Memory 3. 4. 5
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unrecumbentMEMORY ROUNDUPPPPPPPPPPP. Doing these out of order, because memory 4 is easy and 3 and 5 are...not.
Oh, and as a note--a lot of Lucifer's significant memories are...pretty large, as memories go! Sometimes they span days of time or across issues of the comic. This is partially because the comic is paced in a way so that anything significant takes time, and as a character Lucifer does not have many 'scenes' of only a few panels that are significant, but also partially because a day or two is not actually a lot of time for Lucifer at all. This is a dude who has been kickin' it since before the universe even happened and started the biggest war ever a few seconds after clocks officially started ticking at all.
Memory 4: trivial positive: playing the piano at Lux
Reactions/Knowledge:
Memory 3: significant negative: Death via Basanos, conversation with Death, Elaine
This is going to be hard to bullet-point, so incredibly spoilerrific summary first. This particular memory spans several issues of the comic, although it doesn't actually involve much time passing. In summary, Lucifer's new Creation was invaded by the Basanos, a set of insanely powerful tarot cards made with the intent of tapping the same sort of power as Destiny of the Endless' book, but with independent will. This goes as wrong as one would expect. Previous events (ironically enough, the ones in memory 5!) led to a trap being placed in Lucifer's recently returned wings, which is then set off by the Basanos. It ends with him fireballing out of the sky (pro tip: if you can light the Lightbringer on fire some seriously bad shit is going down) and being aaaaaalmost dead. His well-toasted corpse is retrieved by the angel who created the Basanos, who tries to patch him up but can't. Being as that Lucifer is so close to death, Death comes to visit, and they have a chat in his consciousness about what a mess he's in, how things are coming around since he and Michael created the world, etc. At this point, Lucifer can't bring himself back--his position is so delicate that using his power causes him to consume himself, whoops. But this doesn't make Lucifer give up, oh no. He decides to wait, as Death says, 'for the next miracle', which shortly thereafter shows up in the form of Elaine, who says she can save him. While help is generally not something Lucifer accepts, this is the miracle he was waiting for, so he takes Elaine's hand, and her offer. Whether he's aware or not that this will result in her death is unclear, but he might've had an inkling.
Reactions/Knowledge:
This memory throws Lucifer hard. Until this point he has assumed that he was important, but the level of his importance just seriously skyrocketed. He found out his name, a hint of his station, the fact that he feels possessive of a whole world under attack from something he could've dealt with previously, went through an incredibly agnozing fireball experience, and that he possibly killed a little girl he actually seems to trust, all in one memory. What this means for everyone else? Lucifer is more likely to be cranky, or at least short with people, and he has had quite a lot on his mind. He'll no longer really be bored, either, or possibly quite so flippant with the Personae. That last bit really depends on his mood at the time and which one, though.
Memory 5: significant positive: getting his wings back
Getting this memory back following closely on the other one is pretty ironic, because this is the time where (offscreen to him) the trap was being set that ended in fireballing. This memory also spans a few issues of comic, but only a day or two of time. It is considerably fuzzier than the last one, because that's just too much infodump, and a few bits of this memory can be taken separately. All he will remember are the basic details, and it'll feel on the whole pretty different from his previous memories, which were all very clear.
Reactions/Knowledge:
This memory is just confusing, yo. Lucifer cannot figure out why he'd want to give up his wings, or how they'd fall into the hands of a lesser, elder god of the underworld. The fact that the middle of it is just...missing...is annoying. It is also deeply annoying that he has no sense of scale or time for these things. There's no hint in this memory at all of the trap set for him, but he knows from the previous one that somehow there was, so this happened before that. It is beginning to occur to him that unless he's led a very condensed life indeed that he possibly doesn't physically age in a normal fashion. This is also the second memory in quick succession of things that involved incredibly intense pain. In true Lucifer fashion, this doesn't mean he'll attempt to avoid pain. instead, he's even more likely to just ignore it, because few things hurt as bad as being burnt alive, man.
Oh, and as a note--a lot of Lucifer's significant memories are...pretty large, as memories go! Sometimes they span days of time or across issues of the comic. This is partially because the comic is paced in a way so that anything significant takes time, and as a character Lucifer does not have many 'scenes' of only a few panels that are significant, but also partially because a day or two is not actually a lot of time for Lucifer at all. This is a dude who has been kickin' it since before the universe even happened and started the biggest war ever a few seconds after clocks officially started ticking at all.
