if Lucifer can't harm sinners, I wonder if he can't help them either. He says during more than anything that he's "tried all this before" and failed and I'm not sure when prior to or during his fall he would have had time to attempt the "all this" he mentions.
did he try to redeem sinners too? from what I understand, the hotel was owned by him before Charlie took it over and turned it into her rehabilitation center in the pilot (that I still haven't seen >>;;). Could he have attempted to help sinners himself long before and failed badly?
Oh shoot, that does seem like the kind of rule Heaven would put into place, doesn't it? I always go back to the lines in "You Didn't Know" where Sera says "It's not as simple as you think, not everything is spelled in ink", and "there's a lot that you don't know." There are clearly a LOT of rules, but the rules they DO know don't cover EVERYTHING, and "not everything is spelled in ink" indicates to me that the rules haven't all been delineated and explored and ruled on before.
Of course, Sera straight-up tells Emily that joining Charlie's mission could make her "end up like Lucifer". So maybe she's seen this before...
I assumed when Lucifer "tried all this before", he meant trying to help humanity by prompting them to taste the forbidden fruit. Which, obviously, backfired spectacularly for him and all of humanity forever. Your interpretation is REALLY intriguing, though!
Oh wait, what? What I got from the pilot was that Charlie was founding it, there was the whole "grand opening" vibe, and she wanted to call it "the Happy Hotel", but Alastor decided to name it Hazbin instead. I don't remember Lucifer being involved in its inception at all, but I have only watched it twice, so maybe I missed something...?
