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Ashi followed her father’s gaze to the moon outside. That was what love meant? She liked it. It was nothing like anything her mother had ever told her about.

“…Then, yes, I do love you Father,” she answered after a few moments. “You bring me great joy and I always want to be here with you…But I don’t think I love Mother.”

Her words brought a smile of great joy to the demon’s face. To know the feeling was mutual pleased him more than it would to destroy an entire empire.

“Your daddy loves you too, Ashi,” he said. “Pay your mother no mind.”

Aku straightened Ashi’s blanket. Then, extinguishing his fiery brows, he bent to touch his forehead to the child’s with a soft rumble of contentment.

“Goodnight, my child.” As the yokai rose to leave, his brows reignited themselves. “May your dreams be sweet and your spirit filled with fire for a new tomorrow.”

teacupballerina:

unspeakablyevil:

teacupballerina replied to your post:
does Aku like torturing his enemies?

the worst punishment aku can imagine is imprisonment. extermination takes care of the problem quickly and efficiently, but locking someone in solitary confinement or leaving them to a special hell they can’t escape from where they just have to wait for someone to come and free them, aku knows from experience these are horrible fates 🙂

No one knows more about being confined and ignored than Aku. 

Man, now I wish there was an AU where someone visited his tree and talked to it… If there’s fic of this, someone hook me up!

there is but it’s probably not the fluff you are looking for.

and it’s old. and a parody.

Oh no, I’ve loved that since I first saw it and have accepted it as headcanon. 

teacupballerina replied to your post:
does Aku like torturing his enemies?

the worst punishment aku can imagine is imprisonment. extermination takes care of the problem quickly and efficiently, but locking someone in solitary confinement or leaving them to a special hell they can’t escape from where they just have to wait for someone to come and free them, aku knows from experience these are horrible fates 🙂

No one knows more about being confined and ignored than Aku. 

Man, now I wish there was an AU where someone visited his tree and talked to it… If there’s fic of this, someone hook me up!

cherrycreamfairy1997:

unspeakablyevil:

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“So what do you think? They’re good am I right?” She asked.

The cookies were long gone but Aku was still too busy savoring to give a proper answer. He grinned with a rumble of satisfaction.

“Mmmmmhhh… Yesss.”

“Great!” She said with a smile, it made her very happy to hear that he liked the cookies. “I made them with lots of love, because I love you!” She said with a wink.

“HUH? There was love in those?” Was that why they were so delicious? 

In true villain fashion, Aku couldn’t help but to grip his throat and make a few choking sounds. The cookies had been very enjoyable — it was just the principle of the matter. He’d ingested love!

The demon wrinkled his nose. “Bleh!” 

crazy-blingy

“This demonic force is no match for one of our stature. I may appear no different than the pitiable mortals that wisefully bend knee to you, but…”

The humanlike creature, known by by the alias of “Black”, smiled as his emerald skinned associate stood by him.

“I am clad in the flesh and blood of the Saiyans, who we must admit, are one of the strongest mortal races in all the universe.”

“And with the soul and power of a god within this warrior race’s body, we can assure you, Lord Aku, that this will be sufficient to eradicate this reality-defiling menace.”

Zamasu looked up at the tall black demon directly. “Still, I can understand your doubt about my associate here…. would you care to allow him to show you his power?”

“Mmmhh…” Aku rumbled as he assessed the pair. Without a doubt he liked what he’d heard. But was it true? Skeptical as he may be, Aku was very curious and perhaps a demonstration was just what he needed.

“Show me these powers,” he said. “And I shall decide if you are worthy of my time.”

does Aku like torturing his enemies?

Aku doesn’t use torture a whole lot but when he does, you DO NOT want to be on the receiving end of it. I think there’s a difference between sending someone to the Pit of Hate for punishment and what he would call torture. I can’t say for sure what happens in the Pit of Hate but it’s hinted at being survivable where the person who enters can return from it alive somehow once their punishment has been served. 

I think Aku tortures people by granting them immortality (or conditional immortality) and then trapping them in a place forever. Like with the man in the volcano, he was granted partial immortality so that he couldn’t die (until someone like Jack came along) and was kept from entering Valhalla. This was the best way he could think of to punish someone who wasn’t afraid to die. 

It’s highly probable that he’s torturing Jack’s father in a similar way where the Emperor can’t die but he’s constantly consumed in flames and is in a world of relentless agony. If that’s true, he hates Jack’s father more than he hates Jack himself since he only wanted to kill Jack in S5 rather than burn him forever. It seemed like at that point, he saw Jack as a major pest and just wanted the peace of mind of having him dead.

That said, I don’t think Aku is particularly sadistic. I’d rate him maybe a 6 out of 10 on the Sadism scale since he doesn’t seem to get off on torture. If you’re unlucky enough to be someone like Jack’s father or the lava man, Aku probably wouldn’t stick around to adore your suffering. He doesn’t really have the patience or attention span for prolonged poking and prodding. He’s more the type to just laugh at your pain for a while and then act like he forgot about you.