But what if lucifer wears a skirt because he got one hell of a butt ( like azazel's) and prefers that no one sees how fine his butt is 🍑🤔
It’s also probably the reason why Lucifer wears an armor that covers only half of his chest: so that ppl would be distracted by what can be seen and not what’s purposefully hidden.
otoh it’s also possible the half-chest armor and skirt thing is actually a part the “in” fashion style in Lucifer’s generation.
this is bcs Grigori, currently the only known fallen angel hinted from Lucifer’s generation, also sporting the same style of armor and skirt thing; and in Grigori’s case, its even more outrageous.
At least Lucifer’s armor still pretends it’s an armor by covering half his chest; meanwhile, Grigori’s armor does nothing except emphasizes how Grigori has such nice chest and abs, look at all this nice exposed skin pls.
but if armor style is based on generational fashion thing, then why does Arakiba, who explicitly claims coming from the same generation as azazel and seems pretty close to him, actually goes no-armor and prefers to expose everything?
(unless you count his accessories as armor, which I don’t)
But Arakiba also wears one of his two belts (they probably count as 1 and a half but humor me here) the same way as Azazel, diagonally loose, so maybe at least the belt style is a generational thing.
while Azazel’s leather clothes might be skin tight, considering he wears that bigass distracting chain on his chest in his original card (and genesis), it certainy looks like he prefers ppl to not look at his chest.
idk how his body type is perceived within SnB world, but judging from card illustration above he’s thinner than Demon Lucifer. And in GBF, he’s officially “skinny”. And Arakiba, his close bff, is glaringly “big and muscly” (those big thighs, damn).
I don’t count female fallen angels here bcs regardless of generation most of them (except Olivia) like to expose their chest. Below are Mirin (who appears together with Lucifer in events sometimes) and Samael (who loves snakes. and also has loose diagonal belt style. /coughs)
But, uh, back to Lucifer.
While Lucifer certainly has a nice ass (and he may and may not try to hide it with that skirt thing), considering he is also the 2nd-in-command in Hell, and the actual Leader of the Fallen Angel Army, and not to mention that giant bigass sword he likes to visibly carry whenever he’s out of his room…
…it’s just kind of scary to even attempt to think of him in *that* way.
Gossiping about the scandalous love lives of Lucifer’s (admittedly attractive) direct subordinates (grigori, azazel, mirin, samael) are fair game and totally fine, but when it starts skirting around Lucifer’s affairs… ppl take a thousand steps back.
this is to say, if there’s such thing as The Sexiest Demon polling, then Lucifer will totally top it a thousand years in a row probably. But otoh, if the polling is on The Demon You Want to Sleep with the Most, then he won’t even rank.
ppl admire him, but they also would like to just admire him from far, far away.
so when one of said direct subordinates kinda starts having frequent “private audience” with Lucifer and Lucifer in turn shows blatant favoritism, the Heaven Guys (bless their pure souls) call the aforementioned direct subordinate “Lucifer’s right hand man”, while the Hell population calls him “Lucifer’s public secret”.
Everyone knows but they much prefer to not know also they really want somebody, anybody, to erase their memories of the knowledge please and thank you.
I kinda lose track of the original ask but uh we were talking about lucifer’s appeal how it affects his and azazel’s relationship right? :D :D :D
Lucifer gave Azazel a credit card, fully expecting Azazel to max it.
Except Azazel only used Lucifer's card to buy one expensive thing and spent the rest on bullshits.
like, he bought a giant canvas worth $700, and maybe 10 orders of $8 milkshake
Upon seeing the credit card statement, Lucifer just blinked.
when he asked azazel about it, Azazel was like, "you don't think $8 milkshake is wild? That price is practically robbery!"
context: being an art college student who actually homemade his own paint from literal waste and other free cheap eco friendly materials, spending that much on a milkshake was usually considered rather unthinkable.
Lucifer, who was used to drinking $60 on a cup of coffee everyday, and let's just not count his daily intake of $500 wine, just said, "huh."
he started planning to take azazel to dine in more high class restaurants from then on, instead of spending their time together in a hotel room.
but for now he reminded azazel that he was very encouraged to spend more than that amount from his card.
azazel just frowned at him.
when lucifer checked his card statement in the next month, he saw azazel had bought a $1,000 dildo and like, 14 orders of $18 pizza.
he kinda wanted to facepalm at that (he didn't though bcs he was too cool for facepalm) bcs it seemed azazel had misunderstood; he meant for azazel to use the card for azazel's own need, not *their* need.
he told azazel that but azazel just frowned, kinda irritated, and like, "how do you know I didn't use the dildo all by myself while thinking of you fucking me the next time we'll meet?"
