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This isn’t part of the AU but after reading your post about Michael ,what are your honest thoughts of people hating on Raphael and them thinking he is also “evil” or “bad”?
I think Raphael's reputation is far more deserved than Michael's. We've seen countless examples of evidence of Raphael being blatantly abusive, both physically and verbally. I'll be honest, from everything we heard in Season 3, I hated Raphael's guts before he ever showed up on screen.
That said, in Obey Me it's never that simple. For example, Lucifer is the same way. The two both engage in very toxic and inexcusable behavior. I think it's a little hypocritical how people will overlook Lucifer's misdeeds while condemning Raphael's. Though, this may very well be because we've had a lot more time to familiarize ourselves with Lucifer's "good" aspects, while Raphael is a fairly new character who we really only know from his worst aspects right now. With Lucifer, we've seen a lot of WHY he is the way he is, we've seen how much he loves his brothers and we've seen a much more tender side to him, we've seen what he's really trying to do even if he's going about it all wrong, and we've seen him trying to improve. We haven't seen this with Raphael yet.
I think people are making fair judgements based on what we know so far, and I think Raphael is FAR from a good person, but I also think Raphael will end up being a lot more complicated than we're giving him credit for and I look forward to the character development he'll get in the ongoing season.
Okay I wanted to talk about this, not in the context of my AU for once but just because I as admin of this account am really fascinated by Michael.
I agree with both these people; I don’t view Michael as evil.
I think a lot of people who view Michael as evil just haven’t put much thought into the logistics of the Great Celestial War. Which, is understandable. The story we’re told is that he cast his own brothers out of the Celestial Realm for daring to defend their sister Lilith whose only crime was killing a human. It obviously paints in him a bad light.
…but you have to remember, you’re only hearing the brothers’ side of the story here. If you really think about the war and its implications, things become a lot more complicated, a lot less black-and-white.
The most glaring of these things I want to get out there is: If Father was willing to kill Lilith simply for saving the life of a human, what do you think he would have done to the brothers as punishment for rebelling against him? The answer is: probably not pretty. It would not have been a quick or pleasant death for any of them. And if he was willing to kill Lilith for FAR less, I’m certain he would have killed Lucifer and his brothers too. And they might not even have to wait to be taken to Father to be executed; they could have died in the heat of battle. It’s heavily implied that Lilith’s death was due to her wounds from battle rather than her fall, so obviously the battle was as nasty as the wars we know in our world.
But of course, that was only IF the brothers lost. Theoretically, if they won the war, they wouldn’t have been executed. But really, what are the chances of them winning? Yes, I understand that all of them- especially Lucifer- were EXTREMELY powerful angels. But Father is implied to be God himself. It isn’t easy to take down a god. We may not know much about Father’s specific powers, but based on what we’ve heard about him, and what we’ve heard about his Devildom equivalents, he seems to be an extremely powerful individual who would be almost impossible to take down.
Case in point, if Father was that powerful, then if he were overthrown, imagine how much that would have upset the order of the Celestial Realm and the balance of the three realms. It’s revealed in the chat “Helldown Day 1″ and in The Ring plotline of season 3 that the balance of the three world’s magic is a very fragile, and very important, thing. If the Celestial Realm suddenly lost their main source of power, it could be disastrous. Not to mention leave a massive political power vacuum, and leave the Celestial Realm open to attacks from the other two realms. We don’t really know how far Lucifer and his brothers were willing to take the rebellion, but if they were willing to take it to the extreme of incapacitating and/or killing Father, that likely would have created disastrous consequences whether Father were a good person or not.
There’s also the fact that, in general, wars have casualties. Look at the Lilith example used above; if she was mortally wounded like that, I can only imagine countless angels were wounded or killed by the brothers in the midst of battle.
These circumstances would have all surrounded Michael for the duration of war. He’s watching his twin brother Lucifer march to near certain death. He’s leading his brothers to what could very well be their execution. And he not only has to worry about the fate of Lucifer and his brothers, but also the other angels of the Celestial Realm who were likely being injured or killed by the brothers in battle. He was watching the imminent doom of the people he loved, on ALL sides.
This is why I think Michael made his decision to cast the brothers down: to stop the war. To protect them. To end the bloodshed.
The brothers were not safe in the Celestial Realm. They would have likely died in battle or died at the hands of Father after the war ended. I think Michael wanted to save them from this fate. And the only way he could think of at the time was to cast them out of the Celestial Realm’s reach, down to the Devildom. And in doing this, not only would Lucifer and his siblings have the best chance of survival, but the constant bloodshed of everyone Michael loved fighting each other to the death would cease.
Michael’s decision was far from perfect, and clearly caused IMMENSE trauma for the brothers that is completely valid and won’t go away no matter what the intentions behind it were. They have every right to be angry with him. But I don’t think Michael is a bad person. I don’t think Michael cast down the brothers as a punishment, or even out of anger. I think it came from a place of desperation. I think he did it because he thought it was the best he could do for them at the time.
I honestly don’t like the people in the fandom who portrays Michael as a bad or evil person but I really did love how you portrayed him !!!
Thank you 🥰 I don't see Michael as evil. The man has good intentions and his actions are done through what he sees is best for either humanity or the celestial realm. He is an angel and is described in canon to be kind and compassionate.
However, just because he has good intentions, doesn't mean they'll be read as such by others. That was the case in You Called?