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Lucifer

Lucifer liked to think he had a firm grasp on everything within the Devildom: schedules, politics, punishments, chaos control, all of it. That is, until you arrived, floating into the House of Lamentation like a breeze scented with nightshade and old magic, laughing at things no one else could see.

At first, he couldn't decide if you were a nightmare or a blessing. You looked harmless enough, petite, perpetually grinning, and with a voice like a lullaby, but the air around you were always… charged. Ancient. And it didn’t take long for Lucifer to realize you weren’t just putting on a show.

You were older than you looked. Much older.

You didn’t say it outright, of course. You merely watched when the brothers argued, smiling faintly like someone who’d already seen the outcome a dozen times over. When Lucifer tried to intimidate you with that signature cold stare, you just tilted your head and asked if he’d always furrowed his brow that hard or if it was a recent stress habit.

He hadn’t been caught off guard like that in centuries.

What unnerved him more, though, was how quickly his brothers took to you. Mammon admired your "creepy little smile" (his words), Levi couldn't stop talking about how you reminded him of some legendary vampire lord from an obscure JRPG, and Beel liked how you made his protein drinks taste like fresh berry jam "just for fun."

Lucifer watched from a distance at first, waiting for a sign, some slip-up, some motive. Surely no one that powerful, that secretive, could be harmless.

But all you ever seemed to do was drink tea upside-down from chandeliers, vanish in clouds of smoke, and offer cryptic one-liners that occasionally saved their lives in battle.

When he finally confronted you, it wasn’t because you broke the rules.

It was because you didn't.

"You're… suspiciously well-behaved for someone who hides exploding runes in the pantry."

"Well, dear Lucifer," you hummed, perched on the windowsill like a bird, "what is a rule if not a polite suggestion wrapped in formality?"

"That isn't remotely how rules work."

You just chuckled.

And somehow, that was more infuriating than any rebellion.

He started noticing more of your habits. How you sat in absolute stillness when reading, like a statue. How you never ate during meals, yet still offered the others strange enchanted sweets from your homeland. How you’d hum lullabies in languages no one else understood.

Then there were the moments you dropped the act. When something serious stirred in the Devildom, a ripple in magical energy, a threat to Diavolo, you shifted. Your expression hardened. Your voice lost its musical cadence. And when you fought, it wasn’t like watching a demon unleash chaos.

It was like watching someone who’d survived it.

That was when Lucifer began to respect you. Not just as an amusing anomaly or a magically adept guest, but as someone who had made sacrifices he couldn’t yet fathom.

He started seeking your advice. At first, subtly, asking if you’d heard rumors of enchantment clusters, or if you sensed when Diavolo's meetings were being magically observed. You always answered in riddles, of course. But your riddles were always… correct.

"You know," he muttered one night, when you both found yourselves awake during witching hour, books spread between you, "You could stand to be less cryptic."

"And ruin all the fun?"

"Fun, you say, yet half the time I spend unraveling your sentences I want to smite you."

You turned a page of your book without looking up. "You won’t."

And he wouldn’t. Not because he couldn’t, but because somewhere along the way, you had become the only person who could truly talk back to him and leave him thinking about it for days.

What you had wasn’t a rivalry. It wasn’t romance either, at least, not in the traditional sense. It was something older, stranger. An odd companionship forged in mutual understanding and sharpened through shared burdens neither of you spoke aloud.

Lucifer had noticed how you avoided the topic of family. Just as he never spoke of what pride felt like before the Fall, you never spoke of what it cost to be immortal in a world that forgot the old ways. But the silence between you was never awkward. Just heavy.

He saw it one night, after a heated council meeting. You’d lingered in the shadows, watching Diavolo storm off, and for once, your grin didn’t reach your eyes.

"Did you serve someone like him?" he asked.

You blinked. That ancient glint returned to your expression, and you smiled, but it was smaller this time.

"I served a queen who wove thorns into crowns."

"And were you proud?"

A long pause.

"I was loyal."

That was the first and last time you ever told him something direct.

