hello hello!! this is such a cool idea! and i love how you have so many of the basics covered!!
can i ask what made the archangels decide to see each other as family? also how do all the friend group meet? or will that be covered in the story. thanks!
i’ve been in the if community for a while, so going off of what i look for when i get into an if definitely helped me prepare!
in this if, the archangels were the first angels that god created. michael -> lucifer -> raphael -> uriel -> gabriel.
siblings didn’t really become a concept for them until the humans evolved. prior to that, they were just creations that did the work of god.
gabriel was really intrigued by the dynamic and started calling the other archangels their siblings. uriel jumped on the bandwagon pretty quickly and the two of them set about convincing the others.
raphael took some convincing, but under gabriel and uriel’s persistence, she started to view them and michael in a sibling-like way. she had deep trust issues with lucifer though and refused to acknowledge them as a sibling in any way.
lucifer never saw any of the others as siblings and came to resent them for always siding with god over them (which as time went on developed into an obsession to make michael theirs and theirs alone and became just one more reason why they fell). these days, while they have a complicated relationship with michael and hate raphael, they are generally softer on gabriel and uriel.
how michael feels about the whole sibling thing will be a choice that the reader will have.