Lucifer Morningstar

OOC INFORMATION
Name: Blue
Are you over 15? Yes
Contact: blue[dot]rampion[at]gmail[dot]com | blueflowers
Current characters in the game: NA

IC INFORMATION
PREINCARNATION
Name: Lucifer Morningstar
Canon: Lucifer TV series
Age: OLD AS BALLS. More seriously, though: we don’t know exactly how old Lucifer is, but he is at the very least older than humanity, and old enough that words like ‘millennia’ and ‘eons’ can casually be referenced as markers of time. To human eyes, he appears to be somewhere in his mid to late thirties.
Species: Angel.
Appearance: Tall, dark-haired, dark-eyed, with a slim build. Long limbs everywhere, here. He also rocks eyeliner and the perpetual five o'clock shadow look, and is incredibly well-groomed. He usually has some kind of product in his hair; without it it tends to default to curls. He's also almost always seen in suits. Sometimes just a jacket and trousers, sometimes the full three-piece suit. They're all tailored, expensive, and impeccably on point. There are pocket squares. Colour coordinated pocket squares. [image reference]

History:
Prior to the start of the series, Lucifer’s history covers a time period spanning millennia. What we do know is this: sometime before the birth of humanity, Lucifer was born as the angel Samael. He rebelled against God and was subsequently barred from heaven, and banished to Hell to serve as it’s ruler and warden - a job Lucifer despised. As such, he would take frequent trips - or ‘holidays’ - to Earth, where he would enjoy his breaks from hell with lots of sex, hedonism and general enjoyment of whatever interesting thing Earth had to offer. Usually, this trips would end with his brother Amenadiel dragging him back to Hell. This changed in 2010, when Lucifer helped Amenadiel find his lost necklace in exchange for a favour. That favour was to not take him back to Hell. So, along with the demon Mazikeen, Lucifer made his holiday permanent and decided to start up a club, Lux, in LA.

Several years later, after his former employee was murdered outside the club, Lucifer met Detective Chloe Decker. It didn't take long for him to be intrigued by her, as she turned out to be immune to his desire manipulation abilities, and - as he found out later - also had the ability to make him physically vulnerable with her presence. So naturally Lucifer decided that the best way to indulge his curiosity was to start following her around on her cases, and worm his way into the LAPD as an official civilian consultant. He also met Dr Linda, and decided to take up therapy when she proved to be rather insightful. But, as all this was happening, Amenadiel was still trying to get Lucifer to return to Hell. He arranged for Lucifer's severed wings to be stolen, and resurrected dirty cop Malcolm to try and kill Lucifer. An act Amenadiel came to regret, but Malcolm continued to cause problems - and as events came to a head, he kidnapped Chloe's daughter Trixie, and shot Lucifer when Lucifer followed them to the confrontation. Dying, Lucifer made a deal with his Father: resurrect him, and he would do what God wanted. After a strange, ambiguous vision, God granted Lucifer's request, and he returned to life in time to deal with Malcolm before he killed Chloe and Trixie.

Having received that mysterious vision, Lucifer - with Amenadiel's help - starts trying to fulfil what he thinks it meant God wanted him to do: find his Mother, who had escaped from Hell, and bring Her back. However, She found him first, and Lucifer found himself questioning both their long estrangement and whether taking Her back to Hell was what God really wanted. He decided that what he would instead deliver her a punishment: to live, on Earth, as a human in a mortal body. This decision turns out to have ramifications however, when Uriel, another one of Lucifer's brothers, arrives on Earth. Uriel doesn't just want their Mother in Hell, he wants her wiped from existence entirely, and he threatens Chloe in an attempt to get Lucifer to tell him where She is. Lucifer refuses, and in the scuffle he kills Uriel - and act that causes him to spiral into self-destruction. It's only when he makes a brief return to Hell and becomes trapped in a cell, and his Mother comes to get him out, that he realises that he didn't have a choice in the matter. At the same time, his Mother has been trying to get Her, Lucifer, and Amenadiel back to Heaven - something Lucifer does not want to do. She tries to manipulate his relationship with Chloe to do this, driving a wedge in their growing relationship by telling him that Chloe is a miracle and owes her existence to God. Not wanting any part in her plans, Lucifer plans to get her and Amenadiel to Heaven and then remain on Earth, but they never get the chance to enact this plan, because the Goddess's divine body becomes too much for Her currently human body to contain. Nearly about to explode into light, Lucifer instead sends Her to another universe - where she won't see her family, but also won't start any wars that risk more deaths.

