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[bluejay-writes]

Heaven is a Misnomer - Chapter 26

Fandom: Shall We Date?: Obey Me! Rating: Teen Chapter 26 Wordcount: 2522 Characters/Relationships: Jake (Exchange student OC) / Raphael Summary: It's that time, fam. The chapter you've been waiting for.

Chapter 26: Communication is Key

A few mornings later, Jake sat up with a start. 

“Where am I?” He asked, looking around in confusion. Isn’t this Fen’s room? Why am I in Fen’s bed?

From the chair next to him, Raphael grinned. 

“Good morning, Jake. I see you’re feeling better. You’re in Feniel’s room, to recover.”

Recover? Recover from what? And why was Raphael sitting here with him while he was asleep in Feniel’s room? None of this made any sense.

Jake felt a little bit out of it, but before he could ask any of the questions that were on his mind, Raphael was on the phone.

“Yes, Sariel. Yes, he’s lucid, I think he’s through it, and I’d like you to confirm that he can come go back to normal activity. Yes. Mhm. Thank you.”

Raphael reached to the side table and handed Jake his phone.

“Now that you’re back to normal, I’m sure you’ve got a ton of missed messages and concerned friends to get back to.”

Jake smiled and looked at his phone. The first thing that caught his attention was the date.  Wednesday?! Wasn’t it just Monday though? Wait, and it was a week later even.

“What happened? I feel like I got run over by a truck.” Jake muttered.

“Celestial Fever.” Raphael said, watching him warily. “It can do a number on your system, so do tell me if you need anything.”

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[tsukii0002]

Mc: *wakes up*

Michael: Welcome Mc, welcome to the Celestial Realm.

Mc: … *looking around frantically* Shit, I thought that when I die I'm going straight down.

Michael: …

Mc: Isn't there any way to ask for a transfer or something????

Michael: Mc, you're here visiting… You haven't died yet.

Mc: *relaxing* Ah, well.

Michael: But the fact that you're choosing hell is… Alarming.

Mc: Nah, Hell is where my boys are, besides, seeing Simeon..., I'd rather skip the post Morten trauma.

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[still-a-morosexual-help]

Things general MC canonically likes:

• Chaos

• Horror

• Monstrous Food

I'm sorry but there's no way this idiot would ever be able to happily live in the Celestial Realm. You'd be taking the enrichment out of their enclosure. They'd get a shovel and start trying to dig themself back into The Devildom.

[spark-river]

MC: Jesus could've sold his bath water and nobody would've known.

Solomon: Oh, he did. Holy water.

Simeon: ...This is why you're banned from the Celestial Realm.

[inhuman-obey-me]

Power + Control: Lessons 55/56

As the main story of Nightbringer has been announced to be coming to an end, there is a lot for the writers to try to wrap up! Plus, we're approaching what is probably the climax of the season, which means shit's getting serious again.

Naturally, this means there's also a lot going on. Shall we get into it?

(spoilers up to Nightbringer Lessons 55 + 56)

MC and Their Power

In Lesson 55, we find ourselves back at the Sorcerer's Society, this time with Mammon and Satan in tow. When the two brothers question why they need to be there, Solomon explains that it helps solidify MC's reputation, as the spotlight has been on them for a while now. The Sorcerer's Society has been keeping a wary eye on MC for a while -- and we wonder if that might be since OG Season 2, when MC's powers were destabilizing the Three Realms. But they seem to be keeping an eye on them not only for their power, but also because of concerns that MC's loyalties could shift due to their close relationships with everyone, thus endangering the human world.

The actual reason for their visit, however, is that Solomon wants to use a device the Society has to measure MC's powers. On the initial reading, it doesn't seem like MC's powers have gotten particularly stronger, much to everyone's confusion.

Solomon then decides to test a theory (without warning, of course) and sends an attack spell in Mammon's direction. This, like before, triggers MC's magic to defend Mammon -- and causes the instrument used for reading magical power to break. Solomon mentions that the only time it's broken before was because of him, but he reinforced it when he repaired it. So, for a brief moment, MC had even surpassed Solomon in magical power.

We speculated a bit about MC's powers in our last lesson post, and Lesson 55 proved us right on the theory that this growth in power is due to now having two pacts with each of the brothers. This is also allowing MC to generate magical power, which is rare. We have to keep quiet about it, though, because otherwise we risk messing up the space-time continuum if others were to know of our trip to the past and all that occurred. (Though, one would think it would be safe to talk about it with Barbatos, who would probably also be more knowledgeable...)

