Sequelae of the fall and various other curses

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Series Begun:
2025-08-19
Series Updated:
2025-12-24
Description:

In this AU, inspired by the work Where the Morning Star Fell, Lucifer has mysteriously developed bipolar disorder at some unknown time before a suicide attempt in February 2018. Linda, in her capacity as a psychiatrist; Amenadiel; and Michael, who has been secretly working as a surgeon in Los Angeles for two years after being abruptly dismissed from his Heavenly duties by God, work to settle him and make sense of how an angel could have seemingly suddenly developed this while multiple stressors bloom around them, threatening Lucifer's stability and what's left of Michael's blind faith in their Father.

During the series, which starts in February 2018 when Trixie is nine, Lucifer and Chloe get married and have their younger daughter, Aurora, in April 2019. As a second-generation blessing who is half-archangel, she is of great interest to Lucifer's siblings and parents. There is a lot of focus on the traumatic sequelae of Lucifer's fall from Heaven and alienation from his family of origin as well as his unwillingness to allow his loved ones to know that Linda diagnosed him with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) in late 2016.

It ends in 2060, fifteen years after Chloe's death.

Notes:

I didn't plan to make this into a series, so the order is all over the place. A hypomanic episode that generated new ideas did not help this situation at all. This is the order of works and chapters (updated as new works are written):

1. Only the lonely are free
2. It holds but pain
3. Everything about you is easy to love
4. And so, for a while, I am
5. Your faults had made me love you more - Chapter 1, Section 1
6. I gave my songs to the rest, myself to you - Chapter 1
7. Your faults had made me love you more - Chapter 1, Section 2
8. I gave my songs to the rest, myself to you - Chapter 2
9. Your faults had made me love you more - Chapters 2-4
10. A certain naive charm
11. Your faults had made me love you more - Chapters 5-11
12. For me a delicate despair
13. Your faults had made me love you more - Chapters 12-13
14. Right back where we started from
15. Your faults had made me love you more - Chapters 14-18
16. Mörkret ska flykta snart
17. Can't make it all alone
18. Verse-moi, verse-moi l'ivresse!
19. The illusion of choice in a late-stage capitalist society.
20. As rain puts out a star
21. Primum non nocere
22. Eternity was made for them
23. And yesterday is weaving in and out (takes place at various points from 2019 to 2060)

Stats:
Words:
184,720
Works:
17
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
12

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