#silenced

Sir Pentious playing with his new Eggies like a silly dad in "Silenced".

If you ASSUMED Lucifer was able to, then that's not the shows fault (I'm saying this as someone who also assumed this). And the next time someone says "they should've brought it up sooner" I'm gonna scream even louder, because everyone and their grandma complained about s1 being "rushed"... Please, tell me you understand not everything can be crammed into the first season?!

It's one thing if Hazbin was a 15-25 episodes a season show or something, but it unfortunately isn't. So, people need to understand that if anything "needed" to be added to s1 so bad, it also means something we did get in s1 had to be removed to make room for it.

Or the people who complain that it's bad in execution, because it "comes across as a joke"... Like, we've been known Lucifer uses comedy as a way to cope with his trauma?! Which is a very common way to cope. I mean, he's been a "silly little guy" who tries to make jokes all the time literally since his introduction episode.

Not to mention that hell is literally Lucifer's punishment, something we've literally known since the literal first scene of the first episode of the show, so it's SUPPOSED to suck for him (plus, I've already talked about people who genuinely believe you can't have a king with no real power obviously have no experience with real life modern royalty like countries like mine do).

Anyway, I'm gonna enjoy my "the duality of man" version of Lucifer, because the stereotypical "all powerful" devil is boring!

We talk about how Charlie is like her dad but it also makes sense she ended up with someone who shared a few things with Lilith. Vaggie was made, like a Pearl from SU, for a purpose and the second she doubted she was cast aside.

But Vaggie is literally more than heaven could have imagined or wanted. She is similar to Lilith in that she defies what she was made for. Despite the trauma and the violence and the bloodshed and the fighting with and then against her own sisterhood, Vaggie still seeks to protect other people. Her CORE nature is to be a guardian angel she seeks to defend those in need whenever she is around a problem.

There has been a silent narrative around execution angels and imps that makes me wonder who has it worse sometimes. Vaggie is not someone people are used to seeing protected and to other angels she is interchangeable as a solider. But as I said before, she is literally the most important factor. If Lute had not been cruel, Vaggie would have never ended up in hell, Charlie would have found no support, and ultimately everything else, including Adam's death, is Lute's direct fault. Even in the final battle her hatred toward Vaggie is what distracts her and causes her loss. Charlie's finally seen she is causing her own problems and it was thanks to Vaggie but she hasn't turned her eyes to help Vaggie yet. And this compounds because Vaggie has never been protected, not by the system she was raised in, and Charlie's instant wiliness to help her is something deeply important to her. Vaggie literally does not have a frame of reference for how she should be treated in a relationship as well as carrying a lot of trauma. Not the mention that while people often point out that Charlie might struggle with what Vaggie has done, Vaggie is able to fall back into unhealthy habits of power structure and care taking with Charlie specifically.

Vaggie is so much more special than anyone in heaven expected and she's important not just as Charlie's support or the hotel's backbone but as a reminder that we can survive bad places. She isn't like the Morningstar family, and she isn't like the sinners but neither can say they'd like to trade places and survive what she did for sure. Carmilla's argument here is literally that Vaggie should know how violent heaven is and she is willing to sell her morals to avoid it.

Vaggie is Charlie's dream already fulfilled. She is a constant reminder that no matter what happens and what you've done if you want more for yourself you are allowed to have it. Vaggie taking over the hotel isn't something she would have tried in season one but now she no longer sees herself as limited. She doesn't allow herself to be waiting on Charlie's approval when they are fighting, if she wants to make a decision she will.

Before she knew if Charlie would treat her different as an angel (extremely valid as we've seen how she expects to be treated) she probably thought Charlie was invested in saving her soul as well. But when the secret came out, Charlie only cared that Vaggie hadn't told her because Charlie can't understand the layers of trauma that would make you hide something like that. Her own position and status can be scary to Vaggie. When Charlie see's Vaggie lean into herself and she can't comfort her she touches her own back, once again Vaggie is what grounds her completely. The tea set and cake indicate apologes have happened before and Charlie slows down to focus on her girlfriend. There is a lot of communication they've yet to have, plenty Vaggie needs to say for herself, a more about giving that Charlie needs to learn but they've already grown from last season. Vaggie is active in her pursuit to assert herself, one step at a time. And Charlie is just as intensive and passionate in joy and in anger which complicates her ability to handle problems. They are learning who they are.

Charlie never treated Vaggie like she was anything other than Vaggie. We know Vaggie is bad at lying which implies she didn't even have a good backstory for her human identity and probably just said she didn't wanna talk about it. But for Vaggie, meeting Charlie was a literal miracle. She lost hold of everything that made reality and she was to going to die alone in hell with those she killed because heaven deemed her worthless. And in order to want to live that little angel had to then question and reject the heaven that made her and she was saved by a Morningstar of all people. To Vaggie she's literally born again with Charlie, she is a new creature a new person. She didn't even know heaven could be questioned when Charlie found her, she thought she had failed and there was nothing but evil left to consume her. And yet Charlie, the princess of hell, loves her and needs her and probably drools on her every night.