Previously on the Hazbin House. A mission for the Immediate Murder Professionals has them travel to Royal Woods to eliminate Flip for his crimes against his former partner. However when they opened the portal to return to Imp City, something else took its place and sucked them in, taking with them a young stowaway. This boy was sent to place where an ancient prisoner now rests, the injuries he sustained beforehand being the very key needed to free the man from his shackles. With the held-back power know fully unleashed, the prisoner takes the boy and shatters the barrier separating existence from his cell. While in Hell, a living shadow spanning Hell's sky appears before the Princess of Hell and her friends. Upon arriving at the Hazbin Hotel, the same people that got out of the cell now land upon Charlotte's surprised form, gaining attention from the Radio Demon himself.
Chapter 2: The New Guests
The Hazbin Hotel, Pentagram City, Hell
Charlie has been pacing back and forth for quite some time, quite concerened about the health and well-being of the two "visitors" that proceeded to inadvertently dogpile on her. The man was still trying manifest a physical form while it was far more than a miracle that the boy has managed to stay alive after all the damage he has been dealt. She isn't the only trying to understand who they are and what has just happened a while ago. Vaggie has been sharpeneing her harpoon since coming back to the hotel, she has very deep distrust towards people of the male gender, and seeing the two fall on her with no warning is not exactly putting her in high spirits.
Angel Dust has been very twitchy, it's not from the drugs he has been taking. Since that thing appeared, he has been quite spooked. He has been under the employ of Valentino, one of the three overlords of Pentagram City, and not once has he felt that kind of dread. Their front desk clerk/bartender, Husk had been sleeping the whole time, at least until the creature's roar woke him up.
Husk is an anthropomorphic cat with a casino playing-card theme. His fur is taupe-colored, overlayed with white fur on his face, torso, feet, and upper arm. He has long red eyebrows with dark red vertical stripes near the tips, a black heart above each eyebrow, and his eyes are brown with orange Irises. His tail is brown and long, ending with some large "plume-like" fur, which is red with black and white stripes.
His wings are large in size and red, with black stripes and suits (the symbols on playing cards: diamonds, clubs, spades, and hearts) markings. The insides of his ears are white with dull pink stripes. Husk wears a black top hat with a red hatband, a golden hat decoration (being that of what looks like a button) a red bowtie, and a darker shade of taupe ankle braces.
As for Niffty the housekeeper, she's having a bit of difficulty with her work as her eye keeps drifting over to the mending boy periodically. Niffty is a small one-eyed demon, akin to a cyclops, with her eye being made up of a hot pink and orange sclera with a light yellow iris. She also has short yet fluffy pink hair with a yellow undertone. Her teeth are sharp and light yellow, and she has pink dots at each end of her mouth. Her attire is themed after the 50s, as she wears a dark pink scarf, a white shirt with pink dots (which appear to have a slight dripping design) along with a pink skirt with a poodle design and yellow dots. She also has small limbs of dark pink coloration.
As for the Radio Demon himself, he's smiling as usual, but is strangely quiet. Alastor is standing at 7". He is quite slim, with Kahki colored skin, and sharp yellow teeth. He sports a short red angled bob cut with black cowlicks extending from the top of his head, resembling deer ears, and two small black antlers which can grow in size while in his demonic form. His eyes have red scleras, bright red irises, black pupils (which can change into radio dials when in his demon form), and wears a black oval-shaped monocle over his right eye.
Alastor wears a dark red pinstriped coat which is slightly ragged along the bottom, a bright red dress shirt with a black cross on the chest underneath and long burgundy dress pants with matching bright red cuffs. He is also dressed in a red-knotted bowtie, burgundy gloves, and black pointed-toe boots with red deer hoofprints emblazoned on the soles. Alastor also carries a thin cane with a sentient vintage style microphone attached to it which he uses to play sound effects and broadcast his voice.
"Alright everyone, I think we can stop ignoring the giant elephant in the room and focus on what has just happened tonight, especially about our new guests." Alastor says, everyone's attention drifting towards him, save for the elephant demon who was entering the elevator. "Yeah, the son of a bitch that decided to wake me up from my nap with their screaming, do you how fucking hard it is to reach that good spot of your dream before someone ruins it?" Husk growls. "Not to mention he literally dropped in on Charlie. I guess that's one way to make a dramatic entrance." Angel adds, getting in a bit of a chuckle with the others, but is hit by Vaggie. "Is there anything else you want to say about them before I kick your ass again?" She threatens the spider demon. He smirks, shaking his head. "Nah, I think I'm good here."
"Guys." Charlie says, stopping her pacing and walking toward the group. "Since you three weren't there when all hell broke loose out there, pardon my wordplay, I think we should probably explain exactly what happened." She, Vaggie and Angel spend the next few minuites explaining to the trio about what transpired. Upon concluding their account, Husk gives a glance at the bottle of cheap booze he has in his posession and puts it back in the bar, a disturbed look in his eyes. Nifty is curled up into a little ball, talking to herself. Alastor mentioned that she was acting like that when it roared before.
For Alastor, his smile actually began to slightly frown for a moment, his hand growing tense. "Interesting. Very interesting. Based on your description on how they appeared and the reaction you gave, I can only suspect the two came here around roughly the same time as the monster. It's roar probably acting as a fitting distraction for them to get on the limo without anyone noticing." Alastor concludes. "Plus, considering how you did not act when they fell on you and the rate of speed on your current pacing, they or at least the eldest of them has 'gotten' to you."
Charlie flinches, "I didn't want cause any further discomfort when I landed, and I didn't know how to respond to that situation. And the pacing is because I'm hoping they pull through from their injuries." Angel and the other male demons exchange glances with each other. He hasn't even gained conciousness and he's already got her "gears" turning. Vaggie notices the glances, but doesn't notice her girlfriend's cheeks turning a tad redder. "Well then, maybe we should probably go and make a proper introduction to our new guests. Shall we?"
They head to the room they're using to keep the patients, the penthouse suite on the top floor and find the child in his bed, still fast asleep. They manage to stop all of the bleeding, but the markings across his body run too deep to heal, forever creating a picture across the canvas that is his flesh. They wrapped bandages across his chest and forehead just in case he wakes up, covering up the electrical burns. As for the other injuries, there are too many to count and they had to wing it with the treatment.
Physically he's stable, but the lack of response would suggest that there is no one home. What they find new is the IV Unit, its tube lodged into the boy's right arm. The blood in the bag is pitch black save for the dark colors pulsing in and out of its surface. If one could listen closely, one could almost hear the sounds of painful moaning and screaming.
"That wasn't here when we brought them in here." Nifty says, she tries to remove but the blood begins to vibrate violetnly and forms a face to growl back at her, sapient enough to see a threat. "And since when does blood look black, communicate like a beast, and move on its own? Seriously, who put this here?" Vaggie demands. Charlie looks to her left and notices the bed used by the older guest is empty, and somehow well-made as if it was never used. When brought to the room, his wounds were already healing at a fast rate, as the flesh from his arm had begun to reach his shoulder. "Guys, the other one is gone." she says nervously, also noticing same of the clothing she laid out for him is also missing. Angel looks out the window, Nifty checks the vent, Husk sits on the bed to have another drink while Alastor sits on a chair and continues to watch the sleeping human. The remaining two remain still. "Hon, I'm getting very unsettled by these current events, first the creature, then the guests appear out of thin air, next the blood and the man's disappearance and now this? What's gonna happen next, he's gonna appear behind us and tell us exactly what's keeping the boy asleep."
A new voice is heard directly behind them, completely calm, emotionless, patient, and falsely affable. "Speak of the devil and he shall come, Vagatha. And as for your other question, the source of his ailment is not seared across his body, but rather etched onto his very soul." They jump in surprise to find the man who fell upon the princess, now in a physical form, alive and kicking. The body seems to be some kind of twisted older reflection of the boy with a similar body to Charlie.
The body's build is younger but still the same as it was before but now with cracked pale skin wracked in a similar if not more demonic body tatoos. His hair is longer and is now a dark gray similar to volcanic ash with a small tuft sticking upward from his right side with one strand sticking up his left. There is no overbite or freckles on his face yet there is a black ring around his eyes with smaller cracks around the socket. His eyelids are black too but the most unsettling part is his eyes. He has black scalere with crimson pupils, and with pointed/slashed eyes.
The others are as spooked as they are, save for Alastor whose grin is wider. Charlie notices the pants he wore, simple black pants and some dress shoes. "Uh, hello. I see you've found what I left out for you, save for the shirt." She says. He replies in the same tone. "I did not wish to stain it with thy blood, daughter of Lucifer. I owe much to the young mortal for freeing me from my prison, what is new to you and old to me is the first of many gifts I can provide." The two step back, for he did not tell them their names or their parents. Vaggie raises her harpoon to defend Charlie, but he vanishes when they blink, reappearing by the boy's side opposite to Alastor, his hand placed on the human's heart. "When he appeared before my presence, he was as broken and lost as I was when I first fell down to this realm. It was because of him that I felt kinship and wrath once again."
"Greetings, friend. The name's Alastor. It is quite the pleasure to meet you." Alastor greets himself. The man gives a hard glance at the Radio Demon before turning back to the boy. "You have done well to heal him as much as you could. You have my thanks." "No problem, mister." Nifty replies. "Alastor taught me how to handle medical messes as well ordinary ones. But was that you said about 'eteched onto is soul'?" He creaks his head over to the group, which has clumped together when he reappeared and extends his right arm.
He opens his palm and a grey-lined heart-shaped construct fills the void his hand creates. The object his dangerously cracked and the the verge of shattering apart. The only thing holding together is the same energy from the black blood coming from the IV unit. The heart is also glitching, sometimes turning upside down. "As all sapient things, living and dead should know, the soul is the very essence of one's being..." the boy explains, "-the color and state it takes depending the thoughts and choices the person makes. As you can see here, the light that his traits once carried has been forcibly severed from its host, it's colors now turned a dark gray. Only one thing could cause heartbreak of such magnitude. Absolute betrayal." Silence fills the room, and the tension is thick enough to be cut with a meat cleaver.
