the difference between the cultures of heaven and hell in my ocverse are so funny to me because it leads to such profoundly different kinds of emotional mess
like, for angels, it's always been a kind of public service work- they're trying to make the world a better place, and that just so happens to involve promising humans eternal preservation in exchange for doing some manner of good and kindness in the world. but also humans are messy and complex and so are SYSTEMS and so are ANGELS so you end up with vastly different outlooks, like amaranth's "the system is flawed but if i work to change it from within i can one day achieve something truly and genuinely good even if i get there through morally grey means" vs asphodel's "the system is flawed and i no longer have faith in it, so i'm going to dedicate myself to learning as much as i can about the entirety of everything in hopes of one day finding the path to true good" vs zinnia's "the system is flawed and has been corrupt from the start, so why should i be punished by operating by the same metric? might as well embrace the truth that power means more than morality"
and then for the demons it's like.... they have absolutely no presumption what they're doing in the world is good, they're just part of an essentially capitalist machine that is only interested in Acquiring, they're all small cogs in a great big machine that only cares to get more mana, get more mana, get more mana by any means necessary
so they don't really HAVE complex feelings about the work they're doing, it's just a JOB. but you also have that kind of feeling of displacement and purposelessness that comes from working to survive, not for passion, so they're all just trying to make it by day to day without being swallowed by the system and chewed up and spat out. and they have kind of a nihilism that comes from viewing the system as unchangeable and omnipotent- well, it sucks, but literally nobody can do anything about it, it's too big for them to tackle
and this is all a lot of thought for a silly comic that's mostly about demons being horny and dumb slice of life but IDK I REALLY LIKE THINKING ABOUT IT








