Likes:

Cleanliness & Organization: Lucifer is just a little bit OCD. Because of this, he is meticulous in his appearance and in his possessions. A place for everything and everything in its place is the rule around him. His desk at work is filled with perfectly stacked papers and office supplies arranged very systematically. He gets a little pissy if you move his stuff around on him. He abhors dirt and mud, and keeps his clothes spotless. He is a perfectionist.

Convenience Stores / Vending Machines: They're so convenient! And clean! And quick and easy and everywhere! And well ordered! And clean! And convenient! And the same! For the mad genius on the go, there's nothing more easy than a convenience store or a vending machine! Which would you rather have, a sloppy, hand-made onigiri, or one made by a machine and wrapped in plastic for your protection? The answer is obvious.

The Voice in his Head: The voice in his head is the voice of Mistress 9. In a freakish turn of events that gets explained in history, Lucifer now hears the voice of Mistress 9 in his noggin. And while hearing her voice instead of, maybe hallucinating her doing fun hand motions is off putting, it doesn't mean that he doesn't enjoy listening to it. He talks back to it, too. He usually only reserves this for Alone Time, but when he gets very emotional, he will occasionally start talking to it out loud. He almost never uses Mistress 9's name when he talks back at her (either silently or out loud), but he usually calls her "Beloved."

Tea Ceremony/Flower Arrangement/Calligraphy: Out of the three of these, he's only halfway decent at Tea Ceremony, and that's only as a participant because your job is to sit there and be quiet and drink your cup of tea; he couldn't arrange flowers or do highly skilled, artistic calligraphy if his life depended on it. These don't belong in hobbies because he doesn't do them, he just watches people do them. He enjoys watching these activities, though. They're all very formal, and ordered, and quiet. There's no cheering crowd for the lady who's arranging flowers in a vase, and there's no loud chatter when sitting down for tea ceremony. It's all quite reserved and calm and, compared to a lot of other things, pretty quiet.

The End of the World As You Know It (And He Feels Fine): Lucifer has basically one desire in his life - to give his Beloved what she wanted. And what she wanted more in life was the silencing of existence. So, anything that furthers this goal of his - including running the spa - is a simple pleasure. Since he was brought up to revel in destruction, he'll enjoy the first few senshi battles, provided it's not his side that suffers too much.

Randoms: Machines, cinnamon, incense, cats, meditation, being a bossy prick.

Dislikes:

Lines: As much as he enjoys order, you'd think he wouldn't have a problem with lines. That's a mistake. He doesn't like waiting for other people, because those other people are beneath him. He'll wait for those whom he has respect for - that boils down to his fellow Death Busters, but only to a point. They are, after all, his subordinates. He has an impatient streak running through him, when he wants something, he wants it now.

Humidity: Oh god. Hasn't Japan ever heard of air not being so close to the damn ocean? Why in the world are they so close to the ocean? Couldn't they look for souls in, like, Alaska during the summer? He's fine with heat, but the humidity just makes him wilt. Except a whole lot of fan waving in the summer.

Anko: Vaguely sweet red beans that are in everything? Oh boy. That sounds like such a great idea. No, it isn't. He hates anko with a passion, and as such, pretty much shuns a lot of traditional Japanese sweets. The texture of "really thick and vaguely sticky" combined with "almost sort of sweet" just does absolutely nothing for him, except make him want to spit.

Anime: It's just like Jr. High kids - loud and obnoxious, except that anime has explosions, so it's even less enjoyable. It assaults his senses with lights and sounds and serves no purpose at all. Also there tends to always be a show or three that remind him a whole lot of THE WHORE and he hates that, too.

Mercy: Lucifer sees mercy as a weakness. When your foe is weak is the perfect time to finish them off. He's not going to be swayed by your pity, and he's not going to be particularly kind on the battlefield. If he doesn't have you finished off, it's because you're worth more to him alive than dead.

Not Having Control: Lucifer is the boss. Plain and simple. When he is not obeyed, or things spiral out of his control, he gets angry. He will probably vaguely enjoy the challenge that the senshi bring to his current task, as it's more of a chance to sow ruin, but if his ladies keep getting beaten by those prissy whores, he's going to get angry because he cannot control the situation.

