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[ Coming to you live, it's one James "oh no not this asshole again" Jesse, looking frazzled, like he hasn't been sleeping all that well. Normally, he wouldn't be crowdsourcing these kinds of opinions at all, but— well, boredom and anxiety drive a man to some strange things. Still, he is, as usual, in reasonably good spirits. ]

So hey, I have a sorta kinda religious question, but not the kind I can stroll down to the local Florida megachurch and ask, you know what I mean? The kind I want some input from all of you on, because if anyone's had a weirder life than me, it's at least a third of you guys. I'm kinda, y'know, vexed by this whole dilemma that's been on my mind lately.

Now, I'm by no means an expert in any of this stuff, but I figure taking a field trip to actual Hell once and beating the kinda-devil twice gives me a leg up on the average civilian, right? And since I've been stuck here I've met like three dozen demons, and about half of 'em dress like David Bowie for some reason, but hey, who am I to judge, right? Maybe David Bowie dressed like Satan, I dunno. Anyway, demons, hellspawn, the Thin White Duke of the Bottomless Pit, actual Death, all of those I've met.

You know what I've never run into? Angels. I'm talking halos and big fluffy wings and harps — or maybe keytars, if they're feeling modern. I could even deal with Roma Downey style. Is that a thing? You know, the... the opposite of the fire and brimstone stuff. I mean, does anybody actually know?

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[socialactivillain]

Technically, Satan was an angel, before he was cast out of Heaven. I could do with seeing more keytars around, though.

[airshow]

Booooooo, no technicalities allowed! Anyway, allegedly, allegedly! No proof that's a real thing!

[socialactivillain]

So you know that the devil is real, but don't think his origin story is? Interesting choice.

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[itistolaugh]

I didn't know you went to Hell! I went to Hell! We really are the same person, aren't we?

[airshow]

Hooooooly sh— uh, no pun intended. But, for real? How? When? Why? Deets!

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[fehus]

[have a scruffy Nirvana looking fool on your feed]

I think it's usually safe to assume the cosmological world is weirder and more full than you can ever actually verify. Though I think less about angels and more about like, Chthulu-alien-monsters. The keytars are more comforting.

There's nothing wrong with dressing like Bowie.

[airshow]

Oh man, no kidding! I've seen some weird stuff. Alien stuff. Got punched in the jaw at just about the speed of sound more than once. Robots, aliens, you name it. So I totally believe in the power of vast and unknowable space tentacles more than I believe in angels.

And! Didn't say there was anything wrong with dressing like Bowie! There are quite a few things very very right with dressing like Bowie. Just a weird demonic trend is all.

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[arsiento]

[ You can't see it, but he's squinting. Probably easy enough to picture, though, considering Diablo's frequently squinting. ]

Who says you'd know an angel when you met one?

[airshow]

[ He considers this for a moment... and shrugs. ]

Fair point! I guess they're probably a little less ostentatious than demons, vanity being a sin and all. I think it's a sin, anyway. It's fun, so it must be.

[arsiento]

Pride, but yeah-- basically the same thing. [ Like, more or less. ] I just don't think most angels would go around advertising.

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[ghoulking]

There were angels here, before. They didn't have halos and wings, however. Lucifer was here too, several versions, actually. Also no horns and hooves.

Maybe it's just a stereotype.

[airshow]

Yeah, I've met two alleged Lucifers so far here. And you're right — also, no hooves on the big time devil I knew back home.

Angels, though? No foolin'? I totally missed them! What were they like?

[ghoulking]

They were from Lucifer's world, I believe, so they were technically like him.

Lucifer used to be an angel, after all.

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[dejerate]

....Pretty sure the 'angels' back home, nobody wants to meet. Trust me. Though it wasn't harps with them. Trumpets, apparently.

[Not that he should say too much in public, if even this much. Without potentially implicating himself here. But still. Yuichiro is one of them. Part seraph, at least. Thanks to the experiments done on him as a child.]

And not really the traditional fluffy wings. Or, not all of them.

[airshow]

[ Now you've piqued his curiosity! ]

Huh. I mean, I know there's a lot of interpretations, and the modern day Hallmark card floaty peaceful glowy halo stuff doesn't match all the fire and brimstone you read about. Good PR these days, I guess. Anyway, I've heard the trumpet thing, but what's with the rest of it?

[dejerate]

Yeah, I guess ours were closer to the 'fire and brimstone, punish the sinners' sort of deal. I don't remember on halos or not though. But the wings were.....actually that might have just been a one off exception? I'm not sure.

[As in, his wings were different because of his demon's influence. Else he might probably have had the more traditional white, feathered angel wings. Not that that would have changed his shift in personality when he loses control like that though, of course.]

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[allforyuu]

Why would you want to run into angels? Do you have a death wish?

[airshow]

Not really, but I do have an insatiable curiosity and a near-reckless disregard for my own personal safety. And, like I said, I've met a ton of demons here, so I figured it'd only make sense to get the other side of the story.

[ That's not the entire reason, but... it's the part he's willing to admit in public, anyway. ]

Why? You think they're dicks or something?

[allforyuu]

I know they are.

[That description makes Mika pause, however. It sounds a lot like certain other people he knows.]

That reckless disregard for your safety might come in handy, given how the angels I know tends to smite sinners with a vengeance.

[siriusly]

I'm not sure I should ask how you wound up in actual Hell, because that sounds really scary and bad to remember, but it sounds like a really amazing story...
There's ghosts of good people...do they count as angels, or do you think that's different?

[airshow]

Hey, I don't mind telling it sometime! I mean, it WAS pretty scary, not gonna lie, but it's a story with a happy ending.

Ghosts! I knew a ghost back home. I don't think he was an angel, though, or if he was he was pretty bad at it. I think they're RELATED, but I don't think they're the same thing.

[siriusly]

I guess I should've figured that, since you're still here to tell the tale...
So when you say "angel" you mean like 100% specifically wings and halos and harps? Or...you said you met demons. Just the complete 100% opposite of who you've met, wings and stuff not really required? That would make it harder to identify I guess. I'm not really sure...

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[hellrisen02]

Oh, there've definitely been angels that were imPorts. None I seen since I got here, but there definitely were.

Nice enough guys, if a bit dry. Lots of ...sweatervests? I think I remember sweatervests.

[airshow]

Uh-huh. Now, you're sure you're not mixing angels up with librarians?

[hellrisen02]

Why not both? As they say.

Oh, there was also the murderous one. I don't really know what the full deal was on that front, though.