Note that sex traffickers and E88 are human. But anyone who has shed innocent blood to climb the E88 ladder has lost the right to be considered anything more than outside the law, bereft of the protections of the natural rights of liberty. Likewise, anyone who participates in the kidnapping, breaking, and forced sexual servitude of women (well, anyone pretty enough to be of use in a brothel, so young men are potentially at risk, so are children of either sex) has lost the right to be considered anything more than outside the law, because it may not be murder but that shit is beyond vile. As in, 'fate worse than death' has been a historical euphemism for good reason, levels of beyond vile.
The only reason they aren't dead or rotting in jail is because of cape protection.
Anyway.
I don't recommend that Joe use those Castlevania perk rituals, because that may well stain his soul beyond redemption. Besides, I suspect the soul of a thoroughly-damned human isn't worth as much to hell as the suffering of an innocent or trying-to-be-good. (They want the vile to keep on doing for as much of a century as possible, see, and hell will get them in the end anyway. The innocent and the righteous? Other mortals don't need that kind of example to follow. If they can't be tempted quickly, better to send them on to heaven than risk them sticking around and spoiling dozens of others, even if someone's personal tempter is going to be stuck in a lake of brimstone for a thousand years for failure in that regard.) So if Joe wants a demon-leather jacket and demon-bone buttons to decorate it, he's much better off if he sets up to raid hell as an avenging angel type. Meaning he'll need to reverse engineer the rituals to work out from first principles how to force open a conduit whereby he can invade the Pit, instead of inviting one of its denizens up here.
That said, I don't much see the point. Demons aren't handsome or sexy, they're repulsive. Likewise, the whole point of the Devil is that even when he's telling the truth on one level, it's to sell a lie on a much more important level. He's only 'sympathetic' at comic book levels of shallowness.
The only reason they aren't dead or rotting in jail is because of cape protection.
Anyway.
I don't recommend that Joe use those Castlevania perk rituals, because that may well stain his soul beyond redemption. Besides, I suspect the soul of a thoroughly-damned human isn't worth as much to hell as the suffering of an innocent or trying-to-be-good. (They want the vile to keep on doing for as much of a century as possible, see, and hell will get them in the end anyway. The innocent and the righteous? Other mortals don't need that kind of example to follow. If they can't be tempted quickly, better to send them on to heaven than risk them sticking around and spoiling dozens of others, even if someone's personal tempter is going to be stuck in a lake of brimstone for a thousand years for failure in that regard.) So if Joe wants a demon-leather jacket and demon-bone buttons to decorate it, he's much better off if he sets up to raid hell as an avenging angel type. Meaning he'll need to reverse engineer the rituals to work out from first principles how to force open a conduit whereby he can invade the Pit, instead of inviting one of its denizens up here.
That said, I don't much see the point. Demons aren't handsome or sexy, they're repulsive. Likewise, the whole point of the Devil is that even when he's telling the truth on one level, it's to sell a lie on a much more important level. He's only 'sympathetic' at comic book levels of shallowness.