Randoms: Sailor F'ing Moon (he's going to be disappointed that he's not the one who did her in; he refers to her as The Whore), dogs, bubbly sparkly Japanese things, old men who yell things during Kabuki plays, Jr. High students & kids in general, rain.

Hobbies:

Astrology: Lucifer keeps little charts on his astrology, and the astrology on the 5 Witches. He does this as a hobby, but also pays attention to what it says, and plans around that. For example, if the charts say that it's an inauspicious day for him to do business, he takes a holiday. If the charts say that one of the girls will be especially lucky, she'll be the one that gets to kill. If the charts say it's inauspicious to do business, then it's a holiday for the spa (Yay, holiday!). He's exceptionally good at guessing a person's sun sign, and can usually peg down the more esoteric bits like the moon and rising signs about 75% of the time, given enough time with a person. Curiously enough astrology works exactly the same in Tau Ceti as it does in the regular Universe (or else why bother asking what their signs are for the Death Busters?). IT IS A UNIVERSAL CONSTANT.

Tinkering: Lucifer, back before he came to earth, spent most of his time, when not in charge of things under Pharaoh 90, was inventing things. Though most of his inventions were fairly benign, a few of them were quite malicious in intent. Fortunately for the Sailor Senshi, bringing most of these to earth was impractical, and in a world without senshi, he didn't see the point in bringing most of them. The only one he did bring was the Planting Lies in Others Thoughts Device, or the P.L.O.T Device for short. (This gets its own section later on, I just wanted to mention the name up here, tee hee). He will continue to make things in Tokyo, however, so who knows what he could come up with? (My guess: The GM, when he needs a, well, plot device).

Building/Maintaining His Shrine To Mistress 9: Ever since he learned about the Buddhist practice of keeping a shrine to a dead loved one, he thought that was just a super great idea, and he built one himself. He has a bell, and incense, and a photogram of her, and flowers, and foodstuffs, and it's just super great. He usually spends at least half an hour to an hour of each day at the thing, talking to the voice in his head here. He encourages the witches to have a Japanese cultural hobby of their own, so they'll fit in - being a faux Buddhist happens to be his.

Goals: To silence the voice in his head by appeasing it and bring about the destruction of the world, which culminates in his own death. Fun! He also wanted to kill Sailor Moon for killing Mistress 9 - he was a little upset that he wasn't the one to do it.

Good Points:

Brilliant: Lucifer has a brilliant scientific mind. He is obsessed, in a way, with geometry, and is a very good mathematician, in addition to being an inventor. He's also quite good with politics. He usually has three or four ideas sitting in the back of his head, waiting for the right time to come out

Charismatic: Lucifer is the leader of the Deathbusters, and part of the whole schtick with them is the Witches are all vying for his attention. He makes a consummate leader, and politician because of his strong personality. He would fit in at any dinner table, whether it be set for a prince or a pauper.

Determined: Lucifer is focused. He is going to see his goal of silencing existence through the destruction of Chaos, or die trying. He goes into anything and expects to see it all the way through, though appeasing the voice in his head is especially high on his lists of "must dos."

Flaws:

Insane/Obsessed: Lucifer is crazy go nuts. There is a voice in his head, and he thinks it is the voice of his Beloved (hark, I awake!). He thinks he is channeling the dead spirit of Mistress 9. He is not. He is obsessed with appeasing this voice, on top of being a little OCD. He will do what the voice tells him to do.

Control Freak: Related to being obsessed, Lucifer expects things to be run his way. He expects his desk to be arranged in a certain way, a copy of the Yomiuri Shinbun with his breakfast at 7:00am, and the Witches to obey his commands. He also expects other people to do what he tells them to, as well, which becomes a problem if you have to deal with him in, say, a battle. "Get out of here, little girl, and let me kill this man," he might say to a sailor senshi. And when she doesn't get out of his way, he'll get upset. When things are not going his way, he gets angry and violent.

Heart of Stone: Lucifer cared about one thing in life, and she's dead. Since she's dead, he doesn't care a bit about you, unless you are useful to him. The Witches are useful to him - most other people are not. He would have no reserve, at all, about killing another sailor senshi, if it suited his purposes. That's not to say that he'll go out of his way to hurt or kill, he won't, but he simply won't care if they do. Emotional entreaties don't work on him - don't pull any of that, "It's okay, we still love you, look you didn't have to destroy the world and take Tuxedo Mask to be your own out of revenge and you're beautiful on the inside and the outside and look we gathered all of this E-NAGI-OH for you to send you back in time before you became cruel and obsessed with your beauty and mirrors and everything will be just great now," because it won't work. This also means he will never really return any affections shown to him by the witches. I suppose this makes him manipulative as well.

