Longing (Digital Devil Saga: Sera)

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Title:  Longing
Author: belladonna12
Rating:  Pg13
Word count:  356
Summary:  Varnani is persistent, always there, always demanding and wanting. 
A/N:   This one went differently then I thought it would at first.  I’d planned to do a straight forward fic about Sera having to deal with Varnani and the demonic hunger to devour.  Then I thought ‘there are all kinds of hungers, why deal with only that one?’ and the result is this short little piece.  Hopefully someone will like it.

Disclaimer: I don’t own the idea for DDS, Atlus does, and I’m making no money from this, so please don’t sue me.
Prompt: Digital Devil Saga, Sera: demonomania - dealing with new hungers

 

Longing

 

Sera almost can’t understand how Serph bore it, how the others bear it.

 

Granted, she only has Varnani to base her experience on, but the demoness is always hungry.  Always.  Sometimes it’s just a little wistful sense of how good that Ose looks, can they have dessert, other times it’s a ravening scream for food of any kind.  Blob, Rakshasha, even at one point thoughts of what Prithivi would’ve tasted like streaming from Varnani to Sera.  The demoness never shuts up, always trying to get what she wants.

 

That hunger’s bad enough, frightening enough.

 

The first time Sera finds herself admiring the strength and grace Vayu can display, the clean arch of his legs as he kicks down his prey to devour it, she wills it away as a fluke.  Then memories of Varna, curiosity and wondering what it would be like to run her blades down his, to lightly nibble and scrape her teeth across the bone frill around his neck send both a thrill of horror and arousal through her.  Sera tries desperately not to think about that.

 

But Varnani sees Fred, sees a child/cub/nestling, and wants one for herself.

 

The demoness keeps trying to convince Sera, enticing her with images of Serph, of Gale, wistfully of Roland, Heat and even Cielo.  Any of them, even in the weak pink forms that have no good claws or fangs, if only she will give Varnani a cub/nestling/child that they can call their own?  Children are important to any species, and it wouldn’t even matter to Varnani if the nestling/child/cub was human, Asura, or some bizarre in between creature, as long as it was hers and Sera’s and their mates.

 

Sera hates that she prefers the demonesses hunger to kill and rend and devour to this other, more subtle and equally ancient hunger.  Those hungers she can understand, even deal with most of the time.  But not this.  This hunger for a child that sometimes displays purely human characteristics, sometimes purely demon, and sometimes the bizarre intermingling of human and demon known as berserk.

 

This hunger that Sera isn’t entirely sure is Varnani’s alone terrifies her.

 

~Fin~

 

Comments

[qara-isuke.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is creepy and awesome. Also, kind of wonderfully appropriate. It reminds me, actually, of an article I remember reading. Basically, it was talking about how the same part of the brain is responsible for controlling the Hunger /and/ the Mating instinct. If that's entirely true, I have to wonder what that would mean for the demons.

The little bits about the animalistic aspects was a nice touch.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Oh wow :D. This is fantastic! All things considered Lupa (and via Lupa, Greg and Fred) had such a strong link with fatherhood in the game, it's odd that there isn't really any fic dealing with the desire to have children (that I know of). And poor Sera! As if she isn't young and confused enough already, to have a full-grown demoness running rampant (in more ways than one).

The description of the others, and wanting to taste Prithivi, were fantastic - the note about Vayu's grace especially to me, given Gale's my favourite character :).

Great work! :D