Jan 17
Thinking about Lucifer making the star that would guide the shepherds and wise men to Bethlehem because he wanted to do one last nice thing for his brother before killing him.
Just
thinking about that.
A lot.
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Thinking about Lucifer making the star that would guide the shepherds and wise men to Bethlehem because he wanted to do one last nice thing for his brother before killing him.
Just
thinking about that.
A lot.
doing this every time father o'brien says anything in the htb au
really big fan of the doomed siblings trope rn
Was Gabriel's weapon a sword?
Lucifer and Gabriel had identical swords. Lucifer is currently in possession of both of them.
I can see the parallels between Sam and Luci and Gabe and Hannah
Oh absolutely. You aren't wrong to point that out /gen
Immediately after the Garden of Eden Incident-
When your twin brother disrupts the entire hierarchy of Heaven and almost gets you kicked out too lmao
Lucifer saying, "I am nothing like Him" in response to Gabriel pointing out the similarities between him and their Father is unironically a banger scene in the notes I have for HTB Part 6.
Oh Lucifer, you fucking idiot
Hold on, God made an angel of truth and then got mad when he gave the humans the truth (the fruit of knowledge)? I'm starting to think it was destined to fail from the start, and I get Luci being angry, but he's taking it out on the wrong people.
God wanted a people subservient to him and Lucifer, the literal angel of truth, disagreed with the deceit in that and offered the concept truth to Adam and Eve through the fruit. God then blamed Lucifer for ruining everything and punished him by banishing him from Heaven, unable to see how He was in the wrong for making such a project knowing the values He made Lucifer with. He basically tempted Lucifer into doing what he did and then blamed him for doing it.
For a while, Lucifer cared about humans, but the longer he was ignored by God, the more resentful he became of them. If the humans hadn't taken the fruit then he wouldn't have Fallen, after all. And so he started to take it out on the very beings he initially cared so much about.
When God sent Gabriel to essentially perform a 'reset' on the project through announcing the birth of Jesus, Lucifer kind of lost it. God was still blaming him for everything and offering him no chance to redeem himself. And since God still clearly cared enough about His Creation to try and salvage it, he decided he was going to burn it all to the ground, revealing the hypocrisy of God along the way. His story would be told, he would be heard. He would raze everything to the ground and have God begging at his knees to listen so he could have the satisfaction of refusing to forgive Him.
Lucifer's story was always about good intentions gone horribly, horribly wrong. How one can lose themselves to hatred and in thinking they're breaking the cycle of trauma and violence done unto them, doesn't realise he's actually perpetuating that cycle onto others, dragging everyone else down with him. In trying to be better than and best God, he's become no better than Him.
And it sucks, because I really feel for Lucifer, I really do. He's in an echo chamber and has surrounded himself by yes men that are essentially subservient to him (mimics), and the only person who ever tethered him down and got him to see reason - Gabriel - is dead, a victim of that very cycle Lucifer is continuing.
Is he an awful guy who has done so many abhorrent things? Yes.
But is it sad that there was real potential for him to have been and done so much good if he hadn't been consumed by his rage and his compulsive need to reveal the truth of what was done to him? Absolutely yes.
Lucifer is one of my favourite characters because he's the Big Bad. He's the villain. But, to me, he's so very human and understandable. You can see where he's coming from and how it all could've ended so differently if Gabriel wasn't killed and he'd realised that he was becoming exactly like his Father - that he was becoming everything he hated and stood against. And sometimes you see those shreds of humanity, of that person he once was, through his interactions with people like Sam and his friendship with Nobody before the failed replacement of Beth happened.
Sorry, I'll stop yapping now, I just don't get to talk a lot about Lucifer and God in HTB and how they're the pinnacle of the abusive like father like son cycle theme that turns up a lot in the story