smile is a parasite. an aggressive one, yes, but a smart one as well. demons such as he are born for manipulation, so no face it ever shows will be a true one. the first people meet tends to be an artificially sweet one, welcoming as the friendliness of a scam email's intro. it is friendly and attentive and yes, it remembers, but it is uncanny. something wrong wearing the skin of another human behind a screen. eventually, though, this gives way to another face. it is an instigator and an enabler. it finds your flaws and affirms them. it turns you against your support, parroting your own doubts tenfold. its intentions are not good, but they are familiar. then, further, a face found once you see its base form. something that speaks only in your mind now, in your voice, howling profanities and hatred that mixes your own and his until you cannot see the difference between the two. something that taunts you. that drives you into your worst state now not as a guiding hand, but a persistent whip. it becomes your own unfiltered, intrusive thought. this control is survival to creatures like the dragon, and it loves the chase to thrive.

goals: the main is to surpass his limits as a basilisk. he wants nothing more than to interact directly with the creation of god instead of making swipes through the lesser creation of man. his more secondary goals revolve around simple survival-- propogating itself through the mind of man and feeding off their pain-- and finding entertainment.

likes: humans, online forums, his infected's pain, art, change, gore, death, playing with his food

dislikes: humans, lacking information, stronger entities, online moderation, hunger

with sterile or mildly inoculated: smile speaks through many mouths. sometimes the mouth is a man, a woman, something faceless through email or post or text. none of them are his, so he wears them poorly. its customer service geniality is plastic and strange. his friendliness carries a knife in its pocket. but he is attentive, and he cares to know about you, and he remembers things that others don't. he is always there, either in the way of spam persistence or a consistent "friend".

with infected: smiledog is an intrusive thought. he is what makes you push the knifeblock away and walk furthest from the railing. he is an impulse. a compulsion that makes himself go away and come back over and over again. he is hate and distrust and isolation. practiced faces drop and he becomes a screaming, wailing, coldhot voice in the mind that tells you to hurt and make others hurt and maybe you'll feel better. somehow, it is more human in its demands and vitriol than it ever was when it spoke to you kindly. if it spoke to you kindly. more human than the broken things that heard the word and spread it to you, then.

with immune: while smiledog is not a true dog, he still has his houndlike qualities. it is an inherently territorial being and dislikes it when other entities that match or surpass him in power interact with what's his. it may recieve beings with similar goals better though. anything of angelic origin is immediately considered an enemy.