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thelightbringer) wrote1997-10-28 11:47 am
thelightbringer) wrote1997-10-28 11:47 am
APPLICATION
Name: vilify
Personal Journal: N/A email me if you want to get in touch
Contact: hatofrabbits at gmail
Other Characters Played: None
Are you 18 or over? Yes
Canon: Supernatural
Character: Lucifer
Timeline: Mid-season 5, but with gradually returning past game memories
Personality: Lucifer was once the most cunning and loyal angel in heaven. Nearly everyone knows his history to some extent, but his personality is much more difficult to explain.
Everything Lucifer does has a purpose. Skinning your daughter? That's him thumbing his nose at God. Telling you afterwards that everything will be all right? That's...well that's him, being him. Your grieving isn't funny. He feels for you, he really does.
He is both the most gentle and the most deadly angel ever created, and he displays all the characteristics of Heaven and Hell. He loves deeply, he hates eternally, and he grieves the pain he causes his equals. If only there were more of them....
In his mind his only true equals are God and the archangel Michael. He does care for the others, though: all his brothers and sisters who tossed him down into 'the hole'. Lucifer desperately wants the other angels to join him, but if they won't then he won't hesitate to eviscerate them with one of the few swords capable of killing them. And then he'll grieve, and hope that the next one will be wiser when he asks them for help.
Lucifer was one of only four angels who knew the face of God. He was said to have loved God more than any of the other angels did. Those two things are central to who he is, as much as his pride and hatred are.
Angels aren't like humans. They're dispassionate soldiers, and they intervene on earth out of duty rather than out of any sense of love or compassion. This is in large part because of Lucifer. Prior to the creation of the humans, angels were a lot like we are: they had emotions and desires.
When mankind was born, God asked the angels to lay that aside and love and protect us even more than they loved Him. Lucifer refused to the point of rebelling and starting a civil war. This indicates two things about him:
1) he is fiercely loyal;
2) he never backs down when he thinks he is right, no matter how much he loves whomever opposes him.
The trait he most adheres to is loyalty. He compliments Castiel on it when the younger angel lies to protect the Winchesters, and he chastises Gabriel over his lack of it ("you disloyal--"). "Loyalty" to him means he will always love you but if he's right and you're wrong, get out of his way.
After the war in heaven, Lucifer was banished but he got to keep his emotions. The angels in heaven were “reprogrammed”, presumably out of fear that Lucifer had corrupted them. Even after the civil war, Lucifer desperately wanted the other angels to join him.
He loves his brothers and sisters…some more than others. Like God, Lucifer plays favorites. When Castiel banished Michael with Holy Fire, Lucifer killed his younger brother without so much as a flicker of remorse. (In his time in Adstringendum, however, he learned to count Castiel as one of his closest companions. In fact, for Castiel's sake, Lucifer even took on another archangel.)
However, when Lucifer was faced with the archangel Gabriel—another younger brother, but one he loved much more deeply—he begged Gabriel not to “make him” kill him. But Lucifer still did. As noted, he never gives up on his goals. That doesn’t mean he won’t have some remorse; after killing Gabriel, Lucifer stands alone over his body and is brought to tears.
Furthermore, Lucifer is always up front and honest. As he puts it, he doesn’t need to lie; the truth is on his side. It’s also true, however, that he doesn’t need to lie because he doesn’t fear anyone. Even God is the subject of Lucifer’s wrath, though he phrases it more gently: he wants to “find Him” and “hold Him accountable for His actions”. Everything Lucifer does is in pursuit of that goal.
Although he has respect for those he considers family that doesn’t mean he sees them as equals. That’s something all the archangels seem to share: they do not tolerate people mouthing off to them. Zachariah threatens Sam’s life when Dean is smart with him; Gabriel repeatedly tries to put the Winchesters in their place (first as a trickster and then after they learn who he really is). And although Lucifer loves the other angels, but he tells Gabriel to “watch his tone” when he is getting out of line.
Another popularized facet of Lucifer’s personality is his temper. It isn’t as close to the surface as you might think. In fact, Lucifer is incredibly patient. When Gabriel deliberately pushes his buttons, Lucifer simply warns him to back off. He also allowed Sam to do or say nearly anything he wanted, at every one of their meetings. Some of that courtesy even extended to Dean; after being shot in the head with the Colt, Lucifer doesn’t kill Dean, he simply knocks him aside and continues on with his work. Undoubtedly he was lenient because he needed Michael to have a vessel, but it still shows that he actually has his temper very well in hand.