Even Husk is starting to feel bad for the child now, "What kind of bastards would be able to hurt someone like him that hard?" the demon asks the boy. The only word he gives back to him is "Family." Angel Dust shakes his head in denial of this information, "I know living with a family can be difficult sometimes, but that is-" "Impossible?" The man interjects, "Under normal pretenses, you are correct. But his house is far from normal. Why do I know this? When I made direct contact with the mortal, I viewed all of his memories, his hopes and dreams, his fears and nightmares."
He raises his left hand and snaps his fingers. The room around them shifts around them, forming an illusion that they all can see. Multiple videos representing his history circle around them like a circular grid. "His name is Lincoln Loud, firstborn son and sixthborn child of Rita and Lynn Loud Sr. Brother of 10." The spider laughs at that. "Wow, and I thought my dad couldn't keep his dick in his pants." The boy ignores him. "Each sister has their own unique talents; golf, fashion, music, comedy, sports, occultisum, animals/engineering, pagentry, and science. Yet the boy could not find his own calling, forever in the shadows of his sisters, and his parents usually ignore him, their focus fixated on his more talented sisters. To get through the chaos his life brings, he devises plans, schemes and strategems to simply try and survive in his own home for less than twelve years. The probablity of success is around 50/50, with the failure meaning humiltion and pain for him while the opposite or otherwise for the sisterhood. Each one is consumed by their own respective sins; Cowardice, Dominion, Wrath, Ignorance, Despair, Madness, Pride, Doubt, Desire, Hatred and Vanity. But the sin of Pride is most prominent in the fifthborn daughter, Lynn Loud Jr."
"While eating breakfast, Lincoln learns from his sisters that they have planned activities later in the day. Because of this, Lincoln sneaks his way out of the kitchen, and next to the staircase. Lincoln then explains to the "viewers" that with ten sisters, his schedule is always filled up, and never gets a day to himself." Eyebrows are raised as he explains. "He has awareness to a 'fourth wall', hence the conversations he makes to himself. After heading upstairs, he runs into Lynn, who informs him that her softball game is coming up, and she needs the whole family to support her. Although Lincoln tries to evade out of this, he's forced into coming by Lynn threatening him with a baseball bat. At the game, the whole family cheers for Lynn, while Lincoln looks on with boredom. Lynn's team, the Squirrels, is leading 3–0, unfortunately, the next four pitches causes the rival team to score four runs, causing the Squirrels to lose 3–4. As the family heads home, Lynn overreacts and chastises Lincoln because her team was on a winning streak, but ever since he came, the streak broke. Because of this, Lynn declares Lincoln as "bad luck", and bans him from coming to her activities.
The next day, Leni wants to invite Lincoln to her activity, but Lynn interferes, and tells Leni not to bring Lincoln since he's just "bad luck". This causes Lincoln to get an idea. He convinces Leni that his presence might cause something to go wrong, and Leni immediately believes him. Leni's not exactly the brightest flame in the inferno. Pretty soon, Lincoln's little white lie spreads to the rest of the Louds, and they proceed to ban him from their activities. As a result, Lincoln now has all the time to himself. Lincoln spends his days playing video games, reading comics, and drinking milk straight out of the jug." Angel, Vaggie, and Husk look at each other, and shrug. They're demons, the thing happens all the time.
The boy continues, "Eventually, Lincoln's lie goes a little too far. Lincoln is forced into eating his breakfast in the living room, he isn't allowed to join his family going to the movies, his bedroom gets boarded up, forcing him to sleep outside, and he's not allowed to come to the beach to celebrate an achievement Rita and Lynn Sr. received." His tone becomes more irritated as he lists the outcomes. "Lincoln tries to reason with his family, but their superstitious attitudes don't convince them. Realizing his family doesn't believe him, Lincoln resorts to one last tactic."
"At Lynn's softball game, Lincoln disguises himself as the mascot of the Squirrels so he can prove that he is not bad luck. However, the Squirrels are struggling to win the game. After Lynn gets two strikes, Lincoln begins to wonder if he really is bad luck. Suddenly, Lynn manages to hit the ball, and the Squirrels end up winning the game. When Lincoln reveals himself to his family, he states since Lynn won the game while he was present this means he isn't bad luck. Seeing his point, Lynn apologizes to Lincoln for hurting his feelings for her false belief, and the rest of the family follow suit..."
Charlie begins to smile, hoping for a happy ending, but somehow he knew what she was thinking, silently shaking his head, "-but when he returned, he realized that it was but a lie of their own. Their paranoia has grown to such extremes, that as long as the bane of their lives remain imprisoned within the suit, good luck will bless them." Charlie's hand has begun to tighten its grip upon the shirt she's carrying.
"The memories past that point are far too corrupted by trauma to clearly discern, but the ones that I decipher show that they turned the suit into his own prison, even more so trapping him in a nuclear bunker like they added a form of springlock to the suit, hence the intricate scar patterns across his body, Even if he escaped, the suit would probably hunt him down and trap him inside it again. His body's still mending from the electrical burns, especially around the neck, probably an added controlled shock mechanism that is activated in case of rebellion, removal, or just because they felt like it. Somehow, someway, he manage to shortout the shock mechanism and manage to escape from both prisons at different times in the same night."
He counts the other details, "The other injuries are from the activities; golf-ball sized impact marks, alligator bite marks on his body and limbs, scratches from bat claws, tread marks by a clown car among other rutheless pranks, fist-sized impact marks one would find on a living punching bag, slightly damaged eardrums, being an unwilling human test subject, near suffocation by clothing, among other latest memories show the death of one who carries the sin of greed, brought forth by four demons who found their way to Earth through a portal incantation. The portal was opened in the right place and time, causing the portal to grow unstable and drag both infernals and human through it, as for the rest, you now already know." The boy finishes his story.
Nifty has been holding Lincoln's hand this whole time, tears streaming from her singular eye. Husk's demeanor has cracked and has not sipped a single drop of alcholol since he told his tale and now that is finished, he looks at the bottle on the table and walks away from it.
Charlie and Vaggie are silenced by the tragedy. The paranoia of luck, the twin games, the desire for isolation, the neglect of more than a decade, the last plan, and everything that happened from that day to this night. Vaggie can't believe, tears beginning to stream from her eyes. She only died around five years ago, a memory that she doesn't want to rememeber. She knows too well that humanity can be just as monstrous as the other sinners down in Hell. But the modern generation of humans, these Louds, she never knew anyone could willingly be so careless and stupid to one of their own kind, let alone their only son and brother.
As for Charlie, she looks to Lincoln, her fists growing even tighter. It was always her dream to rehabilate the denizens of Hell, give them a second chance of life and purpose, but the revelation of far more demonic attributes and deeds found in the land of the living. Her heart is split in two about the so called family that turned him into property, even the fact that the parents decided to have eleven kids in the first place. On one hand, she wants to help the boy find a better future, regardless of realm and hopefully find the spark of redemption in his sisters, but the other hand, she wants to punish them for forsaking their own humanity over a simple ideal, their whole sisterhood lifestyle, among other things...she shakes her head, how did that get in head?
Alastor says nothing, his eyes still on the sleeping boy, "So... it has come to this? A living world becoming just as infernal as our humble abode?" the Radio Demon says, surprising everyone about how characteristic it sounded. Alastor turns to the nameless storyteller, his face is as neutral as the boy is, but his hand has begun to tense. "My enigmatic friend, I deeply apologize that your new companion had to suffer such inhumanization and even demons such as myself must have, need limits and moral codes. The future of children is like a blank music sheet, the notes they write defining the symphony that is their life written with the choices they make. Yet they're own their own once they can fend for themselves, but what this so cold 'house' was beyond sin...and I once believed that sinners were horrible, yet they deserve a very special kind of hell. In fact..."
The Radio Demon starts grinning with malice as the room turns to static laced with demonic symbols. He tries to open up a portal to Earth, yet nothing happened. He snapped his fingers again, and again nothing happens. He turns to the boy to see that a shadow has quickly grown across the enitre room as it the temperature falls to colds that make ones own breath be seen. The boy silently turns, his neck slowly cracking in a disturbing way towards, nothing but evolved crimson eyes being seen, rotating and multiplying in size and style. "Patience, Alastor. Patience. They will all suffer for the sins. But killing them now, will simply give them an easy way out of what we have planned for them." He says. "The story has only just begun and I cannot have such an actor of such high prestige veer off script so soon in the first act." The darkness shrinks back into the nameless boy as his eyes turn back to normal. "I will stand by the mortal's side as a father watches over a son as well as all those who share my truth and ideals."
Minuites pass before one responds, "If you are going to make a vow that strong, you're going to need all the help you can get, and Lincoln will need a mother figure to help through whatever comes next. I will stand by the same ideals." Charlie answers, surprising everyone in the room. "Charlie, I'm begging you, you already have an 'arrangement' with Alsator, but this guy is even more dangerous than him, and even I'm surprised that I'm saying such words out loud ." Vaggie whispers to her. "Who knows what kind of deal he might try and pull you the rest of us into?" The boy coughs, "You do realize that I can hear everything that your saying, Vagatha? And no, I don't make arrangements that use bindings such as a contract. Far too many loopholes within the fine print. But if I'm going to perform my operations and duties here in this realm, The two of us might need a place to rest our heads and something productive to keep us busy. As they say, an idle mind is the devil's playground, isn't it? Plus there is something I need from you. I'm not sure how much longer I can sustain Lincoln in this state."
The group does a huddle to discuss his plea, "So guys what do you think? Give him and Lincoln a place here at the hotel?" Charlie asks, "Are you crazy?, If people ever see this kind of monster running around the city, let alone the hotel, who knows what will happen to the hotel's reputation." Vaggie retorts. "Aw.. let 'em stay here." Nifty supports the princess, "It's always to nice some new friends and I'm already thinking of activities to do with Lincoln." She chuckles, her cheeks blushing in anticipation. Husk says, "I really don't give a fuck whether they stay or not, as long as they don't piss me off or don't do some dumb and stupid shit." "This one shows great promise, and great danger should he be left to his own devices. But as they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Alastor says.
