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adambrainrot · 4 months ago

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Highly inspired by Handplates by Zarla. Check it out, if you haven't already! (As I said before... "Once an Undertale trash, you're always an Undertale trash", so I guess I might as well embrace it...)

TW : Memory loss, experiments, implied torture, child abuse

@things-arent-what-they-seem66 @fanofstuff01 @decentsoupperson

HANDBRANDS

Prolouge. Faded memory.

Throughout his journey, Lucifer came around many mysteries, both good and bad. It made him question things and want to get to the bottom of them...

The timelines, the dead prince and first outsider, the mystery of love... he had seen it all and more.

And yet, the biggest mystery for him was none other than his friends. The Purgatory Twins, Adam and Lilith.

On first glance, they were as normal as any other demon or angel down here. Adam was charismatic trans guy, a defender and creative puzzle-maker, doing his best to join the Royal Guard. Lilith, in turn, was calmer and mysterious, a local singer that also worked as Sentry part-time. They didn't stick out much in the big crowd, take away their more human appearances, with only 'celestial' things of them being Lilith's bright red horns and Adam's golden wings and halo.

But that was just on surface... because, throughout his many resets, Lucifer came to notice more things of the twins' behavior and different routes he took.

Adam seemed to have steel moral standards, refusing to kill Lucifer, even if he had wiped out the entirety of his hometown and Ruins previously... keeping the facade of innocent and clueless "child" infront of many people (that also included his own sister), not letting go of his belief of change, even standing infront of a relentless killer.

Lilith... oh God, Lilith. Whenever he decided to go for evil routes, she was always a pain in his ass (he long since lost count of how many times she had killed him during their final battle). Similar trick of keeping a facade as her brother did, she would drop in those rare moments of seriousness when he decided to play nice. The bigger problem was that she seemed to remember his resets... (or, at very least, was aware of them).

And yet... today, it wasn't what was taking his mind...

Recently, it occurred to him that he had never seen either of their hands. Well, not like he hasn't seen them at all, but he hasn't seen their bare hands. They both would constantly wear gloves of any kind over them... or wear goodies or keep them in pockets of their pants. It was one of them.

He had never seen their hands.

And he was wondering, what they were hiding.

And this is why he was breaking their trust, breaking into their house in middle of the night.

Silently apologizing to his friends, he creeped inside, seeing the two on the couch, asleep cuddled to one another, Adam's huge wings covering them both like a blanket.

Walking over Adam, as he was closer to him, Lucifer gently took his hands to look at them... one was just normal, same brown-ish skin as, he assumed, his whole body would be... but then he looked on second and his eyes widened.

He had a scar of branding mark on his hand. It was lighter than his skin around it... but worse, it had something written on it. Something, he could make out even in this dim light.

SHS-2 A

Lucifer supposed that A could stand for Adam (or whatever his deadname would be, he thought), but... SHS? 2? What it meant?

Shaking his head, Lucifer tucked Adam's hands back inside his wings, carefully not to wake him up... before he moved to Lilith.

For her, it was the same story, one hand absolutely normal on both sides... and nearly identical branding on other, save for it saying "SHS-1 L".

A frown came onto Lucifer's face... what did that MEAN?

Adam : You saw our brandings!?

Lilith spit her drink, looking back at Lucifer, her eye glowed on and off for a second. She then let out a nervous laugh.

Lilith : Jeez, Luci... did nobody teach you about privacy when you were younger?

Lucifer looked between two siblings, feeling bad about this betrayal... but he wanted to know. He HAD to know. Adam just confirmed it... those were brandings, not just weird birthmarks, he hoped them to be... and it meant that somebody hurt them. Somebody hurt his friends. And he wanted to know who it was.

Lucifer : Listen, I'm sorry, I didn't ask about it, but I noticed you never take your gloves off, I thought you had fear of dirt and...

Lucifer sighed.

Lucifer : I was curious about this... is it normal..?

Adam sighed, turning to his sister. Lilith was looking at her glass with darkened expression. It was matching his own upset one.

Adam : That is the thing... we don't know...

Lucifer raised eyebrow : You don't know..?

Adam : We don't know, what it is... but we both are suffering from some kind of amnesia... we don't remember anything before we were 10, when the King found us... and...

Adam looked at his hand, gloved once more, before covering it with his good hand.

Adam : I just don't like looking at it. It makes me feel that...

Steady beeping sounds rings out throuhh the room. A lot of equipment fills it, but the biggest one being two huge beaker tubes... inside of which reside a young child, around 8 years old. Many wires are connected to their bodies, both children are currently asleep.

Adam : That... we're forgetting something...

A big room, a table with notepad and writing supplies. Few broken chemistry glasses are scattered around the floor, many little splatters of yellow and purple liquid on the floor.

Adam : And whatever that is we're forgetting...

Two small children in green hospital gowns hugging each other in fear. One is blonde with slightly longer hair, her left eye is covered with a patch. Other is brunette with slightly shorter cut, with bandages on hand. In front of them, stands a tall person, their face is obscured by weird fuzz, as if they were cut out of memory.

Adam : Is... very important...

Lucifer looked between two siblings once more, his curiosity still running high... but he couldn't help, but feel bad for his friends.

Lilith breathed out once more, looking at her own hand. She then fixed her hair, turning to her brother.

Lilith : Well... whatever that is, I think stuff like this is better to be left forgotten. Come on, I'll make dinner tonight.

This seemed to improve Adam's mood a bit, as he smiled at his sister.

Thinking on what she said, Lucifer decided that her words had some weight in them, perhaps. After all... who would want to remember being branded..?

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