The Demon Hierarchy

''This page is one individual's conception of The Demonic Hierarchy. NOT meant to be taken as the way they actually see the world, this is just for fun.''

Lil' Satan

 * Description: Lil' Satan is the name I've assigned to the least powerful demon. It stands to reason that just as humans vary in strength, so do demons, and so the weakest demon I call Lil' Satan.
 * Abilities: Hardly gone none. This dude's seriously nerfed when it comes to demons. His influence is near nil and he is a laughingstock by the angelic forces who deride him by calling him "Pipsqueaker" and "The Exorcist Reject". Forget about "Satan's Right Hand Man", this guy couldn't even be "Satan's Left-Hand Pinky". He's just that weak.
 * Attraction: Spouting vaguely Latin phrases like "Weakus Demonus" and "Weakus Demonus is a Weenieus" is enough to provoke the pint-sized rage of Lil' Satan, who will appear in his insecurity to defend his demonic honor.
 * Repulsion: Dude, literally just sneeze and it will scare Lil' Satan away. He's the weakest demon for a reason.

Tripsy

 * Description: Tripsy is the demon responsible for people tripping at 3 AM in the morning.
 * Abilities: Making people trip. Really that's all there is to it. Of course, to him it's an artform. He is a milleniums-old deity who is Hell-bent on making peoples lower digits throb in pain as they stumble about in the dark. You best believe he is a threat to be reckoned with, maybe even moreso than Toppsley, who puts legos in places people are likely to walk barefoot.
 * Attraction: He is attracted to messy rooms and will favor people who leave random objects out on their floor, especially those who keep their bedrooms lit at a low level. One may also use a special incantation to summon him, although due to the fact the incantations for summoning Tripsy and the dimension-tearing monster Voraxas only differ by one letter, it is advised beginners do not incant him into this world.
 * Repulsion: Keeping your room clean.

Typo

 * Decsription: Typo is a demon that seeks to cause the most harm, panik, and confusion possible through messing with writing.
 * Abilities: Typo may alter at most one letter of every sentecne or phrase, doing so to mess with people or more cunningly, to end romances, critically damage computer code, and many other things.
 * Attraction: Long pages of misspelled words. Owning a bunch of badly written novels may attract the poltergeist of error himself, Typo.
 * Repulsion: Using programs with many repeated bits for redundancy, employing spellchecker when online, and rereading careful through whatever you write in person.

Tipsy-Turvy

 * Description: Tipsy-Turvy is a doyen of chaos and will do his utmost to cause paranoia and dissension among people, or more often, target a single person until they crack and are institutionalized.
 * Abilities: Tipsy-Turvy enjoys taking everyday objects and mirror-flipping them, so clocks appear mirror-flipped and familiar photos do as well. This will escalate into furniture being placed upside down and in precarious arrangements, only in risk of falling when the person who is being stalked touches these arrangements. Full on possession may result in a mirror-flipped version of the possessed being formed which stands behind the possessed's reflection every time they look in the mirror.
 * Attraction: Placing two mirrors facing each other for a prolonged time increases the chance of opening an accidental portal to The Flip Side, a dimension of chaotic daemons that seeks to distort the parity of the natural world by flipping and twisting objects through space and time. Certain mirror configurations are primed towards more viable gateways.
 * Repulsion: Smashing all mirrors, glass, or possibly reflective surfaces or objects from the vicinity of one's home. It is a big price to pay, but Tipsy-Turvy will only haunt one where he has easy access to The Flip Side.

Sleepy Sally

 * Description: Sleepy Sally is a demon from the Oneirwath that seeks out lazy and indolent human hosts, forgoing the bedridden in favor of those who are perfectly capable of getting up but refuse to anyways. She is quite cynical towards humanity.
 * Abilities: Upon influence, Sleepy Sally will lull the lazy into frequent naps where they visit beautiful places and reunite with loved ones who have died. She will then continue these dreams until the lazy are dependent on them like a drug, and use her influence to make her victims sleep more and more, eventually refusing to get out of bed to eat or use the restroom. If outside intervention is not pursued the end result is usually death.
 * Attraction: Sleepy Sally only haunts those who are lazy. While it is true daydreamers form a demographic of marginally greater risk than most, there should be no reason to worry if you daydream in addition to having a busy life.
 * Repulsion: Doing productive stuff. It is okay to have dreams but as long as they do not stay dreams and are eventually brought into the physical world through action, you should be good.