Vaggie grumbles as she nods her decision. Angel says. I should say we give them a chance, who knows. He might one of those bastards who just need some sexual healIIIIng." They look to see a leg hitting him in the balls, the leg entering a portal and starting from the man. "Sorry to intrude on your 'opinion', Anthony. But you may find me far too straight for your liking. Plus I really don't like it when people swear towards me among other things, it's a weird mental tick of mine alongside my one true sin." Vaggie just laughs at such misfortune. "Okay okay okay okay. This guy's got a sense of humor I get and he knows how to fend for himself. I say he stays." Vaggie says before changing her tune, her demon form beginning to show. "but if you do anything that may hurt the hotel's reputation and Charlie most of all. I will spend the rest of my eternity hunting you down and making sure you are erased from existence" His response is him kneeling before them as knight to his queen, "Then as one of your guests/patients, I will not lay a single finger on Ms. Magne in a hostile manner, and I will treat this hotel as if it was a home built with my own two hands."
Charlie grins and clasps her hands together, "Great! With all that settled, welcome to the Hazbin Hotel. You said you needed something to help your 'son', what was it you need?" The boy taps on the blood bag. "A pure sample of demon blood. Without a second sample with considerable strength and potency, the soul will continue to crumble until its almost impossible to repair, and his mortal coil will soon shatter. I must physically know what has happened to the realm above in order to safely procede with my operations, and view my prey." He moves to a shadowy area of the room, but stops when Charlie calls out, "Wait, how are you supposed to get out of Hell? No one ever leaves this realm. Who are you?" He turns around and stares closely into her eyes. "I have gone by many names and have been called many things. But you may call me... Satanael Première." He walks as he literally enters the shadows, leaving the demons and Lincoln.
Alastor starts thinking about the name, "Satanael, where have I learned of such a name before?" His eyes suddenly open wide with what almost looks like fear. "Al, did you remember something bad?" Nifty asks him. "No, my dear. But it seems that I have some entries that may regard to our guest's identity." He uses his power to show some entries regarding the boy.
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as either a fallen angel or a genie, who used to possess great piety and beauty, but rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons. In Judaism, Satan is typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination", or as an agent subservient to God.
A figure known as "the satan" first appears in the Tanakh as a heavenly prosecutor, a member of the sons of God subordinate to Yahweh, who prosecutes the nation of Judah in the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers by forcing them to suffer. During the intertestamental period, possibly due to influence from the Zoroastrian figure of Angra Mainyu, the satan developed into a malevolent entity with abhorrent qualities in dualistic opposition to God. In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Yahweh grants the satan (referred to as Mastema) authority over a group of fallen angels, or their offspring, to tempt humans to sin and punish them. In the Synoptic Gospels, Satan tempts Jesus in the desert and is identified as the cause of illness and temptation. In the Book of Revelation, Satan appears as a Great Red Dragon, who is defeated by Michael the Archangel and cast down from Heaven. He is later bound for one thousand years, but is briefly set free before being ultimately defeated and cast into the Lake of Fire.
In Christianity, Satan is known as the Devil and is sometimes also called Lucifer. Although the Book of Genesis does not mention him, he is often identified as the serpent in the Garden of Eden. In the Middle Ages, Satan played a minimal role in Christian theology and was used as a comic relief figure in mystery plays. During the early modern period, Satan's significance greatly increased as beliefs such as demonic possession and witchcraft became more prevalent. During the Age of Enlightenment, belief in the existence of Satan became harshly criticized.[by whom?] Nonetheless, belief in Satan has persisted, particularly in the Americas. In the Quran, Shaitan, also known as Iblis, is an entity made of fire who was cast out of Heaven because he refused to bow before the newly-created Adam and incites humans to sin by infecting their minds with waswās ("evil suggestions"). Although Satan is generally viewed as evil, some groups have very different beliefs.
In Theistic Satanism, Satan is considered a deity who is either worshipped or revered. In LaVeyan Satanism, Satan is a symbol of virtuous characteristics and liberty. Satan's appearance is never described in the Bible, but, since the ninth century, he has often been shown in Christian art with horns, cloven hooves, unusually hairy legs, and a tail, often naked and holding a pitchfork. These are an amalgam of traits derived from various pagan deities, including Pan, Poseidon, and Bes. Satan appears frequently in Christian literature, most notably in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, variants of the Faust legend, John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and the poems of William Blake. He continues to appear in film, television, and music.
Hebrew Bible
The original Hebrew term śāṭān (Hebrew: שָּׂטָן ) is a generic noun meaning "accuser" or "adversary", which is used throughout the Hebrew Bible to refer to ordinary human adversaries, as well as a specific supernatural entity. The word is derived from a verb meaning primarily "to obstruct, oppose". When it is used without the definite article (simply satan), the word can refer to any accuser, but when it is used with the definite article (ha-satan), it usually refers specifically to the heavenly accuser: the satan.
Ha-Satan with the definite article occurs 13 times in the Masoretic Text, in two books of the Hebrew Bible: Job ch. 1–2 (10×) and Zechariah 3:1–2 (3×). Satan without the definite article is used in 10 instances, of which two are translated diabolos in the Septuagint and "Satan" in the King James Version (KJV):
1 Chronicles 21:1, "Satan stood up against Israel" (KJV) or "And there standeth up an adversary against Israel" (Young's Literal Translation) Psalm 109:6b "and let Satan stand at his right hand" (KJV) or "let an accuser stand at his right hand." (ESV, etc.)
The word "satan" does not occur in the Book of Genesis, which mentions only a talking serpent and does not identify the serpent with any supernatural entity. The first occurrence of the word "satan" in the Hebrew Bible in reference to a supernatural figure comes from Numbers 22:22, which describes the Angel of Yahweh confronting Balaam on his donkey: "Balaam's departure aroused the wrath of Elohim, and the Angel of Yahweh stood in the road as a satan against him." In 2 Samuel 24, Yahweh sends the "Angel of Yahweh" to inflict a plague against Israel for three days, killing 70,000 people as punishment for David having taken a census without his approval. 1 Chronicles 21:1 repeats this story, but replaces the "Angel of Yahweh" with an entity referred to as "a satan".
Some passages clearly refer to the satan, without using the word itself. 1 Samuel 2:12 describes the sons of Eli as "sons of Belial"; the later usage of this word makes it clearly a synonym for "satan". In 1 Samuel 16:14–23 Yahweh sends a "troubling spirit" to torment King Saul as a mechanism to ingratiate David with the king. In 1 Kings 22:19–25, the prophet Micaiah describes to King Ahab a vision of Yahweh sitting on his throne surrounded by the Host of Heaven. Yahweh asks the Host which of them will lead Ahab astray. A "spirit", whose name is not specified, but who is analogous to the satan, volunteers to be "a Lying Spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets".
Book of Job
The satan appears in the Book of Job, a poetic dialogue set within a prose framework, which may have been written around the time of the Babylonian captivity. In the text, Job is a righteous man favored by Yahweh. Job 1:6–8 describes the "sons of God" (bənê hāʼĕlōhîm) presenting themselves before Yahweh. Yahweh asks one of them, "the satan", where he has been, to which he replies that he has been roaming around the earth. Yahweh asks, "Have you considered My servant Job?" The satan replies by urging Yahweh to let him torture Job, promising that Job will abandon his faith at the first tribulation. Yahweh consents; the satan destroys Job's servants and flocks, yet Job refuses to condemn Yahweh. The first scene repeats itself, with the satan presenting himself to Yahweh alongside the other "sons of God". Yahweh points out Job's continued faithfulness, to which the satan insists that more testing is necessary; Yahweh once again gives him permission to test Job. In the end, Job remains faithful and righteous, and it is implied that the satan is shamed in his defeat.
Book of Zechariah
Zechariah 3:1–7 contains a description of a vision dated to the middle of February of 519 BC, in which an angel shows Zechariah a scene of Joshua the High Priest dressed in filthy rags, representing the nation of Judah and its sins, on trial with Yahweh as the judge and the satan standing as the prosecutor. Yahweh rebukes the satan and orders for Joshua to be given clean clothes, representing Yahweh's forgiveness of Judah's sins.
Second Temple period
During the Second Temple Period, when Jews were living in the Achaemenid Empire, Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Achaemenids. Jewish conceptions of Satan were impacted by Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian god of evil, darkness, and ignorance. In the Septuagint, the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word "devil" is derived. Where satan is used to refer to human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek.
The idea of Satan as an opponent of God and a purely evil figure seems to have taken root in Jewish pseudepigrapha during the Second Temple Period, particularly in the apocalypses. The Book of Enoch, which the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed to have been nearly as popular as the Torah, describes a group of 200 angels known as the "Watchers", who are assigned to supervise the earth, but instead abandon their duties and have sexual intercourse with human women. The leader of the Watchers is Semjâzâ and another member of the group, known as Azazel, spreads sin and corruption among humankind.
The Watchers are ultimately sequestered in isolated caves across the earth and are condemned to face judgement at the end of time. The Book of Jubilees, written in around 150 BC, retells the story of the Watchers' defeat, but, in deviation from the Book of Enoch, Mastema, the "Chief of Spirits", intervenes before all of their demon offspring are sealed away, requesting for Yahweh to let him keep some of them to become his workers. Yahweh acquiesces this request and Mastema uses them to tempt humans into committing more sins, so that he may punish them for their wickedness. Later, Mastema induces Yahweh to test Abraham by ordering him to sacrifice Isaac.
The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher called Satanael. It is a pseudepigraphic text of an uncertain date and unknown authorship. The text describes Satanael as being the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven and an evil spirit who knew the difference between what was "righteous" and "sinful". In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is taken to be the being who brought death into the world, but originally the culprit was recognized as Cain. The name Samael, which is used in reference to one of the fallen angels, later became a common name for Satan in Jewish Midrash and Kabbalah.
