This may be just from a medical standpoint, but when you are turned into stone, you are technically dead. No heartbeat, brain waves, pulse, breath, you would be stone to the core. Of course, once the effect wears off, you cease being 'dead' as your body is once again flesh and bone. But rocks aren't alive. They cannot change their form unless they are being broken into smaller rocks. Which would be really gross once the person changes back into the carbon based life they are.
And from a demonologist's standpoint, while demon's aren't really alive, that's because they are not of the material world, but rather, a physical manifestation of emotion/evil/energy, depends on what universe you're in. Point being, there really aren't stone demons that are, well, demon-y, because earth is part of the material world. You could make a movable object out of stone or mineral, hence golems, automatons, homunculi, but they can't really be considered demons, as they don't have any real will. And as Lucifer was banished from heaven for having free will, one can assume by default that his demonic spawn would also have such will.
All in all, golems, homunculi, automatons, robots, and gargoyles are not true demons or even living things, rather, they are man's reflection of himself in the material world, whereas the soul and ghost are his reflections in the spiritual.
But I am not a real doctor/demonologist/GM. So as it was previously said, Viridian must make their decision. I'm just putting in my two cents. Len out.
And from a demonologist's standpoint, while demon's aren't really alive, that's because they are not of the material world, but rather, a physical manifestation of emotion/evil/energy, depends on what universe you're in. Point being, there really aren't stone demons that are, well, demon-y, because earth is part of the material world. You could make a movable object out of stone or mineral, hence golems, automatons, homunculi, but they can't really be considered demons, as they don't have any real will. And as Lucifer was banished from heaven for having free will, one can assume by default that his demonic spawn would also have such will.
All in all, golems, homunculi, automatons, robots, and gargoyles are not true demons or even living things, rather, they are man's reflection of himself in the material world, whereas the soul and ghost are his reflections in the spiritual.
But I am not a real doctor/demonologist/GM. So as it was previously said, Viridian must make their decision. I'm just putting in my two cents. Len out.