STATE OF THE UNION.
DEVIT HAS A TATTOO! He got this for many deeply meaningful, character development-related reasons and not at all just because I thought it would be sexy. How could you even think that!
. . . Well okay, no. It's both, really! ;o; I DID WANT TO GIVE HIM THE TATTOO and it was something he'd been vaguely wanting IC for months for shallow reasons of "I am so badass and I want a tattoo, that would be so cool." But because Devit has Awkwardness around Castor, it took the past month's worth of camp events to actually get him to ask for it, and when he did it was for several reasons. One of which is "TATTOOS ARE COOL AND I'M A BAD BAD MAN." But others of which are more meaningful than that, okay. Most of it is easy to pick up on if you read his recent threads, but oh well, I'm rambling about it anyway.
This is also a general "State of the Union Post-Jasdero" and "Devit's post-camp plans" thingie, because that's tied in very closely! And tbh I was going to do the State of the Union meme but then I realized only Devit and Hyuuga are in interesting places right now ICly. HYUUGA'S MINI-ESSAY WILL COME NEXT, IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED.
Also, Devit's year anniversary in camp is on Sunday \o/ SO IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR ONE OF THESE.
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BEFORE THE TATTOO STUFF. More general "how Devit is" etc.
The answer is "sort of okayish." It's been three weeks since Jasdero left (on the last day of March, A DAY THAT SHALL LIVE IN INFAMY). That's the same amount of time that Devit spent without Jasdero when he first arrived at camp, so from here on out, this is the longest Devit's ever been without him, and IT HURTS LIKE FUCK. I mentioned in a headcanon meme waaaaaay back like 11 months ago that Devit sort of has two consciousnesses when it comes to Jasdero. There's the feeling in his soul of "Jasdero's not here, I'm incomplete, we're apart, this goes against our nature, PART OF MY SOUL IS MISSING." That pain can never, ever lessen. There is nothing else in existence that can fill that hole, not friends or family or the Earl or sex or drugs or violence, NOTHING. He can live with it, because he has before, and because Devit lives with a lot of pain anyway, being a Noah. But he will sometimes wake up crying for no reason and so on for as long as Jasdero isn't here, he will have nightmares, he'll feel that ache of being ripped in half. He can't control that. :(
The other feeling of loss is the . . . conscious, mental one, the one that's like missing your best friend or twin brother or lover when you're separated. The "Oh hey, Jasdero would like this purple chicken . . . oh. Oh." feeling. :( THAT . . . will also never go away. But it's a normal, human, mental feeling, and it can lessen, and he can fill that void with other people. When Devit first got to camp and ended up alone here for three weeks, he was beginning that process; he was making friends slowly, finding people he could lean on and touch and talk to and hang out with in NOT QUITE the same way he hangs out with Jasdero, but who could still form a social support for him to get him through the days. And now he's back at that point, mostly. This time he already HAD friends and people who care for him, and he also already had the experience of going through this before. He knows he can survive it, even if it hurts. And it won't ever go away, he'll always be sad when he finds a new pet Jasdero would like or eats Jasdero's favorite food or brushes someone else's hair or paints his own fingernails. But it's a normal, human sadness that he can talk about and lessen with interaction, unlike the soul-sadness of "HALF MY SOUL IS GONE BAWWWWWWW."
When Jasdero first left Devit was useless for like five days to a week (DURING WHICH I INCIDENTALLY DID NOT PLAY HIM MUCH). He spent all his time quietly in bed, not talking to anyone, crying a lot, wanting to be alone. Then he finally said "fuck this" and got out of bed and started halfway functioning again, making half-hearted conversation and continuing to be quiet and reluctant to touch anyone. Now it's been three weeks, and he's . . . not normal, but he's getting there. He's able to have fun and enjoy people's company again, and MAKES IT THROUGH ENTIRE DAYS WITHOUT CRYING! He can smile and pick on people and so on. There are still lingering effects; he's extremely clingy in his sleep, does sometimes cry for no reason (mostly privately 8(), gets upset and quiet at things that remind him of Jasdero.
