Lucifer Meta: Nothing Lasts Forever
This post contains S6 spoilers
I would like us to go back to S5 for a while specifically to an episode called ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’.
There was a finality about that episode that all things come to an end and there is nothing you can do about it. There is an uncomfortable feeling about it but recently I realised that the meaning was not what we assumed it to be.
Lucifer begs him to stay for a little bit longer and that was Dad’s reply. But it does not mean that all things need to come to a bitter ending. Now I see them as words of encouragement than a goodbye.
Lucifer in the same episode demands to know how far Dad’s plan went. Was Dad’s plan to be reunited with Mum eventually? In S6 and particularly in 6x10 Lucifer exclaims on how his Father was a cheeky bastards. Dad knew all along that Lucifer would not become God. So what else was his plan? Better yet how much he knew based on how he assumed his children actions once he was gone?
Have you ever thought how Mum and Dad’s arc is so similar to Deckerstar?
For two omniscient beings they seemed to be often unaware of things but I do not believe it was to the extent we perhaps were led to believe it was. Sure free will aids fate but we saw that there are many different components that make a being omniscient when Dad didn’t have his powers.
So we have to ask a very simple question here.
Did Mum and Dad had to do the same thing that Lucifer and Chloe did for/to Rory?
In 3x26, Dad says that a parent wants what’s best for their child. True, but Hell?
For two beings that are omniscient very much like Chloe and Lucifer were in the end of 6x10 on what has to be done until a certain point, they saw where Lucifer was heading along the series. They knew he was a rebel, they knew he was also very sensitive. They knew that Lucifer would eventually ruin himself beyond repair to a sadistic & edonistic being. We met that Lucifer but we also met a Lucifer in 3x11 who still waited for his parents, who still had faith until he lost it. Very much like Jimmy waited for his mother in 6x03.
So what if there was a plan there? What if Mum and Dad decided to sacrifice themselves for their child. Just one child mind you out of a myriad Angels. But one child that held their strengths and flaws in a perfect blend very much like Rory did according to Lucifer in 6x10.
In the comics Lucifer asks himself in Sandman’s presence, if he had not rebelled would that Plan be over? Perhaps someone else would have done it in his place. In Murder Mysteries a not so cannon but still connected to Sandman and Lucifer comics, novel (and illustrated novel later on) by Neil Gaiman, Lucifer sees so much injustice over punishment, a punishment that had to do with love but also a twisted form of love, one of the two in that story, so eventually Lucifer rebels there.
Let’s say that Mum and Dad planned Lucifer to Fall. They also planned for Mum to stay in Hell for millenia. Whether she was aware or remembered that deal when she went to Hell is unknown but I would like to believe that in the years of her confinement she forgot the purpose of her stay there or at least something was off. Or she was a better liar. Perhaps she expected that it would not have been so long. Chloe didn’t expect she would live around 40 years without Lucifer for example.
But why for just one child again? Because Lucifer sets in motion all his siblings change and growth. He triggers Amenadiel’s and as we saw in 6x10 Amenadiel promotes growth in Heaven. Before S6 Angels were deemed to be sloths and rather uninterested in human matters. Because though Lucifer loved a human and won a war they started applying themselves to also love humanity and it seemed by the various miracles they performed they found it rather gratifying. However, Amenadiel offered a better structure to this.
Therefore Lucifer was the locked door for the Celestials change but Chloe as Mum very well said was the Key.
Mum and Dad also had flaws in Linda’s eyes. Again the issue was the lack of growth which again was promoted only by Lucifer’s growth. Lucifer was able to help others grow even after their death, his parents to seek peace in a different universe, his siblings to do more, be more. So yes, they had to focus on that one child. And they probably hated what happened next especially with Lucifer and the ones that were lost along the way but Lucifer like Linda said, had to seek the answers alone. Of course dropping him to Hell without a manual was a bit overboard but it worked. It was harsh, unjust but it worked. As it did for Rory.
Chloe had to spent decades in a prison that resembled very much the one of Mum’s. Lucifer had wondered, if Mum could explain herself over his abandonment what would have she said? Chloe was kept in close quarters with Rory, gave her a minimum of answers and she had to wait for Rory to realise the majority of them when it was time for Chloe to pass away. Of course Rory is unaware of her own Calling but in the end of S6 we realise that Dad had again already gave a compassionate word to Lucifer, a clue if you like. ‘Nothing Lasts Forever.’
Both sets of parents made their choices. Lucifer and Chloe’s choices led to several distinct achievements.
Dan managed to go to Heaven. If Rory had not dropped him on Earth it would have never happened. Nor would Lucifer would have been able to help as he would have been unaware of his Calling.
Forcing Lucifer to take the throne could have also been catastrophic. See Hell as an example and his conviction that he had to be a punisher there. How long would have passed until he burned out? How long before he tried to imitate his Father? Would have led to Rory taking the same path he did? With the same catastrophic results?
Lucifer had been banned from Heaven and we saw what it took to get there and survive. But here is the thing he never got to Hell until he felt he had to go. Even then Heaven was protected from Lucifer perhaps just in case so there were barriers erected (I thought Lucifer would have loved it… erected :D ). But what about Rory? When she got her wings why didn’t she try to go to Hell and find her father? Why didn’t she go to Hell to demand he gets to Earth and see her mother on her deathbed. Why did she travel in time and why did she landed in Hell and not Earth when she jumped?
As far as I see things I believe that Lucifer made sure that Rory would never be able to reach him in Hell in hopes the time loop would not be broken. So like his father he probably had similar but less harmful barriers in Hell to keep her out. It is why the only solution for Rory to see him was going in the past and not seek him out in her own timeline at any given time. It is why Rory also held a lot of guilt over perhaps her existence which made Chloe be reminded constantly of Lucifer who she never denied, she always said how much she loved him.
Rory also carries the guilt of not only her mother’s abandonment and hers but in 6x10 for a brief second, the one of realisation and the one which almost turned her to Miss Crispy, that she was wrong. Her father loved her, he wanted her, he wished and desired for her presence and existence but for some reason she was the one who drove him away even though it takes her a while to understand how that happened.
Lucifer also held a lot of Guilt over what he had done against his Father and Mother. Over what he believed he was. Rory resembles him a lot so we saw how easy it would have been for her to be consumed by Guilt and there would have not been a way back. Does that mean that if Mum and Dad had not taken the set of actions they did, Lucifer would have ended up worse?
I wonder if Mum’s words were true whether Dad wanted to destroy him because he feared the alternative, especially one that would have cost him the Goddess he loved, Uriel down the road and so much tribulation. But as we said even if it was a fleeting thought, that one child was the answer. The only problem was time. But nothing lasts forever. The same applies to Deckerstar.
The setting was perfect if you think about it. Hell’s time does indeed run in a slower pace than Earth’s. That helps dealing with more cases of damned souls than the number of incoming souls to Hell. Meaning that the ratio favours Hell and Lucifer. It means that Lucifer and now Chloe can solve hell loops, help souls redeem themselves and eventually one day, perhaps, they can have a day off. Hell can become something more than a constant occupation but also it will always provide Lucifer and Chloe with a new case as an interview noted.
In conclusion, Dad’s words echoed to the understanding that Lucifer would have to go through a long time of solitude without his child and without the woman he loves. Both Mum and Dad have experienced that for a time longer than Lucifer has but now at least there is hope, the ending of that seperation is near and the bad days will not last forever. Only love and faith is eternal and Deckerstar held both until that knock in 6x10 and beyond.
