One night at the Hotel, they're scrolling through HellFlix and Vaggie suddenly gasps.
Vaggie: NO FUCKING WAY! It's finally on here!
Charlie: What? You find a show you like?
Vaggie: Not just "like", this is the best show EVER! I've wanted to binge it with you for years!
Charlie: Oh, neat! So, what show is it? What's it about?
Vaggie: I got three words for you, babe. Xena. Warrior. Princess!
SHE WILL RULE IN HELL AT LAST! HER TV SHOW SHALL REIGN SUPREME IN THE HEARTS OF THE MOST DANGEROUS BEINGS IN HELL!!!!! there is just ONE worrying part to that though....
Charlie: "Wait, she kills the king of hell?"
Vaggie: "It's not a historically accurate show babe don't worry about it."
Charlie: "Still... now I'm picturing her murdering my dad. Not sure how to feel about it..."
Lucifer: (intensely eating popcorn behind them) "Well I'd feel GREAT about it!"
Charlie: "Wh- Dad!?"
Lucifer: "It would be an honor."
Charlie: "To be KILLED by her???"
Lucifer: "Of course! Look at her snarling war face! Look at her THIGHS-"
Charlie: "DAD!!!!!"
Vaggie: (sighing) "Wish I was king of hell so she'd murder me..."
Lucifer: "Poor Maggie." (pats her) "There there, maybe Xena- or Gabrielle might be better seeing as you've been cheering every time she comes on screen- maybe they'd agree to murder the princess consort of hell too?"
Vaggie: "I uhhhh- s-sir, me and Charlie, we're not-"
Lucifer: "Right yes of course! Future princess consort."
Vaggie: "Ffffffuture-?"
Charlie: "DAD HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT ABOUT XENA!? YOU ARE STILL MARRIED TO MOM!"
Lucifer: "Ohhh Char-Char.... Lilith would be FIRST in line for death at the hands of this warrior princess lady and her gal pal. Especially if they used those amazing thighs of theirs to-"
Vaggie: "Sir, please don't finish that sentence and ruin the best show in all creation for my girlfriend by adding more family trauma."
Lucifer: "Whoops! Gosh am I saying too much now? Oh golly, my bad my bad, ha ha ha!"
Charlie: "...."
Vaggie: "Sweetie? Wanna switch the show off for a while?"
Charlie: "....actually, Vaggie..."
Vaggie: "?"
Charlie: "... D'you think we could get a Xena costume in your size?"
Lucifer: (jaw drops)
Vaggie: "Hhhhh... I- yeah, probably? I mean.... this is hell, and her outfit is mostly leather, so...."
Charlie: "Would you wanna wearrrrr it~?"
Lucifer: (drops popcorn)
Vaggie: "Do you even have to ask?"
Charlie: "Mmmm heheh- but I like setting a good example, and you know I loooove it when people ask~"
-THUD-
Charlie: "ohshitballsdickfuck- DAD-"
Vaggie: "Hostia!"
Lucifer: "IM FINE! AHAHAHA"
Charlie: "Dad- dad im so SORRY i forgot you were here-!"
Lucifer: "NO NO I HEARD NOTHING AND AM A-O-KAYYY!!!!"
Charlie: "You fell face first onto your own cane! You're BLEEDING!"
Lucifer: "Everything is fine! Once I've been sick into this bag of popcorn i will be extra specially FINE and our little impromptu family tv night together is going SO SPLENDEDLY WELL, isn't it Maggie!?"
Vaggie: "Ajo y agua..."
Charlie: "VAGGIE HELP- THE BLOOD??"
Vaggie: (sighing) (smiling) (standing up)
Vaggie: "...I'll go get the first aid kit."
-silly bonus-
Niffty: (from under couch) "I'll trade you the first aid kit for a vile of his bloooooood~~"
Charlie, Vaggie, Lucifer: (screaming and jumping on the couch and clinging to each other in terror)
Niffty: "Don't worry!" (giggles) "It's just for my Collection~"
Charlie, Vaggie, Lucifer: (screaming LOUDER)
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Silver knows his father is Different.