Self-Image:
Lucifer is just fine with himself, thank you very much. He likes who he is, and doesn't consider that there is anything wrong with what he is doing at all. He sees himself, if anything, as some sort of tragic hero - the only one with the foresight to see the End and accept it for what it is. And also push and prod it along as best as he can. He also considers himself to be the perfect leader for Tau Ceti, now that Pharaoh 90 and Mistress 9 are gone - insomuch as one can be a leader of a planet that one plans to eventually destroy. He thinks he is a generally good guy, who is simply fulfilling his destiny - who should he be to question the role that Fate has given him?

Fate and determination are two important words to Lucifer. He does the things he does because he always sees something through, and because he believes that this is the task that was laid out for him in life. Lucifer believes in Destiny - it was fate that brought Pharaoh 90 to Tau Ceti, fate that he Lucifer was brought up to be Pharaoh 90's third-in-command, fate that he and Mistress 9 fell in love, and fate that, in the death's of his superiors, he was given a chance to do what they could not. He is here and doing this because he is supposed to be here and doing this - so the fact that you might have a problem with that is the same thing as having a problem with fate. This means that he has even accepted the death of his beloved Mistress 9 (that is what he tells himself, in actuality, the schizophrenia is probably evidence to the contrary).

An offshoot of this is order. If you believe in destiny and in fate, so goes Lucifer's thinking, then clearly there is an order to everything. As such, Lucifer enjoys everything in its little place, and is a little OCD (and always has been, unlike his more recent voyages into dementia). So, even the Negaverse and Crisis Senshi have a purpose in life! That purpose is to eventually give up their super special souls for Consumption! However, since the Death Busters are after quantity, not quality, there's no rush to get this one done. The insanity should probably be mentioned. Mistress 9's death broke his brain - the two of them were going to rule over the destruction of the world together, under Pharaoh 90. So, Lucifer's belief in Destiny and Fate got smacked around a lot and he told himself that it must have been meant to be, but he inwardly denied that. And out of that denial, the despair over Mistress 9's death, his psyche formed a way to deal with it all - the voice in his head. They were fated to end the world together, but then she died. But then she came back to him! To comfort and console and prod him onto accomplishing her great dream (their destiny!) of destroying everything. They'll still destroy everything together! It's so touching and really, really worrying.

Motives:
Let's follow the fever stream, shall we? Lucifer wants to destroy the universe (1) because the voice in his head tells him to (2) because he went insane when Mistress 9 died (3) because that went against what he saw as their Fate (4) because they had both been raised by Pharaoh 90 to believe that destroying the universe was the ultimate in silence and their duty (5) because Pharaoh 90 was a dick.

General Behavior:
Around strangers and people he doesn't know well and sees no need to bother appeasing, Lucifer is rather aloof - he doesn't tend to let people get close to him, as they are beneath him and his station in life. He is generally in an okay mood - as long as things are going his way, then he'll be okay. Think of it as being petulantly unamused with you. He's smug. If he has no interest in you, he's not going to bother to try and be friends, or even be particularly nice - he'll be brief and bossy. He's used to having people do whatever the crap he says. If you do not do what he tells you to, then he will get angry with you, and inform you about why you should be doing it, and reminding you of your many, many faults. This side is typically reserved for people that he doesn't like, and knows will never be of use to him ' however it's his default setting. So, when highly upset, even if he's turning the charm on full blast, he will probably end up still calling you a fat whore. This is probably what will come out, should he ever interact a lot with the senshi for an extended period of time.

If he sees you as being of use to him, however, the charming side comes right on out. When in public, this is usually the face he puts on, simply because you never know who or what you might end up meeting. He's charming and smooth and witty. He's concerned about what you think (not really, but he pretends). The witty, smooth side of his personality is what he'd put forth, for extended periods of time, for the Shittennou, and for the Black Moon Kids. For short periods of time, for the senshi, as well.

