i don’t really understand how Luci caring about people makes him less of the devil. After all, isn’t he supposed to be able to judge people on the suffering they’ve caused? And doesn’t that mean that he should understand wrong-doing on an emotional level?
Surely his charming Trickster persona isn’t just a facade? It is an aspect of him? Just like the Punisher is? Anger, hellfire and pain-dealing?
yayyy ex is nice and helpful!!
Hmmm. so i spose. The devil and his demons deal with sinners already condemned to hell. They just deal out the punishment they feel appropriate to the evil. They judge but don’t ultimately condemn. Humans are shitty in Hell and there’s not much use for anything but the punisher aspect of the devil. The trickster is a facade for live humans in the world. The emotional understanding of the devil of wrong-doing was always theoretical and after the fact.
In the world humans are still in flux and condemning them is not the devil’s prerogative... Theoretical empathy is baked into the devil. And so is the lack of it at the appropriate moments so he can cause people suffering (basically always in hell). Now empathy has become practical. He’s dealing with humans not yet condemned, and who are not completely in his power (well, one).
It was never his intention to follow his punisher script and duty in the world, and when he falls back on it he is confonted with the fact that it is not his role to condemn or punish because he is not in power and the humans are not his to condemn.
Clearly Luci has personal attachments (which i think makes sense from christian mythology - something about Love and Lucifer and falling) so it’s not strange that he would ‘care’ for people.
Honestly it’s surprising to me that Maze and the Angel are saying: you’re changing fundamentally !!
Yeah duh he’s changing but he’s changing in worldview, not fundamentally at his core. Lucifer free of duty is not the same in teh world as in Hell. Empathy, love and a sense of eye-for-an-eye justice was always part of him. (so he would never needlessly hurt others, he can care, and he would never randomly kick a puppy like he says). Though he is all about desire and therefore does do things for selfish reasons mainly, all of the above has always been part of him.
good character.