Of course, Lucifer is not a pacifist. There are a few times throughout the season where his calm demeanor and patience are mistaken for sympathy. He has indescribable amounts of disgust for the human race, but it’s even worse for pagan deities. In Hand of the Gods, Lucifer is summoned by one of the pagans. Instead of gratitude, he expresses his distaste for them and proceeds to kill them off one by one, to the dismay of the deity that had summoned him.
The demons have the same dilemma. They see him as their Father, and he sees them as fodder. However, at one point Meg interacts with Lucifer one on one and he is seen caressing her face and smiling before he leaves. Lucifer claims he doesn’t use tricks, and he doesn’t lie, so that may mean that he does have some affection for certain demons.
Lucifer is clearly powerful and charismatic enough to sway those who should know better. When he rebelled, one-third of the Heavenly Host is said to have followed him even into hell, and the pagan messenger obviously had no idea Lucifer would turn on him. The demon Crowley knows that Lucifer will destroy Hell and all the creatures in it, and yet he can’t convince the demons to be disloyal to Lucifer.
Perhaps a part of that is an aspect of his personality that is only hinted at: a sense of humor. The biggest indication of it is in his fight with Gabriel, when he says, "Don't forget: you learned all your tricks from me." Gabriel is of course also known as The Trickster. There are smaller signs as well: when Lucifer rings the bell for service at the hotel, when he draws a pitchfork on a frosted over window, and the way he sometimes sing-songs his words or peppers his speech with pop culture and Biblical references.
The only predictable thing about him is that he wants you dead. All of you, every insect and bird and man and woman and child. But patience is a virtue, and he has that in spades. If he has to wait an eternity for the chance to slit your throat, he will. When he's done with you, he's going to destroy Hell. Don't ask him what he's going to do when he's destroyed everything you've ever conceived of; you should be worried about your own soul.
In the meantime, don't worry. He can promise you that everything is part of the plan.
Background: Lucifer was once one of God's Archangels. He once had a loving relationship with God and was fiercely loyal to Him. However, when God created mankind and asked His angels to honor them by loving them more than God (as they were His greatest creation), Lucifer refused to do so, believing that he should not have to bow to a lesser creature. He also feared giving them the freedom to choose, as he could see how murderous and treacherous human beings were.
Lucifer staged a rebellion and attempted a coup of Heaven to overthrow God and take His place as the ruler of the universe. It is said that about a third of the Heavenly Host joined Lucifer and rallied to his cause, laying siege to Heaven and attempting to overthrow their Father. However, God was not to be overthrown or blasphemed. He sent the Archangel Michael, Lucifer's older brother and God's most powerful archangel and lieutenant, to defeat Lucifer and his minions. He did so without mercy, forever driving a wedge between the once inseparable brothers.
When Lucifer refused to ask for forgiveness and reconcile with God, it was decided that he and his followers would pay a price for their rebellion: they were banished from Heaven henceforth and cast into Hell, the realm of pain and suffering. To make sure Lucifer could not cause total chaos and destruction for the human race or Heaven, 600 powerful seals were created to bind Lucifer's power and to keep him from escaping Hell. It would only take sixty-six of these seals to be broken, however, for Lucifer to once more be able to venture forth from Hell at his full power and strength.
Enter Lilith. She was Lucifer's top demon and coincidentally the final seal. A few years ago, Sam Winchester tracked her down and promptly killed her as revenge for a series of massacres she had committed (and the fact she murdered his brother). With that seal broken, Lucifer was free to climb out of the pit. The first and most important thing was to find a vessel so he could access more of his abilities. For Lucifer, this came in the form of a grieving father named Nick. In order to get Nick to give his body over to the devil, Lucifer began haunting him: he gave him dreams about his child's death, made him hallucinate the sound of his child's voice and the sight of the baby's blood. When Lucifer finally appeared and grieved with him, Nick accepted the role of host.
However, Nick is only a temporary vessel. The only one capable of holding Lucifer permanently is Sam Winchester. Nick, unfortunately, will slowly decay around Lucifer and then he'll have to find another body, and another, until Sam finally says 'yes'.
Abilities/Additional Notes: He is, of course, immortal. He is also invulnerable, but there are a few weapons that will slow him down (he heals in a few seconds). He has the power of angelic possession, with the condition that the host accepts and invites him when he asks. Once accepted, they cannot reject his presence. When disembodied, he can shapeshift and appear as any object or creature; when fused to a host, he can't. He can teleport, although the movement is followed by the sound of thunder and so not very stealthy. On that note, like all angels, he is able to manipulate the weather to a degree.
