#basically i wanna do angels redemption AND the other plot points right

[peppermint-whiskers]

In regards to the next installment of the God Possesses Pentious au:

I'm gonna take a tiny break for this next week. I'm planning for it to be a bigger installment (so more than 7 chapters maybe) to plan that storyline. Everything I've set up will be put into motion there and will lead up to the next "phase," so to speak?

AKA: Angel Dust redemption is nigh and I wanna do it right pfft

Might even whip out a lil notebook for it instead of my notes app, who knows? uwu Appreciate your patience in advance XD

[blorbosexterminator]

AND I am back. Once again on this lovely day to give my review for the EPISODE 24 so, here we go :

Agustin is squinting his eyes at him, as Sergio keeps muttering that Agustin has in fact done what he just mentioned he did and which both of them have known for years. 

Federico is 99% dead?! Damn, what is Sergio's gonna do?! Make it 100% ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

(I got a feeling that Federico is the kidnapper or atleast a very important lead to them)

Btw, WHO IS FEDERICO?! Tatiana's alive husband?!

(Look at me, hoping like a moron she aint dead

My dog : Yep, total moron 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Me :

Me : NOBODY ASKED FOR YOUR BITCH-ASS OPINION, YOU DUMB-FUCK DONKEY!!!! 😡😡😡)

Martin, my darling, my sweetheart, my poor angel. Nada, some help? Atleast gimme some tips, bruh, come on, you cant desert me like that. Not when I need to help someone 🙁🙁🙁

since, drunk, the last idea he got was that Laura turned out to be completely insane and kidnapped Andrés to marry him

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Martin, honey, stop drinking. This getting out of hand 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. But then again, Andres is so hot poor thing keeps on doubting.

As Roci said in one of the tags, his wives deserve the highest civilian award for putting up with him.

(Although, I just had a frisky thought. What if Sergio wanted Andres away from Martin, not because he cared bout his hermano but......😳😳😳😳😳 *whispers loudly* he wanted Andres all for himself? In *frantically looks around* INCEST WAY?!)

(Calm down, my deranged mind, you went too far 🤣🤣🤣)

Who knows, it could be the professor he punched in the middle of an exam once. Martín doesn’t think he has forgiven him.

Mood, bruh, such a mood 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 NO, OMG 😆😆😆 I didnt do it, but I do kinda have a beef with my Organic prof. I'll go off tangent again, so tell me if you wanna know the story.

He sent Silene in disguise to collect the cctv from the nearby shops and streets. His own cctv has been disabled since the IT bitch ruined it, Martín will kill him when he gets them back.

I think if and only IF Silene finds something good, her % of redemption will increase.

(Raquel s2e7 deja vu, I see what you did there 😏)

And Martin about to go John Wick on anyone & everyone. I tell ya Keanu Reeves will be crying when he sees Martin go nuts. I am willing to bet he'll pull a gun on the poor milkman, who just wanna do his job 😆😆😆

So he calls Bogota, with a little (not that little) handwritten list in his hand with the names of people he thinks he might have ruined their life in the past. 

Martin : Okay, I'll just take out the list and

*the paper rolls out the door, travels around the world for 5 times and comes back while going over top of Everest and bottom of Marina Trench*

No, it’s because when he hated Martín, he had always hated him openly. If he wanted to hurt him, then he’d just try to stab him in the middle of the living room.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Bogota, did Tatiana have any family?”

“No, who of us did, Martín?”

“You literally have 7 children and 7 ex-wives.”

COMEDY GOLD, NADA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Those kids are ungrateful bastards, if I fall dead tomorrow they would just run to see what they’ve inherited.”

Aka THE PLOT of 70% Indian Telenovas 🤣🤣🤣. Also this line alone has so much soap opera vibes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He has no choice but to go to fucking Sergio Marquina. And if it’s his wife, then even better. Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer. 

For fuck sake, Martín, Ive been telling you from last 2 ep

Stop. Blaming. Raquel.

Also, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 damn, these 2 assholes cant keep away from each other. Nada, are we sure these 2 married the right people? As much I am a Berlermo ship stan, this here is just smth else 😆😆😆

Uh-oh 🙁 this asshole son of a bitch just poked the mama bear. And if ANDRES of all people narrows his eyes at you, You are, quoting Martin from last ep, truly, utterly, entirely, thoroughly and wholly fucked.

