#swordsmanshipandtea

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Visitation From The Other Side

[Setting: Nathanael's lecture room, 172, a lecture about origin stories. About 20 students are spread through the room with about 5 students actively contributing, the others bothering with notebooks and laptops.]

*Turns off the beamer and moves to sit on his desk, looking into the room* And this is probably the best known origin story that the western world is familiar with. In fact, there are those who see the story of Genesis as reality. It is not my job to convey you to one opinion or the other, but to make you aware.

And in that sense I am to make you aware that there are more origin stories. Such as the Greek myth of the world egg. Anyone familiar and willing to recount this myth?

[the-kings-voice]

OOC Feels Ranting about Lucifer dying

[12/30/13 12:49:44 PM] Ban: On 12/30/13, at 12:30 PM, Fates wrote: > *NOMS FUDGE AND CACKLES AT BAN'S PAIN* HOW'S IT FEEL FEELS GREAT MAN I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THAT SONG [12/30/13 12:50:08 PM] Fates: THAT SONG INSPIRED ME MAN [12/30/13 12:50:26 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): btw did u guys see the song that gave me mike feels? [12/30/13 12:50:34 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): i didn't expect it lmao [12/30/13 12:50:46 PM] God Stouffer: Aaaaand now I must go to the doctor I'll return later. c: [12/30/13 12:50:51 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): im going to eventually draw smth featuring the lyrics [12/30/13 12:50:54 PM] Fates: BYE FEELS GIVER [12/30/13 12:52:44 PM] Fates: *wails of despair* [12/30/13 12:52:57 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha [12/30/13 12:53:00 PM] Ban: On 12/30/13, at 12:49 PM, Fates wrote: > THAT SONG INSPIRED ME MAN HAHAHAHAHAHA ;-; [12/30/13 12:53:03 PM] Fates: Ban [12/30/13 12:53:04 PM] Fates: Ban [12/30/13 12:53:08 PM] Ban: Percy [12/30/13 12:53:09 PM] Ban: Percy [12/30/13 12:53:11 PM] Fates: I just [12/30/13 12:53:14 PM] Ban: yes? [12/30/13 12:53:19 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): what song?? [12/30/13 12:53:28 PM] Fates: For My Brother by Blue October [12/30/13 12:53:52 PM] Fates: I just have a lot of Luci&Met emotions right now [12/30/13 12:53:56 PM] Ban: : D [12/30/13 12:54:13 PM] Fates: ah just [12/30/13 12:54:21 PM] Fates: DID YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE [12/30/13 12:54:38 PM] Fates: HIM THINKING ABOUT HOW LUCI WOULD FALL ASLEEP IN THE HAMMOCK AS HE'S HOLDING HIM POST-BATTLE [12/30/13 12:54:41 PM] Ban: I fucking did [12/30/13 12:54:43 PM] Ban: that was great [12/30/13 12:54:54 PM] Fates: *wailing* [12/30/13 12:54:58 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): i like how michael is just in the background at the end [12/30/13 12:55:05 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): late w/ starbucks [12/30/13 12:55:10 PM] Fates: ha ha [12/30/13 12:55:11 PM] Fates: ha [12/30/13 12:55:14 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): mike covered in luci's blood [12/30/13 12:55:19 PM] Fates: Met's never gonna forgive him [12/30/13 12:55:28 PM] Ban: Luci probably [12/30/13 12:55:32 PM] Ban: put his sword down [12/30/13 12:55:43 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): hah a [12/30/13 12:55:47 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): why do we do this [12/30/13 12:55:50 PM] Fates: >:{D did you see what I did at the end where I asked you if you remembered that bit from TWD? [12/30/13 12:55:58 PM] Ban: YES [12/30/13 12:56:08 PM] Ban: Oh and that was so goooooooooood [12/30/13 12:56:15 PM] Ban: with the drawing back from the "Where were you" thing [12/30/13 12:56:33 PM] Fates: AND [12/30/13 12:56:34 PM] Fates: AND [12/30/13 12:56:53 PM] Fates: "It was the last time he would have no answer."

