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|    Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) to Shawn Wilson    |
|    Re: Need alternative to "demon"    |
|    28 Oct 15 13:55:47    |
      From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com              On 10/28/15 1:52 PM, Shawn Wilson wrote:       > On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 4:05:34 PM UTC-7, Jymesion wrote:       >       >       >> A couple of issues, though. They want family-friendly books, so the       >> sex has to go (minor -- edits already done), and two characters being       >> demons and two more being devils worries them because of the whole       >> demonology thing.       >>       >> I really don't have a problem with calling them something else because       >> they aren't stereotypical demons.       >>       >> I just don't know what to substitute.       >       >       > My recommendations-       >       > Faery       >       > Fae                      Oh, I think Shawn may have it. The Fae/Faerie/Fair Folk have many       perilous reputations so having the "I thought they were scary and       dangerous but they're not so bad" bit works, and the elemental       associations work too.                     --        Sea Wasp        /^\        ;;;        Website: http://www.grandcentralarena.com Blog:       http://seawasp.livejournal.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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