#when adam and eve left the garden of eden lol

[deadghosy]

“WHO ARE YOU?”

ADAM X ANGEL! READER

🦆Sorry if it’s long lol, I got inspired by the song to make this ✨

A echoing lullaby goes around the garden of Eden. Waking up a male human who was taking a rather long nap as his eyes open.

Adam, the first man was sitting under a tree sighing as his memory of his first wife leaving him strikes him. He never thought he would be left like that as he oddly felt sad but also felt nothing as he didn’t know how to control his emotions. But then the echoing lullaby broke him out of his train of thought.

He shook his head, thinking it was just nothing. But the echoing of the melody got louder, and louder, and loud in his head to the point it was like a siren calling out for him to follow the voice. He looks up to see a beam of light strike down. Everything rumbles, making the first man fall to his stomach at the powerful shake.

Adam coughed, sitting up as he dusted himself off and stood up fully. He walked through the garden, following the enchanting melody. He closes his eyes, feeling as if the melody swirled around him. Making him him feel like dream as he flutters his eyes.

“What…is that…?” Adam asked himself as he blinked amazed at what is happening. He couldn’t believe it as he is thinking it’s a blessing from god himself.

He finally reached the section of the garden as the beam of light vanishes in a blink before it started to act weird.

The light flickers from behind the tree branches covering the view of what could be behind the cause of this blinding light and melody voice calling out for him. He lets out a breath and lifts up the branch.

He sees a glowing figure, the figure glowed so bright like the stars as the figure’s face was covered by the light that arises from its own body. He had to blink a couple of times to get use to its light.

“Who are you?” He says in a low tone to not scare whatever it is. The figure was in a sitting position, having their knees close to their chest as four pair of wings spout out of their back. Even head wings as a blinding light covers their face, making them faceless at some point. They turned to the man as they stood up, the light getting brighter as a sun in the sky. They seemed to be naked as their breasts/pecs were most noticeable in features from the light that Adam couldn’t bear much long to stare.

“Do not be afraid..”

The voice whispers, but the whisper sounded loud as Adam suddenly passes out by a bright light. He wakes up to see everything practically normal as he touches his eyes to see if anything went on with him. But there was nothing, it was like the figure wasn’t even real to say. It kinda scared Adam before the lull sky rolls in his head calming down any thoughts in the first man’s head as he heard bushes rustling to see a lady. Who he must assumed was his new wife, Eve.

Years pass as that same melody echos in his head every time he thinks about you. Usually when Adam feels pissy, that melody calms him down out of nowhere. When he feels happy, it hums in his head. When he feels sad..which is never really an issue to be sad in heaven, he would hear it softly.

It’s gotten to the point he talked to sera about it, but she didn’t really know either. That made Adam get angered as the lullaby lulls in his head making him calm down. Sera sees Adam relaxed oddly after showing his anger towards her. He found it odd at how he could calm down that instantly. That’s when sera finally realizes what’s going on.

“$!@$&/&” Sera tries to say but she grabs her throat. It was like a barrier got caught in her throat, preventing her from saying the truth.

Adam raised a brow at her, “what? You got imaginary dick in your mouth or somethin'?” He asked as sera has a panicked look trying to explain. But only nothing came out.

“Listen, if you wanna fuck with me. Then fine. Bye bitch.” He said flipping her off as sera just screams in silence gaining weird looks. Adam walks through the streets of heaven pissed off. He knew he wasn’t going crazy as he literally heard it from afar and not in his head most definitely. Lute came by him, “Sir! Sera wanted me to make sure you are alright.” Adam rolled his eyes at the angel solider beside him. “Well, tell her I don’t need to be checked on. I’m the first man for Christ sake! I can handle whatever the fuck is going on with me.” He says before flying off from Lute. She scrunched her face a bit before sighing. She also flies away.

It’s now night time as Adam sighs sitting in his bed. He couldn’t get the soft lullaby out of his head…it sucked for him as he gripped his fist, feeling the sharp nails in grave into his own palms. He lets out a shaky breath as he swore he felt eyes on his back. He turned around to find nothing there. So why did he feel paranoid? He didn’t know why but it sucked mad ass as this is heaven for crying out loud. Why should he even be paranoid. He scoffed at his own thoughts and laid down. Not knowing someone was coming to visit him.

A light shines from his ceiling making Adam squint his closed eyes at the brightness. He slowly opens his eyes to see four pair of wings sprout out gracefully as a hum enters the room. It was like a huge hug around Adam’s bedroom as the figure has their hands in a praying gesture “Do not fear.” The figure says as they slowly flew to Adam who is laying down with a “wtf” face as the light blinds his eyes. Adam sits up seeing the light had dimmed a bit as he stares into the “face” of the person he so longed to see after years. His eyes widen to grab your cheek. He felt that is was real as an echoing hum enters his tears that he heard for so long. He couldn’t believe that it was you as you slowly brought up a hand to touch the side of his face. Adam softly leaned it in, making him feel as if this was back when he first met you. Even if you practically ran away from him, it felt nostalgic to have you by him.

“Hello Adam…” you said with a loud whisper. The whisper sounded soft but harsh as Adam looks at you confused. “Who are you?..” he asked like the first time he did. You seemingly smile behind your “light” mask as you tell him your name. “ I am no one….but you can name me…” Adam scoffs but then starts to think of a name that would fit you. As he stares at you, he notices this time you aren’t naked like how he first met you. You were in a full pure white gown. “How about Y/N? How does that sound?” He asked with a smirk, proud of the name he gave you. You hummed softly with a nod liking the name he gave you.

The whole night you two talked like old friends who had plans to go out. It was exhausting for Adam as he just wanted it sleep, but he felt awake listening to you as you talked in a soft tone that could easily put him to sleep. It was like he could talk to you for hours. Yes he made some harsh remarks and comments like he usually does. But he listened and respected when you talked. It was like you had a leash on him to control on how he acts at least. Suddenly a bell rang from your watch as you stood from his bed. It was time for you to go.

“Goodbye Adam…” Y/N says as their wings sprout, making a circle above their head. Adam’s eyes widen going to grab them to make them stay. But he failed as Y/N made a praying hand gesture, their light getting brighter.

A glowing light blinded Adam as he covers his eyes. As he stopped rubbing his eyes, he looked around his room to not find the glowing figure anymore as he scoffed. But the sight of your appearance made him softly smile. He could still hear the echoing lullaby in his head as he lays down in his bed.

With one mutter of a word, he whispers the name of the figure he made for, “Y/N.”

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

celestial surveillance + some garden of eden parallels

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. - Luke 8:17 (NIV)

Over and over, we see how the bookshop feels safe/private while simultaneously being sort of a fishbowl, leaving its inhabitants quite exposed to onlookers. *garden of eden vibes*

Similarly, Aziraphale and Crowley tried to conduct a class-A surreptitious 6000+ year agreement/slowburn romance and yet their 25 Lazarii relationship is fairly obvious to others.

Reminiscent of how Crowley is painfully aware that nothing is certain and time is horribly finite, Aziraphale lives with the knowledge that anything he does or says can be used against him—or much worse, used against Crowley or others our little guardian cares about. Unlike his emotional support demon, however, Aziraphale was afraid Before the Beginning, before The Fall.

While Upstairs aren't the only ones watching, they have the potential to be the most dangerous threat (emphasis on potential bc they have to take an interest and also maybe stumble into important clues): The heavenly office overlooks the entire world. Where Hell had to send Furfur to the theatre with a camera, Heaven's got Earth Observation Files they can pull up to see what someone was doing at any point in history—not even St. James Park can keep you anonymous in the face of thirty-seven classes of scriveners/recording angels!

Aziraphale may tend to underestimate danger in general because of his misplaced hope that Heaven is truly Good, but in the same way that he can be both clever and stupid, I think he trusts Heaven and fears it at the same time. Why else would he be so worried about breaking their rules even when he knows they are wrong?

Of course, Aziraphale is also a courageous little bastard with a deity-defying protective streak! Despite Heaven's indoctrination, we see him navigating all sorts of grey area as he learns to 'blur the edges'. But he knows it isn’t safe to do that openly. He keeps this more human side hidden and tries not to think too hard about why doing good is wrong in heavens eyes. (lol other people's aziraphale metas are my main food group rn)

At the end of S2, we see him leave A.Z. Garden & Co. after tasting the forbidden fruit large oat milk latte, armed with his naïve/misguided 'knowledge of Good and Evil'. (and perhaps he knows he can't 'let the sun can’t go down' on him in Soho lest the the Metatron mete out death instead of coffees?) When Adam and Eve left Eden, Aziraphale and Crowley observed from above. When the angel and demon leave their own garden, we get the sense that they are also being watched.

(also idk if this is anything but Adam facing off against the lion while Eve looks on in the bg seemed a bit like Crowley watching Aziraphale walk into danger w the Metatron. could be a good sign since the lion gets turned into salami)

There are hints at the end of S2 that the watching is getting a little a spicier (at least I think they are hints haha): the bookshop windows are still broken during the last part of E6, further decreasing privacy; the zombies used binoculars to watch A&C from the Dirty Donkey under cover of darkness in 1941 but the Metatron just looks across the road in the light of day. And then there's the whole 'hefty jigger of almond syrup'.