DID YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATION HERE [12/30/13 12:57:00 PM] Ban: YEeeeeeeeeeeeesss [12/30/13 12:57:08 PM] Ban: Met's done [12/30/13 12:57:15 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): what if mikegot kicked out of heaven after that tho [12/30/13 12:57:58 PM] Fates: ah god just the guilt and remorse at the thought that that was their last conversation

tbh they'd probably have to restrain Met for a long time every time he saw Michael afterward [12/30/13 12:58:25 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha mike just looking haunted [12/30/13 12:58:31 PM] Fates: [12/30/13 12:55:28 PM] Ban: Luci probably [12/30/13 12:55:32 PM] Ban: put his sword down

YOU CAN'T JUST STOP AND LEAVE IT THERE [12/30/13 12:58:34 PM] Fates: YOU MUST ELABORATE [12/30/13 12:58:51 PM] Ban: heheheheeeeeeeeee [12/30/13 12:58:58 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): it was probably the last time luci saw mike cry [12/30/13 12:59:04 PM] Fates: DO IT [12/30/13 12:59:07 PM] Fates: DO THE ELABORATE [12/30/13 12:59:09 PM] Ban: Ping for Cay [12/30/13 12:59:32 PM] Ban: Ok so you know the way I was saying that Luci doesn't reaally want the War but he'll lead and go for it if he has to? [12/30/13 12:59:47 PM] Fates: yes [12/30/13 1:00:18 PM] Beatrice: The twins have such different reactions to Luci xD [12/30/13 1:00:31 PM] Ban: Well, he's pretty sure that Mike's intent on killing him as it is. He knows that if he meets Mike on the battlefield, then the only way to not die is to kill Mike first. Lucifer isn't going to kill Michael. [12/30/13 1:00:48 PM] Ban: He'll fight him, but when push comes to shove, he doesn't have it in him to seriously wound him. [12/30/13 1:01:42 PM] Ban: So, Lucifer would just look at Mike. And he'd smile and say, "Do what you came here to do, brother, just remember what She's made us." And then he'd drop his sword. [12/30/13 1:02:00 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): hahaha [12/30/13 1:02:01 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): ha [12/30/13 1:02:01 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): hah [12/30/13 1:02:04 PM] Fates: no [12/30/13 1:02:05 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): -lays down- [12/30/13 1:02:21 PM] Ban: Luci loves his brothers too much to kill them. He'd be holding on to the hope that they'd magically change sides right to the end. [12/30/13 1:02:42 PM] Fates: the kids upstairs of course decide to sing Amazing Grace at this moment [12/30/13 1:02:50 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): omg [12/30/13 1:03:00 PM] Fates: oh god and just [12/30/13 1:03:02 PM] Fates: like [12/30/13 1:03:55 PM] Fates: in my drabble I was going for the idea the Luci was dying rather than dead

and Met wouldn't have been able to fight properly so he'd have stayed behind

and then he goes down afterward and finds Luci and just GUILT THAT HE WAS NOT THERE ONCE AGAIN [12/30/13 1:04:32 PM] Ban: If Luci could have spoken at that point he'd have said it was ok [12/30/13 1:05:14 PM] Fates: i'm [12/30/13 1:05:15 PM] Fates: no [12/30/13 1:05:18 PM] Fates: not legal [12/30/13 1:05:26 PM] Fates: too many feels [12/30/13 1:05:38 PM] Fates: also this is a song I imagine playing in the background http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b_oWdjE5ig [12/30/13 1:05:57 PM] Ban: Ahh no earphones [12/30/13 1:05:59 PM] Fates: in Met's mind [12/30/13 1:06:01 PM] Fates: OH [12/30/13 1:06:02 PM] Fates: okay [12/30/13 1:06:08 PM] Fates: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/badreligion/sorrow.html [12/30/13 1:06:10 PM] Fates: lyrics [12/30/13 1:06:27 PM] Ban: oh my god I know this song no [12/30/13 1:06:45 PM] Ban: I think Luci would have apologised too [12/30/13 1:06:59 PM] Ban: Tell Met it's ok, and apologise and apologise for everything he caused [12/30/13 1:07:55 PM] Fates: ;w; [12/30/13 1:07:58 PM] Fates: this [12/30/13 1:08:01 PM] Fates: this isn't legal [12/30/13 1:08:04 PM] Fates: all these feels [12/30/13 1:08:06 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): im really interested in how heaven would be afterwards tho [12/30/13 1:08:08 PM] Fates: let's talk about them more [12/30/13 1:08:18 PM] Fates: while I write the starter for a hopefully happier feels thread [12/30/13 1:08:30 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): would michael be celebrated or smth [12/30/13 1:08:39 PM] Fates: maybe [12/30/13 1:08:44 PM] Fates: by like, most of Heaven [12/30/13 1:08:54 PM] Fates: OH AND [12/30/13 1:08:54 PM] Beatrice: I think Sunny would cry << [12/30/13 1:09:03 PM] Fates: i had this idea for the original draft of the drabble [12/30/13 1:09:25 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha michael just fading away until there is nothing left and he is just left w/ a constant ache + a fake persona [12/30/13 1:09:53 PM] Ban: On 12/30/13, at 1:08 PM, Beatrice wrote: > I think Sunny would cry << Not over Luci, I think? : P [12/30/13 1:10:05 PM] Beatrice: XD over him too [12/30/13 1:10:20 PM] Ban: oh wow [12/30/13 1:10:24 PM] Beatrice: Because he was her brother and she loved him since he was a fledgling [12/30/13 1:10:30 PM] Beatrice: And from relief [12/30/13 1:10:40 PM] Beatrice: That the bloodshed is finally over [12/30/13 1:10:59 PM] Ban: What if Met lost his shit and Fell [12/30/13 1:11:04 PM] Fates: that they give surviving demons a chance to repent or be smote.

