Regarding your Alastor hating Lucifer one sight post it’s not like he’s wrong at all Lucifer even hates the sinners which idk if it’s indicative off classism or even racism towards humans in general, that’s how it could come off to Alastor anyways.
You opened the box of pandora, man. Alright. Let's talk about this , how it intermixes into Alastor and Lucifer being ✨Narrative Foils✨ AND why this is a good thing for both.
So. I feel like whatever is going on with Lucifer specifically, independently of Alastor's issues, has layers. Of course there are, but--okay. Let me try to put my brain through the drycleaner.
For starters, 'Sinners' are a social entity pertaining specifically to Hell (and Heaven). It's not the place where you've come from, the color of your skin, not even your values, but an accumulation of decisions. Decisions that are made and then get stuck in the forms of 'Sins'. Sins each person must account for. On earth, however, 'Sinners' are not a society, but people commonly known as...well. Assholes. Therefore we'd have to have in mind the context outside of and inside of Hell. In the context of pre-hell and post-hell.
In the context of Hell, yes! Lucifer can be considered a classist. (classicist?) He clumps everyone together in the same bag, calls it a day, and judges people for their sins rather than their whole humanity. Then again, after an age, it would be hard not to. (Considering the most recent episodes and what Lucifer's punishment implies, this makes even more sense.)
That's within Hell's context. Outside of the context of hell, he would just be saying the equivalent as "I don't want to involve myself around people that create an unhealthy environment for themselves and I", which isn't such a strange thing to want, or not want. Wanting people not to be assholes, especially coming for a being of creation that cannot create or belong in that environment, makes sense.
But BECAUSE it's hell, because such a place exists in Hazbin, with it's sociopolitical rules and divides, we'd have to consider it a 'race' of sorts, wouldn't we? A divide. From who? The people in heaven? The people on Earth?
That's the interesting thing, the divide. That there HAS to be a divide. That we don't KNOW what causes the divide, exactly. Between 'sinners' and 'winners' (god that term makes something inside me die)
Anyway, I got distracted-where was I. Right, Lucifer and his prejudice.
Lucifer is not wrong, is the thing; Sinners are sinners because they have sinned. Done certain transgressions that ultimately result in a certain...damage, so to speak. Maybe those sins are self-imposed, or maybe there's a higher eye in the sky that tilts the scales. Everyone down there seems to have some sort of regret one way or another, but once down in Hell, it's hard to do anything but to recreate the cycle in an environment that's meant to make it perpetual.
I think that Lucifer basically...got to the point where he clumped everything and everyone together. Saw too much, heard too much, and closed in. Refused to see no more. Refused to accept that sinners aren't just the sins that sent them down here, but the people of free will and choices and all the things that he has deep, deep issues about.
Funny thing about Lucifer:
Lucifer is guilty. Lucifer is hurt. Lucifer is trapped, and powerless in a cage of his own making. Lucifer made humans a gift, told them, 'Be free, choose!' and then people began to choose the 'wrong' thing. Lucifer is a fucking hypocrite. He told humanity to choose, and they chose, and he didn't like it, this terrible thing that they chose to do with the Free Will HE gifted them.
He was supposed to love humanity. Instead he was faced with everything that he KNOWS is wrong with it. Lucifer's reproach at sinners specifically seems to stem from his own hurt--not pride or even fear. He had hope and expectations; he gambled his life on them without really knowing the consequences, and ended up having to deal with results he was ill-equipped to deal with. (WHICH. is a VERY human thing to end up doing. Making a mess and having to deal with it. Except Lu is a hypocrite and does not want to deal with the consequence. But he must. He must.)
Now, this ties to, whoop-de-doo--Alastor The Radio Demon. The other side of Lucifer's tragic coin.
Lucifer and Alastor are trapped in a way, right? Lucifer by his nature, which strayed too far, who made a decision that had consequences, which had punishments. Lucifer was created with the privilege of not knowing hate until he got it, whereas Alastor was born IN that hate. In the terrible circumstance to begin with, who then tried to CREATE THE RIGHT SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES MEANT TO REPLICATE SAID PRIVILEGE. To be the greatest demon, the way a rich white man in the 30's is born a white man, with all the privilege it affords him.
Lucifer was born with the privilege, lost it, whereas Alastor was born without it, and clawed his way to assure it (try to, through all means available): But the fun thing is that they're both posturing.
Lucifer has power but not over hell. Alastor doesn't have power over himself. Lucifer is the Ringmaster. Alastor is the encapsulation of the Circus he cannot command. Alastor is what Lucifer HATES about sinners. Lucifer is what Alastor hates in general: being able to be born in the right circumstances, then throwing it away or using that privilege carelessly.
They hate each other because it's the part of themselves they have to surrender themselves to. It's why I love them. I really love them because it leaves SO much room for these two to recognize each other as more than each others faults. A mirrored situation, so to speak.
On a side note, for those people comparing Lu to a straight up racist, look at the context, then translate it to a literal fucking Fallen Angel: you can't.
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