He has telekinesis and a closely related version of spontaneous combustion: he was able to set flame to and then implode another angel simply by snapping his fingers. He's the father of Sin, and so he has the ability to pinpoint weaknesses in people, in great detail.
In spite of his slowly-rotting host, it's said in canon that in a fair fight, only two creatures can defeat Lucifer: God, and the archangel Michael. (It's also said that Death is more powerful than God, though, so I'd add him to that list).
Now that those are all listed, in Adstringendum his powers would be limited. I'd be treating Adstring as a paler version of Hell's seals: each power will be halved, except teleportation which will obviously be completely nixed (he can fly like the other angels but not through walls, of course).
First-Person Sample:
[VIDEO]
[Satan doesn't keep a diary, but he does enjoy a little bit of showmanship. He is walking along the icy streets, holding his PCD up so that it mostly records his surroundings. It only gets one glimpse of his profile, and the open sores on the side of his face. He is taking his time, but it's clear he's headed somewhere in particular.
After a while, he stops in front of the clinic, and a pleasant, low voice can be heard.] What a sad little town.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
[End feed.]
Third-Person Sample: Lucifer loved technology. It was the easiest way to deceive people ever created. He could pretend to be gentle Nick, or anyone he wanted, really.
People inherently knew who he was when they met him (or at least guessed he was wrong in some way); that was a nice parting gift from Heaven, he suspected. But over two view screens, his "evil" was diffused into something more mysterious and a touch less horrifying.
He wasn't remotely worried or confused about where he was, but it paid to do reconnaissance.
Of all the buildings he chose the clinic to enter, unaware that it was here he had come his first visit to the city, unaware that he was standing more or less where he had years ago. "Knock, knock."
[GAME DEVELOPMENT]
Over time Lucifer will get his memories of his previous time spent in Adstringendum, or at least most of them. He will remember finally being on the same side as his brothers Castiel and Gabriel. He will remember meeting Raphael again, and for a short time seeing Michael. He will remember some of his human acquaintances, like Xerxes Break and Jade, but largely he'll be starting from scratch with regards to mortals.
Personal Journal: N/A email me if you want to get in touch
Contact: hatofrabbits at gmail
Other Characters Played: None
Are you 18 or over? Yes
Canon: Supernatural
Character: Lucifer
Timeline: Mid-season 5, but with gradually returning past game memories
Personality: Lucifer was once the most cunning and loyal angel in heaven. Nearly everyone knows his history to some extent, but his personality is much more difficult to explain.
Everything Lucifer does has a purpose. Skinning your daughter? That's him thumbing his nose at God. Telling you afterwards that everything will be all right? That's...well that's him, being him. Your grieving isn't funny. He feels for you, he really does.
He is both the most gentle and the most deadly angel ever created, and he displays all the characteristics of Heaven and Hell. He loves deeply, he hates eternally, and he grieves the pain he causes his equals. If only there were more of them....
In his mind his only true equals are God and the archangel Michael. He does care for the others, though: all his brothers and sisters who tossed him down into 'the hole'. Lucifer desperately wants the other angels to join him, but if they won't then he won't hesitate to eviscerate them with one of the few swords capable of killing them. And then he'll grieve, and hope that the next one will be wiser when he asks them for help.
Lucifer was one of only four angels who knew the face of God. He was said to have loved God more than any of the other angels did. Those two things are central to who he is, as much as his pride and hatred are.
Angels aren't like humans. They're dispassionate soldiers, and they intervene on earth out of duty rather than out of any sense of love or compassion. This is in large part because of Lucifer. Prior to the creation of the humans, angels were a lot like we are: they had emotions and desires.
When mankind was born, God asked the angels to lay that aside and love and protect us even more than they loved Him. Lucifer refused to the point of rebelling and starting a civil war. This indicates two things about him:
1) he is fiercely loyal;
2) he never backs down when he thinks he is right, no matter how much he loves whomever opposes him.
The trait he most adheres to is loyalty. He compliments Castiel on it when the younger angel lies to protect the Winchesters, and he chastises Gabriel over his lack of it ("you disloyal--"). "Loyalty" to him means he will always love you but if he's right and you're wrong, get out of his way.