only one demon gets killed, because Met goes into such a fury and how DARE YOU USURP MY AUTHORITY just put them in the dungeons and make sure they're taken care of

because he knows how much Luci cared for his demons and made sure no harm would come to them and like fuck is he going to let them be harmed what kind of dishonor to his brother's memory would that be [12/30/13 1:11:34 PM] Ban: oohhhh [12/30/13 1:11:35 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): when mike realises that maybe god's plan wasn't as good as he thought, it's too late to fix [12/30/13 1:11:40 PM] Ban: *A* Meeettttt [12/30/13 1:11:43 PM] Ban: Miiiiiike [12/30/13 1:11:47 PM] Fates: tbh there's a good chance Met would Fall [12/30/13 1:12:20 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): Mike always having an apology on the tip of his tongue but know's it's too late [12/30/13 1:12:21 PM] Beatrice: Oh jeez [12/30/13 1:12:31 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): mike not being able to look Met in the eye [12/30/13 1:13:00 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): Mike feeling like a fraud bc he doesn't feel like the 'hero' the rest of heaven is celebrating [12/30/13 1:13:11 PM] Ban: oooohhhhhhhh [12/30/13 1:13:16 PM] Beatrice: Now I'm imagining Sunny and met on opposing sides [12/30/13 1:13:20 PM] Fates: because he starts thinking how dare Mother make her children fight and kill each other

she almost never spoke anyway not even to him so???? [12/30/13 1:13:39 PM] Ban: Met slowly growing jaded [12/30/13 1:13:51 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): mike just losing it after the battle tho [12/30/13 1:13:52 PM] Ban: Luci's ghost voice being like TOLD YA SO [12/30/13 1:13:58 PM] Fates: oh god [12/30/13 1:14:03 PM] Fates: can angels even have ghosts though [12/30/13 1:14:07 PM] Ban: I dunno, I doubt it [12/30/13 1:14:08 PM] Fates: regardless of whether they can [12/30/13 1:14:14 PM] Ban: I just said that for comic relief [12/30/13 1:14:26 PM] Fates: he'd probably start to go a bit nuts and at least imagine that happening [12/30/13 1:14:33 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): that would be pretty interesting tho [12/30/13 1:14:34 PM] Cay: that was more comic sans. Ban [12/30/13 1:14:39 PM] Fates: "It'd be so like him to come back to tell me that" [12/30/13 1:14:46 PM] Ban: I always just sorta assumed that their deaths were very final, in an evaporating into the ether type [12/30/13 1:14:53 PM] Ban: On 12/30/13, at 1:14 PM, Cay wrote: > that was more comic sans. Ban omg [12/30/13 1:14:58 PM] Fates: ;A; a star going supernova [12/30/13 1:15:11 PM] Cay: yus [12/30/13 1:15:16 PM] Fates: "Got a lot of friends who are stars, but some are just black holes." [12/30/13 1:15:17 PM] Ban: It would be so obvious when Luci kicks the bucket like [12/30/13 1:15:27 PM] Ban: because he'd just go woosh and then boom gone [12/30/13 1:15:40 PM] Ban: DRAMATIC TIL THE END [12/30/13 1:15:49 PM] Fates: leaving only stardust behind [12/30/13 1:15:50 PM] Cay: Luci drama llama [12/30/13 1:15:53 PM] Ban: yupyup [12/30/13 1:16:02 PM] Fates: 'ashes' in a sense [12/30/13 1:16:14 PM] Fates: ............. [12/30/13 1:16:19 PM] Fates: ASHES TO ASHES

