So Solomon Nearly Kills Himself When He Summons Barbatos To Make A Pact With Him. Which Is Dark And Serious

So Solomon nearly kills himself when he summons Barbatos to make a pact with him. Which is dark and serious and shows how desperate he was. And how if Barbatos hadn't indulged him at the moment, he would have been dead. How he was willing to give his own life to have an audience with one of the oldest creatures in existence on the slim chance said creature will want to ally itself with him

EXCEPT

we then find out Barbatos & Solomon had known each other long before this and Barbatos actually had a hand in teaching Solomon magic and basically helping him grow. They'd known each other well enough and long enough that Barbatos gets upset that he's not one of the first demons Solomon wanted to make a pact with

Anyway,

Accurate representation of what it's like to call your dad to ask for a favour

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I won’t be like them. I won’t let you let me be.

honestly tho om lucifer is such a comfort character

you know mammon's my all time all around favourite no contest but like

lucifer just hits different

he's so tired and he's so overworked and he loves his family so much it makes me sick he's willing to kill and die for them at any chance he made the misfits of the celestial realm his family despite being the perfect example of an angel himself he thinks his brothers are adorable he just wants them to have one quiet day

he's such a bastard he's arrogant and prideful and he'll willingly meow like a little kitty cat because his boybestfriend is sad

he's got daddy issues he's terrified he's traumatised his greatest fear is his father he spent years fighting a pointless war and never questioned his father about whether they ever even tried to find a way to end the war without just mindlessly trying to kill people who really aren't that different from them for a reason no one knows he's willing to be given piggyback rides by another high profile man in a public area

he's a dog person he's weak to puppy dog eyes from everyone he cares about he's constantly done with Mephisto's shit he gets jealous because one of his friends complimented their mutual friend's cookies

he's willing to villainize himself in the eyes of his family to keep them safe he's sadistic his first response to being cornered and scared is to kill anyone who's making him feel that way his love language with his brothers is being a little shit to them he's somehow connected to/the starting point of all the issues/trauma his brothers have he has empty nest syndrome even though all his brothers live at home he hasn't realised the extent to which his actions and words have fucked up his brothers and is constantly surprised and devastated by it when he realises

he has a son he pretends is his brother whom he only ever canonically acknowledged as his son twice which led to huge blowout fights one of his younger brothers bullies him into going to the pub with them once a week his son runs a club with his youngest brother dedicated solely to making his life miserable

he's sadistic he genuinely enjoys seeing people suffer he's so polite he'll allow himself to be poisoned by food he knows is bad he bought dinner for a whole restaurant because it was the owner's birthday he wore a silly outfit and worked at a themed restaurant as a favour for a friend he gets visibly more aroused when he's ordered around he insults his brothers but gets upset whenever an outsider does the same

he loves his human so much and he's so annoyed at them he's so frustrated with them he's so angry at them and he's so worried about them so protective of them so incredibly proud of them he has tried to kill them many many times

he's a borderline alcoholic he's immortal he's greying he gets migraines he forgets to eat and he sleeps at his desk he does the mom thing and orders takeout for his children when he goes out to eat without them he likes dad jokes his greatest wish is to visit a factory he likes good socks he's a grumpy old man

he's over 10 million years old he's an eldritch horror he's the personification of the sin of pride he needs glasses to read his childhood friend? ex-boyfriend? kind-of-brother? old coworker? brother in arms? calls him luci

he's a naggy paranoid perfectionist he removed the entire bathroom because one of his brothers forgot to clean it he had to literally be kidnapped to send him on a vacation he ripped out multiple sets of his own wings he doesn't like being seen shirtless he lectured jason voorhees about him not killing efficiently enough

he's a respected and recognised drag queen he believes love is love he's canonically so beautiful but no one ever makes a move on him because the whole realm thinks he's in a committed long term relationship he refuses to believe his best friend is in love with him despite multiple people saying so

he's the type of person you want to please the type of person you want to make proud the type of person you want on your side because you know no matter what he'll always have your back you're safe that as long as he's there everything will be okay the type of person you want to be held by while everything is falling down around you

he's even queer

I find that people who struggle with staying alive the most usually have the best takes on life.

It's a common misconception that suicidal people hate life and everything about it but from what I can tell they seen to appreciate or value it more. Be more fascinated by the dandelion growing through the sidewalk and carefully step around it. People that live easily call it a weed and move on.

I think people leave out the part of Dazai that sees humans as a wonder, they make him cold or resentful towards them when what he does every time he finds someone bright and alive is cling to them. Even going as far as to submerge himself into a place that's full of humans who are the equivalent of plants growing through cement knowing he won't feel like he fits there, and people say he hates humanity.

Of course we know that he does fit there because if any character has been growing up through the cracks to see only the smallest bit of sunlight its Dazai.

It's a weird garden they have growing but I think it's pretty that way.

by the way dear, we're alive, and it hurts 'cause we survived