I always wondered about Nathaniel or Usiel in bed. LIke, they are big boys, let's share a bit of love for them too lol
(ps. I will never get over the headcanon that Usiel is Uriel dad lol)
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Nathaniel:
A buoyant angel who loves to discover new ways of making love. For too long, he's been stuck as a guard at the Lost Light outpost, and longs for a taste of something new and exciting. And when he met you, well...
He finally found the taste he'd been pining after for centuries.
His wings are unbelievably sensitive. Each pristine feather quivers like leaves in a hurricane when you brush your fingertips down the length of his wing-bone.
Almost of their own volition, they like to get involved when you're being intimate with Nathaniel, curling over you like a pair of great, white shields, as if their owner wants to hide you away from the rest of the Universe and keep you pressed against his vast, scarred chest where nothing can harm you.
Nathaniel is... well-equipped. Your jaw nearly hit the ground when he first shed his armour in front of you, and you were certain you'd be walking with a limp the next day. But to your surprise, in spite of his battle-hardened features and intimidating stature, Nathaniel is something of a gentle giant.
He's what you might call a soft dom, reassuring, communicative, always seeking your approval before he does anything new. You have to tell him quite frankly that he really doesn't have to ask for permission to put his hands on you every time he wants to touch you. You are well past that stage.
Usiel:
He's very vanilla, and a complete sub on the quiet. Being a commander is exhausting. Just once, he'd like someone else to take charge.
This angel is pretty pious, and isn't all that adventurous during sex, but he's also the most sensitive angel you'll ever meet. An archangel isn't expected to have feelings beyond unwavering devotion to the White City and his Legion. So to say he's repressed is an understatement.
He doesn't last long at all in bed, which is a little flattering if you're honest, that just the sight of you in your lingerie can turn the massive angel into a mortified mess.
You've become his latest object of worship, and he's usually already on his knees before you can even get through the bedroom door.
Usiel isn't a quiet lover either. He's a choir boy, singing your praises to the Heavens unless you literally clamp your hand over his mouth.
Here's a potential puzzler for you. Is Death death? (Stick with me for a moment here, okay?)
For some context, in the Darksiders franchise, Death—one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—is a major character. Most media where the Horsemen are a Thing tend to have Death (the horsemen) be the same character as the general personification of death, just specifically doing the Horseman thing at the moment. Good Omens goes with this interpretation, if I remember Good Omens right, which I very much might not. It's been a while.
In Darksiders, however, the Four Horsemen are, uh, cosmologically complicated. Specifically, they're Nephilim—fusions of demons and angels yes I know that's not what nephilim are supposed to be I didn't make this game—who rebelled against the Charred Council (a mysterious body who nebulously keep the balance somehow; it's really not clear) and were in turn eradicated by the only four nephilim who sided with the Council. These four became the Horsemen, and were subsequently sent out as the Council's underlings whenever a Real Big Issue required that sort of response. In the four games in the Darksiders series, there's approximately one line that could maybe with some creativity and also if you looked at it sideways be interpreted as the Horseman Death being also Death in general, but... Nah, I dunno, man.
Anyway, that's why "Death/Grim Reaper" and "Death (Horseman)" now have their own respective points in The Chart. Don't at me.
Not being able to use the Grim Reaper skin from Minecraft to hop between Ryu and whichever Darksiders character you want is a bummer, admittedly.
Luckily, Lilith is a Marvel character.
(That's her in the background. That's her at the bar. Side. Losing her religion.)
Funny thing—Usiel (often seen spelled "Uziel" or "Uzziel") is usually depicted as either a fallen angel, or a demon. There are a few sources that put him on the side of being a good'un, though, so this portrayal is cromulent enough. I mean, as cromulent as anything from Darksiders can be in relation to varying and contradictory Judeo-Christian tradition.
(Per game lore, a bunch of pseudo-Celtic-Norsey Old Ones are hanging out in a side dimension or something. I dunno, man. Darksiders II was weird.)
Lilith appears in Darksiders II and Darksiders III, which is nice if you're trying to reach a character from Darksiders II and Darksiders III, but less so if you're working with the original Darksiders or Darksiders Genesis.
That's alright, though. Turns out the Four Horsemen are up and summonable in Scribblenauts Unlimited:
... Y'know, I really do think there ought to be a quicker path to Azrael that exists somewhere in the Wide Wide World Of Video Games, but if there is, it's not on The Chart at the moment, so it doesn't exist. Don't at me.
Or actually, do at me. Then I can put that game on The Chart, too, if it doesn't give my arbitrary taxonomy a tummyache.
Incidentally, because I read up on angels a whole lot going through these games and if I can't Show My Work on my own blog where else am I gonna do it: Here's a Thing.
"Now, hold on a tick," I hear you say. "What are Moloch, Astarte, and Dagon doing in this game as Lucifer's mooks? Astarte wasn't a demon; she was a goddess in Ancient Near East religion, sometimes considered the equivalent of Ishtar! And Dagon wasn't a demon; he was an ancient Syrian god of prosperity! And Moloch... well, actually, nowadays people don't think Moloch was even a Thing, but he was traditionally interpreted to be a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice! Excuse the pun, but what the Hell's going on?"
You might assume that some Final-Fantasy-style hinkiness is afoot—that the creators of Darksiders Genesis named their characters after mythological figures that are thematically similar but ultimately unrelated (go on, try to convince me that any incarnation of Final Fantasy's Leviathan is the same one from the Book of Job) (Please do not actually do this)—but it turns out we can heap the blame on one dude in particular: John Milton.
That's right, it's all Paradise Lost's fault. Turns out that according to Miltonic lore, Moloch, Astarte, and Dagon were originally angels, but then joined with Satan in his rebellion, fell, and subsequently played as gods to deceive mankind. Now, is it a little iffy that Milton took a bunch of non-Christian deities and went "yeah, these were demons all along"?
Most def. He was following in well-established Christian tradition, though. Ba'al-Zebub was a deity of the Philistines, while Belphegor comes from the deity worshipped by Moabites at the mountain peak of Peor, biblically referred to as "Ba'al-pe'or." Astaroth is another one that comes from Astarte. And of course, the less said about Baphomet, the better.
All of this is a long-winded way of saying that no, I'm not counting this Dagon as the Syrian one. Or the Lovecraftian one, for that matter.
I think I'm crushing on Uriel and Usiel from Darksiders?
Like.... I'm already dating War.... But I also ship War and Uriel. But what if I just sandwiched my way between them, I mean... I have two hands?
But Usiel. Usiel. He stole my heart in Darksiders 3. He's so blinded by wanting to bring glory back to heaven and he pays for it by getting his ass beat by Fury. I mean, I like Lust and Pride as well, but I think I just like their designs more than I like them.
Oh but then there's Vulgrim. I really like him too. Oh.... Oh no. I don't think I should add more to my f/o list. I'll have to think about this. I don't feel like I would be able to use the same s/i I use for War, for Usiel or Vulgrim. But I could use them for Uriel 🤔.
I already feel bad for moving Chupacabra down to the QPR. It works better for my dynamic with him, but I still feel a little bad for it. Now my brain is telling me I need to add these three to my list.
Decided to draw Fury and Usiel this time around for Darksiderstober 2022, for Day 16 "Alliance.". I admit for an angel, he was the most humble and cared a great deal about the men under his command, and Fury will never admit it, but I'm sure she would find that admirable. Hence why she doesn't deny outright an alliance with him. Hope ya like, Prompts are here , and stay tuned
