Responses
As much as I LOVE the theory, they each have histories that make me think it’s impossible for it to be true
The fact that I had the same theory till I saw Deus's past. Because it could apply to the other three. But it seems Deus was the most recent one to join and also the one who has had a longer history of being there even more than Leon.
I have this same feeling
my personal theory is that all of the dickheads are each a different aspect of Cliff. Like somehow during a magic accident (probably to help Leon) gone wrong, he split into different people, each guy representing a part of his psyche.
deus(jock w/ anger issues): bloodlust/violent sexual lust/rage— the “id”, going by freud’s theory.
beryl(kicked puppy): fear, anxiety, attachment, sadness (“id” aligned)
memphisto(glasses): intelligence, cunning, logic
this is where freud doesnt work, superego is morality, and that doesn’t exist in our story. at all. but he could be “ego” aligned…
nergal(mpreg enthusiast leader): but if anyone is “ego,” who ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world, and weighs the costs and benefits of an action before deciding to act upon or abandon impulses—-its naur-gal.
and because time seems to pass differently for these other-worldly creatures, the split happened years and years before these pieces of Cliff found their way back to Leon again(a very, understandably upset, angry Leon, who since Cliff “left him,” hasn’t aged a day)