#lucifer wings

[music-erika]

El Rosa complementa mis alas.

[calia-lynn]

Lucifer - The Lightbringer. Markers and coloring pencils. My imagined look at Lucifer's 'Lightbringer' powers.

[eastwesthomeisbest]

"Thinking Of You..."

[phandmakeup93-lucifan]

Lucifer 4x07 - Ella talks to Chloe:

Take the devil, for example. The devil's supposed to be "pure evil", right? But he started out as an angel! You can't start good and the turn all evil. I mean, that's what they want us to believe?

Lucifer 4x07 - Ella parla a Chloe:

Prendiamo il Diavolo, per esempio. Lui dovrebbe essere "male puro", giusto? Ma in principio era un angelo! Dai, non puoi essere buono e poi trasformarti in malvagio. Voglio dire, è questo che vogliono farci credere?

[omgluciferlover]

Studies of Lucifer’s wings

[hannibalhasthetardisat221b]

Lucifer and his Wings

[morutelolita]

[pikefied]

Lucifer meta: identity

I was encouraged by @sanoiro to post this meta (first ever), which was born as a reply to her analysis of Lucifer ep. 3x23 (which is brilliant and, if you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you to go over to her blog and read it - I would offer you a link if I knew how to do that but, alas, I’m more of a Tumblr lurker & replier than a poster, hence totally ignorant on how to do so). 

But what brings me here is a realization, through @sanoiro ‘s explanation of Lucifer’s attempts to recreate the past using certain chosen moments in the #Deckerstar trajectory, how it all boils down to what season 3 was gearing up to conveying: IDENTITY.

Throughout the episode we see Lucifer desperate to go back to the way things were, a simpler time before the whole Marcus Pierce fiasco. To do so, he resorts to recreating certain key moments that marked their relationship: the first time they met, juggling evidence, smoking pot at a crime scene, the piano duet, the monopoly game, the prom night dance...etc. In essence, what he is desperately trying to do is find himself using those key moments that he deemed special in some way. He is basically defining himself through the eyes of the one human that means most to him in the world: the detective. It is how he sees himself at this point in the story, as he seems to be funneling every action through that prism. He just can’t see how much his very identity is tied to those moments, some mundane (juggling, monopoly), others way more significant (piano duet, prom night), yet every single one defining who he has become. 

When Amenadiel told Lucifer: “maybe it is up to us to judge ourselves”, he was essentially telling him that “our actions and beliefs make us who we are, not so much who we believe ourselves to be”.  So when Lucifer finally confesses his feelings and tells Chloe that he has a side that’s “monstrous” and that he is the Devil, she responds with an earth-shattering affirmation: “not to me”. It is a moment in which the raw truth is staring them both in the face. In that scene, Chloe has stripped him of the identity he has worn as a badge of honor for eons, and utterly shattered the rules of the game (going back to @sanoiro ‘s analogy). In the same way, Chloe has stopped being “the Detective” to Lucifer. He has made a conscious choice not to use that label and has called her by her name, her identity shifting to something deeper and way more personal (because all pretense is out the window at this point, their emotions bare). 

So, with this realization came another, to quote our favorite devil. The return of his wings is not likely to be an elaborate ploy by dear old Dad to make him into something he is not, but rather, what he became the moment his moral barometer became the detective: an angel. He can’t show her his Devil face because he can no longer live up to that label. Not at the moment, anyway. 

My prediction is that, in the same way a tragedy brought about the return of Amenadiel’s wings, it will be a tragedy that brings back Lucifer’s Devil face. That, of course, it is only speculation on my part. 

I’d like to thank @sanoiro for the nudge to post this meta. It was actually fun to write. I tried to keep it not too long. I hope you guys enjoyed reading it (to those who made it to the end).