He is also very reluctant to get violent at the moment. It sucks, because physical exertion and violence and bodily action are a big part of what keeps Devit sane and happy and feeling good. But there is nothing else in the world that makes him miss Jasdero as much as fighting without him. Everything he does in battle without Jasdero is like a constant reminder that Jasdero isn't here, because everything about Devit's fighting style relies on Jasdero BEING THERE WITH HIM. Even the normal physical gun-shooting stuff, they touch each other a lot and position themselves and balance themselves using one another's bodies. Even though Devit is physically semi-capable by himself, it's just not the same without Jasdero, even NOT taking his lack of Noah powers into account. Also! When Jasdero came to camp the first time, he WASN'T HAPPY upon learning that Devit had been trained, even for very brief periods, in how to defend himself while alone. So even though Devit could start loading his gun again and going around picking fights with people on his level (which at this point is "strong normal humans"), and even though in a way that would make him feel better, he's not going to, because it would also make him feel weak/worse, and he worries about Jasdero feeling betrayed again if and when he comes back. He doesn't even want to fight zombies/monsters, and fighting campers comes with the added NON-BONUS of "If I piss off Hakuren/Teito/Michael/my other friends, and they leave me, I have absolutely no one to fall back on this time." This is something Devit has always been wary of, but now that Jasdero isn't here and Devit has no Bonds support system, he knows that if he ends up completely alone and shunned in camp, he's as good as dead, both ~on the inside~ and perhaps literally.
SO VIOLENTLY SPEAKING, Devit is out of commission, at least for a while. So in lieu of that form of physical activity/stress relief, what he really needs is to get laid~.
. . . Actually, no, what he really needs and wants is to dance, but that's easily rectified and something he can do and always has done on his own, and I plan on doing a post soon about it that will help him feel better. :D
So he doesn't really need to get laid, but he does still want to, which is another side effect of Jasdero leaving. Need for physical exertion + missing Jasdero's constant physical contact + feeling clingy and needy socially + wanting to distract himself + "shit I slept in Hakuren's bed for a week and was too depressed to make a move" + " . . . Well, Jasdero's not around to cockblock me, I guess" = Devit is also kind of low-grade horny for the time being, has been watching more porn, etc. NOT A BIG DEAL and he'll get over it or get kittened again, but I know how you all love my Sexual State of the Union. Actually, that would be an interesting serious poll. But uh. In any case!
One more thing to mention before I get on to the tattoo stuff, because it came up earlier in the essay, and also ICly with Hakuren a couple of days ago. Devit has considered and is worried about the possibility that Jasdero will return to camp with no memories. THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE. (App him so we can do it, dammit!) But anyway, if that happened, it would be complicated for Devit, but he's thought it through carefully and worried about it a lot and he's decided he's not going to change his behavior because of that possibility. Hakuren questioned Devit about whether or not he wanted to back off of the relationship in case Jasdero came back memory-less and was horrified to see Devit with a boyfriend/making out with another guy, but in Devit's estimation, the damage has been done. Jasdero's going to find out anyway as soon as they combine into Jasdevi/before then if Devit decides to be honest (which he will, after the fiasco of last time), and Devit doesn't feel like "I had a boyfriend for seven months but then you left and I stopped seeing him" is any better than "I had a boyfriend for ten months" (or however long it takes Jasdero to come back, if he does. Also sob has he really been with Hakuren for seven months, WOW). He actually worries it might be worse, because the first Jasdero blamed himself a lot for Devit's issues and unhappiness (which were Devit's fault), and Devit worries that "You left camp and I deliberately made myself miserable for months because you weren't here to stop me, WELCOME BACK" will cause that to happen again, if Jasdero even returns and if he even loses his memory when he does, neither of which are certainties.
SO ANYWAY, DEVIT'S TATTOO.
