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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Lucifer Morningstar
Canon: Lucifer (tv)
Canon Point: the very end of s2e18, after he’s been dumped in the desert

In-Game Tattoo Placement: the back of his left hand
Current Health/Status: A little scuffed up from being hit on the back of the head and falling, and sunburnt from being out in the sun, but otherwise unharmed
Age: It’s never directly stated, but he seems to be thousands of years old at least. Physically he appears to be around 36
Species: Angel

History: here for Lucifer. Here for season 1, and here for season 2.

Personality: Self-centered and arrogant, at first glance, all there is to Lucifer is a man egotistical enough to name himself after the Devil. Very few people know that he is the actual Devil, and even fewer know much about the real Lucifer. Digging a little bit deeper below the surface, Lucifer is a man who cares deeply about justice, finding the person who committed an injustice, and ensuring they receive the punishment they deserve. Unlike the classic biblical concept of the Devil, Lucifer is not the lord of all evil— he punishes evil. It was not a job he originally wanted, but it’s something he cares deeply about in his own way, continuing wanting to punish those who harm other people even years after abandoning Hell.

As an extension of being a punisher instead of the root of evil, he has some uncomfortable issues with people blaming evils on him. Things like “the devil made me do it” and calling things “the work of the devil” incense him like no other, because he doesn’t control what people do, and just as importantly, has no interest in doing so. He’s spent an eternity having people blame him on their own evils, and has developed quite a complex over it. Especially because it’s not like he has many people who truly know who he is that he can talk to about the situation. It horrifies him on a deep, visceral level.

Not only is punishing wrong-doers a focus of his, genuinely helping people out seems to be a focus of his as well. People come to him for favors, and he gives them to those people, in return for a favor in the future. At face value it could be a really terrible thing to do, a Faustian deal with the Devil, but that’s not his style at all. Instead, he relies on using his connections to further specific goals that never involve (intentionally) putting people in danger. He’s just as prone to asking for a person to do something for him as he is to tell a person who owes him a favor to put their life back together as the favor.

One might reasonably assume that, having exclusively seen the worst in people for millennia, that Lucifer is someone who would hate people, separate himself from them, and only come to them when he needs something, but that’s not the case. Admittedly, this used to be who he was, before he decided to leave Hell for an extended vacation that has lasted several years. But it’s not who he is now, instead he’s become a person who cares deeply about others, even if he can’t exactly articulate it. He’d deny it if asked, but he’s found people he cares about, and has even found it in himself to worry greatly about the lives of other people, learning to love them, which had been unthinkable until a few years ago.

While he is incredibly focused on himself, it often comes more from a place of ignorance and the fact that almost every single human he’s spoken to in the past has already been dead and stuck in a Hell loop (experiencing one’s regrets over and over again without end, the true version of Hell in the show) on top of that. He’s just not quite used to living people being put off by his behavior, coming across as callous and inappropriate with his irreverence in the face of death. Knowing that souls depart the world of the living means that he isn’t particularly fazed by the deaths of people he doesn’t know, but his behavior does change drastically when it’s someone he does. People do matter to him, he’s just terrible at admitting.

When he learned of a killer murdering people in his name, he was horrified. Not just because of his disgust at someone attributing him to their own atrocities, but because the people murdered were innocent, and the killing of the innocent is an absolute affront to him. He despises those who slaughter the innocent—another enormous difference between him and the classic understanding of the Devil. He goes so far to call the acts “genuine evil” and doesn’t exactly hide how disturbed he is by acts of malicious violence. He doesn’t want any part of it; part of leaving Hell was how disturbed he became by how his name was forever going to be tied to acts of evil.

Unsurprisingly, because of how many ways he differs from the way people expect him to be, Lucifer has an incredibly low opinion of himself. He spent millennia torturing the dead, punishing the dead, but he feels that due to his reputation, he’s forever alienated and miserable for wanting to be true to himself. That people tend to attribute evils to him regardless of how he wants to be seen as a rebel hurts him on a deep level. All the lackadaisical attitudes and charm are as much the person he wants to be as they are a cover for him to disguise just how vulnerable he is.

He considers himself to be a monster due to killing his brother in self-defense. Much of his own problems are self-inflicted— literally; it’s strongly suggested his Fall was because he believed he deserved to be punished, and the death of his brother by his own hands hasn’t helped matters. It’s left him angry with himself, and while finding a way to save his mother’s life did lead to some improvement of his self-worth, it didn’t do much. He blames himself for people getting hurt around him, and that’s not something he’s going to be stopping anytime soon.

He uses humor to deflect how he really feels about a situation. As he doesn’t lie because of his principles of always being honest, he’ll do what he can to obfuscate the truth when it makes him uncomfortable. Letting anyone know how much he truly hates himself? Definitely off the table. It’s a good way of avoiding things he doesn’t want to talk about, without lying. While he does consider deceiving people to be just as bad as lying, that doesn’t stop him from wiggling as much as he possibly can within his own set of rules. He’s kind of a hypocrite, in other words, but only when it comes to matters about himself.

