#ava is so so smart much smarter than people give her credit for

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Adriel was his own down fall. Remember that scene in his tomb where he's trapped and Ava offers the halo to him and she even has her back to him? But he says to her 'I won't leave you here my child'. He had Ava's consent to take the halo. He had her fooled completely because she only knew what the OCS history books told her. But even tho he's not a man, he isn't very far from human behavior. He isn't satisfied with getting away with his plan, he wants, NEEDS Ava to believe every lying word he's spouting and for her to be convinced he's grandiose and forgiving and merciful. So he doesn't take the halo right then and instead lays a hand in Ava's shoulder and unintendedly gives Ava a vision of what really happened. It's then that Ava realizes something is very wrong with this guy. She needs more info asap without making too obvious that she distrusts him. So she asks him what he intends to do with the halo and he goes into that bullshit about how he'll bring light into the world and go back to being an angel, and then touches Ava again, and she goads him to keep him talking to touch him back and get another vision, and she discovers the truth. And now he has to try to rip the halo out of her through her fucking chest. He's such a douchebag he just had to make Ava have the best possible image of him even tho he was going to rip the halo out of her anyways, and she would have died thinking he was an actual angel and good. But he kick started his defeat, because he's just that self fucking centered and egotistical, that was narcissistic behavior plainly