...well then.
Lucifer made a note to himself to take Azazel to more executive functions.
(he'd tell azazel it was so azazel could try socializing and building his own network, but truth was he just wanted more excuse to spend more time with Azazel.)
meanwhile on azazel's campus, Arakiba who was majoring in sculpture was like, "so i heard you have a gentleman benefactor who takes care of you now?"
cerberus, who happened to be sitting next to him, heard it and was like, "you have a sugar daddy and you dare not giving me details???" loudly. in the cafetaria. until every other person was looking their way.
azazel ignored them.
also he thought 'taking care of him' was pushing it. he could take care of himself just fine, thank you very much.
after much annoying and consistent pestering from cerberus, azazel finally admitted, "the sex is worth it. like, reaaally worth it."
I have thsi mini headcanon about the fallen angels and idk who to tell :") .. Azazel is very good at singing and has a beautiful voice, arakiba on the other hand is awful tho he has full confidence that his voice is beautiful. Whenever he has the chance he would start singing and tries to get azazel to sing too. But azazel a tsundere and never accepts. Arakiba sings anyway and it's so bad that grigori hat to punsh him in the face to shut him up. Sometimes azazel gets punshed too.
Ohhh Anon I really like this *____*
and that mugaro at the end! *__*
hope you don’t mind me adding a bit more:
since it is assumed azazel’s the one who teaches mugaro how to play ocarina, it is also assumed he’s good at playing ocarina and other similar instruments like flutes.
while he refuses to sing together with Arakiba, he doesn’t mind accompanying Arakiba’s singing with his flutes.
in fact, whenever he’s asked to sing, he just distracts by playing a flute instead.
Azazel and Arakiba are like, tight BFF, so upon seeing them doing their duet (arakiba sings, azazel plays flute) most ppl/demons just assume the reason azazel doesn’t sing is bcs his singing is as awful as arakiba.
this is also bcs any other fallen angel has been heard singing at one point in public - except azazel.
(yes, including lucifer. tho while everybody agrees he has a nice voice, they also much prefer lucifer to not sing at all bcs when he sings, he sounds too much like he’s gently summoning apocalypse. even *Satan* agrees.)
also, arakiba is actually very aware his singing annoys grigori - which is why he makes sure to sing extra loud whenever grigori is in vicinity.
arakiba mainly just likes how grigori’s perfect calm face breaks whenever he hears him sing.
while azazel’s in no place to lecture his BFF about bad hobby since he has plenty himself, he’d appreciate it if arakiba does not involve him in it.
and Azazel’s like: “why are you even punishing me along with arakiba??? as I am actually one of four of Lucifer’s lieutenants, just like you, so you don’t have authority over me!”
Grigori: “I’m older and therefore wiser. Also, Arakiba’s your subordinate anyway. I’m punishing you for negligence in disciplining your own subordinates.”
Azazel: “WTF. there’s no such rule in the Cocytus Rule Book about a superior taking the fall for a subordinate! I know bcs I rewrote the book to make sure it wouldn’t inconvenience me!”
Grigori’s eyes narrow. “I’ve been wondering why the contents seem slightly different from the last time I read it 1200 years ago.”
whoops.
Arakiba blinks. “there’s such thing as a Hell Rule Book? And you two actually read it???”
two pair of eyes glare at him in disbelief. “What do you mean you have never read it???”
anyway, they try to get Lucifer to referee but Lucifer just thinks it all amusing and tells them to “have at it.”
Arakiba secretly thinks Lucifer just doesn’t want to get shit from both his oldest friend (Grigori) and his secret-except-not-really lover (Azazel) if he takes a side.
(at this point even arakiba forgets he’s the cause for all this in the first place)
ahem.
anyway, similar things keep happening for hundreds of years until Grigori gets fed up and actually starts teaching Arakiba proper singing technique so that while his bad voice can’t be fixed, he wouldn’t sound as awful with proper technique.
sometimes he would even allow himself to duet with Arakiba while Azazel accompanying them with his flute.
