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opinions and thoughts on terukane ghost hotel?

i think there concept or relationship in it is pretty interesting since akane is literally terus demon

OH BOY DO I HAVE THOUGHTS ON THE TERUKANE GHOST HOTEL AU

It's the only AU I have two vastly different takes that I am fond of.

The first take is that they are both a disaster but kind at their core: Akane was tricked by the clock keepers (they cursed his parents and made him sell his soul in exchange to break the curse) and became a demon.

Akane has the potential to be extremely powerful and dangerous but he promised himself to not fall to the same level as the demons that tricked him. He is so stubborn he actually managed to stick with his human morals. He never stole anyone's soul and ignored temptation like a pro, to the point he barely gets it anymore. This made him a relatively weak demon, but one that cares for others more than himself. Truly, he is a strange case, no one has ever seen a demon that is hard-working but not greedy. Akane can even be called nice when you get to know him. The hotel finds him weird but they like him. He is best friends with Aoi-chan, who is a fairy, so she doesn't fall in love or feel any attraction to anyone.

Teru is a full-time exorcist that never went to school, and was taught everything in a monastery, so he didn't have any friends. After Kou 'disappeared' Teru goes on a years long quest searching for him, he barely interacts with people in his travels, so he is atrocious at socializing and only good at rituals and killing. He traps Akane in a blood pact that makes it so Akane must obey his every order, and very quickly gets attached to him, trusting the demon so much he slowly stops using the pact's influence when giving Akane orders. When he gets a crush he falls hard and he has no idea how to flirt, his attempts are atrocious, Akane is very confused.

(I wrote a fic about this take if you are curious, it’s pretty old, but you can check it Here)

The second take is more messy and hostile because Akane takes someone's soul. He is more demoniac than human.

content warning for violence and manipulation below.

When the clock keepers trick Akane into selling his soul there is someone nearby. Akane is in terrible pain because of his demon transformation and all his senses are a mess, so when a curious stranger tries to check on him he ends up forcefully stealing the person's soul to satiate his hunger. It tastes delicious.

He regrets it when he comes to his sense and is determined to keep his human morals but his desire to taste a soul again is so strong he subconsciously twists his sense of what's 'right' to something more convenient without noticing, convinced he does the right thing by stealing the souls of criminals and other 'bad people', using his powers to help civilians and kill other demons.

The more souls he consumes, the more powerful and less human he becomes. His appearance stops changing after three souls, but his behavior constantly gets worse, until his core values become typical of a demon: greedy and selfish, even his hard work became a product of pure pride over time, with no desire to help others. He eventually hunts down Kako and Mirai, who are very powerful, and kills them to get what belongs to him back (his human soul). It doesn't work, you can't get your soul back after a monster consumes it, and the lack of rewards added with all the injures he accumulated in his battle with Kako and Mirai breaks something in him.

When Akane gets stuck in the ghost hotel, he is not a good 'person'.

Akane respects Aoi but he looks almost hungry at her, so she may had been intrigued by his arrival, but she doesn't like him, making sure they are never alone. His mood is also too volatile, he no longer has any souls to steal (monsters either don't have souls or their souls are corrupted) so he get greedy with other things: when he gets possessive with Aoi, the fairy loses her patience and poisons him, keeping her distance. The hotel doesn't like him, and he doesn't have any friends, but Hanako keeps him around cause he is the most hard-working and efficient employee.

Teru is the same in both takes, he was raised in a monastery and went on a journey to search for Kou, but this time, his blood pact with Akane is far tenser. Akane is an actual threat to him, so Teru's need to take various precautions in this pact, his orders having a strong grip on akane but they are not absolute. Even when Teru orders Akane to not hurt or kill him, he is still paranoid, well aware Akane may have trouble and even hurt himself if he tries to go against direct orders, but he have enough power and determination to try anyways.

Akane wants to eat his soul, and Teru knows, he never lowers his guard near him, his orders made to punish any of Akane's murder attempts. When Teru orders him to get him something to eat from the hotel kitchen, and Akane comes back with fruits or bread, he'll always tell Akane to "take a bite" as a test. If it's poisoned (it usually is) he'll order Akane to eat the whole thing, not taking any mercy on Akane when he gets sick from the poison, and punishing him if he fight against the order and doesn't finish the meal. It's a 'lesson' that makes Akane hate him more than anyone, but it does works: Akane eventually stops trying to kill him with poison.

Teru forces Akane to get him a room in the hotel instead of being gifted one, and he only allows himself to sleep after five days as a guest, when his room is so protected even a demon as strong as Akane won't be able to barge in.

Akane doesn't take too long to be attracted to Teru, it's not love, he still hates Teru's guts, and genuinely resents him, offended he is forced to obey the exorcist, but he finds him exceptionally beautiful in this gloomy hotel, and wants him to himself. Teru can sense it, and depending on his mood he is either completely intolerant and throws holy water on Akane's face until the demon burns or mock him for it, stabbing him and saying he'll give him a kiss if he be a good demon (he does not give him a kiss even when Akane acts good, Teru is just being a bitch).

He only ever kisses Akane when he is desperate and he can sense Akane is growing resistant to their pact, so Teru uses anything he can to tighten his leash and trick him into 'behaving'. At first, Akane is surprised but he doesn't take long to realize what his intentions are, establishing a strange exchange. They both bring out the worst in each other.

They are constantly on edge, it takes years for trust to form and when it does Akane is very possessive.

#tbhk #terukane #my brain has two modes: 'silly goofy mood' and 'give me a corruption arc! give me violence!!'#the comcept of demon akane make me so insane #cause demonsa re greedy and selfish at their core and akane is that to an extent but he is also very sweet and selfless #so his determination without his moral compass is a recepie for a very dangerous demon

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