[aidens-ocean-galaxy]

Genesis chapter 2

so, god had just made adam from the dirt because men are dirty little freaks and then he made eve out of adam’s rib cage. why? who tf knows, the lord works in mysterious ways. and then he put the two of them in a very pretty garden called eden.

anyway, so adam was trusted with the very very important job of naming everything he saw. so, he named the birds, he named the bugs, and he named everything else that was around back then.

and eve was there to help with the work but not really because she’s just a girl and she shouldn’t be doing all that

the two of them had free will and could do whatever they wanted, the vibes were absolutely amazing in eden. but there was one rule that they could not break or else shit would go down. and that rule was to not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, that was all.

so, there was this slithery little bitch named lucifer, and he did not fw the good vibes that were happening in the garden. he had beef with god that he was still not over even though he literally lost the war in heaven that went down before the existence of anything. salty ass bitch boy 🙄.

flashback

lucifer was gods second in command. he was beautiful, smart, and had the upmost rizz, but he was incredibly narcissistic and thought he was better than everyone in heaven, even god himself.

so, one day he came up with a plan and gathered all his fellow angels, told them what he was gonna do, and half of them followed him in his rebellion but the other half still followed god.

angels have free will, just like us.

long story short, lucifer and his half of the angels lost the war and were bound to earth in own special dimension.

end of flashback

one day eve was just hanging with the animals, having a girls day, maybe getting a mani pedi, when all of a sudden she heard this agitating, grating voice whisper in her ear, “yo, you should highkey eat from the forbidden tree. is all I’m saying”

and like a bitch with no self worth, eve listened to lucifer and ate the fruit from the tree, making her, as the kids say, awake.

did I mean woke? yes, but that’s grammatically incoherent.

then, adam popped up out of nowhere and was like “bitch, did you just eat from the forbidden tree?” and eve was all like “um yeah I did. now eat the fruit and put your dick away”

and like a bitch with no self worth, adam took the fruit from her hand and ate it too, making him also awake.

the two of them were ashamed of themselves. there was no self love influencers back then, so they covered themselves in leaves so they wouldn’t be naked.

god saw this and was like “um that’s not on, Imma need you to leave now. oh, and eve? yeah, because you were the first to eat the fruit you will bleed each month and child birth will be painful af lol”

and so, they left. and as soon as they left as big ass storm came because god was sad and that was basically him weeping for his children.

[fanofstuff01]

Okay... but can I ask about the Chaggie and Guitarapple swap AU?!

Like... does it imply that Vaggie is first woman to exist and Charlie is first fallen angel, while Lucifer is Charlie's son and Adam used to be under Vaggie's command at first, before he fell and was taken in by Luci, who started up the hotel to redeem sinners???

...as you can see, I'm a huge enthusiast about Swap AU's

@adambrainrot

I’m one too lol.

Oookayyyyy it’s not an exact roleswap on both sides or like that. Though it sounds good too lol.

Let me tell you.

—

Adam is still the first man and Lucifer is still the first fallen angel, in fact he fell with Lilith yet again. But it’s a little different.

You see, Lucifer was a troublemaker but harmless angel who was known for his closeness to the first humans like his brother.

He thought he had everything…

Until he lost it all.

He didn’t even remember how it happened. He just could recall him and Michael bringing a tasy liquid to their favorite humans, then drinking it with them. Then the rest was black until he woke up in the garden of Eden, completely naked and with a weird feeling. Both of his friends and Michael weren’t around.

So he flew back to Heaven and pretended like it never happened until…

He realized that the weird feeling he had was pregnancy. And he couldn’t hide anymore.

The others asked him what the hell happened, and he told them about the day he didn’t quite remember and how he felt that way since then.

Heaven checked the child’s DNA and it was a humans. It was forbidden for an angel to mate with a human, and it was forbidden for humans to drink alcohol, the liquid Michael and Lucifer brought them.

Then, elders decided to punish both Michael and Lucifer, and the human that slept with Lucifer. They began searching for who it was, but it was cut short when the first woman, Lilith ‘came clean’ and said it was her. Why bother more searching when one was claiming it.

They were all going to fall to hell, but there was one question still remaining.

The child.

Angels said it would be easy and simple to just kill her, but Lucifer begged them not to. He didn’t wanted an innocent kid to be hurt just cause he was a dumbass.

Then Heaven said that they changed their mind and thwy won’t. But as a result of his disobedience, he would never be able to see his daughter ever again.

She would be raised by Heaven, and wouldn’t even know who her parents were until they decided to tell her.

Lucifer, feeling too sad, accepted this.

Adam’s new bride bit from the apple of knowledge herself. Then it resulted into getting them both cast to Earth.

They both went to Heaven when they died. And they were in love when they did, but it died down when Adam realized that Eve had became a selfish, arrogant and jealous person.

—

Years and years later, an overpopulation problem was visible in Hell. Heaven decided to hold a yearly extermination and even though he was heavily against it, Adam ended up as one of their two leaders, the other being Eve.

But, during the third one, Adam stumbled to his son, Cain, and he just couldn’t kill him. So he let him escape…

Which resulted into Charlie, now a bloodthirsty, cold hearted, demon hating soldier of Heaven, to stab him with a ‘sinful’ blade -Which is something that makes you a sinner from a winner basically- from the back and his ex wife, Eve to take his halo. They left him bleed to death, his soul was going to be bond to Hell once he did anyway.

However, Lucifer found him on streets, recognized Adam, and brought him to his hotel to heal him.

—

So it’s basically this lol.

Lucifer is Charlie

Adam is Vaggie

Michael is Lucifer

Charlie is Lute

Eve is Adam

Vaggie is another exorcist

Some characters like Husk and Angel have their genders swapped

[flawlessfallen]

Welp, let's take a shot at this. Adamsapple essay, right.

So I'm not an essayist, so this'll probably be pretty scatterbrained but here goes.

There is SO much potential for Adam in terms of growth and for Lucifer to be the catalyst of that growth. Really consider that there are few people around that were there when Adam was created, few that know how he used to be. Because I cannot ever believe that he was that huge of a dickhorse as a human in Eden.

Because really consider: Adam being 'controlling' of Lilith and then Eve wasn't even his idea, it was God's. This is what God told him to do, as a freshly created human that did not know anything outside of what his literal MAKER is telling him. A maker whose power he sees first hand and who speaks to him directly. Why would Adam even consider questioning what God said? Much less go against it? Lilith going 'lol no' is an exception, not a rule. Adam likely could have either been content with what God told him because he literally knew nothing else OR he could have even been afraid of disobeying him.

If your Creator has the means to make you, then they have the means to UNmake you... likely in many painful ways.

And Lucifer is one of the people who would know how Adam was in the garden, because he was THERE. He was there, he would know how Adam used to be. He would know how far the First Man has fallen, figuratively, from someone that likely was a decent guy with some hang-ups into someone just so... contemptable. So unlike how he ever was when first made.

He would know just how much Adam has changed.

In turn, Adam's view on Lucifer is just as the man who stole his wives, yeah? Well that depends... if he and Lucifer actually spoke, spent time together in the garden, which is likely, then you could argue that not only does Adam suffer abandonment from both his wives but he could even see Lucifer's actions as a betrayal. It adds more fuel to his fire and gives further reason to why he would probably descend into being a trashfire of a human soul. What's the point of being kind or empathetic when all it's ever done is gotten you shit on?

Adam's whole awful attitude could just be a front to hide his insecurities but it could also be him reveling in the fact that he, even if indirectly, get to make Lucifer suffer further by periodically going out to slaughter the denizens of Hell. Even if Lucifer didn't care about the Sinners, there was no way Adam could have known that. He could be reveling in it because it's some way to let out all the anger he feels for all the wrongs he believes he's suffered.

Does this excuse his actions? Not in the least, they're awful and should be more than enough to have him cast down into Hell.

Which brings us to Sinner Adam

He would likely have trouble even existing in Hell. Everyone knows who he is, everyone would want him dead (again) for what he's done. I can't even imagine Charlie wanting him around, he's done so many terrible things. But imagine if he was given a chance. Imagine if he had to make a deal with Lucifer to make sure he didn't cause trouble and to give him some protection from the multiple people that want him gone. Once again, he and Lucifer are brought together and this time they HAVE to tolerate each other.

Imagine the possibilities.

Imagine them finally talking to one another, after many snapping arguments and jabs. Imagine Adam reconnecting with the angel he had met back in Eden, back when things were easier, when things didn't hurt so much. That Lucifer has felt just as alone for almost just as long, with his depression, struggling with his own mistakes and failures. Struggling with having to watch the evils Man creates because he urged them to eat the Apple.

Learning that Lilith left him much like she left Adam (as far as we know).