WE ALL FALL DOWN [12/30/13 1:16:25 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): ashes to ashes dust to dust [12/30/13 1:16:42 PM] Ban: I do like the idea of a body though [12/30/13 1:16:50 PM] Fates: ooh ooh [12/30/13 1:16:52 PM] Fates: maybe like [12/30/13 1:16:54 PM] Fates: wait here's an idea [12/30/13 1:16:56 PM] Fates: maybe like [12/30/13 1:17:13 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha mike trying to smile and it's painfully fake [12/30/13 1:19:08 PM] Fates: the big dramatic boom is his soul, right, the thing that's really HIM

and there is a body left behind because that wasn't really "him". It was a body he wore but the thing that really is an angel is their soul/essence/grace/what have you

so there would be a body still, but his death as an angel wasn't dependent on his body being harmed [12/30/13 1:19:36 PM] Ban: yeeeeeeeeeeeeees [12/30/13 1:19:39 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): mike trying to muster up faith in Her and just noticing it's not working anymore [12/30/13 1:19:40 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): yeSSSS [12/30/13 1:20:05 PM] Fates: *_* imagine it being kind of like Kay's Full Circle fic with Met [12/30/13 1:20:22 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha [12/30/13 1:20:31 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): what if michael vaguely remembered luci [12/30/13 1:20:40 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): and still felt the constant ache but didn't know why [12/30/13 1:20:56 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): like every time he tried to remember it was just placed out of reach [12/30/13 1:22:12 PM] Cay: T_T [12/30/13 1:22:20 PM] Fates: I'm starting to wonder now that Cay's back [12/30/13 1:22:28 PM] Fates: I suddenly wondered about Asmo in all of this [12/30/13 1:22:43 PM] Fates: since he's Luci's best friend [12/30/13 1:22:53 PM] Fates: oh no [12/30/13 1:23:01 PM] Fates: I"m imagining the scene from Les Mis [12/30/13 1:23:07 PM] Fates: or something like it [12/30/13 1:23:19 PM] Fates: with Enjolras and Granitaire [12/30/13 1:23:25 PM] Fates: NO SOMEONE STOP ME [12/30/13 1:23:28 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): i was just about to say that [12/30/13 1:23:33 PM] Fates: I WAS JUST PLAYING WITH MY IMAGINATION AND THINGS GOT ALL INTENSE [12/30/13 1:23:42 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): FOR ONE MOMENT WE THOUGHT THE SAME tHING [12/30/13 1:23:47 PM] Cay: I'm fairly sure he wouldnt forgove them [12/30/13 1:23:58 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): oh man [12/30/13 1:24:20 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): one half mike is seen as a saviour and the other half he is seen as a monster [12/30/13 1:25:13 PM] Fates: oh god just [12/30/13 1:25:16 PM] Fates: justttttttt [12/30/13 1:25:38 PM] Fates: frigging Empty Chairs at Empty Tables moment all of a sudden but with Met in one of the old nurseries [12/30/13 1:25:43 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): hahaha [12/30/13 1:25:47 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): ow [12/30/13 1:25:59 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): oh mygod [12/30/13 1:26:01 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): i just realised [12/30/13 1:26:04 PM] Fates: I hate myself I'm gonna go throw myself off a bridge from all these feels [12/30/13 1:26:12 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): empty chairs and empty tabless WITH MICHAEL [12/30/13 1:26:16 PM] Fates: NO [12/30/13 1:26:24 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): one shot IN LUCI'SO LD OFFICE HAHA [12/30/13 1:26:25 PM] Launchycat: I leave you guys alone for one bit and SUDDENLY, ALL THE FEELS [12/30/13 1:26:33 PM] Launchycat: *melts in feels* [12/30/13 1:26:53 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): mike with survivors guilt [12/30/13 1:27:08 PM] Ban: heheheh [12/30/13 1:27:20 PM] Fates: So I'm just imagining something that Luci would wear to battle and for some reason a cape is involved although I don't know whether Luci would actually wear a cape but let's pretend that he would for the sake of this mental image [12/30/13 1:27:30 PM] Fates: Met kinda just [12/30/13 1:27:32 PM] Fates: saving it [12/30/13 1:27:53 PM] Fates: and curling up on his bed in his quarters later clinging to it because it's the last thing he has left [12/30/13 1:28:07 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): did i tell u i bet mike did that when luci fell [12/30/13 1:28:14 PM] Fates: ;w; [12/30/13 1:28:40 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha imagine mike pretending luci was in the same room [12/30/13 1:28:54 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): like some wistful hope that he'd respond [12/30/13 1:29:05 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): he says sorry a hundred times but it's never enough [12/30/13 1:29:16 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): he's just left w/ a dark room and a hollow heart [12/30/13 1:29:27 PM] Fates: Oh god oh god oh god that reminds me of the Vienna Teng song "Passage" there's a line