Lucifer doesn’t say it out loud, but he trusts you. In battle, he always checks where you are first. In meetings, he watches for your reaction before answering. In private moments, he sometimes glances toward the hallway you just passed through, like something about your presence lingers.

And you let him have that. You tease him, test him, push him, but you always return.

Even when no one sees it, you enchant the seams of his coat to be flame-resistant, leave potions disguised as wine on his desk when he’s overworked, and add protective runes to his doorframe when no one’s watching.

He catches you doing it once. You freeze mid-incantation. He doesn’t scold you.

He just says, "Thank you."

You bow low, hand on heart, and grin up at him with ancient mischief and a softness only he gets to see.

"Always, my Lord of Pride."

Mammon

It started with a prank.

Not yours, surprisingly. But Mammon's attempt to rig Levi's room with glitter bombs backfired spectacularly when a certain someone casually redirected the trap at the last second, watching from the rafters with a little snicker as Mammon got absolutely covered in shimmering dust.

"Y/N…!" Mammon whined, coughing sparkles. "What the hell?!"

"You really should check for magical redirects, my dear Mammon," you purred, flipping right-side-up from your perch on the chandelier and landing beside him like a feather. "Or did you skip that day in Basic Spell Defense?"

He sputtered, red-faced, trying to brush glitter out of his jacket. "Who just… hangs from the ceiling like that?!"

You tilted your head, a sly smile forming. "Bats do."

He blinked. "Wait… are you callin' yourself a bat now?"

"Would it bother you if I were?"

That was the beginning. You didn’t expect to get under Mammon's skin so easily. But the more you teased, the more reactive he became. At first, he tried to fire back. Tried to out-prank you. Tried to out-scheme you.

He failed. A lot.

And each time, you were right there with that same mischievous smile, offering a hand to pull him from the latest magical mess, or laughing as you handed him a towel when he was soaked in some unfortunate potion.

You made a game out of catching him off-guard. Sliding into rooms silently. Appearing behind him during class. Finishing his sentences before he could. And for a while, Mammon tried to act like he hated it. That you were too weird, too cryptic, too… old-fashioned.

But he always laughed.

"You ain't right in the head, Y/N," he'd mutter, grinning despite himself. "Who just throws bats at people during breakfast?"

"They were enchanted plush bats," you reminded him with mock offense. "They sang the RAD anthem."

Your antics weren’t just for fun, though. You noticed things. The way Mammon avoided eye contact when someone praised him. How he played up his arrogance to cover insecurity. How he always seemed startled when someone defended him.

So, you defended him. Casually. In front of Lucifer. In front of the others. Always in that same breezy tone that made it seem like you weren’t trying to make a big deal out of it.

"Of course Mammon handled it. He's got a sharp mind when he bothers to use it."

"Surprisingly graceful in combat, isn’t he? Not all flash, there's instinct there."

"Mammon? Unreliable? Oh, my dear, I've trusted him with several of my cursed artifacts. Still have all my limbs, don’t I?"

Each time, he'd blink in surprise. Then shrug. Then try to hide the stupid smile tugging at the corners of his lips.

Eventually, he started seeking you out. You’d find him lingering outside your room with a half-baked excuse, or hovering at your table during breakfast.

"Y/N, got a cursed coin here, think it's makin' my wallet scream. You wanna check it out?"

"You just want me to fix your bad luck."

"Yeah, well… maybe I like how ya do it."

It was awkward. Flustered. Endearing.

But then came the night of the enchanted mirror incident. Mammon had gotten cursed by a minor relic that reflected his inner fears back at him. And what he saw made him freeze.

A reflection of himself, forgotten. Worthless. A shadow.

You were the one who stepped between him and the mirror, your tone uncharacteristically serious.

"That's not who you are."

He looked at you, startled. "How d'you know what I saw?"

"Because I’ve seen war twist strong men into ghosts of themselves. I’ve seen pride crumble under self-loathing. I recognize that look, Mammon. And I refuse to let you wear it."

Your voice cut through the magic. Your presence anchored him.

He didn’t say anything for a long moment.

Then, finally: "You're scary when you're not messin' around."

You smiled, gently now. "I can be both."

After that, things shifted.