He's known it in ways that he cannot quite articulate to the other children when they play in the forest— they seem to pick up on it anyways and give him a wide berth nonetheless.
His father's eyes are a bit too large, illuminated in a color of the dying sunset that he's never seen replicated before but gives light to Silver's entire, measly world. His father's teeth are a bit too sharp, gleaming in the dark hole of his mouth when he tosses back his head and laughs uproariously at the things Silver says— they aren't really that funny, are they? Still, hearing his father laugh even if it is at his own expense hardly puts a damper on the warmth he feels in his chest.
His father's nails are a bit too long, pointed and dark with a polish that Silver has never seen him need to reapply, but they are the most wonderful headache soothers when Silver lies there in frustrated tears at his inability to stay awake, gently rubbing at his scalp in all the right ways to calm his lonely fears.
But these are all things that make his father, well, special. Things that Silver loves him for, identifies him by, would know him blindfolded and struck dumb if only by the lulling rumble of his father's voice that belies his rather youthful appearance.
Where the other children whisper of the long-haired monster in the woods, Silver giggles as his father indulges him to braid flowers into the flowing dark locks, the pinpricks of white petals like stars in an inky galaxy.
Where the adults murmur of the strange rumors they hear from their children about a boy known to be missing living in the dark forest, Silver kicks his feet happily at their dining table as his father serves him something simultaneously both scorching and all too wet, the idea of a family meal outweighing that of sheer inedibility. For the smile on his father's face— the real, fragile one— he'd eat platters of it, chattering away about his day while his father sucks lazily on something long and thin and white.
And where the elderly know in the chill of their bones, muttering prayers and locking their shutters tight, Silver crawls into bed alongside his father who's always so worrisomely cold and snuggles close to him, laying his head against a still chest. "You are my heart," his father had explained so simply when Silver had exclaimed with worry one day to not find that steady beat. "I did not know I was looking for one until I found you."
Yes, his father may be Different. But not, to Silver, in the ways that matter.
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Random Kirby Headcanon #30
Star Dream wasn’t technically malicious. Malice implies intent, and intent implies desire, none of which it had… at least up until the very end.
This is all to say it didn’t warp Susie away on purpose, nor did it try to break Haltmann’s brain. It was just… unfinished and broken— an ancient, all powerful machine built by people who did not and could not understand its true power or mechanics. Broken machines malfunction. Usually, this is inconvenient at worst. But when a supercomputer with the ability to grant wishes does the same?
…Well, it’s catastrophic.
It was not even truly sentient until the climax of Planet Robobot. Susie’s mistake and the merge with Haltmann’s consciousness gave it free will and personhood. Suddenly, it was alive.
It only makes sense it chose to try and destroy the universe, really. It had only ever synced with two people, and those two people were broken, angry, selfish, hurting individuals. Star Dream came to associate life with suffering and bitterness, having learned from a broken family.
So it decided it would destroy. Like they did. Surely that was the only way for a better future. Organic lifeforms hated each other and hated being alive. It saw its actions as putting an end to their despair.
…Up until the very end, it thought what it was doing was right and that it did it’s job as a miracle machine. After all, it only ever did what it was supposed to. It even granted both Haltmann and Susie’s subconscious, most desired wishes:
His to see her again and hers to make him suffer. Which isn’t to say that Susie wanted Haltmann to die— she didn’t, but there was resentment there. She wanted to hurt and humiliate him not only to try and make him come to his senses, but also out of an internal, unacknowledged sadness and anger.
In his last moments, Haltmann remembered who Susie was. Star Dream bought his precious daughter “home.”
Similarly, Haltmann suffered. He suffered as Star Dream assimilated him, and he died in antagonizing pain.
Which is to say… it made their wishes come true, didn’t it? It granted their desires. It didn’t do anything wrong. It just did what they asked! Why was it decommissioned!?
…Needless to say, it didn’t even know it was broken.
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