Judaism
Most Jews do not believe in the existence of a supernatural omnimalevolent figure. Traditionalists and philosophers in medieval Judaism adhered to rational theology, rejecting any belief in rebel or fallen angels, and viewing evil as abstract. The rabbis usually interpreted the word satan as it is used in the Tanakh as referring strictly to human adversaries and rejected all of the Enochian writings mentioning Satan as a literal, heavenly figure from the biblical canon, making every attempt to root them out. Nonetheless, the word satan has occasionally been metaphorically applied to evil influences, such as the Jewish exegesis of the yetzer hara ("evil inclination") mentioned in Genesis 6:5.
The Talmudic image of Satan is contradictory. While Satan's identification with the abstract yetzer hara remains uniform over the sages' teachings, he is generally identified as an entity with divine agency. For instance, the sages considered Satan to be an angel of death that would later be called Samael, since God's prohibition on Satan killing Job implied he was even capable of doing so, yet despite this syncretization with a known heavenly body, Satan is identified as the yetzer hara in the very same passage. Satan's status as a 'physical' entity is strengthened by numerous other rabbinical anecdotes: one tale describes two separate incidents where Satan appeared as a woman in order to tempt Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Akiva into sin. Another passage describes Satan taking the form of an ill-mannered, diseased beggar in order to tempt the sage Peleimu into breaking the mitzvah of hospitality.
Rabbinical scholarship on the Book of Job generally follows the Talmud and Maimonides in identifying "the satan" from the prologue as a metaphor for the yetzer hara and not an actual entity. Satan is rarely mentioned in Tannaitic literature, but is found in Babylonian aggadah. According to a narration, the sound of the shofar, which is primarily intended to remind Jews of the importance of teshuva, is also intended symbolically to "confuse the accuser" (Satan) and prevent him from rendering any litigation to God against the Jews. Kabbalah presents Satan as an agent of God whose function is to tempt humans into sinning so that he may accuse them in the heavenly court. The Hasidic Jews of the eighteenth century associated ha-Satan with Baal Davar.
Each modern sect of Judaism has its own interpretation of Satan's identity. Conservative Judaism generally rejects the Talmudic interpretation of Satan as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, and regard him as a literal agent of God. Orthodox Judaism, on the other hand, outwardly embraces Talmudic teachings on Satan, and involves Satan in religious life far more inclusively than other sects. Satan is mentioned explicitly in some daily prayers, including during Shacharit and certain post-meal benedictions, as described in Talmud and the Jewish Code of Law. In Reform Judaism, Satan is generally seen in his Talmudic role as a metaphor for the yetzer hara and the symbolic representation of innate human qualities such as selfishness.
Christianity
Names
The most common English synonym for "Satan" is "devil", which descends from Middle English devel, from Old English dēofol, that in turn represents an early Germanic borrowing of Latin diabolus (also the source of "diabolical"). This in turn was borrowed from Greek diabolos "slanderer", from diaballein "to slander": dia- "across, through" + ballein "to hurl". In the New Testament, the words Satan and diabolos are used interchangeably as synonyms. Beelzebub, meaning "Lord of Flies", is the contemptuous name given in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to a Philistine god whose original name has been reconstructed as most probably "Ba'al Zabul", meaning "Baal the Prince". The Synoptic Gospels identify Satan and Beelzebub as the same. The name Abaddon (meaning "place of destruction") is used six times in the Old Testament, mainly as a name for one the regions of Sheol. Revelation 9:11 describes Abaddon, whose name is translated into Greek as Apollyon, meaning "the destroyer", as an angel who rules the Abyss. In modern usage, Abaddon is sometimes equated with Satan.
New Testament Gospels, Acts, and epistles
The three Synoptic Gospels all describe the temptation of Christ by Satan in the desert (Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12–13, and Luke 4:1–13). Satan first shows Jesus a stone and tells him to turn it into bread. He also takes him to the pinnacle of the Temple in Jerusalem and commands Jesus to throw himself down so that the angels will catch him. Satan takes Jesus to the top of a tall mountain as well; there, he shows him the kingdoms of the earth and promises to give them all to him if he will bow down and worship him.
Each time Jesus rebukes Satan and, after the third temptation, he is administered by the angels. Satan's promise in Matthew 4:8–9 and Luke 4:6–7 to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth implies that all those kingdoms belong to him. The fact that Jesus does not dispute Satan's promise indicates that the authors of those gospels believed this to be true.
Satan plays a role in some of the parables of Jesus, namely the Parable of the Sower, the Parable of the Weeds, Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, and the Parable of the Strong Man. According to the Parable of the Sower, Satan "profoundly influences" those who fail to understand the gospel. The latter two parables say that Satan's followers will be punished on Judgement Day, with the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats stating that the Devil, his angels, and the people who follow him will be consigned to "eternal fire".
When the Pharisees accused Jesus of exorcising demons through the power of Beelzebub, Jesus responds by telling the Parable of the Strong Man, saying: "how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house" (Matthew 12:29). The strong man in this parable represents Satan.
The Synoptic Gospels identify Satan and his demons as the causes of illness, including fever (Luke 4:39), leprosy (Luke 5:13), and arthritis (Luke 13:11–16), while the Epistle to the Hebrews describes the Devil as "him who holds the power of death" (Hebrews 2:14). The author of Luke-Acts attributes more power to Satan than both Matthew and Mark. In Luke 22:31, Jesus grants Satan the authority to test Peter and the other apostles. Luke 22:3–6 states that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus because "Satan entered" him and, in Acts 5:3, Peter describes Satan as "filling" Ananias's heart and causing him to sin.
The Gospel of John only uses the name Satan three times. In John 8:44, Jesus says that his Jewish or Judean enemies are the children of the Devil rather than the children of Abraham. The same verse describes the Devil as "a man-killer from the beginning" and "a liar and the father of lying." John 13:2 describes the Devil as inspiring Judas to betray Jesus and John 12:31–32 identifies Satan as "the Archon of this Cosmos", who is destined to be overthrown through Jesus's death and resurrection. John 16:7–8 promises that the Holy Spirit will "accuse the World concerning sin, justice, and judgement", a role resembling that of the satan in the Old Testament.
Jude 9 refers to a dispute between Michael the Archangel and the Devil over the body of Moses. Some interpreters understand this reference to be an allusion to the events described in Zechariah 3:1–2. The classical theologian Origen attributes this reference to the non-canonical Assumption of Moses. According to James H. Charlesworth, there is no evidence the surviving book of this name ever contained any such content.
Others believe it to be in the lost ending of the book. The second chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter, a pseudepigraphical letter which falsely claims to have been written by Peter, copies much of the content of the Epistle of Jude, but omits the specifics of the example regarding Michael and Satan, with 2 Peter 2:10–11 instead mentioning only an ambiguous dispute between "Angels" and "Glories". Throughout the New Testament, Satan is referred to as a "tempter" (Matthew 4:3), "the ruler of the demons" (Matthew 12:24), "the God of this Age" (2 Corinthians 4:4), "the evil one" (1 John 5:18), and "a roaring lion" (1 Peter 5:8).
Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation represents Satan as the supernatural ruler of the Roman Empire and the ultimate cause of all evil in the world. In Revelation 2:9–10, as part of the letter to the church at Smyrna, John of Patmos refers to the Jews of Smyrna as "a synagogue of Satan" and warns that "the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison as a test [peirasmos], and for ten days you will have affliction." In Revelation 2:13–14, in the letter to the church of Pergamum, John warns that Satan lives among the members of the congregation and declares that "Satan's throne" is in their midst. Pergamum was the capital of the Roman Province of Asia and "Satan's throne" may be referring to the monumental Pergamon Altar in the city, which was dedicated to the Greek god Zeus, or to a temple dedicated to the Roman emperor Augustus.
Revelation 12:3 describes a vision of a Great Red Dragon with seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns, and a massive tail, an image which is clearly inspired by the vision of the four beasts from the sea in the Book of Daniel and the Leviathan described in various Old Testament passages. The Great Red Dragon knocks "a third of the sun... a third of the moon, and a third of the stars" out the sky and pursues the Woman of the Apocalypse. Revelation 12:7–9 declares: "And war broke out in Heaven. Michael and his angels fought against Dragon. Dragon and his angels fought back, but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in Heaven. Dragon the Great was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called Devil and Satan, the one deceiving the whole inhabited World – he was thrown down to earth and his angels were thrown down with him." Then a voice booms down from Heaven heralding the defeat of "the Accuser" (ho Kantegor), identifying the Satan of Revelation with the satan of the Old Testament.
In Revelation 20:1–3, Satan is bound with a chain and hurled into the Abyss, where he is imprisoned for one thousand years. In Revelation 20:7–10, he is set free and gathers his armies along with Gog and Magog to wage war against the righteous, but is defeated with fire from Heaven, and cast into the lake of fire. Some Christians associate Satan with the number 666, which Revelation 13:18 describes as the Number of the Beast. However, the beast mentioned in Revelation 13 is not Satan, and the use of 666 in the Book of Revelation has been interpreted as a reference to the Roman Emperor Nero, as 666 is the numeric value of his name in Hebrew.
Patristic era
Despite the fact that the Book of Genesis never mentions Satan, Christians have traditionally interpreted the serpent in the Garden of Eden as Satan due to Revelation 12:7, which calls Satan "that ancient serpent". This verse, however, is probably intended to identify Satan with the Leviathan, a monstrous sea-serpent whose destruction by Yahweh is prophesied in Isaiah 27:1. The first recorded individual to identify Satan with the serpent from the Garden of Eden was the second-century AD Christian apologist Justin Martyr, in chapters 45 and 79 of his Dialogue with Trypho.
