
Lolita is a Demon Slayer of the land of Edin.
Demon slayers differ greatly from Demon Hunters. Demon Hunters fancy the act of catching and collecting demons, seeing themselves as law keepers and hosting a 'demon jail' for those that cause trouble in the land. Hunters do not kill even the most vile demon. Every demon deserves a chance at life, for they have gone to great lengths to escape their own world in order to join the land of the living. The hunters will give them life, at the very least, even if its a life behind bars.
Demon Slayers do everything in their power to kill as many demons as they can. They see demons as a plague against their world (and in many ways they are). However they do not differentiate between kindhearted demons and cruel ones, killing either one without so much a thought.
The two kingdoms (Slayers and Hunters) have never seen eye to eye and are constantly at war with one another (and have been on and off, at least 500+ years or so).
Demon Slayers are one of the only few known groups of people that openly practice a 'Religion', in this realm. Though it is common knowledge in this world that 'Gods' do not exist, it is not necessarily a deity that the Slayers worship, but the Shimmering Lights of the afterlife itself. (The shimmering lights is known as Purgatory, but since this is information given by demons, most slayers have elected to ignore it as heresy).
A Grave Mistake...
When Lolita was 7 years old, she made a strange friend within the forest by her village. An unusually beautiful woman who went by the name, Ion. A woman with pointy ears, horns, and the most gorgeous, purple cat eyes the little girl had ever seen!
The woman could make Lolita laugh, feel safe, and lend an ear to listen, when times were tough at home. And times were indeed tough at home.
Lolita's father was a drunk, torn apart by the recent war (between Hunters and Slayers), had never been quite the same as the kind and soft spoken man Lolita once remembered.
Now life at home was loud, scary, and often times painful. Lolita's mother had sunk into the shell of a woman that Lolita could no longer rely on. Her older brother, Markus (14), having once been so close, funny and caring, also distanced himself from the family as time pressured on, turning his back on her to avoid the violent hands of their father, leaving Lolita alone to suffer it all.
Thus, the girl would retreat to the trees, to meet with her pretty friend, sometimes gone the entire day, and only returning well into the night.
Ion would show her around the forest, deeper and further into the trees than Lolita had ever dared go before, but she felt safe with the woman. Ion was tall, she had sharp fingers, and always knew what to do and say to make Lolita smile, even when she was scared or hurt.
As time drew on, however, Ion seemed to be able to pull dark thoughts straight from Lolita's mind. Lolita found herself talking about her darkest secrets. Secrets that she would have never shared otherwise, nor act upon for that matter, but they plagued her mind on the daily.
Thoughts of inflicting the same pain that her father bestowed upon her and the family, and thoughts against her docile mother as well, who never lifted a finger to help Lolita at all. Thoughts of revenge against the other children of the village, the ones that that picked on her, or their parents that turned a blind eye to her bruises. Thoughts against her absent brother as well, who had all but ignored her cries completely.
Of course she would never have acted upon these, she told herself this over and over, and merely used Ion as an outlet to her troubles. She loved Ion, who was such a good listener to these terrible thoughts. She found talking with the woman a warm comfort to her otherwise dreary and anxious home life.
It was not until the moment that Lolita's village was set aflame, the sounds of the screams filled the air, and the hearts of both her parents splayed out within Ion's hands before her, that Lolita realized just what she had done: Welcomed a demon into her life. Even further still, Lolita realized, to her own horror, just how much she liked to hear those screams against the flames, and the lifeless body of her tormentor that the ground now consumed. Was she a demon too?
In an effort to quell the thought that she could be a monster too, Lolita begged at Ion's feet to spare her brother from the wrath she had wished upon him. Knowing that he was a victim in all this too.
Ion, being a demon born of Hell, knew very little of life and human society. She found the little girl's change of tune against her family and village quite fascinating. Something Ion was keen on understanding more of. She spared Markus, and let Lolita know that she would take care of the two of them from now on. Ion would learn much about humans in the coming years. The demoness lead the two children into the forest, leaving the village to burn to the ground.
They would not be seen again for many years to come...
