Okay, so. It's very interesting to me that the beauty of the earth itself is something that shows up in the Zachariah worlds pretty consistently? If you squint. The world being destroyed, bomb, pollution, even the Lucifer he reaches for is draped in garden imagery.
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I think too about how the first thing lucifer does when he gets back to earth? Feeds the birds. There's something about it. Even the family is not something he's looking at with hatred.
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The first snap of violence comes only when a hostile angel tails him. The snake only bit when it was challenged. Snakes in the garden... is it really such a strange thing for a snake to live here, too?
LUCIFER: "It's beautiful out here, isn't it? It's funny. The things you don't think you'll miss at all you end up missing the very, VERY most."
And he pets the tree.
s11
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The nature-loving angel is the one you don't want to look at?
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s13, drilling into the recesses of his head:
These are the things Lucifer marvelled at:
"...a chance to live in paradise..."
13x07
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You break everything you touch. Reminds me of his conversation with Jack, about humans and angels being oil and water.
(Fall at their feet. Don't dominate.)
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But as far as nature goes, you wonder if Zachariah might've suspected that, or at least seen it. How Lucifer may not have cared for the people, because he SAW their destructive tendencies. But the awe for nature... even some of the parts of human nature... realer than you think.
The Lucifer Zach reached for vs the Lucifer we know
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Zach's Cas vs the Lucifer we know
"Beauitful, isn't it?" // "Beautiful out here, isn't it?"
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"...stars...galaxies... a whole universe out there... You have to live your life for you. This is our chance to escape our past, our sins, and start over."
13x23
EDIT:
Sorry to bring this back around to The Little Prince but... somehow reads like a shadow version of