He pretty much hates kids because they're loud and messy and they never shut up. Ever. He would not be a good father or uncle or grandfather. He'd make a pretty good cranky old man who yells at the kids to get off of his lawn, though. He enjoys his personal space, and considers it an intrusion if anyone bursts his little bubble who isn't in his inner-circle (the Witches, the voice of his dead lover). When he's working on a machine, or off with his astrology charts, or absorbed in something, he usually does it alone, preferably in quiet, and you're probably not invited.

Intimate Behavior:
The only people that would be considered "intimate" would be the Witches, since his honeybuns is dead. He is creepily personal with the Witches, and was also with Mistress 9. The voice in his head goads him onto seeking the devotion out of these ladies, because only if they are as devoted to him as he was to Mistress 9 does he believe that they'll be able to carry justice out to the galaxy.

To him, asking the question, "who loves me the most?" is a perfectly valid one. Because he is a manipulative bastard, he doesn't really return the affections of these ladies, he just gives them enough to want more, but he never gives enough. The way it works with him is he will, at least once a week, pull aside each of the Witches to have some one-on-one time with him. He tells each how important she is to him, and how much he's trusting in her and her abilities to continue the task that Fate gave them, and also what she needs to do to improve and strengthen this trust. The voice in his head tells him to make them fight over him, that they must be as devoted to him as to his cause, and that their fighting over him will be a good goad to get them to be more productive. He would probably never go so far as to kiss the Witches in this manipulative bastardry of his, as that would be cheating on his Beloved, but a gentle touch on the shoulder would be okay, probably.

When he is by himself, he will sometimes speak with the voice in his head. Especially during the half hour to hour he spends each morning in front of the altar to Mistress Nine. He mumbles when he talks to her, though, so it's hard to hear what he's saying, but in general it's sort of disturbing - professing his great love for her, and his desire to fulfill what she could not, and consulting her for advice, to supplement the astrology charts. He sounds like a desperate man, willing to do anything for the one he loves most. Which is actually who he is.

Face: His face is fairly broad - while his jaw is not square, it's angle is fairly obtuse. His ears are small and round and stick out just a little bit. His eyes are a warm brown, large and oval shaped. His eyebrows are a little thickset and very expressive. He's got a pretty good tan.

Hair: Lucifer keeps his hair fairly closely cropped - it's spiky and sticks out from his head. His hair is a deep shade of burnt orange, verging on brown.

Build: Lucifer is not tall. He stands at about 5 feet and 4 inches of evil genius. He has a medium frame and is fairly sinewy - he's a little too wide and a little large to call it a "runner's build," but it's close. Lucifer built large, complicated machines, mostly by himself - so he's used to hoisting things up and down ladders, and contorting himself at odd angles to get into these things, and his body reflects that. His hands are a little large, but fairly beaten up from all of the abuse over the years - they look rough; while his arms, if you look closely at them, have several thin, hard-to-notice scars, from sticking them into tight places. He also has rather a lot of tattoos on his arms, chest, back and legs - fifty years ago tattoos were the mark of royalty - part of the point of getting one was to meditate and learn to not focus on the pain while it was being done. Nowadays that meaning is gone, but Lucifer still had them done - he has rather complex star charts tattooed on himself, to remind himself of his fate to destroy all of creation with Mistress 9. That worked out great for him.

Voice: Like any good male villain, his voice is a deep baritone, and carries remarkably well. The only time he sings is when he does the daily prayers before his shrine to Mistress 9 - and since the point of that is a sort of low droning, it's not a good measure of his singing voice. He probably wouldn't be good at carrying a complex tune, seeing as how singing has never been a part of Tau Ceti culture, and Pharaoh 90 certainly wasn't going to bring the gift of song to the people he subjugated. He almost never slips out of the polite register, unless it's up into the humble.

Clothing: If he is working on some large machine, he'll usually be found wearing the equivalent of a tank top, and pants with lots of pockets tucked into boots that go up to his calves. This is basically the only time you will ever see him being messy. For most other times, however, his attire is formal, and spotless. For the most part, he wears dark colored clothing. Five decades ago, Tau Ceti culture's clothing was very loose and free flowing, to aid in the delicacy of motion required by their graceful sign language, and meditative poses. This changed in a heartbeat when Pharaoh 90 came - he demanded efficiency and a streamlining of things. The quickest way to change all of this free-flowing clothing into something more suited to, say, fighting someone in, was to tie something around the arms, legs, and waist to hem in the clothing to be close to the body. Out of this evolved a fashion style for men that included belts or pieces of cloth tied around the arms and legs - even after the clothing was brought in to be more form-fitting. As such, much of Lucifer's clothing has an absurd amount of large belts on it, especially around the legs or arms. You won't usually see him in this attire on earth though - he pretty much always wears his "spa owner" clothing if he's not in fuku (where you will see some of this).