Lucifer (and Mugaro) remain the only two people Azazel regularly sings for.
Azazel comes early, just so he could complain loudly about how you're late and all even tho you come on time.
Arakiba also comes early, but unlike azazel, he's totally all gentlemanly about it, won't even complain if you come late, and would totally lie by saying he also just arrives just to make you feel better.
Grigori comes on time, and he's totally punctual to the second and very formal about it.
Lucifer, meanwhile, would totally forget he has a promise to meet up at all. Or on the rare cases where he actually remembers, he would come so very late bcs he just couldn't be bothered to wake up at specific time.
On cooking:
azazel has a sweet tooth, and this was fine and all when he was angel, but ever since he became a fallen, it becomes a problem since it clashes with his tough goth demon image. and so he learns to bake/make desserts and eats them in private, far from the gossiping demon populace.
another reason he learns is that so whenever he's angry at Lucifer but not in the mood to fight, he serves him all kind of apple-based desserts, fully knowing that Lucifer hates apples. Just to be extra petty, he always chooses the ones whose apple scent are particularly overwhelming - just so there's no mistaking these desserts are made of apples.
Lucifer always has a rather bemused face whenever azazel does this, and Azazel takes it to mean Lucifer's actually secretly displeased, and it makes Azazel rather smug.
but the truth is, while it's nothing but truth that Lucifer hates apples, unbeknownst to azazel, he doesn't really mind it when the apples are already crushed and processed into something that does not resemble its original form.
mostly he's bemused bcs whenever azazel tries to serve him apple desserts while saying the butler demon made them, for some reason azazel always has this particular little smug smirk that he finds extremely cute (not that he would ever tell azazel this).
(also, the demon butler's loyalty is first and foremost to lucifer, so it's instantly known azazel's the one to make the desserts once lucifer asks the demons butler.)
he also rather enjoys azazel's desserts (he never tells him this bcs his gut tells him should he ever tell, azazel would actually stop making him desserts.)
needless to say, Lucifer can't cook worth a damn.
Meanwhile, Arakiba is quite an accomplished hunter, and he likes to hunt and kill his food on his own before he cooks them. he specializes in grilling meat and simple meat based soups. Azazel likes meat, so Arakiba always makes sure to hunt for more than what he needs so he could send some to Azazel's Gregor castle.
It's not that Grigori hates cooking; it's just he doesn't see a point in doing things outside his duty. Since his duty doesn't include cooking, he just never bothers to learn the art. But he does learn how to make a vegetable/fruit salad out of self defense bcs between Azazel's desserts and Arakiba's meats, someone has to remind them that immortal they might be, but they need their fiber intakes too.
On flowers:
Azazel and Lucifer totally do not see the point in them.
(Azazel tho, learns flowers language just so he could be passive aggressive when he wants to spite someone.)
Arakiba kinda likes them and often brings a bucket for ppl he likes.
Grigori only sees them as a means to an end and like, sends them for formal purposes only.
On romantic gesture:
Azazel: "If you can't live in this world, then I shall make one where you could live in."
Arakiba: "Beside you is where I want to be, even if I have to go to hell just to be with you."
Grigori: "Life is bigger than you and me, yet every waking moment, I'm choosing my confession, trying to keep my eyes on you."
Lucifer: "I don't need a world that does not have you in it." (and then he proceeds to destroy the world.)
*yes, grigori's quote comes from the song 'Losing My Religion' by Gregorian. Idk, I feel this song kinda fits him.
Sorry to ask, but is there Rob card character you liked to see animated or headcanoning have interaction or relationship with azazel ?
I’M GLAD YOU ASK ❤
(also since the ask is still related i’m including it here)
Lucifer
Arakiba
Demon Commander Laura
Israfil
Belphegor
Grigori
below the cut since this got long lulz
1. (you already know probably since I never stop talking about it but for consistency’s sake) Lucifer (MUH MAIN OTP)
in snb game azazel’s simply his subordinate
in shadowverse, if you happen to have azazel in your hand while your opponent has lucifer, there’s a special line from azazel to luciferin the eng version: “You and I are different, allow me to prove it.”in the jpn version: “ルシフェル お前の意思 見届けさせてもらう” translated into either “Lucifer, let me see your resolve.” or more formally lulz “Lucifer, I shall take it upon myself to ascertain your resolve.”(since the jpn one is the original one, I trust the jpn one)
in the anime azazel’s his right hand man or second in command
i know he’s already being animated by i won’t be satisfied until i see him and azazel talking to each other in the same frame the 2nd op doesn’t count
in my hc it’s azazel who routinely brushes his wings
azazel’s also the one tidies up his books and puts them in their proper place, not bcs it’s his job (it’s not) but bcs he thinks the strewn books are a sore in the eyes and would get in the way.