Memory 4: trivial positive: playing the piano at Lux
Reactions/Knowledge:
- i can...play the piano?
- a bar! called lux! i owns it.
- Mazikeen is there.
- this is all pleasing in the memory.
Memory 3: significant negative: Death via Basanos, conversation with Death, Elaine
This is going to be hard to bullet-point, so incredibly spoilerrific summary first. This particular memory spans several issues of the comic, although it doesn't actually involve much time passing. In summary, Lucifer's new Creation was invaded by the Basanos, a set of insanely powerful tarot cards made with the intent of tapping the same sort of power as Destiny of the Endless' book, but with independent will. This goes as wrong as one would expect. Previous events (ironically enough, the ones in memory 5!) led to a trap being placed in Lucifer's recently returned wings, which is then set off by the Basanos. It ends with him fireballing out of the sky (pro tip: if you can light the Lightbringer on fire some seriously bad shit is going down) and being aaaaaalmost dead. His well-toasted corpse is retrieved by the angel who created the Basanos, who tries to patch him up but can't. Being as that Lucifer is so close to death, Death comes to visit, and they have a chat in his consciousness about what a mess he's in, how things are coming around since he and Michael created the world, etc. At this point, Lucifer can't bring himself back--his position is so delicate that using his power causes him to consume himself, whoops. But this doesn't make Lucifer give up, oh no. He decides to wait, as Death says, 'for the next miracle', which shortly thereafter shows up in the form of Elaine, who says she can save him. While help is generally not something Lucifer accepts, this is the miracle he was waiting for, so he takes Elaine's hand, and her offer. Whether he's aware or not that this will result in her death is unclear, but he might've had an inkling.
Reactions/Knowledge:
- there is a place toward which he feels a deep, incredibly pervasive responsibility.
- fucking with that place is not. cool.
- under normal circumstances, it seems to be a massively bad idea to fuck with him or his stuff.
- something happened with someone called Izanami that set him up for this defeat.
- he is so powerful that, when tipped the right way, he is possibly an all-consuming force.
- Death is a cute little goth chick, but her being there is really annoying.
- he is very, very, very determined not to die.
- Yahweh created him and Michael to create the universe omgwtfbbq??!?!?!
- he was willing to accept help from this angel/spirit/girl who obviously cared about him, even though he probably knew it was going to go quite badly for her.
- that girl is special somehow.
- oh, and two of his names
This memory throws Lucifer hard. Until this point he has assumed that he was important, but the level of his importance just seriously skyrocketed. He found out his name, a hint of his station, the fact that he feels possessive of a whole world under attack from something he could've dealt with previously, went through an incredibly agnozing fireball experience, and that he possibly killed a little girl he actually seems to trust, all in one memory. What this means for everyone else? Lucifer is more likely to be cranky, or at least short with people, and he has had quite a lot on his mind. He'll no longer really be bored, either, or possibly quite so flippant with the Personae. That last bit really depends on his mood at the time and which one, though.
Memory 5: significant positive: getting his wings back
Getting this memory back following closely on the other one is pretty ironic, because this is the time where (offscreen to him) the trap was being set that ended in fireballing. This memory also spans a few issues of comic, but only a day or two of time. It is considerably fuzzier than the last one, because that's just too much infodump, and a few bits of this memory can be taken separately. All he will remember are the basic details, and it'll feel on the whole pretty different from his previous memories, which were all very clear.
Reactions/Knowledge:
- Izanami had his wings. that was fine, but then he wanted them back, they don't want to give over.
- something happens that forces Izanami's hand to give the wings back, but this isn't part of the memory (ANNOYING).
- his wings are somehow NOT AS EXPECTED (but they look like every other memory he has of them, huh).
- having them reattached is intensely painful, but very necessary to accomplish A Thing what is incredibly important to him.
This memory is just confusing, yo. Lucifer cannot figure out why he'd want to give up his wings, or how they'd fall into the hands of a lesser, elder god of the underworld. The fact that the middle of it is just...missing...is annoying. It is also deeply annoying that he has no sense of scale or time for these things. There's no hint in this memory at all of the trap set for him, but he knows from the previous one that somehow there was, so this happened before that. It is beginning to occur to him that unless he's led a very condensed life indeed that he possibly doesn't physically age in a normal fashion. This is also the second memory in quick succession of things that involved incredibly intense pain. In true Lucifer fashion, this doesn't mean he'll attempt to avoid pain. instead, he's even more likely to just ignore it, because few things hurt as bad as being burnt alive, man.