#rc heaven's secret

[lady-pawaki]

Found this meme on pinterest & I just had to show it here.

I would turn into a infected if it meant that Lane will kiss me too, so no judgement from my side.

[kazu-naito]

deep diving into the angel hierarchy of heaven's secret:

disclaimers: a) most of what i'm writing here are my own thoughts and theories; b) i'm not yet caught up with the abh january update, so if there is anything missing from there i'll add it later on

in the original duology we never got much information about how the angels hierarchy work in this universe and only knew a few names, however we did get the full picture in hsr and the order goes: seraphims > cherubs > thrones > supremacy > authority > beginning > archangels > angels

so far into the hs we've only met representatives of 3 of these 'classes' (aside from regular angels ofc) and i put one for each here:

(moreover, keep in mind these rankings are not exclusively set by birth, as we've seen rebecca climbing from the very bottom to the very top)

now it differs a bit from most of the christianity angel rankings, in which supremacy and beginning don't exist, no alternate names that i found had these names but i don't think it matters. in this context they would be replaced by dominions and principalities, respectively. still going by these, there's an omission of virtues but they do what they gotta do (or maybe they belong to that empty spot in the middle)

going back to heaven's secret, the only visible difference between angels of different spheres is that those of the first sphere have yellow/golden wings, whereas everyone else has common white/fair wings. a good example is fencio, who lost his throne status and therefore - the colour of his wings as well

i also don't think they would've shown us the full ranking if it wasn't gonna be explored more, after all we went years without it with no issues. and it was only the angel's that was revealed, not the demons' as well

from the new characters we only know of mikael's ranking so far - archangel. which tbf makes it a bit hard to guess everyone else but here are some theories:

possible spoilers for the january update

raphael: although he is not mikael's blood brother he could still also be an archangel. throughout the book we see he has a special connection to heaven and formidable power - he could be a regular angel with unusual abilities. i don't think he is higher ranking than mikael since he is his 'subordinate'

somnus/furius: higher ranking than mikael. i haven't seen the wings to put them amongst the actual big shots but if i had to guess i'd put them in the second sphere - they have enough power to be an archangel's superior but if they had actual power they'd be busy ruling heaven and not supervising earthly matters

anhea: regular angel. she has said it herself she fought the war against the mother of life on the outskirts while the big names were in the frontlines

cain: everything about him is a mystery ngl. if we are to believe pileon's words about him going against his own family, the type of power he possesses, the easy superiority in fights/energy/strength against other immortals - i would say he is in the very least an archangel. the recent confirmation that his family is indeed dead (and he was very very likely responsible) made me think he either got a lenient punishment (which wouldn't happen if he wasn't 'important') or he got a punishment similar to fencio's and lost his original ranking. or maybe he's just old idk

[poisoneevy]

Shes sooo cunt, the second she arrives in Oxford - all Burberry head to toe, ofc she's a genius she's the alpha she's got these bitches in a chokehold

[romanceclub-confessionss]

Confession:

"In my opinion Lucifer doesn't deserve to be the most popular RC li. Cain is wayyyy more good looking, well written, and iconic in comparison so he's more worthy of that title. Lucifer is just too bland compared to him."

[steklo77]

[dumpingscreenshotshere]

Pretty soon...

[will-bite-if-given-the-chance]

Random meme I made because I’m sick and bored:

And that’s why we love our stressed mess (I’m talking about lucifer ofc)

[liittleemiixeer]

hs1 was like a fun, corny college tv sitcom that tapped way too much on the cringe side of storytelling and it showed the characters having fun at school while also complaining about how hard being a student is because the teachers are shit. hs2 was like the characters of hs1 facing the real world by getting a job and having responsibilities and seeing them become more miserable by the minute, yet they're still friends (kinda) and see each other from time to time. hsr is the spinoff of that same story about that strange background character that didn't even appear on the show, yet everybody mentioned them at some point which surprisingly attracted too many fans just to discover she has depth and an insane amount of lore. in the end, people only remember the spinoff because it came out way later than the other ones, so it had a better production and direction team and better screenwriters lol. abh is just a random show from the same production company that wasn't doing numbers and it was only being kept afloat due to the actors being hot, so they decided to start hinting about its connection to the main saga...

...they'll most likely make a movie in the near future with all the mcs together as the protagonists as fan service, and it'll become the best-selling production of that company.

[coyote-ralyn]

Mother of Life, Plague

You will never deserve love.

[myachanya]

He's great in any look✨ Dmitry 💕

[catherina-dellamorte]

im so tired of this pretentiousness 😒

[kazu-naito]

one of the things i like the most in heaven's secret requiem is how differently the immortals are portrayed in comparison to the original heaven's secret series:

in hs it always felt to me that they were just humans with wings - if that makes sense. but in hsr aleksandra was able to capture their essence perfectly: mysterious, dangerous, ethereal. they don't act like the people around them, their motives are never clear, their answers always evoque more questions than clarity, the way she describes their appearance and aura also makes them stand out from everyone else - they're not humans, they're not helping due to the kindness of their hearts and they're the scariest creatures of the story albeit empyrean

also unlike alice, sasha is paying attention to their wings: subtly hinting at how sensitive they are and how sacred they are to immortals. they are always present in the story as much as its characters, portraying their own part in it, something that - in my opinion - lacked in hs. the wings were rarely discussed and even more rarely used for anything other than flying

another thing i'm thoroughly enjoying is how religion, heaven and hell are described in the book - as something we'll never get answers to, not made for human comprehension. cain says something among the lines of "what makes you think they're worshipping god?" - this can be taken in any way but (for this post) i'm going with the "what makes you think they're worshipping the god they think they are?", no one knows how heaven and hell work, no one knows the truth about shepha and shephamalum - in their perspective every religion is "wrong" because those deities do not exist in their world, humans are worshipping a fairytales in their eyes

which brings me to their out of box personalities: it is a human viewpoint that angels are good and demons are bad. black and white. but they are the grayest creatures that the human mind can't really comprehend due to this dogma everyone is born with. at the end of the day they're immortals from a different world that (equally) look down on the human kind, so why should humans expect any goodness or kindness in them? angels will kill angels, demons will kill demons, angels and demons will kill one another - they're far too complex to be labelled as good or bad

[poisoneevy]

BTW, this is the same research facility where Vicky first met Hunger! TRUST I have everything related to that man downloaded straight into my brain!... Needless to say, Lane is having a bit of a different experience of the locaysh

[romanceclub-confessionss]

Confession:

"I can’t be the only one who has a little voice in their head screaming at them to start shipping Malbonte/Eragon. I can’t decide if it’s weird but if mc can date her great(100x) uncle I don’t see why this should be an issue lol"

[seraphimumbra]

How alice thinks people will react if she writes more than one female li:

[salisburyliam]

I don't care if the book tries to tell you otherwise: HS is a comedy