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Name: vilify
Livejournal: vilify
Contact: on file
Other Characters Played: Horst Cabal, Cameron Phillips
Are you 18 or over? Yes
Canon: Supernatural
Character: Lucifer
Timeline: Early in Season 5
Personality: Lucifer was once the most cunning and loyal angel in heaven. Nearly everyone knows his history to some extent, but his personality is much more difficult to explain. Angels aren't like humans; by nature they're dispassionate soldiers, and they intervene on earth out of duty rather than out of any sense of love or compassion. Lucifer is an anomaly in that he does express emotion, even if most of it is done through violence.
Everything Lucifer does has a purpose. Skinning your daughter? That's him thumbing his nose at God. Telling you afterwards that everything will be all right? That's...well that's him, being him. Your grieving isn't funny. He feels for you, he really does.
He is both the most gentle and the most deadly angel ever created, and he displays all the characteristics of Heaven and Hell. He loves deeply, he hates eternally, and he grieves the pain he causes his equals. If only there were more of them....
His actual equals are God and the archangel Michael. He does care for the others, though: all his brothers and sisters who tossed him down into 'the hole'. Gabriel, poor boy, decided to align himself with the humans. Lucifer desperately wants the other angels to join him, but if they won't (and Gabriel wouldn't) he won't hesitate to eviscerate them with one of the few swords capable of killing them. And then he'll grieve, and hope that the next one will be wiser and will side with him after all.
The only predictable thing about him is that he wants you dead. All of you, every insect and bird and man and woman and child. But patience is a virtue, and he has that in spades. If he has to wait an eternity for the chance to slit your throat, he will. When he's done with you, he's going to destroy Hell. Don't ask him what he's going to do when he's destroyed everything you've ever conceived of; you should be worried about your own soul.
In the meantime, don't worry. He can promise you that everything is part of the plan.
Background: Lucifer was once one of God's Archangels. He once had a loving relationship with God and was fiercely loyal to Him. However, when God created mankind and asked His angels to honor them by loving them more than God (as they were His greatest creation), Lucifer refused to do so, believing that he should not have to bow to a lesser creature. He also feared giving them the freedom to choose, as he could see how murderous and treacherous human beings were.
Lucifer staged a rebellion and attempted a coup of Heaven to overthrow God and take His place as the ruler of the universe. It is said that about a third of the Heavenly Host joined Lucifer and rallied to his cause, laying siege to Heaven and attempting to overthrow their Father. However, God was not to be overthrown or blasphemed. He sent the Archangel Michael, Lucifer's older brother and God's most powerful archangel and lieutenant, to defeat Lucifer and his minions. He did so without mercy, forever driving a wedge between the once inseparable brothers.
When Lucifer refused to ask for forgiveness and reconcile with God, it was decided that he and his followers would pay a price for their rebellion: they were banished from Heaven henceforth and cast into Hell, the realm of pain and suffering. To make sure Lucifer could not cause total chaos and destruction for the human race or Heaven, 600 powerful seals were created to bind Lucifer's power and to keep him from escaping Hell. It would only take sixty-six of these seals to be broken, however, for Lucifer to once more be able to venture forth from Hell at his full power and strength.
Enter Lilith. She was Lucifer's top demon and coincidentally the final seal. A few years ago, Sam Winchester tracked her down and promptly killed her as revenge for a series of massacres she had committed (and the fact she murdered his brother). With that seal broken, Lucifer was free to climb out of the pit. The first and most important thing was to find a vessel so he could access more of his abilities. For Lucifer, this came in the form of a grieving father named Nick. In order to get Nick to give his body over to the devil, Lucifer began haunting him: he gave him dreams about his child's death, made him hallucinate the sound of his child's voice and the sight of the baby's blood. When Lucifer finally appeared and grieved with him, Nick accepted the role of host.
However, Nick is only a temporary vessel. The only one capable of holding Lucifer permanently is Sam Winchester. Nick, unfortunately, will slowly decay around Lucifer and then he'll have to find another body, and another, until Sam finally says 'yes'.
Abilities/Additional Notes: He is, of course, immortal. He is also invulnerable, but there are a few weapons that will slow him down (he heals in a few seconds). He has the power of angelic possession, with the condition that the host accepts and invites him when he asks. Once accepted, they cannot reject his presence. When disembodied, he can shapeshift and appear as any object or creature; when fused to a host, he can't. He can teleport, although the movement is followed by the sound of thunder and so not very stealthy. On that note, like all angels, he is able to manipulate the weather to a degree.
