Lucifer was extremely good at taking on different roles depending on what it seemed like his partners needed.

As Octavia was about to elaborate on.

She nodded. "I think I told you about how sometimes I need it to feel real?" she said. "At the beginning, I needed to be -- basically wrestled into submitting. Like there was this... conflict, in my head, like there was one part wanting to be ground down to dust, another part way too angry and proud to let that happen."