Angels and Demons

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From my experience, demons typically look like bipedal animals with the horns and eyes of big horn sheep. Angels look somewhat similar, just with the horns of domestic goats. Their appearance isn't steady, however. It changes from time to time based on personal whims.

How about a story about an angel who is sabotaged far from heaven, his halo is intentionally ‘cracked’ forcing him to become a demon, and his quest to get back to heaven to restore his halo? Or a demon who gets bored with demonic life, contorts his horns into a halo, then finds out that life as an angel is so much darker?

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Scenario 1: With a broken halo, the angel now ‘looks’ like a demon. The ‘good’ humans and deities who previously helped him now try to destroy him. He’s forced to join roaming guilds of demons and neutrals, each moving in the general direction of heaven, in order to survive. At various points, he must make a series of morally questionable decisions in order to advance. By the time he arrives at the pearly gates, the question is whether he’s more angel than demon, or more demon than angel.

Scenario 2: After years of torture, a demonic pact is made. The demon can now contort his horns into a halo and immediately receives Holy Light. It’s amazing, everything he’d ever imagined. Now an ‘angel’, he integrates himself into heaven. After a honeymoon period, he starts to notice ‘things’. He discovers that God is a tyrant and Holy Light is a supernatural form of mind control. Angels must *willingly* give up their greatest gift, Free Will, in exchange for Eternal Bliss. The demon-turned-angel discovers this and decides to do something about it.

Scenario 2B: Turns out angels have much more nefarious plans for humans than anyone would ever believe. All under the guise of trying to ‘help and protect’ them, the perfect cover. Is evil really evil? Is good really good? Or are ‘good’ and ‘evil’ simply subject to interpretation depending on whose eyes you choose to view them through?