However, there's no time to worry about any of that time travel shenanigan nonsense in depth, because *drumroll*...

The Angels Are Troubled

When we get back, we learn that Raphael has been acting very strangely since the Devildom Math finals. Mephisto, being his boyfriend a concerned fellow student, notes that he hasn't been to school at all in a while, and it turns out that he has holed himself up in his room pretty much ever since the Devildom Math finals, when he overheard Diavolo and Lucifer talking about Simeon's little turning-demon situation. And hey, speaking of Raphael acting weird, it seemed like Lesson 55 opened with some kind of prophetic vision of him having an emotional breakdown...??

Anyway, so MC and the brothers make a plan to visit him after school, loaded up with treats and Raphael's favorite demonus, courtesy of his boyfriend Mephisto, who would never himself go visit an angel at home for any reason... However, when they arrive, it turns out that Raphael is not actually home. And, at around the same time, Simeon is out walking with Lucifer and gets a text from Michael saying that Raphael went up to the Celestial Realm, though he leaves the reason for the visit cryptically vague -- though, Simeon suspects Michael just couldn't be bothered to explain. About what we should expect from the one Raphael called socially inept weirdo, we guess?

As Simeon and Lucifer get back to Purgatory Hall, where everyone else is deciding what to do about Raphael, suddenly the ground shakes, and next thing we know, everyone is in Babel again!

Confused and quite literally shaken, everyone tries to figure out what caused them to suddenly be transported to Babel. Both Simeon and Lucifer suspect it has something to do with Raphael -- especially as the brothers take on their angel forms soon after arriving. We end up finding Raphael fast asleep, which further confirms Lucifer's and Simeon's suspicions.

When Raphael wakes up, however, he can't actually remember how he got there -- he remembers he went to visit Michael to talk to him about something, but can't remember what happened after he passed through the Celestial Gates on his way back to the Devildom. After some coaxing and interrogating, Raphael confesses why he went to speak to Michael, and it was to beg him to speak to God aka Father and convince him to forgive Simeon, as Raphael believes he has been punished enough.

Luke apologizes to Simeon, thinking he hasn't nearly done enough in comparison to Raphael to help him. They all have a heartwarming discussion of just how much Simeon is loved, but there are still questions to be answered.

Lucifer asks Raphael if he's responsible for all that's happening, seemingly determined to goad Raphael into some kind of realization that the seraph is too distressed to confront, even as the others try to stop him. Solomon makes a desperate move to come help, which has the more-than-geriatric human sorcerer showing up absolutely exhausted -- with a little anime-style help from all the demons left behind back in the Devildom!

After catching his breath, Solomon says he understands everyone wants to protect Raphael, but that this conversation needs to happen. Lucifer, now backed up by Solomon, again coaxes Raphael to think about what he wanted in that moment, saying it's important (more on this later). On that question, Raphael begins breaking down, much like we saw in that earlier vision, and losing control of his power.

Amidst the shaking and panic, Solomon takes a moment to explain that Raphael's power is probably what pulled them all there to Babel, and Simeon in particular remarks that Raphael's feelings of wanting to live peacefully with everyone are probably the reason that the brothers were in their angel forms.

But now, as Raphael unfurls while acknowledging what he wanted, the entirety of Babel starts to collapse.

OM's #1 (Deadbeat) Dad

So now, of course, the big question is what did Raphael think and feel in that moment, which is causing him so much distress? And the answer, it seems, may be that he disagrees with God.

We've seen time and time again that the Celestial Realm is one of extreme obedience, shown more recently by the entire situation with Simeon. So, Raphael trying to make an appeal to God takes the brothers by surprise. Leviathan in particular says he can't believe that Raphael would do something like that, "knowing it might make Father mad" -- with Asmodeus and the others agreeing but admiring him for it. After all, the brothers became fallen angels for rebelling against God themselves.

Lucifer in particular probably sees the way Raphael's actions and feelings mirror his own old feelings -- he thought the way Lilith was being punished wasn't right and wanted God to change his mind and see reason. He too tried to appeal to God to change Lilith's punishment, and encountered the same obstinate refusal to listen. Those feelings led to him starting the Great Celestial War, which resulted in him and his brothers all being the demons they are now. And now, Raphael is experiencing something similar with Simeon, someone who he admires and is considered his mentor.

If so, that's certainly a very troubling track record for the Celestial Realm. Of the four angels we know of who have been seraphs, we have Lucifer (fallen), Simeon (demoted-about-to-become-demon), Raphael (now questioning), and Michael (...socially inept weirdo).

