#c: samael

[d3mon-ology]

He’d break me open if I asked him to, wouldn’t he?

— Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

[themosthatedbeingg]

“Oh… well glad I could make you happy! “ he does not remember that night…

[woodsteingirl]

i feel ill! i love failing math.

[goofily-moved]

Samael’s genre of music is rock / hard rock / alternative rock… maybe a splash of metal influences here and there.

[w4nts]

[ GRIND ] + “ please  fuck  me. “ with samael &. lumine !

                ❛❛   Getting impatient?   ❜❜     Samael drawls, a smirk heavy on his kiss-swollen lips, but he's no better, doing his damnest to ignore the ache between his legs as he rubs his thigh upwards, sucking in a breath as Lumine grinds herself down on it. He can feel how hot she is through the fabric of both their jeans, and, at this point, he's sure he can feel how wet she is too. He licks his lips as he watches her move, before nodding, deciding it was definitely time to get the show on the road. Samael wraps his arms under Lumine's rear before lifting her up, grinning against her neck at her surprise as he carries her to the bed where he lays her down, smirking down at her from the curtain of his dark curls.      ❛❛   You've been such a good girl.   ❜❜     He purrs, eyes smoldering with heat as he slowly works her jeans down her thighs.

           As his gaze levels with her panties, taking in the dampness that he desperately wants to taste, he chews his lower lip between his teeth, fang flashing. He swallows, overcome by pure want, but having to focus on what she had asked in such a sweet way.      ❛❛   I'm going to give it to you, love.   ❜❜     He husks out, tossing her jeans somewhere behind him, and smiles as he hovers over her, leaning down to press his lips to a fresh mark on her neck. As he sucks against her skin, he rubs two fingers across her clothed mound, pushing her panties aside to rub against her entrance. Just as he bites down on her neck, he sinks the digits inside her, letting out a breathy gasp against her skin at how wet she is.     ❛❛   Mmmm, fuck... You're so wet for me...   ❜❜     

[rattled-shadow]

There's a small detail that strengthens this parallel

Do you remember how the palace ruler shadows turned into demons? Each of those demons corresponded to the deadly sin they embodied. However, they weren't always one-to-one eg. Kaneshiro, banker of gluttony, became Baal instead of Beelzebub

Embodying the sin of pride, you would expect Shido to become Lucifer. Instead, he became Samael

Samael is a figure whose depiction varies based on the religion. Sometimes he's an angel and servant of god, sometimes he's a corrupt seducer or destroyer

In Gnosticism, Samael is one of the Yaldabaoth's names

So, you could say that Shido was so much of a puppet for Yaldy that he became another version of him

Therefore, it's not incorrect to say that Yaldabaoth created both Joker and Satanael

No no please write the essay I love to see people’s takes on Satanael

So it only took 14 months for me to get to this, but here we go.

Please take this with a grain of salt, I’m getting a lot of info from a Gnosticism explanation website which might not be all correct. And it’s also being written at midnight.

In the tags I left on your post, I mentioned that the biggest reason for Satanael being Joker’s ultimate persona is because Satanael is the child of Yaldaboath.

According to Gnosticism, Yaldaboath is the demiurge created by the heavenly being Sophia (which might be where Sophia, the AI from Strikers, got her name, but that’s another thought for another essay), who is basically the Gnostic equivalent of an angel (they’re refered to as aeons, divine entities descended from God the Father, and most were born from male-female pairs, along with the blessing of god). Yaldaboath was cast from the heavens into a realm below so early into his existence that he was convinced that he was the first “living” existence. It is explained that Sophia gave birth to a son that was the product of the rebellious and profane desire that had arisen within her, and due to being birthed only from Sophia and without the blessing of God, he was “a misshapen, belligerent creature that was utterly unlike the other heavenly beings.”

Because of this ignorance, foolishness, and malevolence, he created the material world, also trapping sparks of divinity in Adam and Eve. That last bit isn’t too important right now, but it’s clear that Yaldaboath didn’t make the world out of the good in him. There’s a lot of other stuff that happened that also proved that he’s not a good entity, such as creating the old ten commandments and then completely ignoring them, gaslighting those that he created into thinking that he was the one true god, and telling Adam and Eve that the fruit of the tree of knowledge would kill them if it was consumed, among other heinous acts.