“Do you know him?”

“Oh yes, a childhood friend, I stole his pencil once and he never forgave me. Have you heard this Paula? Don’t steal your friends’ pencils, they will never get over the betrayal. You could steal the teacher’s ones though.”

“Why did you steal his pencil?” Paula asked seriously, with a delirious tone, and too tired to even move her head upwards. Raquel is gonna kill every single person involved for doing this to her daughter.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sassy Andres = Best Andres. Words that should be written with GOLD. Wisdom passed onto generations

Poor Paula 🤣🤣🤣 I just imagine this in some other situation :

Andres : *saying smth smth*

Paula : *taking notes & asking questions*

Raquel after seeing her daughter :

Look what you made me do

🎶But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time

Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time

I got a list of names, and yours is in red, underlined

I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!

Ooh, look what you made me do

Look what you just made me do🎶

(Look what you made me do by Taylor Swift)

I am telling you Nada, by the time Raquel will be done with everyone, Uma Thurman will cry buckets because no one, okay?, no one can compete with A MAMA BEAR RAQUEL MURILLO.

“Poison is a woman’s choice of weapon, Anibal. Don’t be disrespectful.”

Again, words of wisdom. Only time hes not being a misogynist.

Also, Andres, my dear, are you speaking this from experience?

(Why do I think that Martin got Tatiana killed cause she poisoned him and Martin had to watch Andres fight for his life in hospital?)

“He won’t say anything, Mama. He’s the one who kidnapped grandma with Silene!”

Is anyone gonna listen to her? Or do I need to bonk Raquel myself? 🤦‍♀️

“Silence!” she screams. “I need to know everything that happened, if we’re getting out of here alive.” 

FINALLY!!!! SOME COMMON SENSE!!!! WE THANK THE LORD FOR MERCY!!!

And as for me, its time for me to say goodbye and goodnight (Cause its quarter to 12 rn in my watch)

AND ILL SEE YALL TOMORROW 🤗 BYE!!! 🙋‍♀️

I'm back as well! And we've finally caught up with each other.

Valid reaction. Sergio is also slowly going insane. Love that for him.

He's hoping he could. We all know this family has beef with that last one percentage.

(we'll see👀👀👀)

Hope is all we got at this point afabgs.

Now, now, don't speak to him like that. He has valid criticism.

I'd help him if I could, but alas (lmfao no, I do love them suffering)

Same recommendation. But he just, poor boy, could nothing to think of. So might as well be Laura. (also fair, who knows, maybe Andrés gets constantly kidnapped and forced into marriage)

Definitely, she's 100%. I really don't know how they do it.

Avsnsjsvjshsjs all theories are valid. Maybe Sergio does want Martín or Andrés, who knows what goes in the head of that fucker.

Seems like an interesting story! I never got along with my chemistry teachers. (Got one once to tell me that he's still not kicking me out of class only because he feels bad for my parents that they have to deal with me and they'll be the ones who will have to deal with the mess lmfao.)

Yes, have some faith in her!

100% accurate. Martín is this close from just shooting random people in the supermarket because they also could be the ones who kidnapped Andrés.

HAHAHA YES. This is exactly how the scene went.

We stan honesty in this house.

So happy you found it funny!!

I can confirm! Like 70% of all Egyptian drama as well.

I don't think he's hearing you well. But afnajscsgsh SAME. Okay look, now I really understand show runners with super homoerotic ships that they refuse to make canon. You try and make two male characters hate each other so much for plot then it slips and gets homoerotic.

Totally agree. This guy isn't making enemies with the right people (they are all dumb, but also none of them have anything that even resembles a moral compass)

Totally agree. This guy is honestly super amusing to watch and it's mainly because he's incapable of taking any situation in life seriously.

This family is really iconic. (love the song agsnsg) but also like Raquel would basically tell her after writing done his notes just put the title on top: things to never, ever, do.

I believe you! They really fucked with the wrong dumb family.

I mean, he's still a misogynist. Maybe some of us really like dagger, has he considered that?

That's as valid theory as any right there.

Hopefully Raquel will finally start listening to the child!

Raquel is the only one with a semblance of common sense.

