𝔩𝔲𝔠𝔦𝔣𝔢𝔯

now tell me, darling, what is it that you truly desire?

[fyeslucifer]

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ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[mcrninqstar]

Starter: @mazikeenofmurders​

Everything about the last few days made him want to rip out his hair. he couldn’t believe that any of this was happening. for a moment, he thought god might have returned and given him another curse but thankfully it just turned out to be pestilence. once mazikeen was better, lucifer wanted to see pest, but not speak to him. no, the only things he wanted out of pestilence were his screams. thankfully, they’d gotten ahead of this disease and a cure was located before maze reached the unthinkable point. lucifer was now seated by her bedside with head resting on her hand as he waited for the cure to do what it was designed to do. maze was still unconscious, but she was thankfully improving. “we need a vacation after this,” he sighed to himself as he kissed the tips of maze’s fingers. “maybe we ought to go to another universe like cuphegor. some place far, far away.”

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ofhellsbells​:

They shrugged. “You’re right. I wouldn’t show Maze the tape.” There was no reason to stop there. “I’d show the whole family. Dagon especially.” They were always bound to tell at least Dagon and Cupid, but if it was funny enough, the family liked to get in on jokes together. They stepped forward to see that card on the door. So that’s what he’d been doing there. They took the card off the door to read it and chuckled at it. They still had enough of his grace to tell that his pride was genuine and not just something to make them feel better. “I haven’t really done much with it,” they acknowledged. It definitely wasn’t easy like he said. They’d known it wouldn’t be easy going in, but they really hadn’t realized just how much there would be to it. They dragged their hand down their face. “It’s like I’m just doing catch up to get things semi stable and not anything actually productive or progressive.” They sighed. They didn’t want Lucifer to feel like this was his problem. He’d had to deal with so many of their problems already, and they didn’t want to seem like they were just being lazy or helpless by putting their problems on him. “And the pressure’s just something I have to get used to.”

His shoulders sagged with relief but it was only momentary as they corrected themselves to say they’d show the whole family. “rude. she’ll never let me live it down,” he complained. “at least i’m a better screamer than she is,” he commiserated. “and at least i didn’t chuck anything at you. she probably would’ve thrown your entire desk.” lucifer frowned at them when they said they hadn’t really done much. “what do you mean? you’ve built an entire castle and little villages for them all. you’ve figured out which ones are safe to stay awake and which ones need to sleep a little. you’ve started making food and entertainment and third spaces for them. you’ve brought in their friends and family to visit. you’ve done a lot. i know you’re like 4’11″ but don’t sell yourself short. you’ve done a lot and getting them to a sense of stability is progressive and productive.” he shook his head when bells remarked that they’d have to get used the to pressure. it scared him how much belphegor was a mirror of himself after the war. “there are things about leadership that will always be stressful and it’s okay to vent about that. do you ever wonder why we had hell meetings every month even though some months it really could’ve just been an email? or why i veer us off topic so much at meetings? it’s because the only people who really understand the pressure of leading are the seven of us and maybe the four goons in heaven.” he couldn’t speak for the others, but those meetings were like support groups to him. “you’re always welcome back to them, by the way. just because you have your own realm now doesn’t mean you don’t have to come to our leadership support group hell meetings. in fact, we’d probably benefit from a does and don’ts meeting about your realm. oh! and you can bring cupid. she’s technically a monarch too and i know she’s always had fomo about not being able to see hell.”

[mcrninqstar]

mazikeenofmurders​:

“A mall Santa murder?” She rose a brow. That was a new one, though at the same time the story sounded familiar to her. “Isn’t that just the plot of The Santa Clause? So the guy’s innocent then. He kills Santa, and he becomes Santa. That’s just the rules.” That probably wouldn’t hold up in a court of law, but maybe they could’ve convinced Sam into arguing on their behalf that because what the murderer did was in the rules of the Santa Clause, Lucifer shouldn’t have had to fulfill the bet. Knowing Asmo though, even the devil’s advocate couldn’t get Lucifer out of this. “Well, you’re not wrong,” she agreed when he said she could make anything sexy. If she could still attract people while wearing boxy scrubs, she’d be just as flattering as an elf, probably more so, and she liked the idea of that sleigh ride. “Fine, but I’m making alterations to it,” she said as she took the costume from him. “It might distract Santa a little more that way.”