Imagine the healing that could happen on Lucifer's part. He feels massive regret for giving humans knowledge, that they abuse their Free Will so badly that they end up here in a place of chaos and carnage and exploitation. How soothing to his wounds it would be if the first human, period, were to actually change and grow. Were to develop from the piece of shit that he is back to something closer to how he used to be, how Lucifer remembers him being, before the apple.

Adam can never go back completely, too much time has passed and he's done too much. But Adam is still human and all humans are capable of change,

Lucifer being there as one of the only people who remembers, who can make Adam recall, how he used to be, can coax him back to something closer to creation. Adam being there as someone who has also known Lucifer likely the longest in this show, who knew how he was too; how hopeful, how driven and creative.

Killing Adam off and leaving him dead is a huge WASTE of potential. A waste of really running with the theme and idea of the Hotel: That any soul is capable of redemption, if they try.

Imagine if Adam wanted to try? Imagine if he actually grew, imagine if Lucifer was a big part of that? BOTH of them growing because of their shared history. It's a fucking BARREL of possibilities that's just sitting right there. Wouldn't that be like... the biggest achievement? There's just so much HERE, there's so much that can be done!

Both have fallen-- one literally and one figuratively. Both likely have abandonment issues from their wife/wives leaving them. Both are completely different (likely) from how they were in Eden. Both are so similar and yet so different and that's where all the good kind of potential can be found.

There's SO much that can be done with Adamsapple and it makes me FERAL.

[khaleesiofalicante]

LBAF IV & BTS:

Since I do this every time, here are some BTS facts about LBAF IV:

Ironically enough, the first scene I wrote is the last scene (David meeting Other Max)

David was initially supposed to be the Prince of Darkness. But then I had a 'vision' about Lance and I was like 'I like this better!' - It also helped me establish Dark Max.

As mentioned before, Camila was supposed to die. Rafael was going to name his daughter after her. But I changed it (thanks annie) and he named her after his first love and best friend.

I wanted Mallory to be a villain who fucked things up so monumentally that the trauma lasts for generations. Mission accomplished.

Mallory was also loosely inspired by a villain called 'Neelambari' in a tamil movie from the early 90s. It was my fave film as a kid and I was obsessed with this character. You can see peak Mallory vibes in this scene at 03.45 (she's the young girl in the purple sari) also max has rajinikanth vibes wtf.

I love the irony of the Clave rumor that Max has a mistress when in fact it is David who is with Other Max.

Cami and Theia parabatai was simply created (other than for plot reasons) because i really felt we needed more female parabatai in tsc.

Atlas and Theia are named in the same way all Blackthorns are - greek/roman history influence.

Theia means Goddess of Light (and she loves the Prince of Darkness) and yesh it was intentional.

Harry, who is a character we are yet to meet, is named after one of my closest friends.

In the original epilogue, we were supposed to get six povs of the six new kids - but i scrapped the whole thing and wrote a kincaid pov.

Kincaid means Head of the Battle or Battle Leader, meaning he is meant to lead the battle against PoD.

There are SO many hints in IALS that Lance is the PoD. I was so terrified one of you might figure it out lmao. Example 01:

Lance's fate was also hinted in DML when David reveals Lucifer is trying to hurt him.

There was a scene where Maryse talks to David and says 'The NY Institute has always been a place for rejects but it ended up being the place where we found the love we deserved'. It got deleted. (maybe in part 5?) It refers to the fact that Robert and Maryse (and Alec) ALSO got exiled from Idris after the Circle and were sent to the NY institute.

And yes Merlin was a gift from Leviathan to Arthur. Other Max looks after him in the future.

Kincaid originally had a black puppy called Bella and I changed it into a black horse. Because I felt Victoria and Kyl wouldn't approve of a cute puppy lol. The horse was also inspired by 'The Ebony Horse' from Arabian Knights.

The Idris Patrol uniform was very much inspired by the House Lannister armor/outfits from Game of Thrones.

David believes Lance is Nico reborn which is why he named Lance's middle name after him.

IALS was inspired by the 'what if' of what if David had left Max after finishing that letter and what if Max didn't know how to get the memories back. It's basically their story in the mundane world - where without magic to make things better everything is more complicated.

Joan's name is inspired by Joan of Arc (who both Liv and Lexi love)

The reason why Kincaid doesn't like Iris/Malik is that he feels he and Arthur were supposed to have the same story (childhood friends to lovers) but they couldn't.

And finally, Paradise Lost (the book David carries around in the entire fic) is about the story of Adam and Eve getting exiled from the Garden of Eden which was a metaphor for Mavid getting exiled from Idris.

[sherlock-is-ace]

pls tell me a/c headcanons u have! I love ur url!

skksg thank youu!!! Ok, here we go:

Crowley’s obsession with houseplants began when Aziraphale gave him a tiny pothos ivy as a housewarming gift.

Aziraphale’s old computer was a gift from Crowley, he bought it when that was a modern computer and Azi never updated to a new one. Crowley thinks it’s because Azi won’t understand modern computers but it’s just because it was a gift from his demon husband.

The computer still works perfectly and can do all a modern computer can because Aziraphale keeps miracleing stuff to it.

It’s canon that Crowley sleeps, but Aziraphale doesn’t, so whenever they sleep on the same bed Azi just lays there reading, next to his sleeping husband all night :’)

Every 21st of October Crowley secrelty does something special for Aziraphale, like he takes him out to eat of gift him some new book, something small. Crowley thinks he’s being clever and that Aziraphale doesn’t remember that was the day the Earth was created and that’s when they met, but he remembers :’)

Cassanova (2005) exists in gomens world and is actually Crowley. Also, it’s actually Mary Loquasious as well, Crowley got her the job.

I said this before, but I stand by it. Aziraphale was friends with Oscar Wilde, he also hates Bosie (but that’s me projecting lol).

Now that we’re in the subject of movies that exist in gomens world… Wilde (1997) is actually Aziraphale. He wanted to tell his friend’s story. (he had to play Robbie cause they didn’t write him on the movie lol)

Crowley loves Wilde and Aziraphale loves Cassanova but neither of them would ever admit it.

Crowley started the “gays can’t sit” thing. He didn’t mean it, he just can’t sit.

A lot of Crowley’s tortures were actually Aziraphale’s ideas, he just twisted them a little. Like for example, selfies… Azi invented the word cause he thought it was kinda funny. Crowley just went for it.

Also the blue/black or gold/white dress was an Azi original. They disagreed on the colors and then Crowley had the brilliant demonic idea of making it a thing.

I’ve also said it before but the tide pods thing was Aziraphales fault too. Here’s my other post with it :P

Oh I also saw this one about Arthur Conan Doyle and I absolutely love it.

Also someone once said Crowley threw the first brick at Stonewall and I’m here for it. x

Can’t think of any others at the moment… I feel like I’m forgetting important ones tho… I’ll be sure to write them down next time i come up with something in case someone asks me again lol

[bootleg-sara]

Oooooh more lads! We got Cain and Lilith this time around

A intro to a new kind of human soul. Basically, old earth souls are people who lived in the garden of eden and anyone before the flood of genesis. They don't have the same kind of magic new earth humans do (technically they don't have magic at all, but all of Adam's and Eve's family is cursed. All the important old earth humans in this au have a messed up version of magic). They also don't have halos (called crowns for humans). I'll make a short post about new/old earth souls and halos/crowns eventually

Anyhow, character bios and more doodles under cut

Cain: voice claim- Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard

Cain Pain Time

One of the biggest con artists in hell that no one knows of. Always going under different identities wherever he goes to avoid being tracked. He’s an old, bitter, and greasy man who can’t stay in one place for long. Skilled with the dagger he keeps on his person. Quite the locksmith too. Is sure to only get locks that he himself can’t easily open.

Cain doesn’t trust anyone. Everyone is an enemy no matter how friendly they may appear to be. This overwhelming pessimism is to much for most people, but it’s the very thing that’s kept him alive. When you’re a traveling business man who makes a living off of stealing and bartering, you can’t afford to get to comfy with others. Not in a place like hell where people aren’t afraid to take extreme action. He’ll take any job he can get his hands on, but sworn off of murder. Last time he did that the world made it very clear that’s something he shouldn’t be doing.

He’s an absolute kiss-ass too. Cain has quite the high social standing all because he knows how to worm his way into their lives. Sure, he probably secretly hates you, but he’ll out on quite the show to prove you otherwise. With enough careful planning, you can get whatever you want by being friends with powerful people. Just don’t get involved in their drama and you won’t become a target from a rival group. Cain’s gotten good at working the system to benefit himself. From free train rides around hell to protection from any potential danger. He’s got it all. Except for a stable life where he can settle down for a bit.

Now Cain here despises Angels and Demons. He has no respect for any of them, no matter who they are. They’re the very things that ruined his family’s lives and caused the world to be flooded. He sees no reason they deserve any respect. They’ve done nothing but cause him misery. Cain will be nice for show, but if a situation requires a little betrayal, he won’t feel a thing for ruining a Demon’s well being. The only demon he have any semblance of care for is Lilith. As he did accidentally put her into torment when she was doing Cain a massive favor.

