Aha, the newsletter! Now it makes sense, that's a great resource if what you're looking for is likely to be cross-posted to the larger comms.
Yeah, I have to agree with your remark about Lucifer's characterisation. It's actually the reason I didn't write much of Sam/Lucifer when it first began and left it to the experts: I was stumped as to how I could get someone as dark and vicious as he is in my head to let himself be vulnerable (because that's what love is) to a 'cockroach'.
I think Sam is the one human that Lucifer actually has the ability to truly see as something other than a cockroach to be squashed or dismissed
You're absolutely right about this and the point that it's because Lucifer and Sam are, in some ways, the same. The way the show writers set the story up (especially after Michael's first speech), they couldn't have been more heavy-handed in this parallel unless they tattooed 'twins' on each angel and vessel. Or something along the lines of 'Lucifer = Cain = Sam'; they were wearing my patience pretty thin by the end. I vaguely remember shouting at the TV when Adam and Sam were in the graveyard because I was so tired of them trying to make Michael and Lucifer the ethereal version of Sam and Dean (and vice versa) at every opportunity. It may have been along the lines of, 'Stop whining and start kicking some ass!'
Maybe you just write him well because you identify with him. :P
Are you calling me mean and lazy? ;P Okay, the writers have made him fairly easy to symapthise and identify with, but I promise I haven't masqueraded as anyone's dead girlfriend for a while!
All of this completely explains why the sequel I've written turned a hard left in the direction it did; now I know what happened. It's, ahem, not as short or plotless as I'd like [hides WIP under couch].
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Date: 2010-10-08 12:28 am (UTC)Yeah, I have to agree with your remark about Lucifer's characterisation. It's actually the reason I didn't write much of Sam/Lucifer when it first began and left it to the experts: I was stumped as to how I could get someone as dark and vicious as he is in my head to let himself be vulnerable (because that's what love is) to a 'cockroach'.
I think Sam is the one human that Lucifer actually has the ability to truly see as something other than a cockroach to be squashed or dismissed
You're absolutely right about this and the point that it's because Lucifer and Sam are, in some ways, the same. The way the show writers set the story up (especially after Michael's first speech), they couldn't have been more heavy-handed in this parallel unless they tattooed 'twins' on each angel and vessel. Or something along the lines of 'Lucifer = Cain = Sam'; they were wearing my patience pretty thin by the end. I vaguely remember shouting at the TV when Adam and Sam were in the graveyard because I was so tired of them trying to make Michael and Lucifer the ethereal version of Sam and Dean (and vice versa) at every opportunity. It may have been along the lines of, 'Stop whining and start kicking some ass!'
Maybe you just write him well because you identify with him. :P
Are you calling me mean and lazy? ;P Okay, the writers have made him fairly easy to symapthise and identify with, but I promise I haven't masqueraded as anyone's dead girlfriend for a while!
All of this completely explains why the sequel I've written turned a hard left in the direction it did; now I know what happened. It's, ahem, not as short or plotless as I'd like [hides WIP under couch].