"My sister can't decide her truth Asks aloud what I might do" [12/30/13 1:30:04 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): fits mike to a t [12/30/13 1:30:07 PM] Cay: headcanon proposal [12/30/13 1:30:08 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): guess what [12/30/13 1:30:18 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha mike finally became the 'perfect son' [12/30/13 1:30:41 PM] Cay: angels and demons that die get reborn human. no powers or memories, but the soul gets reborn human. [12/30/13 1:30:47 PM] Fates: the other two sister lines seem to fit Met more

"My sister shouts to let her see Through the cloud of crowd surrounding me"

"My sister plays our homemade tapes Laughs as tears stream down her face" [12/30/13 1:30:57 PM] Fates: oh god Cay [12/30/13 1:30:59 PM] Fates: yes [12/30/13 1:31:19 PM] Fates: Met just [12/30/13 1:31:24 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha mike just never leaving the office [12/30/13 1:31:35 PM] Fates: following Luci's soul obsessively through its incarnations [12/30/13 1:32:08 PM] Fates: making friends with whoever it becomes and keeping an eye on them from the time they're a child till the time they die [12/30/13 1:32:08 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): or alternatively, mike trying to run far away bc he can't face heaven or himself [12/30/13 1:32:22 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): but no matter the distance it's never enough [12/30/13 1:33:08 PM] Ban: Luci's soul being reborn into this human who's always looking at the stars for reasons they can't place [12/30/13 1:33:28 PM] Fates: (hey Ban, what should we call our thread? the one with Met)

YES YES YES [12/30/13 1:33:34 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): YES [12/30/13 1:33:35 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): YES [12/30/13 1:33:38 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): PERFECT [12/30/13 1:33:43 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): omg imagine mike w/ long hair [12/30/13 1:33:49 PM] Fates: imagine if after the final battle the human world has to rebuild and all knowledge is mostly lost [12/30/13 1:34:00 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): idk how similar mike + luci look but [12/30/13 1:34:08 PM] Fates: and Luci's human is the one that does a hell of a lot of astronomy rediscoveries [12/30/13 1:34:19 PM] Cay: Asmo as ruler of hell. [12/30/13 1:34:34 PM] Ban: Not very, Luci looks like Orlando Bloom's Will Turner with slightly longer hair [12/30/13 1:34:41 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): can you imagine if mike ran into luci tho [12/30/13 1:34:50 PM] Fates: BAN ARE YOU SERIOUS [12/30/13 1:34:54 PM] Ban: yeahhhhhhhhh [12/30/13 1:34:55 PM] Fates: omfg *w* [12/30/13 1:35:09 PM] Fates: cute babby [12/30/13 1:35:23 PM] Ban: :3 [12/30/13 1:35:56 PM] Fates: how [12/30/13 1:35:56 PM] Cay: just more tired [12/30/13 1:35:57 PM] Fates: perf [12/30/13 1:36:15 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): haha [12/30/13 1:36:18 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): i had a thought [12/30/13 1:36:29 PM] Fates: *pokes Ban* thread title ideas? [12/30/13 1:36:33 PM] Ban: ahhhhhh [12/30/13 1:36:44 PM] Ban: umm [12/30/13 1:36:53 PM] Fates: *does a google* [12/30/13 1:37:12 PM] Launchycat: On 12/30/13, at 1:31 PM, Fates wrote: > following Luci's soul obsessively through its incarnations making friends with whoever it becomes and keeping an eye on them from the time they're a child till the time they die Better yet, how about Met desperately trying to get him to remember? [12/30/13 1:37:23 PM] Ban: oooooooh [12/30/13 1:37:34 PM] Fates: without using divine power [12/30/13 1:37:43 PM] Ban: *u* [12/30/13 1:37:43 PM] Fates: trying to get him to remember on his own [12/30/13 1:37:53 PM] Fates: because Luci wouldn't have liked that [12/30/13 1:37:58 PM] Ban: ^^^^ [12/30/13 1:38:04 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): what if luci did remember but couldn't remember michael [12/30/13 1:38:30 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): (like gradually regained memory or smth [12/30/13 1:38:45 PM] Ban: ooooohhhhh [12/30/13 1:39:17 PM] Fates: Hey Ban, how bout something cliche for the thread like