After the war in heaven, Lucifer was banished but he got to keep his emotions. The angels in heaven were “reprogrammed”, presumably out of fear that Lucifer had corrupted them. Even after the civil war, Lucifer desperately wanted the other angels to join him.
He loves his brothers and sisters…some more than others. Like God, Lucifer plays favorites. When Castiel banished Michael with Holy Fire, Lucifer killed his younger brother without so much as a flicker of remorse. (In his time in Adstringendum, however, he learned to count Castiel as one of his closest companions. In fact, for Castiel's sake, Lucifer even took on another archangel.)
However, when Lucifer was faced with the archangel Gabriel—another younger brother, but one he loved much more deeply—he begged Gabriel not to “make him” kill him. But Lucifer still did. As noted, he never gives up on his goals. That doesn’t mean he won’t have some remorse; after killing Gabriel, Lucifer stands alone over his body and is brought to tears.
Furthermore, Lucifer is always up front and honest. As he puts it, he doesn’t need to lie; the truth is on his side. It’s also true, however, that he doesn’t need to lie because he doesn’t fear anyone. Even God is the subject of Lucifer’s wrath, though he phrases it more gently: he wants to “find Him” and “hold Him accountable for His actions”. Everything Lucifer does is in pursuit of that goal.
Although he has respect for those he considers family that doesn’t mean he sees them as equals. That’s something all the archangels seem to share: they do not tolerate people mouthing off to them. Zachariah threatens Sam’s life when Dean is smart with him; Gabriel repeatedly tries to put the Winchesters in their place (first as a trickster and then after they learn who he really is). And although Lucifer loves the other angels, but he tells Gabriel to “watch his tone” when he is getting out of line.
Another popularized facet of Lucifer’s personality is his temper. It isn’t as close to the surface as you might think. In fact, Lucifer is incredibly patient. When Gabriel deliberately pushes his buttons, Lucifer simply warns him to back off. He also allowed Sam to do or say nearly anything he wanted, at every one of their meetings. Some of that courtesy even extended to Dean; after being shot in the head with the Colt, Lucifer doesn’t kill Dean, he simply knocks him aside and continues on with his work. Undoubtedly he was lenient because he needed Michael to have a vessel, but it still shows that he actually has his temper very well in hand.
Of course, Lucifer is not a pacifist. There are a few times throughout the season where his calm demeanor and patience are mistaken for sympathy. He has indescribable amounts of disgust for the human race, but it’s even worse for pagan deities. In Hand of the Gods, Lucifer is summoned by one of the pagans. Instead of gratitude, he expresses his distaste for them and proceeds to kill them off one by one, to the dismay of the deity that had summoned him.
The demons have the same dilemma. They see him as their Father, and he sees them as fodder. However, at one point Meg interacts with Lucifer one on one and he is seen caressing her face and smiling before he leaves. Lucifer claims he doesn’t use tricks, and he doesn’t lie, so that may mean that he does have some affection for certain demons.
Lucifer is clearly powerful and charismatic enough to sway those who should know better. When he rebelled, one-third of the Heavenly Host is said to have followed him even into hell, and the pagan messenger obviously had no idea Lucifer would turn on him. The demon Crowley knows that Lucifer will destroy Hell and all the creatures in it, and yet he can’t convince the demons to be disloyal to Lucifer.
Perhaps a part of that is an aspect of his personality that is only hinted at: a sense of humor. The biggest indication of it is in his fight with Gabriel, when he says, "Don't forget: you learned all your tricks from me." Gabriel is of course also known as The Trickster. There are smaller signs as well: when Lucifer rings the bell for service at the hotel, when he draws a pitchfork on a frosted over window, and the way he sometimes sing-songs his words or peppers his speech with pop culture and Biblical references.
The only predictable thing about him is that he wants you dead. All of you, every insect and bird and man and woman and child. But patience is a virtue, and he has that in spades. If he has to wait an eternity for the chance to slit your throat, he will. When he's done with you, he's going to destroy Hell. Don't ask him what he's going to do when he's destroyed everything you've ever conceived of; you should be worried about your own soul.
In the meantime, don't worry. He can promise you that everything is part of the plan.
Background: Lucifer was once one of God's Archangels. He once had a loving relationship with God and was fiercely loyal to Him. However, when God created mankind and asked His angels to honor them by loving them more than God (as they were His greatest creation), Lucifer refused to do so, believing that he should not have to bow to a lesser creature. He also feared giving them the freedom to choose, as he could see how murderous and treacherous human beings were.
