Lucifer

Lucifer is the prototype of Demons. He is responsible for Pandora opening the box in the jar.

Genesis
Lucifer was created alongside Pandora and Hikari by Tsuki. Displeased with his existence, Taiyō replicated him as a frowned upon race called “demons” of which she banishes to Earth. Lucifer feels slightly ashamed of this and decides to keep to himself more often. While he is alone, he eventually comes across a book that calls itself “Azreal.” Azreal claims that she is the one who brought the universe into existence and knows all. However, she can only express her knowledge through fairytales of her memories. Due to her memories being cloudy, Lucifer can not find any real connections between the stories. Nonetheless, he enjoys them regardless.

Eventually, Tsuki creates Hikari, who is equally shamed by Taiyō. Feeling bad for her, Lucifer takes her under his wing to take care of. When Hikari begins to be able to talk, she tells a lie, much to Taiyō's horror. Taiyō quickly tells Tsuki he needs to remove the “errors” from his prototypes. Tsuki lets them all know he will take their “errors” and hide them so they may all live happily together afterward.

Lucifer feels off about the suggestion and tries to calm himself by reading a story in his book. He is shocked to find a story of himself inside of the book. It describes him as one of “God’s” favorite angels who recognized that “God’s” reasoning for making his rules was to prevent his angels (who were made in his image) to realize that “God” himself had flaws. Lucifer realizes that “God” in this sense is referring to Taiyō and comes to the realization that the reason she was so horrified that Hikari had told a lie was because she was made in her exact image.

Lucifer becomes furious and, rather than letting his father take something bad from his, he tricks his father into taking something good: his hope. Shortly after this is taken from him, Lucifer becomes more bitter about the future and has the burning desire to take it into his own hands, as that was the only future he didn't need hope for. He begins his process of manipulating both Hikari and Pandora. Lucifer realizes a flaw that Tsuki had overlooked in both of them was curiosity. Through Hikari, he made her curious about the outside world. Through Pandora, he made her curious as to what their father hid from them.

As he had predicted, Pandora set free all of their flaws into the universe and Hikari agreed to run away with him. With Hikari now older, Lucifer decides to take her to Earth, where he believes he can court her in peace. The two find the abandoned demon race on Earth and quickly take lead over it. He finds that, unlike the other races, the demons have started to thrive on their own without a god. However, the people who had strove them to do so: Hella and Raen, had previously been killed by Taiyō herself. They are told Hella may be alive, but she had not been present to continue guiding the people, as she was holding a powerful curse on Taiyō herself and must stay hidden.

Lucifer sees this as his opportunity to lead, announcing he had the knowledge of the Gods, yet only yearns to bring them down. Everyone seems extremely pleased with this and allow Lucifer to take leadership over the kingdom. Very soon, he pulls them from an age of dirt houses and desperate hunting to an age of farming and stone houses. He had even managed to build his own kingdom with the help of his magic. On top of all of this, he made a rule that, during the daytime, demons shall hide so Taiyō could not gather any more information on them.

Eventually, with his time with Hikari being severed, he holds a competition to declare his personal royal staff. This competition, although began as a simple test of skills, eventually evolved into a desperate killing game to get to the top. While Lucifer found this unconventional, he decided to do nothing to stop it, as it was their choices. The people that are selected was: Believing to have Lucifer for herself, Hikari begins to beg him for a child, in the same way the demons were reproducing. Lucifer denies her attempts as begging, claiming he still has too much work to focus on. Seeing the stress this put in her, he began to treat Hiruko as their child so she could confide in him. Sure enough, this began to work. Almost to an obsessive amount, Hikari began to take care of Hiruko and made sure he was raised to be the proper king of Hella.
 * “Shi.” The servant boy/trained assassin.
 * “Hiruko.” The icon prince and ruler of the country.
 * “Henry.” The spy that would start colonizing on Earth under the fake rule of Taiyō.
 * “Mikki.” The maid, later Henry’s assistant.