Is on his left bicep and is about 4 inches long. If you don't know what that is, and you totally don't!! it's Fest's symbol. Fest is the Ghost (which is sort of more like an angel or demi-god in 07-Ghost World) of Bonds in Hakuren's universe! He also happens to be Bishop Castor, who agreed to and gave Devit the tattoo and whom Devit admires and respects and fears very much (among other things, he saved Ticky's life once). Sweet.
Devit first saw the symbol when Castor saved Ticky's life (it's on Castor's hand), thought it was cool, and filed it away, vaguely thinking "I wish I had a cool Bonds-meaning tattoo like that." But he would have never actually asked for it, because it was silly, and because Devit is extremely awkward around Castor most of the time because of his hero-worship-crush-thing on him. :(
THEN JASDERO LEFT. And Devit decided he really wanted the damn tattoo. And here is why, in bullet-point "Devit's weird logic" format.
♫ First off, it's a tribute to Jasdero, because the meaning of it is "Bonds." It's like Devit's equivalent of getting 絆 tattooed on his arm, and I don't even know if that's the right kanji because I don't know Japanese but I looked up kizuna and that's what I got SO WHATEVER, YOU GET THE POINT. So first and foremost, it's Devit's way of having Jasdero and Noah's Bonds with him, on his body. The fact that A LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THE BONDS gave him the tattoo adds to the meaning of it, too.
♫ SECONDLY . . . Devit doesn't want to go home, and he thinks it might happen soon, although he's less convinced than he was. The first time he came to camp, he came alone, and Jasdero showed up after three weeks. Now Jasdero's gone, and it's been three weeks, and Devit in the back of his mind is wondering if it's the same situation in reverse, if he's suddenly going to be pulled back to his world. And the thing is, if a way home opened to Devit, he'd be completely unable to say no, because Jasdero is there. Sure he's happy in camp! He has friends and his boyfriend and gourmet food for free and his own place and video games and a heated pool and the internet and he's not always being bossed around. He loves camp for these reasons, and he doesn't want to go back to his world, now if ever. But Jasdero outweighs all of them. Devit would give up absolutely everything else to see Jasdero again, with no hesitation. There's no choice in the matter; they're meant to be together.
Devit's plan, or HOPE, if he does get sucked back to DGM-land, is to grab Jasdero and then make it back to camp with Jasdero in tow. And he has NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT, but he superstitiously believes that the tattoo might help, in a strange way. He's Bonds, the tattoo is Bonds, and it's the Bonds of another world that is not his own. To him, and this is how he literally envisions it and "feels" it, it's like having a string tied to his arm that leads out of his own universe. It's a powerful symbol from another world placed on him by a god-like being from another world, so it's a tie to that world, or at least to camp (where he got it and where Castor is).
This is something that Devit wants even if he breaks up with Hakuren or something in the future. Over his time in camp, he's decided--and this is a decision he made with Jasdero, and so he believes Jasdero will approve of it even if he loses his memory of it--he's decided that he doesn't want to go home immediately. The only thing that ties Devit to his own world is his Noah's GOD-GIVEN DESTINY to destroy it. But to do that almost certainly means giving up his own life, and he knows it. He isn't thrilled about it. He's not bitter or angry or sad exactly, because it's in his nature to be a sacrifice! It's what he is! But he's not in a hurry for it to happen, and he is not above delaying it while he has fun on his own terms (much as he and Jasdero do in canon with their missions, behind the back of the Earl). What he wants is to visit other worlds and see new things and have fun with Jasdero outside of his responsibilities and his shitty world. A big part of this is visiting/staying with Hakuren in HIS universe, but that isn't all of it; like I said, even if they broke up, Devit has other reasons for wanting to go there, and other places he'd like to visit.