He has telekinesis and a closely related version of spontaneous combustion: he was able to set flame to and then implode another angel simply by snapping his fingers. He's the father of Sin, and so he has the ability to pinpoint weaknesses in people, in great detail.
In spite of his slowly-rotting host, it's said in canon that in a fair fight, only two creatures can defeat Lucifer: God, and the archangel Michael. (It's also said that Death is more powerful than God, though, so I'd add him to that list).
Now that those are all listed, in Adstringendum his powers would be severely limited. He will be affected to some degree by the Animus. I'd be treating Adstring as a paler version of Hell's seals; he'll be able to teleport but obviously not anywhere outside the designated areas. He will still have most of his powers but they would be severely weakened unless he had the right host. The only power that I would keep close to full strength is identifying what tempts people, because that's central to who he is. Once his current vessel dies and he's disembodied, he will only be capable of Sin detection, telekineses and shape-shifting.
Sample Journal Post:
[VIDEO]
[Satan doesn't keep a diary, but he does enjoy a little bit of showmanship. He is walking along the icy streets, holding his PCD up so that it mostly records his surroundings. It only gets one glimpse of his profile, and the open sores on the side of his face. He is taking his time, but it's clear he's headed somewhere in particular.
After a while, he stops in front of the clinic, and a pleasant, low voice can be heard.] What a sad little town.
[End feed.]
Sample RP:
Lucifer loved technology. It was the easiest way to deceive people ever created. He could pretend to be gentle Nick, or anyone he wanted, really. People inherently knew who he was when they met him (or at least guessed he was wrong in some way); that was a nice parting gift from Heaven, he suspected. Over two view screens, his "evil" was diffused into something more mysterious.
He wasn't remotely worried or confused about where he was, but it paid to do reconnaissance. There was something strange here, and he didn't know who was in charge. Time for that later; first he'd see who else was around. The Winchesters, perhaps?
He walked into the clinic and stamped snow off his old sneakers. "Knock, knock." He could have physically knocked on the doorway, but he wasn't sure how sturdy the walls were.
Livejournal: vilify
Contact: on file
Other Characters Played: Horst Cabal, Cameron Phillips
Are you 18 or over? Yes
Canon: Supernatural
Character: Lucifer
Timeline: Early in Season 5
Personality: Lucifer was once the most cunning and loyal angel in heaven. Nearly everyone knows his history to some extent, but his personality is much more difficult to explain. Angels aren't like humans; by nature they're dispassionate soldiers, and they intervene on earth out of duty rather than out of any sense of love or compassion. Lucifer is an anomaly in that he does express emotion, even if most of it is done through violence.
Everything Lucifer does has a purpose. Skinning your daughter? That's him thumbing his nose at God. Telling you afterwards that everything will be all right? That's...well that's him, being him. Your grieving isn't funny. He feels for you, he really does.
He is both the most gentle and the most deadly angel ever created, and he displays all the characteristics of Heaven and Hell. He loves deeply, he hates eternally, and he grieves the pain he causes his equals. If only there were more of them....
His actual equals are God and the archangel Michael. He does care for the others, though: all his brothers and sisters who tossed him down into 'the hole'. Gabriel, poor boy, decided to align himself with the humans. Lucifer desperately wants the other angels to join him, but if they won't (and Gabriel wouldn't) he won't hesitate to eviscerate them with one of the few swords capable of killing them. And then he'll grieve, and hope that the next one will be wiser and will side with him after all.
The only predictable thing about him is that he wants you dead. All of you, every insect and bird and man and woman and child. But patience is a virtue, and he has that in spades. If he has to wait an eternity for the chance to slit your throat, he will. When he's done with you, he's going to destroy Hell. Don't ask him what he's going to do when he's destroyed everything you've ever conceived of; you should be worried about your own soul.
In the meantime, don't worry. He can promise you that everything is part of the plan.
Background: Lucifer was once one of God's Archangels. He once had a loving relationship with God and was fiercely loyal to Him. However, when God created mankind and asked His angels to honor them by loving them more than God (as they were His greatest creation), Lucifer refused to do so, believing that he should not have to bow to a lesser creature. He also feared giving them the freedom to choose, as he could see how murderous and treacherous human beings were.