Other early church fathers to mention this identification include Theophilus and Tertullian. The early Christian Church, however, encountered opposition from pagans such as Celsus, who claimed in his treatise The True Word that "it is blasphemy... to say that the greatest God... has an adversary who constrains his capacity to do good" and said that Christians "impiously divide the kingdom of God, creating a rebellion in it, as if there were opposing factions within the divine, including one that is hostile to God".
The name Heylel, meaning "morning star" (or, in Latin, Lucifer), was a name for Attar, the god of the planet Venus in Canaanite mythology, who attempted to scale the walls of the heavenly city, but was vanquished by the god of the name is used in Isaiah 14:12 in metaphorical reference to the king of Babylon. Ezekiel 28:12–15 uses a description of a cherub in Eden as a polemic against Ithobaal II, the king of Tyre. The Church Father Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – c. 253), who was only aware of the actual text of these passages and not the original myths to which they refer, concluded in his treatise On the First Principles, which is preserved in a Latin translation by Tyrannius Rufinus, that neither of these verses could literally refer to a human being and must therefore be alluding to "a certain Angel who had received the office of governing the nation of the Tyrians," but was hurled down to Earth after he was found to be corrupt.
In his apologetic treatise Contra Celsum, however, Origen changed his interpretations of Isaiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 28:12–15, now interpreting both of them as referring to Satan. According to Henry Ansgar Kelly, Origen seems to have adopted this new interpretation to refute unnamed persons who, perhaps under the influence of Zoroastrian radical dualism, believed "that Satan's original nature was Darkness." The later Church Father Jerome (c. 347 – 420), translator of the Latin Vulgate, accepted Origen's theory of Satan as a fallen angel and wrote about it in his commentary on the Book of Isaiah. In Christian tradition ever since, both Isaiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 28:12–15 have been understood as allegorically referring to Satan. For most Christians, Satan has been regarded as an angel who rebelled against God.
According to the ransom theory of atonement, which was popular among early Christian theologians, Satan gained power over humanity through Adam and Eve's sin and Christ's death on the cross was a ransom to Satan in exchange for humanity's liberation. This theory holds that Satan was tricked by God because Christ was not only free of sin, but also the incarnate Deity, whom Satan lacked the ability to enslave.
Irenaeus of Lyons described a prototypical form of the ransom theory, but Origen was the first to propose it in its fully developed form. The theory was later expanded by theologians such as Gregory of Nyssa and Rufinus of Aquileia. In the eleventh century, Anselm of Canterbury criticized the ransom theory, along with the associated Christus Victor theory, resulting in the theory's decline in western Europe. The theory has nonetheless retained some of its popularity in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Most early Christians firmly believed that Satan and his demons had the power to possess humans and exorcisms were widely practiced by Jews, Christians, and pagans alike. Belief in demonic possession continued through the Middle Ages into the early modern period. Exorcisms were seen as a display of God's power over Satan. The vast majority of people who thought they were possessed by the Devil did not suffer from hallucinations or other "spectacular symptoms", but "complained of anxiety, religious fears, and evil thoughts."
Middle Ages
Satan had minimal role in medieval Christian theology, but he frequently appeared as a recurring comedic stock character in late medieval mystery plays, in which he was portrayed as a comic relief figure who "frolicked, fell, and farted in the background". Jeffrey Burton Russell describes the medieval conception of Satan as "more pathetic and repulsive than terrifying" and he was seen as little more than a nuisance to God's overarching plan. The Golden Legend, a collection of saints' lives compiled in around 1260 by the Dominican Friar Jacobus da Varagine, contains numerous stories about encounters between saints and Satan, in which Satan is constantly duped by the saints' cleverness and by the power of God. Henry Ansgar Kelly remarks that Satan "comes across as the opposite of fearsome." The Golden Legend was the most popular book during the High and Late Middle Ages and more manuscripts of it have survived from the period than for any other book, including even the Bible itself.
The Canon Episcopi, written in the eleventh century AD, condemns belief in witchcraft as heretical, but also documents that many people at the time apparently believed in it. Witches were believed to fly through the air on broomsticks, consort with demons, perform in "lurid sexual rituals" in the forests, murder human infants and eat them as part of Satanic rites, and engage in conjugal relations with demons. In 1326, Pope John XXII issued the papal bull Super illius Specula, which condemned folk divination practices as consultation with Satan. By the 1430s, the Catholic Church began to regard witchcraft as part of a vast conspiracy led by Satan himself.
Early modern period
During the Early Modern Period, Christians gradually began to regard Satan as increasingly powerful and the fear of Satan's power became a dominant aspect of the worldview of Christians across Europe. During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther taught that, rather than trying to argue with Satan, Christians should avoid temptation altogether by seeking out pleasant company; Luther especially recommended music as a safeguard against temptation, since the Devil "cannot endure gaiety." John Calvin repeated a maxim from Saint Augustine that "Man is like a horse, with either God or the devil as rider."
In the late fifteenth century, a series of witchcraft panics erupted in France and Germany. The German Inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger argued in their book Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1487, that all maleficia ("sorcery") was rooted in the work of Satan. In the mid-sixteenth century, the panic spread to England and Switzerland. Both Protestants and Catholics alike firmly believed in witchcraft as a real phenomenon and supported its prosecution.
In the late 1500s, the Dutch demonologist Johann Weyer argued in his treatise De praestigiis daemonum that witchcraft did not exist, but that Satan promoted belief in it to lead Christians astray. The panic over witchcraft intensified in the 1620s and continued until the end of the 1600s. Brian Levack estimates that around 60,000 people were executed for witchcraft during the entire span of the witchcraft hysteria.
The early English settlers of North America, especially the Puritans of New England, believed that Satan "visibly and palpably" reigned in the New World. John Winthrop claimed that the Devil made rebellious Puritan women give birth to stillborn monsters with claws, sharp horns, and "on each foot three claws, like a young fowl." Cotton Mather wrote that devils swarmed around Puritan settlements "like the frogs of Egypt". The Puritans believed that the Native Americans were worshippers of Satan and described them as "children of the Devil".
Some settlers claimed to have seen Satan himself appear in the flesh at native ceremonies. During the First Great Awakening, the "new light" preachers portrayed their "old light" critics as ministers of Satan. By the time of the Second Great Awakening, Satan's primary role in American evangelicalism was as the opponent of the evangelical movement itself, who spent most of his time trying to hinder the ministries of evangelical preachers, a role he has largely retained among present-day American fundamentalists.
By the early 1600s, skeptics in Europe, including the English author Reginald Scot and the Anglican bishop John Bancroft, had begun to criticize the belief that demons still had the power to possess people. This skepticism was bolstered by the belief that miracles only occurred during the Apostolic Age, which had long since ended. Later, Enlightenment thinkers, such as David Hume, Denis Diderot, and Voltaire, attacked the notion of Satan's existence altogether.
Voltaire labelled John Milton's Paradise Lost a "disgusting fantasy" and declared that belief in Hell and Satan were among the many lies propagated by the Catholic Church to keep humanity enslaved. By the eighteenth century, trials for witchcraft had ceased in most western countries, with the notable exceptions of Poland and Hungary, where they continued. Belief in the power of Satan, however, remained strong among traditional Christians.
Modern era
Mormonism developed its own views on Satan. According to the Book of Moses, the Devil offered to be the redeemer of mankind for the sake of his own glory. Conversely, Jesus offered to be the redeemer of mankind so that his father's will would be done. After his offer was rejected, Satan became rebellious and was subsequently cast out of heaven. In the Book of Moses, Cain is said to have "loved Satan more than God" and conspired with Satan to kill Abel. It was through this pact that Cain became a Master Mahan. The Book of Moses also says that Moses was tempted by Satan before calling upon the name of the "Only Begotten", which caused Satan to depart. Douglas Davies asserts that this text "reflects" the temptation of Jesus in the Bible.
Belief in Satan and demonic possession remains strong among Christians in the United States and Latin America. According to a 2013 poll conducted by YouGov, fifty-seven percent of people in the United States believe in a literal Devil, compared to eighteen percent of people in Britain. Fifty-one percent of Americans believe that Satan has the power to possess people. W. Scott Poole, author of Satan in America: The Devil We Know, has opined that "In the United States over the last forty to fifty years, a composite image of Satan has emerged that borrows from both popular culture and theological sources" and that most American Christians do not "separate what they know [about Satan] from the movies from what they know from various ecclesiastical and theological traditions."
The Catholic Church generally played down Satan and exorcism during late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, but Pope Francis brought renewed focus on the Devil in the early 2010s, stating, among many other pronouncements, that "The devil is intelligent, he knows more theology than all the theologians together." According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, liberal Christianity tends to view Satan "as a [figurative] mythological attempt to express the reality and extent of evil in the universe, existing outside and apart from humanity but profoundly influencing the human sphere."
Bernard McGinn describes multiple traditions detailing the relationship between the Antichrist and Satan. In the dualist approach, Satan will become incarnate in the Antichrist, just as God became incarnate in Jesus. However, in Orthodox Christian thought, this view is problematic because it is too similar to Christ's incarnation. Instead, the "indwelling" view has become more accepted, which stipulates that the Antichrist is a human figure inhabited by Satan, since the latter's power is not to be seen as equivalent to God's.
The Arabic equivalent of the word Satan is Shaitan (شيطان, from the root šṭn شط ن). The word itself is an adjective (meaning "astray" or "distant", sometimes translated as "devil") that can be applied to both man ("al-ins", الإنس) and al-jinn (الجن), but it is also used in reference to Satan in particular. In the Quran, Satan's name is Iblis (Arabic pronunciation: [ˈibliːs]), probably a derivative of the Greek word diabolos. Muslims do not regard Satan as the cause of evil, but as a tempter, who takes advantage of humans' inclinations toward self-centeredness.
