#ryucifer

The air bore traces of iron and sulfur when they wed.

Beneath a starless sky, she emerged barefoot and walked to him in a dress unlike anything worn by the brides of the Devildom—bone white where it clung to her, red-black where it frayed like rot.

Lucifer discarded his human form the moment her silhouette crossed the threshold. Obsidian horns arched gracefully from his crown; four terrible, beautiful wings slowly unfurled behind him.

Lesser demons, nobles, and grotesque beasts in borrowed flesh remained masked in Venetian golds. Some wore faces they had stolen. Others had no faces at all. They orient themselves, but they did not speak. They did not blink. For all its fangs and fury, even the great Cerberus sat quietly at his heel, each head bowed in unsettling obedience.

It was silent, save for the soft patter of her steps on cobbled stone.

When she finally reached him, Lucifer said nothing.

Instead, he bled for her. He extended his hand, slid a clawed fingertip over her bottom lip, and gently tilted her chin up. Her eyes, once wholly human, now reflected the glow of the pact mark they had forged long before this night.

She opened her mouth without instruction, and a single bead of crimson fell onto her tongue.

At last, the Morningstar spoke.

“I give you my name, my heart.

With blood and breath, I bind myself to you for every century to come.

Let them find me at your feet, still eternally and irreversibly yours.”

divider: @/diviniyae

i’d like to think this song mirrors how lucifer and i interact with each other from the moment we meet to the day we accept our feelings for one another. he obviously isn’t my enemy but in the beginning, as i settle at the HoL, he’s clearly wary of me despite his brothers accepting me. lucifer remains polite and guarded, but he keeps his distance - almost like he’s waiting for me to prove myself. either as trustworthy or as trouble. and i think this dynamic is captured at the start of the song with its gentle and innocent melody.

i’ve decided to adopt this scene from early og game where he asks mc for a dance at diavolo’s castle and use it for ryucifer lore. i can’t actually remember how the canon scene went but basically for ryucifer, on the surface, the dance comes across like a formal gesture however as we move across the floor, the mood shifts entirely much like how the song does at 0:25-0:28 (it’s actually my fave part of the song). what starts off as light becomes much darker and that’s exactly how the scene unfolds. yeah so lucifer asks me to dance, and i assume it’s a gesture of good faith. then i realise it’s anything but. he actually uses the dance as a cover to deliver a threat: that he’s watching me and if i bring harm to his brothers, there’ll be consequences.

the tension peaks at the end of the dance when he squeezes my hand tight enough to make me wince and pull it away. he gives me a smile that doesn’t quite mask the threat in his eyes and walks away like nothing abnormal has transpired. i’m not afraid of him but i don’t know how to react, and i’m ultimately left feeling off balanced bc wtf. and ouch? it was unsettling (and i hate to say it) but strangely compelling.

as the song progresses, it becomes gentler, like how lucifer’s walls start to come down over time. they don’t disappear entirely because he’ll always be lucifer but they soften in ways that are almost imperceptible unless you’re paying close attention. the suspicion gives way to a grudging respect, then to affection that neither of us fully acknowledges at first. this slow unraveling of his defenses matches the song’s progression since the darker undertones fade and the melody grows warmer and more open

and pardon me if i’m using the wrong term but the crescendo around 2:20 is like a culmination of everything. as if this part of the song reflects the moment we finally accept what’s between us. it’s lush and expansive. it’s not rushed or sudden, like our love. and by that point we’ve stopped fighting against whatever is pulling us together and have decided to let it flow naturally. our relationship still feels like a literal and figurative dance (and since we both love classical, it always will) but it no longer feels like a battle or an act of wariness. instead it’s fluid and full of trust. we are moving in sync and learning to rely on each other <3