I need to get off my ass and finish the last couple of lessons🫡
I really hope the 3rd obey me game isn't an elaborate april fools joke by solmare i want to give yall the opportunity to brutally murder me 😔 i think you deserve it🩷
Ahh shit here we go again
It's a battle royale style game does this mean we all get to kill each other
Edit:
Devastated. I'll give you guys my address and we can all beat each other using sticks. We'll play it old school
So Solomon nearly kills himself when he summons Barbatos to make a pact with him. Which is dark and serious and shows how desperate he was. And how if Barbatos hadn't indulged him at the moment, he would have been dead. How he was willing to give his own life to have an audience with one of the oldest creatures in existence on the slim chance said creature will want to ally itself with him
EXCEPT
we then find out Barbatos & Solomon had known each other long before this and Barbatos actually had a hand in teaching Solomon magic and basically helping him grow. They'd known each other well enough and long enough that Barbatos gets upset that he's not one of the first demons Solomon wanted to make a pact with
Anyway,
Accurate representation of what it's like to call your dad to ask for a favour
Love when Nightbringer days accidentally mirror exactly what I'm going through
Seen at 3 in the morning while I was pulling an all nighter
Seen one hour after I finished sitting for a 3hr - 15 page - 3 essays included exam (my hand is in pain)
Shit that actually made me emotional
I'm sorry I'm still not over it but planting apple trees for someone is so stupidly romantic and tender what the fuck am I supposed to do witj this information
This is the kind of passive-aggressiveness only a mother could achieve😭😭😭
"I gave birth to you and this is how you treat me? Guess I should just lay down and die since that's the only thing that will make you happy!"
None of this had any right being this funny😭😭
Love it when characters casually reveal some insane childhood trauma with a nostalgic smile on their face because this is just a normal part of their childhood how fun! to the absolute horror of those around them who are very much in the 'that's not normal what the actual fuck' boat
Okay but here's what makes me tear up:
This conversation happens in a devilgram where Diavolo is picking apples for Barbatos to make an apple pie for him and it cuts to a flashback that shows Diavolo wanted an apple tree to impress his new angel friend and excitedly tells this to Barbatos. Barbatos then helps Diavolo plant an apple tree in the forest
Isn't that rattling your brain!!!? Aren't you foaming at the mouth!?!?!
The Demon King enchanted this forest to be full of things that could hurt and kill his child, all in the name of preparing Diavolo to be a better king
Then Barbatos helps Diavolo plant apple trees in it, because Diavolo wants to share it with their enemy, a gesture of friendship and good will that would eventually bring peace to the three worlds* which in turn helps Diavolo grow towards becoming a better king
Diavolo's father created a deadly survival course for a child so he wouldn't get bored, something that would keep Diavolo away from him, and the man who actually raised Diavolo spent time with Diavolo helping him grow apple trees in it
A labour of love grown and tended to for years, if not centuries, just so Diavolo could give his friend apples (another gesture of love) built upon the soil of something that was meant to push and punish Diavolo into being the ideal ruler
*(over a series of meetings Diavolo & Lucifer become friends -> Lucifer starts questioning things in the Celestial Realm -> Lucifer, pushed by the sentence against Lilith, starts a war in the Celestial Realm -> Lucifer seeks sanctuary in the Devildom -> Diavolo helps Lucifer + reincarnates Lilith -> Lucifer pledges his loyalty to Diavolo + through Lilith's line MC is eventually born -> through MC & the brothers' fates being tied Lucifer accidentally picks MC for the exchange program -> MC showing that people from all three worlds could not only be close friends but family starts mending bridges + MC wanting to stay in the Devildom permanently gets everyone actively pushing for peace leading to them becoming part of the student council/government and challenging the views of the older/more conservative demons -> all this eventually kickstarts both Diavolo & Lucifer's character & relationship development -> Diavolo learns to be a more considerate ruler & person who listens to others instead of immediately jumping in with his own plans & ideas + Lucifer learns to actually push back against Diavolo & not just be his 'Yes Man')
Also this Devilgram is called "The Seven Apples"
and with lines like,
"Still...I hope that all this effort bears fruit, someday"
"With enough care and attention, I'm certain that it shall."
"Ah, well. Good things come to those who wait, and all that."
And talk about the future of the Devildom and how they pick exactly seven apples, the whole tree talk/metaphor is 100% about gaining the friendship & trust of Lucifer and his brothers by putting in the effort, care and attention to one day, years in the future, have seven shining apples with you
BUT, EVEN WITHOUT THAT DOUBLE MEANING,
It's not just a tree.
It's all about love, isn't it and the things we do for the people we love.
They're all ready at any time to take shots at this man😭 they don't even let him breathe😭
Can't believe the war's going to end and they will all live in peace and harmony because people from all three worlds want to fuck Lucifer and MC
Liar. Don't think I didn't see your intimacy rise when MC said "I want to save Asmo." Sure you're going for MC but that's not the only reason
Okay okay but the way Lucifer taught a class about magic at the beginning of the lesson that no one paid attention to only for everything he said to come back at the end of the lesson during dire circumstances was actually *chef's kiss*
In the end he's forced to speak an incantation because that's the only way he'd be able to teleport MC to Solomon while also fighting against Asmo's charm
Solomon, being probably the most powerful sorcerer in existence, is able to reflect back Asmo's charm/spell
Can't believe Solomon's making MC choose between the two most important things in their life
the desire to protect their family and the desire to clown on Lucifer
Obsessed with how fucking creepy Asmo's lesson is (I mean like 👉👈🥵)
"I think I'm being more me than I've ever been, personally" after taking full bodily control of his brothers, stalking after MC in an underground tomb so he can make them "his kitten", calling himself the most beautiful creature in the world and doing all this while smiling sweetly - goes hard as fuck
This along with Asmo's early S1 "desire" monologue and late S1 "rip your heart out" threat/promise shows that Asmo would make as amazing villain (and I mean like 👉👈🥵)
"Listen, I... I hurt you, didn't I?"
"Nah, you didn't hurt me."
"...Yeah, I think I did."
What an insane exchange I'm frothing at the mouth
- I hurt you, the person I'd rather saw off my own arms than hurt, didn't I? You're not saying anything but I hurt you, didn't I? I can't even say it without hesitating but I still hurt you, didn't I? I may have been losing my mind but it was still me, wasn't it? This is another thing I can hate myself for, isn't it?
- "Nah" instead of "No". I'm sweeping it all away. I'm dismissing it without a moment's hesitation. You did hurt me. I know you did. You know you did. But it's the least important thing here. It's inconsequential to me and I want it to be inconsequential to you because I know that you would never hurt me and I remember all the times you have stood between me and something that wanted to hurt me and I won't let you use a slip up that happened while you were hurting in unimaginable ways to facilitate your own self hatred.
- The hesitation, the way that sentence couldn't have been said in any way other than quiet and earnest and imploring because I hurt you. I know I did. You know I did. And I know what you're doing, maybe even why you're doing it. But I don't want to dismiss it. I don't want to make light of it. I don't want to brush it off as unimportant when it's the most important thing that happened here. I want to acknowledge it and bring it to the light, I don't want to leave any space where either of us may think that's okay and acceptable. I want to say it, even if it hurts to say, because it's the truth and I can't ever let it happen again. Because I need you to acknowledge it, to truly acknowledge it, because I can't let you brush off your own safety for my peace of mind.