inotrope replied to your post āThe really fun thing about the character Lucifer Morningstar himself...ā
I've been avoiding the show due to the exact assumptions you mentioned, so seeing your enthusiastic meta has been the first thing that's made me want to watch it. Because how often do you get to watch a pretty guy throw himself at the feet of a woman he respects?
It was such a pleasant surprise to find out how sweet he is ultimately!! The arc over S1 and S2 is a case of it just getting better and better, in terms of his character growth into FLUFFY SWEETNESS in the guise of a naughty boy and the representation of female characters. Itās really awesome!
But yes - thereās a period early on where he cannot understand this āfeeling like an elephant sitting on my chestā heās having over her and he tries desperately to get her to have sex with him bc he thinks that will cure it. Only he finds out that sometimes it *doesnāt*... He meets a guy who has been having sex with someone he feels that way about for four months and the feelings still havenāt gone away!
Heās scared and appalled lol
And then Chloe comes by drunk after a break-up and is climbing all over him, offering what he thinks he wants, and he just looks at her with sympathy and hugs her and pats her back and doesnāt take her offer.
He does tease her about it the next day lol. But, like... well, partly itās about him adjusting to the almighty (literally and figuratively) awe/horror of truly loving someone else more than yourself whoās not family.
He learns to handle it pretty well pretty fast: by S2 heās like genuinely just committed to giving her whatever he can and accepting that she deserves so much better... in a very genuine, not at all resentful way. He makes peace with it.
And then she takes his face in her hands and kisses him LOL.
And, like, they do the mandatory procedural āsatanism murderā episode only here he finds out that actual Satanists are about freedom of thought and rebellion against bad authority, which he is DELIGHTED to discover (āThey get me!!ā LOL) and that the real killer isnāt actually a Satanist. And this is what he tells the real killer:
āThese kids were pretending to be bad, but they werenāt, they were innocent. So, I would not hurt them, I am not a monster!ā
A lot of it is him rebelling against the scapegoat role like that. āStop blaming [the devil]ā for your own terrible choices and cruelties to others is a big thing to him - that and refusing to lie. Thereās some good themes about taking responsibility - that even in a world with verifiable supernatural influences people still have the ultimate power to choose. Humans say yes or no, humans choose, humans make the world what we want it to be collectively.
And IMO the āpretending to be badā thing applies to him too: he was in this big argument with his family and was cast in that role and felt he had no choice. That it was all he was worth. Until he decided to take a āvacationā to LA and started exploring other options lol