“Oh, believe me, i tried that argument. i even called sam to argue it for me some more. asmo wasn’t accepting it despite the precedent set by the santa clause movies.” it had been a solid argument in lucifer’s opinion, but asmo clearly wanted to see him cosplaying an elf. “i think the only person that could talk him out of this is lailah, but it feels wrong to ask that of her.” if this was how it was going to be, lucifer planned to go into it full throttle with his head held high. it was, of course, always more fun to take things full throttle with maze at his side. he beamed when she remarked that she was making alterations to the costume. he was very much looking forward to seeing that. “i know it’ll certainly distract me,” he grinned and leaned down to kiss her before beginning the process of stripping off his three-piece suit. he did so with the flare of a strip-o-gram. giving maze a good show was the least he could do after dragging her into all of this.

[dailyflicks]

TITANIC 1997, dir. James Cameron

[laurellance-deleted-deactivated]

mazikeen in 1.12

[bladesrunner]

Jack, you bet everything we have. — When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

[mrbeniciodeltoro]

[kpfun]

Where to, Miss? To the stars. TITANIC 1997 • dir. James Cameron

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offallenfeathers​:

“That too.” Belgirel grinned. Asmodeus had probably racked up a larger body count only by the fact he’d been alive longer. Belgirel was sure he’d have him beat otherwise. “I don’t think we’ve have had any good examples to know what a good one is.” It wasn’t like their father was all that great of a ruler, but Lucifer had to have done a better job than him. “It’s probably better to not want the responsibility than to go crazy with power.” Of course, he hadn’t actually witnessed much of Lucifer’s leadership. What he’d seen through Belphegor’s eyes was limited at best. “What do you mean?” How did you fuck up?”

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“The examples might’ve been far and few between, but i knew the difference between right and wrong. or at least i thought i did before it got all jumbled up.” once he lost justice, his ability to see the bigger picture was gone too. and that’s when he made the choices that still haunted him today. “it’s a tough balance, but i met someone who makes me not want to run away from the responsibility all the time.” running things was just easier when you had a partner. he took a deep breath when gears asked him how he’d fucked up.

he didn’t even know where to start so first he drown the bottle that he was holding and then grabbed two more from behind the bar. he popped open the cork of one bottle and slide it over to gears before opening his own. he took a few more swigs before he began again. “more of us should’ve stepped in when we saw that you were in trouble. i should’ve had more healers on the field too. there’s a million and one things i could’ve done differently to keep more people safe. and that’s not even the worst of it. that doesn’t even account for what i did afterward…” he took another swig from the bottle and stared down at his hands as shame filled his features. “i knew about the void pretty early on,” he confessed. “i was young and stupid and felt like i had so much to prove and in the end i’m the reason your torture got dragged on for so long…”

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ofhellsbells​:

Andras, check. Declan, check. The virtues, check. It seemed like almost everyone had been sent home, but Belphegor still felt like they were forgetting something. There was a lot to remember these days. They really needed to make a list instead of trying to remember everything they needed to do, but luckily they had a record of most things in their office. They had returned there to check it, but they saw Lucifer first. So that’s what they forgot. They tilted their head, trying to see what he was hanging on their door, but then he turned around. It wasn’t the first time they’d made someone scream that day. Slipping through the floor made it easy to sneak up on people, but Belphegor typically tried not to sneak up on the residents, knowing how easily startled they were. They tended to announce their presence whenever they could unless it was someone they knew wouldn’t be too hurt by it, and this was their office. They didn’t expect people to just show up in it either. “I think she’d prefer video evidence instead actually. Just let me remember which button plays back the cameras.”