Hope you had a good sleep! I'll see you tomorrow!

[snarktheater]

Shadowhunters — Episode 2x19

Today on Shadowhunters: much angst, much death, much feels. Also Simon's not completely off in his own world for once! The show even manages to do its own thing and also hit a major plot point from the book without feeling like two different stories clashing horribly!

So…yeah, it's gonna be one of those posts. You know, those where I have less to complain about. They have to happen, you guys. I've always been open that I thought the show was overall better than the books. Not without flaws, but, you know. I'll appreciate what I've got.

Last time, Jonathan unmasked himself and failed to retrieve the Mirror. It's not the real Mirror, but he doesn't know that…yet. So instead he angsts on a rooftop. As you do.

Valentine, being the exemplary dad that we all know him to be, doesn't bother to hide his disappointment.

"You know, in all honesty, I would have figured Jace to be the only Shadowhunter capable of giving you a run for your money."

Hey, dude, maybe you should stop underestimating Clary, your daughter and the girl who keeps foiling your plans? Like, she literally has Jace's pure angel blood and she's your daughter. Shouldn't that put her above the boys? I don't even know if this is sexism on the character's part or the show's part. If the former, then it's certainly not framed as such, which is itself a problem.

Valentine also blames Sebastian for letting the Shadowhunters know where he lived, which…I don't really get. Even if he hadn't used Isabelle as his way in, could he really have infiltrated the Institute without them even checking on where he lived? You'd think they would do that much of a background check, at least.

Anyway, it means they have to leave the place, so when Clary, Jace and Isabelle come to investigate, they're already gone. Instead, they find the real Sebastian's corpse, give him the Shadowhunter salute ("Ave atque Vale - Hail and Farewell", which is also the episode's title)…and he turns into another possessing demon.

"Same kind that murdered my mom."

I mean…okay? Great? Does it make this scene more meaningful? No, not really, the kill the demon in literal seconds. Sebastian's corpse could have been just a corpse and we would have lost basically nothing. But hey, at least the girls get to be angry.

"We're gonna make them pay for what they did to you." "We're gonna make them pay for everything."

Great! Thanks! That was totally not a waste of my time!

So Valentine and Jonathan are on the loose. The gang reports this to Imogen first, including the fact that they have the Sword, and must still have the Cup if Valentine could control that demon and make it possess Sebastian's body. They also tell her that Valentine will probably stay in New York since he thinks they have the Mirror, and explain that the real Mirror is Lake Lyn.

And then…they do something extremely stupid. Jace requests that Gard soldiers be deployed at Lake Lyn. Because that's not going to set off any alarms whatsoever, right? If you're going to protect the Lake, shouldn't you at least do it covertly? No, instead Imogen literally says she'll ask the Consul about it and make it official. You can guess where this is going.

But meanwhile, we have some other drama to deal with. See, Alec wants to summon the Downworld council (and yeah, now it's a council and not a cabinet, I feel like a memo was lost somewhere in the writers' room), but it turns out the Seelie Queen, with Magnus's help, made her own plans. She comes to the meeting in person instead of sending Meliorn, and also, before the meeting, she has Magnus convince Luke and Raphael to literally pledge allegiance to her.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that the Seelie Queen's offer is appealing, since she claims the Angel Raziel's power literally can't touch Downworlders if they come to the Seelie Court, and so that's what she offers in exchange for their allegiance. But we see Magnus talk to Luke and Raphael, and Luke in particular seems unhappy about it, since the Queen's made it clear she wanted to stop following the Accords…but then we cut to the council and they've all accepted the Queen's deal and she's now the sole voice for the entire Downworld?

It's like a scene where Magnus actually convinces Luke was cut from the episode. It's not the worst thing, he does explain to Clary he just put his pack's safety first, but…well, as I pointed out before, war isn't good for safety, you idiots. Valentine is one genocidal dude, sure, but the Clave is a literal institution. In the long run, the latter is far more dangerous than the former.

The Queen, you won't be surprised to hear, refuses Alec's offer to work side by side to capture Valentine, even when he agrees to have him executed as soon as he's caught. So the Downworlders go off to find Valentine on their own.