"in fraternitatis amore" [12/30/13 1:39:25 PM] Ban: omg [12/30/13 1:39:27 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): Cay, would Asmo take revenge if he saw Michael? -curious- [12/30/13 1:39:28 PM] Fates: because that' wall I'm getting [12/30/13 1:39:34 PM] Ban: Good with it [12/30/13 1:39:38 PM] Fates: GOOD [12/30/13 1:39:44 PM] Fates: *scribble scribble* [12/30/13 1:39:54 PM] Ban: ouo [12/30/13 1:40:02 PM] Cay: not sure [12/30/13 1:40:02 PM] Ban: This is present time, yes? [12/30/13 1:40:12 PM] Cay: Bossmo would have other stuff to do [12/30/13 1:40:15 PM] Cay: deal with hell [12/30/13 1:40:21 PM] Fates: Yes, present time [12/30/13 1:40:28 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): ooh i see [12/30/13 1:40:48 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): omg if met fell then michael will just be left alone w/ heaven [12/30/13 1:41:45 PM] Fates: WEH [12/30/13 1:41:55 PM] Nathan (◡‿◡✿): mike feeling uneasy in met's office

[harktheheraldangel]

Gabriel, it has been brought to my attention that you are not performing your duties as an archangel.

Really? I have been preforming my duties as usual. Can you be more specific?

[shut-up-or-ill-smite]

Value Me and Unbind Me for Michael

[Seems Fallen!Uriel is my new kink, but yeah, I think this works pretty well, sorry for any OOC Michael you might encounter!]

Michael had fought admirably, but in the end multiple strong opponents among who some who knew the exact fighting maneuvers of the captain would be the downfall of any great man. It was maybe not exactly how he would have preferred a fight between him and his ex-superior to go, still holding onto the concept of justice with an iron grip, but Michael posed too much of a threat.

And now they had him in metaphorical shackles, stowed away with the ultimate prison guard who was so steadfast in his opinions that there was no change their prisoners ever escaped. Or so they thought. 

The fallen angel grimaced, looking down at the still deviant figure of his ex-captain. He was supposed to put him away in one of the rings of hell, the darkest, dirtiest, most gruesome one, as Lucifer had commanded. His ice-cold sword tip yet resting just above the tied wrists.

Hell was bad enough for those that choose to be here, but when the whole world is out for your head than it was near impossible to escape alive. Especially when you radiated proud Archangelic essence. But that was perhaps the strength of this Angel. The deviance. The sheer stubbornness to be corrupted.

No Michael was on the right side, at least for his goals, his purpose, his duty. He was sent out to fight and represent Heaven and the fallen angel couldn’t fault him. Maybe perhaps raising his sword against his, but so had he himself and he found no wrong in that.

They had arrived at the point of damnation, the spot where the ex-Archangel was to stick Michael in bounds, surrounded by the agonized screams of hell and the stench of the pitt. Heavy metal walls and bars made for the cell and the fallen angel guided Michael in, letting the door fall shut behind the both of them.

Rough handling made the archangel kneel with his face towards the back of the cell and the ex-Archangel still had the sword nipping at the skin even through the mail. They had gone rough on his brother, the air pungent with the stench of blood and burned flesh. It was partly his own, he knew, the wounds still burning and aching, but the most was coming from the kneeling figure in front of him. 

He kneeled too, a hand on the Warrior’s shoulder, gripping it with strong hand and pulling him back slightly as he placed his face in the vicinity of Michael’s ear. “It was never personal,” He spoke, soft, careful, clear, digging his fingers in the metal protecting the shoulder. Then sword was replaced by a dagger, just as cold in the hands of the Guard as the sword turned.

"I used to look up to you, brother. Even after my promotion.” Eyes flickered down the side of the face that he could see from this position and tried to gauge the reaction. “Hell never plays fair, but,” He twisted the knife, blade turned vertical and drawing a line just a bit lower letting the skin of the wrist taste the sharpness of the weapon. “neither does heaven. Never underestimate, Michael. It will cost you your immortal life.”