Lucifer staged a rebellion and attempted a coup of Heaven to overthrow God and take His place as the ruler of the universe. It is said that about a third of the Heavenly Host joined Lucifer and rallied to his cause, laying siege to Heaven and attempting to overthrow their Father. However, God was not to be overthrown or blasphemed. He sent the Archangel Michael, Lucifer's older brother and God's most powerful archangel and lieutenant, to defeat Lucifer and his minions. He did so without mercy, forever driving a wedge between the once inseparable brothers.
When Lucifer refused to ask for forgiveness and reconcile with God, it was decided that he and his followers would pay a price for their rebellion: they were banished from Heaven henceforth and cast into Hell, the realm of pain and suffering. To make sure Lucifer could not cause total chaos and destruction for the human race or Heaven, 600 powerful seals were created to bind Lucifer's power and to keep him from escaping Hell. It would only take sixty-six of these seals to be broken, however, for Lucifer to once more be able to venture forth from Hell at his full power and strength.
Enter Lilith. She was Lucifer's top demon and coincidentally the final seal. A few years ago, Sam Winchester tracked her down and promptly killed her as revenge for a series of massacres she had committed (and the fact she murdered his brother). With that seal broken, Lucifer was free to climb out of the pit. The first and most important thing was to find a vessel so he could access more of his abilities. For Lucifer, this came in the form of a grieving father named Nick. In order to get Nick to give his body over to the devil, Lucifer began haunting him: he gave him dreams about his child's death, made him hallucinate the sound of his child's voice and the sight of the baby's blood. When Lucifer finally appeared and grieved with him, Nick accepted the role of host.
However, Nick is only a temporary vessel. The only one capable of holding Lucifer permanently is Sam Winchester. Nick, unfortunately, will slowly decay around Lucifer and then he'll have to find another body, and another, until Sam finally says 'yes'.
Abilities/Additional Notes: He is, of course, immortal. He is also invulnerable, but there are a few weapons that will slow him down (he heals in a few seconds). He has the power of angelic possession, with the condition that the host accepts and invites him when he asks. Once accepted, they cannot reject his presence. When disembodied, he can shapeshift and appear as any object or creature; when fused to a host, he can't. He can teleport, although the movement is followed by the sound of thunder and so not very stealthy. On that note, like all angels, he is able to manipulate the weather to a degree.
He has telekinesis and a closely related version of spontaneous combustion: he was able to set flame to and then implode another angel simply by snapping his fingers. He's the father of Sin, and so he has the ability to pinpoint weaknesses in people, in great detail.
In spite of his slowly-rotting host, it's said in canon that in a fair fight, only two creatures can defeat Lucifer: God, and the archangel Michael. (It's also said that Death is more powerful than God, though, so I'd add him to that list).
Now that those are all listed, in Adstringendum his powers would be limited. I'd be treating Adstring as a paler version of Hell's seals: each power will be halved, except teleportation which will obviously be completely nixed (he can fly like the other angels but not through walls, of course).
First-Person Sample:
[VIDEO]
[Satan doesn't keep a diary, but he does enjoy a little bit of showmanship. He is walking along the icy streets, holding his PCD up so that it mostly records his surroundings. It only gets one glimpse of his profile, and the open sores on the side of his face. He is taking his time, but it's clear he's headed somewhere in particular.
After a while, he stops in front of the clinic, and a pleasant, low voice can be heard.] What a sad little town.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
[End feed.]
Third-Person Sample: Lucifer loved technology. It was the easiest way to deceive people ever created. He could pretend to be gentle Nick, or anyone he wanted, really.
People inherently knew who he was when they met him (or at least guessed he was wrong in some way); that was a nice parting gift from Heaven, he suspected. But over two view screens, his "evil" was diffused into something more mysterious and a touch less horrifying.
He wasn't remotely worried or confused about where he was, but it paid to do reconnaissance.
Of all the buildings he chose the clinic to enter, unaware that it was here he had come his first visit to the city, unaware that he was standing more or less where he had years ago. "Knock, knock."
[GAME DEVELOPMENT]
Over time Lucifer will get his memories of his previous time spent in Adstringendum, or at least most of them. He will remember finally being on the same side as his brothers Castiel and Gabriel. He will remember meeting Raphael again, and for a short time seeing Michael. He will remember some of his human acquaintances, like Xerxes Break and Jade, but largely he'll be starting from scratch with regards to mortals.