I should pause the review now to mention that, just because I said this episode was on the less flawed end of the spectrum, doesn't mean everyone in it doesn't act like a complete idiot. Aside from Luke being okay with war now for no reason (and Raphael too, but he barely gets a say in any of this except to say he's sad they're headed towards war because it's totally ruining his and Isabelle's chances to get back together), we have Magnus being a general douchebag to everyone else, including leaving Raphael at the Institute so the Queen can make a dramatic exit…even though it's the middle of the day and Raphael needed him to be able to leave the Institute at all.

"He's got bigger things on his mind right now. He's been through a lot lately. We all have."

But does he though? Does he really? Well, I guess being an instrumental player in starting a war between the Clave and the Downworld all because he got his heart broken does sort of count. But I'm not sure that's an excuse.

This is the point where Simon comes in, and as I mentioned, he's not off in his own useless subplot for once. I mean, he does get an awkward moment where he and Maia arguing over whether or not they're officially dating (guess which of them is the asshole who wants to insist that they're not), but then Clary barges in and cockblocks their flirting to ask him a favor.

See, at the meeting at the Institute, the Seelie Queen asked after Simon, and Clary decide that means she totally values his opinion or some shit. I'm not convinced, but Simon's not really doing anything anyway, so he might as well try to go talk to her and prevent war, right?

"If the Clave goes to war with the Downworld, everything that we know and love will be destroyed. And you, Simon Lewis, are the one person on the planet that even has a chance of getting the Seelie Queen to change her mind and worked with us."

Yeah, that seems reasonable enough. Spoiler alert, it completely fails. Well, the Queen does show up in adult form this time around, because…the show wanted to have Sarah Hyland on the cast.

"Different outfits for different occasions. You're wary of me, aren't you? Is it because of the little game I played with you and your friends in my court?"

Or is it because you already asked him to go to war against Shadowhunters? Gee, I wonder which it could be. Actually no, I know Simon, of course it was because of the love triangle bullshit.

But hey, Simon's not completely beyond redemption, and catches on to the Queen's game.

"You don't want things to end well, do you? You want war."

Yup.

She makes her offer to him again—to join her, which is implied to be in a sexual way, but the way, in exchange for his wildest dreams coming true—and Simon rejects her. Which she doesn't take kindly to.

"You've refused me twice now. No one in my very long life has ever dared do such a thing." "Well, considering you're kinda getting vampires, werewolves and warlocks to play nice…you might wanna get used to some rejection."

And he leaves, and that's the end of Simon's part in this episode. Just because I said he wasn't off in his own world doesn't mean he was useful. Don't ask for too much, you guys.

Meanwhile at Magnus's apartment, a bunch of warlocks have gathered, including Madzie, that little girl warlock from earlier this season. I have no idea why she's here other than "hey, look, a familiar face!" but she's also an excuse for the show to finally introduce Catarina Loss. Who isn't blue in this continuity, but she's still pretty fabulous.

"The common ground between the Downworld and Alicante is…shifting." "Then it's a good thing I wear comfortable shoes."

No, really, I like her. This is all we see of her, but I like her.

The warlocks, by the way, created a ward around New York City so that no Nephilim could leave or enter the city—or more specifically, anyone who would try would die. This is at the Seelie Queen's command, and by the way, they don't even warn the New York Institute about this—Luke has to tell them, much later in the episode, and only because he was trying to coordinate the hunt for Valentine in secret. So, yeah, Magnus was apparently completely okay potentially killing any Shadowhunter, not just in New York (which includes several people he cares about beyond Alec), but also anywhere else in the world who might try to come. You see what I mean about his character in this episode? There's only so much you can excuse with heartbreak, and this is at least fifty times too much. Because these things are totally quantifiable. I'm a scientist, trust me.

Anyway. Valentine actually had some Circle members capture a warlock, but he hits that ward when he tries to create a Portal for them to Idris. Because yeah, guess what? Valentine heard that they were moving forces to Lake Lyn and deduced what that means, because he's not an idiot.

Before Valentine can find a way around this ward, the werewolf pack catches them. Valentine, being the totally fearless badass that he claims to be…runs away with his son and leaves his Circle cronies to deal with the werewolves while they escape. But hey, hypocrisy is nothing new for this guy.

