The Tango Dynamic Is Just So Different From The Actual Archangel Dynamic While I Also Try To Preserve

the tango dynamic is just so different from the actual archangel dynamic while i also try to preserve enough of what makes the archangels so integral to each other, because they’re so codependently important to one another’s development that it means so so much to me and so much to each other’s stories that even though i’ve altered their dynamic by changing the setting (making them human, making god human, giving them peers, siblings), it’s still been my mission to make it clear that there’s something deeply, deeply intrinsic and strange about the four of them 

like you can’t simply look at raphael, or gabriel, or lucifer, or michael, you have to look at all four of them, or at the very least two of them, to get this kaleidoscope understanding of their collective psyche because they were the only ones old enough to really understand 

it’s the four of them or it’s none of them but it’s also all four of them in pairs (because gabriel looks up to michael in his way, because gabriel and raphael are twins, because lucifer and michael cling to each other even when at one another’s throats, because no one has ever understood raphael and lucifer’s sharpness like each other, because raphael leans on michael more than anyone else, because gabriel has always been lucifer’s favorite), and all of them are so explosively strange. they just,,, mean so much to me

Mentor & Student quality time

... 2 in 1

made a doodle of Holy Terror Cas being all badass and sexy just living rent free in my brain because wow he- 

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So this is a dumb one, but it occurred to me while talking to a friend earlier and now I can’t stop thinking about it. 

When I was first getting into books, I went through a trashy romance novel phase, where I once read a story framed around this one rich guy who had a ridiculous number of kids. Twelve, twenty, maybe more–I can’t remember. The people in the town where he lived were constantly joking about how ridiculously fertile he was, made all the worse because he was also evidently a man-whore. The poor guy could barely smile at a woman without a baby coming from it. In the story, it’s eventually revealed that he is not actually all that fertile or sexually experienced, but is actually just a huge softie, and all the poorer families in town understood they could leave babies on his doorstep and he would raise them as his own, no questions asked. 

There’s a part of me that kind of wants to see the first part of this concept somehow applied to a human AU, with Chuck actually being that fertile and just having an ongoing stream of kids coming into his house. With Chuck still being the worst dad. He’s constantly in the background, calling up condom companies to complain about their products never working, and arranging paternity tests that he doesn’t tell the kids in question are paternity tests–like, he’ll pick up a toddler-aged Zachariah and play a few half-assed peek-a-boo games with him, then abruptly stick a cotton swab in the kid’s mouth for a DNA sample, hand him off to a sixteen-year-old Michael, and say he’s got to go. Has to stop by the post office on the way to his tinder date. Don’t wait up. 

And Michael’s just like, “This is perfectly normal." 

Later when Chuck comes home, Michael will still be awake, humming to himself while heating up a bottle in the kitchen. He’ll greet Chuck with, “Welcome home, father! I hope you had a great night. Someone dropped off twins. We’ve named them Anna and Hannah." 

Any time an outsider asks if someone is adopted, Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel all say no in unison and look at the person in question as if they’ve just asked the rudest question imaginable.

Adam and Michael are assigned to work together for a school project. At first they try working together in the library during lunch, but Adam points out that they’re not getting the work done fast enough in that limited amount of time. Which is true, but Adam also has a crush on Michael and wants to get to know him better. They wind up going to Michael’s house, because Michael needs to help Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel take care of the children. Adam is not put off by this, but then it comes out that Michael’s afraid to engage in any kind of amorous behavior because Chuck’s always grumbling under his breath about how he can barely even says hello to someone without making a baby, and he’s never actually sat any of his children down to have The Talk. 

Michael’s lack of knowledge comes out one day when Adam and Michael share a scandalous moment–HOLDING HANDS. 

"Wait, are you saying…Michael, we can’t make a baby no matter what we do.”

“Why not? Contraceptives are a scam.”

Adam takes a moment to just digest that answer. Due to his own family situation, Adam himself learned about the birds and the bees by way of daytime television, whereas the TV in the Shurley house is kept in a perpetual loop of Disney movies and Blue’s Clues reruns. And he’s met Chuck. He reasons to himself that it’s not that crazy for Michael to be the age that he is and still be that in the dark.

“Michael–where do you think babies come from?”

“The front door.”

Lucifer, who is also in the room, adds, “Sometimes the back door.”

Adam tries his best to keep a straight face, but winds up snort-laughing as Gabriel, who is much more worldly than either of his brothers, calls from the hallway, where he’s running back and forth while dragging a blanket loaded up with younger siblings along for the ride, “I ASSURE YOU THEY DO NOT!”

i know that the show says gabriel “didn’t die” in hammer of the gods, but i think he did. i think lucifer really killed him and all of the archangels felt it as it happened, and it threw off the balance that existed for billions of years. i also think gabriel was brought back to life (by chuck) later on, when someone (chuck) decided he could be interesting again (and was subsequently killed when it was deemed that he would make the story too boring). i think gabriel remembers both being killed and surviving to be tortured. and i think he can’t tell which story is the truth

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