Lucifer staged a rebellion and attempted a coup of Heaven to overthrow God and take His place as the ruler of the universe. It is said that about a third of the Heavenly Host joined Lucifer and rallied to his cause, laying siege to Heaven and attempting to overthrow their Father. However, God was not to be overthrown or blasphemed. He sent the Archangel Michael, Lucifer's older brother and God's most powerful archangel and lieutenant, to defeat Lucifer and his minions. He did so without mercy, forever driving a wedge between the once inseparable brothers.
When Lucifer refused to ask for forgiveness and reconcile with God, it was decided that he and his followers would pay a price for their rebellion: they were banished from Heaven henceforth and cast into Hell, the realm of pain and suffering. To make sure Lucifer could not cause total chaos and destruction for the human race or Heaven, 600 powerful seals were created to bind Lucifer's power and to keep him from escaping Hell. It would only take sixty-six of these seals to be broken, however, for Lucifer to once more be able to venture forth from Hell at his full power and strength.
Enter Lilith. She was Lucifer's top demon and coincidentally the final seal. A few years ago, Sam Winchester tracked her down and promptly killed her as revenge for a series of massacres she had committed (and the fact she murdered his brother). With that seal broken, Lucifer was free to climb out of the pit. The first and most important thing was to find a vessel so he could access more of his abilities. For Lucifer, this came in the form of a grieving father named Nick. In order to get Nick to give his body over to the devil, Lucifer began haunting him: he gave him dreams about his child's death, made him hallucinate the sound of his child's voice and the sight of the baby's blood. When Lucifer finally appeared and grieved with him, Nick accepted the role of host.
However, Nick is only a temporary vessel. The only one capable of holding Lucifer permanently is Sam Winchester. Nick, unfortunately, will slowly decay around Lucifer and then he'll have to find another body, and another, until Sam finally says 'yes'.
Abilities/Additional Notes: He is, of course, immortal. He is also invulnerable, but there are a few weapons that will slow him down (he heals in a few seconds). He has the power of angelic possession, with the condition that the host accepts and invites him when he asks. Once accepted, they cannot reject his presence. When disembodied, he can shapeshift and appear as any object or creature; when fused to a host, he can't. He can teleport, although the movement is followed by the sound of thunder and so not very stealthy. On that note, like all angels, he is able to manipulate the weather to a degree.
He has telekinesis and a closely related version of spontaneous combustion: he was able to set flame to and then implode another angel simply by snapping his fingers. He's the father of Sin, and so he has the ability to pinpoint weaknesses in people, in great detail.
In spite of his slowly-rotting host, it's said in canon that in a fair fight, only two creatures can defeat Lucifer: God, and the archangel Michael. (It's also said that Death is more powerful than God, though, so I'd add him to that list).
Now that those are all listed, in Adstringendum his powers would be severely limited. He will be affected to some degree by the Animus. I'd be treating Adstring as a paler version of Hell's seals; he'll be able to teleport but obviously not anywhere outside the designated areas. He will still have most of his powers but they would be severely weakened unless he had the right host. The only power that I would keep close to full strength is identifying what tempts people, because that's central to who he is. Once his current vessel dies and he's disembodied, he will only be capable of Sin detection, telekineses and shape-shifting.
Sample Journal Post:
[VIDEO]
[Satan doesn't keep a diary, but he does enjoy a little bit of showmanship. He is walking along the icy streets, holding his PCD up so that it mostly records his surroundings. It only gets one glimpse of his profile, and the open sores on the side of his face. He is taking his time, but it's clear he's headed somewhere in particular.
After a while, he stops in front of the clinic, and a pleasant, low voice can be heard.] What a sad little town.
[End feed.]
Sample RP:
Lucifer loved technology. It was the easiest way to deceive people ever created. He could pretend to be gentle Nick, or anyone he wanted, really. People inherently knew who he was when they met him (or at least guessed he was wrong in some way); that was a nice parting gift from Heaven, he suspected. Over two view screens, his "evil" was diffused into something more mysterious.
He wasn't remotely worried or confused about where he was, but it paid to do reconnaissance. There was something strange here, and he didn't know who was in charge. Time for that later; first he'd see who else was around. The Winchesters, perhaps?
He walked into the clinic and stamped snow off his old sneakers. "Knock, knock." He could have physically knocked on the doorway, but he wasn't sure how sturdy the walls were.