And he understands that he if goes home directly from camp, there is a very good chance he will die before he ever gets to visit anyone else. So Devit's current plan (again, Jasdero-approved) is to go home AFTER visiting Hakuren/whomever else he can and wants to. He assumes that Jasdero will want to go home eventually, or that the Earl/Rhode will find them and force them back, or that the Noah inside them will force them back to do their duty and bring Armageddon. If none of the above happens, Devit is fine with never seeing his world again. He thinks being a Noah will probably prevent him from staying away forever, but if it doesn't--hell, then the Noah can't have cared that much in the first place, so why not hang out in other more awesome worlds and keep having fun with Jasdero!
So having the tattoo is like a lifeline or beacon. If camp DOES send him home to Jasdero, now he's got this symbol of another world etched on his body, so he won't forget that world, and maybe it can even serve as a bond to it, since that's the meaning behind it anyway.
♫ It looks cool and Castor is awesome and badass iyaaaan. Shut up, these are legitimate reasons too. HE'S A TEENAGER 8(
♫ DEVIT IS MAD AT THE EARL RIGHT NOW. So. Think teenage rebellion against his parents, orz. Devit was very angry at the Earl's lack of sympathy for him when Jasdero left. His feelings on the Earl are very complicated and an essay unto themselves, but in brief, Devit does associate the Earl with "saving" him and being kind and understanding and supportive during the extremely painful and emotionally wrenching Noah awakening. The Earl is a scary and overbearing and demanding parental figure WHO MIGHT KILL HIM SOMEDAY, but he is a parental figure all the same. And so Devit felt shocked and hurt and betrayed at the Earl's lack of sympathy and threatening of him during the second most painful time of his life. He really doesn't understand why ALLEN WALKER felt more like he understood and cared than the Earl did. It's not enough to make him go traitor or anything (although if and when he sees Jasdero again, he will mention it), but it's enough for him to have a typical teenage kneejerk reaction of "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, DAD!" And in some ways, getting the tattoo was an expression of that, too, of GROWING UP AND MAKING HIS OWN CHOICES IN WAYS PARENTS WOULDN'T APPROVE OF SO SUCK IT!!!
Okay, I think that about covers it. WE OUT. \o/ Questions/comments/your mom?
. . . Well okay, no. It's both, really! ;o; I DID WANT TO GIVE HIM THE TATTOO and it was something he'd been vaguely wanting IC for months for shallow reasons of "I am so badass and I want a tattoo, that would be so cool." But because Devit has Awkwardness around Castor, it took the past month's worth of camp events to actually get him to ask for it, and when he did it was for several reasons. One of which is "TATTOOS ARE COOL AND I'M A BAD BAD MAN." But others of which are more meaningful than that, okay. Most of it is easy to pick up on if you read his recent threads, but oh well, I'm rambling about it anyway.
This is also a general "State of the Union Post-Jasdero" and "Devit's post-camp plans" thingie, because that's tied in very closely! And tbh I was going to do the State of the Union meme but then I realized only Devit and Hyuuga are in interesting places right now ICly. HYUUGA'S MINI-ESSAY WILL COME NEXT, IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED.
Also, Devit's year anniversary in camp is on Sunday \o/ SO IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR ONE OF THESE.
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BEFORE THE TATTOO STUFF. More general "how Devit is" etc.
