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Harlot Spotlight - Ygolia Campbell
🕑 Added 2023-11-21 12:37:59 +0000 UTCContinuing the spotlight series on the various harlots in the House. Here is Ygolia Campbell.
Ygolia Campbell is another 'smotherbus' affiliated with the Sanctum of Strangulated Sighs. Like Bebi, she's fairly low-ranked in their organisation and also curious about human techniques. As a result she latched onto old spy thrillers and decided to model herself after the femme fatales of those movies.
The Elegant Woman points out the absurdity of this, given that Ygolia is far more dangerous and powerful then the femme fatales she's copying – a tiger pretending to be a pussycat.
She's more monster girl than actual succubus, so doesn't have the usual wings, horns and tail. Instead she has orifices in the palms of her hands that mimic vaginas. She can also expel a poison gas through them that functions similar to succubus venom – it triggers massive overproduction of semen until the man eventually dries up and runs out of fluids.
Personality-wise, she's quite friendly for a daemon. She's a little nerdy with her love of old spy movies and gets on well with men indulging her roleplaying. Unfortunately, she can get a little too into it, so if a man tries to resist too hard, she will break him for real. And of course, being a daemon, if a man doesn't indulge her, she'll end him without a shred of mercy.
And now the behind-scenes stuff covering the game mechanics and inspiration for the character.
As with Bebi, Ygolia is intended to give some variety to avoid every harlot being the typical dominatrix lust daemon.
One of the things I like doing is have the lust daemons play out sex roleplay scenarios because it adds extra levels to the scene. I don't know why, but I find writing a dangerous demoness engaging in "safe" sex roleplay as a femme fatale executrix a lot of fun. From the horror perspective, there's an extra note of tension to the scene, because – unlike – the usual sex roleplays, the reader is fully aware the lust daemon/succubus has the ability to make it "real" at any moment.
I also like how her scenario plays out from a game mechanics perspective. The code number is randomly generated and the alternatives are generated by taking a random digit of the original number and moving up or down by one. Overall, the scenario is meant to be fairly easy. Ygolia just wants to play with the player and will only kill them if they don't indulge her or screw up and don't pay attention. It would have been easy to use a fixed number, but I felt making it random and then force the player to pick the right one later would make it more engaging from a gameplay perspective.
As for her monster design, once the 'pain' faction morphed into the 'smother' faction, I did some research to find more variations on the fetish. Boob smother and facesitting were the obvious ones. One that also came up was hand smother. I felt a regular succubus doing that wouldn't be that much different to a regular human dominatrix. I like my monster girls to have a bit more monster in them, so hit upon the idea of giving her vaginas in her hand, and the ability to use them to expel perfume gas in the face of anyone she's having fun with.
This also gave me her name. Her having vaginas in the palms of her hands is reminiscent of the classic Cthulhu Mythos monster, Y'golonac. Y'golonac was created by the British horror writer, Ramsey Campbell in the story "Cold Print". I felt giving her the name Ygolia Campbell would be a fun nod and reference. I like putting those in as extra little Easter Eggs when I can.
Unfortunately, because these are intended to be pin-ups that don't spoil the surprises of their scenarios, I told the artist to keep her extra vaginas hidden and make the focus her gloves for the breathplay aspects. This gives Unfortunately Times Two, as if the description is of a sleek and sexy redhead spy in a figure-hugging black catsuit, you inevitably end up with Marvel's Black Widow. If I'd thought about it more, I probably should have given her blue hair.
Never mind. She's a fun character to write and I wouldn't mind giving her a full short story that fully plays up the "will it go real or not" tension to her sex roleplay.
ETA: Dammit. I knew I'd forgotten something. I've now attached the raw scripts for her scenario.
Comments
Many-Eyed Hydra
I know who Midnight is, although I'm way behind on reading My Hero Academia. Will have to do a catchup binge at some point. She's a great character. Her costume is more typical sexy villainess, yet she's one of the more straightforward heroes, and also written to be a pretty good teacher. She gets more chance to show off her character and abilities in the MHA: Vigilantes series. (Unfortunately, she ends up as one of the casualties of a later story arc.) Really cool character though. The closest I've written is maybe the succubus in "Puffed Up", but that's an outright villainess... sort of. I need to get back to writing more comic-book style stories at some point.
Many-Eyed Hydra
I want to keep them varied... but still deadly if not taken seriously. ;) As for Y'golonac. It's not an easy connection to make. I doubt that monster would come to mind when people think sexy. :D Younger Campbell did try to sneak a bit more smexy into the Cthulhu Mythos (Y'golonac liked to snack on perverts). Brian Lumley was good for that too. Older Campbell is maybe a bit too serious, but still a damn good horror writer. I wish I could write prose half as good as him and other writers like Joyce Carol Oates.
Najee
That's cool. I thought of two female characters when you first introduced Ygolia as a harlot. Marvel's Black Widow because its too obvious, and Midnight from the My Hero Academia anime. If you don't know who Midnight is MEH, she is a female superhero that has the ability to produce purple mist that puts victims to sleep. Her "Hero" costume has a Dommy vibe to it and her main weapon is a whip. It doesn't help her mist has a stronger effect on boys/men.
CrimsonCrown
“Y'golonac was created by the British horror writer, Ramsey Campbell in the story "Cold Print" That’s interesting, I have read that collection and remember art of the creature from the Cthulhu RPG books, but totally missed the connection. I thought it was a case of her mixing up Eastern European and British names, whilst deciding an exotic “spy-name.” She’s fun. Works well having the lower tier harlots a bit more upbeat and quirky, albeit still potentially lethal.