They then head to a cemetery to grab one of the cache of weapons that Shadowhunters have on all holy grounds worldwide. Jonathan even comments here that it's enough to exterminate the Downworld many times over, which…yeah, is pretty on point, actually. How many weapons do you need exactly?

Meanwhile, Clary has a Convenient Vision™ of a rune that will help them track Jonathan using her connection to him (by virtue of being related) and her and Jace's connection (by virtue of angel blood). I'm not even going to question it, because, magic, but let's be honest, it's 100% a reason for Jace to get shirtless and for them to go all…perfume commercial on us or something.

The scene just ends awkwardly, by the way. I don't even know why. They're both single, not siblings (anymore)…and I don't think Clary's still hung up over her breakup, so…why even bother?

Anyway. The rune works, they locate Jonathan…and then wait until sundown to get there, giving Jonathan and Valentine plenty of time to be alerted to it (because the process also creates a rune on Jonathan's arm, which seems like a big flaw in the process), grab a funeral party, and convert them all to Forsaken. Is this the first time we see Forsaken in the show? I think it might be. They're basically just "zombies, but under Valentine's control", so I'll be honest, I didn't particularly miss them.

Oh, also, Valentine leaves Jonathan, saying he knows how he can leave New York, but it's too dangerous for Jonathan to come with him. Jonathan is skeptical, but he does let him go after all.

So our four main characters show up at the graveyard, as I said, and immediately split up, with Clary and Jace both insisting to be on different teams. Isabelle asks Clary wha'ts going on and Clary deflects the question, while Jace and Alec get…this:

"I figured you'd talk when you're ready." "I knew there was a reason you were my parabatai."

I don't know if this is technically a positive exchange or not? Like, they acknowledge that it'd be healthy for Jace to talk about his feelings, just…not mid-combat, which is fine. But at the same time…they don't talk about Jace's feelings (not now, nor later), which is less fine. You make up your mind.

After this absolutely hilarious moment, the Forsaken show up, and we get a whole bunch of fighting. I'll just skim over the important details: Alec and Jace get separated, Jace gets caught from behind by Jonathan and is dragged away in literal chains (that Jonathan just…happened to have?), Clary and Isabelle kick ass, Alec finds them and tells them what happened, and Clary sends Isabelle after Jonathan, since her electrum whip can hurt him, while she and Alec stay behind to hold back the rest of the Forsaken.

There, that wasn't so bad, wasn't it? And so, yes, as you might remember all the way from City of Glass, we are—admittedly under somewhat different circumstances—back to pretty much the same scene as in the books.

Jace goads Jonathan into removing the chain and fighting one on one, and Sebastian takes the bait even though he's aware it's a bait, because he's that confident of his own superiority. And he's not entirely wrong, since he does manage to stab Jace and have him at his mercy…but then he starts monologuing long enough for Isabelle to show up and disarm him.

She manages to outshine her book counterpart, for a very simple reason: she just has a more personal stake. Yes, in both versions Jonathan attacked Max (and killed him in the book), but this version literally used Isabelle herself at her lowest point, and she is furious about it. So…while I'm still not sure the addiction subplot was a good idea in the first place, at least it was used to make this moment that much more triumphant for Isabelle, since she holds her own against him long enough for Jace to stab Jonathan in the back, going through the spine and heart (they literally have a moment where they explain that, I guess to establish how fatal the wound is?), and toss him off the bridge they were fighting on. Because leaving corpses to float away in a river never backfires.

"Hail and farewell."

Yeah, I don't think so, Isabelle.

Well, okay, Jonathan's dead for now. I mean, I saw the season 3 trailer, I know that Lilith will spend at least some time trying to bring him back. I guess that's good enough to wrap up the episode.

By which I mean, three things happen after this in the episode. One, Clary and Jace at the infirmary, with Jace shirtless yet again (of course), and Clary realizing he could have died.

"My mom, and Dot…I can't lose you too. […] I'm tired of being afraid."

Cue kissing, which basically rendered the earlier awkwardness utterly pointless. I mean, come on, there was less than fifteen minutes of screen time between those two scenes, and literally not a moment of that time was spent on their relationship. You're just wasting my time. But hey, at least now they're back together and we might…like, move on or something.

Then there's Maia, who's gone missing. And by missing, I mean we immediately find out she was kidnapped by the Seelie Queen. Because she's subtle like that.