Cain’s hatred and fear of everyone has left him rather isolated. No one to really call a true friend. The person he grew closest to ended up being yet another person who wasn’t deserving of his trust. With all the constant moving around, Cain can’t find anyone to stick with him. It’s all he really wants out of his millions of years of life. Though his own anger issues have made any candidates quick to flee. Maybe he’ll find some solace in the random kid he found out in the middle of nowhere

Lilith: Voice claim- You Make Me Feel by Archive

To a character completely opposite of Cain, meet the outgoing and charitable Lilith.

She (along with basically every other important angel/demon in this au lol) is one of the original angels that roamed Eden with humans. She had sided along with Apollyon and his legion of angels who had ruled Eden for as long as they had been there. When Archangel Michael and his 6 archangels of end times had come to punish the old angels of Eden, Lilith was one of the unfortunate angels caught up in it. The event caused a change in views for Lilith, who now views her time in Eden as a blemish on her existence. Since then she’s been making a great deal of progress to become a better and more respectful person. Though her stubbornness hasn’t quite been rectified.

Lilith is a people person through and through. She couldn’t stand the thought of being kept up in a little hole by herself. Lilith has long lost her old status as a high ranking demon, though with the help of her old friends like Azazel, she’s very up to date with the royals. Most of her time is spent doing charity work in less fortunate cities that don’t offer such services. She focuses primarily on helping children, as she adores kids.

She has had quite the long family lineage, being the mother to many children who have since grown up to live for themselves. She has two kids of her own that still live with her, Eosphoros and Brim

Eosphoros is an angsty teenage boy. In the afterlife, the age requirement for being allowed to do certain things is much higher than on earth. Most places requiring souls to be at least 100 years old before they can drink. Wether he likes it or not, he needs to stay with Lilith to get stable enough to move out. His father Lucifer is someone Lilith wants to avoid as much as she can. He’s a massive jerk. Not being able to see your father, even if he is a notorious asshole, isn’t ideal. Eosphoros isn’t a fan of the constant moving from place to place for Lilith’s charity work either. Much rather be with Azazel’s giant estate than the small house Cain resides in. All the fighting between Lilith and Cain doesn’t help much either.

Brim is a baby. He does not have a personality because what did you expect from a baby. He’s cute, and is Lilith’s youngest son and child of Azazel. Azazel thinks it’d be so cool if Brim could use brimstone like he could. Lilith is not at all in agreement.

Lilith’s gets most of her sight from her incubus familiars and her natural ability to see energy as fields of light. Though sometimes that’s way too much energy for her, and chooses to get around like a regular human with blindness does. Her magic is very weak as she almost never uses it outside of her incubus. Her Incubus isn’t technically alive, but they a lot like a small cat with wings. Low energy, but cuddly and always happy to see you.

Lilith is planning on marrying Azazel in the foreseeable future for a bit of time as she gets herself settled into life again after Lucifer messed that all up.

What is their relationship like?

These two have quite the rough history. Seeing as Lilith’s group of angels is what screwed over Cain’s entire family while also inflicting Cain with a curse he can never remove. Understandably, he’s not very open to being friends. Under normal circumstances Cain wouldn’t have ever let Lilith step foot into his temporary home in Judas’ city.

A very long time ago, Lilith wanted to make up for the pain she had inadvertently caused him by helping him remove his curse. The procedure didn’t work as planned. The curse only came back to Cain, while being spread onto Lilith as well. Forcing her to lose both her wings and eyesight. Cain feels awful about it. The one time an angel tried to help him and they were both left in a worse state. Cain has a good few properties all around hell as investments and quick places he can stay for the night. He’s offered his living spaces for Lilith if she needs to stay for her work, as long as he’s there to keep an eye on her.

He’s not the biggest fan of this arrangement. Lilith likes it bring home her demon friends, much to his dismay. But he’s doing a favor for someone he had crippled so he’ll keep his mouth shut. Last thing Cain needs is to expand his list of people he cared for getting hurt in some way. Most time they are civil with one another, but they both can never agree on anything. Their personalities clash constantly which has lead to a fair few fights. At worst Cain will leave the house to gamble for a bit to calm his nerves.

Cain may never fully put his trust into her, but he does make an effort to not glare daggers every time he sees her. Lilith just wishes he’s go get some therapy for once his life. Clearly he needs it.

Aeyo the next funny guys!

The descriptions here feel a lot shorter and less interesting than the last few, so apologizes for that. It’s not that I don’t love these fellas, more of just their importance to the story makes up most of what they are in my head. And I don’t wanna spoil that in case I do ever do something with it. Plus, doubt anyone wants to read a bunch of story bullet points when just trying to look at some characters lmao

Hope this was enjoyable anyhow. I do have a comic planned for these two, but it might take a bit longer to get out because I haven’t started sketching it yet. It’ll be another 4 parter, so that’s cool. Also long. Man

[azazelsconfessional]

((so since i can't sleep what shall i talk about since i don't feel like getting on my laptop and doing proper answers/tags and such atm.

Here's something that maybe confuses some of you!

I've had Azazel mention before that Bablon was his first wife. And you may think. That sounds weird. Where'd you get that from.

So if you remember anything about Babalon that was only mentioned in passing, I feel like what you might remember is her comment of 'I only wanted to be equal to men.'

It's a good comment! Important thing to say!

But she also said something else I want to point out that's, imo, rather important to acknowledge.

Bablon ate from one of the Pillar Trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge.

Now idk how many of you are of an Abrahamic originating faith(and if so I only partially apologize for the Aggressive Blasphemy on this blog) or were raised one or just happen to be familiar with the mythology there but

As someone who went to Christian school all their school life

The most notable woman to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree in the Garden of Eden which the Pillars are based on was Eve, the first woman.

But Eve never made a fuss about being equal to Adam. That anger towards dominating men is part of Babalon's character, so where did they get it if she's Eve?

Well! If you're familiar with the Jewish side of mythology there's actually someone else of relevance here!

(""blog spoilers"" because this references something that Azazel's been asked about but was somewhat avoidant with because i thought it might be more fun to have people ask about it and ~unravel some mysteries~ along the way but i have no patience i guess)

So! In Jewish mythology, Eve was not the first woman, to my understanding!

In fact, Eve was made of one of Adam's ribs. But earlier on, the bible says that God made man and woman, which sounds like they were supposed to be made at the same time(whereas Eve being made from one of Adam's ribs came about after Adam didn't connection strongly to any animals.)

But the actual first woman was made from the same earth as Adam, refused to be subservient to him, and left the Garden so God had to make Adam a new wife.

And the actual first woman's name was Lilith! And while I don't remember reading anything about her eating from the tree(and I admit I am underread atm shh there's a lot of shit to read), considering she's made at the same time and from the same source as Adam I'm sure she had the time at some point.

Now you may be thinking 'that's cool and all but where does Azazel come into this'

So to start off with that, Azazel got asked about Samael like. A week ago. And if you recall that ask, he was kind of vague about answering it, basically only saying that he liked Samael.

So Samael is often equated with Satan but whether or not they're the same entity is dubious because Samael, though sinful and condoning of sin, is considered "good". I decided to go with them being different for a few reasons, namely convenience and because Babalon surely would have seen him in MC if that were the case.

Samael supposedly means 'poison of god' or 'venom of god'

Which is a fitting name for a snake, I think.

Samael either orchestrated the tempting of Adam and Eve to sin with/using the snake or took the form of a snake to perform this temptation, depending on your source material. I'm going with the latter interpretation.

In the Book of Enoch, which some of Azazel's canon material references, Azazel is also the snake from the garden of Eden--which adds up if you consider God saying Azazel is to be blamed for all sin(Azazel himself corroberates this in-game by telling MC that their sins are because of him in the story where he marries MC and Zabaniyya.)

It also adds up if you make Samael and Azazel the same entity, as Samael condoned the sins of humanity as well as orchestrated Adam and Eve eating the fruit--and Samael could have just convinced Azazel to do it, but why not link two major sinful angels when Azazel already has so much fallen angel lore at once?

What I'm getting at is that, on this blog at least, Samael and Azazel are the same person--Samael is just a name that Azazel had very early along with a different Role. When he took on the Role of the Watcher after fulfilling the Role of [undecided, leaning towards Infection or Temptation], he began to use Samael less and Azazel more until he stopped using it entirely, or maybe took on the name Azazel when Lilith/Babalon was banished. Or maybe he was given the name with the new Role.

And in several sources, Lilith married Samael after leaving the Garden.

And thus, Babalon was married to Azazel on this blog once upon a time(or as married as Adam and Eve were.) They've since 'broken up'(Babalon was banished and Azazel wasn't for like 200+ years after lmao couldn't rrally sustain it even if they wanted to) and Babalon treats Azazel hostilely most of the time. Neither of them really discuss it lol

It's just headcanon for fun and to make some links around with his relationships and it's far from the most far-fetched one I have lol

Of course if people disagree with it or someone who wants to play Babalon or Samael disagrees with it, I have no problem with that and won't enact it on them! But like that's why we have those answers, in case you were wondering.

