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Elaine's origin synopsis and some glimpse to her family life.
Once upon a time there was a rebel seraphim known as Sandalphon. He was part of Lucifer's groupies who should have been bitch slapped by Michael's power during Lucifer's rebellion. Except he cheated. He waited until Michael was riding, smacking fallen angels like a Boss until he saw an opening. In that opening, he stabbed Michael's back with his spear...
Both, Sandalphon and Michael were never heard of again. It's unknown why nobody...investigated his disappearance in the Silver City. I can easily speculate that Gabriel, being a resentful jerkass upstart, would never conduct a research to what happened with him. Now was his moment to shine with Raphael's lack of backbone, Lucifer in Hell, Michael missing... until he met certain British chap known as John Constantine, but that's another story.
Besides God might have wanted this to happen.
Back to Sandalphon and Michael. The former was able to imprison the archangel by taking advantage of the greatest weakness Michael had: his compassion. He was too injured and to heal would require to die. Now his death-rebirth restoration process usually brings forth the Big Bang that would destroy the known Creation. So obviously, Michael didn't do it.
Sandalphon also had an obsession with angel babies. He wanted to wage war against Heaven by creating a new Host. But not any Host. He wanted one made up by all archangels. Problem is that they were sterile. The only one who remotely had any conception energy was Michael because he was the Demiurge.
Oops.
You know where this is going.
For millions of years, in his disgusting laboratory-pocket universe, Sandalphon stole the eggs of mortal women to create the perfect creature: an archangel that can breed. He fertilized life with Michael's Power and incubated it in the captive archangel. Likely because in his "womb", his corrosive omnipotence would peel away the humanity out the child. Tragically, all these children were born hybrid and monstrous; too human or sterile. None had the result he wanted. All but one, Cal the impaired helper, were cast and killed in a pit.
After four thousand generations, the child Sandalphon was looking for was finally born. One with perfectly functional ovaries: Three hundred ova and each of them would have been an archangel. That child was Elaine. Her siblings were called "murky rainbows" while she, according to Sandalphon, was like a "flawless diamond".
What a creeper.
Sandalphon gave the baby to an English family, the Bellocs, who raised and nurtured her with love (and never told her she wasn't their biological daughter). Elaine was always abnormal (and a catnip for anything supernatural of the area), but she was stubborn in trying to be as "normal" as possible. Of course, her life gave a turn after she finally met her uncle, Lucifer, at twelve. Eventually, she was reunited with her imprisoned father (using "father" loosely since Michael sired and birthed her) at the clutches of Sandalphon. Fortunately, Lucifer put the creeper on his place and took his niece and brother away with him. By then, Lucifer had saved her twice so Elaine regarded him as some kind of superhero and snubbed her father on his favor. After her discovery, she began to learn and embrace her powers (often referred as her "teenage archangel" phase).
That was the beginning. Elaine went into the mature Power that Be/Goddess/Archangel phase (this is her current canon point in Amat) for centuries after her return from the dead (Elaine had traded her life to save Lucifer's). Followed by her stint as Demiurge in Yahweh's Creation, replacing the late Michael, and God the Maker on her Own Cosmos for about eons (in her Creation). Finally, her complete journey to apotheosis and ascension to Yahweh's throne (this is her canon point in SP) to save His Creation and Lucifer's from obliteration.
Complicated? Here, let Michael and Lucifer give you a helpful hand. Others try and fail to describe what she is (or was before her ascension to Godhood destroyed what she was), Lucifer nailed it:
Think of Michael. Now add ovaries. Elaine Belloc in a nutshell.
One note about Michael, Lucifer and Elaine. While Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Duma and the rest of the Host are usually referred as brothers/sons in a ceremonial or emotional way, they aren't Yahweh's blood. Michael and Lucifer are His sons, both created everything as His intermediaries, including the other angels (Gabriel appears to be the first). The Host were created for them to have mirrors to grow and interact with. They couldn't have inherited His Throne because they seem to have not the "godly genes" (or whatever makes those two special) in their system. Elaine, being Michael's daughter, and unlike her dead siblings (again for some reason are not acknowledged as Michael's children or Yahweh's scions like Elaine is. Likely because unlike she, they are still part of the patrimony of Adam? Who knows. Cal was even alive and Michael didn't move a finger when Lucifer used him to bring back Elaine), had the same potential and birthright in theory. Originally, it wasn't her fate to reach apotheosis, Yahweh had planned for his sons to succeed him.