And yet, is it any wonder? The idea of even questioning Father is seen as blasphemous. With such authoritarian absolutism in place, of course those at the next tier of power might begin to wonder as their own loved ones face these overly harsh punishments. And as a seraph whose loyalties are otherwise so unwavering towards the Celestial Realm and the other angels, it's no wonder his magic is getting unstable as Raphael comes to terms with these feelings. He already went through the loss of Lucifer and the brothers, and being faced with losing Simeon after Simeon's already been "punished enough" drives him over the edge.

In his breakdown, which parallels MC's prophetic dream from the start of Lesson 55, Raphael says he's never felt so alone and miserable and he just can't take it.

Gee, good job Michael.

Now, we've long held a theory that God is just...not around. From a practical narrative sense, the devs have said that their original plan to have Diavolo himself be the Demon King felt like it made him too intimidating, and when they changed it to Crown Prince instead, they probably wanted to try and make things more "equal" between the Devildom and Celestial Realm. Thus, we have Diavolo and Michael as the acting leaders instead of the Demon King and, well, God.

But it's interesting because way back in OG Season 3, Simeon mentions that he hasn't seen Father in an extremely long time, even though we know he'd already received his "human" punishment by that time. Now, Raphael mentions that he's been unable to get an audience with Father. In fact, it seems like Michael is the only one who might be able to, and when Raphael says he pleaded with him to do so, it seems that Michael denied him -- in spite of the fact that, according to past speculation from Lucifer, Michael is also very worried about Simeon and was said to probably be trying to work out a way for him to come back! Though, by the way, the thing that got Simeon punished with human status was stealing from Michael, not the Celestial Realm itself, which itself is quite interesting. But even Michael has never been outright mentioned to be in contact with Father, as far as we've ever heard.

So...where the fuck is he??

[deathupontheangels]

Random Micheal headcanons :

Micheal frequently hallucinates Lucifer taking to him .

Micheal and Lucifer are twins (Lucifer being the older one) .

Micheal looks like the colour swapped version of Lucifer with longer hair , more revealing clothes and a less prideful attitude.

Micheal has quite an arrogant and bratty personality . He gets annoyed when things don't go his way .

[devildom-doll]

Bruh, they should fight. 💥💥

[luckykittysshowerthoughts]

Simeon: Why is Michael so upset with you, anyway?

MC: So, last night he saw me drinking demonus.

Simeon: Okay...?

MC: So, he challenged me to a drinking competition.

Simeon:

Simeon: oh.

Simeon: You didn't tell him humans are immune to demonus, did you?

MC: I told him this morning. While he was nursing his hangover.

Simeon: That explains it.

[sketch-guardian]

I finally finished the New exchange students' true celestial forms sketches😭it was a nightmare and now I need to get some sleep😞I apologize if they are disappointing, but here they are🙈:

"NEW EXCHANGE STUDENTS' TRUE CELESTIAL FORMS"

REMIEL X MC

NATHANIEL X MC

URIEL X MC

plus some close-ups to show their faces better:

REMIEL

NATHANIEL

URIEL

[bluejay-writes]

Heaven is a Misnomer - Chapter 25

Fandom: Shall We Date?: Obey Me! Rating: Teen Chapter 25 Wordcount: 3244 Characters/Relationships: Jake (Exchange student OC) / Raphael Summary: Something's wrong with Jake.

Chapter 25 - Celestial Fever

“That’s your third glass of cloud pear juice already this morning, Jakey.” Aya said, elbowing him.

Jake chuckled. “What can I say, I’m a thirsty queer.”

On his other side, Fen smacked his palm into his forehead. “Really, Jake? Really?”

“Really.” Jake said. “I’m actually just honestly super thirsty this morning. And nothing beats Cloud Pear juice. Except maybe Red Grapefruit, but you don’t have that here. Ugh. Gotta remember to fill my water bottle before I head out for classes.”

Fen and Aya both rolled their eyes, and Jake shrugged. Couldn’t a guy be thirsty?

“Cloud pear juice is the best, and Jake is right to want to drink it.” Bunny said from across the table, and they shared a laugh. Trust Bunny to defend his right to eat and drink anything he wanted. Maybe he could have her over once the exchange program was done and treat her to fun juice.

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[coolsosha]

Angelic Asmo!!!

