I probably would have missed the day ANYWAY, but while the blog runner HAS been running continuously in spite of no public updates, it's been reset YET AGAIN thanks to my forgetfulness.
ARG, I MISSED A DAY!
I probably would have missed the day ANYWAY, but while the blog runner HAS been running continuously in spite of no public updates, it's been reset YET AGAIN thanks to my forgetfulness.
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I'M WORKING ON IT, I SWEAR, I JUST HAVE HAD A LOT OF STUFF TO DO LATELY.
SO close, still not to releasing things, yet.
Sorry. Ahg, stuff happened, mind not working, too tired to type stuff, sorry.
So I mentioned before a new story idea, right? (Uh...given by the fact that said story was made in a blog post during my down time, and that when you actually see me upload this blog, it'll be over two weeks...you may have to go back into the archives to find it. Consequences of procrastination.) You know, the comic idea, Seraphim, featuring angels and reapers? That one?
Well...today, I wanted to expand on the hierarchy of the afterlife. At the top, you have God. God is an entity which, loosely speaking, is every soul in existence while simultaneously separated from them all. (God transcends space and time.) As such, God has no gender. However, being formless, God can take any form expected. Now, in the modern world, most people refer to God as a 'Him'. Thus, most of the time, when God takes form, it's as a He. (Frequently an old guy with a beard at that.) God subtly will give hints and suggestions to help people, and as much as possible, will shine favorably on them, but ultimately, God is not able to defy the lows He made, only bend them, so He cannot stop all misfortune from happening. Rather...he can, but it'd ONLY be possible by SEVERELY tampering with free will, and God is the ultimate avatar of two things, interconnected: Love, and Free Will. Thus, he will not intervene. He's extremely hands-off: while he'll offer hints to better people's lives, it's up to them to correctly interpret them, AND up to them to actually act. ...That said, God will occasionally take avatar form as a human usually, to get the 'in the moment' feel of humanity. However, said avatars are not proper reincarnations of God, as portrayed of what Jesus is in the Bible. (If asked whether Jesus was a reincarnation, he'll give a literal Shrug Of God.) His mostly hands-off policy leaves the work to his underlings unless absolutely necessary. (Thusfar, there has only been once in history requiring His intervention.) Under God is Lucifer, the Great Reaper. He rules over Hell, but is actually one of only two willing residents. (The other is Lilith, his secretary.) This might seem unusual, but he is THE most pious, loyal, devoted, holy forces of God, His most-trusted servant. This is because, again, God is all-loving. Lucifer was His first angel, and once Lucifer recovered from his insanity, his regret gave him a deep-seated need for atonement. Having long-since been forgiven, he now serves as a warden (basically an officer of the heavenly law), overseeing Hell, the jail for souls. Lucifer has two subordinates: Lilith, first wife of Adam, sees herself as Lucifer's little sister. She is fiercely loyal to him as a result, having a strong bond. As a willing resident of Hell, she can leave at will, mainly on visiting trips to see her other 'sister', Eve, but she primarily stays, as a head secretary tackling the various paperwork in Hell. Being a pure entity of extreme age, she is Michael's equal, albeit a noncombatant. Michael, former archangel, also considers himself Lucifer's younger sibling, albeit for different reasons. (Lilith for mortal time, Michael for immortal time.) He is the ultimate champion of 'Good', thus, he interferes in free will too much to be an angel, because part of free will is the choice, the option, to do bad. As such, he's a rebel to God, but affectionately so: they both want the same thing; Michael is just a believer in being active rather than passive. As God's former champion, he's the one who snapped Lucifer from his insanity. Currently, he oversees all reapers. On Heaven's side, equivalent to Lilith, we have Eve, second wife of Adam. She's the lead secretary (there are many others) of Heaven, overseeing paperwork. Like Lilith, she is equal to Gabrielle in power, but is a noncombatant. Gabrielle, AKA Gabby, is Michael's equivalent. (Gabby considers herself a sibling of Michael, currently a sister, and by extent, Lucifer, too, but is estranged from Luke. Mike, not so much; she actively interacts with him constantly.) Following God's will to the letter, she is His latest champion. As such, she is equivalently the strongest angel, by both age and her actions. You might have noticed Adam was mentioned--there's a complicated story behind him which only seven entities know the entirety of: Lilith, Eve, Lucifer, Mike was told by Lucifer, Gabby was told by Mike, Adam, and God Himself. Basically, Adam was not the first man. (If anyone has that honor, it would probably be Lucifer.) However, Adam is the oldest man that every currently-living human being is descended from, and God knew this was his destiny. Adam was not monogamous, having several consorts and, eventually, three wives. Lucifer was sent to protect him, but Lucifer fell in love with Eve. Jealous of Adam, Lucifer tried to draw Adam away from Eve by manifesting as Lucy for the first time. However, ultimately, she ended up legitimately loving Adam, and became his third wife. This level of interference, as you might have gleaned, is a blatant violation of angel duties, and the conflict is what drove Lucifer insane in the first place: the divide between Lucifer's duty and Lucifer's feelings drove Lucifer insane. This is where sin originates from. For clarity, Adam was most certainly not in a garden of Eden. There were other humans around. Death, disease, even war existed back then. But it was all in the name of survival and furthering your genes: if two brothers both loved one particular woman, it wouldn't have been considered a sin for one brother to kill the other. It'd be considered survival of the fittest, natural selection. ...But with Lucifer's insanity came crimes that had no basis in survival; they were done out of madness, and humanity became corrupted as a result of Lucifer's derangement, for which, Lucifer eternally feels shame...within reason. Lilith was deeply hurt at the time, but forgave him, and so too did Eve. They have told him multiple times to forgive himself, so reluctantly, he's capable of putting it aside for their sake, but he still remembers his crimes vividly. Today's excuse of the day for why I haven't posted my blog is...umpteenth verse, same as the first! My internet is mysteriously down. Super-mysteriously, given cable works. (Though not phone.)
