Thinking a LOT about Lucifer in the latest Hazbin episode. Idk what I was expecting but not this??
As I was watching my immediate thought was just "huh... Lucifer is kinda of weird..." but as the episode went on I realized the issue
the dude is off the chain depressed, like he says it as a joke but holy cow it is SO BAD
He's manically just creating rubber ducks cuz his daughter really like it that one time but it's empty, it's never good enough but he keeps doing it, maybe cuz he doesn't know how to pass the time otherwise.
like I get the feeling he HAS better things he SHOULD be doing than making rubber duck after rubber duck. At first I was like, "Bruh why isn't the king of hell doing anything?" aaaaand then it became clear...
The dude is disassociating so bad he can barely hold a conversation let alone remember information. He clearly WANTS to, he wants to be involved with his daughter so bad, he wants to care about the things she's doing so bad, but his depression keeps interfering. It's like he can only hear every other word and he grasps onto the ones he does hear semi-out of context. Like you can see every time he catches something that he hadn't before and he just "well shit I didn't catch that part"
and that's why he reacts so weird when people talk to him. He is struggling so bad to engage with the conversation he's only getting 50% of it
does that look like the face of a man who knows what the hell the conversation is even about??? he is STRUGGLING
like Charlie spent so long telling him about the hotel, and he STILL didn't understand what she wanted. Yeah it comes off as ditzy but literally I've been in that position where your brain just "nope, not doing this right now" and nerfs your conversation comprehension. So as someone who's BEEN in that position, to me it feels exactly like what he's dealing with. He's sorta engaged with the conversation, but only as much as his brain will allow
For example, when I'm dealing with this, this is what someone talking to me feels like this where the crossed out parts are what I missed and bold is what I catch, "Hey! You know I was thinking for dinner we could either make some chicken with rice? But if you don't feel like cooking, pasta is super easy and you love that right? What do you want to do?" you can kinda get that someone is trying to talk to you about dinner, and towards the end you get the impression that they asked something that needs your input so you can decently put 2 and 2 together and try and pass off, but crucial bits were left out, I would have no idea that either chicken or pasta is in the conversation only having heard "rice". When someone is just talking at me, I can decently pass off as being engaged but the second I'm required to participate in the conversation I'm screwed. Seem familiar? At which point I have 2 options, try to give a bullshit answer, or admit that I missed what they were saying and ask them to repeat
Lucifer, unfortunately, is trying so damn hard to hide that he's dealing with like 24/7 dissociation, so he can't admit that he's missing entire chunks of the conversation, hence his really weird replies. He does eventually get the full picture and then he and Charlie start having the real conversation
Also, the Alastor/Lucifer rivalry was hilarious but also really indicative of more of what Lucifer is dealing with
Alastor is, unfortunately, really good at picking up people's insecurities, and thanks to Charlie's description earlier and watching Lucifer clearly trying to overcompensate, he immediately picks up on the fact that Lucifer KNOWS he struggles to be a good dad (we know cuz it's cuz of the depression, hard to be engaged when your brain keeps turning off) and decides to rub salt in the wound by pretending he's been acting as a surrogate father to Charlie. Now why Alastor decided to pick a fight with the king of hell is beyond me, I do not understand Alastor (and I LIKE IT) (maybe it's cuz Alastor thinks he's hot shit and was expecting Lucifer to at least have heard of him but Lucifer just treats him like a nobody? who knows)(why would Lucifer listen to radio anyways when he can't even pay attention to a conversation it'd just be white noise)
But yeah I just was expecting someone who oozed either charisma or presence and instead I got a depressed dad who's dissociating so bad he can barely function and be present in his life. The only thing it seems he CAN do is make rubber ducks cuz his daughter really liked it that one time
Idk Lucifer is tragic to me. Whatever the full details of what heavan did to him absolutely broke him and he can't deal with it. He's aware of it, and he doesn't know how to fix it, so he tries to over compensate and sorta makes an ass out of himself but no one says or does anything cuz this guy is supposed to be THE king of hell
Suddenly it's making a lot more sense why he just rolls over and lets heaven do what it wants and even told Charlie to go in his place the start of the show. He's not in any headspace to hold a basic conversation let alone negotiate! He didn't even know who Alastor was, he's been so out of touch
idk I like him, he seems sweet, I hope Charlie brings some light back into his life. He really needs to get out of that rubber duck room
Hunter: We have your mate.