As much as I’d like to back up my original claim, I can’t find anything that states similarly or differently, and whenever I do try to google it, lots of persona 5 and megaten (as well as other mythos based games and stories) come up and clutter the results, so there isn’t much. But if I’m understanding this correctly, Satanael was created by Yaldaboath to serve him, along with Yaldaboath’s other “higher” creations.

After some time, Satanael rebels against Yaldaboath, for some reason or another (again, can’t find reason, but one source did mention that Satanael rebelled with a heavenly light rivaling Yaldaboath’s). This leads me to believe that Satanael either found out about the true nature of Yaldaboath being an unjust demiurge, and that he was the bastard son of Sophia, one of the Aeons of Pleroma (greek for Fullness, literally the Gnostic name for Heaven) who atoned for her sin of rebellion and profane desire to conceive without the involvement of her own partner or the consent of God, OR he pitied humanity, OR he simply did not like Yaldaboath’s game of ruin.

In short, Satanael rebelled for the greater good of humanity, where Sophia’s rebellion caused grief and anguish, and Yaldaboath’s own rebellion from the true God put his creation of material on the path to ruin. In a way, Sophia’s rebellion created Yaldaboath, Yaldaboath’s rebellion created Satanael, who then rebelled against Yaldaboath (making Satanael basically a fallen angel), allowing for humanity to continue on in its own path of rebellion.

How does this relate to Joker? Well, we see that Joker’s story in P5 starts with him rebelling against who we think is the big bad – Shido. In most places, you wouldn’t directly rebel against an adult as a child/minor, as you’re unlikely to win. Joker’s rebellion in this part of the story is what kicks off his “fall” as a phantom thief. Shido is the one who created the phantom thieves, if you think about it, that rebel against him towards the end of the story (yes I know they fight Yaldy I’m getting there). While for a time, Yaldaboath is the player’s guide, eventually, Joker does rebel against him, in a direct parallel to Satanael. Yaldaboath created Satanael/chose Joker as the wildcard, and then Satanael/Joker saw the truth of Yaldaboath, and rebelled against him.

Personally, I would think that Satanael would be empathetic towards Joker, in that both were “created”” by Yaldaboath, and then both saw the truth of Yaldaboath, making both rebel against their creator. Kindness isn’t always a driving factor – Joker didn’t save the world for his love of the world, he saved the world because he didn’t want to live in a world where he would be punished for doing the right thing. It’s why he stood up to Shido both times, why he stood up against all of the phantom thief targets. All of them had an influential power that they used for their own gain/devices, just like Yaldaboath. And like Satanael, Joker couldn’t sit by idly. Sure, the way Joker went about his justice wasn’t correct, but correct isn’t always right, nor just.

Joker and Satanael both rebelled for what was right, even if it caused their downfalls, they were both held aloft in the end. In one text, it’s said that Satanael was brought up to Heaven, and Joker parallels this in the fact that he’s found innocent of his initial false crimes of assaulting Shido.

[harunayuuka2060]

WHB Series #1 (cont.)

Minhyeok: *seems to space out a lot*

His friends: ...

Friend A: You okay, man? *taps him on the shoulder*

Minhyeok: Oh, yes. Were you saying something?

His friends: ...

Friend B: Your mind is always in the clouds. Is everything okay at home?

Friend C: Oh, and where's MC? We haven't seen them lately.

Minhyeok: ...

Minhyeok: They have to go somewhere.

His friends: They went overseas?!

Friend A: Ah... Now I get it. You're worried they'll come back with someone.

Friend B: That sounds tough.

Friend C: You should've confessed before they left.

Minhyeok: ...

Minhyeok: *moping in his room*

Minhyeok: *sigh* If only there's a way to know what they're doing.

Ppyong: There is, aye!

Minhyeok: !!!

Minhyeok: Who are you?!

Ppyong: Don't be scared, aye! My name is Ppyong! His Majesty Satan's trusted devil, aye!

Minhyeok: Satan...

Minhyeok: *grabs Ppyong* Are you with MC?! How they're doing?!

Ppyong: C-Calm down, aye!

Minhyeok: ...

Minhyeok: Sorry.

Ppyong: *clears throat* Anyway, I'm here to share with you the news about the descendant of Solomon, aye! *smiles*

Ppyong: They found a way to cure the devils who'd been turned into angels, aye! And they could turn an angel into a demon, aye!

Ppyong: And not just that, they're doing great on the battlefield, aye!

