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Maybe it's the lack of a snarl, but she looks a lot younger. She's not underage b&, is she?
Also, this is the kind of pedantic autistic bullshit fur which /b/ was created. I must lecture. This is going to be a lot of tl;dr bullshit and you probably don't care, so feel free to scroll past it.
But, do demons have free will? In the Bible it says that demons are angels who chose to rebel against God. As such they do indeed have free will and they choose to do evil deeds. But in the pop-culture theology of Current Year, the concept of "demon" carries the connotation of a being that is Always Chaotic Evil All the Time. They always do the worst, cruelest possible thing possible. They are, in fact, pretty predictable in this regard. They may speak, they may solve problems, they may make and carry out plans, they may communicate and cooperate, but if this is the only manner in which they behave, is it the only manner in which they can behave? If so, are they truly sapient in any meaningful sense? Is there an "I" inside their heads at all? Do they have minds like ours at all? Or are they just p-zombies, just NPCs that were compiled with the box fur "gratuitous sadism" checked? If that's the case, if they have no free will and are not capable of change or choice, are they truly evil at all? Or are they just really destructive and dangerous natural phenomena, like a storm, or an avalanche, or a school of piranhas in some tropical river, and not moral actors at all?
I have seen some critics get completely wrapped around the axle about Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, calling it "demonic propaganda," because one of the premises is that demons have minds that are human enough to have choices in how they act, human enough to be able to choose. There are references in some Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel fan wikis to a hellhound character named Larissa ("yet to appear in the show," whatever that means, yet listed as having a voice actress) with a very gentle, shy, and anxious personality, who is a pacifist who loves animals. And she's listed as being voiced by Andrea Libman (if you know, you know).
And that seems to >imply that demons, at least in this fictional conception, have moral agency and are capable of choice. This seems much more consistent with the Biblical material from Ezekiel 14, Isaiah 28, and Revelations 12, than this modern conception of demons as being flesh-and-blood murderbots that do what they do without any choice or agency at all.
Of course, the modern conception of demons makes an exception fur Satan. In current pop-theology Satan is the one God can trust to be Hell's warden, the one who can be "trusted not to be trustworthy," and capable of choice where other demons are not. This is a recent gloss on the traditional concept, which holds that Satan is, rather, Hell's single most dangerous prisoner.
Yes, I know. This is shit no one cares about.