8

 * Description: 8 is a demon that will latch itself onto a host based upon the host's prevalence of the number eight in their life. The more eights there are, the more apt one is to be influenced by this octophilic entity.
 * Abilities: 8 is a harmless demon at first, often just arranging objects into groups of eight items. Upon further possession however 8 may impel it's human host to kill eight small animals, hit a loved one eight times, or hurt themselves eight times. Continued subjugation to this demon will result in the need to kill eight people before eight days are through, with each kill making the possessed more oblivious to danger and more frenetic in their desire to maim.
 * Attraction: Arranging objects too much so in eights, as well possessing shapes with eight sides. Interestingly, 8 is a denizen of the afore-mentioned Flip Side meaning that a mirror-octahedron may very well attract it with ease.
 * Repulsion: Once full possession takes place there is no way to stop 8 but killing the possessed. At that point all hope is lost. Before that however, one may cut the possessed eight times and perform the necessary incantations over the injured. If too much blood isn't lost the possessed may recover to full health.

Earworm

 * Description: Earworm is a genderless demon that takes the form of a catchy melody, "seemingly implacable", inserting itself nonchalantly into the mind of a person by a song which may play if one listens to the static bands of the radio long enough, and especially when sleeping to such static.
 * Abilities: After latching onto the mind of a human host, Earworm will cause the person to hum or whistle the melody it manifested, with overtime exposure to Earworm causing the person's natural prosody and pitch in speaking to change according to the melody they have been implanted with by Earworm. Earworm may be passed to other people if they hear the humming, singing, or whistling of the possessed.
 * Attraction: Earworm exploits the human phenomenon of to manifest itself when the human mind is already searching for meaning in aural chaos. This searching in affect "calls out" Earworm, making the issue of possession a matter of how easy one can resist catchy melodies.
 * Repulsion: The only way to defeat Earworm is to attract the doyen of chaotic melody Atonus himself. Atonus is a demon that will cause dissonant listening that counteracts Earworm. There is a need to act fast, or Earworm could have permanent affects on people's speech prosody and rhythm which take a while to unlearn.



=Misconceptions Cleared=

Preferred Forms
The demons are often portrayed as red-skinned double-horned men with pointy spade-tails in medieval iconography. Or, in more modern times as yawning abysses of blackness or amorphous black smoke. To be fair, there are your fair-share of cliches among the hellish brotherhood many call demons today, but, the vast majority of demons have forms which differ from those humans have conceived of by a wide margin. There are many fundamentally different types of forms:


 * Dream Form: This is how a demon will present itself in dreams and visions. It can be pretty much anything, and the demon usually chooses the worst fears of the individual in question.
 * Possessed Form: This is the form a demon will assume upon attaching itself to a host. It consists of the demon's supernatural abilities in addition to the physical base form of the possessed.
 * Berserker Form (Possession II): Possession is really child's play (no pun intended) when it comes to demonic influence. Demons can also possess weaker demons thereby not just adding but multiplying their abilities. When such a demon-on-demon possession occurs the duo can then enter into a physical host and cause exceptional damage in the real world. Fortunately, the divisive and chaotic nature of the demons is what prevents them from consenting to possession by other demons, making berserker form rather rare.
 * Helldom Form (Possession III+): By forming chains of demons where each demon possesses the one underneath it astonishing conglomerates of power can be achieved, which are easily enough to tear reality and time asunder should they find a suitable host. As the demon chains become more powerful however, a stronger physical host is required, as anything weaker would be completely obliterated by the full might of the daemonic power in such a chain.
 * Platonic Form: Platonic Form may be achieved when a demon has so much power that it transcends it's own consciousness and becomes the ideal it represents. For instance, a demon of thorns that achieves Platonic Form would now have omniscience of every single thorn or thorn-like object in the world, able to control these as they see fit. Like the name implies, those with Platonic Form are able to alter the very substance of the form itself, thereby altering all physical copies of that form in reality. For instance, if there were a demon of circles that attained platonic form, then they could alter the circle into a square, and reality would work the same but now every circle would be a square. It'd basically be Minecraft in real life. This is admittingly very cool, but if a demon responsible for death ever attained Platonic Form, you better believe there'd be problems.