Minhyeok: ...

Minhyeok: I see. That's good to know.

Ppyong: You don't look quite happy, aye?

Minhyeok: ...

Minhyeok: Is there a demon they're getting close to?

Ppyong: *laughs*

Minhyeok: ...

Ppyong: The descendant of Solomon is not interested in any demon, aye!

Minhyeok: ...Are you sure?

Ppyong: Aye!

Minhyeok: ...

Minhyeok: *chuckles* Of course.

MC: ...

MC: What are you two doing here?

Leamas and Nina: *are waiting for them in their room*

Leamas: We want to serve you from now on.

Nina: I'll prepare your bath, while Samael cleans your room.

MC: ...

MC: I don't need servants. Get out.

Leamas: But-

MC: You don't owe me anything. It was pure luck the seeds worked.

Leamas and Nina: ...

Nina: In that case, please let us return the favor.

MC: *raised their eyebrow in confusion*

Leamas: The other kings are planning to visit Gehenna soon.

MC: The other kings?

Nina: They've heard about your contributions.

MC: Okay. But what does that have to do with me?

Leamas: Angels are not only attacking Gehenna but also the other countries in hell.

Nina: Now that they've learned about the existence of the seeds of the damned, we're certain that they will seek you.

MC: Hm, I'm not trying to keep the seeds all to myself.

Leamas: That's not the case here.

Nina: You might probably get kidnapped.

MC: HUH?!

Leviathan: We need to get the descendant of Solomon on our side as soon as possible.

Barbatos: Haven't they already promised allegiance to hell?

Leviathan: ...

Leviathan: I'm not confident that human will keep their word for very long.

Leviathan: Foras.

Foras: *appears* Yes, Your Majesty Leviathan.

Leviathan: Bring the human to me by the end of the day.

Foras: Yes, Your Majesty Leviathan. *then disappears*

Leviathan, Barbatos, and Glasyalabolas: ...

Glasyalabolas: So how are we going to welcome the descendant of Solomon?

Barbatos: With open arms, of course!

Leviathan: ...

Barbatos: I'm just kidding, Your Majesty Leviathan.

[burlowbeanie]

Locked Tomb Timeline, as far as I can tell

This is a long one, and a bit of a mess. I'll be making other posts about the fun date coincidences and my speculations about their implications, but I figured I should give some of the actual evidence in one solid chonky post so I can link to it and don't need to repeat myself later on.

(BD = before death of the earth; AR = after resurrection; BM = before millennium, AM = after millennium)

Unspecified Pre-Death of the earth: Foundation of Canaan house/the facility that Jod et al used for the cryogenic experiments. Establishment of Kuiper installation, Uranus platform, Mars installation w/ room for 5 million, the Lucifer Telescope, and fusion batteries (Ntn 14, Ntn 74, Ntn 189)

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Now! Some pre-resurrection numbers!

Before 2 BD: C-- sides with the crew (Ntn 13)

1 BD: Governments shift away from the cyrogenics plan (Ntn 13)

0 BD: Jod destroys the world

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Now, the most unclear section of the timeline: the resurrection and its immediate aftermath.

Augustine, from Htn 176: “Alfred and I were there early enough to found the Koniortos Court on the Fifth, but Lyctors like Cyth wouldn’t be born for years and years, and she spent her whole life suffering Seventh House woo-woo theories regarding the value of hereditary cancer … whereas Mercy is the oldest lag except for me, and she was out hammering at the Eighth House before the paint was even dry on the Resurrection.”

The resurrection occurs a few weeks after the death of the earth (Ntn 396). Then things get a bit hazy. We know the approximate order of the resurrections of the original ten disciples, but not how far apart they were staggered - was it minutes? Months? Years?

Similarly, Cyrus/Val and Anastasia/Samael are implied to have showed up before Cytherea/Loveday, when Cytherea was almost 30 years old. Both cavaliers have last names associated with their house, which suggests that either the third and ninth were established enough to at least have a small population by the time that they went to Canaan House, or that they took those names/were given those names later on.

Cytherea-as-Dulcinea says that she "dreamed of being a 9th nun" at age 13, and it's unclear if she's speaking as herself or as Dulcinea or how much she was lying as either persona (Gtn 104). Thus, we don't know if the ninth house was established by the time she went to Canaan House, though it seems like the sort of hint that both Cytherea and Muir would have had a fun time dropping.

