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Malicious Intent 015

xailenrath

on Dec. 2, 2018

Though I didn't get to it in the course of this volume of Malicious Intent, Scorch, Milo's gofer, is a demon.
"Scorch", who's true name is Draxyl'K'Nascyss, (whom, also, Milo forced to take the name "Melvin Weiner" for legal On-Earth purposes, such as high school enrollment) is actually your common variety HellHound in human form.

Mind you, Scorch is as dumb as a colander full of warm yogurt, which, makes him still smarter than the average HellHound. In a rare flash of intellect and ambition during the HellHound rutting season, Scorch thought that maybe, if he could work his way up the ladder of Hell's heirarchy, he could achieve his dream of being an Incubus, (Did i mention it was rutting season? Scorch is about 146 years old, which, in HellHound years is about where human puberty is.)
Scorch was shooting for Hell's highest rank: Deal-Maker Demon, knowing that there was no way the Bureaucracy™ would promote him that high, even if he netted 100 souls. But, as I stated, Scorch is smarter than the average HellHound. He didn't WANT to get promoted to Deal-Maker. Too much paperwork. He figured that if he was successful, they'd try to low-ball his promotion 3 or 4 levels BELOW dealmaker, which, he could probably finagle right into the position he was really after - Sex Demon.

Unfortunately for our still dim-witted by human standards demon pup, he chose to begin his deal-making career by trying to rook Milo Mannheim. Big mistake.

Long story slightly less long: Milo gets a few not-quite-super powers and Scorch gets Milo's soul if Milo dies of Natural Causes. Until then, Scorch serves as Milo's unquestioned lackey, dogsbody, actual dog, whipping boy, gofer, lab assistant, lab RAT, butler, bullet cushion and slave for as long as Milo is alive.

Scorch's 'Heroes Season One' button tells you about the time that I drew this.
Scorch is mostly patterned after Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters and Dustin Diamond's portrayal of Screech.
The nickname 'Scorch' prettymuch comes from there as well. That, and when Milo performs an experiment that doesn't work, it usually explodes, and his favorite guinea pig is usually left, well, SCORCHED.
Our little demon dog is also often eating things he shouldn't. Like money. And lightbulbs. And mailmen. And compact cars.