The answer is "sort of okayish." It's been three weeks since Jasdero left (on the last day of March, A DAY THAT SHALL LIVE IN INFAMY). That's the same amount of time that Devit spent without Jasdero when he first arrived at camp, so from here on out, this is the longest Devit's ever been without him, and IT HURTS LIKE FUCK. I mentioned in a headcanon meme waaaaaay back like 11 months ago that Devit sort of has two consciousnesses when it comes to Jasdero. There's the feeling in his soul of "Jasdero's not here, I'm incomplete, we're apart, this goes against our nature, PART OF MY SOUL IS MISSING." That pain can never, ever lessen. There is nothing else in existence that can fill that hole, not friends or family or the Earl or sex or drugs or violence, NOTHING. He can live with it, because he has before, and because Devit lives with a lot of pain anyway, being a Noah. But he will sometimes wake up crying for no reason and so on for as long as Jasdero isn't here, he will have nightmares, he'll feel that ache of being ripped in half. He can't control that. :(
The other feeling of loss is the . . . conscious, mental one, the one that's like missing your best friend or twin brother or lover when you're separated. The "Oh hey, Jasdero would like this purple chicken . . . oh. Oh." feeling. :( THAT . . . will also never go away. But it's a normal, human, mental feeling, and it can lessen, and he can fill that void with other people. When Devit first got to camp and ended up alone here for three weeks, he was beginning that process; he was making friends slowly, finding people he could lean on and touch and talk to and hang out with in NOT QUITE the same way he hangs out with Jasdero, but who could still form a social support for him to get him through the days. And now he's back at that point, mostly. This time he already HAD friends and people who care for him, and he also already had the experience of going through this before. He knows he can survive it, even if it hurts. And it won't ever go away, he'll always be sad when he finds a new pet Jasdero would like or eats Jasdero's favorite food or brushes someone else's hair or paints his own fingernails. But it's a normal, human sadness that he can talk about and lessen with interaction, unlike the soul-sadness of "HALF MY SOUL IS GONE BAWWWWWWW."
When Jasdero first left Devit was useless for like five days to a week (DURING WHICH I INCIDENTALLY DID NOT PLAY HIM MUCH). He spent all his time quietly in bed, not talking to anyone, crying a lot, wanting to be alone. Then he finally said "fuck this" and got out of bed and started halfway functioning again, making half-hearted conversation and continuing to be quiet and reluctant to touch anyone. Now it's been three weeks, and he's . . . not normal, but he's getting there. He's able to have fun and enjoy people's company again, and MAKES IT THROUGH ENTIRE DAYS WITHOUT CRYING! He can smile and pick on people and so on. There are still lingering effects; he's extremely clingy in his sleep, does sometimes cry for no reason (mostly privately 8(), gets upset and quiet at things that remind him of Jasdero.
He is also very reluctant to get violent at the moment. It sucks, because physical exertion and violence and bodily action are a big part of what keeps Devit sane and happy and feeling good. But there is nothing else in the world that makes him miss Jasdero as much as fighting without him. Everything he does in battle without Jasdero is like a constant reminder that Jasdero isn't here, because everything about Devit's fighting style relies on Jasdero BEING THERE WITH HIM. Even the normal physical gun-shooting stuff, they touch each other a lot and position themselves and balance themselves using one another's bodies. Even though Devit is physically semi-capable by himself, it's just not the same without Jasdero, even NOT taking his lack of Noah powers into account. Also! When Jasdero came to camp the first time, he WASN'T HAPPY upon learning that Devit had been trained, even for very brief periods, in how to defend himself while alone. So even though Devit could start loading his gun again and going around picking fights with people on his level (which at this point is "strong normal humans"), and even though in a way that would make him feel better, he's not going to, because it would also make him feel weak/worse, and he worries about Jasdero feeling betrayed again if and when he comes back. He doesn't even want to fight zombies/monsters, and fighting campers comes with the added NON-BONUS of "If I piss off Hakuren/Teito/Michael/my other friends, and they leave me, I have absolutely no one to fall back on this time." This is something Devit has always been wary of, but now that Jasdero isn't here and Devit has no Bonds support system, he knows that if he ends up completely alone and shunned in camp, he's as good as dead, both ~on the inside~ and perhaps literally.
SO VIOLENTLY SPEAKING, Devit is out of commission, at least for a while. So in lieu of that form of physical activity/stress relief, what he really needs is to get laid~.
