Okay, so I know I said that when/if shape-shifting Ik lost her hand she could just regrow it. BUUUT!
Are we certain she would even lose her hand in this au to begin with?
Hear me out here, Ik has been in the Devildom for a decent amount of time by now, she's almost definitely looked into a bunch of fantastical Devildom creatures.
So she's standing there in front of Luke and Beel, wanting to keep them safe and thinking about how Lucifer is being a big dumb bully. And so she starts thinking, what animal could she become that would help her in this situation? An elephant? A whale? A tyrannosaurus? She remembers a conversation she had with Professor Elderflower about a week ago about a species of dragon that was as large as mountains that went extinct from the Devildom around a thousand years ago. Ik had somehow stumbled across a book that mentioned them. Professor Elderflower was happy to talk and even gave Ik some book recommendations on the dragon and others like it.
Ik thinks this is perfect, she'll transform and protect her friends! And maybe even cause Lucifer to think twice about being a bully around her. But Ik forgot one, very crucial detail. These dragons took centuries to fully mature and grow to their full size. So instead of being a massive dragon capable of straight up swallowing demons whole, she transforms into a dragon only double her human size. She is not fully discouraged however, it's only a minor setback! And she IS still bigger then normal! Unfortunately she isn't quite used to this new form yet, so she's bumbling around a bit, but that's alright, she is still a dragon! A very, intimidating?? dragon?? She looks a little like a wet kitten, and Lucifer looks more perplexed then intimidated but she still has one more trick up her sleeve!
She opens her mouth and let's out a roar! Well, what she wanted to be a roar. It sounded more like a squeaky chirping as she attempts to step forward. But in dragon years she is still just a baby and her legs are decidedly not very helpful. She stumbles and promptly falls on her dragon snout.
Lucifer is now, strangely feeling something akin to what he felt when he first took Mammon into his care, this small bumbling creature couldn't possibly be a threat, especially with how Ik is trying (and failing) to breath fire and only tiny little sparks are coming out. Lucifer is looking at this small child and can not help but be charmed. Especially when Ik tries to thrash around on the ground and accidentally smacks herself in the face with her own tail.
Lucifer certainly can't hurt the child, certainly not after she's gone and reminded him of Mammon when he was a child. So uh, task failed successfully, Ik! Task failed successfully.
oh my god ik would be so delighted to realise she could turn into a big cool dragon. and then so disappointed when she finds out her age translates into only being able to transform into the dragon equivalent of a clumsy baby bird whose head is kinda too heavy for its body
she's so embarrassed but because she's so flustered she can't get a handle on her transformation and lucifer just watches, baffled, as this bedraggled juvenile dragon dithers and then finally stumbles into the corner and attempts to hide her face inside a vase. operation calm-down-lucifer-and-rescue-luke turns into operation try-to-coax-small-dragon-out-of-vase
i think this would become lucifer's like no.1 favourite Embarrassing Memory. he brings it up at every single birthday and he's never any less amused by it. in fact his smile while recalling it seems to get larger every year. even once ik is old enough to actually transform into a fully grown scary dragon he's just always thinking about the squeaky baby hatchling from that incident
the only thing stopping him from recounting it even MORE often is the fact that he was about to attempt to kill her just prior to it happening
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