Almost immediately after these events, Lucifer is unexpectedly knocked out. He then wakes up to find himself alone in the desert, his devil-face - as he learns later - now gone and his wings mysteriously regrown. He soon becomes fixates on finding out who was responsible. And eventually he does find out - it was Marcus Pierce, the new Lieutenant, who also turns out to be the first murderer, Cain. Cain, cursed with immortality, had wanted to know if Chloe's ability to make Lucifer vulnerable could work on him as well, and needed Lucifer out of the way while he got in place. Discovering this, Lucifer decides to make a deal: he'll try and find a way to help Cain die. But later, for the first time ever, he decides not to follow through, because Cain's attempts to die end up putting Chloe at risk. Things with Cain also become more fraught when Cain and Chloe end up dating, after Lucifer proves to be unable to properly express his own feelings. After Chloe breaks things off with Cain, Cain tries to frame Lucifer for killing Amenadiel, but kills Charlotte instead. In the process of solving her murder, events lead to a showdown where Lucifer ends up killing Cain - leading to the return of his devil-face, and for Chloe to witness it.

Lucifer is then left in a kind of limbo, as Chloe reacts by disappearing for a month without any word or contact. When she returns, he's unsettled by the fact that she seems strangely okay with him being the Devil. Soon enough though, the other shoe falls, and it turns out that Chloe had been plotting with a priest from Rome to try and send him back to Hell, believing it to be best for Lucifer and for the world. While he and Chloe are on the outs, an old flame - Eve, the first woman - appears on the scene. With Eve showing race acceptance of him in a trying time, Lucifer ends up unintentionally falling into a relationship with her. He and Chloe also manage to patch things up, but their relationship is still uneasy, and he's torn between the angel Chloe wants him to be, and the Devil Eve wants. He ends up breaking up with Eve, after realising that he doesn't like who is he with her, and he loses control of his Devil form as he spirals into self-hatred. It's only after Chloe helps him realise he needs to start forgiving himself that he manages to get back to normal.

While all of this has been going on, another notable event has been happening - namely, that his brother Amenadiel managed to get Doctor Linda pregnant. And right after his nephew Charlie is born, Eve - desperate to try and get Lucifer back - calls demons to Earth so they could take Lucifer to Hell, and she could be his Queen. When Lucifer lets slip to the demons that he has no intention of going back to Hell, the demons take things into their own hands and try to kidnap baby Charlie - a half-angel - to be their new king. Everyone bands together and manages to get Charlie back, but Lucifer realises that the demons will always be a threat as long as they have no King, and returns to Hell.

REINCARNATION
Name: Lucas Jones, birth name Sacrament Jones
Age: 35
Appearance:
Appearance wise, Lucas looks pretty much just like Lucifer. The only differences are in terms of dress and styling - Lucas is much more relaxed about his appearance, and doesn't swan about in suits all the time. In fact, there are even jeans. He's still pretty snappy as a dresser and has a good understanding of style, but it's not quite so carefully on point.
History:
Lucas is the adopted child of Bob Jones, legendary musician and founder and front man of the classic English rock band, Copilot. Copilot were massively successful, on par with the Beatles in terms of fame and influence. As it's most prominent member, Bob Jones is also the most famous.

In the height of the band's fame, Bob Jones married an American woman he met while touring, and found religion. The two of them subsequently began to adopt a small army of children from all over the world. One of these children was Lucas - or, as he was named at birth, Sacrament, because Bob and his wife were living every cliche about celebrities and ridiculous baby names. What followed then for 'Sacrament' and his siblings was a childhood lived in the limelight and in the tabloids, always being dragged on tour around the world with their father (something which resulted in them all having a strange, hybrid accent that's hard to place). The children were just as much a part of Bob Jones's media image as his music, and the man had dreams of all his children growing up to do noble or charitable works. "You kids are all going to save the world," he always said.