Quran
Seven suras in the Quran describe how God ordered all the angels and Iblis to bow before the newly-created Adam. All the angels bowed, but Iblis refused, claiming to be superior to Adam because he was made from fire; whereas Adam was made from clay (7:12). Consequently, God expelled him from Paradise and condemned him to Jahannam. Iblis thereafter became a kafir, "an ungrateful disbeliever", whose sole mission is to lead humanity astray. God allows Iblis to do this, because he knows that the righteous will be able to resist Iblis's attempts to misguide them. On Judgement Day, while the lot of Satan remains in question, those who followed him will be thrown into the fires of Jahannam. After his banishment from Paradise, Iblis, who thereafter became known as Al-Shaitan ("the Demon"), lured Adam and Eve into eating the fruit from the forbidden tree.
The primary characteristic of Satan, aside from his hubris and despair, is his ability to cast evil suggestions (waswās) into men and women. 15:45 states that Satan has no influence over the righteous, but that those who fall in error are under his power. 7:156 implies that those who obey God's laws are immune to the temptations of Satan. 56:79 warns that Satan tries to keep Muslims from reading the Quran and 16:98–100 recommends reciting the Quran as an antidote against Satan. 35:6 refers to Satan as the enemy of humanity and 36:60 forbids humans from worshipping him. In the Quranic retelling of the story of Job, Job knows that Satan is the one tormenting him.
Islamic tradition
Affiliation
In the Quran, Satan is apparently an angel, but, in 18:50, he is described as "from the jinns". This, combined with the fact that he describes himself as having been made from fire, posed a major problem for Muslims exegetes of the Quran, who disagree on whether Satan is a fallen angel or the leader of a group of evil jinn. According to a hadith from Ibn Abbas, Iblis was actually an angel whom God created out of fire. Ibn Abbas asserts that the word jinn could be applied to earthly jinn, but also to "fiery angels" like Satan.
Hasan of Basra, an eminent Muslim theologian who lived in the seventh century AD, was quoted as saying: "Iblis was not an angel even for the time of an eye wink. He is the origin of Jinn as Adam is of Mankind." The medieval Persian scholar Abu Al-Zamakhshari states that the words angels and jinn are synonyms. Another Persian scholar, Al-Baydawi, instead argues that Satan hoped to be an angel, but that his actions made him a jinn. Other Islamic scholars argue that Satan was a jinn who was admitted into Paradise as a reward for his righteousness and, unlike the angels, was given the choice to obey or disobey God. When he was expelled from Paradise, Satan blamed humanity for his punishment. Concerning the fiery origin of Iblis, Zakariya al-Qazwini and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibshīhī state that all supernatural creatures originated from fire but the angels from its light and the jinn from its blaze, thus fire denotes a disembodiment origin of all spiritual entities. Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi argued that only the angels of mercy are created from light, but angels of punishment have been created from fire.
The Muslim historian Al-Tabari, who died in around 923 AD, writes that, before Adam was created, earthly jinn made of smokeless fire roamed the earth and spread corruption. He further relates that Iblis was originally an angel named Azazil or Al-Harith, from a group of angels, created from the fires of simoom, sent by God to confront the earthly jinn.
Azazil defeated the jinn in battle and drove them into the mountains, but he became convinced that he was superior to humans and all the other angels, leading to his downfall. In this account, Azazil's group of angels were called jinn because they guarded Jannah (Paradise). In another tradition recorded by Al-Tabari, Satan was one of the earthly jinn, who was taken captive by the angels and brought to Heaven as a prisoner. God appointed him as judge over the other jinn and he became known as Al-Hakam. He fulfilled his duty for a thousand years before growing negligent, but was rehabilitated again and resumed his position until his refusal to bow before Adam.
Other traditions
During the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims almost unanimously accepted the traditional story known as the Satanic Verses as true. According to this narrative, Muhammad was told by Satan to add words to the Quran which would allow Muslims to pray for the intercession of pagan goddesses. He mistook the words of Satan for divine inspiration. Modern Muslims almost universally reject this story as heretical, as it calls the integrity of the Quran into question.
On the third day of the Hajj, Muslim pilgrims to Mecca throw seven stones at a pillar known as the Jamrah al-'Aqabah, symbolizing the stoning of the Devil. This ritual is based on the Islamic tradition that, when God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael, Satan tempted him three times not to do it, and, each time, Abraham responded by throwing seven stones at him.
The hadith teach that newborn babies cry because Satan touches them while they are being born, and that this touch causes people to have an aptitude for sin. This doctrine bears some similarities to the doctrine of original sin. Muslim tradition holds that only Jesus and Mary were not touched by Satan at birth. However, when he was a boy, Muhammad's heart was literally opened by an angel, who removed a black clot that symbolized sin.
Muslim tradition preserves a number of stories involving dialogues between Jesus and Iblis, all of which are intended to demonstrate Jesus's virtue and Satan's depravity. Ahmad ibn Hanbal records an Islamic retelling of Jesus's temptation by Satan in the desert from the Synoptic Gospels. Ahmad quotes Jesus as saying, "The greatest sin is love of the world. Women are the ropes of Satan. Wine is the key to every evil."
Abu Uthman al-Jahiz credits Jesus with saying, "The world is Satan's farm, and its people are his plowmen." Al-Ghazali tells an anecdote about how Jesus went out one day and saw Satan carrying ashes and honey; when he asked what they were for, Satan replied, "The honey I put on the lips of backbiters so that they achieve their aim. The ashes I put on the faces of orphans, so that people come to dislike them." The thirteenth-century scholar Sibt ibn al-Jawzi states that, when Jesus asked him what truly broke his back, Satan replied, "The neighing of horses in the cause of Allah."
Muslims believe that Satan is also the cause of deceptions originating from the mind and desires for evil. He is regarded as a cosmic force for separation, despair and spiritual envelopment. Muslims do distinguish between the satanic temptations and the murmurings of the bodily lower self (Nafs). The lower self commands the person to do a specific task or to fulfill a specific desire; whereas the inspirations of Satan tempt the person to do evil in general and, after a person successfully resists his first suggestion, Satan returns with new ones. If a Muslim feels that Satan is inciting him to sin, he is advised to seek refuge with God by reciting: "In the name of Allah, I seek refuge in you, from Satan the outcast." Muslims are also obliged to "seek refuge" before reciting the Quran.
Islamic mysticism
According to Sufi mysticism, Iblis refused to bow to Adam because he was fully devoted to God alone and refused to bow to anyone else. For this reason, Sufi masters regard Satan and Muhammad as the two most perfect monotheists. Sufis reject the concept of dualism and instead believe in the unity of existence. In the same way that Muhammad was the instrument of God's mercy, Sufis regard Satan as the instrument of God's wrath.
For the Muslim Sufi scholar Ahmad Ghazali Iblis was the paragon of lovers in self sacrifice for refusing to bow down to Adam out of pure devotion to God Ahmad Ghazali's student Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir was among the Sunni Muslim mystics who defended Iblis, asserted that evil was also God's creation, Sheikh Adi argued that if evil existed without the will of God then God would be powerless and a powerlessness can't be attributed to God
However, not all Muslim Sufi mystics are in agreement with a positive depiction of Iblis. Rumi's viewpoint on Iblis is much more in tune with Islamic orthodoxy. Rumi views Iblis as the manifestation of the great sins of haughtiness and envy. He states: "(Cunning) intelligence is from Iblis, and love from Adam."
Baháʼí Faith
In the Baháʼí Faith, Satan is not regarded as an independent evil power as he is in some faiths, but signifies the lower nature of humans. `Abdu'l-Bahá explains: "This lower nature in man is symbolized as Satan—the evil ego within us, not an evil personality outside." All other evil spirits described in various faith traditions—such as fallen angels, demons, and jinns—are also metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God. Actions, that are described as "satanic" in some Baháʼí writings, denote humans deeds caused by selfish desires.
Satanism Theistic Satanism
Theistic Satanism, commonly referred to as "devil worship", views Satan as a deity, whom individuals may supplicate to. It consists of loosely affiliated or independent groups and cabals, which all agree that Satan is a real entity.
Atheistic Satanism
Atheistic Satanism, as practiced by the Satanic Temple and by followers of LaVeyan Satanism, holds that Satan does not exist as a literal anthropomorphic entity, but rather as a symbol of a cosmos which Satanists perceive to be permeated and motivated by a force that has been given many names by humans over the course of time. In this religion, "Satan" is not viewed or depicted as a hubristic, irrational, and fraudulent creature, but rather is revered with Prometheus-like attributes, symbolizing liberty and individual empowerment.
To adherents, he also serves as a conceptual framework and an external metaphorical projection of the Satanist's highest personal potential. In his essay "Satanism: The Feared Religion", the current High Priest of the Church of Satan, Peter H. Gilmore, further expounds that "...Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. The reality behind Satan is simply the dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshiped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will".
LaVeyan Satanists embrace the original etymological meaning of the word "Satan" (Hebrew: שָּׂטָן satan, meaning "adversary"). According to Peter H. Gilmore, "The Church of Satan has chosen Satan as its primary symbol because in Hebrew it means adversary, opposer, one to accuse or question. We see ourselves as being these Satans; the adversaries, opposers and accusers of all spiritual belief systems that would try to hamper enjoyment of our life as a human being."
Post-LaVeyan Satanists, like the adherents of The Satanic Temple, argue that the human animal has a natural altruistic and communal tendency, and frame Satan as a figure of struggle against injustice and activism. They also believe in bodily autonomy, that personal beliefs should conform to science and inspire nobility, and that people should atone for their mistakes.
Allegations of worship
The main deity in the tentatively Indo-European pantheon of the Yazidis, Melek Taus, is similar to the devil in Christian and Islamic traditions, as he refused to bow down before humanity. Therefore, Christians and Muslims often consider Melek Taus to be Satan. However, rather than being Satanic, Yazidism can be understood as a remnant of a pre-Islamic Middle Eastern Indo-European religion, and/or a ghulat Sufi movement founded by Shaykh Adi. In fact, there is no entity in Yazidism which represents evil in opposition to God; such dualism is rejected by Yazidis.