Derek: …
Derek: Stiles? Stiles Stilinski? You have Stiles Stilinski?
Hunter: Yes.
Derek: No you don’t.
Hunter: What do you mean - ?
In the background: shit, he’s gone!
Derek: *laughs* Good luck with that.
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Tommy: I love boobs
Wilbur: Fuck Tommy you said love!!!!
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Tommy: oh I was trying to avoid the 'E' in craft
Wilbur: There is no 'E' in craft!
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[As Tubbo, Tommy, Niki and Jack scream behind him]
George: ITS NOT LORE!
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[Ranboo joined the game]
Ghostbur: fuck off
Ranboo: K
[Ranboo left the game]
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Tommy: what is a violent salamander?
Tommy: its got a gamer tag
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Bonus:
Tommy on camera: DRUGS, SEX, WOMANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
Tommy off camera: Why hello sir, it is nice to meet you. I'll have your daughter home by 8 :)
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Jack: Do you ever feel bugs on you when really there’s nothing there?
Dean: Those are the ghosts of the bugs you killed before.
Jack:
Jack: [sobs]
Sam: You fucking scared him, you idiot.
I don't Cicero post very often anymore but it's so funny to imagine this twink ass Imperial jester outrunning a WEREWOLF from Falkreath to Dawnstar, and managing to incapacitate said WEREWOLF equally if not worse than the werewolf was able to inflict upon him, a twink ass Imperial jester.
Malia: Anyone else angry and gay on this Wednesday night?
Stiles: I'm bi and annoyed, is that close enough?
Sam: ya know, being tall has a lot of disadvantages.
Gabe: yeah right, Name one.
Sam: the cramp I get in my neck everytime I look at you.
Can I say, my favorite thing I've experienced in mcyt
My perception of tubbo from only watching Tommy: a nice quiet kid, who goes along with whatever his frineds want to do.
Actually starts watching Tubbo: this kid is an agent of chaos.
imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.
Adam: *at 3am* If bike is short for bicycle then mike is short for micycle
Michael: wait—
Gabriel: Shhh let him speak Micycle
So i saw this headcanon post floating around about how Cicero would handle the Listener being sick, and today I figured “okay, buuut… what if Cicero was sick instead?” :0
Since he was likely horrendously malnourished during and after his time in Cheydinhal, and because he’s moving to a new province full of different strains of illness, Cicero gets sick. A lot.
He hides it as best he can as he continues to do the Keeper boogaloo unbeknownst to his family, often to the point where he overworks himself and everyone is freaking out because he’s passed out on the floor again
Tries really hard to make it seem like he’s fine, especially when the Listener isn’t around at the time, because he doesn’t want to feel like a burden to anyone
meanwhile he’s somehow paler than he already is and his skin is literally on fire
Sore throats are almost a guarantee because of how much he talks, and he hates whenever he gets them
There have definitely been times where he’s worked his voice so raw to the point where he just physically can’t speak, and it’s torturous for him. How can he jest in a timely manner if he has to write down his jokes?!
Him being cared for is absolutely torturous for him, too
He’s used to being the one doing all the caring, and having it the other way around really throws him for a loop
Lowkey feels like he doesn’t deserve the care, honestly
He gets oddly shy asking for stuff, even if the person he asked was the one who offered in the first place, especially if it’s someone other than his Listener
He just feels like he’s on thin ice with most, if not all of the family for how he’s acted in the past, and being in such a vulnerable state where he kinda HAS to ask makes him really uncomfortable
He swears, though, if he has to drink another one of Babette’s disgusting potions that’ll supposedly make him feel better, he will scream
Just tiny ol Cicero all bundled up in a cocoon of blankets, holdin a bowl of soup
He tends to eat very little when he’s sick
He’s very antsy about getting back to work and usually insists he’s fine and can get back to what he’s doing, but if he’s severely ill and he knows? He generally won’t push it. But he has to be like… actually bedridden for him to get to that point.
If you thought he was cold before… buddy, buddy ol pal,,, this bitch freezin
it is the one thing he will complain about consistently when he’s sick
you could probably throw him in the fire place and he would still be cold
Both loves and hates taking baths when he’s sick - loves it because guaranteed quality warm and temporarily unstuffed nose. Hates it because he knows he’s eventually going to have to get out at some point, and it’s gonna be Cold. Very Fucking Cold.
Definitely doesn’t sleep well at all when he’s sick
Like even shittier than he already does, unless he gets something from Babette to put him to sleep
just a very restless boi