Sacrament, however, did not want to save the world, or meekly go along with his father's plans. As he grew older, he grew increasingly more resentful of his dad's 'plans', of his religious preaching, and of the way the kids always came second to Bob's music and career. And since their live was lived in the world of rock-and-roll, it was easy enough for Sacrament - now trying to go by 'Lucas' - to rebel as a teenager with drugs, booze, and plenty of sex. Which, naturally, eventually ended up all over the tabloids - and was something which further increased the wedge between father and son.

Eventually things came to a head, and when Lucas was 18 he and his father had a massive row that resulted in Lucas leaving home. He wasn't disowned or cut off entirely - the media would have had a field day with that - but it was clear that he wasn't part of the family in the same way anymore.

He spends the next few years in a boozy, drug-filled haze, living in various places around London. Eventually though, he ends up in London, and it's here that he starts to get his life together. He's still the son of Bob Jones, and he's got contacts, so he manages to get some freelance writing work writing for TV. This leads to more secure writing job, and eventually morphs into a career as a producer. Something which Lucas, much to the surprise of his family and even himself, turns out to be good at.

He likes the fast pace and hustle of London, but when the opportunity comes up to work on a program based in Mossgate - the town where his little sister Ray is completing her Masters - Lucas decides to take it up. When he receives his first echo, he's been there for around about four months.

First Echo:
Lucas's first echo will give him Lucifer's wing scars, triggered by some knife play which turns out to be the first time he was ever cut on the back by a knife. The wing scars are going to fade in over a few weeks - so thanks to that (and the fact that they're on his back), it's going to take him a while to even realise that they're there.

PERSONALITY
Pre-Incarnation Personality:
Lucifer, upon first impressions, will appear to be a smooth, handsome, charming playboy who is confident and cheerfully-egotistical. These impressions would all be completely and utterly correct. Flirty, extroverted, and hedonistic - Lucifer is practically the pin-up boy of living according to one’s desires. He believes that people should live in the moment, that desires should not be denied, and that if you want something you shouldn’t let pesky little things like what other people or society thinks about it get in the way.

Lucifer, of course, excels at living this particular philosophy. Sex, drugs, wild parties - they’re fun, and Lucifer enjoys them all immensely, so he engages in these activities whenever he wants. Which is practically constantly, and with a dizzying array of partners. If you’re attractive and you have a pulse, Lucifer’s more than happy to have some fun under the sheets with you. And thanks to good looks and a supernatural ability to make people forget about their inhibitions, most people want to end up under the sheets with Lucifer. And why shouldn’t he encourage others to give into a little temptation, as the Devil is famous for?

And he's literally the Devil - something he will tell you brazenly and openly, because Lucifer doesn’t lie. Regardless of circumstances and whether it’d be in his own interests not to. This doesn’t mean that he won’t deceive - he’s very much capable of using selective truths and loopholes and mistaken assumptions to mislead. He’s also very much capable of lying to himself. Lucifer will tell himself all sorts of lies, in fact. But he won’t ever knowingly tell a lie. It’s a point of honour with him, and the same goes for the deals he makes with people - if Lucifer makes you a promise, or gives you his word, he’ll honour it.

As the former Lord of Hell, punishment is a thing that looms large in Lucifer’s world-view. He likes to punish the guilty, to make sure people pay for their sins. Underneath all of this there is actually a sense and desire for justice. He does feel that punishment should fit the crime, and that those who have hurt others should pay for those crimes. But his former role has warped his idea of justice somewhat, making him overly focused on punishment and not as much on the needs and desires of victims. Furthermore, his idea of justice can be very different to that of humans. He often tends to take justice into his own hands, employing psychological and physical punishments against those he feels deserve it. But as he spends more time on Earth and working with Chloe, he's struggled with whether he should be the hellish punisher, or someone who works to bring about human justice.

But apart from the hedonism and the punishment and the whole Lord of Hell thing, you can’t talk about Lucifer without talking about the elephant in the room: the major, major Daddy issues. Turns out that when your father is literally God Himself, and you and He don’t get along, things can be a bit difficult. It also turns out that being kicked out of heaven and banished to Hell also isn’t good for healthy Father-son relationships. Lucifer’s had millennia to rage and nurture his grudge against his Father - and his belief that everything that happens happens according to God’s plan means that Lucifer blames Him for everything. As far as Lucifer is concerned, God has been manipulating him his entire life. This is something he absolutely hates, and he desperately wants to get away from his Father’s influence, be his own person, and make his own choices without any divine manipulation.

