video; un: lux

[dealwiththe]

Right. Everyone back to normal now? Or at least as normal as it ever gets on this floating insane asylum.

[ If Lucifer seems a little annoyed, well - he is! ]

Have I mentioned lately that I despise children? The hormonal angst was almost palpable. I could probably think of better Hell loops for myself, but not many.

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video; un: cherry

[devilsheel]

When it’s one kid, it’s not so bad. You know that.

[dealwiththe]

When it's your child, of course. Yours is acceptable. Even if she does still sneak a hug once in a while.

[devilsheel]

You give good hugs. Plus you’ve become an important figure in her life, of course she’s going to sneak them in when she can.

[dealwiththe]

I beg your pardon?! [ He looks so offended!!! Really!!! ] Me? Hugs?

[devilsheel]

Yes. You. Hugs.

[dealwiththe]

That's - [ He sputters a bit. He may look... confused? ] Absurd!

[devilsheel]

[ Seeing the confusion, she smiles. It can’t be helped. ]

Is it? Why? Give me one good reason why that would be absurd.

[dealwiththe]

Because!

[ What is the reason? Uh. ]

I'm the Devil.

[devilsheel]

Yet the Devil’s found his first love.

Is that absurd?

video | UN: presage

[albatrossomen]

[Video only because Lucifer prefers it, although the camera isn't focused on Murmur. Just somewhere on a cabin wall because he's going to narrate at it instead.]

How opposed would you be to pretending none of that transpired?

[dealwiththe]

By 'that' I assume you mean the thing where you kept calling humans monkeys and tried to imprint on me like one of those baby birds with a hand puppet?

[ He pauses for dramatic effect. ]

Yes, all forgotten.

[albatrossomen]

[Hissed through gritted teeth.]

Yes. That.

[He's not exactly proud of any of that. Nor does he entirely want to volunteer elaboration. Lucifer likely gets it, surely he's had the same disagreement with his siblings before.

Phew...]

Thank you.

[dealwiththe]

Do you suppose it was a mistake of some kind, or deliberate on Navi's part?

[albatrossomen]

[A long silence while he considers that question.]

...No. No, I do not believe it was deliberate. Malice is not in their nature.

[He finally stops being a weenie loser and flips the camera around to stop being impolite.]

I do have a hypothesis. I believe these anomalous events are drawn to them, in a manner similar to how the spatial tears that bring us here are. Unfortunately given how distracting these diversions are I have not yet had the opportunity to make much headway into investigating why that might be. Something to do with their psychic energy, perhaps?

[dealwiththe]

That sounds incredibly boring, I'll be sure to consider anomalous psychic blah blah next time I need a nap.

And I'm glad I was immune to this one - apart from the fact that I've never been a moody adolescent, the last time I regressed too far into old habits I wound up nearly permanently going beast-mode.

[albatrossomen]

Should you find yourself wanting for sleep I am certain I could drum up a dissertation that would put you down for a week.

[Grimace.]

Yes, that would be... troubling.

[Putting it mildly.]

[dealwiththe]

Turns out, physically manifesting my self-loathing is very traumatic for everyone involved, funny how that works.

UN: | R. STRAND

[imarealistnotacynic]

They're not that bad. Normally.

[Though he would have previously been right up there with Lucifer's assumptions.]

Though reliving hormonal adolescence was not...a positive experience.

[dealwiththe]

Yes, some humans inexplicably seem to find the little petrie dishes charming. [ Lucifer clearly does not. ]

You mean to say you were just as - nay, perhaps even more - awkward as a pimply adolescent than you are as a grown man?

[imarealistnotacynic]

When you find yourself responsible for caring for a sentient ball of flesh and tissue and bone trying to survive - turning it into a human being and nurturing it, you become more willing to engage.

[His teeth grit. Awkward. Sure. But this is what happens when you are sucked into this place and...

He sighs and laughs.]

I was considerably more dramatic and obnoxious as a "pimply adolescent." and I had terrible acne so I will let that slide.

[dealwiththe]

Mm. Can't relate. Fortunately, my sort don't procreate. Well, except my brother, but that was because he made himself bloody human for a couple of years.

[ The lovable dumbass. ]

Are you saying you were somehow more dramatic before the whole "apocalyptic death metal concert" shenanigans?

[imarealistnotacynic]

[Silence. Then he shrugs.]

Warn him against it I take it?

[Richard settles for a moment before nodding.] My father inspired youthful rebellion by breathing. We fought like cats and dogs and I did my best to bite back as he alternated between preparing me for adulthood and following in his footsteps as a scientist.

[dealwiththe]

Sounds like my Dad, funny how that works.

And I didn't warn Amenadiel against anything - I'm not the warning sort, really. He talked himself into a bout of humanity and now I've got a bouncing baby nephilim nephew.

[imarealistnotacynic]

[When Richard considers his own destiny versus that...He doesn't respond, filing it away back in his mind before focusing on the more obvious.]

He'll be great then. The children of fallen-the children of angels are always great people though my book of Enoch is a bit rusty. Different for you?

[dealwiththe]

Very different, considering Charlie's the first ever.

But given who his parents are, he'll turn out fine.