Thread:AngryLance/@comment-39280634-20200210184758/@comment-27666783-20200219223602

@Lance

Nono, not male Hellhounds. As in UberHumans with the mental resilience and aggressive disposition of Hellhounds. They are essentially humans prepped to be 'aight with colonizing Hell and being sort of the picket fence to prey on Mamono to make them think twice on attacking something.

They get a kick in fighting, don't secret adrenaline and cortisol toward things so they can't into panicking, and have the willpower of John McClane on supersteroids.

They are also less so soldiers and more like... Marshals? They come out to go and stalk, intimidate, and subdue hostile Mamono. Though, sometimes they themselves are the issue so in turn they have to be contained by other Athleta sometimes. They are still human though, and are capable of compassion purposefully so that Firebrands don't bilogically become murderers. Kobolds for instance are humongously popular as companions and trackers for Firebrands,

''Mr. Weiss scowled. “Provided, that is, that she has his symbiote. That’s the rub. Mmm…you’re too young ever to have been married but you’ve seen marriage, your own parents at least. Can you imagine being married to a Caleb?”

“Huh? No. No, I can’t.”

“The emotional relationship between the dog-man and the man-dog in the K-9 team is a great deal closer and much more important than is the emotional relationship in most marriages. If the Dog is killed…well, we can’t kill the man even though it would be the simplest solution. Instead we restrain him and hospitalize him and slowly put him back together. If the man gets killed...” He picked up a pen, made a mark. “I don’t think we can risk assigning a boy to K-9 who didn’t outwit his mother to have his dog sleep with him. So let’s consider something else.”''

I stole this as well from Starship Troopers and am proud of it.