He trusted you more. He let his guard down. He even asked for advice sometimes, which Mammon never did unless it was absolutely desperate.

You taught him minor warding runes. Helped him detect enchantments. And he, in turn, showed you the best rooftop spot to stargaze above RAD.

"It ain't much," he muttered, lying beside you one night, fingers laced behind his head. "But it's quiet. And no one yells at me here."

You nodded. "Then it’s perfect."

Silence.

Then, softly: "Y'know… sometimes I think you see more of me than I do."

You glanced over, your voice light again. "Of course I do. That’s what ancient guardian spirits do."

He snorted. "You're not that old."

"Wanna bet?"

"Nope. Not riskin' it. You'd win somehow."

You grinned.

And somewhere in that glitter-coated chaos, in all your teasing and spell-duels and midnight conversations, something settled between you both.

A quiet understanding.

You would always be his shadow in the rafters. His unexpected defender. His chaos counterpart.

And he would always, always look up when he walked into a room. Just in case you were watching.

Levithan

Leviathan didn’t trust you at first. You were too calm. Too cool. Too confident. You, with your upside-down entrances, dry wit, and mysterious past involving ancient wars and royal courts, were the exact opposite of everything Levi thought he understood about humans.

“You’re like an anime protagonist in the final arc,” he muttered one day when you strolled into the House of Lamentation hanging from the stair railing by your knees.

You just grinned at him, upside down. “Good eye. Now guess my power level.”

He choked.

In all honesty, Levi didn’t know how to handle you. You were enigmatic, powerful, wise, but never overbearing. It was like watching someone cosplay as a Dark Lord but still insist on baking cookies with the first-years. And the worst part? He kind of admired you for it.

You never mocked him for his interests. When he talked about TSL lore, you listened, sometimes even comparing it to the long histories you actually lived through. When he stuttered through his words or got flustered because you complimented his battle strategy during a game, you didn’t laugh.

You just tilted your head, smiled that ancient little smile of yours, and said, “Wisdom comes in many forms, Leviathan. Yours is simply more pixelated.”

He turned into a tomato.

Despite your easygoing nature, you were terrifying when serious. He remembered the first time someone insulted Levi in passing. The air shifted around you. You didn’t raise your voice, but your words cut with surgical precision.

“A prince of the sea deserves respect. If your tongue cannot deliver it, best keep it between your teeth.”

He’d never seen anyone shut up a demon that fast.

You treated Levi with something strange and unfamiliar: reverence. Not because he demanded it, but because you saw something in him that he struggled to see in himself.

And Levi? Well, he struggled.

Your presence made his usual excuses crumble. He couldn’t say he was worthless when you looked at him like he carried worlds. He couldn’t pretend he didn’t matter when you called him by his full title in that fond, teasing tone: “My dear Admiral of the Sea of Devildom.”

You didn’t care for his tsundere moments. When he got flustered and tried to brush you off, you simply blinked slowly, like a cat that had already won the game.

“You don’t have to prove anything to me, Levi,” you said once, after he’d beaten himself up for losing a PvP match. “I’ve seen warriors falter. What matters is whether they rise again.”

He didn’t even know how to respond to that. You sounded like you’d seen a thousand battlefields. Maybe you had.

You fit into the chaos of the Devildom with ease, often teasing the other brothers or dragging Levi to strange places with odd herbs in your pockets and traps hidden under your coat. Yet every time Levi thought he had you figured out, you’d do something utterly ridiculous. Like challenging Beel to an eating contest. Or enchanting Mammon’s shoes to squeak like rubber ducks.

You were ancient. Wise. Completely unbothered.

And somehow, you still made time to join Levi in his dark gaming cave, curled beside him on beanbags, critiquing the plot of dating sims and getting far too invested in boss battles.

“I trained knights and warlocks for centuries,” you mumbled around popcorn one evening. “But this dragon AI has better tactical awareness than half of them.”

Levi laughed. Actually laughed. And you looked pleased.

Eventually, Levi stopped questioning your presence. You were there because you wanted to be. Because you saw something in him. Because, as you said once in a rare, quiet moment: “Even heroes need someone who believes in them. Let me be that for you.”

