(Okay, please forgive me if this has already been put in a fic and I've missed it) but are Juleka and Rose canon real people in Demon Lovin verse? Like do they exist and if yes, are they also Firsts or Demons?
this hasn't been put into the series yet, don't worry!!! this is technically a (huge!!!! like, huge huge? HUGE) spoiler, so, let me just
here's the thing, okay, behind the scenes right now i'm still hammering away at what i want luka's backstory to be. we're going to go in order with his family by Most Thought Out Backstory to Least, so bear with me!
here's what i got so far:
1) jagged stone is a very good friend luka had back in the 70s, who he taught guitar to and that's why he became so famous, and people thought he had "sold his soul to the devil" and luka would always lose himself laughing everytime he heard it, but no. they were extremely good friends. partially the reason why luka doesn't drink/do drugs (i haven't decided on whether he did previously or just totally and completely abstained from it) is because jagged was totally a stereotypical rockstar and ended up getting that stereotypical "brain melting" situation. by the end of jagged's life he was definitely fried. ozzy style. or syd barrett from pink floyd (i am just casually putting pink floyd's music all as jagged stone's songs because i can)
shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd (but in-universe it's by jagged stone) in color coordinatin' chapter 1
wish you were here by pink floyd (but in-universe it's also by jagged stone) in color coordinatin' chapter 1, too (i was on a pink floyd kick in april, apparently)
luka will be quoting more of the songs in the future, i am spoiling it now-- it won't be a turning point in his character, but it might give a better sense of why adrien and luka get into philosophical debates a lot. that sounds so cheesy. of course luka would quote a song in a debate. he just has the vibes. in this universe, him and jagged wrote the song "goodbye blue skies" together.
2) anarka is god. or what this AU considers what god is. i try to keep it vague and not-strictly-one-religion so that it's more fantasy (and so that i don't end up offending someone if i try to use something but get it wrong, so i'm digging out my own path here. i reference a lot of catholicism bc that's what i grew up with, but i'm slowly trying to get away from it in the fic so it's more approachable(???))
she humored gabriel when he was younger (they were never children, and she never looked down on anybody. most considered her an older sibling-- luka even considered her a mentor.) but cast him out when he became too violent. i'm still unsure as to why/what luka's reasoning for being cast out is, but maybe leaving it ambiguous would be the best idea for me. unless i hammer it out some more.
3) jules is... hmmm. i haven't picked.
i'm torn between making her a succubus herself and having no relation to luka at all, and make her meet luka when she's introducing herself to marinette at a festival-- she wants one of marinette's bracelets-- she says hello and recognizes him as the guy that worked at the docks for all those years when she lived down there too. (i need more succubus characters, and i'm already down three more classmates since i made kim, chloe, and alix all humans, and i try to avoid OC's as much as possible) if i end up making jules a succubus, rose is one too. the two of them go up as a pair up to marinette, begging her to open up applications to join her cradle.
but jules could also be a demon herself. a First, as well-- y'all have never met a girl First [shoves AU of an AU back into the bin]!!! it would be fun to come up ideas for her. job huntin' establishes that siblings existed/exists in heaven, so making them both tattooed with snakes might work out, too. i write all of my julekas as being selectively mute and uses sign language, so either her being a succubus or a First, i'll make sure that luka actually knows sign language too.
if jules is a First, well. i'm just going to have to figure out a way to put in some moment where the two of them find each other after thousands of years-- maybe she recently fell? that would explain why they hadn't been in contact for a while (and it saves me from continuity errors~)
that was way too much information, wasn't it? sorry LDKJFKSLJDFJLSKFDLSKJFDSLKJFD
it took 42.5k to get them actually together (and then a couple thousand more to close that chapter because of course i threw in a sex scene for good measure)
so now can we move the plot forward? (not tonight it’s late and i don’t want to be up until 5am again)
