okay ZhaoLu is very very near and dear to my heart however I had a thought and now I'm curious.
ZhaoBatos? I feel like it could be cute and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on it ....
it's okay if not though of course 🫶🏽 also HIII KIN HOW WAS YOUR HOLIDAY ??? i hope it was fantasmical
HI HELLO SAM i've a great holiday! the break was much needed and i got some nice treats and have had an all around nice time
now! zhaobatos..... my immediate thoughts are the following concepts:
guy who DIES if he doesn't have someone specific to take care of + guy who takes care of everyone except himself
guy who meticulously measures and pre-prepares all of his ingredients and seasonings + guy who just bungs whatever he has in the fridge in the pan and completely makes up everything else
guy who wears all his clothes like a mannequin wears perfect display clothes in the store + guy who doesn't even have the right buttons in the right holes half the time
guy who bakes highly elaborate french desserts with mountains of icing + guy who finds regular chocolate chip cookies too sweet
which all delight me greatly. some more specific thoughts!
definitely very slow burn. there's no active pursuit for a very long time, if ever. if anything barbatos is very much running-against-an-escalator trying to NOT let himself get too attached
given the more parental role barbatos takes to diavolo in later om seasons, and the precedent previous set for zhao: zhao -> diavolo's stepdad. incredibly funny concept
to me barbatos comes off as someone who doesn't have a very high tolerance for human world spiciness. zhao is from sichuan. this could create some issues (problematic spice tolerance gap)
their version of the talking stage is cleaning together
barbatos is incapable of being direct about his own feelings or wants, partially because he is not used to ever considering them, so he just talks endless circles around what is ultimately just the sentiment "i would like to take you somewhere nice some time"
barbatos is old old and zhao has a like 70yo soul. their idea of a nice date is just sitting somewhere quiet for a long time
it's really 50/50 as to whether ik would be more or less bewildered by this match-up than she was by her dad+lucifer. on the one hand, zhao definitely has a lot more in common with barbatos; on the other, barbatos kind of seems like he'd spontaneously turn purple before he pursued a romantic relationship with anyone, let alone someone as scruffy as her dad
on that note, barbatos is so awkward about seeking ik's approval. he has no idea what to say or do and he does not have any answers for her many questions. honestly he's as confused as anyone else, but he's attempting to follow his heart for once and i guess this is where it's leading him
Thinking about IK growing up and adopting some of the brothers attributes, and the people she gets to know and friends she makes are like "Why is she such a freak" and then they meet some of the brothers and they're like Jesus christ yeah okay
Specifically I can see IK growing up and adopting a very Satan-like smug smile. or the way she puts her hand to her chest like Lucifer when she's thinking very hard.
if any of the brothers point this out I imagine she has a midlife crisis "i'm turning into my fucking father/brothers" moment which is objectively hilarious to them
when she puts on Mammon's jacket she starts walking around with her hands on her hips casually. yeah I'm super normal
ik and satan both have that cat-with-knife-pointing-at-it smug smile and when they do it at the same time it's both very cute and very threatening (What did they do.)
(wait brief derailment— smiles in general. she beams big like mammon when she's pleased and grins shy like levi when bashful. and when she's being a bit of a jerk on purpose her smirk is 100% lucifer's)
also ik having habits built around the devildom's different environment and demons in general being weirdos. her roommates notice that she always jumps to get into seats even if they're like, normal size, because every chair in the devildom is too high off the ground for her. she's constantly bumping her head on shelves and things because she's used to being small enough to just not worry about those things
i have to imagine that she talks kind of weird with how drastically different her family's speech patterns now. she'll alternate between extremely outdated internet slang and talking like she's bringing grave news to the king
I physically cannot picture IK as an adult so these college imagines appear in my head as like regular 14 year old sized IK wearing an absolutely massive backpack and attending university
all her friends are just like yeah okay. and its normal for her because its basically the same situation as RAD where everyone is like hey look at this little guy. hell yeah man
i struggle imagining her older as well and this is a delightful image
"yeah we don't know why this undergrad's like, infant, but she's chill so we don't question it"
I was thinking.....right..... you know how in Steven Universe, each of the gems has a room in the temple that can only be accessed by their gem? Pearl has the waterfall room, Garnet has the boiler room, and Amethyst has her crystal cave, etc.
What if the House of Lamentation was set up like that?? like each brother has their own specifically decorated room already, of course, but what if they were more ✨️magical✨️ and were only able to be accessed via each brothers' own brand of magic ?