And Levi, flushed and trembling and overwhelmed, simply nodded.

Because maybe, just maybe, having a half-mad, formerly immortal guardian hanging upside down from his ceiling and calling him brave was the best plot twist of his life.

Satan

Satan was convinced from the very beginning that you were hiding something. Not in the suspicious, criminal way, he didn't suspect you of plotting some grand betrayal against the House of Lamentation. No, it was something else. Something deeper. A layer beneath the constant smiles, the lazy hum of a lullaby as you drifted upside-down across the ceiling, your light teasing that bordered on unnervingly accurate.

He didn’t like not knowing.

Which is exactly why he couldn’t keep his eyes off you.

You were unlike anyone he’d ever met. Equal parts ancient wisdom and chaotic gremlin. You'd float into a room, tease Lucifer to his face with the politeness of a diplomat and the bite of a sabertooth, and then offer him a piece of fruit like nothing happened. And Lucifer tolerated it. No, he respected it.

Satan was half-amused, half-offended. You'd wormed your way into the family dynamic like you belonged, but what got to him was the sense that you already knew how this place worked. Like you'd been through worse halls of power before. Like you'd played this game a thousand times.

So, naturally, he tested you.

He tried to catch you slipping. Asked oddly specific questions about human war history and Devildom battle magic, watched your reactions to certain names and phrases, invited you into debates designed to rattle egos. And every single time, you met him head-on with a lopsided grin and an answer that was just a little too elegant. A little too old.

He finally cornered you in the library one evening, having followed the echo of your humming. You were perched atop a high shelf, calmly sipping tea as if gravity didn't apply to you.

"You fought in wars, didn't you?"

You blinked at him slowly, then smiled. "How astute. What gave it away? The combat stance or the emotional damage?"

He didn’t laugh, but something in his chest buzzed. You weren’t denying it. Finally.

"You’re older than you pretend to be. That much is clear."

"Age is relative. Experience is the real measure."

You jumped down lightly, landing with feline grace beside him. Satan wasn’t intimidated, but he did feel the weight of your presence. Not magical, not oppressive, but commanding. Like a general in disguise.

"So what are you hiding, Y/N?" he asked, voice low.

You tapped his nose with your cup. "Nothing you couldn't find if you read between the lines."

Infuriating. Fascinating.

That was the beginning of something deeply complex.

He started observing you more intently after that, your habits, your patterns, your lectures to Beel about proper sleeping posture, your endless patience with Levi despite your teasing. The way you and Mammon could vanish for hours and return with smoke-stained cloaks and no explanation.

But when you got serious, when someone crossed a line, when one of the younger brothers was hurt, or when a noble questioned your place here, that easygoing mask dropped, and Satan saw the steel underneath.

"We do not harm what is mine," you once said at a gathering, tone so sharp the room fell silent.

It reminded him of himself, that wrath wrapped in velvet.

And you saw it in him too.

You two often argued, but it was never cruel. It was a battle of wills, of philosophies. A shared understanding that both of you could destroy worlds but chose, instead, to educate them.

He asked about your past once more, during a midnight stroll in the gardens. You didn’t answer at first, just looked up at the stars.

"I used to protect someone important. It made me dangerous. It made me soft."

And that was all he needed.

Satan began to share more with you after that, books that mattered to him, stories of his early days when he barely understood the difference between rage and reason. And you listened, truly listened, with the eyes of someone who had taught generals and comforted orphans in the same breath.

He respected you.

And he liked you far more than he’d ever admit out loud.

Because you were a contradiction he understood: kind yet deadly, ancient yet boyish, full of life yet shadowed by time.

If anyone were to sit beside him during the end of the world and calmly offer a sarcastic remark while flipping through a cursed tome, it would be you.

And that, in Satan’s mind, was the highest compliment of all.

Asmodeus

To say Asmodeus was fascinated by you would be an understatement. From the moment you descended into the Devildom with that lilting laugh, fanged smile, and mysterious aura of mischief cloaked in elegance, he had his eyes on you. And not just in the usual way Asmo noticed people, with you, it was different. Deeper. More challenging.

