#cries the last panel/frame where they mirror eachother

[keikakudom]

HOOOH OKAY. Now that I'm in a more intelligent mood...

I really like this take on RR!AU Charlie because it just makes so much sense...like, yes! of course she would be able to recognize that her relationship with her dad is...not great? And that he's just been alone after he split with Lilith? She's concerned for him. But the crazy thing is that she is very much able to appreciate that he TRIED to connect with her, I adore how you picked up on that with having Charlie make the first move and call to thank him aaaah. I like to think she extends a lot of invitations for him to check out the resort too, because she doesn't really know how else to get closer while being true about herself too. Either for them to bond more, for him to see the vision, or just to get him out(Cough. She knows he meets with Vox...so maybe yet another case of impromptu glue).

(Also omg I love her office. The art deco decorations. She has HUMAN PHILOSOPHERS!!! On her shelf!!! EVEN THOUGH SHE'S A HELLBORN!!!!! I love her. Also, hehe 'art therapy' is a prompt on it's own....hm.)

Even in canon, that little throwaway line Husk said about her, when he said bartenders know everything about everyone-- something something "she tries to fix everyone's problems but her own". This applies here, and as much as she's studied behavioral patterns on humans, her situation is very...unique and undocumented. If you think about it, RR!AU Charlie is a variant in where that aspect of her has been pushed to the extreme side ;;

(Your expressions btw, ack, Charlie's so soft in the 2nd image. And SAD LUCIFER? Ugh chokehold. "Charlie's sure grown a lot while I wasn't looking" PLEAAAAASE. YOU'VE TAKEN ME OUT. I'm going to need therapy in the form of listening to 'More Than Anything' + 'Finale' on repeat after analyzing this. I feel so bad for them hhh)

Thank you for this beautiful comic, gah, my brain has been opened...It would be so interesting to explore that Charlie is the one to breach the gap between her and Lucifer. *cries* I need to see them together again <3

(ALSO. I hope you know Es that I've taken all your rr!au comics as law. Anything you make I am fully ON BOARD...)

For @keikakudom's reset resort au

Sorta non-canon comic, I guess?

Context is that Vox is the hotelier instead of Alastor, and he has a contract with Lucifer (through which Lucifer is getting updates on Charlie)!

Lucifer and Charlie's relationship

Notes below the cut:

This all started because of a thought I had: since Vaggie doesn't fall here, Charlie would have had to brave many of her early struggles alone, which somehow turned into 'yknow maybe charlie sees the contract with vox as her dad's way to support her, and that leads to a rare instance of her making contact'.

But anyway here their relationship is still pretty strained and despite what he says in the last panel, Lucifer prefers to remain distant from the resort and the whole redemption thing; but Charlie's life pretty much revolves around the resort now, so there isn't really a way to be part of her life and avoid it.

Also the room in the first panel is a super rough attempt at a therapist's office, LOL