Their child was named Lucifer, and he was brought up by Pharaoh 90, which is a perfectly healthy sort of living arrangement, I'm sure. He was brought up to be totally obedient to the evil being, and have unswerving loyalty to him. His childhood was one of indoctrination - Pharaoh 90 pumped it into his head that Lucifer was fated to rule Tau Ceti under Pharaoh 90, and to one day rule the world at his side.

From a young age, it was clear that he was brilliant - and Pharaoh 90 encouraged this - because if Lucifer could use that brilliance for Chao's purposes, all the better. He was very good at seeing how something should go together, and spent a fair amount of time tearing machines down, and building them back up again. From about the age of ten, he began to build simple devices - by the time he was fourteen he was making complex machines of his own. They tended to be machines on a grand scale, why make a nano-machine that nobody can see when you could build one the size of a car, or larger, that hundreds could see at the same time?

When he was 15, he was introduced to a woman of the same age - known only as Mistress 9. It was Pharaoh 90's insistence that they were meant to be together, and were made for each other (literally). Mistress 9 was a creation of Pharaoh 90's (why do you think there is a 9 in both of their names?), meant to keep Lucifer enthralled, and forever loyal to Pharaoh 90. It worked quite well.

Lucifer became obsessed with Mistress 9, who was in turn obsessed with the will of Pharaoh 90. Years of a sort of military upbringing/brainwashing had driving him ever so slightly insane (vaguely OCD), and he was driven by this obsession. Pharaoh 90, during this time, ruled all of Tau Ceti as regent. Lucifer was expected, however, to know how to be in command - there were times when the evil entity couldn't be around, and anyway, it was at least supposed to look like he was running things. Thankfully, he was a good study and had a charm about him that his father, dogged by memories of a peaceful, quiet past, never had. Insanity can give a certainty about things, and even then, the germs of it were in the back of his mind.

A time came several years later, when Pharaoh 90 decided it was time that he take over not just Tau Ceti, but other parts of the universe as well. He sent of Mistress Nine, and had her live in the body of an 8 year old do that one thing she did involving the future Sailor Saturn. Lucifer missed his beloved greatly, but was promised that she would be back soon, and Pharaoh 90 would be on earth for some time, leaving Tau Ceti in their care. Well, Pharaoh 90 left for Earth, and he came back like ten minutes later with Mistress 9, who had been mortally wounded. Lucifer was Not Happy.

Over a week passed, and she slowly died. Lucifer went into mourning for her, but continued to do as Pharaoh 90 wished. And then a few short months later, the embodiment of Chaos weakened and died. Lucifer felt his destiny come tumbling down around him and when all seemed lost, the little voice in the back of his head spoke to him and told him that everything was going to be okay, and that his Beloved had come back from the dead to help him fulfill their great destiny. She urged him to look into something that had been mentioned, fleetingly, that he'd almost forgotten about - and after a few weeks, he came across Consumption. Lucifer, in a state of ecstasy, sought out who would help him destroy reality. He left Tau Ceti in a state of confusion - all three of it's figureheads were dead, or gone, and the royal palace, where Lucifer had lived, was surrounded by a force-field (one of his inventions) to protect his other inventions. He took with him his most trusted and powerful warriors, the Witches, and left indefinitely. The planet was left in charge of the governors of the various districts - in all likelihood they'll resort to waging war on each other, leaving the planet in ruins. Lucifer doesn't care - he's kind of a sucky guy.

Current Situation: He moved to Tokyo and set up a spa, and his Planting Lies in Others Thoughts Device (or for short, the P.L.O.T. Device), so he could lure people in, and kill some of them. He joined a local association of spa providers, and has actually managed to make the Tanabata Faction within it - a group of spa providers who vote how he tells them to vote - it's great. As such, he gets good promotion for the spa, and has brought every one of the people in the association to the spa, so none of them are ever the least bit suspicious about him or his actions. He enjoys running a spa, it's less of a hassle than running a planet, but he still gets to be an authoritarian jerk!

