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Fallen angels with a breeding kink.

Angels aren't usually capable of reproducing, so the angels that like to get a little frisky can do so without consequence. It's something done for pleasure, a harmless bit of fun. But angels that are stripped of their titles and cast down to the Devildom, they learn quickly that everything's changed. Their bodies, their morals slowly chipped away in a bid for survival. The meaning of sex and intimacy changes too.

For fallen angels that weren't capable of creating life before, now they have that possibility. It's power, new and potent, a way of marking someone as their own, in a way no one else ever will if they have any say about it. It's possessive, almost animalistic passion, the overwhelming urge to claim someone as theirs, to be bound to them forever, in a way that wasn't possible before. Some of them might be enticed by the idea of offspring, some of them might not be. It doesn't matter - it's the defiant act itself, the freedom to choose that path if they want to that matters. It's a choice they never had, but now it resonates deep within them, satisfying some of the most primitive and instinctive urges of their newfound sin.

(And if they get a little petty satisfaction knowing how furious it must make Father to realize this truth, that they can still find new ways to defy him where they're no longer touched by his punishments, maybe they keep that to themselves.)

Some fallen angels that change their name and count their cursed blessings when no one in the Devildom seems to care who they used to be.

Other fallen angels wish they could forge a brand new identity for themselves but can’t because they’re too recognizable to go unnoticed in the Devildom.

Fallen angels that observe demons and their chaotic whims with a sneer, as if they’re still from another world entirely.

Fallen angels that still write in scripture out of habit and speak the Celestial Realm’s language just to annoy the demons nearby that can’t understand them.

Fallen angels that attend RAD the first year it opens, hopelessly overwhelmed by most subjects but smirk at the easy 100% scrawled across every test or assignment involving Celestial Realm history.

Fallen angels that talk about the past like the Devildom is some temporary detour and for the longest time, they have to remind themselves that that place isn’t their home anymore.

TL;DR: Yes. Up to a certain point, the beginning is a fluffy strangers-to-lovers story filled with awkward courtship and illicit dalliances.

Basically, my worldbuilding for the Celestial Realm and angelic society is based on the existing concept that angels have different ranks which fall into a certain power bracket. Angels within the same power bracket spend the most time together — their living quarters and dining halls are close together, and their training schedules are set that way too. Socially, it's a bit like a caste system. It's not meant to be punitive or exclusionary, but it has that unintended consequence in some ways.

For instance, Seraphs are at the top, the rank every angel admires and some aspire to be join day. To some angels in the lower ranks, Seraphs are larger-than-life, wise and powerful beyond comprehension, Father's favourite children. They're revered and admired for working hard to ensure the realms are prosperous and protected from the ever-present threat of demonic corruption and sin.

Angels from different power brackets don't interact as often on a daily basis because their roles and responsibilities are different. The farther apart two angels are in terms of rank/power, the less likely they are to spend a lot of time together. The idea of making friends or being lovers with angels of a drastically different rank seems a bit unlikely outside of special circumstances (such as Lucifer's siblings that span the mid-upper ranks, or angels that spend a lot of time in the lower ranks before ascending).

The Celestial Realm arc of The Fall spans their entire relationship - their first proper face-to-face meeting, how their tentative friendship grows into something romantic (and sexual) later. Other angels weigh in and ponder the good (and potentially negative) aspects of their relationship. Outside influences take advantage to cause chaos when opportunity strikes, and things come to a tipping point. The first chapter of this arc is how Azra and Meta meet; the last chapter is how they fall.

Oh, that's such a nice compliment that you enjoy some of the world building nonsense I like to ramble about. 🤗 I can literally talk about this stuff all day.

The upside to Solmare's neglect of those nitty-gritty details is that players have more room to explore the other possibilities. I love how everyone in this community has their own headcanons and beliefs to shape their view of the game world and its characters. This community is so creative! I've read so many other ideas that are fascinating and more in-depth than what Solmare have written themselves, and while my ideas won't appeal to everyone, it's nice to have this space to explore them anyway.

When it comes to my personal worldbuilding, sins are really important to fleshing out all the different motivations and goals characters have. I agree that a lot of the characters have the odd moment to shine, but otherwise are lumped into the lazy stereotype of their character. It's really annoying.

