Just my take on Azrael for Hazbin Hotel. I think Charlie deserves a loving but misunderstood Aunt.
I figured that the exorcist Angels' helmets were designed to mimic her helmet, since she is known as the harbinger of Death.
I also drew Emily cause' she's the best girl!
I'd like to think that since Azrael's duty to guide souls from the mortal realm into the spirit realm, she's akin to a reaper. When she takes the souls from their physical bodies, she also goes through their memories to create a soul scroll, which acts as a human's "Life in review" or "Record of existence". Azrael then takes this scroll, along with the soul, to the Hall of Divine Judgement. Where the Council of Archangels and God will Judge the soul. After the sentencing Azrael casts Instant transmission on the soul and they spawn in either Heaven or Hell.
Human souls never retain their memories of divine judgement since they're too overwhelmed with their lives flashing before their eyes.
What are the top three most popular angels, and what are your top three angels?
So that first part is really easy. My most popular angels are:
Gadreel, Angel of War
Zuriel, Angel of Libra
and Azrael, Angel of Death (of course)
My personal top are a little harder.
I do really love Azrael
I even gave him a house at one point, the Driftwood Cathedral.
After that, it would have to be Raziel, Angel of Mystery
He's an angel I really love exploring just as a character, and the one I think I can personally relate the most to. That probably comes as no surprise to anyone.
I'm all for head canons that conflict with actual canon, but I've been seeing a lot of theories about which Good Omens characters might be the angel of death and I just want to make a public service announcement...
Death is the angel of Death.
It's not just the name or the wings, although those are both pretty big clues.
In the book, they are described as angel wings, Death drops their angel name (Azrael), and Death is literally described as the angel of Death as they depart:
I'm a believer in going nuts with the theories, but also being a scholar of the canon.
I know not everyone wants to or is able to read the book (or remembers if they have) so I wanted to share some good lore.
I think way too much about the weight that the title angel of death holds. Like Yosano spends about a year keeping these men away from death which makes the name angel of death kind of odd because it implies that she is the one leading them to their death. But its also super fitting because she is the one "causing" them to "die"/come close to dying repeatedly by preventing their deaths. Does that make sense?
Also while none of the men died in the war (except for tachihara's older brother who committed suicide) yosano killed plenty of them by driving them mad from the ptsd of getting blown to bits and then being put back together with absolutely nothing to prove that they were hurt in the first place. So while not physically dead, most of these men will probably never really live life again.
And the word angel is so terribly cruel for this title because that's what they used to call her when the soldiers still loved yosano and thought of her presence as a blessing and now it's used as a reminder of what she couldn't give them. Also they would call her a mistress of healing when they still loved her compared to angel of death. Complete opposites.
And angel of death is another way of saying the grim reaper
Small snippet under the cut if you don't want to read the fic
Alastor laughed, his shadows forming around him and propelling him upwards in a sea of smoke and inky tentacles. His crimson coat flared around him, before the fabric shimmered and transformed. A set of large wings burst behind him, followed by four more. Red, with white tipped black feathers. The wings and glowing black halo were reminiscent of the Exorcist Angel's.
He landed on the top of the hotel sign, wings spread out behind him. His head was bowed, but when he looked up, the whole glamor flickered and faded from his features.
Red and black fluffy ears changed to long curved horns, two more small sets beneath it. His black tipped bob inverted colours, two distinct streaks of gold appearing to frame his grinning face. Almost bone white skin, bright piercing gold irises, practically glowing against the black scalatra of his eyes. He straightened up, the long black military-style coat he now wore whipping behind him in an artificial breeze.
“Surprised, brother?” The Radio filter was gone, and a familiar but ancient voice from the past sealed the final nail in the coffin on who this individual was.
“Azrael.” Lucifer half growled, his own wings bursting forth in a flash of blinding light, soaring up to be face to face with his fellow Angel. His glare spoke for itself that he wasn't happy to see him, let alone realising that they'd been here the whole time, hiding in plain sight.
I couldn’t decide on if I wanted a completely natural skin tone for war, his horns are bits of armor fused to his skin but it doesn’t read sadge
All horsemen should not look completely human, they are concepts given form (of Nephilim) but war is the most human out of them. Famine pestilence and death all happen to the rest of the natural world but wars are much more abstract. Is fighting for territory a war?