The P.L.O.T. Device: This is a machine, hidden down in the pipe room underneath the spa, that messes with people's heads. It does a couple of different things. Firstly, it erases people's memories about anyone who ever came to the spa and never came out. So Yamada Hanako goes in with Tanaka Chihiro, and Chihiro is killed. Hanako has no memories of ever going to this place with Chihiro, of making plans about going to this place with Chihiro, or of seeing Chihiro in the past day. In fact, if anything, she'll remember Chihiro seeming "odd and distant" recently. So when Chihiro's comes up missing, suicide will be considered a possible explanation. Secondly, whenever a person goes into the spa, it inserts "What a wonderful spa this is, I must tell everyone about it." Thirdly, to anyone who thinks their might be murders going on here, it alters it so that you no longer believe this anymore. So when the police come to investigate about Chihiro's death, they come in, do their investigation and get hit with a "of course it didn't happen here, nobody was murdered here," so no matter what they see or experience they will always be proven innocent. The P.L.O.T. Device also works on senshi, erasing memories of attacks and battles after they have left.

Appearance: Generally, Lucifer's appearance stays the same. The only drastic change is clothing - he always, without fail, wears a happi coat with his spa's name on it. Always. No matter where he goes, he wears one. He also changes "things with a lot of belts" for "regular clothing," re: slacks and button-up shirts with ties. He wears the slacks and ties so as to look professional, and he wears the happi coat to look like the owner of an onsen. His tattoos all disappear because, well, if he had that many tattoos, he could basically only be a yakuza member in Japanese society. He ages to look about 35.

Personality: Tanabata Saigo is a widowed Japanese man who lived in Brazil from the time he was a grade schooler to a few months ago (it's sort of common for Japanese people to move off to South America), who came back, and from Brazil after his wife died in a tragic accident. His dead-wife?s name, though he rarely mentions it, was Orihime ("Weaving Princess," the female star in the story of Tanabata). He makes it well known that it was his wife's wish to move back to Japan someday, to open a onsen, and he came here to fulfill her wish. This describes, to most Japanese people, why his mannerisms might sometimes be off, and why nobody knows him. Because of this, however, he is seen as a highly respectable man, who continues in the face of adversity.

He's known as a sympathetic man, who greatly cared for his wife, who mourns her to this day. He's also a charming, gregarious man who tends to be well liked in the circles he moves in. He has a forceful personality, and has formed a faction in the local spa-owner's association. He works, of course, for the promotion of everyone's spas, for which he is well admired. He's also a humble man, who insists that he has many shortcomings, though he rarely mentions what, exactly, those happen to be. He's very polite.

Transformation
Phrase: none
Sequence: Lucifer raises his right hand into the air, and a silver streak flies into it from above, materializing into his gun. He lets off one shot, which causes a cascade of silver sparks to rain down around him in the shape of his symbol (lines and all, converging on the top of his head). The sparks darken and a black, star-shaped column shoots up around him about 8 feet high, obscuring him from view. It then dissolves into a series of tiny motes that quickly disappear, leaving him wholly fuku-clad. Introduction Phrase: Lucifer points his gun at his opponent and says, "So, you think to challenge the fate of the stars? It's the job of Lucifer to hush your dissenting voice." And then he probably fires a normal shot at you, because, hey, he's a villain, it's what he does.

Fuku Let's work from the head down. Lucifer, like any person who carries a six-shooter, wears a cowboy hat - it is a requirement mandated by law. He wears a silver Stetson hat, which shades his eyes. It has a black band around the crown, and it has a wide brim. Oh yeah, while wearing this, you basically cannot see much of the area around his eyes at all, it's part of the "mysterious leader of a faction" thing. Also, if you cannot see a guy's eyes, it's a shortcut for EVIL.

He wears a black, form fitting uniform top, with the collar open just a little. His shoulders have three small brass spikes on them. His symbol appears, done in silver embroidery, on his left breast. The jacket covers the top of his pants, and is not tucked in. The sleeves of this uniform only go to halfway down his forearms - and they end with tight silver buckles. There are about two inches of skin showing, and then a pair of silver colored gloves cover his hands - these also have a tight black buckle on them, at the "insert hand here" end. Around his waist and over the jacket, he wears a loose belt of silver mesh at a jaunty and fun angle, and has a holster for his gun on the right-hand side.