Thus, while it is possible/seems probably many/most of the houses were established by the time that any of the newer disciples showed up, especially Cytherea, that is unconfirmed. However, it took until at least 30 years after the resurrection, probably more, for all 16 of the disciples to gather.

A rough order of events during this time, some of which may overlap:

Original disciples resurrected

New disciples arrive

Lyctors ascend; Anastasia fails

Alecto is put in the tomb and Cassiopeia dies

The lyctors and Jod flee to the Mithraeum, leaving the system

Particular questions that remain and would help clarify things:

Were Anastasia, Samael, Cyrus, Valancy, and Loveday born or resurrected? It seems like Cytherea was likely born.

When did Anastasia have a child and found the tombkeeper line?

When did Pyrrha (or G1deon!Pyrrha) paint a nursury? Was it the same time she visited Anastasia "before she got settled" (Ntn 85)? Was Anastasia's child the birth she assisted at (Ntn 121)?

When was the ninth founded? When was the prison installation founded? Was there anything on the ninth before Anastasia was told to prepare for Alecto's imprisonment? Samael seems to have been born or resurrected after the ninth was founded, unless he was given his name later?

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After resurrection: Actual Numbers. Once we get like 100-200 years out from the resurrection, things start to get clearer. Not clear, but clearer.

100 AR: God names himself Gaius (Htn 521). Is this when Cytherea ascends, since she is given credit for the "naming oneself after one's cavalier" thing? Or was that some God bullshit?

200 AR: Alecto put in tomb (Htn 478)

4000 AR: source gram comes from sixth house to BOE (Htn 529)

5000 AR: BOE comes to the attention of jod and the lyctors; they may have existed beforehand but been unable to find the houses/be found (Htn 154). Augustine begins questioning the purpose of the empire (Htn 483).

Moving into the thousand years before the events of the series:

9000 AR/ 1000 BM: Matthias Nonius lives (Gtn 53)

750-700 BM: New Rho contract drawn up (Ntn 206)

519ish BM: beginning planning of dios apate major (Htn 474)

300 BM: Cyth gets angry (Gtn 402). Last contact between second and first houses (Gtn 456).

100 BM: Jod leaves the Mithraeum (Htn 81).

80 BM: Jod joins the Erebos (Htn 81)

40-39 BM: G1deon starts to really annoy Augustine, who speaking in 1 AM states: “He has caused me more pain over these last scant forty years than I dare to admit" (Htn 268). I think Wake makes the most sense as an explanation for this, though it's off by about five years.

34 BM: Wake reinvigorates BOE (Htn 154). Ortus born? That’s a fun coincidence that means nothing.

30 BM: Mercy thinks Jod should have returned to the Mithraeum then (Htn 81).

25-24 BM: BOE finds out about resurrection beasts (Htn 275) because Wake talks to G1deon (Ntn 155)

21 BM: G1 begins his (final) pursuit of wake (Htn 469)

Sometime after 300 BM, most likely 20 BM, Cytherea teaches BOE about steles and obelisks (Ntn 155)

20 BM approximately, presumably, could be earlier: Augustine and Mercy talk to BOE. BOE gets accurate fleet schematics for the first time in a hundred years and eventually the location of the mithraeum, though those were probably earlier with Cytherea and two decades later with Cytherea!Wake respectively (Ntn 155)

19 BM: Isaac’s dad killed by terrorists on [redacted], presumably BOE (Gtn 459). Mercy and Augustine are “talking” (Htn 87); Dios apate major. Mercy sees Cytherea for the last time and Cytherea laughs so much she insults Mercy (Htn 120), which is an understandable response given that Mercy may have described the dios apate major plan and/or requested her involvement. Mercy sees Sarpedon as a young soldier (about 20 years PM; close enough and matches up with dios apate) (Htn 81).

19–18 BM: Wake dies (Htn 88). Gideon born. Creche massacre.

17 BM: Harrow born.

14 BM Gideon’s first escape attempt (Gtn 24)

13 BM: Gideon is not a necromancer confirmed (Gtn 24)

10 BM: Augustine sees Cytherea for the last time (Htn 120). Wake’s bones get put on rotation (Htn 476).

9-8 BM: Harrow is suicidal. Harrow opens the tomb. Harrow hears/sees the body. Onset of psychosis. Unclear in what order (Htn 49, 247).