You were radiant, yes. Beautiful in that androgynous, ageless way that no one could quite put their finger on. But it wasn’t just your looks that drew him in. It was your presence. The way you glided into the House of Lamentation like it already belonged to you, upside-down from the ceiling as if gravity was just a suggestion. The way you teased Beel about his appetite and Mammon about his gullibility, all while sipping tea that no one remembered you making. The way you’d hum lullabies in languages long forgotten and smile knowingly whenever someone tried to outwit you. Asmo loved it. And he hated that he couldn’t figure you out completely.

“You’re just so… composed,” he said once, eyeing you over a jar of moisturizer. “Even when Satan’s having a meltdown, or Belphie’s sleep-attacking the pantry. Don’t you ever lose your cool?”

You just chuckled, brushing a strand of his hair behind his ear. “There’s no joy in chaos unless you know how to stir it properly. Besides, I like watching it unfold naturally.”

That answer should have annoyed him. Asmodeus thrived on emotional honesty, the raw and the real. He could read people like books, but you were a library written in ancient runes and encrypted in seven dialects. And still, he kept coming back. You let him, too. Which was dangerous.

The problem was, Asmodeus wasn’t used to feeling, less. Not overshadowed exactly, but… outshone. You were elegant without trying, charming without effort, seductive without even touching anyone. And he found himself trying to impress you for once. Dressing up more deliberately. Picking perfumes that he thought might catch your attention. Performing, performing, performing, until one day, you stopped him with a single glance.

“Asmo,” you said, soft but firm, “why do you wear masks when your face is already so lovely?”

The room was quiet. You weren’t teasing. Not this time. He felt seen, and he wasn’t sure if he liked it.

“Because it makes people happy to look at me that way,” he said, voice too light to be genuine.

You tilted your head, observing him with eyes that had seen centuries of war, peace, and rebirth. “Is it people’s happiness you seek, or their approval?”

Asmo didn’t answer.

After that, he found himself spending more time with you. Not always talking. Sometimes just sitting together in comfortable silence. You’d mend old weapons in the corner of the room, humming that same eerie melody, and he’d file his nails or test lotions on your hand, watching your reactions for genuine opinions. You never gave him flattery, only the truth. And he treasured that more than he expected.

He learned that beneath your fanged grins and teasing demeanor was someone who had lived through more loss than even Lucifer. Someone who chose to be lighthearted because you knew how dark the world could be. You understood beauty not as vanity, but as a form of magic. As armor. As rebellion.

And he began to see himself differently, too.

One night, during a masquerade ball thrown by Diavolo, Asmo caught you standing on a balcony, alone. Your mask hung in your hand, forgotten. Your expression was wistful.

“Shouldn’t you be inside dazzling everyone with your mysterious charm?” he asked, approaching.

You smiled at him, tired but warm. “It’s hard to dazzle when you’ve already lived through a hundred versions of this evening. Same music, different masks.”

He leaned on the railing beside you, brushing your shoulder with his. “I don’t think anyone could ever get used to you. Not even time.”

You turned to look at him, and he was stunned by the softness in your gaze. “And yet, you see through me so easily, Asmodeus.”

He reached up, brushing his fingers along your cheek. “Not through. With. You taught me that being seen doesn’t have to mean being vulnerable. Sometimes, it means being real.”

You laughed, and this time, it was for him alone. “What a poetic little demon you are.”

He smirked. “Don’t let it get around. I have a reputation to maintain.”

In the end, Asmo didn’t fall for your power or your mystery or your centuries-old wisdom. He fell for the version of himself that you saw, one who didn’t need constant validation to feel worthy. One who could be beautiful and brave. One who could be soft and sharp all at once.

And you? You never admitted it outright, but you stayed longer in the Devildom than you meant to. And every time you sat beside him while he polished his nails or debated blush tones, you smiled a little more honestly.

Neither of you ever called it love.

But then again, neither of you needed to.

Beelzebub

Beelzebub met you the same way most people did: upside down, dangling from a rafter in the kitchen while nibbling on dried starfruit and humming a war hymn under your breath.