In large part because of his own principles of not lying, Lucifer also hates liars, and people who don’t believe what they say. He’s a man of passion; a person who lives by his own rules and values those who do the same. A man who doesn’t practice what he preaches, to use a turn of phrase, is the person he hates the most. Even people who he wouldn’t normally like can easily earn his respect by sticking to their personal belief system.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:
Flight: As a divine being and angel, Lucifer can fly. If he’s strong enough to carry a person, he can fly both of them a great difference, and straight in canon, he can use his flight to return to Hell if need be. He can also use them as a shield, though only at great pain to himself, and they can only be used as a shield for at most himself and one other person. As for warping, even within canon, it’s possible for him to lose his ability to fly; if a divine being considers him or herself as undeserving of something, that person will lose their powers as a form of unconscious self-punishment. The self-loathing in combination with warping magnifies this to extraordinary lengths, meaning if he gets angry with himself for the smallest of details, his wings can vanish in a cloud of feathers. Naturally, he will be unable to flee from Deerington via flight, straying too far will end with him immediately losing consciousness.
Invulnerability and immortality: Like it implies, he’s capable of being shot at point blank multiple times, only to not be injured. Unless Chloe Decker is nearby, in which case he’s capable of bleeding at most minor of injuries, or even dying. In Deerington, blows to vital organs can be fatal. Those organs in question are the brain, the heart, the stomach, and the lungs. Proximity towards people he’s close with can make him bleed if injured, so bleeding out is also possible.

Additionally, while under normal circumstances someone punching him in face wouldn’t do much, straight out of canon another angel deciding he really need to be punched will bruise him; the same holds true with his powers warped. Such that another so-called immortal would bruise him at the very least, likely worse if the fight got serious.
Desires: Lucifer is an angel, and as a result has a gift that’s his alone. He can compel people to tell him their innermost desire, though there are limits: he needs to look them in the eyes to do so, and particularly strong-willed people can fight the impulse. These desires don’t need to be anything dark or power-hungry, it can be just about anything including really wanting to eat lunch or wanting to protect a family member. When warped, he’ll find his power only works at random.
Magnetism: Being what can best be described as “temptation made flesh”, Lucifer’s presence has the tendency to, in his own words, make people look at him with “carnal fascination”. Basically, if they’re attracted to men, they can be overcome with desire for him, leading to situations where people aggressively flirt with him, which he’s usually more than willing to be receptive to. It’s sort of a compulsion, people know they shouldn’t, for instance, show off how flexible they are in front of him, but find it difficult to resist the temptation. With this power warped, instead of aggressively flirting with him, people will instead get aggressively angry with him, going so far as violence should the situation progress that far.

Hopefully he’s able to smooth situations over without getting punched a lot.
Devilface: Lucifer’s true face looks like this. In normal circumstances, exposure to it—and to his wings, for that matter— makes a person immediately aware of the presence of the divine. How well a person takes it depends on a number of circumstances. Some take it reasonably well, some take it poorly, others shut down completely. This can still happen, though once again only at random like with his power. Every other time, it looks like he’s just your average nonhuman, or maybe even a guy wearing a doofy costume depending upon the individual looking at him. In addition, rage can make it “stick”, much to his dismay. Whether it’s him being angry at himself or being angry at someone else, it only subsides once he’s calmed down, and that might take a while.
Uncontainable: Lucifer can get out of any locked room, handcuffs, etc. I'm honestly not entirely certain how to warp this one, since just making it not work seems a little unexciting. Maybe he gets performance anxiety? Regardless I don't want it to work all of the time, he doesn't get to be cool.
Super-Strength: Like it says; being a divine being means that he gets All The Powers. He’s capable of throwing a person across the room with little effort, holding a person a foot off the ground with one hand, that sort of thing. With it warped, he’s only as strong as a regular human.


If any of these need to be warped more, let me know; I’m happy to make Lucifer even more miserable. The powers that work at random will function as an opt-in; by default not working on people at all.
Inventory:
1. One of his suits
2. His cell phone
3. One of Maze’s blades. Important to note is that this blade can harm him, even potentially kill him, without power warping.
4. A grand piano. Somehow.
5. A bathrobe

Writing Samples: Here he is on the TDM

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Nin
Player Age: 21+
Player Contact: kamex

Other Characters In Game: n/a
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Lucifer Morningstar: Nin
Permissions for Character: here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Considering Lucifer is the literal Devil, and is constantly getting upset with people blaming him for their actions, or their problems, or depictions of him, absolutely yes. He tells literally everyone he meets that he’s the Devil, they just usually don’t believe him.

What’s a little reference to the comics between friends?
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Psychological horror is my absolute favorite, and that accounts for everything from the doubting of reality to lingering and prominent dread.

I’m also especially partial to body horror, whether than be more Cronenberg/Junji Ito flavor, or slowly turning into something else without the gross-out factor, like werewolves or something similar.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: N/A
Additional Information: Lucifer really, really hates it if you say he’s supposed to be a blond.