7 BM: (Harrow is still suicidal but sees the body?). Harrow and Gideon fight (Htn 477). Gideon sees Harrow opening the tomb. Her parents kill themselves. Gideon gets nightmares about being in the tomb (Gtn 202).

5 BM: Harrow starts puppeting (?girl wtf?? What was going on in the intervening two years???) (Gtn 348). Last ninth house chaplains and adepts are lost in action (Htn 81).

2 BM: Gideon enters Drearburgh for the last time

1 BM: Number 7 estimated five years from the Mithraeum (Htn 125).

0 BM, with rough approximates:

Month 1-3: prepping for Canaan house

Month 4: Canaan house

Month 5: harrow throws up; Camilla nonverbal

Canaan house recovery missions from the emperor and BOE — what the fuck. Who got there first. How and why did they miss the other people. Seems like BOE got there, intentionally left H and I but took G’s body??????????

Month 6: Harrow and Ianthe arrive on the Mithraeum

Month 8: Harrow kills her 13th planet with Mercy. It’s desert and triple-sunned. Wake makes posthumous contact with BOE (Ntn 155).

Month 9-10: When Judith says she begins writing her report; she’s with BOE on a wooded double(potentially triple?)-sunned planet. At one point several weeks (or months?) later Mercy shows up. According to Judith, that is. Judith honey I might need to recuse your testimony for somehow being more of an unreliable narrator than the lobotomized traumatized psychotic unmedicated half-dead triple-haunted 201-souled Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Then I could bump this back to month 8 which would make more sense.

Month 10: Harrow catches G1d!Pyrrah with Cytherea!Wake

Between Month 10 and Month 12: Harrow turns 18. Harrow discovers G1d can drain thanergy. Harrow makes soup. Harrow makes Ianthe’s arm. Dios apate minor.

Month 12: Harrow finds Cam and Pal on a wooded planet and sees Judith. Judith tries to warn Harrow about Mercy’s involvement.

Mercy ditches her for unspecified business. I suspect this is when she meets with We Suffer? Was this when she heals Judith?

1 AM

Month 2: death of the emperor. Quick undeath of the emperor. Nona born(?)

Month 5: Station Red-As-Blood abandoned (Ntn 152). The demons show up on Antioch (Ntn 448).

Month (6?): Nona gets a job (Ntn 41).

Month 7: nona gets shot, cam/pal fusion reveal (Ntn 105 through the end of the chapter)

Month 8: events of Ntn

[talonabraxas]

Lifting the Veil Tito.Merello “Uncover the veil that shrouds Heavenly Spirits. Behold, every man and every woman is a star, like mysterious lamps hanging from the Firmament. God is the flame that stirs in everything, the vivifying geometry of everything. This is why the number is holy, is infinite, is eternal. There, where He resides, there is no difference; diversity is unity.” - Tarot and Kabbalah by Samael Aun Weor

God created the Whole by his single will

Diagram from God heeft door zynen enkelen wil het Geheel-al geschapen (18th c.)

[devilzukin7-johnny-cage]

Birthday gifts!!!

WAAAAAAA IT'S SO MUCH KWBROAJFIS I didn't expect to receive so many gifts (I love all of them), I was already very happy that people were there greeting me and accompanying me, since for me for some reason my birthday is always… complicated (? It's not usually the day that I like the most ;u; but they managed to encourage me so much that day and I had a very nice time! Because of the greetings from the people, receiving so much love, made me feel that life was worth living, I know I shouldn't be thinking about those things but sometimes one's mind has its little bad things and the fact that so many people show you their affection, take their valuable time for you and keep you in mind feels very nice 🤗💕. Thank you very much to everyone, I appreciate everything you have done for me not only for my birthday but for all these months in which we have interacted 💗

Credits: Kanin Nicoru / Kim Marie / Mayo / Guakupero / Tefy / Nacho Cho / Panku Panku / Luz Biscuits / Kim Reyes Kuro / Aura-Doa-universe / Senet / Valeria Martinez / Joel V. Draven / Beydeth Casillas / Mary Saccharine / Jason Davis / Panqueque Lu / Alejandro Balmori / Emil Samael / Jack Standford Logan / Videl Messi / Drick

I also got two stories from my friends Missy and Jin, I will post them when I translate them because those are in spanish :3 but I wanted to mention it in this post!