TL;DR--Babalon canonically implies she's Lilith and I make Azazel Samael for reasons and that's why they used to be married.))

[primumincaelo]

cracks my knuckles!! (blaze u godsend, reminding me about this, ur a real one)

so i wanna start this with how adam's existence went when he was first placed in the garden of eden.

from the moment he was created, up until the moment he ate the forbidden fruit, everything adam knew, he was essentially told such by God. (aside from the whole...being gay thing. but that's a whole different post in and of itself.) which animals were which, which plants were safe to eat and which weren't, to not eat from that one particular apple tree, how to take care of and protect himself and his (eventual) family, that lillith was to be his wife, and after she'd left him that eve was to be his wife, all of that he was told.

now that all of that's been said.

adam was initially unsure how to feel about lillith. in my mind, i simply don't see lillith being very interested in adam in the first place, which more than likely contributed to her leaving with lucifer; but frankly, adam likely didn't feel much of anything towards her either. one might call them friendly, acquaintances, maybe friends even, before her leave, but i don't see either of them getting particularly close to romantic with each other when it comes to how they felt. regardless of that, he was told she was to be his wife. before she left, he thought what he felt for her was love. in reality, again it was simply... not much of anything. adam merely followed the motions of being her husband, again, until she left. however, he never really blamed her for leaving. let's be real, he'd probably seen lucifer by then, he would've left too if he'd gotten his attention instead. but he especially doesn't blame her in retrospect due to eve's arrival and, well...💅🏼 but that's a later problem.

so, eve. adam truly did care about and love eve. maybe it wasn't quite as romantic as God would have hoped, but he loved her enough to make a family with her. however, when she was created, adam seemed to get this notion that "this one should listen" (whether God was telling adam outright that she should listen to adam, or it was God's want to have a stronger hold on her Himself and adam just kinda got the vibes, that would be up to interpretation here for a variety of reasons lol). adam tells eve everything that God told him; how to figure out which of the other plants are safe to eat, how to protect and take care of a family, and especially how she should not eat from this particular apple tree. and for a while, everything's great. adam loves eve, they begin to start a family, everything's lovely. maybe a little strained, for a short time, much later (yknow, after adam makes a small little realization about himself, mostly unknowingly), but overall... their lives are good. now when eve comes over and brings him an apple from the forbidden tree, and adam doesn't find out until after he's already taken a bite... all of that changes. there's suddenly all of this knowledge floating around that he didn't have before, of course, but it comes with this slight feeling of betrayal. adam is genuinely hurt that eve had taken from that one stupid tree. how many times had he reiterated, it was God's rule, not his own? he had only meant to look out for her. unfortunately this would cause their separation, with eve going on to tell her side of the story (whatever that may be, i don't control eve muns /lh), and adam... never really telling his side, especially not after eve's story blows up in his face.

tl;dr: adam felt at most a distant platonic love for lillith, but since losing touch with her, no longer considers her a friend. he had some sort of genuinely loving connection with eve, but was genuinely hurt when she took from the forbidden tree, enough for a rift to eventually come between them and they too lost touch.he does not blame either of them for leaving him, again especially in retrospect since he's come to terms with his sexuality.

now lucifer... that's another whole separate post to make lmao

having thoughts about how adam feels towards lillith and eve separately but i am once again cursed to work for money

[fantastic-rambles]

This whole ask is gonna be RLY random but i wanna let this out lol

Holy FUCK i would literally sell my soul for an Adam-centric movie. I heard someone say in a vid that they might as well have made the whole anime about him and it wouldve been just as(if not even more) entertaining, and bro SAME. And frankly the younger characters aren't remotely as fun to watch as the adults.

Also the young!🌹🌸 ship has so much angst potential, it's probably my fav Adam ship(im regularly entertaining the thought of adult!🌹🌸 being together in an alternate universe lol). Also a concept:🌹 going to 🍵s restaurant to drink wine with the bois and complain about his work and bitchy aunts(do u see how desperate i am for them to fix their relationship even tho it's pretty much impossible after all that's happened OTL)

One thing that sends me is how japanese fans(and the va's themselves) are so understanding of Adam's character and are able to fully enjoy the story. There's so much Adam content coming from them compared to the western fandom(which is understandable tho, considering how it's overflowed with whiny fancops).

And the last thing. I don't think ppl that think Tadashi has done nothing wrong truly understand how much he fucked up when they were young. Tadashi was literally the one and only person Adam was sure he could rely on and thought was never gonna betray him(im sure Adam loved 🌸🍵 but there was no transparency in their relationship compared to what he had w/ Tadashi). Tadashi not backing him up in that one moment is something far worse than Adam's dad burning his skateboard. He was literally the only person that truly knew Adam, and losing him left him completely alone, which what i believe actually triggered him into becoming desperate about finding his Eve(thus finding an equal AND someone who could potentially support him). Ofc that doesn't mean that the way he now treats Tadashi is ok.

Ok I'm done sry (￣▽￣)

No apologies! Always happy to find more non-Adam-haters!

100% agree. I would love more Adam content. Especially young Adam-Cherry-Joe. I would miss the Langa, but I wouldn’t mind not having everyone else. xD

My headcanons for them are different though. Although Loveblossom is my favorite Adam ship, I think that it’s an unrequited love from Cherry to Adam, because even when they were younger, Adam is too fucked up to have an actual relationship/understand love, and he wouldn’t consider it because his family wouldn’t approve of it. I also think that Cherry and Joe only ever saw Adam, but never Ainosuke: yes, he lets them see his face, but I don’t think he let them into that side of his life. And Ainosuke keeps everything he feels close to his chest to keep up his perfect image, so he wouldn’t vent it, even privately (other than maybe to Tadashi). But I also think he doesn’t mind his work and while he may not like his aunts, he does appreciate them, since they’ve warped his thinking. (I do want them to fix their relationship too, though. And Adam just showing up at Joe’s restaurant one day would be hilarious.)

Yeah. I wish I knew Japanese. DD:

And Tadashi definitely played a huge role in screwing up Adam. Yeah, it’s not entirely his fault/he also has some clear problems that contributed to it like his inferiority complex, but he really fucked things up. Absolutely agree with everything you said. I think that something happened when Adam was in America that caused him to start desperately looking for Eve, but Tadashi not standing up for him in the one moment that it mattered the most was probably the most painful/significant moment in Adam’s life and strongly shaped his character. Though it is possible that that moment was the trigger for his search for Eve, if it happened immediately prior to Adam going to America (which isn’t unlikely); I’m not sure exactly where it falls in the timeline.

Rather than the snake, I feel like Tadashi is more of a God (though he would never claim that title for himself, or even believe it): he brought Adam into the world of skating (the Garden of Eden) and is now trying to cast him out of it. And that hurts Adam so much, to be betrayed (repeatedly) by his best friend and teacher, someone he once respected. To have God turn his face from him and try to take away Paradise. >~~~<

So yeah, Tadashi is really multi-faceted and intriguing to me, since I think he was something like an Eve, but also a God, and now a Snake (though again, I think “God” is more appropriate than “Snake,” at least with what we’ve seen so far).

Something I’ve mentioned in other posts is that I believe Adam is still in a “state of innocence” and basically still a child inside due to all the abuse he suffered from his family stunting his emotional/mental growth. As Ainosuke, he doesn’t seem to have any personal initiative: he just obediently obeys his aunts and tries to please them by meeting their expectations. As Adam, he’s a lonely child who just wants to have fun doing what he loves and is trying to find a friend who shares his passion for skating. I believe that he has not yet developed a sense of morality, so he doesn’t realize that what he’s doing in both areas is wrong: he’s like a kid stomping on a line of ants. It’s wrong/harmful/spiteful, but he just doesn’t know any better.

[the-arcana-randomness]

Get to know my Arcana OC

Hey everyone, I wanna introduce my OC for the Arcana. Sadly I won’t be posting a drawing of her since I don’t know how to draw lol 

Pronouns: She/her

Name: Reina

This is a name that is really dear to my heart, a name I used for a lot of the female characters I came up with when I was little. Everything always lead me back to that name. Also, from it’s spanish origin it has the meaning of “QUEEN”, which is fitting for Lucio and it fits into the storyline I came up with for her

Birthname (from her past life): Eden 

This name is also very dear to me. In times I tried to step away from Reina, I always came to Eden. Somehow those two were separate, but remained connected throughout my life, just like MC lives a new separate life from their past, but the past is still a part of them. In that similar way Eden is connected to Reina. Also, this name has a meaning that represents my MC’s role in the story of her past life perfectly - according to the Bible: The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve was called “The Garden of Eden”, and Eden in itself means a delightful place, a paradise, as well as a state of innocence, bliss or ultimate happiness. 