The fallen angel sighed, touching his forehead to the other’s shoulder for a moment and then veering back up. “And it would shame me if my Captain made such a mistake.” 

The blade had slipped down again, pressed deeper into the skin, cutting easily through whatever matter was in its way and then moved away as the fallen angel stood, turned and walked out.

—

As the two parts of the lock never clicked together the binds slipped from the wrists, neatly cut and derived of their damned properties, just simple ends of twine now on the floor of hell’s reserved ring

[charleythehouseplant]

Nymphia: Guys I just realized a thing and I want to share

Ban: ????

Nymphia: So Gabriel is supposed to go up to Mt Ararat and play his horn to tell the world that shit's gonna go down, right?

Nymphia: I want you to imagine Gabe just kinda pacing in the snow somewhere

Nymphia: and he's looking up at the sky every now and then

Nymphia: like "Dude I've been here for hours when are we gonna go?"

Nymphia: and then someone, idk, probably Mike

Nymphia: flies down from Heaven looking like thunder

Nymphia: and Gabe is just like

Nymphia: ???

Nymphia: and Mike walks right up to him and goes "Sorry dude, but the kid didn't want to play his part so I guess it was all false alarm?"

Nymphia: and Gabe just

Nymphia: looks at him

Nymphia: and like "I SPENT THE LAST DAY FREEZING MY FINGERS OFF AND *NOW* YOU TELL ME?!"

Nymphia: "GOD DAMN IT ADAM AT LEAST YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME"

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): omg

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): I can see that happening

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): maybe that is why gabe is missing

The Hamster: and omg Nymph

The Hamster: omg Nathan

The Hamster: yes

The Hamster: native Gabe is missing because nobody gave him the memo

The Hamster: he's still waiting at the bottom of the mountain

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): lmao

The Hamster: er, the top

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): native! gabe is frozen

Nymphia: Oh my god

The Hamster: and he didn't dare leave or ask because you shouldnt' question orders

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): a giant gabriel popsicle

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): bc michael forgot or smth

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): do you think one day he'll just realise and be like

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "SHIT WE FORGOT TO TELL GABE"

The Hamster: oh man

Nymphia: Native!Gabe: OOOOOOOH, FIVE MILLION, FIVE THOUSAND AND... er... damn, how many bottles was I at?......... OOOOOH, NINE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL...

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): the realisation slowly dawns on him

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): lmao can you imagine the conversation

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "Hello Gabriel"

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "The apocalypse is over. It never happened you can come back now"

Nymphia: "Michael! Than G......... wait, why didn't you tell me before?!"

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): gabriel meeting gabriel though

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "I... forgot"

Cay: XDD

Nymphia: I want Native!Gabe to be this huge beefcake of a dude because that's basically what Gabe was like in the old days.

Nymphia: If God wanted to kill a thing He'd just go, "Gabe! See them? *points* Go."

Nymphia: *rolls*

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): i can see michael doing that like saying that God wanted for him to kill something and it would be like a spider or smth

Cay: hahahahaha

Nymphia: Oh my goooooodddd

Nymphia: Mike, precious baby

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "Why can't you do it?"

The Hamster: he better not kill any spiders around Kay : P

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "No, She was very insistent that it was you who slays the spider."

Nymphia: Native!Gabe: ......... *squishes with his big toe* Was that it? Really? *puppydog sadface*

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): Mike looking disgusted bc he squished it with his feet

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "Yes. you can leave now"

Nymphia: Native!Gabe: *goes to see if there are any princesses in need of rescuing from dragons because if there is one angel in Heaven less adjusted to current times than Mike it is gabe*

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): oh my god

The Hamster: оуыгы

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): Mike telling Native! Gabriel about Gabriel though

Launchycat: Pfhahaha, just came back to see the Gabe talk

Launchycat: And it is hillarious

Nymphia: Native!Gabe all happy because someone he can bash with without worrying about hurting them

Nathan (✿◠‿◠): "I think we got on well."

Nymphia: and then Gabe is just... Gabe.

[reaperoftears]

Invite Me, SA!Mike

Kay could feel the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. And the rest of them, too, for a damn change. The angel's glower could have curdled milk, but luckily, the only liquid around was alcohol.