And speaking of the Seelie Queen, she's too busy to talk to Maia. And by "busy" I mean Valentine's escape route out of New York was actually through the Seelie Court. Considering the Queen was organizing the most successful part of the man hunt, you'd think she wouldn't give him access to it?

"What could you have that I could possibly want?"

Well I hope you didn't actually want to know, because Valentine whispers it into her hear so we're not privy to it, before they walk off together, having struck a deal, I guess. And hey, at least the show took my advice on not giving the audience all the information. Now we're just one step ahead of the characters instead of five. It's something.

And that's the end of the episode. As I mentioned, its biggest sin is making the characters act like various shades of idiots, from the harmless awkwardness between Clary and Jace to the actually morally bankrupt Magnus. On the flipside, the Seelie Court's involvement being made explicit is a good setup for, you know, the City of Heavenly Fire plot (and The Dark Artifices, should they decide to go that far with the show), so that's an improvement.

So this episode is more of a mixed bag than usual, which is itself as positive a note as I can give Shadowhunters most of the time.

Next time is the season finale, so I'd better get some angel summoning going. And after that…well, as I mentioned I've seen trailers for season 3, so while I haven't been spoiled the episodes that are already out, I know roughly where we're headed. But that's a story for another time.

[casimania]

I love your Chloe/Dan/Lucifer/Pierce. What head cannon do you have for them?

Gosh thank you! I have lots of headcanons actually, I do want to write a couple of fics about them and there’s a lot of ways they could go.

But mainly (goddamn this got so long, I rambled a lot sorry):

Chloe, Lucifer and Dan get together just as season 3 starts. When Pierce shows up they’re still settling in (there’s lot of settling in to do, from Lucifer suddenly seeing on a daily basis Dan and Chloe being parents and having to deal with his own parental issues, to Divine bullshit happening to Chloe and Dan getting used at being in a relationship again with all their past issues). There’s a lot of ways they could come together: Dan and Lucifer sort of stumbling in a relationship while pining after Chloe and Chloe having complicated feelings (she Wants but Dan has already fucked her over once and Lucifer is sometimes erratic and self-destructive and she’s always second guessing everything). Or Dan and Lucifer becoming friends and Dan gets an accidental Devil reveal and gets out of it with a stronger bond with Lucifer and it helps Lucifer deal with his feelings with Chloe and confess (and after they shack up Lucifer belately realizes he has similar feelings for Chloe and Dan has been pining over both the whole time and Chloe has been battling resurfacing feelings for Dan but thinks she’s just being a sappy fool). Or even they just slowly come together at the same pace. They don’t even notice they’re basically doing family stuff together like “we’re just friends what are you talking about ah ah” but daydream about domestic stuff all the time and a lot of people genuinely think they’re all an Item. 

I want Pierce role as the Sinnerman to be different also, just because. Less Murdery Crime Boss, more Espionage. Like a spy network. He’s hold and knows Things. His schtick is that if you fuck up he will know. He torments families for generations until their sins aren’t relevant anymore (but a lot of people do fucked up shit along the way so he gets more ammo for another couple generations). The Sinnerman name comes from this in this AU, he knows you sins and your forefathers’ ones. I really want him to emply the fact he’s the older human on Earth. He knows shit about everyone and he has tangible evidence to twist your arm. He has a chockehold on a lot of families. It’s also useful to reinvent himself or hide his tracks. I got the impression in canon the Sinnerman deal isn’t too old, here instead it’s been going on for longer. Less bloody but more deeprooted. Which is why it’s a big surprise when the Decoy Sinnerman starts offing people in fucked up ways. Pierce left him some liberty while trying to keep himself clean while working for the Law but that’s a bit too much. Also doesn’t make sense, starts getting actually worried when he notices he’s being slowly cut off from most of his sources. While killing the people making Deals with Lucifer the fake Sinnerman has also been offing people Pierce personally dealt with. And Pierce was so focused on Lucifer and Chloe and his goal he only realizes when his only option is to band together with them and Dan to bring him down.