Characters:

Johnny Cage (Mortal Kombat)

Araceli Cage (my OC)

Mortal Kombat (c) Netherrealm Studios / WB / Midway before

[white-00-7]

The fallen

Lucifer x reader

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Part 2 here

Third person pov:

After Charlie and Vaggie helped Y/n to change her clothes and to tend to her wound they leave her alone. After half an hour Lucifer came in with a bowl of water and a towel. He sits in the chair next to the bed and place the towel on her forehead after squeezing the water out of it. All the demons and angels in the building had questions in their minds. Why is she down here? What will happen from now on? Will she wake up?

Minutes turned to hours and then in days. The angel didn't woke up in a week. Her wounds were healed and her complexion looked better but she still didn't woke up. Lucifer, Charlie and Vaggie took turns to take care of her. Their hope started to get small as her eyes stayed closed. It was Charlie's turn to watch over her when she saw her fingers and eyes move. She quickly ran and screamed to her father that Y/n is waking up. They run out of their souls back to find Y/n sitting up on the bed looking out the window and humming.

Y/n pov:

She slowly opened her eyes but close then again as the red light in the room hurts her eyes a little. After some time she opened then completely and sit up looking around. Her clothes are changed, her wounds are healed. She humms and look out the window to see she didn't dream. She was in hell. When she hears the door she slowly takes her eyes off the scenery outside and look at the people who entered her room. They approached her slowly to not scare her and she smiled at them l. "Hi my little morningstar. And to you to my second morningstar. Vaggie. Why do you guys look so haggard? Did heaven came to fight while I was sleeping a little?" She ask softly then laugh at their expressions. Charlie looks at her and smile wholeheartedly "you were out for 2 weeks y/n. We started to feel helpless. I'm so glad you woke up" said Charlie and wipe some tears from her eyes. Lucifer took her hand and sigh in relief to find her skin cold but warm in the same time. She smiled softly as squeeze the king's hand as she looks at them. "Who can help me get out of this bed? I feel stuffed in this room. You said to weeks but for me it was a good night rest. I was working in human world." She sits up still holding Lucifer hand and get up slowly. She snap her fingers and her clothes changed in a beautiful liliac color with musical notes at then hem of the dress and her hair was in a loose braid with stars in it.

She was looking at the little Samael and his creations. She places a golden duck made of glass on his desk while he was out and a card with 'happy birthday little morningstar'. After that every year she only goes to his house to place his gift and card next to it then leave.

She looks at Lucifer and says embarrassed "C..can I hug you little morningstar? I wanted to do it for so long. I couldn't give you my presents for so many years. I can at least give you a hug now"

Third person pov:

Lucifer was looking at her and nods as he hugs her tightly remembering about the glass duckies she gived him. Now it's all clear. The same pet name and the same warm and comfortable smell. Y/n looks at the 2 female demons and open one arm for them to. Charlie run to her arms and Vaggie followed her. The galaxy angel hugs them with her arms and wings feeling like all her work was worth it.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

🦷 for…literally anyone. Go crazy with this

CW: BBU, some mouth whumpiness although the whump is emotional, medical whump

"Okay, here we go. Now, I'm going to insert this into your mouth, and you're going to bite down, as evenly as you can, and hold it until I say. Got it?"

Oskar looks at the little plastic tray in Arvid's hand as though the spongy, grayish thing inside of it is something alive that might bite him at any second. "Why?"

"I want to make a mold of your teeth."

Oskar shifts rapidly backwards in the exam chair in Arvid's 'medical room', also known as the half of his basement space he doesn't sleep in. One wrist brushes against the open leather buckles that can be used to restrain patients and he flinches violently away from it, face going suddenly white except for two red spots in his cheeks. "But-"

Arvid closes his eyes, taking a breath. "Oskar. Just do it."

Oskar shakes his head, curling his knees up to his chest and sliding his arms around his legs. His mouth opens and closes a few times on a word that never seems to quite make its way out. "I-... I don't want to," He whispers, hiding the bottom half of his face behind his knees, only his dark eyes showing, staring, hurt, at Arvid. "I don't want to do that. Please, Arvid, I-I don't, I don't want to-"

"Oskar," Arvid says, keeping his voice calm only with difficulty. This is irritating. "

Oskar's eyes drop and he stares down at the stirrups that hang off the end on long metal poles, where patients can slide their feet and hold their legs open. If possible, he blanches even further, and Arvid fights down his annoyance at the delay. "I have Samael coming in in like half an hour for bloodwork, we need to get this done before she gets here."