Welp. I used some of the time for playing Chrono Trigger some more (still trying to get those power tabs: I need ~68 to max out Lucca and some additional 80 or so for Nadia), making some decent discoveries for farming places. (Mainly, the elevator at the end--there's a slight risk of death involved, but thusfar, I've found that Ayla can generally steal two MegaElixirs safely. Them being basically the ultimate godsend items-wise, and it taking only one to fill my characters back to full, it's a very nice spot. It's obvious luck of the draw for actually ENCOUNTERING them, but given fighting Cybots is a joke and Goons with my current combo are harmless enough, it works!) I'm going to see what else I can do before I go to bed. It'll be difficult to work on Red Hood Rider notes, but I suppose I can. Maybe I can novel more, since I don't want to stop. (Only problem is, now I've encountered a section that requires referencing back a previous section for consistency, and that's just...uhg, going to be painful.) Then, there's the possibility of me actually DRAWING for Red Hood Rider, something I desperately need to start if I want to make a January release date. I dunno, but I'll think of something. Like I said, this is too soon to go to bed, so I have to find something to do, I'm all gamed out for the night, so I can't waste it even if I wanted to, all I can do is...find something productive to spend time on. So time for the excuse blog of the day on why I haven't updated my blog!
In this case, I did some organization of the stuff in my room, digging through a lot of various things piled up over three or so years. (Give or take, anyway.) I found a LOT of stuff, actually. Some of it not terrible! So I figured I'd put the stuff in order, spent some time sorting it, and I like what I've done. Now I just need to upload it. I know, yesterday, I said I was almost there. And as of tomorrow, it'll be two weeks of no blogging.
But I AM almost there, just need to get a little more. It's just that right now, I'm in last-minute crunch mode for NaNoWriMo (I need a little bit more to reach 50,000), and then I have an idea in mind. Probably a hilariously bad one for publishing purposes, but worst case scenario, I can always take it down. Basically, I want to publish my novel one page at a time...as a light novel. You know, those things that have images every once and a while, but are mostly text? One of those, yeah. I think that the idea would be great, allowing me to get my work out into the world and show some nice setting details and such. With luck, I might even get some feedback and commentary for free. So while I could be shooting my publishing chances in the foot, it's a risk I want to take...as soon as I finish my crunch mode. I know, I know! My blog's STILL not up! But I'm close, honest! Just need today to finish what I started yesterday. In the mean time, let me talk to you about a story idea I had, probably a webcomic. It, as a result, will likely never see the light of day, making a blog about it all the more important.
Basically, it's another series touching upon relations to the soul--as such, you can expect my typical barrage: God is real, so are heaven and hell, yet neither is permanent; souls can reincarnate. Souls are destined for one or three places on death: immediate reincarnation, heaven, or hell. Enforcing this? Collectively known as Seraphim (the probable title of the webcomic), Angels (souls volunteering from heaven) and Reapers (souls serving a punishment in community service to avoid hell). You'll note that vital detail: Yes, angels and reapers, beings of small-god-like power, were once human. That's because human souls are one of the most powerful forces in existence. Sometimes, they need help, or to be forced, to where they need to go. Since they sometimes fight back, angels and reapers work in pairs of two. (It also is a buddy system: if your partner goes rogue, you're right there to stop them.) There's more to souls than that, of course. Souls, when reincarnating, stay basically the same person--in fact, any soul in heaven remembers all of its past selves. (Souls are genderless; as a result, angels and reapers can choose what type of human form to take.) However, it is possible to 'kill' a soul. Mainly, this is what happens to angels/reapers killed in the field by angels/reapers that have gone insane, though it can have other causes. A killed soul loses all past selves and their present self, being forcefully reincarnated as a new person. Now, about angels: they volunteer, having the ability to travel between worlds at will. Their boss is Gabby, the currently-female archangel Gabriel(le). They're not supposed to interfer with humanity unless God orders them to give guidance. They use flaming swords of simmering light, wings to fly, and are garbed in white (when not in civilian clothing) with gold accents. Luke (who often changes to Lucy) was the first angel, and he went insane. 40% of angels rebelled with him. After half the angel population was dead, his insanity was cured, but he insisted on atonement, becoming The Great Reaper, first of his kind. The surviving fallen angels became the first generation of reapers. Fallen angels are indistinguishable from other reapers, except they keep their (now blackened, bloody) sword; reapers that are born as reapers are issued a scythe instead. Their current boss is Mike--yes, as in, former-archangel Michael. Think of him as like Oma from Stargate SG-1: He fell not because of insanity like his 'big brother', Luke, but rather, because he keeps breaking the same rule: he likes to interfere in human lives to make them better, which is a violation of allowing truly free will. So while he means well, he is breaking a rule, thus, reaper, not angel. If you're wondering about reapers: they serve sentences, roaming the earth, stuck in mortal form. They don't age (souls are ageless), and don't require food or drink...but they do get hungry/thirsty. Meaning, they'll eat anyway. They go incorporeal to deal with souls, but are otherwise in a human body full-time. They can fly like an angel, but use a black tattered cloak/robe covering their entire body, hovering as their mode of flight. I know, I'm getting close to two weeks, now. But I'm almost there. I just need the time tomorrow will give me and I'm there. So close.
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