First of the Fallen

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The **First of the Fallen (初堕者)** 也被称作当今的 **Satan (撒旦)**，首次出场于 Hellblazer #42 (1991.06) 即故事篇章 Dangerous Habits (危险爱好) ，由 Garth Ennis 和 Will Simpson 创作。

The First of the Fallen 是 Vertigo 漫画引入的标志性的恶魔形象，但由于与 Neil Gaiman (尼尔·盖曼) 在 *The Sandman* (睡魔) 中使用的 Lucifer (路西法) 不一致，于是就有了替代的背景故事。与之前不同，他成为了第一个造物，以及第一个被放逐到 Hell (地狱) 的——因此被称为the First of the Fallen (初堕者)。

Neil Gaiman 在The Sandman 的故事篇章 Season of Mists (迷雾季节) 使用了 Lucifer 这一角色。 在 Gaiman 的故事中， Lucifer 是地狱的唯一统治者，他决定放弃自己的职位打算环游世界，于是地狱之门的钥匙最终还给了 Heaven (天堂) 的代表。因此，Ennis 明确表示 the First of the Fallen, Satan 是不同的角色。

## 传记历史

### 最初的堕落

The being that would become the First of the Fallen was originally the first created being in the universe, created to be God's companion and the embodiment of His conscience. However, he soon came to believe that God was insane, and as a result was banished from Heaven and cast down to Hell - becoming the first of the many others who would fall. He was joined shortly afterwards by the Second and Third of the Fallen, who the First assumed were beings like him when in truth they were merely very powerful demons. On the basis of his misunderstanding, the First assumes that the Second and Third share his power and that the establishment of a ruling triumvirate is the only way to prevent a disastrous war in Hell. The triumvirate lasts only until the next fourth banished from Heaven arrives: Lucifer, the most powerful being in existence next to God. However, once Lucifer abdicates, the triumvirate resumed their former positions, and the First regains his former title as Satan.

### 阻止 New Messiah (新弥赛亚)

In his ongoing battle against God, the First became aware of another attempt by Heaven to birth a new Messiah and charged the demon Nergal with preventing it. Nergal succeeded in this by infecting a magician named John Constantine with its blood and blackmailing him into sleeping with the Messiah's intended mother, a pure innocent called Zed. Tainted by Nergal's demon blood, Zed became an unsuitable vessel for the Messiah, and Heaven's plans were defeated. However, the First discovered that Constantine was attempting to get the Messiah born through other means, acting as a surrogate father to the daughter of a plant elemental. Nergal attempted to prevent the birth, but was defeated by Constantine and then killed by the First on his return to Hell.

### 初遇 John Constantine (约翰·康斯坦丁)

The First came into contact with John Constantine himself in Ireland, where the demon attended the death of an alcoholic who had sold his soul in exchange for the greatest collection of wine in the world. Constantine was also visiting his friend, trying to find a magical cure for his terminal lung cancer, and delayed the First in claiming the soul by tricking him into drinking holy water. This invoked a clause in the contract allowing the alcoholic's soul to go to heaven because it wasn't collected by midnight. The First decided to exact his revenge on Constantine once his cancer claimed his life - but when he came to claim the soul that was his "by right of insult", he found that Constantine had managed to sell his soul to both the Second and the Third of the Fallen. In order to prevent all out war over who would claim the soul, the triumvirate were forced to cure the magician's cancer and save his life; their meager consolation was to do this in the most painful manner imaginable. This only served to increase the First's lust for revenge against the mortal who had bested him.

### 地狱之敌

Things only went worse as the First discovered that Constantine had a spy in hell, the succubus Ellie. In trying to punish the demon, the First was again bested by Constantine, which invoked an ancient law that a demon bested three times by a mortal would receive their torment instead. The First, being the most powerful being in hell at time, declined to receive Constantine's destined torment, but it didn't improve his disposition towards the magician. The First took this vendetta against Constantine extremely seriously: he once spent twenty years making nightly visits to a priest in an asylum, tormenting him to suicide simply to show Constantine the kind of torment that was awaiting him. The priest was pushed over the brink by hearing the First's confession that he had seen for himself that God was insane and so acted against His will.

The First continued to brood over Constantine, until he discovered the true nature of his "brothers" in the triumvirate. Realizing that although they might be powerful, they ultimately shared the weaknesses of other demons, he destroyed them both and set about claiming Constantine's soul. Unfortunately, the whole plot turned out to be a long-con arranged by the magician: the First of the Fallen was killed by the succubus Ellie, wielding a knife made from the remains of the Second and Third of the Fallen. Instead of true death, however, the First was reincarnated as a Greek fisherman named Theo whilst retaining his memories of his previous existence. He grew close to defeating Constantine with the help of a demon named Buer, but although the First was restored to his previous life and position the magician still managed to escape damnation through more sneaky trickery.

### 折磨、操纵 Constantine

The First contented himself with occasionally tormenting Constantine, as the events slowly came into place to give the demon the closest thing to victory over Constantine that he ever achieved. The magician's plotting had left him and his friends with a magical taint that was slowly destroying their lives: the First removed this and saved Constantine's friends - at the price of his immortal soul. Constantine only managed to escape by convincing God to intercede on his behalf, denying the First of the satisfaction of complete victory.

Whilst his desire to obtain revenge on Constantine seemed to be sated, the First still enjoyed the opportunity of causing the magician pain wherever he could. He passed on the opportunity of purchasing Constantine (thinking that he wasn't being given the genuine article) but as a final twist of the knife convinced Cheryl Constantine to volunteer to remain suffering in Hell by taking half of her husband Tony's punishment, after her brother John had successfully arranged her freedom

After that, The First seemed to have lost interest in Constantine's soul altogether even after John himself successfully rescues his sister's soul from Hell. The First and John even teamed up to get Terry Greaves' soul to Hell, and the former knew some knowledge of what will be John's final fate by the end of the series.

## 能力与技能

Since, the first is the current ruler of Hell, he is the embodiment of sin and evil, and thus has nigh-omnipotent demonic power over it. This allows him to perform feats such as defeating a god with relative ease, beyond-superhuman strength, telekinesis, and omnipresence. The First cannot be truly destroyed, seen when John thought he killed him during the last Ennis' run but the First returned. However, God seems to have control over the First's fate when he falls, but decided he would not destroy him.

During the Rake at the Gates of Hell arc, his presence alone in the world is enough to warp and create chaos and bloodshed. He also has a degree of control over the sins of mortal men, seen where he managed to kill a group of fishermen using their own deviousness (Critical Mass).