personally, my issue with Lucifer is like half his actual writing and half the fandom reaction to him. NOTHING like people treating a guy like he's never done anything wrong ever to really make you aware of everything he HAS done, thanks, and more to the point things he never once acknowledged!
Lucifer has a HUGE issue with Sinners, and Alastor is the best example because he's Lucifer's focus as competition. But it's not like his reactions to any other people were better; he refused to speak to ANYONE at the Hotel in his fist introduction, was late enough that there were already two casualties and a severe injury in the Extermination (what else could he POSSIBLY have had going on?), hides from people most of season two- it's obvious that he doesn't want to be around them. it's just not the focus because people don't like admitting that he has a clear prejudice and does NOT see the Exterminations as an issue beyond Charlie personally not liking them. had she not protested, I can't see him caring one bit
Which makes for an interesting dynamic! His pessimistic view that they are all doomed to fail and are evil deep down versus Charlie's continued optimism about people's potential is a GREAT contrast when Lucifer is refusing to argue with her; it forces him to stay there and, we hope, eventually reckon with his own issues. That is a very fun idea and I can't wait to see it fleshed out!
But if you only read fandom stuff you'd assume he was sent to Hell for trying to help Sinners the first time and is totally on board with helping in round two or something; he's friendly, just awkward! or shy! for sure not thinking that they're beneath him and he wishes more of them died before Charlie got involved...
YEAH so this is a really irritating thing about the fandom for me as well and I do not know how to talk about it without adding my negativity tag as a warning.
He's not an uwusoftboylittleguy. Like, I get it, Lucifer wears a big sweater and he's socially awkward and he's physically little. So all of that can easily add up to a fandom interpretation of Lucifer as this squishy toothless caring person when in actuality, that's Charlie. Lucifer gets the fandom love and attention that Charlie should for character traits that Charlie (not Lucifer) has. Charlie is toothless and hopelessly empathetic and caring and a dreamer and capable of opening her heart to everyone she meets. Charlie is the kind of person who would-- quite believably-- reach out to someone like Alastor and keep reaching out over and over again even though he's "obviously evil," "always scheming," and "a bad person." But instead that's the shippergoggles dynamic that I constantly see between Lucifer and Alastor and it doesn't make any sense.
Lucifer has a huge bias problem when it comes to sinners. We see this over and over again. He says they're all evil psychopaths that will destroy anything nice you create for them (the implication being that they shouldn't be taken care of, at best, or should be exterminated like pests, at worst). He looks down on them for being mortal souls. He considers himself (and by extension, angels) superior. Everything we know about how Lucifer interacts with and thinks about sinners is a red flag. There are no flags of any other colors.
And look, I'm willing to give Lucifer the benefit of some doubt if he continues avoiding sinners in S3. Maybe at this point there's some degree of fear or worry or anxiety about how much he fucked up in S2. Maybe there's some character growth we could do with that. But the point is, Lucifer hating sinners is a character flaw, and a pretty extreme one. And I actually think it's one of the most interesting things going on with Lucifer's character at this point, so erasing it in fanworks is so fucking boring.
(what else could he POSSIBLY have had going on?)
made me laugh out loud. you know what, yeah. what COULD he have been doing? get out of your house, lu!
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