Zodiac/character: Aries 

I, myself, am an Aries, that is the first reason I chose this sign for her. The second reason is that I think her character is very much “aries” - fun, free-spirited and fiercely independant - aries woman are a breath of fresh air, so to say. Their element is fire (hello Lucio) and one article described it as “igniting all that she touches with a living spark of life” - which I feel is fitting for MC from the Arcana. Aries are also descried as: creative, energetic, passionate and at times domineering and short-tempered, great at getting things done, initiating endeavors, infusing their enthusiasm into everything they do. “Aries is the sign of the cosmic child, the fresh green sprout, the prodigal bright youth; they often call it like it is; a sense of playfulness and an appreciation for absurdity can make aries the life of the party, and a joy to have as a companion. They’re not afraid to be silly, and aren’t shy about being the center of attention” - these quotes from an article about astrology depict the character of my OC perfectly, and these words are expressed in the storyline I made for her. 

Physical appearance: 

Reina has long, light-brown hair, which is put into a braid most of the time or is let down and parted mostly to the left side, while as Eden she had long, silky, bleach-blond/white-ish hair which was mostly down and parted in the middle or put in a messy bun. 

She has green eyes and a light to medium skintone. 

Her height is 170 cm / 5′7 and she her body type is hourglass and her weight is average - 65 kg / 143 lbs - not skinny, not chubby. 

She loves to keep her nails long and take care of them a lot. 

Tattoos: As Eden she had the Arcana mark that the main three have on the back of both her fists. 

Familiar:  

A buckskin dun (that is a coat color) horse named Hono, which in Maori means connected, united. 

Love interest: 

Count Lucio (duh) 

*speed round* 

Favorite food: Watermelon 

Favorite drink(s): Alcoholic - Vodka, Non-alcoholic - Lemonade 

Favorite color: Purple 

Favorite flower: Gerbera daisy -  The Celts believed that the gerbera would lessen the sorrows and stresses of everyday life. They symbolize  happiness and gratefulness for the life you have been given. 

I think this is where I’ll stop for now (mainly because I can’t think of any more topics to adress - if you have any, write them to me). I really hope you all enjoyed it and that you like her. I put a lot of effort into this post lol 

Also I invite everyone who liked this to write the same points for their own OC’s by reblogging this or if you make a separate post be sure to tag me, I want to read them all! 

I love you all. <3 

[shipaholic]

Good Omens/SU crossover - The Prologue!

Day 19, 2020: already behind on my writing schedule, lol.

It’s angels and demons with gem powers y’all! I’ve decided to post scenes from the fic on tumblr as I go, and then do a big edit at the end before putting it on AO3.

Prologue: three days after Adam and Eve leave the garden, Crowley reforms for the first time.

Link to next part at the end.

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Prologue

4004 BC

There was an angel in the garden of Eden.

The others had left already after the business with the apple, muttering about cock-ups (but more politely, being angels). Strictly speaking, there was no reason for any angel to still be skulking around the garden. A cloud of embarrassment hung over the place. In a few hours management was due to turn up and sweep it, before returning to head office and drafting an official statement. The garden couldn’t remain on Earth, obviously. There had been talk of archiving it.

A twisted black sigil, the size of a rook’s feather, lay on a flat rock. It looked as though it should have only had two dimensions, but had been press-ganged by physics into manifesting an extra one. It was wrapped in a little nest of white cloth and placed in a sunbeam. The angel hovered nearby, trying not to break into out-and-out looming.

The black object on the rock finally did something. It glowed pure white and rose out of its nest to float in the air two feet above eye level. It made a noise that would be identifiable, many, many years from now, as a laser beam charging up [1].

The light became blinding, and a shape grew out of it - more shapeless than shape, its borders wobbling like a giant soap bubble. Then it compressed and became human-shaped. Limbs sprouted in every direction. The blob at the top decided to be a head. It was like watching dough being rolled out and reformed into an unsettlingly realistic gingerbread man.

Long curls unspooled from the head. Swathes of cloth burst into existence and draped around the figure, similar to that worn by the angel. It then changed its mind, and the loose toga pinned over one shoulder morphed into a cowl and hood, wrapping around the head and leaving only a few loose strands of hair.

Features popped out of the smooth face. Colour suffused it down to the fingertips. There was a final burst of wind and light, like a celestial flourish, and a pair of gleaming white wings unfolded from its back. Immediately, they turned black, like a forest scorched to ash. They fluttered once, and the figure gently touched down on the grass of Eden.

It opened its eyes. They were still golden.

Then it squawked and fell over.

“Ack,” it said.

It kicked a few times at its robe, which was not especially tangled around its feet, but that seemed less embarrassing than acting as though it had fallen over because it still hadn’t got the hang of having legs.

Then it caught sight of the angel hiding behind a rock.

“Gnn!” it said, and grabbed for something to throw at him. [2]

“Um!” The angel held up his hands. He tried to stand up without looking intimidating, and ended up in a kind of hunch. “I come in peace. Erm.”

The figure pulled a face, as if remembering the distant present. “Peace? You killed me!”

The angel grimaced. “Well. I suppose I did, technically. Sorry about that.”

“You whacked me over the head!”

“I know how that must look -”

“I thought we were having a nice moment up there, with the sheltering from the rain and so on, and two seconds later you karate-chop me with your blessed wing!”

The angel’s face was two notches guiltier than his gave-away-my-flaming-sword face. “It really was an ac -” He paused. “Well. Not quite an accident, to be quite honest. Not in the sense of not meaning to do it. But I really didn’t mean to k- discorporate you. I feel terrible about the whole thing.”

“Oh, you feel terrible! I’ve got a ding in my skull. Brand new skull and everything.” The demon tapped its own head, but found it undamaged. It frowned. “Huh. That’s useful.”

“You seem fine now,” said the angel. He already sounded far less sympathetic.

“Yeah, ssssuperb.”

“You’ve even redecorated yourself a bit. I like the, erm.” The angel gestured vaguely. “Belt.”

“Yeah. Well. Why not.” The demon preened a little. It was quite a nifty trick. The angel was a fan of his new, cinched-in waist look, but thought it a bit of a shame the demon had covered his long red hair. His gem - the winding black sigil just under his ear - was also half-hidden under his hood. The angel had a few further thoughts, but it seemed impolite to comment.

“What are you hanging around for, anyway?” said the demon. He was still sprawled on the ground with a clump of grass in his hand. “Planning to stand over me and just… finish me off whenever I reform?” He blanched. He’d just said it off the top of his head, but it was actually a disturbing thought. “Because that sounds, uh. Boring.”

“Of course not!” said the angel. It did sound boring. Also, horrible. He’d got through the entire War in Heaven without engaging in what might technically be called combat. Given the option, he’d prefer to keep his kill-count at zero. Who knew their human forms would… explode into smoke clouds from one tiddly knock on the head? Someone upstairs might have told him. “I wanted to see you were all right, that was all. You gave me quite a shock, you know.” He gave an embarrassed cough. “Look, I really wasn’t trying to trick you - back on the wall.”

“Oh, ‘course not. You were just doing me a favour, keeping me dry, nice and neighbourly, only by sheer misfortune an overwhelming blood-lust came over you, and there was nothing for it but to smite me off a sixty-foot wall. That’s a comfort. I feel much safer now.”

   The angel, unlike most of the others, understood sarcasm. [3] He kept what had really happened up on the wall to himself. It had been a loud clap of thunder - the first ever produced on Earth - and it had been startling and unpleasant. Usually a sound like that heralded the appearance of Upper Management, who would have had Questions about him chatting to a demon, of the kind that ended in Meetings with Clipboards. Getting the demon out of sight chop-chop had been the word of the day, and - well. Turned out these new, corporeal bodies were less resilient than one might hope. Bit of a rush-job, the angel regrettably suspected.

“How long was I out, anyway?” The demon peered around the sun-drenched garden. “I see this place has had time to dry out.”

“It’s been three days. I’m not really supposed to be here anymore. I’m going to be terribly late to the staff meeting.” The angel looked at him sidelong. Politeness lost a skirmish with curiosity. “What… exactly was it like?”

“What, getting my head stoved in? Or just the general feeling of betrayal?”

The angel was a being of heavenly love and he did not roll his eyes. “What were you doing in there? While you were, er, recharging?”

The demon’s yellow eyes went blank. “Hnn.” He scratched his cheek. “Just. Hanging about, you know. Think I was in contact with one of my people. Sort of felt like someone was talking to me. And like I was filling in forms. And having a nap.”

The angel frowned. “A nap? Never heard of it.”

“Oh, it’s going to be big.” The demon smiled. He had high hopes for sloth. At the very least, he suspected he was going to like it.

The angel gave a tentative smile. “So it wasn’t too unpleasant?”

The demon huffed. “Fine, no, it wasn’t torture. It was just weird. No harm done, and I got a new look out of it, so don’t be too hard on yourself. Not that you were being all that hard on yourself. Scratch that, be harder on yourself, softer on me.” He clambered to his feet. He definitely hadn’t got the legs down yet. Rebooting his body had set him back, he was sure of it. “I’ve got turned around. Where’s the exit?”

