Cicada Demons (also referred to as Endothermal Cicada Demons, Endothermal Cicadas, or simply ECDs) are a type of demons that awaken every seventeen years and come to the surface to find humans to host their eggs for reproduction. Some of their characteristics are their ability to shed their exoskeletons and their minds all being connected to one another, existing as a hive mind. They live in colonies and serve a queen.
History[]
In "Bug a Boo", Alistair Caine started luring demons into Hilltowne, and one of the cicada colonies came to the town to repeat their mating process. They feigned opening a dating app and had human recruits to help them find people to sign for the app. The applicants went on dates with what seemed like their perfect match, who were in fact the demons themselves. They kidnapped the applicants (including Sam Arnold) and implanted their bodies with eggs. After Macy Vaughn was taken by the demon Wes, Mel, Maggie Vera, and Harry Greenwood went to the demons' lair to save her and the rest of the innocents, vanquishing the colony's queen and her entire colony along with her.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Active Powers
- Heat Generation: The ability to generate heat. As endothermal demons, Cicada Demons—or at least their queens—are capable of the internal generation of heat. When Lainey used this power, the base of her body heated up which drew out through the various tubes which extended from her body.
- Web Generation: The ability to generate web-based constructs. Cicadas use this power to bind and hold their victims.
- Venom Secretion: The ability to release venom from the user's body. Cicadas administer a numbing agent into their victims to incapacitate them. The demons use this ability by projecting what appears to be three insect-esque legs from their mouths, using two of these legs to hook onto their victims while the middle leg is used to administer the venom by being pushed down the victim's throat.
- Shrieking: The ability to release a high-pitched screeching sound to cause pain to others by seemingly causing trauma to the inner ear.
- Limited Shapeshifting: The ability to alter one's appearance. Cicada Demons can shift between human and demon form.
- Supernatural Agility: The ability to possess greater agility, balance, and the speed to move from one motion to another quicker than what is naturally possible for a human being.
- Passive Powers
- Resistance: The power to resist to a certain point the powers of others. This was shown by one drone whose mind could be read by Maggie even while time was frozen.
Book of Shadows Entry[]
ENDOTHERMAL CICADA
continued from the general
Endothermal Demons passage
This page is to reference
Endothermal Cicada's only.
MAIN ATTRIBUTES
can take on alternate forms
when its exoskeletons are shed.
- Mate every 17 years
DANGERS & WARNINGS
When threatened,
Endothermal Cicada Demons,
ECD's, respond with an
auditory assault upon
their attackers.
- ECD's administer a numbing agent
into their prey for purposes of
mating or incubation
Exoskeletal shedding
- 4 complete shed cycles are required before alternate forms are reached
ENDOTHERMAL CICADAS
DANGERS & WARNINGS cont.
That being said, once a host has been
injected an Endothermal Queen can
lay her eggs in host bodies at anytime
If mating is successful
the hatchlings will then feed
on the bodies of their hosts
for immediate nutrients
SIGNIFIERS
ECD’s may use out of date
language and are prone to
distant clicking and buzzing
like sounds before injecting
their prey with a
numbing agent.
THREAT
Mid Level
VANQUISHING
See Fumigation Spells,
most effective are the
Kunjō Suru, Ka Uahu
and Xūn
Known Members[]
Trivia[]
- Cicada Demons presumably all have green-colored blood, as when Macy crushed Lainey with the control panel, it was coated in her green blood. Although it is possible that it is not blood that flows through their veins, but hemolymph, which is a characteristic of insects.