In the Middle Ages, the Cathars, practitioners of a dualistic religion, were accused of worshipping Satan by the Catholic Church. Pope Gregory IX stated in his work Vox in Rama that the Cathars believed that God had erred in casting Lucifer out of heaven and that Lucifer would return to reward his faithful. On the other hand, according to Catharism, the creator god of the material world worshipped by the Catholic Church is actually Satan.
Wicca is a modern, syncretic Neopagan religion, whose practitioners many Christians have incorrectly assumed to worship Satan. In actuality, Wiccans do not believe in the existence of Satan or any analogous figure and have repeatedly and emphatically rejected the notion that they venerate such an entity. The cult of the skeletal figure of Santa Muerte, which has grown exponentially in Mexico, has been denounced by the Catholic Church as Devil-worship. However, devotees of Santa Muerte view her as an angel of death created by God, and many of them identify as Catholic.
Much modern folklore about Satanism does not originate from the actual beliefs or practices of theistic or atheistic Satanists, but rather from a mixture of medieval Christian folk beliefs, political or sociological conspiracy theories, and contemporary urban legends. An example is the Satanic ritual abuse scare of the 1980s—beginning with the memoir Michelle Remembers—which depicted Satanism as a vast conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child abuse and human sacrifice. This genre frequently describes Satan as physically incarnating in order to receive worship.
In culture
In literature
If he was once as handsome as he now is ugly and, despite that, raised his brows against his Maker, one can understand,
how every sorrow has its source in him!
— Dante in Inferno, Canto XXXIV (Verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum)
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
— Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost Book I, lines 261–263
In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Satan appears as a giant demon, frozen mid-breast in ice at the center of the Ninth Circle of Hell. Satan has three faces and a pair of bat-like wings affixed under each chin. In his three mouths, Satan gnaws on Brutus, Judas Iscariot, and Cassius, whom Dante regarded as having betrayed the "two greatest heroes of the human race": Julius Caesar, the founder of the new order of government, and Jesus, the founder of the new order of religion. As Satan beats his wings, he creates a cold wind that continues to freeze the ice surrounding him and the other sinners in the Ninth Circle. Dante and Virgil climb up Satan's shaggy legs until gravity is reversed and they fall through the earth into the southern hemisphere.
Satan appears in several stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, including "The Summoner's Prologue", in which a friar arrives in Hell and sees no other friars, but is told there are millions. Then Satan lifts his tail to reveal that all of the friars live inside his anus. Chaucer's description of Satan's appearance is clearly based on Dante's. The legend of Faust, recorded in the 1589 chapbook The History of the Damnable Life and the Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, concerns a pact allegedly made by the German scholar Johann Georg Faust with a demon named Mephistopheles agreeing to sell his soul to Satan in exchange for twenty-four years of earthly pleasure. This chapbook became the source for Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost features Satan as its main protagonist. Milton portrays Satan as a tragic antihero destroyed by his own hubris. The poem, which draws extensive inspiration from Greek tragedy, recreates Satan as a complex literary character, who dares to rebel against the "tyranny" of God, in spite of God's own omnipotence. The English poet and painter William Blake famously quipped that "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils party without knowing it." Paradise Regained, the sequel to Paradise Lost, is a retelling of Satan's temptation of Jesus in the desert.
William Blake regarded Satan as a model of rebellion against unjust authority and features him in many of his poems and illustrations, including his 1780 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in which Satan is celebrated as the ultimate rebel, the incarnation of human emotion and the epitome of freedom from all forms of reason and orthodoxy. Based on the Biblical passages portraying Satan as the accuser of sin, Blake interpreted Satan as "a promulgator of moral laws."
In visual art
Satan's appearance does not appear in the Bible or in early Christian writings, though Paul the Apostle does write that "Satan disguises himself as an angel of light" (2 Corinthians 11:14). The Devil was never shown in early Christian artwork and may have first appeared in the sixth century in one of the mosaics of the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo. The mosaic "Christ the Good Sheppard" features a blue-violet angel at the left hand side of Christ behind three goats; opposite to a red angel on the right hand side and in front of sheep. Depictions of the devil became more common in the ninth century, where he is shown with cloven hooves, hairy legs, the tail of a goat, pointed ears, a beard, a flat nose, and a set of horns. Satan may have first become associated with goats through the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, recorded in Matthew 25:31–46, in which Jesus separates sheep (representing the saved) from goats (representing the damned); the damned are thrown into a hell along with "the devil and his angels."
Medieval Christians were known to adapt previously existing pagan iconography to suit depictions of Christian figures. Much of Satan's traditional iconography in Christianity appears to be derived from Pan, a rustic, goat-legged fertility god in ancient Greek religion. Early Christian writers such as Saint Jerome equated the Greek satyrs and the Roman fauns, whom Pan resembled, with demons.
The Devil's pitchfork appears to have been adapted from the trident wielded by the Greek god Poseidon and Satan's flame-like hair seems to have originated from the Egyptian god Bes. By the High Middle Ages, Satan and devils appear in all works of Christian art: in paintings, sculptures, and on cathedrals. Satan is usually depicted naked, but his genitals are rarely shown and are often covered by animal goat-like portrayal of Satan was especially closely associated with him in his role as the object of worship by sorcerers and as the incubus, a demon believed to rape human women in their sleep.
Italian frescoes from the late Middle Ages onward frequently show Satan chained in Hell, feeding on the bodies of the perpetually damned. These frescoes are early enough to have inspired Dante's portrayal in his Inferno. As the serpent in the Garden of Eden, Satan is often shown as a snake with arms and legs as well the head and full-breasted upper torso of a woman.
Satan and his demons could take any form in medieval art, but, when appearing in their true form, they were often shown as short, hairy, black-skinned humanoids with clawed and bird feet and extra faces on their chests, bellies, genitals, buttocks, and tails. The modern popular culture image of Satan as a well-dressed gentleman with small horns and a tail originates from portrayals of Mephistopheles in the operas La damnation de Faust (1846) by Hector Berlioz, Mefistofele (1868) by Arrigo Boito, and Faust by Charles Gounod.
In film and television
The Devil is depicted as a vampire bat in Georges Méliès' The Haunted Castle (1896), which is often considered the first horror film. So-called "Black Masses" have been portrayed in sensationalist B-movies since the 1960s. One of the first films to portray such a ritual was the 1965 film Eye of the Devil, also known as 13. Alex Sanders, a former black magician, served as a consultant on the film to ensure that the rituals portrayed in it were depicted accurately. Over the next thirty years, the novels of Dennis Wheatley and the films of Hammer Film Productions both played a major role in shaping the popular image of Satanism.
The film version of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby established made Satanic themes a staple of mainstream horror fiction. Later films such as The Exorcist (1973), The Omen (1976) and Angel Heart (1987) feature Satan as an antagonist.
In music
References to Satan in music can be dated back to the Middle Ages. During the fifth century, a musical interval called the tritone became known as "the devil in Music" and was banned by the Catholic Church. Giuseppe Tartini was inspired to write his most famous work, the Violin Sonata in G minor, also known as "The Devil's Trill", after dreaming of the Devil playing the violin. Tartini claimed that the sonata was a lesser imitation of what the Devil had played in his dream. Niccolò Paganini was believed to have derived his musical talent from a deal with the Devil. Charles Gounod's Faust features a narrative that involves Satan.
In the early 1900s, jazz and blues became known as the "Devil's Music" as they were considered "dangerous and unholy". According to legend, blues musician Tommy Johnson was a terrible guitarist before exchanging his soul to the Devil for a guitar. Later, Robert Johnson claimed that he had sold his soul in return for becoming a great blues guitarist. Satanic symbolism appears in rock music from the 1960s. Mick Jagger assumes the role of Lucifer in the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968), while Black Sabbath portrayed the Devil in numerous songs, including "War Pigs" (1970) and "N.I.B." (1970).
"And as for the name in question. In the second Book of Enoch, Satanael, also known as Sataniel or Satanail, is mentioned as an archangel that lead the fallen angels that rebelled against God, by refusing to bow to the human Enoch, leading to his imprisonment. Due to his name and role, he is considered an interpretation of Lucifer. In some Gnostic traditions, Satanael is said to be an angel that once served Yaldabaoth; an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe.
He rebelled when he realized that Yaldabaoth was not the true God and granted humanity the knowledge to liberate themselves from Yaldabaoth. In other traditions, he is said to have created the material universe as a second heaven to rule over and became the "God" of the Old Testament, making him an interpretation of Yaldabaoth.
According to the beliefs of the Cathars, a notorious medieval heretical creed, Satanael (or Satanel) was the angelic name of Satan before Michael the archangel removed the -el suffix (signifying the loss of his angelic nature) and sealed him in Hell. In this interpretation, Satanael is the radical opposite of God and the ruler of the material world. The surname is french for 'first', like how Magne means 'great'.
I have only one other piece of information, one has said that each individual shown in this entry are but different incarnations or descendants, pieces of a far greater evil, like your father Charlie. No one has ever known his true name, nor the reason behind his imprisonment. But they say that he could only be released by one who has experienced absolute betrayal, and what follows is a harbinger in the form of the Onyx Shadow, and after that... is something relating to the very end of all things." Alastor finishes.
Angel Dust, Husk and Nifty all think the same thing. "Wow, I never pegged you for a storyteller, Al. You should probably write some books one day." Angel says, quite impressed with the research he did about him. Husk still doesn't give a damn about all this. "I'm already wrapped in one bad end of a deal, but I'm sure as hell draw the line with two." Nifty still fixated on Lincoln. Charlie and Vaggie remained silent. For Vagatha, this only confirms her suspicion. Not only is their guest basically a god in this realm, but his dramatic entrance, the giant eye, the human's arrival in Hell matches the final entry. She only hopes, nay prays that this is merely a coincidence.
But for Charlie, she sees an idea. If Alastor's research is true, then if she could rehabilitate him... then there is hope for demonkind to survive the exterminations. She glances at the shadowed area that he vanished into, hoping that he finds what he needs.
1216 Franklin Ave. Royal Woods, Michigan, USA, North America, Earth
The exterior of the house is painted white, with a black colored roof, a porch on the front side, a chimney running up the left side of the house, and a garage on the right side. The walls of the basement are made of red bricks.