His pants are tight and black colored, with several silver buckles around them. Have you ever worn a harness for a high-ropes course, or wall climbing or something? It's a little like that with the first two - two silver belts go down from his waist (there is another belt that you cannot see because of the jacket) and around the insides of his thighs. (If you are a guy and have worn one of these harnesses, you know that the secret message of these things is "inappropriate!"). There are then three wide, silver belts that go around his thighs. He wears a pair of tight, black leather, steel-toed boots that his pants tuck into. These boots also have three wide silver belts on them. So, that's a total of 19 belts that you can see, and one that you cannot see in this outfit. It's a good thing that he transforms into it, or it'd take like five minutes to get into.

Shamebox, because she is my hero, drew me a fuku reference. Clix for Hawt Pix

Attacks
Name: Supernova Bullet Flare!

Effect: Lucifer points his gun at his target of choice and says, "You cannot escape the judgment of the stars." He pulls the trigger and a point of bright white light, the size of a marble, shoots out of the end and streaks towards his target. When the marble of light hits the target, it explodes in a brilliant flash of light, with nebulous tendrils streaking out from it, rather like a supernova. This supernova, however, is totally silent. Whoever is hit by this experiences extreme pressure from the exploding bit of star stuff, if it hit somebody who was frail, or who had taken a few hits already, they would probably fall unconscious, or pull one of those anime I'm-on-the-ground-and-barely-able-to-raise-my-head-I-am-so-injured sorts of things that seems to happen all the time on Sailor Moon. If this doesn't knock you out, it's going to still knock you around, and has the fun aftereffect of rendering you mute and deaf for the next three minutes. You'd think a giant exploding ball of light would make you blind, but no not this one.

Restrictions: Lucifer has to personally make these bullets, and unless he has a good reason, he usually only carries two at a time on his person. A magical shield will protect a person from this attack - a physical one, unless it is very large and thick, will not, as the bullet explodes upon impact. The radius of the explosion is large enough that it could catch up to three people, if they were close together - under most circumstances it wouldn't it more than one or two. If you are only partially hit by this, say you jump out of the way but it gets your hand, then only your hand is going to feel the large amounts of pressure; however, you will still be rendered deaf and mute for three minutes after. It hits quick and Lucifer is a good shot.

Name: Unnamed. (This is basically what it does, and if it had an actual name, nobody could ever pronounce it)

Effect: Because of the curious way the world works, typically when a senshi uses a power they call out some cute little name for it like "Haley's Comet Rod Power Smash!" When Lucifer uses this power, he forms a psychic link with his target, and becomes aware of exactly what any other person will say as they say it (not before). He then says the exact opposite of what his target is saying. Sort of like what happens when matter and anti-matter meet - the two cancel each other out (thankfully there is no explosion in this case. To almost everyone, it seems like Lucifer is just mouthing nonsense words. Only his target can hear what he's saying, and it sounds like he took words and turned them inside out and like he's saying words that nobody could possibly voice. It sounds creepy and just plain wrong - and it's the only thing this person can hear now. It sort of really scary sounding, and it becomes the only thing that person can hear. He could use this to totally cancel out cross-team banter during a fight, but more commonly it's used to keep other people from using any powers.

Restrictions: Lucifer can use this for a maximum of 2 minutes at a time, and only on one person at a time. He can switch between people for the use of this power once, but it takes ten seconds to cut the psychic link and reestablish one with a second target - so if three senshi attack him in quick succession, he could only affect one of them. He can do this up to twice an hour.

Weapon: Shooting Star Cannon Beam Gun
(By now you're maybe going "What do guns have to do with Lucifer?"
Paradise Lost by Milton, that's what. In this epic poem, Satan decides that the easiest way to defeat God is with cannons. He would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids until God's team started throwing MOUNTAINS on top of the rebellious angels. The specific verses are in Book 6 and are so opaque it's almost impossible to figure out:

"Immediate in a flame,
But soon obscur'd with smoak, all Heav'n appeerd,
From those deep-throated Engins belcht, whose roar
Emboweld with outragious noise the Air,
And all her entrails tore, disgorging foule
Thir devillish glut, chaind Thunderbolts and Hail
Of Iron Globes, which on the Victor Host
Level'd, with such impetuous furie smote,
That whom they hit, none on thir feet might stand,
Though standing else as Rocks, but down they fell
By thousands, Angel on Arch-Angel rowl'd"

Just trust me, those are cannons that Milton is writing about.)