Part of the problem with having so many characters and trying to give them screen time is that none of them get developed beyond easily recognizable traits: Beel eating nonstop, Satan being obsessed with cats, Mammon complaining about being broke, Asmo's narcissism and flirtations. Even with the events, some of their choices are missed opportunities to highlight characters in ways we don't normally get to see. Beel being the highlight character for a Fangol or sports-themed event? Nah, throw Barbatos in there because Beel can show up when there's food around. Like yes, okay, we get it. But what else is there? If Solmare won't explore beyond the bare minimum interpretation of their sins, the players just have to do it themselves.

My personal solution for that is two-fold: assigning a secondary sin for each character to add more nuance/depth to their view of the world and their place in it, and expanding the interpretation of their sins beyond the literal meanings. Demon royalty, as leaders of the Devildom and the most powerful embodiments of sin, may have multiple sins that influence their leadership styles and priorities.

(I have some ideas for angelic virtues and elemental alignments, but that's a subject for another post.)

Some other ideas tied to my headcanons about sins include:

The canon cast and OCs all have designated primary and secondary sins. I know some of the combinations for the OCs in particular might seem a little...odd...but that's because the interpretation of their sin goes beyond "greed = money-hungry" or "gluttony = over-eating". Some of the sins have some overlapping tendencies too. Here are examples of how the OCs' primary sins manifest for them:

Karasu & Greed - Karasu might not appreciate spending or earning money the way Mammon does, but he appreciates wealth of all sorts. Not only money, but knowledge. His nest is a hoard of the riches he's accumulated over his long life, earned through his lifetime's work. Other hints of this sin peek through in his romantic relationships: he wants to be praised, to worship and be worshipped, to have his lover's time and attention and focus solely on him. He gives all of himself in return - an equal exchange, but not one made lightly either.

Azra & Lust - It's not just about sex, but it does play a significant part in how his sin manifests. After a long list of poor choices made with good intentions, he ultimately fell from the Celestial Realm because what he wanted - his relationship with Meta, one that he didn't think was possible if they remained angels under Father's strict thumb - outweighed everything else in his mind. When he fell, he became an incubus, and in a way it damned him to a life where he is forced to feed his sexual appetites with anyone but the one person he desired most.

Tenebris & Gluttony - He was obsessed with finding ways to make himself powerful and worthy in the eyes of the nobility and his father. He embarked on a very selfish and relentless pursuit of knowledge and power that would enhance his naturally gifted magical abilities. Those efforts led to him gorging himself not on food but on humans. Not just their souls either, but their flesh and blood and bones - all harvested without guilt or shame, to be used for his magical experiments and to fuel his spell work. He nearly killed himself in the process but he justified it in his mind as necessary. It was only his indirect involvement in Bathin's exorcism, and the shame and guilt that came after, that finally convinced him to stop and reflect on what he had done.

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I feel like demon royalty are more likely to fully embrace all seven sins than most other demons. It's possible their primary/secondary sins fluctuate throughout their long lives if something shifts their worldview enough to affect how they act and govern their realm.

Diavolo's father has three main sins, if I had to narrow it down.

Lust: I feel like there was something unique about Diavolo's mother that attracted the demon king to her so strongly when no other demon suitor could entice him to take a consort. His feelings for his beloved were so passionate and all-consuming that he basically became a shell of his former self when she passed away. My personal headcanon is that she was a (fallen) angel, but I also like the theory that perhaps she was human.

Envy: I think this is a sin that became more apparent within the demon king after Diavolo was born. He grieved the loss of his consort and was burdened to raise Diavolo alone while being constantly reminded of what he lost in the process of gaining a son. If the demon king had a choice to save the queen or his son, he might have chosen to save her but she would've wanted him to save their son instead. I think subconsciously he never got over that irrational feeling that it was Diavolo's fault his beloved was dead, and he knows that she would've gladly sacrificed herself a million times over if it meant her child could live. That sort of connection is powerful, and I think he resented Diavolo for it.

