[Supernatural]: the devil walks the land and plays a fiddle made of gold

[minviendha]

Title: the devil walks the land and plays a fiddle made of gold or promises kept
Fandom: Supernatural
Summary: Lucifer takes his promises seriously. AU apocalypse.
Notes: I came up with the prompt "Sam made Lucifer promise not to hurt Dean before saying yes. So Lucifer doesn’t. Dean is the only one left alive, and he’s not quite human anymore.

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[sinka]

Does it make me a bad person if the first thing I thought after finishing this was "Lucifer is awesome"? I guess it does.

But really, maybe it's my own no-so-small grudge with the Dean from the 5x04 universe but I do NOT feel sorry for him at all. Some twisted part inside me is gleeful that Lucifer discovered the perfect way to make Dean pay for the way he hurt Sam (Am I wrong thinking that's one of the main reasons Lucifer does it?).

As I see it, Lucifer loves Sam, and he still can't understand how the only way he managed to get him to say yes, was because Dean (a being that Lucifer considers way inferior than Sam) hurt him deeply. So no wonder he's curious, no wonder he wants to hurt him but he wants to understand what makes him so special at the same time.

In some sense, they have a perfect relationship, don't they? they both cling to the other because it's the only thing they have left of Sam. Through his meetings with Lucifer, Dean starts to understand WHY Sam said yes to Lucifer, and how much of that is his fault (funny it takes him so many years to get over his self-righteousness), and Lucifer starts to understand WHY Sam didn't say yest for Dean, what makes him so special. Understanding each other, is understanding Sam better.

And also, isn't the ultimate victory for Lucifer to get Dean to love him? to get Dean to need him?

By the way, I want to feel sad for humanity too, but it just doesn't come, and I'm not sure if it's because I relate to Dean's absolute disinterest and disconnection with his surroundings and the fate of humanity, or because it's clear that a world without Sam, it's not really a world worth saving. Maybe I'm also a little like Lucifer and Dean, because Sam matters more than any other human remaining in the world.

Absolutely awesome, as usual.

[minviendha]

...hell, I wrote it. So you know. I have all of the feelings about Lucifer and most of them are horrifyingly positive, which is kind of a problem. Sort of.

I feel maybe a little sorry for Dean, but not that much, because yeah, grudge. Although this is not exactly 5.04 verse Dean - this one I think comes a bit later in the season. Like, possibly around 5.10. (And no, you're not wrong. Lucifer's made a very deliberate choice here. I mean, partly it's about respecting Sam's wishes, sure, but he could totally make it easier or better, but that's not what it's about. He is punishing Dean, oh yes.)

You saw my Lucifer meta, which basically amounts to EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID, YES, FOREVER. What I find so fun about writing Lucifer and Dean is exactly what you've mentioned, that they come together in whatever way through their connections to Sam, and how different those connections are, and how both of them don't really get the other one.

Oh yes. Lucifer is very pleased with himself in this. He has everything exactly the way he wants it.

I intentionally set this one up to be pretty detached, because I was trying to give that effect, that the world just kind of goes empty for Dean. And in that I was trying to effectively show his loss of humanity. This one isn't about the rest of the world. It's about Dean, and Lucifer, and Sam.

Thank youuuuu as always, you just say the nicest things and they make me all flustered.