Eventually, Hiruko starts to become undrawn from his duties and begins to sneak out into the woods, much to Lucifer and Hikari’s concern. Eventually, he returns with a human girl named “Lilith” that pleases both of them, believing their son had found someone to confide in. While she is in the palace, however, Lucifer’s book receives a new story called “Cinderella.” The tale describes a girl who was forced into a painful existence by those around her, until she found a fairy godmother to help her reach her prince charming. What confuses Lucifer the most is the tales constantly gave the godmother the name “Hope” and warns Cinderella of the “Despair” that may lie ahead even with her prince charming. The tale ends with Cinderella running away from her prince, leaving a single shoe behind.

Lucifer ponders over this story and believes that Lilith may have come into possession of his “hope” he had previously discarded. Additionally, that would mean Hiruko had come into contact with despair. Lucifer becomes jealous that Hiruko is so infatuated by his hope and plots to get rid of Lilith right away. As a result, Hiruko could dwell deeper into despair and realize that he does not need hope to be happy.

Lucifer Begins his plan by summoning Shi to his quarters and demanding that the young boy assassinate her. Eventually, Shi returns, holding a heart in his hand, claiming it to be hers. Lucifer is pleased and leaves to return to his book and see the future it saw now. The tale he was reading turned from “Cinderella” to “Snow White.” In this tale, it described an evil queen who sent a hunter out to take the heart of Snow White. However, Snow White escaped, and the hunter returned with a pig's heart. Lucifer realizes his deception and sends his guards after Shi immediately.

Blaming the disappearance on Shi, he is swiftly banished until he returns with Lilith. With her missing, Hiruko also goes searching for her. While he is gone, however, Lucifer keeps encouraging him to make horrid choices to enhance his despair. Eventually, the two come across Lilith, who is horrified to see the evils they have both caused. They completely demolish the home of the people that gave her shelter, causing her to run away in disgust.

They follow her until she approaches a lake. As they talk to her, she looks as though she is ignoring them for something in the lake. Without a second thought, she jumps in. Hiruko follows in her footsteps and dives in to save her. However, by the time he surfaces, Lilith is dead. Lucifer is confused by this, as she could not have drowned that quickly. Worried, he rushes Hiruko out from the lake and helps him take Lilith’s corpse home.

Hikari and Lucifer both comfort Hiruko as he falls deeper and deeper into despair. Eventually, Hikari volunteers for a mission to a star called “Asgard.” While she is expected to return right away, she never does. Lucifer himself falls into great despair, feeling wrathful towards the angels that took Hikairi. During this time, Lucifer’s book begins sending him direct text, not in story form. He becomes obsessive over this and dwells within the book. The book informs him that if Hiruko were to die, he’d be reborn in a way where you could find both Hikari and Lilith. Hesitant, Lucifer shares this with Hiruko, who willingly ends his life through a poison Shi used to own.

The Fallen Kingdoms

Lucifer becomes anxious over this decision for the next hundred years. As he is anxious, his book explains to him the everyday details of Hiruko’s new life, much to his relief. Eventually, Shi is found, giving the exact location of Hikairi and Hiruko, but the book warns him to wait to approach them. However, as a result, Hikari perishes. Lucifer begins to be filled with wrath, believing the book to have alternative methods for sharing all of this information with him. The book simply explains that it is revealing the happiest possible ending to him to follow.

Eventually, once the book begins to stop giving him answers, Lucifer becomes angered and goes to Asgard himself. As he gets there, he finds Lilith reincarnated as a boy named “Sanjiro” that Azreal confirmed was his and Hikari’s child. Lucifer realizes that no matter how many times he kills Lilith, she would probably be reborn. Instead, he concludes he needs to remove the hope from Sanjiro. Hiruko walks in on him casting a spell of despair on Sajiro and fights him. Lucifer is surprised to finally see Hiruko again and decides he will let Snajiro go if Hiruko would agree to them meeting when he became of age. Hiruko agrees and Lucifer takes his leave back to Earth.