AND FURTHERMORE, what do you think IK's room would look like? :DD I know she doesn't have magic, so the room couldn't attune that way, but maybe there's some other fiddly storyline stuff that could lead to IK having a cool magic concept for a room
I definitely think Asmo's would be a flower garden, and Satan's could be a sprawling woods with bookshelves carved into the trunks and flying books and maybe a super cool spring.........thinking
HI HELLO SAM i'm doing good!! i watched the original dhmis web series for the first time with my friends earlier this week and i'm still thinking about it ngl
i've always liked the idea of the house of lamentation sort of being its own creature so maybe ik gets her own room after the house decides she's part of the family, as a little gift
i feel like the scope of it is fairly small (compared with the brothers/the gems in the show at least) since ik can't really conceptualise the things the magic can do. it'd be like a cool treehouse in a little clearing, with a pond filled with colourful fish, and the treehouse itself also has lots of secret little doors and passages. there are lots of comfy squashy armchairs and beanbags, one of those bunk beds where the bottom bunk is a space for a desk, and a big table with enough room for allher friends :)
(and when she's mad at the brothers the doorways shrink and the ceilings lower - they can still get in but they have to stoop the whole time and it's really awkward)
belphie's would so be a big observatory. like a glass dome with a beautiful galaxy outside, and then the inside is just a whole floor of mattresses, with atmospheric lava lamps and stuff. levi's would be like being at the bottom of the sea with a little underwater cave to hang out in...
okay I absolutely adore KPDH AU IK having a whole ass bazooka as her weapon, and I think it would be equally funny if instead of some cool contraption, the Honmoon simply made her physically stronger or gave her a pair of knuckle dusters and she just beat the shit out of demons with her bare hands mob style
I also think it would be adorable if the brothers collabed with IK and Luke and made what would be essentially their version of the collab Lil Uzi Vert did with Babymetal
I feel like they'd could make such a good bittersweet song. I dont know how to describe it but I feel like the only tome/vibe they could meet in the middle on is something strangely soothing with a really reflective message
wait we can have both... a bazooka is only really good if she can stay away from the main area of combat (maybe their whole thing is that luke draws most of the fire with his shorter range magical wand, and then ik blasts them from afar)
and obviously the more savvy demons will realise this quickly, so their strategy is to back her into a corner, assuming that multiple targets at close quarters will overwhelm her. it does not. she tosses away the bazooka and just starts comboing street fighter style. imagining her fighting the brothers and as they retreat she can hear one of them saying "she BROKE my NOSE, i didn't know we even HAD breakable bones, am- am i bleeding??? can we bleed??"
i'd picture their collab song having a sort of dreamy, slighlty nonsensical feel to it, sorta silly and surreal and a little bit unsettling (although i feel like ik could totally make something really gritty and angsty if she wanted). also i feel like they'd have a lot of fun with something more showtuney with a lot of back-and-forth between them
okay but toddler/kid IK being raised by Lucifer and still ending up as an IPad kid. She makes him watch those videos with her of people crushing up expired makeup in very specific color schemes to make slime out of
I feel like her taste would vary WILDLY between the most random nonsense you've ever seen and then lore videos that are hours long that she can't fullybcomprehend but watches anyways
sbbsff ik is equally entranced by all the regular baby sensory stuff AND extremely long in-depth video essays. no one can tell what she's getting out of it, given that she never has any interest in their subject matter and does not have the literacy required to understand the point, but she gets mad if anyone tries to switch the video and is somehow able to recognise an unfinished video and remember how far she got through it before she stopped
everyone else is a little unnerved but lucifer is personally very proud. look at her, she's already curating the media she consumes for optimal personal development! obviously the sensory videos are developmental supplements and the long video essays are for intellectual stimulation. such a clever three year old. she will far out class her peers at any level and he will LAUGH at the other parents on the playground
that Angel IK AU but instead of her falling they take the more safe option and just have a custody battle. The celestial realm is like fine you can live with the demons but you HAVE to come see your grandpa (God) on the weekends
But only on the weekends, for the safety of the angels and all their valuable property
It's like seeing your other side of the family that you only go to see every three or so Christmases, and there are some cousins that you really like but everything else is awkward and weird
oh my god that would be so funny. a giant beam of light appears from the sky on saturday morning and mammon looks out the window, groans, and yells for ik to get her bags - the angelic equivalent of honking the car from outside the house because your ex-spouse always snarks at you if you knock at the door
god takes on a mundane humanoid form just so He can pore over the forms with lucifer and argue with him about the terms of the custody agreement. celestial war? getting exiled? not even on anyone's mind. lucifer is too busy telling his father that "you're deluded if you think we're letting you have her more than once a month"
"OKAY THEN I WANT HER DURING THE HOLIDAYS"
"father you are insane. you will NOT be ruining her hard-earned breaks by making her go cosmic fishing with you"
Lucifer with newborn IK but it's Burr's part from the song Dear Theodosia send tweet
ouhhhh *likes tweet* *likes tweet* *likes twee
"i'm dedicating every day to you / domestic life was never quite my style / when you smile, you knock me out, i fall apart / and i thought i was so smart" is actually kind of perfect for him wow. i didn't think i could look at him any more differently but this is making me feel brand new dadcifer emotions
