I got some thoughts about Splinter Fractures...
Listen, I know Adam is an antagonist. I know he's an irredeemable pos and I can barely stand him half the time. However, if you strip away their conflict with Heaven, angels being assholes, and get to the core of their personal beef... idk man I feel like it's not proportionate at ALL.
Spoilers for the fic up to ch.24 below
This is honestly part of the reason I love the story so much! Because there's so much nuance to it.
From Lilith's perspective, Adam really did sound like he was trying to control her, and on top of that he mocked her when she was cursed to be infertile. From her perspective he genuinely is a giant asshole, because all she did was love someone else. Of course when they're away from each other, that kind of resentment only grows (for the same reason, Adam is incredibly mad at Lucifer and Lilith for their actions. Hate festers.)
They all seem to have a hard time seeing the situation from each other's perspectives, because from Adam's side, he didn't do anything wrong at all. He only retaliated when he was hurt first. And he's not wrong in that! Especially because they didn't do it just once, but kept on going. Both sides built a version of each other in their mind that was far more awful than they actually were, until they became what the other saw them as.
Overall just a really great fic :)))
(steeples fingers) So yes, that is exactly what I am writing, this unbalanced awful toxic dynamic. I did want to go with the concept that while Adam did objectively worse things than either Lilith or Lucifer in general (to other people), they were personally far crueler to him in their own beef with each other. If that makes sense.
They also have a slew of reasons for detesting him that turn out to be sort of situational and irrational, but all of it stews and festers, as Indigo says. They hate him for a lot of reasons that are more What Adam is rather than Who he is.
So, Lilith hates that she was created to be his wife and shackled to him and forced into that role with no say, that he’s totally fine with it which she feels is like he’s okay with her losing that freedom, she hates that she makes what she sees as one choice that goes against this thing she was forced into and she gets brutally punished and he gets another woman to subjugate. And at that point she’s not even thinking about her own communication issues, she’s furious and wants to hurt someone and the only person she can really hurt is Adam.
Lucifer has the displacement of punishing Heaven’s golden child because he can’t touch Heaven, a lot of unexamined resentment that Adam gets this special treatment and input and he gets treated like a pariah for his own opinions, unexamined rejection that Adam turned down the offering of the apple, and Lilith’s hatred feeds into his, and also he’s super protective and violent about it.
So the two of them, also the kind to very intimately hurt people in over the top ways, treat Adam as kind of a scapegoat for this irrational hatred, and he retaliates in ways that reinforce their ideas of him. Rinse and repeat for thousands of years.
Omfg are you the author??? 🙇♂️
I love this fic so much!! Thank you for sharing it with us!
I'm so glad it was on purpose, though, it was genius even if it wasn't. I was getting so heated jajaj so much crap was being piled onto Adam, some of which was true and well-deserved, but some that left me thinking It takes two to tango, you know? Kinda like beating a dog every day and then acting surprised when it bites back. And again, I am not condoning anything Adam has done, he has killed countless of his children, but Lucifer has no right, acting like that (first couple of chs) like they are the same and equals in their shitty situation. Even so, I wanna see them end up together jajaja I'm such a slut for that pairing
It’s meeee the author!! I’m so glad you are loving this fic! But yes, Lucifer is bad at examining his own shit in this fic (and in canon tbh), in the first chapter he’s behaving pretty horrifically tbh and then the few after it’s also Not Great. He slowly has to reexamine how he sees Adam as a person, also to start seeing Adam as a person, and then through that starts having to look at his own behavior and how it affected him. And it’s taken me forever lol this story stole my whole life.
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I can imagine how something as complicated as this could take time to flesh out, but it is soooo so so worth it for us! Or at least me, I'm such a sucker for slow burning angst <<33
This doesn't feel like something that can be rushed, considering the heavy themes involved. The pacing is so good. It doesn't feel slow, but it doesn't feel rushed either. It's like they're hitting every milestone at the right time precisely.
I can also see how difficult it would be for the others to sympathize with Adam after everything he's done. Even Lucifer has reason to resent him, but he conveniently forgets that the conflict did not start with the exterminations.
It's very difficult to feel empathy for people who have hurt you, it takes a LOT of patience, emotional intelligence, and introspection. Which is why I love this fic so much! It doesn't coddle and excuse what Adam has done, his words (while he recounts Lilith's/the insurrection trials) - however horrible - are repeated verbatim. It doesn't magically make everyone love Adam when his traumatic past is revealed. The personal/emotional developments are gradual and intricate, so very human sjjsjwkskwk the irony




















