Marina Storm

I was really playing around with how to make staticapple begin to make sense without jumping straight to the fluff I've been drawing. So the divergence in this AU is:

Lucifer pays like 2% more attention to what's going on in Hell and notices what's going on with Vox amassing power a little earlier

Does not approach Vox publically at the rally (especially knowing he can't harm sinners it was just a rash decision??), but directly at his office instead

They strike an uneasy deal because Lucifer has NOT been doing public relations at all in Hell. He has been... he'd say busy, but we can get into that later

Vox sees the opportunity to basically manage the royal family's entire image (Lucifer doesn't really care, but sees it's a good way to get the man off of tearing apart Charlie's project) and receive a little power boost from the deal with Lucifer

It's a little slower as an option for a rise to power than exposing Lucifer and then using him as a weapon, but Lucifer is proving to act a little differently (more clever) than Vox expected

Some other funny notes:

Yes, Vox is stealing Lucifer's flow with the hat. As expected of him.

The hair flyaways are actually carefully curated. He's supposed to look approachable and devil may care, not depressed sad (you cannot tell me these old men have a healthy understanding of mental health)