"You should not be here, demon." And wow, his voice carried quite a bit. Kay winced at the amused and befuddled glances of the other patrons and finally, slowly, turned to face him.

"I beg to differ," she said calmly. "This is neutral territory. You're the one who showed up out of nowhere."

"It is my duty to combat the evil influence of demons such as you," Michael replied stiffly, and she had to keep from rolling her eyes. Careful, careful. Couldn't afford to give him a reason to actually hurt her.

"I'm not influencing anyone," she replied. "Since you're here, why don't you sit down, have a drink? Relax for a change." She gave him a weak, tired smile. She was well past her prime when it came to tempting Archangels into relaxing.

He looked honestly offended and she could almost hear his feathers ruffle. "Inebriation is a sin and would be most unseemly for one such as I. It is my duty to remain vigilant. Now leave this place, and leave these humans be."

Kay sighed, then threw up her arms in defeat. "Fine," she hissed, sliding off the stool and waling off in the opposite direction, where the back door was. No way she was getting within five feet of him if she could help it.

As she darted out the door, the holy presence followed her, burning at her heels. She bit her lip in frustration and no small amount of unease, and walked more quickly.

[shut-up-or-ill-smite]

The halls were filled by a blazing light as he walked passed, the golden glow seeping under doors and into the darkest corners. The situation has been handled. The situation has been handled. What did that even mean? He still had no info and it was time he got some.

"MICHAEL!" He yelled, barging into Michael's office, not bothering with knocking or any other polite forms. "When were you planning on informing me?" The tone was short, clipped, clearly pissed off and really, it was a good thing that the flaming sword was missing or he would have been a lot more destructive.

[reaperoftears]

Sheep in Wolfish Clothes

Kay blinked owlishly at the light.

It was autumn where she'd come out, that much was clear. She didn't know if it was autumn everywhere else, too, or anything about how this world worked, but... she'd have time for that later.

------

The city was crowded - not a metropolis by far, but too curiously busy to pass for a quiet town. Kay weaved past the people walking past her, walking toward her, walking in the same direction as her - whatever that direction was, for she was moving aimlessly. Try as she might, she couldn't locate any trace of Raph's aura, but she had never been terribly good at that.

------

Her feet carried her past some sort of diner, then slowed to a stop of their own volition. Jerkily, she turned to stare., It seemed more like a fast-food place, a small little establishment nestled in a busy street. Humans jostled her as she stood, unmoving, in their way, and Kay hissed at the ache from her injuries and slipped aside smoothly the next moment.

The smell made her stomach twist, and not in a pleasant way. She couldn't remember the last time she had even wanted to eat. It seemed superfluous, now. And yet...

Swallowing as she skirted on the edge of thinking of what had recently happened without really thinking about it, Kay took a step closer. Unthinkingly, her hand drifted up to brush the ends of her hair.

Half a minute later, she was striding away again, but a surreptitious flick of her hand had summoned to her the largest bun filled with meat and some sort of salad and dripping with gravy and she dug in viciously, ignoring the lack of taste or the nausea that welled up inside her. She panted and wiped her mouth and the food felt heavy inside her.

She managed to keep it down, and keep moving. Somewhere in the back of her head, she had a feeling Raph would disapprove.

She really needed to find him, and fast.

------

The church loomed down on her.

Swallowing, Kay forced her feet another step forward, not taking her eyes off the building and nearly stumbling on its stone steps.

It was not a particularly impressive or ancient-looking church, an appearance she hoped was accurate enough. Treading holy ground was hardly fun on the best of days. With any luck, this place wasn't venerable enough to feel toxic but would still hold someone pious enough to do the job.

Her skin prickling, she pushed open the heavy wooden door.

-----

She took only moments to find - an older woman, her back straight and a heartfelt belief of the kind only humans could manage filling her dark eyes. Kay couldn't help but feel vaguely sorry for what she was about to do.

It took only a moment - seizing the woman and swiftly pulling her into a sidechamber, slamming the door shut behind them. Kay released her and straightened menacingly in front of the entrance as the woman scurried away, making outraged noises.

"Let me go or I shall call the police," she spoke sharply, anger tinting the alarm in her voice.

Kay forced herself to give her a smile.

Fingers still spread on the wood of the door, she let them change into claws, spread her own exhausted energies around her to make her into what the woman saw in her head - barely more than a shape of swirling black and glowing eyes. Teeth glinting sharp, she spoke.

"Why don't you pray for me, instead?"