#sorry this won't be under the cut until i get on my lappytop

[houseof-lamentation]

Bold of u to assume I wouldn't wanna know everything about everyone

But lets just start with the reversed au, I like the sound of that... then again I like every au

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alright so the reversed au... think tarot cards and their reversed meanings. (edit: here is the playlist for reversed oren)

in the mainverse, oren is raised by their mother (moira) and malachi is raised by their father (joseph). moira is a witch and she's very laid back a little flitty, very loving, very understanding, very sweet. joseph is a bible banger hardcore catholic who loves his sons very much, but is a little (a lottle) misguided. normally, oren is raised in a laidback, "make your own mistakes" way, and malachi is raised by the man who thinks you can pray away adhd.

the reversed au is the opposite. malachi is raised by their mother in a laidback, "make your own mistakes" way, and oren is raised by the man who thinks you can pray away defiance. oren is not happy. he butts heads with his father like crazy and it causes a BUNCH of problems for them both. he does things like dye his hair black to both rebel against his father AND make it so they look less alike. malachi looks like moira, oren looks like joseph. blah blah blah

here's the meat of the au:

malachi and oren are very, very different people in this au. malachi is much, much happier, but like i said, oren isn't. he actually starts beef with michael (yknow, the angel) when he's in church praying, and michael ends up lending him an ear. it has a lot to do with oren struggling with his faith and against his father & what he was raised to be

michael does protect oren to a degree, but he mostly just comes to him in dreams to antagonise oren. they butt heads essentially all oren's life, and then he ends up in the devildom, and michael keeps coming to him and they'll argue about faith and mistakes and blah blah blah.

originally, michael was competing with lucifer for oren's attention, but we've since decided that oren ends up in a "i can make you worse"/hate fuck kind of relationship with belphegor. they fall in love, of course, but only after they make each other angry and combative for a few weeks first.

the most recent thing is that when oren sleeps beside belphegor, michael is unable to come to him in dreams. as the demon of sloth, with his dream powers, belphegor manages to lock michael out of oren's dreams for awhile until michael breaks the magic simply because he's more powerful than belphegor. it's not on purpose, but just because belphie is protective and possessive of oren

i WILL put more info from my best friend, who really crafted this au, in a reblog so u have more info about michael & oren

for malachi, he's much freer, he's much more laidback and has a lot more confidence in himself. moira pays for her son (oren in the normal verse, malachi in this verse) to get various sigils and spells tattooed on them for everything from luck to protection. malachi and moira even have a matching tattoo they got for her 40th birthday or whatever.

malachi ends up with satan (instead of mammon) and they also have a very intense, burning relationship. they hit it off early on and it just goes and goes and goes. where we are right now (in my writing, at least), satan showed his demon form and accidentally cut malachi's arm. he didn't realise, malachi just got upset with him and started giving him the cold shoulder. mammon is crazy protective of malachi and is willing to get in fights with satan over it, despite malachi telling him it's fine and satan just wanting to apologise and fix things. very fun.

there's more details than just that, but i'd need specific questions to answer to remember half of it