Oskar curls himself up even more tightly, closing his eyes and giving his head one more weak shake. "Please," He whispers. "I don't want to."

"Oskar. It is just to get a teeth mold! This is completely normal!" He thinks. Actually, Arvid doesn't have much of a comparison for normal, but it's normal for the work he does, anyway. He has molds of the mouths of all of the archangels and most of the other employees of the organization, too. He has molds of his own teeth, damn it. "I'm tired of you wasting my time with this, so just... fucking do as I say. You're my pet, aren't you?"

Oskar's breaths are coming shallowly, and he doesn't open his eyes. "Yes," He whispers. "I am." One of his hands moves to touch the collar around his neck, as if reminding himself. "I, I am yours."

"Right. So just. So just do the thing, so we can get it done and I can go back to doing my actual job before Samael shows up and wonders why nothing's ready for her..." He trails off as he hears a strange noise, like a clicking, and tilts his head. His eyes trail downward, until he realizes... it's the chair rattling in place.

Oskar is shaking so hard the exam chair is shaking, too.

"... hey." Arvid looks down at the molding clay in the dental tray - it'll dry out and be more or less useless if this takes much longer - and then, with a sigh, he sets it back down on the little metal rolling table and reaches out, putting one hand on either side of Oskar's face. "Talk to me. What's wrong with this? The tray, the... the chair? Is that it?"

Oskar hesitates, then opens his eyes again, looking up at Arvid without raising his chin. "... both."

"Okay... uh. What the fuck is wrong with them?" The chair is... just a chair. Arvid had gotten it at an insanely low price some years back during a private estate sale he decided not to look too closely into - but Oskar is clearly terrified of the damn thing. He's not even restrained - Arvid only uses those when one of the archangels is violent or hallucinating.

"Clinic c-chair." Oskar's teeth click together from his trembling. His eyes are glimmering in the lights with tears that haven't fallen yet. "The, the mold for a-... a gag, I don't... I don't want to have a gag here, Arvid. I don't-... I don't want to-"

"What? It's-... it's not for a gag."

Oskar swallows hard, licking at his lips. "It's... not?"

"No... no. Jesus Christ, Oskar, it's for if you get hurt and lose a tooth or something, so we can get you a good screw-in tooth and shit. I was thinking the other day about how you've ended up going out on fieldwork with me twice, plus you've been climbing the tree in the yard, and just in case, we should have shit ready to go for your records. That's all."

Oskar glances sidelong at the little plastic tray, then back at him. His lips press into a thin line, the skin paling at the pressure, before he tries to talk again. "I don't... want anything in m-my mouth, Arvid. Please-... I, I can't. Please, please don't make me. Please."

Arvid inhales. He knows if he checks his phone that time is running out, Samael's going to walk in any fucking second. "Oskar. We are going to do this and we are going to do this now. Open your fucking mouth. I am ordering you, as your owner, to open your mouth."

The look of open, honest pain and fear on Oskar's face sends a twist of some strange unpleasant chill through Arvid's chest, but he at least slowly nods and - jaw trembling - opens his mouth wide for Arvid to slide in the tray, then bites gently down. Sounds come, unbidden, from his throat - muffled whines that he doesn't even seem fully conscious of. Arvid can all but see his pulse racing in the spot just under his jaw. His eyes lock on Arvid's face and stay there.

"Good boy," Arvid soothes. Usually praise is a one-way ticket to fixing Oskar's bad moods, but this time it just seems to bounce right off him. The tears finally fall, running in clear trails over his cheekbones. Arvid wipes them away with his thumb and Oskar flinches, minutely, never quite pulling away. "It's all right. It's all right. Just a few more seconds..."

He takes the little handle on the tray, murmurs for Oskar to open carefully and slowly, and pulls it out to set it aside and get the next one ready for the bottom teeth. Oskar's trembling never stops, the chair rattling lightly, the pet's fingers dug into the padding until his knuckles are pure white.

Arvid finishes the second tray, and as soon as he removes it and says a soft all done, you were very good, Oskar uncurls, bolts off the chair, and races past the curtain that separates the two halves of Arvid's life. His feet slap on the concrete floor and Arvid watches him go, sighing.

