What's your favorite angel/demon troupe?

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Angels or Demons?

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  1. IReadWhenBoredSoWhat

    IReadWhenBoredSoWhat Well-Known Member

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    I'm working on an angel and demon fluffy comedy and would appreciate a few more ideas. I've got the two MCs as a really old pair of retired generals who don't care about the war or the grudge between the races anymore with a slew of background characters who most certainly do.

    New note-
    Looking less for plot points and more for little filler things; pranks, background/side characters doing random things
     
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  2. pass1478

    pass1478 I'm in Despair!

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    Would be funny if the Demon general's the nice and gentle guy who became soft after years of bloodshed. While the Angel general's someone who swears and is is insensitive to others' opinion about him, tired of acting like a good person for years.

    Something like the Sun Knight and Moon Knight in "Legend of the sun knight."
     
  3. Amaruna Myu

    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    as long as its BL, I'll bite the bait
     
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  4. Westeller

    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    Sounds like that TV show. Good Omens.

    I like the TV show Lucifer's setup. God is as absent a father figure for the angels as he is the humans. Every once in awhile he'll have them do something for often totally unclear reasons, but for the most part he's completely silent, and leaves them to figure things out for themselves, work out their own problems, make their own decisions.. be their own people. Which is something Lucifer, the titular character, struggles with. He's always freaking out about perceived manipulation of his life by his father. ... Lucifer is still an angel in the show. He's not "evil", and he's not responsible for the actions of humanity. "The devil made me do it" is a statement that pisses him off to no end. He is the rebellious son, though. Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll life. Basically every sin in the book shy of murder. ... I also like that show's portrayal of Heaven and Hell as self-determined, at least in some ways. It's not without its flaws, but the idea that our own guilt determines where we end up - that we punish ourselves - is pretty neat.

    Supernatural has something sort of similar going on, though I'm a bit behind on that series now.
     
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    Nusan Well-Known Member

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    angel being like a catblobmelt_thumbs sleeping everywhere and anytime and demon more of parenting side (after war effect )
     
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    Maybe before they retired, they were the absolute, greatest symbol of a hero for their respective side. Each side adores their hero and roasts the other. They think the two hate each other. In fact they're bros, who for a while(centuries?) have been punch-clock enemies, routinely going for a drink together to bitch about their incompetent subordinates even while in the middle of the war.
    And now they're two bros chillaxing, enjoying trolling the masses.
     
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    Odyssey Well-Known Member

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    sounds like a Miss Angel and Miss Devil, the devil is this gentle innocent woman....and her angel lover is a kissing monster pervert
     
  8. Liyus

    Liyus Laksha's Desu~ Cat

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    Isn't there a manga with the same premise but in a school setting...but i forgot the name....
     
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    TypeFantasyHeart Well-Known Member

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    Demons are always moving around, angels just spectate, at least in most stories, wish there was an angel that would do something
     
  10. IReadWhenBoredSoWhat

    IReadWhenBoredSoWhat Well-Known Member

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    First of all, I love that author, second you might be thinking judgement knight as the moon knight was that poor fellow with a screwed neck if I remember right,
    Third, you gave me a wonderful idea you beautiful person you
     
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    IReadWhenBoredSoWhat Well-Known Member

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    You may be thinking of angel diary, which I need to go reread now for...reasons
     
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    IReadWhenBoredSoWhat Well-Known Member

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    Yes!! All the trolling! Though they'd never met before they retired, otherwise either one or both of them would have died before their forced retirement but they become fast friends and proceed to be instigators of chaos for everyone in their general area
     
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    Do they have grandkids? Like, I can see two old dudes passive-aggresively bitching about the other's grandkid in an attempt to make the other praise him/her and maybe try to broach the topic of setting them up. Like.
    'How's that bitch-punk brat of yours doing? He as much of a wuss as you at that age? MY grandkid's a badass though. Nothing like'em prissy angel wafflers.'
    You gonna put this on scribble hub?
     
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    IReadWhenBoredSoWhat Well-Known Member

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    Nope, none of their children lived very long, and yes -https://www.scribblehub.com/series/175252/angel-and-demon-two-generals-retirement/
    I may have forgotten to mention that only one is a dude, they probably will complain/brag about their children at a later date. Oh but they do have "adopted" kids!(adopted being used very loosely here) Well she does, and I could throw him one too... yes this will work nicely....hehehe
     
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    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/demon-king-hero/
    This novel has one of the best demon settings that I've seen.
    Among the 7 demon kings MC is the youngest and the weakest but he is also the most dreaded one.
    Demon King of Greed a.k.a Demon King of Economy who is in charge of finances in the demon realm. Nobody dares to offend him because he will cut your budget!
    Every demon king is in charge of some particular domain of demon realm. Like wrath is one of the strongest and is in charge of war affairs, but so what? What can you do with no money in war?
    MC is untouchable because he is protected by the demon god (overall leader of the realm) so it's impossible to threaten him physically.
     
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  16. FIEND

    FIEND i eat crayons

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    i like it when the angels are the bad guys, worse than demons in the stories
     
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    I like Milton's "Paradise Lost" it still feels more fresh than a lot of this kind of story even though it's slightly older than the other books in this thread. Admittedly it can be argued that most depictions of angels and demons are somewhat descended from this work.
     
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    Darius Drake A poster of verbose posts

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    Side Character Group: Independent Travelling Merchant group of Angels & Demons, selling "Angel Feathers" to Demons, and "Demon Scales" to Angels, and buying the waste product from the other race for a pittance. Has been secretly operating together even during the war for mutual profits, selling "war stories" for those who want to brag but don't have anything to show for their service. They wish to expand upon their business opportunities as their prior business model isn't as effective outside of wartime. Not long-term, at least. Oh, they also scavenged weapons from the battlefields and organised to sell the too-broken-to-use-without-practically-remaking-it ones to the opposing side (selling the overly-broken Demon Weapons to Angels, and visa versa).

    Member of a third racial group that was basically brutalized by the Angels & Demons war without trying to be involved selling icecreams & deserts who finds any threat, even in joke form, to the newly founded peace to be a direct attack on his people's homes, due to all the damage both warring races did.
     
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    IReadWhenBoredSoWhat Well-Known Member

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    A group of highly questionable merchants sounds fun, but it's mostly just a fluffy story so the execution would have to be rather...interesting...
     
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    Darius Drake A poster of verbose posts

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    I read what you've posted, as you linked the story and it sounded interesting. It's a light-hearted comedy starring a Psychotic Angel & a Demon who's Bored of Fighting, both of indeterminably high power levels. So no matter what supporting characters you add, so long as they are intended to directly interact with the main pair semi-regularly, they'd need to be "interesting". Having an Angel & Demon Merchant approach together (or accidentally simultaneously) in the hopes of managing to gain some financial benefit from one or both of them, only to be informed that their organisations "covert" dealings with the merchants on the other side were known and ignored by both Generals, and permitted because their organisation's movements gave both sides ancillary information on how the battles were progressing and whether or not they were about to win/lose those battles.

    As for their specific personalities, that's up to you. But it seems like you could have a LOT of fun with not only a few individuals, but a group that has "friendly" competition within itself in order to screw everyone else over monetarily.
     
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