The angel pointed. There hadn’t used to be an exit [4], but now that Adam and Eve had departed, there was. “I’d move quickly if I were you. Head office is sending some of my lot down to check the place over. Could be any minute now.”

“Thanks for the warning,” the demon said gloomily. He spread his wings for balance and started to wobble away on newborn legs.

“Sorry again!” the angel called out.

“Not like anyone died. See you, angel.”

The angel waved, then felt foolish since the demon was facing away. “Aziraphale. Don’t think I said.”

“Goodbye, Aziraphale.”

“Goodbye, Crawly.”

The angel watched him stumble towards the exit of the garden, until he started to feel peculiar and unsafe and guilty about something he couldn’t put his finger on. Time to leave and avoid running into management.

Aziraphale the angel turned and strode eastwards, and Crawly the demon continued west, and they wouldn’t meet again for six hundred years.

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[1] But only in certain B-movies.

[2] There were no deadly weapons in Eden, even if you improvise. The figure grabbed a handful of grass. He inconvenienced himself more pulling it out of the ground than he would have done to the angel by throwing it.

[3] After a fashion. At least, when it came draped in a neon flag with ‘I am being facetious and mean to you’ scrawled across it.

[4] An exit for humans, that was. The four Gates at the North, South, East and West were guarded by angels and they led to less Earthly destinations.

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(Chapter 1, Part 1)

[tradingjack]

Hey so uh I forgot that I hate drawing wings lol

Anyways, this is a headcanon I came up with sometime 2 weeks ago and I’m sure someone else already came up with as well and wrote about before I finished this involved-ass drawing and wrote about it myself but I’m sharing it anyway. Of course it involves Good Omens cause uhh that’s the current hyperfixation my dudes

Basically this is the Archangel, Raphael.

About the headcanon under the cut if you’re interested (prepare for a goddamned novel)

So yeah, this is a drawing of the Archangel Raphael. I’m sure those interested have heard the theory by now that Crowley could have been the Archangel Raphael before the Fall, based on the fact that Raphael is not in Good Omens canon (seemingly replaced by Sandalphon or whatever), Raphael’s symbol is a snake wrapped around a staff, and, for me personally, the fact that Crowley can just??? Stop time????? Like what kind of overpowered Bull Shit

(I’m sure there’s a bunch of other things that support this theory that I just don’t know, please look it up some people really go in depth and it’s awesome)

Also, a brief note on angel rankings. I looked it up, and it didn’t really help because there is a lot of conflicting information out there. In the end,  I just kept it at Wikipedia cause fuck it, it is a pretty reliable source in the end. We’re gonna be focusing on the first and third spheres, since the second sphere really doesn’t apply. Basically, the highest order of angels are seraphim, followed by the cherubim and then the thrones. Skip the second sphere, and the lowest three rankings are, in order of most to least rank, principalities (or rulers), archangels, and angels. Now, concerning the difference between archangels and Archangels: apparently the capital letter makes a big ol difference. Archangels with a capital letter are not, in fact, the second lowest ranking but may be interpreted to mean above all other angels, and are the highest ranked angels even among the seraphim. Therefore, the highest angels of the highest are referred to as Archangels with a capital A. (Idk if the Archangels are even really mentioned in the book, I haven’t read it yet, so idk if their titles are capitalized. I’m talking mostly in the context of the Amazon Prime show.)

Quick description of seraphim and therefore Archangels straight from Wikipedia: “fiery six-winged beings; with two wings that cover their faces, with another two that cover their feet, and the last two they use to fly.” (Oh shit I forgot the fire goddamnit I’m such a fuckin idiot oh well it’s too late I wrote this after I finished the drawing)

So, Crowley could be the fallen Archangel Raphael. However, as someone else brought up (and I’ve seen several posts stating this), the name “Aziraphale” is like a bastardization of the phrase “Also Raphael,” meaning Aziraphale could have been the Archangel Raphael but demoted and therefore forced to be renamed. It makes sense that Aziraphale could have been at least of a higher rank than a Principality because he was supposed to be guarding the Gates of Eden, which, in biblical canon, were guarded by higher ranking angels than Principalities (I think they were as high up as cherubim?? idk).

And then I heard, when Neil and Terry were writing the book, both Aziraphale and Crowley were originally just the demon, Crowley. I think it was Terry who made the decision to split that one character into 2 characters instead.

(Also if that isn’t the most soulmate-y shit I’ve ever heard)

But also like... What if that was how it was in canon?

What if........Crowley and Zira............................were both........the Archangel Raphael before the Fall?

Cause like, Raphael (or Israfel, in some religions) literally means “God heals.” Some of the things they’re the patrons are are of “young people,” “guardian angels,” “lovers,” “travelers,” basically everyone in the medical field, and “ordained marriage.” They’re like... everything optimistic and loving and hopeful about humanity. (Nothing about time but like, wtf?? That’s so powerful it’s gotta be the power of the seraphim, it’s at least equal enough to Lucifer’s power that it’s able to give them more time before Lucifer shows up to make a game plan, like it stops Lucifer???? That’s some power to give a lowly-ass demon, that an angel as powerful as a Principality isn’t able to do) It makes you think huh, maybe they care about humanity a lot more than most of the others would. So how would they have fallen?

Well, maybe they got angry at God for testing the humans so damn much. Like Crowley said, a tree right in the middle of the garden that’s super accessible? Literally the only thing the humans aren’t allowed to touch when humans, the most curious and spiteful things in the universe, are more likely to touch something when they’re told not to, when it’s obviously not allowed, and doesn’t appear to present any immediate danger? It’s not very fair.

Another interesting thing; in some canon, Raphael is even considered to be the closest to God, able to talk directly to Her, and possibly even the highest ranking angel of all, even above Michael. So God was likely very close to Raphael in return. (Of course, in the context of the show, it seems that all of the Archangels are very disconnected and are also all on equal footing, it not being entirely clear where Michael, Uriel, and Gabriel stand with each other in terms of ranking even though Michael is usually considered the highest ranked in most biblical canon. One explanation I came up with is that after God banished Raphael, that would be two of the seven archangels that She would have had to banish, her favored, so She could have withdrawn from everything in order to have some alone time, and just became more and more withdrawn as time went on until it was like She’d completely abandoned them.)

And if Raphael started questioning this wrathful god who just kicked out like, half of heaven, including Lucifer, one of her other favorites, I imagine she’d be pretty upset and not willing to hear about complaints right now. But she trusts this angel, so instead of straight kicking Raphael out, she gives them a choice instead. It’s not like they’re trying to straight rebel, anyways.

When Raphael chooses to leave, She doesn’t have a choice then but to cast at least that part of Raphael out, the part that cares too much, who doesn’t want to harm the humans. She says, “crawl under the feet of those you care so much about,” and splits their eyes and casts their staff down into hell cause like, you can’t just have a rogue ethereal being wandering about Earth with the humans, so the newly formed snake which represents all that Raphael chose to leave heaven for is Lucifer’s problem now. 

But in splitting Raphael like that, she’s left with this less powerful being who’s still attached to heaven, who still has the gold of an angel but it looks washed out on their head, and who looks up with sky blue eyes and who looks lost as anything. She doesn’t want Raphael gone, so She pretends this one is also Raphael, but She’s still kinda upset so She sends this “Also Raphael” to Earth to guard Eden. Because they’re weakened, She equips them with a limited edition Flaming Sword™ and sends them to guard the Gates of Eden.

Meanwhile, the Raphael that got sent to Hell gets processed (?) and realizes that they’re now a snake. They really don’t like the name “Crawley” in the future so I imagine that when they joined hell, they were given the name “Crawley” based on the fact that they’re now a snake, and none of the residents of Hell wanna go to Earth since the entire reason almost all the demons in hell got kicked out of Heaven is cause they didn’t wanna love humans. “Crawley,” however, got kicked out for caring about humans too much, so the lords in hell decide to send them. So “Crawley” ends up tempting the humans into eating the fruit, making sure it’s on their terms and happens somewhat safely, and watches the humans leave.

And then he meets “Also Raphael,” and, as someone else has pointed out, Crowley has never had to ask for their name. They just know 👀

Crowley, imo, has been the better of the two, consistently throughout the series. Crowley’s never killed, has always questioned why humans have to be tested and hurt and killed, including motherfucking Jesus Christ, hasn’t even lied to Aziraphale, tries to get out of doing their job consistently, jumps on the opportunity to perform miracles alongside their dastardly inconveniences, has been in love with Aziraphale ever since they found out that Zira helped protect the humans by giving the couple Zira’s own protection??? The “god-given Flaming Sword™?” HELLO THIS DEMON IS IN LOVE AND THAT IS ACTUALLY CANON?????? That, and like... while Aziraphale, who’s still a part of heaven’s whole bureaucracy deal, felt the need to contact god through a whole damn ritual, all Crowley did to try and contact God was just look up and talk. I think Crowley knows about the choice and about who they were before the Fall, but doesn’t associate themselves as Raphael anymore, therefore the “I didn’t chose to fall, (BUT) I just sorta sauntered vaguely downwards.”

