Satan's Saintly Slave

[Shendude]

Idea for a story (note that this is based on the "Enemy of Man" idea of Satan, rather than the "Enemy of God" idea):

A woman of great goodness and great beauty discovers that a friend of a friend has sold their soul to Satan, and will soon be trapped in Hell. This causes her to make her own deal with the Devil. If Satan will permit this friend's friend to go free, then she will become his slave.

Struck by her beauty and wishing to corrupt her spiritual purity, Satan agrees, on the condition that she can leave whenever she wishes, but if she does, he'll take the spared indivdual. She agrees to this, and he takes her to Hell, where she is constantly raped, tortured, and humiliated by Satan and his minions. Throughout she stubbornly refuses to give in to despair and continues to uphold her part of the bargain.

Eventually, much to both of their shock, the woman's determined goodness causes Satan to slowly fall in love with her.

What do you think of this idea?

 

[GratefulFred]

I first of all would make it a friend, not a friend of a friend. Second, I think that the actions of the freed soul should have some bearing on which way the story develops.

 

[flawed_ethics]

I think this would be an interesting challenge. I'm not in favor of her actually enduring the tortures described - rather being tempted to participate to relieve the agony to which they subject her. To each their own though.

THe lady and her friend could be written for without too much stress - but getting Satan down ... now that could be fun or a nightmare! To be able to respectably portray the most evil, vile creature to possibly exist ... and have the readers agree when they read that, "Yeah, that's Satan alright," cannot be an easy task.

It's an intriuging idea though. I'm interested to hear what others think about it.

(P.S., Hey, would you splice ideas from other mythologies in there, like Peneolpe/Hades [I think]? Could make for a more in-depth read.)

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I have thought of a story where a man sells his soul to Satan to get control over his wife. It works like a charm. Then he dies, goes to Hell, and finds out that Satan is not such a scary guy after all. It is just his way of recruiting soldiers for his infernal army. Hell is just an armed camp, not a place of torture. It is Satan's fortress, but only the courageous, defiant ones are welcome, hence the fear factor used by both God and Satan.

 

[Shendude]

I first of all would make it a friend, not a friend of a friend.

I chose friend of a friend to help indicate our heroine's essential goodness, IE, she' willing to sacrifice herself for someone she doesn't really know.

I'm not in favor of her actually enduring the tortures described - rather being tempted to participate to relieve the agony to which they subject her.

Beg pardon? I don't quite understand what you're saying.

 

[Sean Renaud]

First, wow when did Supergirl wear that outfit? I missed a very good episode it seems.

On to bussiness he's saying he's not big on torture and doesn't find the idea of a woman being raped appealing.

I like the idea of Satan not being a bad guy, that is usually the way I portray him in my literature. More of an opposite mentality from God than evil. Evil in my opinion being mindless destruction or pain for the sake of pain neither of which are common in my visions of the "Dark Lord."

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

First, wow when did Supergirl wear that outfit? I missed a very good episode it seems.

On to bussiness he's saying he's not big on torture and doesn't find the idea of a woman being raped appealing.

I like the idea of Satan not being a bad guy, that is usually the way I portray him in my literature. More of an opposite mentality from God than evil. Evil in my opinion being mindless destruction or pain for the sake of pain neither of which are common in my visions of the "Dark Lord."

That's intriguing to me. I don't personally believe in dualism or a Devil, but that's a fascinating look at him.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think so, besides it makes more sense all around. I usually portray God and the good guys as being Communists. (But it works.) everybody is equal, everybody works together towards the greater good. Nobody is ever left behind and nobody recognizes that they should use their strengths to help people who are weak in those areas and people who are strong in their own weaknesses will help them out. God pretty much just organizes things.

Satan and hell are capitalists. If you suck you die or you find a place where you are useful. They believe that they are working towards there own ultimate goal. They help people because they know that people will help them in the past.

But we are getting away from the subject of the story which is a solid one. I was just saying that in my opinion Satan is more capable of love but a love story involving him would indeed be incredible.

The friend of a friend thing has to go though. While it shows her selflessness it removes her from the problem. If you want to show how selfless and good she is. (I think being selfless is the epitome of evil but we'll ignore that ftm) If you want to show her being selfless and good let her go to hell for her Ex-Husband who broke her heart by cheating on her. Hell get Jerry Springer with it. He had a threesome with their daughter and her sister and yet despite it all she is willing to sacrifice herself so that he will not be in eternal damnation. To me that more vividly defines her goodness.

 

[rthnck]

looking for loopholes

I think that the end of the story should have Satan losing both souls due to some loophole (much like the movie "Bedazzled" or the song "Devil went down to Georgia" or the Piers Anthony "Incarnations" book series. So Satan agrees to the exchange, gets to ravage the altruistic beauty, maybe even begins to have feelings for her but then a turn of phrase in the contract or something about the way the exchange was agreed upon verbally gets violated and frees our heroine and nullifies the taking of the original soul. Satan should never be a winner. IMHO.

 

[Shendude]

First, wow when did Supergirl wear that outfit? I missed a very good episode it seems.

Never appeared in an episode. Someone on a bboard altered the pic to match several fashion suggestions made concerning Sgirl's costume.

I like the idea of Satan not being a bad guy, that is usually the way I portray him in my literature. More of an opposite mentality from God than evil. Evil in my opinion being mindless destruction or pain for the sake of pain neither of which are common in my visions of the "Dark Lord."

As I see it, Lucifer hates mankind because he blames them for his Fall, as he's too proud to admit that he screwed up.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

As I don't actually believe in the Devil, I will let it go with my own view of the subject.
I like stories where Lucifer is portrayed as more complex and less despicable. I have always admired him as a mythical character, ever since I realized that he didn't exist.
A tragic hero, struck down for his "hubris" in refusing to be a slave. That is a noble act, worthy of a hero.

 

[Shendude]

A tragic hero, struck down for his "hubris" in refusing to be a slave. That is a noble act, worthy of a hero.

I see it more as, afriad that his father doesn't love him anymore, myself.