#because he's practised with suspending disbelief from reading fiction plus with taking new info in stride from reading nonfiction

[journey-to-the-attic]

Infernl Friends AU:

Imagine the scene, little Ik was currently doing her homework when she come across something she doesnt understand. Her dad isnt home right now so she cant ask him and Aunt Lisa is busy so that’s a no as well. But then she remembered something, why not ask Lucifer/Satan! (you can pick which one you want to be called). The others keep saying he’s very smart so why not ask them. So Ik call Lucifer/Satan, he appeared and Ik instantly ask him to help her. He thought it would be easy, he thought it would be easy. How could it not be? It was just a measly 2nd grader homework until he saw what it is about. Photosynthesis

How would Satan and Lucifer respectively deal with this problem? What do they do when they realize this was something they dont know about but doesnt want to disappoint the expectant Ik? (Although maybe Satan already know about this but what if he doesnt just for this scenario)

- 🐧 Anon

i'd say lucifer's more likely to just concede that he doesn't know, since he doesn't want to face the embarrassment of giving an answer and having it be wrong - also, prime opportunity to teach ik how to seek out answers for herself!

unfortunately he doesn't know where to start looking, so they spend like an hour going through an encyclopaedia before he finally figures out that it's a plant thing - then once they finally get an explanation in kid terms, ik gets it immediately while lucifer remains completely perplexed for much longer than he'd ever admit

meanwhile satan tries to logic his way to an answer, unwilling to tarnish the "capable and knowledgeable big brother" thing he's got going on - unfortunately, the best he can get is that 'photo' means light, so uhh... light magic, maybe? wait, that's not a thing up here

eventually he does also admit he doesn't know, and he actually takes a much shorter time to look up the definition in a book somewhere, given his experience with this kind of thing - ironically, he would've beaten lucifer for time if he hadn't spent so much time trying to sound like he did know