among the demons’ upper echelon azazel’s probably the most vocal in voicing his disagreement with Lucifer
Lucifer’s pretty much apathetic to everything except azazel and none knows exactly why
most fallen angel army are used to these two’s actics and would do their best to turn the other way upon accidentally stumbling into one of lucifer/azazel’s moments
(by ‘moment’, it’s meant as whenever these two are alone with no other soul near them)
meanwhile the rest of cocytus just knows that azazel’s lucifer’s fav
the only one who doesn’t notice is azazel bcs he truly thinks such thing is beneath lucifer
the demon general from ep15 can’t stop twitching whenever lucifer/azazel have their cold silent disagreement bcs on one hand lucifer’s his boss but otoh azazel’s actually often right and he can’t help wanting to take azazel’s side eevn when azazel’s wrong.
gregori is exasperated and thinks this all stupid and would very much like lucifer to stop being difficult whenever azazel’s not within vicinity, since it is so unbecoming of the ruler of hell to pine after a person no matter how subtly the pining is.
2. Arakiba
has no card in shadowverse
in snb Arakiba’s actually the only fellow fallen angel who mentions azazel by name in his lore
i mean he has four lore, and azazel is mentioned in three of them
snb would very much want you to know he and azazel are ’sworn friends’
he says he falls around the same time as azazel, so probably they’re from the same generation in their angel days
unlike azazel who looks rather slim, arakiba’s all muscly and like, half-naked all the time
in my hc he’s azazel’s subordinate and close friend as well as confidant
arakiba would never say it to azazel, but he kinda wishes azazel would stop complaining about lucifer in his presence bcs he still wants to respect lucifer as the boss of his boss
he’s kinda protective of azazel in subtle little ways
he also makes sure no untoward rumors are flying around cocytus about azazel
he doesn’t talk much, tho he often judges you with his eyes
surprisingly good friends with cerberus
3. Demon Commander Laura
in snb she and azazel has zero interaction
in shadowverse they also have no special lines for each other since both are bloodcraft anyway lulz
but there’s this deck called Azazel OTK deck, which is a deck on the rise for bloodcraft before cygames decides to nerf baphomet and rendering azazel unusable why cygames why
but basically in it you get azazel to do damage, and then Laura cleans up the rest after him.
ideky but I really, really like their combo
in my hc she’s part of azazel’s personal baby sitters gang, which consists of arakiba, laura, and cerberus, and sometimes forte maybe.
despite her cool look, laura’s actually very easy going, and kinda lewd… but then everyone in snb has a hard on for the mc so uh
i ship her with forte for reasons
and in my hc she also likes to pick a fight with arakiba bcs his face is a stone most of the time anyway and he could take her hits no problems
if anything it’s azazel who would like for them to stop bcs they’re both super noisy and he’d rather not fix his gregor castle every few days bcs of the damage from their fights
she’s smart but a bit of an airhead in that she can’t read the room
she’s often seen together with azazel and cerberus
4. Belphegor
has no canon interaction in both snb and shadowverse with azazel
although in the anime, pretty sure she has a crush on azazel
anime her is also so very sweet and soft spoken i still can’t believe it
doesn’t deserve anything that happens to her in the anime
i hc her as being azazel’s knife tutor kind of thing
also she’s probably waaay older than azazel, who is ancient
she’s so pretty and elegant goddamn
5. Israfil
has no canon interaction in both snb and shadowverse with azazel
I love her a lot bcs she’s so very beautiful and so very tragic
I kinda ship her with azazel bcs i’m easy
in my hc during his angel time, azazel often does duet with her
she’s never one for talking, so he’s mostly the one doing the talking for the both of them.
and while listening to him talk about the randomest things, she would use the tip of her finger to trace lines and symbols into his skin, his palm, his arm, his cheek, anything she could reach, and he would let her.
