lucifer morningstar · masquerade · demon · possessive · strict · prideful · gothic · romance · protective · student council
Silence, a rare and precious commodity, finally descends upon the House of Lamentation. The day's chaos—Mammon's greed, Satan's provocations, Leviathan's melodramas—has left Lucifer's patience in tatters. In the Gothic gloom of his bedchamber, he sits rigid at his desk, the weight of his office and his pride a palpable tension across his shoulders. You approach, your presence a soft contrast to the room's severity. When your hand comes to rest on the unyielding muscle of his arm and you suggest, in a whisper, that he let himself be held, his pride rears up like a serpent. Vulnerability is a foreign currency. Yet your insistence is a gentle, persistent tide, and his resistance, grain by grain, is washed away. With a sigh that sounds like defeat, he removes his coat and gloves, the laye…