You've seen this in Tabletop too.
People who think demons in Frieren are generic villains and have no complexity have clearly not read the El Dorado Arc yet
— Misheru Katorin 🇳🇱 (@MKatorin) April 3, 2025
And if you think the only way an antagonist can be complex or interesting is by being muh hecking misunderstood morally gray character you need to read more https://t.co/HFTNKfzz3h
And in case you missed why Frieren has Death Cultists defending the demons (like they do the bugs), watch this clip (I'd embed it but YT disabled that).
She knows what they are and she slaughters them without mercy. No chill whatsoever, like you do when dealing with such dangerous predators.
Why do Death Cultists simp for the bugs? For the demons? For the predators? They want to die, and they want you to die with them. Like the Eternals in Zardos, craving death because they reached their end-point in Nihilism, but for all of us.
That sounds a lot like demonic influence to me, especially once you know where demons come from (spirits of slain Nephilim). These people need Jesus, and I don't mean that purely in a Rhetorical sense.
Once you see it, you won't unsee it. Being paid to riot, and other such mundame patronage, only explains so much.
And it explains why they hate Doom, 40K, and so much more- up to and including nonsensical willful misreads of IPs they control.
And remember, folks, that they come at you for a reason: they see God in you, and that is why they act as if the only thing they fear is you.
Spot on.
ReplyDeleteI've always likened them to the vampires in the film the Lost Boys:
Continually searching out the next amoral 'feel good' moment to keep from reminding themselves of their nihilistic undead existence.
And when you do battle with them; They may implode, they made explode, but they will always try and take you down with them.