inotrope replied to your post “The really fun thing about the character Lucifer Morningstar himself...”
I've been avoiding the show due to the exact assumptions you mentioned, so seeing your enthusiastic meta has been the first thing that's made me want to watch it. Because how often do you get to watch a pretty guy throw himself at the feet of a woman he respects?
It was such a pleasant surprise to find out how sweet he is ultimately!! The arc over S1 and S2 is a case of it just getting better and better, in terms of his character growth into FLUFFY SWEETNESS in the guise of a naughty boy and the representation of female characters. It’s really awesome!
But yes - there’s a period early on where he cannot understand this “feeling like an elephant sitting on my chest” he’s having over her and he tries desperately to get her to have sex with him bc he thinks that will cure it. Only he finds out that sometimes it *doesn’t*... He meets a guy who has been having sex with someone he feels that way about for four months and the feelings still haven’t gone away!
He’s scared and appalled lol
And then Chloe comes by drunk after a break-up and is climbing all over him, offering what he thinks he wants, and he just looks at her with sympathy and hugs her and pats her back and doesn’t take her offer.
He does tease her about it the next day lol. But, like... well, partly it’s about him adjusting to the almighty (literally and figuratively) awe/horror of truly loving someone else more than yourself who’s not family.
He learns to handle it pretty well pretty fast: by S2 he’s like genuinely just committed to giving her whatever he can and accepting that she deserves so much better... in a very genuine, not at all resentful way. He makes peace with it.
And then she takes his face in her hands and kisses him LOL.
And, like, they do the mandatory procedural “satanism murder” episode only here he finds out that actual Satanists are about freedom of thought and rebellion against bad authority, which he is DELIGHTED to discover (”They get me!!” LOL) and that the real killer isn’t actually a Satanist. And this is what he tells the real killer:
“These kids were pretending to be bad, but they weren’t, they were innocent. So, I would not hurt them, I am not a monster!”
A lot of it is him rebelling against the scapegoat role like that. “Stop blaming [the devil]” for your own terrible choices and cruelties to others is a big thing to him - that and refusing to lie. There’s some good themes about taking responsibility - that even in a world with verifiable supernatural influences people still have the ultimate power to choose. Humans say yes or no, humans choose, humans make the world what we want it to be collectively.
And IMO the “pretending to be bad” thing applies to him too: he was in this big argument with his family and was cast in that role and felt he had no choice. That it was all he was worth. Until he decided to take a “vacation” to LA and started exploring other options lol