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“You wouldn’t!” he attempted to call their bluff, but he wasn’t entirely sure they were bluffing. he grabbed a pen from his pocket and turned to the card he’d written and taped to their door. he changed the card to read:

WILDLY PROUD OF YOU* *unless you show mazikeen the tape (but even then i’ll still be proud of you tbh the tape is probably funny).

he capped his pen and put it back in his pocket before turning to face bells again. “there.” he moved aside and gestured to the card he’d taped to their door. in this light, bells looked so tired and so much older than before. leadership did that to people. he remembered seeing pictures of the presidents at the beginning and end of their terms and how much that aged them. “i wanted to let you know i like what you’ve done with the place,” he explained. “i know running the show isn’t exactly the easiest thing in the world and i just wanted to check in and see if you needed anything. i know i can’t do much on account of…y’know…but i don’t want you to feel like i did when i first started out.” he sat down. he still felt sweaty and panicked on occasion when he recalled his first few centuries as king of hell. “the pressure can be pretty nauseating.”

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mazikeenofmurders​:

Maze knew that voice. That was Lucifer’s sucking up voice while preparing to deliver a hard blow, not to be confused with his sucking voice while giving a hard blow. She kissed him but prepared herself for whatever the latest nonsense would be. “What did you even bet on this time?” she asked. It was always a bad idea to bet with Asmodeus. The man had no shame, and even if you won, there weren’t many ways you could prank him where he’d be embarrassed. “How am I a part of the losing party here. I didn’t make the bet.” At least she didn’t think she did. She didn’t really keep track of every bet she made. Maybe this was one they both bet on. She frowned at the costume. “It’s not even sexy.”

He let out a long sigh when she asked him what he bet on this time. somehow that was more embarrassing than the terms of the bet. “so, last week there was a murder here at this very mall. someone killed the last mall santa. i bet asmo that i could figure out who killed santa claus first. i thought i had it in the bag but i was looking into the wrong elf. it turns out the new santa killed the old santa so he could take his job!” he explained as if it was a juicy piece of gossip and not a murder. “asmo figured it out first so he gets to present the evidence to the police and as the losing party, i have to make sure the guy doesn’t get wind of what’s about to happen and try to make a run for it. but because the bet was with asmo, we can’t just watch from a distance.” he jingled the costumes to indicate that they had to go undercover. “i figured two elves are better than one and you can make anything look sexy. and when we’re done with this they’ll probably close off the area to customers and we can go for a sleigh ride,” he smirked.

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LUCIFER & BELPHEGOR ( @ofhellsbells​ )

Lucifer usually didn’t let himself worry about too much these days, but today he was worried. when bells brought him into the empty, they looked exhausted. he didn’t even get much of a chance to talk to them before they were called off to help somewhere else in the empty. lucifer tried several times to catch them while he was around, but each time he missed them by a couple of seconds. the handy melting into the floor trick was neat but hard to keep up with. after a while, he figured he’d have to catch them on a later day but he wanted to leave them a message before heading off to find cupid so she can take him home. so, he made his way to their office and was in the process of taping a hand drawn card to the inside of their door when they melted in behind him. he didn’t notice them at first as he dusted his hands off to admire the placement of the card. it was only when he turned to put the tape dispenser back on their desk that he finally noticed them. he let out a scream and dropped the tape. “bloody hell,” he breathed. “we can’t tell maze i just screamed like dagon. she’ll never let me live it down.”

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LUCIFER & MAZIKEEN ( @mazikeenofmurders​ )

“Ah, maze, there you are!” he excitedly greeted her with a kiss. she was probably not going to like what he had to tell her but that was why he had two boozy hot chocolates in hand. he handed her one before delivering the bad news. “so, i lost a bet with asmodeus which as we all know is very unfortunate.” unlike valefar who played for money, asmo played for pranks. “the agreement was that the losing party would pretend to be elves at mall santa’s workshop.” he held up two horrendous looking elf costumes that he’d just purchased from the party city across the street. “i know it doesn’t do much for the elf esteem, but will you be my snowflake?” he flashed the name on the back of one of the costumes which, indeed, read snowflake.

[lia-atreides]

I think like, what it would be like, to be… someone else. LEONARDO DICAPRIO in MARVIN’S ROOM (1996) dir. Jerry Zaks

[dailyflicks]

TITANIC 1997, dir. James Cameron