But, this doesn’t mean that Lucifer doesn’t also want his Father’s love and approval. Not that he’ll admit it - even to himself - but Lucifer does still care about his family despite all the bad feelings, and he desperately wants to be accepted by his Father. And in many ways, the fact that he continued to run Hell for as long as he did was precisely because he thought it was what he thought his Father wanted. He was, on some level at least, trying to repair the relationship by performing the role given to him. But eventually Lucifer had enough of that, and decided he’d had enough of still trying to please his Father. Instead, Lucifer now puts a lot of time and energy of doing the exact opposite of whatever it is he thinks his God wants him to do.

Which can often backfire against Lucifer himself, as he is highly self-destructive. Lucifer is the kind of person who would cut off his nose to spite his own face. When he thinks his wings are a sign of divine shackles from his father, he cuts them off. When they grow back, he cuts them off again. When he thinks Chloe was put in his path by God, he attempts to run from her and sabotages their relationship. When he’s spiralling from guilt and grief after killing Uriel, he attempts suicide by rogue sniper. If something’s going well for Lucifer, he’ll find a way to spectacularly implode it.

At the core, these self-destructive tendencies are fuelled by his deep-rooted self-loathing, and the lack of awareness he has about his own emotions. For all that Lucifer is confident and egotistical, and will generally declare himself to be pretty amazing, this is really only something that exists on the surface. Underneath, Lucifer views himself as a monster and a torturer, and blames himself deeply for his part in the rebellion, his fall, and for how humanity perceives him. His blaming of his father for everything wrong in his life was simply a way for him to avoid dealing with how much he really blamed himself.

It's only in later seasons, after a lot of work with his therapist Linda, that Lucifer begins to gain some self-awareness about his self-hatred, and the fact that he's been using his father as a scapegoat. Because for the most part, Lucifer has an amazing lack of self-awareness. He has little understanding of his own emotions or how other people might negatively perceive him, and will often completely misunderstand advice and interpret it in ways that are wildly off the mark.

Any differences?:

• Lucas lacks Lucifer's self-hatred. He's not well-adjusted by any means, and he's still got plenty of issues around being labelled as the Bad Kid when he was younger. But without his rebellion and subsequent Fall, he hasn't developed the same deep-rooted self-loathing.
  
• He also doesn't pathologically blame his father for everything. Bob Jones isn't God, after all, and it doesn't even occur to Lucas that his father might be controlling his entire life. He just blames him for regular bad parenting instead, like the fact that he got named 'Sacrament'.
  
• Having never been the King of Hell, he doesn't have any desire to go around punishing people or bring anyone to justice.
  
• He doesn't have Lucifer's love of music, and has never bothered to learn to sing or play the piano. Since his father was a world-famous musician, Lucas was more interested in doing the opposite of what his dad does.
  
• Lucas is much more sloppy than the fastidious Lucifer. He's certainly not a slob, but he certainly doesn't keep everything immaculately clean.
  
• He will in fact lie.

Abilities:
[Note: Abilities written in collaboration with Rika for Azrael's app]

• Angel Physiology: Lucifer is an angel, which gives him a range of supernatural abilities. These include:
  
  • Superhuman strength and reflexes: He can bend metal with his hands, or hold back a car trying to speed off
    
  • Superhuman metabolism: While he's still affected by drugs and alcohol, it takes significantly more for it to have an effect. Getting drunk takes effort.
    