(Going off of that, I don’t think Crowley knows that Aziraphale is literally their other half; I like to think that Crowley just thinks Aziraphale was the angel chosen by Her as their replacement in heaven, therefore “Also Raphael” meaning another Raphael and not literally part of them that they left in heaven. They don’t know why they knew that Aziraphale was named Aziraphale right off the bat, but it doesn’t really matter to them tbh; before they fell in love, they thought Aziraphale was just another angel, and then after they fell in love it still didn’t matter cause they were in love baby!)

Meanwhile, Aziraphale’s goodness is either out of fear of disobeying heaven or being nice to Crowley. Which, they’re not even that nice to Crowley when it matters tbh. Or humans, most of the time. Like they protected Adam and Eve but wasn’t gonna blink an eye about all those children being drowned until Crowley guilted them about it.

Although they used to be the same angel, I think that, over 6000 years and even then, in the Garden, Crowley and Aziraphale ended up becoming their own person. Aziraphale, even though God cast out the part that cared about humans a little too much and is basically Raphael’s attachment to heaven and God, ended up caring quite a bit on their own, giving the first couple that sword for protection and growing very attached to the things humans created, and abandoned their allegiance to heaven after losing their faith. Crowley, who is the care and defiance and power of the archangel Raphael, ended up a pretty lowly ranked demon and is pretty damn bitter, especially after the death of Jesus of Galilee, and when they do use their power, it’s usually to fuck with humans in some capacity (unless it’s to help himself or Aziraphale :P ).

TL;DR I think that both Crowley and Aziraphale are remnants of the Archangel Raphael after the Fall because Raphael questioned God concerning the testing of the humans and chose to leave heaven. God wasn’t happy and did some shit that ended up with Crowley and Aziraphale being as they are. But both are still their own person.

[saschagemruler]

OKAY S O

First things first!!

Contrary to popular belief, the Bible can line up with history! Also fun fact, you’re talking about the Old Testament, which Jews AND Christians both read! (Actually Muslisms, Jews, and Christians worship the same god, we just have different books! The Bible even mentions I believe someone who is related to the Prophet Muhammad but I’m going off of faint memory here so don’t take this for fact lol)

Now another thing: Adam and Eve werent two people. Oh no Adam and Eve were symbols of the whole race of humanity at the time. (Adam and Steve am I right folks?)

Eden is supposed to be, I believe, a (symbolic) garden that is unreachable so I can’t really say that anyone truly knows where it’s located BUT! If you just do a quick google search of where humans first appeared and that’s where Eden is probably located and where Adam and Eve (symbolism~) where placed after being kicked out.

So you are, in fact, correct!

Now why isn’t there more black Adam and Eve art?

Well because there weren’t Christians by the time Adam and Eve left Eden. I wouldn’t go as far as to call them Jewish, but that’s the only religion that comes to mind.

Quick history lesson/facts!

1. Judaism came before Islam and Christianity.

2. The Israelites (Jews I believe) actually moved to Egypt where they became oppressed.

3. So that means Judaism and Christianity are both rooted in the Middle East!

4. Jesus was Jewish. Christianity came after he rose from the grave. He didn’t worship himself, in fact he did the exact opposite.

5. A good chunk of important figures in the Bible are Jewish

Now since Jesus was Middle Eastern, why is he painted as white? And why are there no black Adam and Eve paintings?

✨Racism✨

Christianity is not a white man’s religion. It started in the Middle East and was even deeply cemented as a religion in a country in East Africa, which I believe was Ethiopia, I could be wrong.

It migrated to white people who either didn’t know what Middle Eastern people looked like, or just didn’t care and decided “Ah yes, make them all white”

Which is why it bugs me so much when “”Christians”” are racist and/or anti semitic or when they’re painted as such.

Now as a disclaimer, don’t take all of this as concrete fact, I’ve never fully read the Bible and all of this is half remembered stuff from my history teacher and my dad preaching to me. I am also white and Christian, so I’m obviously biased lmao.

If any Jews, Muslims, and/or POC want to add in or correct me, please do.

@softly-reptilian anything I should add?

Edit:

Sorry forgot to mention, it’s my personal belief that Adam and Eve represent a group of people. Some think they are actually two people and that’s totally fine

Y’all...

This may be me not knowing much about Christianity, but…

In the Bible it said that God made Adam and Eve and they were like the first humans right?

Guys. Where did all of human kind begin to evolve?  AFRICA.

How was the garden of Eden described? 

AS A BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL JUNGLE ENVIRONMENT. LIKE THE MAJORITY OF AFRICA.

YOU GUYS.

ADAM AND EVE WERE NOT WHITE PEOPLE QUICK TELL WHOEVER MAKES THE BIBLE DRAWINGS HOLY SHIT WHO DECIDED THEY WERE WHITE

PLEASE I NEED REGIONALLY ACCURATE BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATIONS RIGHT NOW

[dkehoe]

  I have always enjoyed Holly’s book reviews, they are insightful, fun and make great points about the books she’s reviewing, but I really became a fan of Holly when she went to school overseas and started writing her Holly Goes Abroad posts. There’s nothing like seeing and experiencing different cultures through another persons eyes. It’s why we read books, isn’t it? If you haven’t checked out Holly’s blog Nut Free Nerd, please click on the link below and check it out. She is worth your time, I promise!

Holly @ Nut Free Nerd

Here are Holly’s answers to my 10 questions.

Blogging is universal and even though we inhabit the same community, we don’t always live in the same country. What country do you live in? 

I live in New England in the United States. I love where I live–it’s woodsy and pretty, yet close enough to cities, the beach, and the mountains. What more could you want?

What is the view outside your front door? 

The first thing I see when I look out my front door is my mom’s lovely garden. She’s been maintaining this garden since we first moved in nearly twenty years ago, so at this point it’s bursting with a plethora of pretty flowers in all shapes, sizes, and colors.

Most blogs have a quirky name and a fun story of origin. Please share the story behind your blog’s name? 

My blog’s name is Nut Free Nerd, which accurately describes me in two ways: 1) I’m nerdy and 2) I’m severely allergic to nuts. I also adore alliteration (see what I did there?!) so when I first thought of this name years ago I was immediately hooked. It has stuck with me ever since!

Describe where you write your blog. 

When I’m home for summer or winter break, I usually write my blog posts at my dining room table. If I’m at college, then I most often write them at the desk in my room while eating breakfast in the morning. Blogging is definitely one of my favorite breakfast activities!

Most of us have a stack of books sitting next to our couch or bed waiting to be read. What books are in your stack? 

The current stack next to my bed is made entirely of library books that I recently checked out: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.

From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

DAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND

My name is Kvothe.   I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.   You may have heard of me.

So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature—the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man’s search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.

If you have had a bad day and want to spend an hour reading a book, what is your go to genre or favorite book that will lift your mood? 

My go-to book for any problem (homesickness, stress, heartache, etc.) is always The Hobbit or part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. These books always remind me of when I first read them in middle school, making them the perfect pieces of nostalgia to cheer me up when I most need it.

  When you aren’t blogging, how do you spend your time? Work, play, school? 

During the summer months I work at a local non-profit writing grant applications, which I love. The rest of the year you can usually find me writing essays and reading articles at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where I attend university as an English major/Spanish minor. In my free time I love to write, knit, tap dance, and watch old Star Trek reruns.

What is your favorite blog post you’ve ever written? 

Oooh, such a difficult question! I think I’m going to cheat and say that my favorite KIND of post I’ve ever written are my Classic Couple posts, where I pair up classic and contemporary novels. It sparks such great discussions! Post:

https://nutfreenerd.com/category/classic-couple/

  Have you ever met one of your favorite authors? If so, what did you say to them? Looking back, what do you wish you had said instead? 

Yes! When I was in high school my best friend and I met Michael Grant, author of the Gone series. I asked him if he knew how he was going to finish the series, and he replied something like, “Not like how Lost ends.” I wouldn’t change anything about my question because I love his answer; not only is it cleverly vague, but it also involves one of my favorite TV series.

If you could sit down with an author for a slice of cake and a question, who is the author, what kind of cake would you serve, and what is the first question you’d ask? 

  So many amazing authors to choose from! I think my answer to this is going to have to be William Faulkner because I feel as though I have an endless stream of questions for him. I would hand him a slice of cheese cake and ask, “What is the point of ABSALOM, ABSALOM!?”

Thanks so much Holly! I myself was an English major and a lot of what you said brings back memories. I also had to read Absalom, Absalom and I remember scratching my head over that one! LOL.

I hope you all enjoyed learning a little bit more about Holly, and more importantly will go check out her blog if you haven’t already.

Thanks for reading Blogger to Blogger!

Deb

Blogger to Blogger Series: An Interview with Holly from Nut Free Nerd I have always enjoyed Holly's book reviews, they are insightful, fun and make great points about the books she's reviewing, but I really became a fan of Holly when she went to school overseas and started writing her Holly Goes Abroad posts.