Writing Prompt Demon Lord's Present

[Corty]

He saw a strange plushie. Jeff raised his eyebrow as he lifted the squishy and soft thing into his hands. It had pointed ears and crimson eyes. In its right hand it held a plush glass of red liquid. However, there was one thing about this figure that made Jeff's blood boil.

"Why does she look so smug!?" His yell echoed in the chamber, and the silly doll with a big head looked at him as if to say 'nah, I'd win.'

And to this day, nobody knows how Jeff, the Demon Lord had been defeated.

 

[Cortavar]

With a sharp claw, he began to tear into the wrappings and opened the box.
Inside it was nothing. Jeff, perplexed, looked further, around, under, over, elsewhere, bearing his consummate perception to the maximun. That's when he saw what was really in the box.

It wasn't nothing, it was Nothing. A pure piece of void, devoid of even the concept of nothingness. That fat bastard had given him the only thing that he could have wished, for demon lords lacked for nothing and wished for even less.

As he stared into the Nothing, Jeff began to slowly unravel under the attentive gaze of his imps. One had wished for his tormenting to stop, many other had wished for a chance to take his place, and some particularly bloodthirsty ones had longed for a good old fashioned demonic war.

The unravelling continued, the Nothing consuming Jeff piece by piece while he was kept fascinated by the present. The last part of the demon lord to fade were his eyes, and then Nothing was left of him. That marked the start of a bloody succession war.

In the embers of the chimney, reignited by a stray fireball, a soft sound echoed. You'd have to have paid attention to it amidst the chaos of the war, so no demon listened to the echoing "Ho ho ho".

 

[sbdrag]

With a sharp claw, he began to tear into the wrappings and—

Found a stack of letters from the nearest town he terrorized asking him to change his name. 'You've defeated all the heroes on our continent, and we can't get any more heroes to come fight you,' the letters say in various ways, 'No one believes us when we say we're being terrorized by Demon Lord Jeff.'

Several offer suggestions - many think a slight change to Geoffrey would help. Yes, you can say it the same, but the spelling is slightly more sinister. Others give more outlandish offerings, some seeming more like a random collection of syllables no one could pronounce than actual names.

Some give reasons why he should change his name - that defeating heroes from another continent would only add to his infamy. Surely, he wanted all to know the terror of Demon Lord Please-Not-Jeff? And heroes coming to their city would mean more commerce, which meant more riches for him to plunder! A win-win, really. Some offer themselves as tributes to him in return - strangely enthusiastically, in some cases. He could probably understand the ones wishing to be his spouse - the position was unworthy of them, of course, but worthy of being desired. The few that went into detail about what kinds of torments he could inflict on them made... less sense.

A surprising amount of the letters talk about what a great job he's been doing as a demon lord - praising his horrible minions and the properly gruesome and terrifying appearance of his castle. Granted, it's in service of convincing him that more people should experience terror at his claws and have fear struck into their heart at the sight of his nightmarish banner, but it's still nice to be appreciated.

 

[corruption]

A set of embarrassing phots depicting the Demon Lord having lewd acts down to him in his younger days with a message "Never be too sure of yourself, for there are those who remember your past."