Challenge #04683-L299: Help the Helper

They were a hellkin, but their horns never grew in. They had the tail, the dark red skin, black fingernails, though not claws, but no horns. As an adult they wore fake horns to try to be more like others of their type. Until another told them, "Horns don't matter, your kindness is in your heart." -- Lessons.

The basic Hellkin "starter set" if you wish to think about such things, is thought to be horns, teeth, tail, and weirdly-coloured skin. Red is the default, but any hue known to the mortal world is possible. As well as any hue that could be imagined. Many people were, of course, wrong. Sometimes, a Hellkin came along who was missing one of those core traits.

Comity had the cherry-red skin, the fangs, and the tail of any stereotypical Hellkin. He just happened to not have the horns. Not even nubs. He could, with the right makeup and other precautions, walk down the streets of any normal village and not attract hostile attention.

Many of his fellow devilborn could easily be jealous of him. Were they not in the town of outcasts. Gleaminvale.

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