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[From user: dreadsexy. Interesting choice on Pidonus's part.]

Hey, this is Pidonus Marasia. I'm trying to figure out my goals and motivations and such a bit while I'm here, because the more I'm reviewing the situation, the more likely it is that it's gonna be quite some time before we find my world and I can return to my Queen. So, I gotta come up with motivations for myself,
I guess? Other than, you know, the dungeons. Which have some very weird loot, to say the least...

Anyways! I'd kinda like to try and get some, well, minions for myself. People willing to let me influence their minds into long-term servitude. Key word there is willing, because as quite a few people here have emphasized, it'd be a mistake for me to just take people's wills with my seductive powers.

Of course, anyone who would voluntarily agree to being under my spell is someone with clear and very severe issues. Like, if your mindstate's bad enough that "under the maniplation of a Succubus" qualifies to your own perception as an improvement... I mean, whatever floats your boat I guess, but I'm pretty sure in some cities that would legally qualify you as 'kind of insane'.

So, uh... What does that leave? I genuinely don't know. I'm. Sorta new to the whole 'need to have my own motivations' thing, and the Chaotic and Evil subtypes unto themselves don't do a lot for giving me ideas.

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May I ask a question? I'm curious whether you'd like to have people under your command because it's something that appeals to you, or simply because it's how your Queen functions and you're using her as a role model.

More column 'A' than 'B'. My Queen runs a vast organization that is almost entirely Succubi, towards ends centered on more power, so, much more grandiose than my desires.

My Queen ends up too busy to do a lot for the individuals under her command, so... Not that I don't think? I'm not on her level anyways...

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Large groups aren't necessarily better, anyway.

I suppose that brings us to a question of why you want minions. Whether it's because you want someone to do things for you, or simply because you enjoy the idea of having people's unwavering loyalty. Power for its own sake is quite open ended, after all. You'll never have the satisfaction of completing a goal if it's something so vague as 'to have as much of this as I can'.

People to do what I say is nice, the sensation of having that power is really nice. I suspect that the second one comes with being a Succubus, so...

Even humans tend to enjoy the idea of people being willing to do things for them, unless they're selfless to a not entirely healthy degree.

[Looking at you, Akira, and your habit of doing everything you can for other people and then refusing to let them go out of their way to help you back.]

People are generally more willing to help others when they consider the person a friend or they stand to gain something from it. The best way to get a group under your leadership is to be working towards something they also want. For example, the Phantom Thieves back home look to Akira as our leader because he's made it a mission to fight back against the sort of law evading corruption that's hurt all of us, in some way or another.

You're not wrong... But the challenge for me is, the point isn't having power,
but taking it and knowing I have the ability to. I don't even want much of it.

Regardless, it's a goddamn mess, the kind of thing that I guess I should expect given the nature of my intellect.

Then it sounds to me as if what you want isn't so much to have minions, as to feel as if you're superior to others. It's a feeling I can certainly relate to, after having spent most of my life at the whims of others.

The illusion of self-superiority's kinda easy when I have all sorts of advantages on humans. So... Kinda, I guess?

But it's hardly very comforting when you know it's an illusion. I doubt anyone is going to let someone with uncertain goals have a position of superiority over them, even without the mental influence, but perhaps a firm relationship of equals would be a good start?

You would be surprised how much of an impact it can make to have someone who considers you a friend.

... Can't say I've had many of those...

Neither did I, until fairly recently.

Would you like to be friends, Marisia-san?

I... Think so?

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