After a couple of adopt auctions, I figured it was time to make an actual sheet on these beasts in prep for opening up customs. All info/explanation is listed below! Feel free to ask me any questions you may have.

How a Plant Demon is Made:

These low-tier demons can be asked to fulfill whatever purpose the summoner wishes, but the demon will of course have a mind of it’s own. In order to completely control a demon and take advantage of any dark magics without the backlash of nasty tricks, the summoner often choses to remove the soul orb of the demon. The easiest way to do that is to trick the demon into creating a fully formed head, behead the demon, and then immediately replace the severed head.

1. Summon the demon. A demon in it’s purest from has a billowing “mane” that emerges in place of a head, travels along the spine, and finally ends where a tail would be. This mane protects the soul orb located where a head would be and can be changed into any form, such as wings, tails, spikes, a head, tentacles, etc. However, their catlike body cannot be changed.
2. While demons are full of tricks of their own, they are susceptible to flattery and would gladly show off all the forms they can take, which makes them almost “customizable” to the summoner’s needs and sets them up for an easy beheading.
3. & 4. After removing the head and soul orb within, the summoner must quickly graft any other living tissue in it’s place, which disrupts reconnection of the head and soul to the body. For aesthetic and practicality reasons, this graft is most often a nearby houseplant cutting. Once the soul orb is removed, the form is locked and cannot be changed any further. As demons are nearly immortal, they can survive and function without their soul, becoming docile and pleasant companions willing to do their summoner’s bidding as they lack the volatile and deceptive qualities of a demon with a soul.

Body and Marking Placement:

(Purple) While the rest of it’s body is locked into a vaguely feline form and is cold, smooth and stony to the touch, the mane has an almost rubbery texture and can be quite warm. If damaged, a gel-like substance can be felt inside the rubbery outer layer, but this mane quickly reforms to protect the orb of the soul within. It moves like slow fire and can change into any form which will then echo the body’s color and texture. Some demons are beheaded without the whole mane “customized” and their locked form may still have the mane in the place of a fully formed tail or dorsal features. The color of the mane is also the color of the demon’s blood.
(Green) Paw pads often (but not always) take on the color of the demon’s soul orb. Tongues and eye colors - when a head is formed - are often affected by the color of the soul as well.
(Blue) Many demons have “sock” markings to some extent on their forelegs, fewer demons have them on both their fore and hind legs. Sock markings are most often the same color as underbelly markings.
(Cream) Base coat.
(Red/Orange) Patterns are most often found on the shoulders, back, and flanks of a demon. Rarely do the colors on the back mix with those of the base coat and/or paws, and it is more common in swirled, speckled, and spotted coats. Mixing almost never occurs in gradient, striped, or king markings. Patterns such as stripes, king, or swirl are positioned horizontally along the body, never vertically.

Usual body patterns, in order:

Gradient, Stripe, King, Speckle, Spot, and Swirl.

Demon personality, strengths, and culture:

Low-tier demons such as these often see themselves as on the same level as humans and respect them as capable and tricky beings like themselves. They treat interactions with humans somewhat like a game, where beheaded demons are simply “points” gained by the humans and in return, souls of humans taken by demons are more points to their own side. A demon without it’s soul loses it’s connection to other demons, cannot inflict damage upon humans (unless it’s summoner requests it to), and can be used against other demons, just as a human without a soul is basically converted to the demon’s team as well.

Low-tier demon magics are usually rather weak, which also makes the risk of interacting with them pretty low, so they are the most often summoned demons of the underworld. Their powers can include inducing forgetfulness, moving small objects or making small objects invisible, causing listlessness, fatigue, or shortness of temper, minor destruction such as making a faucet leak or causing bread to mold quickly, the ability to make unnerving noises in the night, and lastly, the ability to cause fitful sleeping and nightmares. Beheaded demons cause no harm to their summoner and can become protective and caring towards them.

Demons often identify as agender or as one or more of the hundreds of thousands of culturally imbued demon genders, but some have found their gender identity in human gender as well. They have no sex and cannot reproduce (they are simply created at the whims of higher-tier demons).Since they are low on the pecking order of demon society, they don’t really mind whether they are on the human’s side or not.

Plant demons are a closed species.