Deeman

"Do you really care about these people?"

- Deeman to Cheatso

Deeman is a key character that appears in all three games of the Cheatso Saga Trilogy. He is a fire demon that hates any race that is not his own (especially humans) and so he aims to kill them all. He is voiced by Alice.

Appearance
Deeman is a completely pitch-black demon. Everything on his body is black, with the exception of his glowing red eyes. He has two medium-sized, curved horns that represent his decent strength, sharp claws instead of hands, and pointy toes. He also wears a dark red, ragged robe with a hood (though he is very rarely seen using the hood), and a brown belt around his waist.

Personality
Deeman has a very sour demeanor, often being straight-up rude or heartless. When encountering a new person that is not a demon, his very first instinct is to attack them with the intention of killing them. He also reacts to the conversation of others without interest or in a sadistic way. He has a tendency to swear a lot, usually to amplify his feelings of anger, shock or disappointment, or when giving deprecating nicknames to others. Often, he likes to trick people into doing his biddings, only for his own self gain, such as when he tricked Cheatso into teaming up with him so he could kill Gerzad, or when he did the same to Narrull so he could retrieve the Demonic Medallion.

At the end of Metal Massacre, Deeman is given the feeling of appreciation after he indirectly helps Cheatso to take down Andrew. He then begins realizing that his hatred towards others may be unjustified, and considers giving others a chance, possibly redeeming himself.

Powers and Abilities
Being a fire demon, Deeman's main method of elemental attack is through fire. He can cast fireballs, erupt fire from under the floor, set fire onto the whole battlefield, or even bring a raging inferno against his enemies

Besides his fire powers, he is also very powerful physically. His signature move is his deadly Demon Punch, which is applied with such great force that may send the target flying. He can also kick his enemy, and although not as powerful as his punch, can still really cause some damage. He can also absorb some Hell power so he temporarily becomes physically stronger.

But perhaps his most prominent ability is his Hell Strength. Although all demons have access to Hell Strength, Deeman is able to enter it very often. During it, he becomes ten times stronger, and all his powers and abilities become utterly devastating. He can enter this status by feeling a huge rush of anger, and his Hell Strength is represented by raging fire which envelops his body.

Faults and Weaknesses
By being a demon, Deeman is extremely weak against anything holy. Should he be attacked with it, he may be easily taken down, unless he is in Hell Strength, which he used to survive against a group of religious people in his past.

Besides his weakness against holy things, being a fire demon also makes him very weak against water. So if it is raining, or he is in a humid atmosphere, his powers are weakened, and he may also be very hurt when being attacked with water.

Gerzad's Threat
Deeman makes his debut in the first game of the Cheatso Saga trilogy; Gerzad's Threat. He stars as one of the main protagonists, alongside Cheatso, and is a playable character throughout a very high majority of the game.

Upon meeting Gerzad and realizing that he's the latest host of the Jewel of Darkness, Deeman reluctantly teams up with Cheatso and chases after the alien with the intention of killing him, slaying Gerzad's minions on the way there as each of them is sent to stop the duo. However, this alliance is barely held together, as Deeman attempts to kill Cheatso multiple times throughout their quest; twice in a dark cave, and again at Gerzad's base.

In the bad ending of the game, Deeman successfully weakens Gerzad, allowing Dynwain to steal the Jewel's power for himself and challenge the duo to one final battle. Deeman ends up winning the fight, killing Dynwain and causing the Jewel's power to dissipate. With everyone dead, Deeman quickly leaves the scene. What happens to him after that is unknown.

In the good ending, Dynwain revives his dead friends instead of fighting Deeman and Cheatso, while the latter begins befriending the rest immediately. Driven by anger and hatred, Deeman enters his Hell Strength out of pure rage over his wasted efforts of killing Dynwain's friends, and engages them in a final battle, with the desire to kill them all once and for all. However, he loses and leaves the scene in shame.

Plagued Fear
Deeman does not appear in this game's main story, instead appearing in the game's side-story; Narrull's Quest. In it, he's seen chasing Shadow Thief, claiming that the latter has stolen his demonic medallion, an artifact that presumably allows demons to return to Hell. He teams up with Narrull, and later on, Sasha, to chase after Shadow Thief.

After defeating the thief and obtaining the demonic medallion, Deeman laughs evilly, revealing that the medallion wasn't his and that demons don't need a medallion to return to Hell, but instead, it multiplies the user's strength by an absurd amount. He then claims he will use it to destroy Planet Earth, using Gerzad's corpse as the host for it. After he's done speaking, he makes his way to the abandoned base, burning the forest outside in the process.

Once Narrull and Sasha catch up to him, he restores Gerzad's body to a non-decomposing state and possesses it, using it to fight the two who chased him, but ultimately loses the fight. After this humiliation, he gives up the body and the medallion, returning to Hell upfront.

Metal Massacre
He is seen once more in the final game of the trilogy, appearing for the first time at James' laboratory, chasing him and demanding answers to Andrew's weaknesses and the artificial body parts the former is building. Upon spotting Cheatso, he initiates a fight against him, which he loses.

After being forced to join the group against his will, James uses a gadget to fuse his body with Cheatso's, creating Cheeman. This fusion lasts throughout the group's trek through Starry Mountain, but it is undone after he takes heavy damage from Robo-Deeman's self-destruct explosion. Deeman agrees to continue with the group, and even tells them that he will help them fight stronger enemies.

Deeman travels with the group all the way to Andrew's base, sticking closer to them than Chang does, and even helps them fight against powerful foes, like the Guardian-Bot Prototype, Andrew's Flying Sentinel, a robotic version of Gerzad and even Andrew himself.

After Andrew absorbs the life force of the citizens and turns himself into a God, Deeman quickly leaves the scene, claiming to know how to give Cheatso an upper hand. He returns later with a syringe and injects its contents into Cheatso, returning his cheating powers to him, which allows the ghost jester to defeat Andrew, despite the latter's Godly strength.

After Andrew returns to normal and everyone comes back, Cheatso lets them know that it was because of Deeman that he was able to win against Andrew, so they all owe his victory to him. Everyone applauds and cheers for Deeman, which causes the demon to feel a weird sensation he has never felt before: the appreciation of others for doing a good deed. He ultimately ends up liking that feeling and concludes that other people must not be as bad as he thought. He says that he'll think about being on good terms with them, before finally returning to Hell once more to rest.

Trivia

 * Deeman was based on Demon Legion, a character created by one of Alice's former friends: DarkLegion. Due to this, Deeman used to have an old design, where he had shorter horns, had a dark red fedora, coat, pants and shoes, a white shirt, and gray gloves. However, due to some events and discussions, Deeman's design had to be changed to the design he uses now.
 * Deeman was confirmed to be Alice's favorite character in the entire Cheatso Saga Trilogy. He is also the favorite of Alice's sister.
 * Deeman appears in one of WaailsCT's games, M-88's Urgent Quest, starring as the secret boss of said game. He is encountered in Hell after the protagonists enter a portal, and decides to give them a chance of fighting for their lives instead of straight up killing them.