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how do you think lucifer knew about pop culture and such? like even in season 5 when he was the original version of himself the writers hadn’t ruined yet, he uses a lot of slang and modern idioms. and i guess we could just say bad writing lol but what’s your opinion?

hiii hi lucifer's s5 pop culture references are one of my favorite dialogue writing choices of the show tbh! the tl;dr is that i think lucifer did a lot of digging around in nick's mind while he was hanging out in nick's body, but i'll like, show my work and stuff also lol

so, in 5.01, before lucifer has a physical vessel and is appearing in nick's dreams, there are no pop culture references in sarah!lucifer's speech, and very little slang. the same is true when lucifer speaks to azazel through the sacrificed nun in the flashback in 4.22.

the pop culture references start after lucifer has taken nick as a vessel and has full access to everything in nick's mind and body, not just whatever can be accessed through dreams. he also starts moving more casually and fluidly, with little gestural quirks that imo have a similar effect to the pop culture references: communicating with humans in human-oriented ways that humans will easily understand and that will make him more relatable to them (not necessarily more likable, but maybe less alien, at least)

so, i think the pop culture refs are picked up from his vessels' memories and thoughts! he got in there, he got total, internal access to nick's memories and his body's habits and his speech patterns and stuff, and starting using those materials in his own communication styles. and then maybe also picked some up through exposure once he had the basics down, after he'd been out of the cage for a while

speculatively, i'd guess this was part of why nick was appealing to lucifer as a vessel: from what we see of nick, we know that what he wears looks like he has a job that has him in work boots (so, probably not white collar, and probably therefore has a vernacular more similar to sam and dean's than someone who would be spending his days in a corporate office, for example) and has pretty standard spn-core ways of speaking. having nick as a vessel puts lucifer more in sam's world visually, in speech, and in movement style more than other possible vessels would. he probably knows a lot of the same pop culture sam does, and he probably talks the way people sam is comfortable and familiar with talk — so, if lucifer learns to talk like a human from nick, lucifer also will come across as a familiar, relatable type of person to sam (didn't work too well but like, A for effort). idk if lucifer would have known enough about human class structures etc to be able to identify nick as the right kind of human to learn human culture from in order to talk to sam, so disregard if that seems too circular...but imo it's smart from the writers/costumers/etc, even if it didn't factor into lucifer's choice at all

(all of this makes different angels' characterization really interesting, i think, because some of them do a lot of human-ifying of themselves like this, while others don't. does castiel not do it much for the sake of jimmy's mind/memory privacy, or because he just doesn't care very much about seeming human? what's up with uriel and michael using pop culture referneces but not much human body language? like i know it's largely inconsistency in writing and acting choices for different characters but just assuming it's actually character-based reasons, i love it. and imo it implies that lucifer is very curious about humanity, even though he wants to get rid of them, and is good with rhetoric in that he understands the value of speaking to people in a way that feels familiar (he sucks at rhetoric in some other ways lol, but he was doing a good job on that, at least))

nearly done my third reread of yr 1 and i can't stop thinking about him

if you have read superpowereds PLEASE dm me i need to talk about this series with people lest my head explode

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voice actor replaced halfway through audiobook, 13 dead 40 injured

Major spoilers for year 4 of super powereds.

So I want the take of the other 3 people on this website who have also read super powereds, and I want to infect your brains with the thought I had as well. In year 4 of super powereds nick and will talk about the idea of them and Hershel playing a game of risk or somthing of the like.

My brain hasn't stopped construction the foundation of bullshit from that seed. My first thought is that it's a good while into their respective futures. So it's these three adult men sitting at a coffee table with a risk board infront of them, to once and for all prove who is the superior strategist.

While they play I'd give random flashes to the inciting incidents leading up to the game of risk. Favors will be called upon, bribes made, threats leveled, and backs stabbed. Who would win this three way hell game, idk cause they have to take a litteral week off just to play this knowing full well how long it was going to take.

Anyway does this boat hold water or should Iet it sink.

"Speedtrapped" [S3 Ep10]

x x x x | Scary Pockets Concert in Paris (November 10th, 2023)

cas waited until jimmy was outside of his home to hop in — removed from the context of his life and his family, open to the world and the sky, individuated and ungrounded, even if only because of a few paces' distance between him and his front door. there is no effort here to make cas seem familiar or human, there's no performance, there's only removal from familiarity and humanity.

michael had his prospective vessels brought to a room that was unfamiliar to them. dolled up to look beautiful to impress them, furnished with their favorite foods to make it seem comfortable to them but ostentatiously different from any other setting they would ordinarily find themselves in. it's a performance designed to be appealing and impressive in human terms, but it comes across as kind of stilted, especially since it's always zachariah bringing the vessels in.

lucifer with nick though. nick's house. nick's bedroom. nick's bed. there's nothing formal about this, no pretenses. the reminders of nick's losses are rough, but otherwise the whole thing is designed for comfort and real intimacy. angel who wants to make a home of its body, angel who wants to be home to its vessel. it's just. like i get why people think it's creepy. but it's. it's sweet. idk

nick was clever about everything but vince (5262 words) by boyteal Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Super Powereds - Drew Hayes Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nick Campbell/Vince Reynolds Characters: Nick Campbell (Super Powereds), Vince Reynolds, Mary Smith (Super Powereds), Alice Adair Additional Tags: nick campbell is repressed, and in love with his best friend (he just doesn't know it yet)

Summary: there was one cardinal rule in his line of work — don’t get attached. nick prided himself on being the best.