"Hi there," you said casually, as if it were completely normal to be perched like a bat near the spice rack. "Did you know cinnamon used to be worth more than gold in the human world?"

Beel blinked up at you, sandwich mid-bite.

You grinned. "Not that I'd trade it for this banana-peanut butter combo. You want one?"

It wasn’t the strangest thing he’d seen that day. But it was close.

Your presence in the House of Lamentation was… unexpected. Not because you didn’t belong. Quite the opposite. You seemed to float through the chaos like a spirit who had always been there. You were charming in that old-world way that made Asmo swoon and Lucifer tense his jaw. Wise without being condescending, playful without being careless.

To Beel, you were like a lullaby hummed before sleep, sweet, nostalgic, and a little haunting.

He wasn’t quite sure what to make of you at first.

You were always offering odd snacks: candied roots, briar berries soaked in honey, grilled mushrooms with eerie violet caps. You’d share your food without hesitation, even though you teased him constantly.

“You eat like someone who grew up in a war camp,” you once said, watching him down half a tray of dumplings.

“I kind of did,” he mumbled.

You tilted your head. “Oh. Same.”

You said it like it was just another fact, like eye color or favorite tea. Not in a way that begged sympathy, but in the way people do when they've already made peace with the pain.

That was the first time Beel felt the quiet tug of understanding between you.

You never judged his appetite. Never looked at him with fear or pity. Instead, you praised his strength.

“You move like an earthbound dragon,” you said once during a training session. “All quiet power and loyalty. I respect that.”

He didn’t know how to respond. So he gave you the last piece of the honey cake he’d saved. That was Beel, through and through.

You accepted it with a smile and sat beside him.

“I was once feared for what I could do,” you said quietly. “For how fast I could end lives. But it was nothing compared to the hunger that followed war. That part? That hunger? You get it.”

He nodded. Because he did.

And he liked that you didn’t make him explain it.

You told the others bedtime stories that sounded suspiciously like battle reports. Your tales of old victories were laced with dry humor and vague hints of bloodshed. Beel listened closely, especially when you got quiet at the end.

“Sometimes, I miss it,” you admitted one night, fingers resting against a tea cup. “Not the killing. Just… the clarity of it. In war, you always knew who the enemy was. Out here? It's harder.”

He didn’t have the words to respond, so he reached out and gently nudged a plate of pastries your way.

You smiled. “Careful, Beel. Feed me too much and I might fall for you.”

You meant it as a joke.

His ears turned pink anyway.

He didn’t mean to start following you around. It just happened. You had a way of popping up in strange places, humming lullabies and planting herbs in Lucifer’s forbidden flower beds.

One afternoon, he found you placing strange sigils along the border of the RAD track field.

“They keep the crows away,” you explained.

“We have crows?”

“Not anymore.”

He didn’t ask.

Instead, he brought you a sandwich and offered to carry your tools. You let him.

The others were wary of you, at least at first. Not because you were cruel, you weren't, but because you carried your mystery like a blade.

Except Beel.

He didn’t need to solve you. He just wanted to sit beside you while you made pickled fruit and whispered old lullabies into the fire.

You let him.

And when you got quiet on the anniversary of a forgotten battle, he didn’t ask what was wrong. He just stayed.

Shared his snacks.

Told you you could rest.

And you did.

For the first time in a long time.

Belphegor

You were the last person Belphegor wanted to deal with. Not because he disliked you, no, that would’ve been simple. You were just... infuriatingly unpredictable.

For starters, he never heard you coming. Which was ironic, considering your flair for the dramatic. One moment he’d be lying down for his fourth nap of the day, the next you were hovering upside down from the ceiling, peering at him like some fanged bat-goblin, asking if he wanted tea or to spar with illusions that “definitely, probably won’t bite this time.”

“Why are you like this,” Belphie had grumbled once, lifting a pillow over his head.

“Because if I weren’t,” you mused, tapping your chin while still hanging upside-down, “you’d be even more boring.”

He wasn’t sure if he wanted to throw you out the window or ask you to lie down beside him.

