Pleasure Spiked With Pain

As a child, Fall-from-Grace was sold to demonic fiends and underwent years of mental torture before earning her freedom. She later opened up a brothel that was specifically designed to slake “intellectual lusts.” Rather than engaging their patrons on a physical level, the “prostitutes” under her employ are aspiring sensates who aim to identify with others in order to better understand themselves and the world around them. Succubi are known for their duplicitous nature, but Grace is a full-blown dichotomy. The creature of contradiction is a cleric, and yet she bows to no gods. She chooses to remain chaste even though her body was designed as a template for lust. She can kill with a kiss, but has no interest in manipulating others. Even though Grace was formed of chaos and evil, her actions are void of wickedness.

In World of Warcraft, succubi are described as devourers of souls, destroyers of hearts, and dominators of minds. Warlocks can summon them as demonic pets after meeting certain requirements, and the beautiful creatures assist their masters in a variety of ways after being enticed from their home plane. Succubi often whip their victims from afar and are also able to incapacitate their targets with seductive spells. Their sex appeal is almost always on display. If left alone, succubi will frequently spank themselves and let out erotic whimpers. Succubi enjoy raining death and misery down on their opponents, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have fun with them first. It would be a mistake to take them lightly, however. Despite their playful nature, succubi have incredible mental powers and natural instincts in combat.

Succubi are recurring enemies in the Castlevania series whose role vary from one game to the next. The scantily clad demons have sex appeal to spare, but their innate sluttiness often takes a backseat to their shapeshifting and dream-walking abilities. In Symphony of the Night, the succubus tormented Alucard by appearing in a nightmare disguised as his mother. The duplicitous nature was also apparent in Lament of Innocence, where the succubus appeared in the image of Leon Belmont’s late fiancée. The three pachislot Castlevania games that were released in Japan put more emphasis on their eroticism rather than focusing on their mimicry. Whether stealing kisses to drain energy or changing their appearance to inflict emotional damage, the succubus has become a fixture in the Castlevania universe.

Lilith is a prominent figure in Jewish mythology who is said to be the source of lustful dreams. Many characters in pop culture share her namesake, and they are almost always known for their seductive charms. There are many succubi in the Diablo franchise, but Lilith is known as the Queen of the Succubi. She’s also referred to as the mother of deceit, the mistress of betrayal, and an evil older than the world. Her affair with the Archangel Inarius led to the creation of the nephalem. (As offspring of an angel and a demon, the nephalem would forever alter the balance of power in the eternal conflict between heaven and hell.) An encounter with a succubus can alter the course of someone’s life, but Lilith’s enchanting behavior had a lasting effect on entire realms since her children eventually gave rise to humanity.

Before she was sealed away in an unholy tower, Nevan was a demonic gatekeeper who used her powers of seduction to lure her victims down the dark path to hell. The so-called Sorceress of the Abyss is known for her killer body, and the fact that she actually kills people seems almost irrelevant to the men that she exploits. Nevan often flirts with her victims before depleting their energy with life-draining kisses, and her ruttish personality leads me to believe that she’d probably try to bang everyone even if she wasn’t trying to lead them astray. Her feminine allure and sexuality are her most effective weapons, but she can also call forth lightning from the heavens or summon bats to fight alongside her. After being defeated by Dante, she relinquishes her soul to him and transforms into an electric guitar for some reason.

Xana was the daughter of a great wizard, but she threw her life away in a fit of jealous rage. After conjuring an imp to attack her cheating partner, she was burned at the stake for her crimes. She was later reborn as a succubus in the castle of the Arch-Demon Kha-Beleth. Xana was happy to do her master’s bidding, but her steadfast loyalty was challenged by her natural desire for power and freedom. Though bound to the spirit of the Arch-Demon’s son, Xana had her own hidden agenda and was able to use her seductive powers to influence decisions. (If you’re sexy, naked, and flirty, you can pretty much get whatever you want even if you don’t have any mystical powers.) Xana is a hot mess and a loose canon, but she speaks with sincerity and acts as a voice of reassurance. Don’t worry, you’ll learn to enjoy the pain eventually.

The lascivious King of Elze was a kinky deviant with a penchant for pain. Instead of doing the “normal” thing and hiring a dominatrix to beat the shit out of him, he put a call out to the demonoligists in his dungeons in the hopes of summoning a personal succubus of torment. At this point, Akasha arrived to fulfill his dark desires. The king spent most of his spare time with his secret Queen of Pain in his pursuit of pleasure, and he began to neglect his responsibilities as a consequence. His inability to govern eventually led to an uprising, and the king was overthrown in the process. Akasha had been tied to the service of the king, but his death released her from servitude and allowed her to unleash her brand of suffering on the world. She had been rune-bound to keep the king alive, but had no such obligations to anyone else.

Succubi have appeared as monsters in most of the Disgaea games, but the Overlord of Gorgeous was important enough to be featured as a main character. Succubi typically seduce men into doing their bidding, and Seraphina is no different in this regard. She believes that all men are destined to kneel before her, and the overbearing princess even hypnotized her own father into relinquishing his position of Overlord to her! Seraphina was raised in the lap of luxury and never had to lift anything heavier than a slice of cake, so it’s not surprising that she acts like a spoiled brat. She treats everyone like a servant, but there’s a kind person behind her haughty arrogance. Her biggest fear is losing her affluence, but she’d have most men dancing in the palm of her hand even if she wasn’t so wealthy.

As a man with no ambition living in a “dump of a city,” Vincent Brooks hit the jackpot with Katherine McBride. She was way out of his league, but he somehow maintained a steady relationship with her for five years. In the wake of a pregnancy scare, Vincent decided to get shitfaced at the local bar and re-evaluate his life. It was at this point he met a flirtatious young blonde name Catherine. In a moment of weakness, Vincent had an affair with his new friend before being swept away in a spiral of paranoia. No one else had any recollection of Catherine and there was no evidence that she actually existed, but she haunted Vincent’s dreams and put tremendous stress on his relationship. Ultimately, Catherine was revealed to be a succubus who aimed to break up couples in an effort to save hotties like Katherine from unfaithful losers.

In the Darkstalkers universe, succubi are endangered beings who will apparently die if they aren’t regularly stimulated. It’s crucial for Morrigan to play up her sexuality at every turn, and this probably explains why her attire is so revealing. Her blood and saliva has a lustful effect, but a night with Morrigan will result in death. Her intentions aren’t entirely selfish, however. Sure, the physical bodies of the men she seduces are left in a desiccated state; but their souls get to live inside of her in a state of endless pleasure! Who wouldn’t want to spend an eternity inside of her? Morrigan isn’t the only succubus in the Darkstalkers franchise, but she’s the most popular and recognizable character in the series. Unlike her younger “sister” Lilith who is defined by misguided innocence, Morrigan knows exactly what she’s doing.