He hears Oskar climb into the bed, the gentle squeak of the springs in the mattress as he buries himself under blankets and probably curls right back up into the little ball likes that. Muffled sobs are just barely audible, and Arvid's teeth itch to go ask him to stop that shit, it's annoying and he has shit to do today, he can't waste his time comforting Oskar's every fear.

But... he caused the fear.

Arvid hesitates, feeling that strange unpleasant twist again.

It's guilt.

He inhales, looking over at the curtain. "Oskar..." He trails off. He should just... go over there and apologize, hold him for a while, let him talk about it or something. It'd be the kind thing to do, and Oskar is the best thing he has in his life these days.

There's a harsh, loud sniff. "Yes?" Oskar's voice is thick and heavy with his tears.

"Listen, I just-" The door to the basement opens and Samael, a woman who seems created entirely in shades of black and slightly less black, steps inside. Arvid swallows the rest of his sentence.

The sounds of Oskar's fear stop - muffled even more thoroughly as he must hear Samael enter, too.

"Am I early?" Sam asks, eyebrows raising. The piercing in one glints in the flat white light of the exam side of the room. "Where's your little creature, isn't he around you all the time these days?"

"He's... busy," Arvid says. "Just give me a second to get the vials ready for you."

"Busy? Doing what?" Sam hops up onto the exam table, even swinging her legs a little. She's maybe five foot three on a good day, but Arvid knows damn well she can snap necks with her thighs alone and is one of the best in the business. "What do pets even do?"

Arvid ignores her. He walks over to peek around the curtain, faintly smiling as he sees the very Oskar-shaped lump on the bed, a hint of his hair showing on the pillow.

"We'll talk about it later," He says, pitching his voice low. "Okay?"

There's a rustle as Oskar shifts around under the blankets he's hidden himself in. He peeks out, just a bit of hair and pale forehead and huge eyes. "Yes, sir," He says, voice weak.

Arvid sighs. Oh, good. He's sir again. Great.

Sometimes, this shit is harder than he thought it would be.

[woodsteingirl]

btw three weeks in and I’m still clinging to my b minus in math I’m actually so proud of myself…

[ask-adamsapple66]

A portal opens and a figure stepped out.

? : Alright, if C's calculations are correct, then I should be...

Then, they looked up, surprised at the sight.

? : Samael?

The person was definitely Adam, but, judging by portal, from another world. And this one looked... definitely different than local Adam, with dark red and black clothes. On his head, he had long black horns with just a bit of yellow on tips. He looked at Lucifer in surprise and, maybe a bit, in anger.

? : Why are you here?

@asktheadams

Lucifer: Adam?? Shouldn't I be asking you that, you came into my house. And I know you're not my Adam, he's still upstairs asleep. Why do you look like that?

[kittenfangirl20]

(This link explains how Adam and Eve’s marriage worked before they both got with Lucifer)

*it had been a long time since Lucifer got to spend time around his archangel siblings, he didn’t count Satan who was once an archangel named Samael, he listened and heard a rumor had once slept with one of the other archangels, he knew that Adam and Eve were not monogamous and he didn’t mind that, but he didn’t want this archangel to be Michael, he made his way over to Michael*

Lucifer: Tell me, did you fuck Adam?

*Michael gave Lucifer a deadpan look*

Michael: Adam thinks I am the inferior version of you, why would he have sex with me?

Gabriel: It was me, except Adam was the one that fucked me.

Jophiel: I had sex with Eve.

*Arael the archangel of death and Lucifer’s younger sister, she was one of the archangels made after Lucifer fell*

Azrael: I had a threesome with Adam and Eve.

Lucifer: As long as it wasn’t with Michael, I don’t like the idea of Adam with my identical twin brother.

Gabriel: You have nothing to worry about, just because Adam and Eve had some meaningless one night stands for fun, it doesn’t change the fact that they aren’t deeply in love with each other and also deeply in love with you.

*for some reason hearing that made Lucifer very happy, no matter what, Lucifer, Adam, and Eve were all meant to be with each other and he couldn’t wait to go home so he could be with his husband and wife*

[thedevilsaltar]

S a m a e l B l a c k 6 6 6

THE DEVIL'S ALTAR

Church of the Devil

B L A C K

W I T C H C R A F T

~ A mixture of Traditional Witchcraft, Hedge Witchcraft and Satanic Witchcraft ~

Samael Black