. . . Actually, no, what he really needs and wants is to dance, but that's easily rectified and something he can do and always has done on his own, and I plan on doing a post soon about it that will help him feel better. :D
So he doesn't really need to get laid, but he does still want to, which is another side effect of Jasdero leaving. Need for physical exertion + missing Jasdero's constant physical contact + feeling clingy and needy socially + wanting to distract himself + "shit I slept in Hakuren's bed for a week and was too depressed to make a move" + " . . . Well, Jasdero's not around to cockblock me, I guess" = Devit is also kind of low-grade horny for the time being, has been watching more porn, etc. NOT A BIG DEAL and he'll get over it or get kittened again, but I know how you all love my Sexual State of the Union. Actually, that would be an interesting serious poll. But uh. In any case!
One more thing to mention before I get on to the tattoo stuff, because it came up earlier in the essay, and also ICly with Hakuren a couple of days ago. Devit has considered and is worried about the possibility that Jasdero will return to camp with no memories. THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE. (App him so we can do it, dammit!) But anyway, if that happened, it would be complicated for Devit, but he's thought it through carefully and worried about it a lot and he's decided he's not going to change his behavior because of that possibility. Hakuren questioned Devit about whether or not he wanted to back off of the relationship in case Jasdero came back memory-less and was horrified to see Devit with a boyfriend/making out with another guy, but in Devit's estimation, the damage has been done. Jasdero's going to find out anyway as soon as they combine into Jasdevi/before then if Devit decides to be honest (which he will, after the fiasco of last time), and Devit doesn't feel like "I had a boyfriend for seven months but then you left and I stopped seeing him" is any better than "I had a boyfriend for ten months" (or however long it takes Jasdero to come back, if he does. Also sob has he really been with Hakuren for seven months, WOW). He actually worries it might be worse, because the first Jasdero blamed himself a lot for Devit's issues and unhappiness (which were Devit's fault), and Devit worries that "You left camp and I deliberately made myself miserable for months because you weren't here to stop me, WELCOME BACK" will cause that to happen again, if Jasdero even returns and if he even loses his memory when he does, neither of which are certainties.
SO ANYWAY, DEVIT'S TATTOO.
Is on his left bicep and is about 4 inches long. If you don't know what that is, and you totally don't!! it's Fest's symbol. Fest is the Ghost (which is sort of more like an angel or demi-god in 07-Ghost World) of Bonds in Hakuren's universe! He also happens to be Bishop Castor, who agreed to and gave Devit the tattoo and whom Devit admires and respects and fears very much (among other things, he saved Ticky's life once). Sweet.
Devit first saw the symbol when Castor saved Ticky's life (it's on Castor's hand), thought it was cool, and filed it away, vaguely thinking "I wish I had a cool Bonds-meaning tattoo like that." But he would have never actually asked for it, because it was silly, and because Devit is extremely awkward around Castor most of the time because of his hero-worship-crush-thing on him. :(
THEN JASDERO LEFT. And Devit decided he really wanted the damn tattoo. And here is why, in bullet-point "Devit's weird logic" format.
♫ First off, it's a tribute to Jasdero, because the meaning of it is "Bonds." It's like Devit's equivalent of getting 絆 tattooed on his arm, and I don't even know if that's the right kanji because I don't know Japanese but I looked up kizuna and that's what I got SO WHATEVER, YOU GET THE POINT. So first and foremost, it's Devit's way of having Jasdero and Noah's Bonds with him, on his body. The fact that A LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THE BONDS gave him the tattoo adds to the meaning of it, too.
♫ SECONDLY . . . Devit doesn't want to go home, and he thinks it might happen soon, although he's less convinced than he was. The first time he came to camp, he came alone, and Jasdero showed up after three weeks. Now Jasdero's gone, and it's been three weeks, and Devit in the back of his mind is wondering if it's the same situation in reverse, if he's suddenly going to be pulled back to his world. And the thing is, if a way home opened to Devit, he'd be completely unable to say no, because Jasdero is there. Sure he's happy in camp! He has friends and his boyfriend and gourmet food for free and his own place and video games and a heated pool and the internet and he's not always being bossed around. He loves camp for these reasons, and he doesn't want to go back to his world, now if ever. But Jasdero outweighs all of them. Devit would give up absolutely everything else to see Jasdero again, with no hesitation. There's no choice in the matter; they're meant to be together.
