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After dreaming of escaping to some magical world Mc ends up in the Devildom.
- Gender-neutral reader
- Content warnings: Mc has anxiety. Religion. Atheist Mc. Brief blasphemy on Mc's part. (This does not accurately reflect my views on religion and there is no offense intended).
Lucifer picks a random human to be the second exchange student. Diavolo and the others expect them to be well, human. And they are, just not quite like they are expected to be. They think Mc will be reluctant to leave their whole life behind for a year before they eventually settle into the program. They don’t expect Mc to jump at the chance to escape their life. To be relieved at being anywhere but where they were.
Of course, Mc is scared, they get summoned to literal hell and go to a school full of demons, but some strange part of them is relieved. Sure their whole world got shaken to the core. Sure they went from atheist to finding out hell is real, heaven is real, God is real, which means in Mc's humble opinion, that God has turned out to be a pretty big disappointment. Letting humans destroy themselves, and the planet all in the name of free will sounds more like God made a bunch of children then became an absentee parent.
Still though, this may be the single best thing that has ever happened. It’s ironic that ending up in hell makes them happy. But being whisked away from the mundane world has always been an intoxicating dream and who are they to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Finally, they feel something, even if it is jumbled and confusing, it’s better than the numbness they’ve grown accustomed to. Their anxiety doesn’t disappear entirely. That’s not how anxiety disorders work. But everything about life changed so suddenly, so drastically, that it was enough of a shock to the system to cause things to shift in the right direction. There was no longer a need to worry about money, about the suffocating nature of working full-time for minimum wage. Of student loans and the limited prospects their degree provides, despite promises otherwise. Or of the expectations society has for their gender. Besides, it’s hard to feel lost and purposeless when your purpose is just to be, to live, to be irreparably human just so demons can learn about you. They get to feel like there’s a reason for being. They no longer feel as if they must sacrifice happiness for survival.
It doesn’t fix everything. A change in scenery, even a drastic one, doesn’t fix trauma or chemical imbalances in the brain. But it does help. And once they come clean to Lucifer or Diavolo, there is the best magic in the three realms cooked into a potion to treat their anxiety disorder delivered to their door each week. Not to mention it has none of the side effects human medication has.
Over the course of the year, Mc creates a family out of the brothers and exchange students. They learn about themselves and about the three realms. They find things that make them truly happy. They feel free for the first time in a long while. The brothers and the others make them feel valued, wanted, loved for who they are, flaws and all. Of course, they miss their family, but they have also made themselves a family in the Devildom. A good one, it might be a little broken, but it’s a good one nonetheless.
And then the year ends. They send Mc back to the human realm, back to a world that feels less like home than it did when they left. They do their best to go back to their normal life. Back to applying for good exciting jobs and not getting them. Back to nine to five routine. It’s hard trying to pretend everything is normal. Trying to be everything they didn’t have to be in the Devildom. Sure they had to study there but when you are presented with actual magic, studying seems rather more enjoyable.
It’s not all bad though. They see family and friends again, although they can’t be truly honest about where they traveled to last year. They are a long way from where they were a year ago. Maybe they don’t get the jobs they want, maybe rejection still stings just as much as it ever did. But they are far more confident than they ever were before. Braver too. After facing down literal demons your average human isn’t so scary anymore. It gets lonely sometimes, being away from the demons they’d been living with, not seeing the angels or Solomon. But they’ve got their demon sweetheart(s) and found family checking in with them via their D.D.D, which Mc is relieved to find works in the human realm.
It takes a while for Mc to readjust to the human realm, they have to get their feet under them all over again. Maybe they even get better footing this time.
Once they finally start getting their life in order Solomon shows up. For a brief moment, Mc has the urge to stay. To tell Solomon to go to hell, literally, without them. They think about everything they’ve accomplished after getting back and fear having to start over again. They fear leaving their home again and the inevitable homesickness that follows. But the fear is brief and quickly overtaken by the love they have for their demons. Besides home isn’t a place anymore, not really. And when Mc goes to the Devildom for the second time seeing everyone again feels like finally coming home.