I am Chuck and Chuck is me.
Okay, but for real, I fucking love Rob Benedict and Robbie Thompson to the depths of my very soul for this scene. Because it’s perfect.
Everything we learn in this bar – about how Lucifer took the Mark, and the Mark corrupted him, making him what he became, how he was Chuck’s favorite and he thought that Lucifer would be strong enough to handle the mark and remain who he was, the best and brightest in heaven.
No one knows that better than Chuck. No one. Because it’s his fault. It’s his fault that Lucifer fell, that Lucifer became what he was, because he was blinded by his love for his favorite son.
Lucifer was never a villain (there is, perhaps, an argument to be made that he became one, afterwards, as residual effects of the Mark, etc), though. He was corrupted. The exact same way Dean was.
Those at the top have the furthest to fall. And when Lucifer Fell, in both the literal and proverbial sense, it rocked all of Heaven to its core, because Lucifer was the best of them all. He was the favorite. He was strong. He was loved by their Father.
Lucifer was never the villain. He was a victim of a Father’s faith, who believed him capable of doing the impossible – surviving the taint of the Mark of Cain.
Oh god I gave myself so many Lucifer feels. Ow.Amen holy shit
@aria-lerendeair my hero, puttin’ the truth out there