(I sent this to myself because I wanted to yap)
Charlie: He keeps messing up stuff. I don't- *she struggles* I want to regain a relationship with him, I do, but I'm stressed with the hotel and everything, and he's not helping at all; worse, he's fucking things up! And then I have to go and fix it, and- *sighs* I just... I love him, but it's not a good moment, that's all.
Mod: Charlie is the princess of the Pride ring, and it shows. It's her greatest sin; her greatest failing. We see her stumble again and again because she's too focused on her own pride over others' feelings. And she fails to see how the Hell situation affects Lucifer.
I wanna say Lucifer is a good dad, in spite of him failing to be close her when she was little; even though he tried. He loves her dearly, and genuinely wants to reestablish their relationship, even though he doesn't really know how to. So he tries to help her in any way he can, supporting her project (even if he doesn't believe in it), trying to lend a hand wherever he's able, but accidentally making things worse.
It's easy to forget that Hell is his punishment for going against the Heavenly order. He's forced to watch how sinners suffer because he was daring and tried to execute his ideas for creation. He and Lilith rebelled against Heaven, offering humans a different life, and were punished by it.
But here's the kicker: It's Heaven who sent sinners to Hell. Not Lucifer. And yet he's been told that he's the direct causer of all this suffering. He's been watching it go on for millenia, he's exhausted, he's lost his hope that he once had as a dreamer. It's heartbreaking.
To make it all worse, Charlie keeps rejecting his efforts - unable to see how her dad is struggling, because he hides it from her, because he doesn't want to burden her with his pain. She truly believes he's incapable of suffering, so she doesn't dwell on him when he crawls out of the cannon. She doesn't know he can be harmed.
It's a beautiful tragedy, and I can only hope that he and Charlie get a little redemption + bonding arc soon. Charlie especially needs to open her eyes to truly see what's happening around her, and be more mindful of those she loves.
I don't think she hates him, in the slightest; she just doesn't know how to bond with him either. In her mind, he's still her distant dad who showed her how to be a dreamer but wasn't there to actually get to know her as she grew. They both struggle to connect to each other because they've never known each other.