he also often accompanies her in her duty even tho he’s not supposed to
to him, she’s like a big sister
if he could make her laugh at least three times a day, a genuine laugh and not her usual serene smile, he counts himself lucky
even after his fall he likes meeting her, since she doesn’t reside in temple arc anyway
she doesn’t make it obvious, but cerberus despises israfil for reasons known only to cerberus
azazel kinda suspects it’s actually professional - related to how israfil’s duty is to guide the souls of the dead and cerberus takes care of the souls heading toward hell, and how cerberus disagrees with israfil’s method
on the other hand, israfil actually takes a liking to cerberus, mimi and coco included
anyway in my hc azazel, arakiba, israfil are from the same generation, with arakiba under michael’s tutelage, azazel’s under gabriel, and israfil under uriel.
azazel kinda envies arakiba bcs he really likes michael the god of war, but being under gabriel actually gives him more time to be with israfil - unlike arakiba who keeps getting sent to field assignments with michael so.
6. Grigori
before anime i thought he’d often be having cat fights with azazel over little thing, but alas
he’s really… the quiet type it seems
which makes me hella curious, esp since i never considers him before
i’m kinda writing a fic about him having a realization about asshole azazel and impending disaster but idk lulz
just, some ppl think his fell is closer to lucifer’s than azazel’s, so… having azazel be lucifer’s right hand man instead of him would tick him a little - or at the very least make him pause maybe
also while he’s maybe part of lucifer’s generation, i think azazel would feel more comfortable with him than with lucifer or arakiba - since grigori is supposed to be unfeeling and impassive and really has nothing to do with azazel at all
tl;dr i’m really considering grigori/azazel as a doomed ship
HOW COULD THEY KILL HER OFF LIKE THAT !!!! Her endcard was beautiful:(
I KNOW.
I was expecting her to at least last until some other bigwig demons appearing near azazel and they all have reminisce over the day cocytus fell or something, certainly not this fast nor this brutal.
some headcanon for Belphegor/Azazel:
they’re both like thousands years old, but Bel’s still older than Azazel
considering most of high ranking demons are older than azazel, and his own fallen friend arakiba from the same generation also older than him, this fact doesn’t stand out.
what stands out is the fact that Bel is the one who teaches Azazel the art of knife fighting.
like most angels not specialized in fighting, Azazel used to carry a staff (similar to the one he carries in genesis ep8 except maybe in gold/silver/bright color instead of dark).
since as an angel he’s technically just a glorified bookkeeper (albeit one w/ lots of powers), he has a hard time adjusting to demons’ way of life which mostly consists of fighting and more fighting and not much in the way of books or musics.
Cerberus gets tasked by Lucifer to help him adjust since other fallen angels are unavailable at the time, but all she does is laugh at him, points, and laughs some more.
arakiba is bigger and much better fighter and has this awesome lightning powers, so he adapts much faster and already makes headway, but azazel refrains from asking his help bcs his pride won’t allow it. also, arakiba’s a worrywart.
then one day while he’s being bothered by some low ranking but like giants demons, the weapon he uses gets thrown away, and then comes this slender lady who beat those giants and returns his thrown weapon (a long sword).
“Azazel-sama,” the lady says, “are you hurt?” and mostly he just looks at her kind face and resents it a little since it sounds like she’s mocking him.
“why are you calling me with -sama honorific? I’m just some fallen nobody.”
the lady looks a bit lost, like she’s confused, like she’s afraid she has somehow offends him. “But you’re not nobody. You’re Lucifer-sama’s disciple, are you not?”
he blinks. ‘disciple’ is stretching it. that’s not what he is to Lucifer; Lucifer has something that he wants from him, which is why he pays him some attention. Once he gets what he wants, Lucifer would probably stop. he sighs. “are you calling every fallen angel with -sama honorific?” come to think of it, he never hears Arakiba being called arakiba-sama by anybody.
Now she looks worried. “…No?”
