#dromos

Tsarskiy Kurgan, Kerch, Crimea, 4th century BCE.

The structure features a unique corbelled system, where each successive layer of stone protrudes slightly inward to create a vault. This specific 36-meter-long entrance passage is called a dromos.

It is widely believed to have been the final resting place of a ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom, Leukon I.

"Enemy"

Ao3 meeting with the staff

Summary: Crossover with Lucifer. New management has arrived, with new policies in tow.

Some folks are not happy.

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With a whistling sound, all activity in the Torture Floor came to a halt. The demons, now with their tools gone mid-session, ambled back to the main halls, looking between each other.

Then, to their utter astonishment, their long-gone King strolles in, as if he owned the place (okay, yea, he did), with a young man next to him taking notes in a clipboard.

"Okay, people, listen up!" The Morning Star called out. "I know I haven't been around as of late, and you have complaints," there were murmurs of assent, "but I have that solved now! See Danny here?" He waved at the human next to him.

"'Sup."

"Danny here has accepted to be your new King."

What.

"Soon there will be a transfer of power, and Hell will be joining Danny's own Realm, the Ghost Zone!"

An uproar of incredulity started rising up, before being quickly shut down by a simple hand gesture from the Devil.

"Danny, the floor is yours."

The boy nodded in thanks and stepped forward, looking at the gathered demons with a neutral face.

"Hello, hi. I know this is all very sudden for you guys, but right now we're not running with a lot of time, so I'll get straight to the point: there will be major changes here, first of all, 'til further notice, all torturing activities will be suspended," the crieds of protest were immediate, but the boy continued, unrelenting, "all forms of physical and psychological harm, whether inflicted by demons, damned or the environment itself, from pinching to disembowelling someone and beyond! And from making fun of someone's shoes to driving them insane and having them physically torture themselves and/or others!"

As the protests continued, the boy held up a hand just like the older King had done, holding firm even as it took him longer to quiet them down but, with Lucifer on his side staring them all down, they did in the end.

"I know, I know, y'all's whole shtick is fire and brimstone and eternal torture to the damned, and to change all that is asking a little too much of you." There were grumbles of assent. "That's why I've made a list of people approved to remain tortured."

He cleared his throat, taking in the rapt attention with an impish grin often found in the Morningstar's face. "Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger…"

Whilst their 'new King' read off his long list, Dromos lurked back next to Squee, watching with a frown on his face.

"I don't like these 'new things'!" He said. Squee nodded. "I think… I think we should do something about this guy."

Next to him, his brother spoke up, "We should form an union."

Without turning to look at him, Dromos punched Squee in the stomach.

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you can bet Danny has a list of "if these people die after this meeting, it's on sight" and, like, you know who i'm talking about, i'm not trying to censor myself, i just don't think i even need to say it ;)

by this point Danny is not the "legal" boss/owner of Hell, they are just getting the demons used to the idea, Lucifer won't just throw him to the wolves, he likes Danny and if things get a lil too much, he can still step in with full authority

they want the transition to be as smooth as possible, but not all of Hell agrees!

how, when he turned up at Lux, the first thing he did was hug Lucifer. 

hug him. and then kneel, and call him ‘my king’, and take his hand like he was going to kiss it, and talk about how much he missed him and how great it was to see him again. 

like. one of Lucifer’s big things, right, is how starved he is for non-sexual affection. that’s been the case from episode 1. dude wants love. desperately. he wants to be wanted, needed, cherished, given attention. he wants it from chloe, he wants it from his friends, he wants it from the other angels and his father and his mother, he wants it from everyone even though he can’t ask for it, he wants it. wanting love is an essential part of Lucifer’s personality. 

and here is Dromos just.... giving him EXACTLY what he wants. 

and Lucifer not only doesn’t care, he acts like he’s kind of weirded out, like being loved by one of his subjects is vaguely gross. 

when Dromos asks when he’s coming ‘home’, Lucifer laughs it off and talks about how much hell - ie the place he rules and could, presumably, change at any time in any way - sucks. 

when dromos is like well ok i guess i’ll hang around up here for a while and see what’s so great about it, lucy does the scary eyes thing and the ‘how dare you disobey my orders’ thing (notice he only ever talks like a king when’s giving orders) and commands Dromos, his servant, to return to the place that Lucifer himself cannot stand being (but could change any time if he wanted to, he just doesn’t). 

then i start thinking about Mazikeen  

and how OH this is how Lucifer used to treat her isn’t it

and then I think about Maze’s original decision to follow him through the gates of Hell and serve him wherever he goes even though she repeatedly says how much she loves and misses Hell and wants to go back there, and how she must have known, on some level, how little respect he has for her species or the rest of her family, and maybe she thought leaving Hell, her home that she loves, would prove to Lucifer that she’s not like all those other demons, that she’s better and stronger and more loyal and more worthy and maybe that would finally be enough to earn his respect and then it wasn’t. 

she did all that and then it just wasn’t. 

Lucifer likes her as a friend, maybe, but respects her? or respects her species, his subjects, the people who loved him and missed him and begged him to come back even after he abandoned them? damn, it sure doesn’t seem like it. 

Mazikeen can demonstrate her loyalty a million times, Dromos can hug him like a long-lost brother, they can show their love for him all they want and it doesn’t matter because at the end of the day they’re demons and Lucifer..... well, Lucifer thinks their love is icky. 

and THEN. after all that. in the battle with Michael, demons show up to fight for Lucifer anyway. 

Lucifer Character Alignment Gifset.