Set my sights on the setting sun

[thedevilwhorose]

Who: Lucifer
When: July and August
Where: Thorne, Horizon
What: Catch-all
Warnings: me apparently not being able to label prompts correctly alphabetical




Heaven talks, but not to me
'Cause Heaven knows that nothing good comes free ♫
[Will match style.]

Comments

[thedevilwhorose]

[That actually cuts through his attitude.] ... Ain't that the truth. [From the things he's heard about what happened, and even then he cut himself off from learning too much. It isn't like he could do much.

He's got no actual words of wisdom. He isn't the type to say 'I'm sorry for your loss' and he doesn't have some snappish comment to make about a raccoon being missing too (long story, don't ask).

So he just. Sighs.]

[politicians]

[ hm. ]

Sometimes, our well being takes priority.

[thedevilwhorose]

[Ha.] Yeah, I wouldn't go that far, but I suppose I've started to learn that to some degree. [Which is. Frankly hilarious.]

[politicians]

It must have taken a while.

[thedevilwhorose]

It's been... [He holds up a hand to tally off fingers... and then clears his throat when he has to hold up a second hand and okay so maybe it has been longer than he exactly realized. In his defense.... Josselyn's whole scheme blurred out a lot of Lucifer's sense of time and people.] ... ah, seven months since [Lucifer took off] we last talked. That used to not be any time at all for me, but here we are.

[politicians]

Here we are.

[ elrond is gracious enough not to mention the events of last time. ]

You seem well, despite the losses.

[thedevilwhorose]

None of the ones from Thorne really impacted me. One could have become something like a friend that I hadn't expected [because it was happening rapidly, and most of the people Lucifer calls 'friends' have taken long stretches of time] there was one though from Free Cities. We had a fraught relationship back home, apparently--I never met him by my time--but he was gone from here before we could actually try for... anything.

[He shrugs. The kid was never more important than what he could mean for Lucifer.] Overall better than to be expected though.

[politicians]

[ ah. elrond prods gently. ]

So you are angry over the missed opportunity. What could have been a turning point.

[thedevilwhorose]

Something like that. [Mostly not though. It's Complicated. And Lucifer rarely needs a reason to be angry.] 'What might have beens' are a waste of energy. [Says the devil still tired over it.] Angry at the real possibility of what we can lose, however...

[politicians]

Possibility is possibility, real or not. Some of it can be directed elsewhere.

But we also decide what to do with those possibilities.

[thedevilwhorose]

Mm. You have a point. [Unfortunately, but. Credit where credit is due.] Some of it has been directed elsewhere. [He glances pointedly at Elrond.] I assume you'll continue on and find your... typical radiance again at some point. Eventually.

[politicians]

[ elrond seems bemused. ]

Envious?

[thedevilwhorose]

Excuse you, my name means light-bringer. [More or less. Semantics.

And also maybe not what Elrond was going for, but it's what Lucifer latches onto.

He always gets a bit. Rowdy. When people assume he's a being of darkness just because he's, oh, a fallen angel.]

[politicians]

I wonder. Because every time we talk, you bring up my disposition in particular, as if it offends you greatly.

[thedevilwhorose]

Because you're annoying and I don't like you. [He's already said as much.

It bears repeating.]

[politicians]

And yet, you can't think of anything else?

It's simply not very impressive, I suppose.

[thedevilwhorose]

You're very flat otherwise. [Which means Lucifer has not interacted much with Elrond, but that's just...

Unfortunately how he perceived you buddy.]

[politicians]

Or you simply don't know how to look deeper.

While you are quite . . . plain to grasp.

[thedevilwhorose]

[He leans forward, smiling.] That's the greatest compliment you could give me. [Because Lucifer is awfully plain and cardboard in any given point, but several people have seen the full networking expanse of who and what he is.

He'd prefer that never be the norm. That he can still just be... nothing. False. Nearly human. It's the best safety he can have for himself.] And I don't want to look deeper, thanks. People are complicated. I have enough complications in my life. [...... that last part is. Almost sounding fond.]

[politicians]

[ elrond remains undaunted, bemused. his comment seems to be perceived the wrong way, but he does not need to correct it. this isn't a battle of wits after all. ]

And you fear losing those complications to the possibility of a greater power as you were once dealt a sore hand by greater powers.

[thedevilwhorose]

[He's just shy of holding up a hand to move it in mimicking someone talking (annoyingly).

He doesn't.] Exactly. And you? I don't need nor want to add you to the mix. I don't want to deal with your own problems, I'm sorry I asked anyway, and you must have friends. Go chatter with Wilhelm about your loss.

[politicians]

[ elrond raises his eyebrows. ]

Of course. You must have enough troubles handling your own.

[thedevilwhorose]

[look he knows you're probably joking buddy but the pure exasperation that comes over Lucifer is STRONG, and a little bit of his Attitude flakes away with the wheezed-tone] You have no idea.

[politicians]

[ elrond smiles, gently urging. ]

Oh?

[thedevilwhorose]

I may've put myself on some 'rocky ground' with the officials while you all were busy being kidnapped. [He says it like a stage whisper, like it's a secret, even though everyone that was in the castle during that time Absolutely Know.

Oh, he could handle it. He just won't.]