Wait a minute...
Supposedly The Good Place employees / "angels" are wearing skin suits too, right?
So if demons true forms are things like lava monsters, acid snakes and fire squids...what are angels true forms?
What if the giant puppy is a Good Place employee with no suit? You can't really go harder on the angel thing than "actual giant puppy who talks and wears a cape"
I was literelly thinking like unbearably cutesy things. Like Michael's form is so disgusting that it would supposedly break a human just looking at him, angels have gotta be the extreme opposite where it's something so adorable your brain just bursts. Like a bunny-kitten-unicorn hybrid etc.
It didn't even occur to me that giant flying puppies already existed in canon. 😂
OR hear this:
What if they're not that different from demons' real essences? Like what if Michael thinks he's disgusting because it's what he's been told or because he rejects his demonic past, but being a fire squid is actually not that uncommon or not that different from what an angel would be? Michael doesn't really know a lot about TGP so anything could be real. I'm picturing a "don't compare your backstage with other people's spotlight" kinda vibe where other demons might secretly envy Michael for being huge and powerful or other angels might be chilling in acid in Heaven. Or they might be culturally cute but hate their inner essence like Michael does.
Like weren't angels related to fire in christianity or did I miss too many bible classes? Anyway.
But I do love the overtly cute angels headcanon a lot more than this. Especially the part where your brain can't handle the cuteness, that's amazing. And I feel like Gwendolyn would be a puppy-unicorn-stuffed-bear hybrid who smells like vanilla. And the main guy who runs away is a giant puppy who smells like freshly cut grass.
Woah, you're onto something. I'm no expert on the Bible but I do know that the angels described in their look FAR closer to giant, mind melding abominations than anything resembling a human! In fact all the demons we see are pretty tiny compared to Michael, maybe that added to him being an outcast? He could never go "streaking" like Todd or chill with other demons at TBP equivalent of a spa etc.
But when he gets to TRGP, at some event where he and other architects need to be naked, he finds he's actually a lot more comfortable around the angels without a suit considering they all look like this:
And suddenly his giant squid form doesn't look quite as out of place!
...But then he gets bored, because angels are still lame, and he prefers to keep his suit on and hang with his human family.
THAT'S IT! I knew angels were weird somehow, like biblically speaking, but I couldn't remember how exactly. This is it, it's definitely not something I'd describe as cute and something that would make Michael feel a bit less of an outcast.
I hadn't considered that lava monsters could be an indicator of the size of the average demon but you're right! Maybe Michael has always been different in that way and it's further proof of his not belonging in TBP.
And omg i don't know if i want to imagine the kind of event that would require all attendants to be naked lmao I do know Eleanor would have a Joey moment with that, though.