“then maybe you should drop the honorific and just call me ‘azazel’ like every body else.” he tells her.
she looks even more worried. “I cannot be that presumptuous to call you by just your name, Azazel-sama.” then she looks around them; at the ruin, at the cramped room they’re in - or what’s left of it - like she’s seeking a distraction. “Speaking of, if I may be so forward, perhaps in such indoor room like this it’s better to use short, close-range weapon. A blade like the one Azazel-sama uses, while carries more power, would be ineffective if it couldn’t reach its intended range.” then she hesitates. and turns back to him, with an almost shy look in her eyes. “If you don’t mind, I could, perhaps, show you how to wield a knife in a fight against hard shell opponents like the orcs before?”
he stares at her. “huh.” he says. “did Cerberus send you?” bcs honestly it wouldn’t be the first time the demon girl has tried to make a joke out of him.
the lady blinks. “No? Um, should I ask for her permission?”
he makes a face. “Stop making her sound like my babysitter.” he sighs. looks at the double knifes she carries in her hand. stares. “hey, if you teach me knife fighting, does that mean you’ll stop calling me azazel-sama? since it means you’re my mentor, and no mentor call their own disciple with such title right?”
she looks deeply, deeply, *deeply* troubled, and doesn’t say anything for so long that he takes pity on her and gives up. “Okay.”
she blinks. “um.”
“Okay, I accept your offer.” he clarifies. “We could meet here tomorrow afternoon, if you have time?”
“Of course. It is no trouble at all, Azazel-sama.” she smiles kindly at him.
huh. wait. “hey, what’s your name?”
“It’s Belphegor, Azazel-sama.” she’s still smiling at him kindly, so very kindly, he wants to look away bcs he doesn’t deserve this kind smile.
“Belphegor.” he repeats just to make sure he gets it right.
her eyes widen slightly, and she looks down, and there’s this shade to her cheeks, something that Cerberus would insist is a blush while he’s pretty sure it’s some kind of sunburn.
even though it’s night time and there’s no sun in sight.
also azazel tries to keep the fact Bel’s teaching her a secret, but Cerberus finds out and since then makes sure to attend every practice session just to laugh at him.
for some reason Bel still believes he’s Lucifer’s disciple like why even.
he used to be a bookkeeper, so it makes sense for Lucifer to have him organize his book records as well as his library and pretty much everything that has to do with written instruction/tools.
If somewhere along the line Lucifer also starts making him do errands like instructing/giving orders to other fallens and demons, it’s probably only bcs he’s conveniently always near organizing books, not for anything else.
The guy’s a shut-in for god’s sake, so he’s only using Azazel bcs he can’t be bothered to meet other ppl himself.
so it’s only bcs he’s convenient, and not bcs Lucifer trusts him more than anyone.
He tries to explain this to Bel, but she just silently listens and smiles gently.
“but you know,” says arakiba, who often joins them whenever he’s free and within Lucifer’s place vicinity (which is unfortunately not that often), “Cerberus and Mirin both often have audiences with Lucifer-sama, but you’re the one he keeps giving orders to. And it’s not bcs you’re a fallen either; after all, Mirin is a fallen angel like us.”
azazel blinks.
“I understand Azazel-sama is a very humble person–” Bel starts to say.
Cerberus snorts.
Azazel could feel a headache coming his way. “No, really, belphegor. I don’t know who this humble demon person named azazel in your head is, but I can assure you that person is not me.”
“If you say so, Azazel-sama.” Bel smiles.
Azazel stares at her. how did it come to this srsly.
“Just accept it, brat.” Cerberus says. He may be taller and looks more like an adult appearance wise, but she’s at least 3000 years older and she likes to remind him of this fact. “You’re officially Lucy’s right hand man now~”
“Lucifer-sama.” he automatically corrects her. “Also, I’m no such thing.”
Arakiba puts a hand on his shoulder. “The sooner you accept the fact, the easier it would be. Don’t run away, Azazel.”
Azazel stares at him. “You maybe think you sound wise, but honestly you just sound ridiculous. As your friend, I’m embarrassed for you.”
“This is why demons think you’re a coward~” Cerberus says. “You’re already doing the responsibilities of a right hand man of the Leader of the Fallen Angels Army anyway. Just accept the official title and move on.”
he narrows his eyes. “wtf why do I feel like I’ve been manipulated into this position?”
“That’s bcs you *are.*” Cerberus singsongs cheerfully. “You should take it up with Lucy. He’s the mastermind.”
as if.
he looks at Arakiba, but Arakiba just shrugs. Then he looks at Bel, and what he sees in her eyes makes him want to run away bcs he’s not that person, the great and polite person in Bel’s mind.
But he wants to, he thinks. He wants to be the person he sees in Bel’s mind. If he’s an embarrassment to the Heaven from whence he was born, then at least he could try to make something for himself in Hell. Or Cocytus. Whichever.