Sloth: The Devildom changed with each new generation of demon royalty, and I think Diavolo's father (and mother before she passed) marked a new era of a less aggressive/hostile way of governing demonkind. Diavolo's father didn't pick fights with the Celestial Realm and most of the conflicts during his reign were caused by other demons "accidentally" breaking tentative treaties meant to avoid all-out war. He wasn't fond of overly-gluttonous harvesting of human flesh and souls like some of his ancestors were either. His reign was seen as a step towards moderation, an effort to maintain civility without unnecessary chaos. Diavolo's mother probably championed lasting peace with the other realms as a long-term strategy for unity and prosperity. While the demon king might not have fully agreed with her vision, it's no accident that Diavolo grew up embracing the same hopeful ambitions his mother had. The demon king probably withdrew from political and social life slowly when grief and anger dulled into numbness existence. The burdens of the crown grew heavy when he was already struggling to find peace and contentment for himself personally. When Diavolo was old enough to take his place with all of his farfetched dreams for the future, his father simply stepped aside because he no longer wanted the responsibility of being king. It wasn't that he was too lazy to continue being king, he simply lost the will to care.

That's a great question! When I designed the angel OCs, I had to figure out what rank/hierarchy bracket they belonged to so I could figure out how many wings they have and their feather colours based on, well, vibes I guess.

Some of the fallen angels still have their wings (or an altered version of them) so I'll include them here for fun too.

If you’re curious about canon/OC character wing headcanons (in terms of wing care, nsfw play, etc.) I have a post about that here.

MICHAEL: Six wings total. White and ivory feathers speckled with gold.

METATRON: Six wings total. Cream and light peach-coloured feathers.

GABRIEL: Six wings total. Ivory feathers tipped with blue and purple.

URIEL: Six wings total. Cream feathers tipped with light orange.

BELIAL: Four wings total. Light grey feathers tipped with red.

SERAPHIEL: Four wings total. Light grey speckled with amethyst.

AZAZEL: Four wings total. Grey feathers speckled with white and black.

HABUHIAH: Two wings total. Pale yellow and green wings.

AZRA (formerly Azazel): Lost his wings; has a thin, whip-like dark red tail.

BELIAL: Lost one pair of wings, one pair remains. Burned black feathers tipped with crimson.

METATRON (DEMON!META AU): Retained all six wings. Burned dark grey feathers speckled with violet and black.

Romancing the Angels

Featuring: Simeon, Raphael, Michael (Canon Cast); Azra/Azazel, Metatron, Seraphiel, Gabriel, Uriel + bonus Zekhan and Tenebris (OC Cast)

A/N: This is mostly for my own notes so I can keep track of which characters are most likely to date/sleep with each other (with or without MC's involvement). I've written some of these pairings/polyships in the past or they're featured in WIP projects. Some of the potentials might seem strange but based on my personal headcanons/worldbuilding, they make sense. 👀

If I understand the lore right, Lilith tried to keep her human lover a secret but it was ultimately her wanting to give him food from the Celestial Realm, a forbidden act, that led to her death sentence and Lucifer's rebellion.

I personally don't hold angels to strict religious/moral standards. They're not celibate unless they choose to be, and they can date and sleep with other angels (or even humans) without much consequence so long as the other rules of their realm are respected.

For my writing, Simeon/Raphael/Michael usually aren't virgins and have experience with sex and intimacy in their pasts. I think most angels in relationships with each other (or with humans) try to be discrete about them.

When it comes to the OCs, Azra also had dalliances with humans when he visited the human world. He was also in a relationship with Metatron However, it was the sharing of forbidden knowledge with humans, another punishable offense, that resulted in Azra being cast out of the Celestial Realm.

Trust me, I say it a lot too and it's a hard habit to break. But the more I think about it, the more I think most of the characters wouldn’t care?

Hear me out.

The game does a good job of not specifically referring to Father as "God," I'm guessing as a way to avoid having to talk about any of the game's characters/events in a religious context that’s too specific.

Even though the game borrows from religious or biblical stories, I personally see the Celestial Realm/Devildom and its citizens as fantasy settings/races rather than spiritual ones. That's why I don't usually subscribe to the notion that angels are always pure and innocent and demons are always evil and corrupt.

I could see demons being a little teasing about it, especially if that sort of phrase is used in intimate or sexual settings, but I don't think it’s going to get very dramatic reactions either way. I would think (hope) that the demons and angels that interact with modern human world media, or spend time in that world, recognize that sort of phrase for what it is and don’t automatically jump to a literal interpretation.

Of course, that’s just my opinion.

Honestly, I think things like daddy kink are going to have more of an averse reaction, at least from the angels/former angels. (And maybe demons with deep-seeded daddy issues.)