#azabel

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almost like an angel!

OC art :]

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Ahahahahahahahaha THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS XD

Pairing: Azazel/Belphegor

Prompt: Upon finding out the reason Azazel's former love can't come back is in part due to her never having 'existed' as the human he knew her for in the first place. And or, let's play with the idea of a gender swapping Belphegor like the myths suggest ;)

Well, I—no, this is why we can’t have nice things. I have found my calling as the angst queen in our little group. I do love you, but enjoy shedding tears.

Enough is enough. This had gone long enough and Belphegor has become bored with this prank, especially now that humans have arrived on their own account in their prison home. They figured that it’s best to just get this millennia prank over with. They’re surprised that the former angel lasted this long. The demon watches as the fallen angel paces, thumb in between teeth. It’s always like this after failures. Aggressive pacing and mumbled words in his Enochian tongue.

Azazel never fails in this aspect like he fails in everything else. Really, his tenacity has always been a problem, probably one of the reasons why they started this little prank in the first place. They had wondered how long and far the fallen angel would take it and is still trying. The humor is still there.

It won’t ever not be funny to see him struggling and watching that wretched soul be awakened. They two of them are friends, don’t get them wrong! This is what friends do after all, prank each other! It wasn’t just that, either. Of course there’s more to this little prank but they won’t be getting into that.  

Watching him pace, grows tiring and they finally step forward. “Belphegor! I need you to find me a new vessel.”

“Azazel,” they speak, voice filled with faux concern and worry. They aren’t the best liar, but they know well enough how to fake emotions. “You must stop this. It’s been a millennia. You’ve proven nothing to me.”

“No! I won’t stop! I can do this!”

“Honestly, this tenacity of yours is very problematic.” Azazel’s lips pull into a scowl at their comment. “Don’t look at me like that, old friend. Don’t forget you have things to do,” they continue, walking past him and leans down to study the soul. “Poor soul, you’re starting to fray.”

“Wha-What?” Panic leaks into his yell as he rushes forward, taking a better look at the unfortunate soul. “No! No! This shouldn’t be right!”

“Azazel, what did you expect to happen? You’ve put that poor soul through so much torture for the past millennium.” Belphegor smiles an unkind smile, reaching out with clawed fingers, grasping his chin, and forcing the fallen angel to look up at him. “My dear friend, let me ease your troubles. That soul doesn’t even belong to your loved one.”

“What are you talking about, Belphegor?” Azazel doesn’t try and force their hand away, knowing that they wouldn’t let go. “Belphegor, what do you mean? What did you do?”

The demon allows a grin to cross their face. “I didn’t do anything, Azazel,” they say and pull away. “Azazel, my dear friend, what is something that I can allow myself?” Their head tilts, the sardonic smile not moving a centimeter. “It’s not anything I did but something you did, of course. You’ve been my friend for how long?”

“Belphegor—“

“Azazel! Who do you believe that woman was? Why is it that whenever you bring her back, there’s a part of you that doesn’t recognize?” The demon side steps at the sudden attack. “Azazel—“

“What did you do?” he yells, lunging towards the ancient being. “Belphegor!”

“Azazel!” they shoot back. “I did nothing. You’re the one who fell in love with someone that never existed.”

They enjoy the slow dawn of realization as their appearance shifts. 

“Who am I?” she asks, her hair slipping over her face.

“You—You’re—“

“Now, Azazel, speak your words clearly,” she teases, hiding her smile being a slim hand.

This seems to anger the fallen angel further whose face grows dark, pupils constricting. “You! You bastard!” His words morph into Enochian speech as he yells, yet Belphegor knows what is being said.

How could you lie like this?

How could you stand by and watch him make a fool of himself?

Why?

How long would you have gone along with this?

It’s hilarious and she allows a small bit of laughter to cross her lips. “Come now, Azazel. I told you, didn’t I? A marriage with a human is impossible. When did I lie? I don’t favor lying. I just omitted the truth. I never gave you a name yet you still allowed your feelings to cloud your judgement. I didn’t know how far this prank would have lasted and I did try talking you out of it.”

“Why now?” he whispers, anger slipping out of his body. Dark eyes slowly rising to look at her instead of his feet. “Why now after so long?”

“You dragged humans into this. I was fine with it before but that was then, when no human had the chance of venturing in. Well, other than Orpheus but he was dimwitted enough that he didn’t listen to the simple rules.” She strides to the makeshift bed, sitting on it and gazes towards the trapped soul. “You’ve punished this soul enough that you transformed it into one of us despite it fraying so.” Belphegor laughs. “Just kidding!” She snaps her fingers and the cage opens. “Welcome back, Lamasthu.”

The demon goddess nods and turns to the fallen angel who’s dropped to his knees at her appearance with a snide expression before leaving with boisterous laughter following her wake.

“Belphegor,” he whispers, horror painted on his face. “Why?”

“Because it was funny.” She walks back over, caressing his cheek. “A prank between friends, hmm?” Her expression grows serious. “Now, now, my sweet friend, don’t fret.”

They shift back to their original form, long hair cascading like green waterfalls over their shoulders, standing to their original height and bringing him up with them. “We’ll look past this and laugh one day. And don’t worry, my dear, I won’t tell Lucifer about you ignoring your duties.” They lean down and press their lips against the distraught fallen angel’s forehead. “Do be careful next time and don’t bring us more trouble.”

[folkhundr]

azabel when sabirah comes back home tbh

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AZABEL..AZABEL I think I already have a suspicion when it comes to number 16 but uh 3, 4 and 20 … and I think you should share 13 for the rest of the class :]

16. Is there any memes or running jokes associated with the character, both in- and out of universe?

I'm not sure how much of a "joke" this is, but there's a bit of a thing where art of Azabel is in some way accompanied by a jumpscare! The first time I shared art of him, it was a simple illustration of him with closed eyes, but it was secretly a gif and his eyes would open after a few seconds. There was also another illustration that was all bright and cheery, but secretly had this behind it:

Unfortunately, I can't really do similar things with the format of tumblr...

3. What was the first thing you decided on, the character's name, appearance, personality or their role in the story?

Appearance! Typically, appearance comes first for all of my ocs, and then I name them and work out their story afterward. I think for Aza, I had wanted to do something with the idea of multiple faces, and then decided an angel would suit this. I gave him a fairly simple design otherwise so as to not distract from the face. I was actually surprised at how many people like his design, even though it's plain!

4. And reverse, which one of the four things did you struggle with the most?

Story role :,D I'll be honest I still don't totally know what his deal is lol

20. Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about

bonus art: the scrimble

bonus fun fact: I've never sketched Azabel traditionally, and I've never doodled him at all! Every time I draw him, it becomes a full illustration. I never did any concept art for him before his first illustration either! He appeared in my head fully formed, essentially

13. Do you have a voice claim for the character? What do you imagine the character sounds like?

Azabel's voice is flatly happy, with strange inflections, since he still doesn't really know how humans normally speak. His voice claim is Wally Darling from Welcome Home!

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for the Halloween couple costume do we think azabel has dangerous crow boy vibes

yes. yes he does. dangerous angel boy whose job it is to explode plastic with his mind or something

[folkhundr]

sabirah and azabel from A moment of peace

look man I love azabel but his wings are hell to draw