User blog:Necrosanity/Question: When Depicting Lucifer/the Devil/Satan...

In your opinion, which is generally the best way to depict Lucifer? Prideful? Evil? Advocate of freedom (esp. from God's rule)? Maybe even morally ambiguous (has man's best interests in mind)?

I'm having trouble deciding how I should depict Lucifer in a poem I'm writing (which I'll publish today, if not definitely tomorrow). Here's the gist: After God destroys the world and abandons humanity, Lucifer sees this as an opportunity to finally claim his position as God. Humans align themselves with demons to survive, but having learned to deviate from authority, they rebel against Lucy, who realizes humans truly are beyond saving (which ironically mirrors his nemesis' previous effort). Ultimately, he regrets ever having stripped humans of their free will to his gain, making him a hypocrite.

Would Lucifer normally quit? Is he so easily stopped by regret and self-realization? It could be sweet. (talk) 22:54, August 5, 2014 (UTC)