Kind of obsessed with the idea of Charlie having an older sister who, once her parents split up, just kind of bounces around Hell as a coping mechanism. Like, trying to ignore that pain through exploration, visiting with her Sinful aunts and uncles (except Mammon, she talks mad shit about Mammon), and low key looking for Lilith - because what the hell, where did she even go? - only to see that her sister and dad have made amends while also kicking ass. Maybe it might be time to come home for a little while?
The sins are such fascinating characters. I’m hoping Sinsmas lives up to its name. I would kill for the sins just hanging together like it’s Smiling Friends because nothing is funnier than jacked up creatures doing mundane tasks. (An episode like this t-shirt would be worth my savings: https://sharkrobot(.)com/products/sinful-holiday)
I’m not sure what I would enjoy more. Mammon doubling down and deteriorating into the ultimate state of pathetic billionaire manbaby or trying become a better person and the entire experience for him is like being dragged across broken glass. Whatever route, I want him to be so true to his ugly feelings the rawness makes everyone uncomfortable to the point where you almost pity him but then you don’t because of the extent of his sins.
Mammon is a very cathartic character because he’s so expressive in his depravity. He’s everything wrong with parents trying to live through their children, bosses trying to pretend to be family to exploit people, capitalism in general all while being very funny. S2E07 feels so good because he gets flipped off, spat on, and defied. But it’s not enough for me. I want to wring every last drop of that out of him. In the kind of way someone might want to squeeze a cute animal to death.
Ironically Umineko has plot-relevant sexism (commentary on social conservatism and its effects on women) and much more complex female characters. I’m sorry I keep bringing this game up its themes are so relevant to Mammon and some of your complaints I can’t help myself. I basically want him to have a Umineko type breakdown. (I really do love him and think he’s wonderful I promise.)
You have expressed the Mammon experience so well. A chewtoy you dont want to throw away but also love to step on. I truly believe he’ll be petty as f*ck around the other sins and he makes everyone pissed off, the best he’ll do is “all I did was exploit him a little bit :( I don’t understand. Cmon guys” Oh man 😭 Bee going rabid and attacking him like a chew toy I need it. I NEED an episode of fun, no melodrama, no crying and self pity, evil bastards being evil and hilarious and not being excused by a sad story. Even satirise the sad story trope with Mammon saying “when I was a young boy…I missed a 50% discount on tuna cause I was a day late…I’ve never told anyone that story WHY ARENT YOU CRYING??”
I really need pathetic millionaire man baby Mammon personally. Not everyone has to grow as a character or have a sad story, right now he’s perfectly written and I don’t need that to change. Not at least for a loooong time.
Id like to see Bee again and have her just be a little bit more evil, and recast by another similar VA with a stronger voice not a celeb or broadway actor we need professional voice actors. I hate to think she hates mammon because their besties dynamic could be so funny. The only female sin so far has had less than ten goddamn minutes of screen time while Ozzie has had three episodes, and Mammon has had a ton already with him being the first foreshadowed sin and his own entire special. Her design is just too excessive, all the tiny details are insane and a nightmare to animate she needs to lessen it a little. Id give her a completely blank red dress and lose the molten hair even though I do find it quite pretty.
It’s up to you to decide which character is which I like to think poor Fizz is probably Pim or Mammon and the sister Amy is Bee and Tex 😭 oh I hope they recast Tex too because Bee’s brother(?) and boyfriend having the same voice is a bit weird
I’m very interested in your Umineko comparisons I haven’t heard of it before but it’s helping me understand quite a bit.
Tex and Fizz interactions. The most goth heterosexual man and the most camp gay man trying to communicate. That is all.
So the Daemons or the Sins are Sea Children that are made from the pure energy of desire that ended up gaining sentience themselves, such as Sloth manifest from certain people not doing anything when the great war happen.
Or Asmoday manifest through uh- an orgy, or Beelzebub born from the royalty who keeps eating while laughing at the poor. Pride being born from the mortals challenging godhood itself.
They are very powerful but quite uncaring towards morals. Well, they are after all just a living embodiment of a certain sin, so that's not surprising. Some might be much more kinder (Asmoday, Belphegor, and Beelzebub) ^this has huge fucking air quotes, okay?
So when you indulge in a certain sin. There is a high chance that you might gain those sins characteristics and powers. Absorption, Strength, Premonition, etc.
Becoming a succubus, a certain insect from Beel, or a goat/Sheep from the sloth.