Except, surprise! In this AU the fake Sinnerman is gonna be involved with Celestial bullshit on an Apocalyptic level so they really really have to work together. Cause since I’m hell bent on woobifying Pierce I need a big bad for them to join forces against. And I always felt like the decoy Sinnerman was heading towards something big only to be offed in an anticlimatic way (I guess it could make sense since the real dangerous big bad ended up Pierce in the end, but it’s nice to expand that role a little). And of course Pierce’s whole Cain deal comes out in the open and differently than in canon. And Chloe and Dan discover too. Which makes for some awkward (for Chloe and Dan) interactions at work. Like this is our boss, who is also literal Cain From The Bible and is Immortal AND a crime boss AND meets up like weekly to be killed by our boyfriend what the fuuuuuck.

Lucifer goes down a self acceptance journey (accepting himself as not a wretched monster who poisons and ruins everything he touches, but also accepting that not everything that happened to him  was personally enacted by his father but it’s either shitty circumstances and consequences and his subconscious acting up) while Pierce gets some sort of redemption arc. Or “take responsibility you self-victimizing asshole”. I see Canon Cain as being Bad(tm) both because he downright said so (his saying Lucifer wanted to be Good was pretty telling that he, instead, embraced the role humanity seemingly gave him and reveled in it). He needs to realize he both has to admit he made mistakes and bad things on his own and to actually make the good choice for once. Cain at first was just like “God, my family and the whole of humanity says I am a mosnter and the source of Evil in man. So there’s no point in trying to be good. I’ll just do bad shit and it will be THEIR fault, not mine. I’ve been pushed into it”. He’ll need to put his big boy pants and do some soul searching. Instead of always running away. Similar to Lucifer, yet Lucifer, even while embracing his Evil Devil Role always desperately wanted to be good in his core. He’s a very human Devil while canonly Pierce was a human who pretty much shed his humanity. So yeah, he’s gonna face reality and I’m gonna find a way to rip a lot of shit out of him he’s bitten into and swallowed down and has been unable to face for thousands of years. I really wanna make him sweat blood about it. I got a few different ideas but he’s gonna come out of it different. Probably gonna fuck him up for a while, he saw the world one way for thousands of years and in the span of one year (and a half maybe) it gets all challenged pretty violently and he can either double down in his convinctions or accept the changes and deal with it. With being the only one responsible for who he is, shit can happen but in the end the final choice is yours, and Cain always ran from this truth.

Lucifer and Pierce come to some sort of understandment pretty soon. They both see each other as someone fucked over by God. Lucifer is desperate for someone who truly gets that aspect of his life while Pierce kinda hates when he find himself when they do get each other. Like it was all fun and games when it was some snarky banter, true heart to heart moments are what usually make him choose a new identity and skip town. Chloe is someone he comes to respect pretty soon when shit starts getting seriou. The choices he always has difficulty with? The good ones? She's good at making them, she can have the literal Devil on her shoulder goading her but she always asks herself “Is it right? Is this the kind of person I want to be? To make myself become?” and she chooses knowing it’s all on her (where he always was “Not my choice, not my fault”). And Dan, damn he has a lot of animosity and contempt for Dan at first. He sees a crooked cop getting off easily due to circumstances and he’s just seeing his one bad deed and undening curse. And he hates the idea of people getting off the hook easily. But they’re all forced in close contact or a while so he unwittingly starts knowing more about Dan and just, he’s still fun to make fun of (and Lucifer agrees with him on that) but there’s some begruding respect there. He’s fucked up he keeps fucking up but he keeps trying and after realizing some shit about himself and the Mark the animosity dies down a bit and he gets a little less petty. Which slowly turns into a moment of understand between them down the line and they’re not sure which one is more shocked.