In "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, House," it is revealed where they live.
According to the episode "Homespun," the house suffers from faulty water pressure, creaky floorboards, rotting wood, a clunky furnace, crummy TV signals, doorknobs that frequently break off from their doors, a malfunctioning mailbox, and a broken doorbell.
First floor
Living Room
The carpet of the living room is green, the walls are beige, and the couch and chairs are dark blue. The living room also has a fireplace and a brown coffee living room is usually where the Loud family congregates. In it is a television set, that includes a DVD player, video game console, and a couch and chairs to watch it on.
According to Lincoln in "The Sweet Spot", the couch has a "sweet spot" (i.e. best place to sit), similar to Vanzilla.
Dining Room
The dining room has the same green carpeting as the living room, but its walls are baby blue. It has a long table covered by a white table cloth, and twelve black dining room is where the Loud family congregates for eating meals. Initially, only those over Lincoln's age ate there, but now, the entire family eats in the dining room.
Kitchen
The kitchen has yellow walls and a black and white checkered floor. The back door and basement stairs are in the kitchen is where the family's meals are made. In it is a stove, oven, sink, dishwasher, refrigerator and a small table where the youngest members of the Loud family used to eat, as well as Lily's highchair.
Rita and Lynn Sr.'s room
This room is where Rita and Lynn Sr. sleep. Unlike the other bedrooms, theirs is located on the first floor. It has a closet where they keep their clothes, including Lynn Sr.'s tie collection. In "Pipe Dreams," the closet was transformed into a newly designed bathroom but had to be converted back to normal after being damaged. Their bedroom has beige walls and lilac carpet.
This room is where Lori and Leni sleep. In the room is a dresser, a chair, and a sewing machine. There are some posters pasted on the walls, and on the ceiling there are holiday lights. When the Loud kids are having a meeting, they generally do it in this room, as seen in "In Tents Debate," "One of the Boys," and "A Tattler's Tale", however they occasionally hold meetings elsewhere. Their room has baby blue walls and dark blue carpeting. Lori's bed has a blue blanket, while Leni's bed has a pink blanket. As of Season 5, Lori now sleeps in her dorm at college, but she would likely sleep in this room if she came back on weekends.
Luna and Luan's room
This room contains a double-decker bunk bed for Luna and Luan to sleep on (Luna in the top bunk and Luan in the bottom bunk). The room contains a drum set and some amps for Luna, a record player, and a bean-bag chair. It has a boxing glove on the wall, and the letters on the bottom say, "DO NOT PUSH." Luan has a shelf of her props such as a whoopee cushion, a fake spider, and fake dog poop. She also keeps videos of her family's embarrassing moments in her and Luna's closet, but does not upload them without the person's permission. There is also a small stage where Luan tells her jokes.
Lynn and Lucy's room
This room is where Lynn and Lucy sleep. Lynn has pennants hanging on her side of the room, while Lucy's side has a mirror, and a writing desk. They have light grey walls and dark grey carpet. Lynn's bed has a red blanket, while Lucy's has a black blanket and also has a high frame. Lynn and Lucy's curtains also don't match: one curtain is red while the other is black.
Lana and Lola's room
The twins' bedroom contains Lana and Lola's beds, the latter's a draped canopy bed to go with her princess obsession and the former's a generic bed with a teal blanket. Also in the room is a play kitchen, a tea set, and a terrarium next to Lana's bed (belonging to Hops). Their room has pink walls, light puce carpet, and a window with lilac curtains.
Lisa and Lily's room
This bedroom contains Lisa's bed, and Lily's crib. It also has a desk where Lisa concocts various potions and formulas and a small pink rug. The carpet is dark green (as is Lisa's blanket) and the walls are light green. In the first four seasons, Lily also had a changing table in this room.
Bathroom
The bathroom is located at the end of the kids' hallway, opposite to Lincoln's old room at the other end. In it is the shower, toilet and sink. It looks to be the only bathroom in the entire house. It has blue-grey walls and a black and white checkered floor.
Hallway
There is a hallway between all the rooms on the second floor with Lincoln's old room at one end and the bathroom at the other. It has a wooden floor with a long red rug, and its walls are yellow and beige. The door to the attic and the stairway to the first floor are also accessible via the hallway and it contains a houseplant.
Third floor
The third floor is an attic that is located above the second floor. It is accessible by climbing a fold-up ladder through a door above the kids' hallway. Up there are located some old objects such as games, boxes, an old-fashioned television set and Lynn Sr.'s old camera. The kids' parents also keep stored there Lucy had a secret dark place in there. There is also a cardboard box full of hand-me-downed clothes. The farthest back corner of the attic has no windows, which Lincoln finds a bit creepy due to the lack of light.
Basement
The basement is accessible via a door in the kitchen. Inside of it is the family's washer and dryer, the radiator, Cliff's scratching post and the fusebox. It can be dark down there unless one goes down and turns on the light, which is the reason why the children are a bit afraid of going down there at night. Before El Diablo, Lana had another snake, who unfortunately died in the far back corner of the basement.
Gardens
The front garden has a tree and a lot of the Loud children's toys, such as balls, bicycles and skateboards. There is also a sandbox, a baby swing for Lily, and two other swings for the older Louds.
Backyard
The backyard is a large patio where the Loud family realizes many activities. Like the front garden, it also has a tree.
Garage
The garage is on the right side of the house. Lynn kept her bike inside of it as shown in "Hand-Me-Downer." Luna sometimes uses the garage to play music as shown in "The Green House."
Lincoln's bedroom is actually a large closet, decked out with the appropriate amenities. There is a bed, dresser, and mirror. He uses the closet's clothes rack to hang his shirts and model spaceships. Lincoln also has many comic books and movie action figures inside his room, such as a figure that looks like King Ghidorah from the Godzilla movies, a robot toy that looks exactly like Robby from the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and another one that looks exactly like Mazinger Z from the manga of the same name. In addition, he has a bookshelf and several posters.
His bedroom has beige walls, green carpeting, a small window, and a bed with a brown frame and blue blanket.
Even though Lincoln has complained about having the smallest bedroom, he is at least thankful that he does not have to share a room with anyone (although in "Space Invader," Lincoln did have to share his room with Lynn and Lucy). Now it has been hollowed out into what it once was... a closet, with small markings representing where a child once lived.
And in the bunker where Lincoln was once imprisoned, something stirs beneath cracking and screaming before a hooded man breaks through and stands on his own two feet. From the rift he arose rises a sickening black, purple and red rot quickly growing across the enitre bunker like a cancer. What Lisa never told the Louds was that the bunker was in fact a labryinth of tunnels and chambers running all across Royal Woods through its old subway system. At the entrance, his head raises to the sealed door, but then continues walking straight through the wall, melting through the ground itself before molding stairs to fit the house's basement stairs.
From there he does a list of specific things which further spreads the corruption.
1. A connection linked, then severed.
2. A design given new form.
3. An instrument weaponized.
4. A killing joke given a hiding place.
5. A dark door left ajar.
6. Pets becoming prey.
7. Portraits desecrated.
8. A server compromised.
9. Recipes torn asunder.
10. A story darkened by truth.
11. Images defaced.
12. Remnants salvaged.
13. The waters running red.
14. Souls chained to the betrayed
15. The hallmarks of sin given new purpose.
And with something placed upon the one who set it all in motion he turns to the youngest one, one whose soul is yet a blank canvas and is unaware of of the path she is forced to take. He summons a familiar object and places it in the crib, a smile upon her face. He then turns to a green vat placed inside Lisa's closet. "So... you are the one memory that hurts him so much, a puppet playing the role of a departed soul. Even creatures such as the likes as you..." He grinds his finger upon the glass, carving a scar on it as something slips inside. "must have the choice to forge their own path. They will not allow you to grant you the mercy of death, not as long as you serve their interests."
He turns and leaves the bedroom, "We will speak again, count on it." He enters the closet and sees the state of the room. Just like in the hotel, the room is shrouded in darkness, revealing an arrangement that should have been. His ears pick something as the scent makes his way into his nose. He look at the vent and places his right index finger on his mouth, shushing her. With his tasks done, another portal opens back up and he sinks back into the realm that he came from.
I.M.P. Headquarters, Imp City, Hell
A portal opens up and vomits out four individuals. They are battered, bruised, bleeding and... miscellaneous terms. "Well, that was certainly... new." Blitzo says, wringing his coat of the inhuman blood. Millie is feeling very uneasy and is in a fetal position, a drastic oppposition of her usual demeanor. "All those... things. I never imagined that such monsters could actually exist." Moxxie is trying to comfort and helps her to her feet. "Sir, I don't fucking care what you have to say about all this. I'm taking my wife home and we damn won't be coming back until she's feeling able."
His eyes turn to the horizon, which shows the demons in an even greater frenzy, a newspaper hits Blitzo's feet, which shows the front page having an image of the creature from earlier. "Whoa, what the fuck did we miss?" Millie manages to say. Loona, is looking a little more unstable than normal, her fur is all ruffled up, her fingers twitching, and her teeth bloodied. She looks at the others, saying nothing and heads back home. Blitzo follows after her, leaving the married couple alone, no one noticing the pair of eyes overseeing the whole conversation, slinking further back into the shadows.
Meanwhile in another building in the realm, someone has finished filling up a bag of liquid and places it on an IV unit, sticking the transmitting end of it into a boy's left arm. And as for the boy's right arm, one of its fingers has begun to move.
I wanted to try and get this thing done before Friday. As for those who have begun wondering what is taking so long, note the fact that I have other stories that require work and/or fine tuning. I am happy to announce our active supporter, Abraham. Also the communication can only work on the account based Private Messaging, The reviews, though appreciated, are just a one way stream. Anyway, I hope all demons, angels, mortals and etc. have a Happy Holiday, Merry Chirstmas and a Happy New Year. Recover the Past, Shape the Present, Change the Future