Devit's plan, or HOPE, if he does get sucked back to DGM-land, is to grab Jasdero and then make it back to camp with Jasdero in tow. And he has NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT, but he superstitiously believes that the tattoo might help, in a strange way. He's Bonds, the tattoo is Bonds, and it's the Bonds of another world that is not his own. To him, and this is how he literally envisions it and "feels" it, it's like having a string tied to his arm that leads out of his own universe. It's a powerful symbol from another world placed on him by a god-like being from another world, so it's a tie to that world, or at least to camp (where he got it and where Castor is).
This is something that Devit wants even if he breaks up with Hakuren or something in the future. Over his time in camp, he's decided--and this is a decision he made with Jasdero, and so he believes Jasdero will approve of it even if he loses his memory of it--he's decided that he doesn't want to go home immediately. The only thing that ties Devit to his own world is his Noah's GOD-GIVEN DESTINY to destroy it. But to do that almost certainly means giving up his own life, and he knows it. He isn't thrilled about it. He's not bitter or angry or sad exactly, because it's in his nature to be a sacrifice! It's what he is! But he's not in a hurry for it to happen, and he is not above delaying it while he has fun on his own terms (much as he and Jasdero do in canon with their missions, behind the back of the Earl). What he wants is to visit other worlds and see new things and have fun with Jasdero outside of his responsibilities and his shitty world. A big part of this is visiting/staying with Hakuren in HIS universe, but that isn't all of it; like I said, even if they broke up, Devit has other reasons for wanting to go there, and other places he'd like to visit.
And he understands that he if goes home directly from camp, there is a very good chance he will die before he ever gets to visit anyone else. So Devit's current plan (again, Jasdero-approved) is to go home AFTER visiting Hakuren/whomever else he can and wants to. He assumes that Jasdero will want to go home eventually, or that the Earl/Rhode will find them and force them back, or that the Noah inside them will force them back to do their duty and bring Armageddon. If none of the above happens, Devit is fine with never seeing his world again. He thinks being a Noah will probably prevent him from staying away forever, but if it doesn't--hell, then the Noah can't have cared that much in the first place, so why not hang out in other more awesome worlds and keep having fun with Jasdero!
So having the tattoo is like a lifeline or beacon. If camp DOES send him home to Jasdero, now he's got this symbol of another world etched on his body, so he won't forget that world, and maybe it can even serve as a bond to it, since that's the meaning behind it anyway.
♫ It looks cool and Castor is awesome and badass iyaaaan. Shut up, these are legitimate reasons too. HE'S A TEENAGER 8(
♫ DEVIT IS MAD AT THE EARL RIGHT NOW. So. Think teenage rebellion against his parents, orz. Devit was very angry at the Earl's lack of sympathy for him when Jasdero left. His feelings on the Earl are very complicated and an essay unto themselves, but in brief, Devit does associate the Earl with "saving" him and being kind and understanding and supportive during the extremely painful and emotionally wrenching Noah awakening. The Earl is a scary and overbearing and demanding parental figure WHO MIGHT KILL HIM SOMEDAY, but he is a parental figure all the same. And so Devit felt shocked and hurt and betrayed at the Earl's lack of sympathy and threatening of him during the second most painful time of his life. He really doesn't understand why ALLEN WALKER felt more like he understood and cared than the Earl did. It's not enough to make him go traitor or anything (although if and when he sees Jasdero again, he will mention it), but it's enough for him to have a typical teenage kneejerk reaction of "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, DAD!" And in some ways, getting the tattoo was an expression of that, too, of GROWING UP AND MAKING HIS OWN CHOICES IN WAYS PARENTS WOULDN'T APPROVE OF SO SUCK IT!!!
Okay, I think that about covers it. WE OUT. \o/ Questions/comments/your mom?