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“It’s like he actually cares about someone”

“…it feels like Alastor must be playing up the ‘evil demon’ thing…”

Lucifer thinks all of this and is still so rancid to Alastor in his literal time of need…even after thinking about you know souls. One can only assume if one has been rended so, that would be cause enough to spread a touch of that sympathy, especially if he was earnest about trying to help Charlie.

Dude needs to sit in his own daughter’s sensitivity training or something because yikes.

It’s been so long since I’ve read this chapter but that line by Zestial, “a friend is a precious thing to keep” also hits hard with Alastor’s interpersonal situation currently. Fits with Vox, Mimzy, and what might be coming with the Vees…

Lucifer thinks all of this and is still so rancid to Alastor in his literal time of need

This is where the total lack of social awareness comes in: Lucifer keeps thinking that he has this jokey rapport with Alastor, and I think part of it comes from the fact that Alastor kept going back and forth with him and hanging around with him during the whole time he was on Rosie's orders to stay at the hotel. And in the universe of TCHBW, Alastor keeps tolerating Lucifer because he decides he wants to stick around to see what Charlie makes of herself-- and Lucifer has the added level of confusion that Alastor "confided" in him and "put aside their differences" in YSM, making Lucifer perceive their relationship as closer.

But in reality, Lucifer is just picking at Alastor and picking at him and picking at him, none of which Alastor finds entertaining or fun, and I don't think it actually hits Lucifer that it's Serious until until Alastor has already verbally ripped him open in front of everyone. At which point he falls back on, horrifically, trying to tell Alastor that he thinks he's a good guy in the most insensitive and coded way possible.

“a friend is a precious thing to keep” also hits hard with Alastor’s interpersonal situation currently.

Lucifer is TOLD Niffty AND Pentious' names in chapter 10. It's not like he wouldn't have had plenty of times before AND after this moment to learn them, but like. He was directly, in a conversation, told both names. And still couldn't recall them later

man I know it got called out but fuck. Alastor STILL knew damn well he could ask and Lucifer wouldn't know

in the way someone afraid of flying dying by getting crushed by an airplane would be funny.

I'm ill.

So... what IS their god-given role, as Lucifer is defining it? Humans weren't really given one besides 'be fruitful and multiply' in Lucifer's time, which doesn't seem to make any sense, and if he means Sinners specifically, was there something they're MEANT to be doing in Hell he forgot to tell anyone?

I could be overthinking this and it's just 'follow the rules, yes even the apple one, no Sinning' but something about it feels weird and it seems to be 'ask about every line in this chapter time' so! Wanted to see if there was some interesting insight to that one?

Wow I'm really eating well here. I should do reading assignments like. every week.

So I interpret this and also a couple of other lovingly hidden lines in chapter 10 to be a manifestation of a very personal and very heavily projected bit of self-loathing that Lucifer has been storing up and holding onto since uhhhhhh. Let's see. The start of creation and the whole apple thing.

Charlie’s friends probably aren’t."

Foreshadowing for "You’re one of Charlie’s friends. You’re one of the good ones!”?

I am getting way too much of a kick out of the wild conspiracy theories for my own good. You guys, I'd tell you if you were right about this one because it's foreshadowing that already paid off. Your guesses are things I'd never tell you about before they happened!

Here's the "sinners shouldn't be allowed to have any sort of self-determination" compilation

And here's the "sinners are fundamentally disgusting creatures" pile of narration

66.6 All Screams All the Time running literally 24/7 is officially the headcanon for me. Like, this has to be the frequency, come on. Sure the novelty might run out but that's easily resolved by adding new screams to the broadcast!

I do tend to believe he takes over all the channels when he wants to make a point. For his regularly scheduled programming? Probably not. Alastor believes that he can outperform the competition on his own merits.