#athenais oc: lucifer

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This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels. (Revelation 12:9)

These here are edits done for a reel on my Instagram with a popular audio that began with "the dragon has three heads" (I believe it is from "A Song of Ice and Fire", but don't quote me on that because I do not know for sure), I saw many people doing it with their OCs or other characters, so I said why not and gave it a try for my own fallen angels characters.

The Dragon/Lucifer cover above was inspired by one of @/crydajam edits. The others are a template by @/asmodeus-psd, thanks to both so much.

Prince Lucifer's Commander, whose name is unknown.

Lucifer's advisor, president of the second Court of Hell, and the wisest angel amongst the fallen: Asmodeus.

president of the seventh Court of Hell and demons hoarder: Azazel.

I would offer more context, but it would get pretty spoilery and I don't want to ruin the cryptic vibe of these graphics, so I'll just shut up... I also have to work on my thesis, so that's another valid reason.

[a-thenais]

Asmodeus wanted to go as Ipatia of Alessandria, Lucifer gave me 25 options which kept getting more exaggerated by the moment.

So I got them costumes from the supermarket. They'll have to do.

Lucifer says it's 1. offensive 2. extremely trivial

Asmodeus is just done, and playing along a little bit with his paws. Just a little bit.

Thanks to my bestie @foxcakeee on Twitter for just playing along with my silliness, as always, and being always so dedicated to my characters 🐍💜

I wanna see everyone's OCs in their Halloween costumes, although it has passed, but idc.

[a-thenais]

HYBRIS - Lucifer moodboard

The Holy One saw that the light was good: They praised the angel Lucifer, Prince of Heaven, and commanded to spread that bounteous creation among the circles. Lucifer uttered cosmic letters, manifesting a pillar in his likeness, and surrounded with it what had been made so far. The Prince found Heaven as beautiful as it was empty, and therefore inquired his Creator: "Will I be the only one of my kind?" No sound came from the Haze that veiled The Holy One, until Lucifer heard Their songs reply to him that: "Uniqueness is what your crown recites". "But will I be alone amongst Your creatures?", the angel inquired. The answer made Lucifer nor happy nor unhappy.

I was editing various pics I found in my gallery from different trips the other day and liked some so much that I decided to make a Hybris!Lucifer moodboard out of them. The picture in the middle does not belong to me, unfortunately there's only so much I can do completely copyright free, but I'm attempting to, since I don't want to use possibly stolen photographs on pinterest.

Some of the pics are from Salzburg (Austria), like the upper central shot from "The Marble Hall" in Mirabell Schloss, others are from various places I visited in Amsterdam in 2023, and the lateral middle ones with the two angels are from The Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, MA.

I started the mooboard wanting to do a completely light-colored one, but then I found the pretty golden flowers with the dark background and well, this happened, so... this is probably from a part in Hybris (my excessively long and in-universe Paradise Lost retelling) where Lucifer is starting his ✨psychotic mean girl era✨ (I swear it's deeper than this, I'm just lazy rn).

The excerpt is a draft from the very beginning of Hybris, I wanted to make it in a much more biblical style, whereas the rest of the book has different prose. Just like the others.

I should explain a lot of the WB context behind the words "haze", "cosmic letters", "songs", but this is not the time and also I don't think anyone is going to read this, sooo... I'll leave it to another time.