And also my first drawing from actual reference that is not inside of my brain! YIPEE

also i think im gonna start drawing non-Asmo art. Im really disappointed in OM and with how Asmo turned into a personality-less "gay best friend". Compared to first lessons he does 0 freaky or lusty things and we barely get to kiss him😭 He doesn't feel like a dateable avatar of lust anymore, more like platonic avatar of friendship 😭 And i think im getting less obsessed over him because of him treated so bad by the writers. I don't think i will stop drawing him completely, but i feel like drawing something from another fandom😔. Sorry, people who followed me because of the fact that i draw only Asmo i guess???😭

[izzyzalezbian]

I know that we, as a fandom, all agree that while in heaven, Mammon's virtue was charity-- and that's all well and good, but may I present another idea; Mammon's primary virtue being loyalty

[authorlaci]

More baby Raphael.

Look at him. Look into his eyes. 👀

[tiangouaway]

i know it was done for palatability reasons mostly but i frankly love how obey me set up heaven and hell with as little obvious connection to the abrahamic religions as they could

[inhuman-obey-me]

I wonder…… would it be actually possible for an angel and a demon to have offspring? And even then what it would be like? I don’t remember if there’s anything like that mentioned in the game, and considering they’re like, mortal enemies maybe in the bible lore I doubt that realistically there would be any answer apart from “no” but like……… imagine an angel/devil child in om and what it could mean for the three realms👀

Interesting question, since theoretically angel/demon physiology should be some kind of similar/compatible, but our answer is pretty definitively no, they could not have offspring together.

We have talked a bit previously about where we think angels and demons respectively come from in our Three Realms Headcanons post many moons ago, but here's a quick recap of the relevant parts:

All angels are created by their "Father" aka God; there is no concept of pregnancy or fertility amongst angels because God personally creates each of them.

Unlike angels, who are each created by God, some demons -- especially minor/lower ones -- are born through the manifestation of humans’ sins and negative energy.

Mid-tier and high level demons can be created through various means, including but not limited to sex. However, sex and pregnancy do not work the same way for demons as they do for humans. All demons involved have to consciously imbue themselves with magic that will make them fertile and guarantee conception; otherwise they are sterile by default.

This process also isn’t limited to a pair of male/female demons - multiple demons of whatever gender can contribute to the conception of a demon baby, and the child will take traits from every parent involved.

Other mid- and high-tier demon births can come from ceremonies, rituals, magic, etc.

We know that, canonically, the angels all call each other Brother and Sister, and all of them refer to God as Father as it is implied he is the one who created each of them. We also know that, as Simeon himself describes, "Lucifer and his brothers" were always a more close-knit group than how other angels interacted and they as a unit were their own separate thing. Additionally, it has been implied that angels do not necessarily get created as babies; although there are many "when you're older" comments made towards Luke, Asmodeus talks about the first Asmo Night being something like 1 week after his creation. Together, this all implies that none of them otherwise have "biological" families that that gave birth to them, and none of them can be parents either, as only God can create angels. Though to be clear, this isn't an "angels can't have sex" statement, only "angels can't have babies"!

Now, arguably since our headcanons for the demon side of births do include magical ceremonies and angels do have magic, there could perhaps be angel magic contributed into the birth of a demon. However, we also know that Mammon has suggested that angel blessings could kill a demon like him. Therefore, it would seem like rather than helping to create a new demon, it would hurt the potential demon baby or cancel out the demon magic in that process.

As for what a demon/angel child would mean for the OM world if one could be born, well, that's basically answered by MC's existence! Season 2 basically revolves all around the idea that MC has both angel magic from Lilith and demon magic from the pacts. And, well, Season 2 treats it as a deeply unstable combination that in fact threatens the safety of all three realms. So, maybe it's a good thing if there can't be any children born between angels and demons!

[fluffydisneyprincess]

L20 Afterparty (Spoilers)

First. Full honesty: This made me laugh. Raphael just up and dipped. GOOD. BE GONE.

If you select Barbatos to escort you to the ball he says something like this which is so romantic

THEN SAYS THIS

This is so very vague and "as it should" is a very sussy way of phrasing that.

... Fuck off Mephisto you're just jealous you couldn’t look half this good no matter how dolled up you were.

We basically just got knighted as Devilsitter and if that isn't the funniest fucking thing I don't know what is.

Wait hold on... emblem like... like the sigils the demon brothers have??? And THATS how you transfer it? YES PLS 🥺 I will take forehead kisses from all three of these men any day of the week.

Solomon being a little greedy and sus when you choose him but... head kisses. Worth it.

🥺🥺🥺 That's all I have for this. Just 🥺🥺🥺

OH DO YOU PLAN DO TO THAT DIAVOLO? DO YOU???

No fr I laughed out loud at this. It was a funny way to end the season and I love it. Oh Diavolo if you only knew