Also regarding angelic self actualization! Lucifer is gonna get his wings back or devil face off earlier than in canon. He comes to accept hismelf a little bit more and either one of those things changes. The other changes after he’s sent Goddess away, cause that’s a little bit more of self-acceptance. He’s avoided a war and sent him mother off to a hopefully better place. Of course he still thinks it’s punishment first for shacking up with Dan and Chloe and being happy and refusing to go back to Hell (maybe the wings appear first, he thinks it’s God urging him to fly back to Hell) and then for sending Goddess in another dimension (and probs also killing Uriel). But at some point he’s gonna spiral down again, want to fit into this AU something like the plot of season 4 and him going down a self-hate and doubt spiral for a reason or another. Maybe less abruptly, having loved one helps some but can’t fix eons of fucked up slowly crawling back up. And on the issue of God. I’m gonna say neither the Mark nor the Fall were dished out as punishments made to make Lucifer and Cain suffer. Here’ He’s very much a touch and go sort of guy. He gave Cain the Mark because Abel went down to Hell for way less and he doesn’t want that for either of them, but Abel is out of his hands, he can only hope for Cain’s redemption. So he sends Amenadiel to inflict a mark that extends his life, he can get rid of it once he’s finally faced the reality of the murder he committed, then he can fuck up more as he wishes and condemn himself again. The great unending punishment is something Cain and Amenadiel just assumed. Like Lucifer’s Fall. I like to think Hell was God’s way of getting Luciffer as far has his influence so he could act on his Free Will (I have more feelings on this but this thing got long enough). But he’s God and kind of a ass so he never states things clearly. You gotta work for them cause free will. Same with Chloe. He sent Amenadiel down to bless Penelope but didn’t really leave instructions (cause that again would be meddling with free will).

And also Season 4 equivalent is something I want to explore too. Also cause in the mess that would be this season 3 the whole OT4 thing doesn’t really come together immediately. More of a “Pierce does some soul searching and shapes up a little” but after it it’s more like, there’s understanding and respect between them and something is budding but it’s not quite “Here’s the keys Marcus come live with us”. He’s sort of like a stray cat they picked up. He keeps working at the precinct because the Mark is gone and his years are clearly numbered now and he has to decide what to make of them. And he sort of comes and goes, he’s been cutting ties with people for a very long time and he does not quite know how to ease himself back into yet (half the reason is gonna be the wonder trio being there, shit definitely got serious before but now he’s stalling). I write more easily lighthearted stuff and I can see Lucifer, Dan and Chloe just huddling together and discussing him. Maybe something happened in the thick of actions but since stuff chilled down they’re like, what now?? And they’re just being so obvious about it. But I don’t know yet how things will develop between Pierce and Chloe, Dan and Lucifer exactly. I have a rough idea on how each of them relates to the other (I’m excited about expanding on Pierce and Dan, but also Chloe and Pierce getting to know each other without Pierce’s canon machinations) but I have yet to see what will come up when I write them interacting in these situations. The nice thing about polyamory is that you can have very different dynamics in a single relationship. But I don’t have a definite feel of them yet. And Chloe/Dan/Lucifer is gonna happen relatively fast, Chloe/Dan/Lucifer/Pierce is def gonna be a slow burn one. Excruciatingly slow burn.

Also EVE! I love Eve and I want to explore her + her son + Lucifer and everyone else. Abel was clearly her darling boy and she recognized canon Cain got what was coming for him. But here’s like, sort of one foot in one foot out of a relationsip with Lucifer, Chloe and Dan and shaped himself up. Where does Eve’s codepedency issues and unstable sense of self bring her? Does she still seek out Lucifer? Does she force herself not fear or resent Cain because Lucifer seems to like him? How much does it distress her? She’d probably latch on Lucifer but it would be an interesting dynamic with all of them. How much “oh fuck” is Pierce feelinga about all of this? Facing his guilt and faults head on (pretty fucky when you went around millennia going “lalala no guilt in here nope sir!”). Also good to explore some background for the Eden family. Abel and Cain’s mutual fighting. Adam being a stick in the mud apparently. Eve’s own issues and how they relate to her being a mother and wife (did she see herself as a person or was absorbed by those roles? how much did she go along Adam’s wishes instead of hers even while raising their sons, she was made out of Adam’s rib literally for him. this is a hella weird dynamic to have as a family. did she see Lucifer in Abel’s playfulness and lightheartedness? Was Cain more like Adam? Could this have bred more anymosity between them?). And just the idea of Adam and Eve just spawning like that and being looked after by God at first. And Cain is just the first baby they’ve even ever seen. The pregnancy must have been pretty scary for Eve. How confused were they about baby care? His growth? Having to look after him? Did he resent that they were more prepared for Abel? Or that Eve seemed to be kind of a yes man with Adam? I have the impression this family never did much honest “here’s our feelings lets discuss” talk. And in all of this there’s a demon uprising. Because they can’t have ONE normal year, can they?