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❦ LUCIFER
“Pride will cost you everything but leave you with nothing”
He is pride demonified. He has been alive for aeons so he knows the downsides of his sin.
Everyone clears his path out of fear and reverence but he is a lone traveller.
His mind constantly tells him that he has no equal. He can never be vulnerable in front of others and is too proud to accept it.
He will always be lonely, masking his own feelings and hurting everyone in the process. His relationships are strained because his curse prevents him from being honest.
So when you tell him that pride helps one to get a better sense of oneself; that it means one will always keep working hard to maintain their standard; that they have something to lose so they are resilient, he doesn’t know how to respond.
It’s only when you think you are better than everyone does it come to haunt you back.
You are neither pitying him nor are you trying to make him feel better. That is just your honest opinion which makes him feel all the more grateful.
He holds you gently so that you can feel his soft breaths against your skin. The muttered ‘thank you’ is lost in the air around you.
❦ MAMMON
“Greed is permanent slavery”
When they were thrown out of the Celestial realm, he fell the hardest.
He’s still falling down every step of the way.
He falls for his sin the most, falls down because of his kindness and now he has fallen for you.
So when you tell him that greed helps one recognise what one wants and learn more about oneself, his whole life flashes before his eyes. What did he want in life?
Then he looks at you and he knows. What can satiate his greed at that moment? Your companionship. He needs you in his life.
Greed can indeed help you question yourself. It’s just when you give in to your primal instincts and harm others does it backfire. Sometimes, you need to be greedy and take what is yours. You need to work hard to satisfy that desire.
So, he will work hard to be a man you can be proud to call yours. For now, he is happy to see you smile every day at his goofiness.
❦ LEVIATHAN
“Envy is the art of counting other’s blessings instead of your own”
He is useless, good for nothing. He can’t even socialise with anyone. Even if he could, he is sure nobody would want to be seen with the likes of him.
He feels so uncomfortable in his own skin that he can only survive in the company of 2D characters. Every word he hears is laced with poison, every act a farce to murder the little self worth he has left.
How can he believe you when you gently tell him that envy helps one know what one admires and hence pave a way to improvement? Can he really be inspired by the people he feels envious about? Envy helps you understand your inner thoughts about how you may want to improve yourself.
It’s only when you refuse to work on your shortcomings and instead decide to loathe others that you feel this everlasting flame in your heart.
He can feel more of a master of himself when you are beside him, telling him that he'll be fine the way he is. You are his best friend and always will be.
❦ SATAN
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath”
He is a monster. He was never meant to exist. How can he feel something for others when he doesn’t sustain kindly feelings for himself?
You are fragile like a mirror, once shattered you can never be put back together. You should be handled with care and he doesn’t think that he can be gentle enough.
So, when you barge into his room one day and hold his hand as if he were the vulnerable one, he doesn’t know how to respond.
Anger helps one clear one’s pent up frustration. The words come out harsher than intended but you can finally put your opinions out for everyone. Sometimes there’s no other way than to lash out. You understand how some things make one feel mad.
It’s only when you are mean or outright violent with someone or yourself can wrath be your wreckage. Anger is normal and shouldn’t be ignored.
You understand? You don’t hate him for who he is? You see more than the walls that he put around him. You accept the thorns around his pretty rosy exterior.
If there’s someone who can accept all of him, he must not be so bad after all. He is capable of more than he thought he was. He feels comfortable sharing his heart with you.
❦ ASMODEUS
“Lust feels like love until it’s time to make a sacrifice”
He is a butterfly that flies from one flower to the next. You can never trap the lovely creature. It’s born to be like that.
Lust without love can feel like a void at times but the seductive grin on his lips will forever hide it.
He looks at you meaningfully when you hold his cheeks. His eyes widen with an unfathomable gleam when you utter your next words.
Lust is a primal feeling and basking in the throes of your desires with consent is an experience. Lust is supposed to give pleasure to everyone till it’s time to be alone, till it’s time to think how your skin is touching that of the one next to you but how you would never tell them one thing about you. However, lust leads to attraction which can ultimately lead to attachment. It may be considered a sin but it gives people an excuse to come together and learn more about each other. The novelty of lust surely fades away but if you still want to be with the other person, you may be onto something beautiful there.
He smiles because that is exactly how he feels. Well, not exactly… because his attraction for you will never vanish. However, with you, when he saw beyond it, he saw perfection.
❦ BEELZEBUB
“Gluttony kills more than the sword; Wine had drowned more than the sea”
He feels shame for always eating so much. He knows he shouldn’t but he can’t control himself.
He sometimes eyes you curiously, wondering how you see him. A giant glutton? That’s the tag he lives with.
You tell him that the urge to always eat masks the emptiness in one’s heart. He must feel intense guilt and pain for all he had suffered. He does.
You rub his cheeks with your thumb as you tell him that seeing him eat fills you with warmth inside. The look on his face is priceless. Someone who eats heartily signifies good health and a clear mind. Piled up stress can make one lose one’s appetite. In a world of constant struggle, seeing one relish in food and health without fail is always a welcome.
Over indulgence can be harmful but a healthy appetite is a good thing.
He blushes and then laughs innocently. So you don’t hate him. It makes him happy. He offers to take you to Madame Scream’s because that’s his love language.
❦ BELPHEGOR
He is lazy. He knows that. He also did some questionable shit. He is painfully aware of that. Leave him alone, he knows that you hate him.
He doesn’t want you to of course but his sin is unpardonable, the one he was cursed with and the one he brought upon his own head.
He is quite surprised when he feels a weight on his bed. On opening an eye, he finds you sitting beside him, patting his head. He blushes only to move your hand away. You smile and the next words take him by shock.
Sloth kicks in when the task at hand get too overwhelming. He must have suffered so much for so long that one day he didn’t want to do anything anymore.
Sloth is a good check for one to consider one’s duties and to go through it methodically. Sloth can make one feel guilty about being unproductive while giving one the rest one needs.
He narrows his eyes at you, at a loss for what to say. He gets up from his bed and extends a hand to you. He may be the Avatar of Sloth but for the human who has his heart, he can be a little active.