Lucifer waits patiently, gradually causing more and more despair to cover over his kingdom of Demons. Upon Hiruko’s 18th birthday, Lucifer returns to Asgard with his army of demons, and attacks the kingdom at full force. Hiruko confronts Lucifer and demands to know what is going on. Upon meeting him, Lucifer requests that Azreal gives Hiruko back his memories and true form. Azreal complies and Hiruko remembers his previous life as a prince.

Hiruko thanks Lucifer for all he has done and apologies for Hikari’s loss. Lucifer claims it is fine, but he wants Sanjiro, his child, back in her place. Hiruko complies on the deal that Sanjiro would not be harmed and the two agree. With this, Lucifer helps Hiruko approach Sanjiro and uses Azreal to restore his memories as well. Sanjiro becomes horrified and quickly tries to run away just as Lilith had before.

Lucifer leaves Sanjiro to Hiruko and leaves to confront the king of the star, Loki. Upon meeting him, Lucifer mischievously asks about the sin Hikari had infected him with years ago. Loki becomes angered and tried to attack him. Lucifer, however, quickly disarms him and claims he wants to keep the monster he created alive to present to Taiyō. Lucifer then leaves, and waits at his kingdom for Hiruko’s return. He does eventually return with a badly beaten Sanjiro.

Once Sanjiro is alone, Lucifer approached the frightened boy and promises that, now with him being Hikari’s child, there was no way he could bring harm to him. However, he promises he will still strive to destroy the useless hope within him. Lucifer leaves and begins trying to formulate a plan. He then remembers the event he had previously held to declare the royal staff and the lack of hope within it. Eager to have Sanjiro witness the pain hope puts people through, he calls for Hiruko to call the event into preparation with beginner rounds.

Sure enough, Sanjiro is horrified to watch people kill each other just for the slight chance of being a ruler of the country. When Sanjiro hears that Hiruko is participating, he breaks down and begs him not to, knowing he would mercilessly destroy everyone else. Hiruko ignores him and keeps proceeding to say it is just for his own good.

Lucifer is pleased to watch Sanjiro realize the horrors of life. However, he is surprised to find out Sanjiro has successfully run away. Lucifer follows him with Hiruko and watches, horrified as he falls from a cliff to his death. Both Hiruko and Lucifer despair over this, but are introduced to a “scientist” who claims he can rebirth Sanjiro. During this project, Lucifer realizes Hiruko’s despair is gone and he reveals he gave it to the scientist for an experiment. Additionally, he notices Azreal is missing.

Before Lucifer can reclaim them, the entire establishment begins to collapse and explode. Within moments, the entire castle is gone and Lucifer barely survives with Hiruko. Realizing they have been tricked, they work together to rebuild the kingdom. However, Hiruko is too depressed to continue anymore. Lucifer begins to realize that a little bit of hope is needed in life and reveals to Hiruko that his hope is still out there somewhere. He just needs to find it.

Revelations

Over the rest of the years, the two work towards spreading peace between their nation and the humans', in hope that Sanjiro’s reincarnation will notice and find them. As the ending days come, Lucifer hears Taiyō is targeting exclusively Sanjiro to destroy the “sin” Lucifer cursed Earth with. After learning Taiyō has been combined with his beloved, Lucifer goes to face her finally and breaks down, claiming Taiyō is the reason he abandoned hope. Taiyō refuses to apologize, making Lucifer ready to murder her, much to Gemini’s approval. However, Gemini begins to combine Tsuki’s soul into Lucifer, deciding to leave the outcome up to whether she could repent or not.

Lucifer's soul is ultimately sent to Hell, where he suffers with everyone, until Henry eventually takes the role of the Master of Hell. Once he takes over, he claims he can not forgive Lucifer enough to send him to heaven. However, he can give him a second chance on Earth with Hikari to redeem themselves. Lucifer complies and is reborn as Yang’s child.

Gallery

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Relationships

 * Hikari was Lucifer's younger "sister" and later love interest. The two find great comfort with each other and eventually fled together in order to rule over the demons on Earth. Together, they had also took in Hiruko under their wings.