  • Durability: Bullets are a minor annoyance
    
  • Eidetic memory: Angels seem to have ridiculously good memories, often recalling details precisely from months or years ago
    
  • Immortality: Angels live forever and don't age
    
  • Near invulnerability: He's invulnerable to everything except other angels, demons, and celestial and hell-forged weapons
  
  
• Wings: He's an angel, he's got wings. Big white ones that have a faint divine glow to them, and have the following abilities:
  
  • Divine essence: Being literal manifestations of an angel's divine nature, the sight of an angel's can have a profound effect on humans (though this varies - it's more about how well a particular human can handle the revelation that the divine is real)
    
  • Transdimensional flight: He can fly between different levels of reality (in his world, this means between Heaven, Hell, and Earth). It does have a limit, however - he can't fly to other universes
    
  • Super quick flight: At times angels seem to be able to move very quickly between one place to another. However, it's not really clear whether this is something like teleportation, or just very quick movement
    
  • Healing: The feathers are capable of healing, including wounds made from hell-forged weapons
    
  • Manifesting: Angel wings can appear and disappear at will. It's not explained where they go when 'away', or how they seem to be able to manifest through clothing.
    
  • Bladed feathers: The primaries can become sharp and be used as bladed weapons
    
  • Creating concussive force: The wings are strong enough to create gusts of wind that can push people back several feet
  
  
• Self-actualisation: Angels' personality, self-image, and feelings about themselves will literally define their form and more unique abilities. In Lucifer, this results in the following effects:
  
  • Devil-face and form: Lucifer's self-hatred allows him to take the form of a disfigured figure with red burned and scarred skin, no hair, and glowing red eyes. This form can terrify humans who see it, sending them mad. If his self-hatred gets bad enough, he can start transforming into this form involuntarily, or it can change his feathered wings into clawed, dragon-like leathery wings.
    
  • Selective vulnerability: His feelings of emotional vulnerability around Chloe make him physically vulnerable as well, taking away his usual angelic immortality
    
  • Unique angelic powers: angels tend to have a unique power - in Lucifer's case, this is desire manipulation (detailed below)
  
  
• Desire manipulation: Lucifer's ability to manipulate desires comes with a few limitations: it doesn't work on celestial entities, or humans who have celestial influences like Chloe. But non-humans and people with powers that could negate Lucifer's powers could give other people similar resistance. Generally though, it can have the following effects:
  
  • Desire confession: Lucifer can compel people to confess their desires. People are generally compelled to answer truthfully, including follow-up questions, though this doesn't mean that they need to detail the entire truth. Usually requires eye contact and a question from Lucifer, but if his self-image causes him to lose control of his form and abilities, this can result in people being compelled to confess their desires without any input at all from Lucifer
    
  • Inhibition reduction: People are more likely to give into their desires when Lucifer's egging them on. It doesn't make anyone do anything they don't want to do, but it can definitely make someone more likely to act on their desires
    
  • Supernatural attractiveness: Look, people just tend to find Lucifer hot, even when it doesn't make sense. It's a thing. He's also not shy about using this to charm people into doing favours for him or bending the rules.
  
  
• Lock unlocking: Locks mean nothing to Lucifer. If he wants to, he can get through pretty much any lock. He does seem to at least need physical contact to unlock something, however.
  
• Machinery manipulation: Lucifer can 'turn anything on', which apparently means he can literally turn machines on just by looking at them.
  
• Musicianship: Lucifer's an accomplished musician, particularly with the piano. He's also a good singer.
  
• Languages: Lucifer speaks all the languages spoken by souls in Hell - which effectively means he can speak every human language, modern and historical. However, this is limited to speaking - he can't read everything.

ROLEPLAY SAMPLES
- 3rd person/action: Log thread from City of Sin

- 1st person/network:

[Naturally, when Lucas decides to speak to the other numbered, he decides to do so by video. His face is his best feature, after all. Why not show it off?]

Hello lovelies. I'm sure many of you know who I am, of course, but on the off chance that you haven't yet had the pleasure - [he gives everyone a rougish smile] - I'm Lucas Jones. I run a little production at the film studios.

Which brings me to all of you, of course. Because I've had quite a bright idea. With all the fascinating abilities you all seem to keep popping off, it's occurred to me that you might be able to help me with a little problem. Namely that after several of my star actors have demanded frankly ridiculous salaries, my special effects budget isn't as impressive as I'd like it to be.

So! [he claps his hands, rubbing them together as he grins] Who'd like to make a deal?

ANYTHING ELSE? Rika is also planning to app Lucifer's sister Azrael, who would also be Lucas's sister Celestial Ray in the game. We've been working on our apps together, so there's a lot of crossover in terms of their AU history.