Lucifer's weapon is a six-shooter pistol. It's a brilliant silver color, with a grip made of polished ebony wood. The butt of the gun has his symbol etched into a silver plaque. The gun is over-sized and larger than normal. I have been in no way influenced by the Dark Tower series of books in the concept of this weapon.

The Shooting Star Cannon Beam Gun shoots candlesticks star shaped blasts of black energy. It is a six-shooter, so the largest number of these he can fire off at a time is six, before reloading. When he transforms, the gun comes fully loaded, and he has another dozen bullets on his gun holster.

The effect of these star-shaped masses of energy is pretty minor. Consider being hit by one of these as having the same effect as being punched by a guy of moderate strength. It'll hurt, but unless it nails you in the face, you probably won't suffer any noticeable damage. Of course, if you took a blow to the face, it could break your nose, or at least give you a bloody one. Or, let's say you're running, running towards Lucifer and you're gonna tackle him but then he shoots at your foot just as your placing it down and then it slips out from under you and, oh no, you're falling down. Lucifer is a rather good shot.

Chaos Crisis © Minty.
Ryouga © Chris.

Writing Sample:

Weeks had gone by since he began searching, and he still hadn't figured out the meaning behind the phrase that Pharaoh 90 had dropped several years ago. Ever since Mistress 9 had come back to him, though, she had urged him to find the meaning of the word Consumption. Pharaoh 90 had said, offhandedly, as the people of Tau Ceti battled against another planet to subjugate them to the entity's will, that he feared nothing, not even Consumption, and if he was fearless, then so should be his minions.

The voice of his Beloved focused on that word, on Consumption, and as she bent her desires towards that one word, so too did he bend his. He had given up searching in any of the records that were held by Tau Ceti; if Pharaoh 90 truly had a weakness, he would not have left clues around as to what it was. Instead, he had spent his time searching the records of a half dozen planets that they had conquered in the past few years, at least two of them had been the scholarly, peaceful sort (perhaps three generations ago they would have gotten along, but no longer) of places, and they had taken quite a few of their scholarly works back with them; they had littered the storehouses of the royal palace, gathering dust (Pharaoh 90 had had little use for information, except to keep it away from others).

Pharaoh 90 had disappeared mysteriously, several months after Mistress 9 had died, and the voice began to sing in his head. As soon as Pharaoh 90 was gone, his Beloved's voice doubled in strength, urging him on to discovering what Pharaoh 90 himself could not. So he built a machine, one to search through the books and scrolls and magical texts that they'd collected. It had run, non-stop, for three weeks, and had found nothing useful. As it searched, he continued to run the planet, but this time by himself, and without the influence of Pharaoh 90, the planet began to fray at the edges, though Lucifer could not see it, so obsessed was he.

Finally, the answer came to him - Consumption was a force that weakened the power of Chaos, and rendered the souls of creatures who had gone through it to be pure enough to battle it. Pharaoh 90 was an avatar of Chaos - what happened to him was still a mystery, but perhaps this Consumption had already begun. If Lucifer could harness this power, he could force Chaos itself to obey his commands - and fulfill his destiny to destroy the life that hovered around each and every star.

"Beloved!" he cried, falling to his knees and staring at the harsh computer screen before him. "I've found it for you. We can still destroy reality together, just like we'd always planned."

The voice welled up within him, "You must avenge my death, Lucifer. And do you know where the best place to do this is, my love?"

"No, beloved, no I don't. Tell me," he said, crying tears of joy.

"There is a place of great power that lies untapped, near the center of all things; you must remember it from coming across mention of it a month ago. This is the place you must go to tap this power - surely one person from there is worth two from anywhere else. And who will you take with you?" the voice asked.

"Only those who love me most, for only in love can there ever be loyalty, you have told me this, beloved."

"And it is true," the voice replied. "But whom do you love, my darling Lucifer?"

"You, only you," he answered back in a reverie, the tears blurring his vision, turning the computer screen into a vast field of white. "Only you."

"Yes," answered Mistress 9's voice. "This is the only way for it to be."