There was something inherently strange about you, and it wasn’t just the bat wings or the centuries-old combat medals you forgot under your bed. You were a paradox. Mischievous, spritely, fanged menace one moment; wise, ancient, and deeply thoughtful the next. Belphie, who had long since mastered the art of reading people, found you unreadable.

You made no demands on his time, but you appeared often, like a particularly chatty haunting. You didn’t pester him to go out, but you would quietly drag a blanket over him if he passed out on the couch. You didn't push past his boundaries, but you danced right up to them with a sly grin and a twinkle in your eye.

“You nap as much as I used to before the war,” you’d said offhandedly once, settling beside him with a cup of tea.

He blinked at you. “War?”

You smiled into your cup. “Ancient history.”

He didn’t press. He hated when people pried into his past, he wasn't going to do it to someone else. Especially not someone who might be older than all of them combined and still managed to skip down the hallways like a gremlin in eyeliner.

Still, Belphie noticed things. The way your joking demeanor would crack ever so slightly when someone mentioned siblings. The way your eyes glazed over when the younger demons sparred, not out of boredom, but memory. The way you stood so still when Diavolo gave orders, every inch of you trained to obey even as your smirk said otherwise.

It reminded him of the Celestial Realm. Of war. Of pretending to sleep so you didn’t have to think.

“You’re tired,” he said one day without thinking.

You paused mid-sip. “Of course. You spend several hundred years dragging people out of battlefield wreckage, and tell me you don’t need a nap.”

He turned his head slowly toward you on the couch. “Wait, that wasn’t a metaphor?”

Your smirk returned, full force. “Everything’s a metaphor. Including this conversation.”

Belphegor groaned into the throw pillow.

Still, over time, your chaos became… familiar. Comfortable, even. You never judged him for his past. You never forced apologies or tiptoed around his mood swings. You’d simply flick his forehead when he got too gloomy and say, “You’re sulking again, little star. Come, let’s go set the kitchen on fire. Figuratively.”

(That “figuratively” part was important. The last time you didn’t say it, Satan almost had an aneurysm.)

In your presence, Belphie didn’t feel like the “youngest brother” or the “betrayer” or the “lazy one.” He just felt like someone you liked bothering. And that… actually meant something.

One night, the stars outside were unusually bright. Belphie found himself awake, which was rare enough, and saw you sitting on the balcony railing like gravity had no say in the matter, legs swinging in the air, quietly humming an old lullaby he couldn’t place.

“You planning to jump?” he asked from the doorway, arms crossed.

You glanced over your shoulder. “Only if the moon starts singing. Otherwise, no.”

He padded over to join you, leaning against the railing. “You always act like you’ve seen everything.”

You smiled at the sky. “Not everything. Still haven’t figured you out, for instance.”

He raised an eyebrow. “You’ve been haunting me for months and still haven’t cracked the code?”

You tilted your head. “Wouldn’t be fun if I did.”

Belphie considered that. “You know, most people either get annoyed or scared of me.”

You grinned, fangs glinting. “You haven’t seen me in a war zone.”

He chuckled under his breath. “You’re weird.”

“And you’re finally smiling.”

The silence that followed wasn’t awkward. Just quiet. Like the space between lullaby notes. Like rest. Real rest. The kind neither of you had experienced in lifetimes.

“You’re not gonna disappear one day, are you?” he asked, so softly he wasn’t sure if he meant to say it aloud.

You looked at him, for once not teasing. “Only when you stop needing me.”

That was the moment Belphegor realized something deeply inconvenient: he kind of liked you.

Of course, the very next day you filled his pillowcase with glitter because he refused to help you prank Lucifer, so equilibrium was restored.

He pretended to be mad. You pretended to be innocent. And under it all, neither of you said it, but both of you knew:

There was comfort in the quiet chaos of each other.

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Madame/Captain

Whatever continuity these 2 are essentially Gomez and Morticia just a slightly more realistic way since they can be jealous and fight. They adore each other, respect each other, are hot together, the Captain is protective of his wife and her son he sees as his treating her better than men she knew before him, they had a love at first sight and since then have co-led the haunted house together like a power couple. A vampire and a skeleton-like ghost who are both fuckable in-universe, jackpot.

Shrek/Fiona