Angelic commander Adam Arcangel Michael and his second in command, Lute 🪽⚔️
rewrite under cut ⬇️
(the gifs not working so. 🔥I DO NOT SUPPORT VIVSIEPOP🔥)
- i wanted to swap adam and michael out just bc i think itd make more sense to have the guy who in the bible is literally in charge of fighting heavens wars to be the leader of heavens army
- he has a very different personality to adam but he fulfils the same narrative role
- i should mention here that in my rewrite, citizens of heaven are aware of the exterminations. they are controversial but people know
- michael is a very reserved and formal man. he believes that 1. no sinner is capable of ascending. to quote pilot alastor, the chance they get is the life they lived before. and 2, whatever waits for them after their 2nd death is better than their current existence. kinda like a mercy kill
-these guys dont appear till season 2, where they give charlie 1 month to get her shit together before they officially debate the idea of attempting redemption
- the trial goes badly bc of course it does. charlie was going to lose before she even set foot in that room, michael and lute make sure of it.
- michael dies at the end of s2 just like adam. charlie offers him mercy, holds out her hand, and he accepts. however he is stabbed through the gut by vicky before anything can happen.
-that brings us to lute. lute my beloved
-she and vicky have a.. complicated relationship
-by that i mean lute developed a FIERCE crush on her and started to hate her for it. internalised homophobia yk
- specifically she is convinced that vicky "infected" her with these desires. so when she sees vicky fuck up one extermination - knocking her unconscious and killing another by accident- lute takes the opportunity to cut that stupid eye out. she still carries her back to heaven though
-she then also testifies against vick, calling her a failed angel. she does not know what happened to her after that. she assumed that she was dead right up until she sees vick with the princess of hell on the day of the hotel case
-she feels a mix of pity and hatred towards vick right up until she sees shes still alive at which point it becomes all rage
-shes also been having hallucinations for a lot longer now, theyre just a part of her everyday life. another thing shes been "infected" with
-they get way worse after michael dies tho
(myy iwtv reference yayyyy)
-her relationship with michael is not romantic anymore- hes like a teacher figure to her. he has unrequited feelings towards her, they both know this. lute has tried in the past to like michael back, he always denies this bc he knows its not true
-michael knows everything about lute, including all the stuff she thinks makes her sinful. he protects her from heaven, shields her from accusations bc well. hes her best soldier and a good friend. one thing about michael is that hes a fucking hypocrite bc he extends none of this grace to any sinner
- no one in heaven really likes lute. they all think shes offputting and too much, antisocial. thry cant do anything while adams around tho
-i think instead of rejoining the angels at the end of s2, she instead passes out from the bloodloss of cutting your own arm off and is left stranded in hell, one wing broken so she cant fly.
-she then goes on a murderous rampage before becoming the hotels captive, having a #characterarc where she realises these guys are nice actually but pretends not to change, then rejoining the angels and realising just how much they hate & disrespect her &michael.
- and at a crucial moment betrays the angels to help charlies gang, which she Falls for.
- i also think it would be fun if she gets a big fat crush on Pao (my cherri) dykes 4everrrrr ❤️
-her weapons of choice are sickles bc i thought a scythe would be too on the nose