Their rejection of his Plan and her ascension came as a pleasant surprise to Him. The sweet randomness he was looking for and always eluded him. The reason why he walked out his Creation, left everything fall apart in order to not know some of the outcome.
Once upon a time there was a rebel seraphim known as Sandalphon. He was part of Lucifer's groupies who should have been bitch slapped by Michael's power during Lucifer's rebellion. Except he cheated. He waited until Michael was riding, smacking fallen angels like a Boss until he saw an opening. In that opening, he stabbed Michael's back with his spear...
Both, Sandalphon and Michael were never heard of again. It's unknown why nobody...investigated his disappearance in the Silver City. I can easily speculate that Gabriel, being a resentful jerkass upstart, would never conduct a research to what happened with him. Now was his moment to shine with Raphael's lack of backbone, Lucifer in Hell, Michael missing... until he met certain British chap known as John Constantine, but that's another story.
Besides God might have wanted this to happen.
Back to Sandalphon and Michael. The former was able to imprison the archangel by taking advantage of the greatest weakness Michael had: his compassion. He was too injured and to heal would require to die. Now his death-rebirth restoration process usually brings forth the Big Bang that would destroy the known Creation. So obviously, Michael didn't do it.
Sandalphon also had an obsession with angel babies. He wanted to wage war against Heaven by creating a new Host. But not any Host. He wanted one made up by all archangels. Problem is that they were sterile. The only one who remotely had any conception energy was Michael because he was the Demiurge.
Oops.
You know where this is going.
For millions of years, in his disgusting laboratory-pocket universe, Sandalphon stole the eggs of mortal women to create the perfect creature: an archangel that can breed. He fertilized life with Michael's Power and incubated it in the captive archangel. Likely because in his "womb", his corrosive omnipotence would peel away the humanity out the child. Tragically, all these children were born hybrid and monstrous; too human or sterile. None had the result he wanted. All but one, Cal the impaired helper, were cast and killed in a pit.
After four thousand generations, the child Sandalphon was looking for was finally born. One with perfectly functional ovaries: Three hundred ova and each of them would have been an archangel. That child was Elaine. Her siblings were called "murky rainbows" while she, according to Sandalphon, was like a "flawless diamond".
What a creeper.
Sandalphon gave the baby to an English family, the Bellocs, who raised and nurtured her with love (and never told her she wasn't their biological daughter). Elaine was always abnormal (and a catnip for anything supernatural of the area), but she was stubborn in trying to be as "normal" as possible. Of course, her life gave a turn after she finally met her uncle, Lucifer, at twelve. Eventually, she was reunited with her imprisoned father (using "father" loosely since Michael sired and birthed her) at the clutches of Sandalphon. Fortunately, Lucifer put the creeper on his place and took his niece and brother away with him. By then, Lucifer had saved her twice so Elaine regarded him as some kind of superhero and snubbed her father on his favor. After her discovery, she began to learn and embrace her powers (often referred as her "teenage archangel" phase).
That was the beginning. Elaine went into the mature Power that Be/Goddess/Archangel phase (this is her current canon point in Amat) for centuries after her return from the dead (Elaine had traded her life to save Lucifer's). Followed by her stint as Demiurge in Yahweh's Creation, replacing the late Michael, and God the Maker on her Own Cosmos for about eons (in her Creation). Finally, her complete journey to apotheosis and ascension to Yahweh's throne (this is her canon point in SP) to save His Creation and Lucifer's from obliteration.
Complicated? Here, let Michael and Lucifer give you a helpful hand. Others try and fail to describe what she is (or was before her ascension to Godhood destroyed what she was), Lucifer nailed it:
Think of Michael. Now add ovaries. Elaine Belloc in a nutshell.
One note about Michael, Lucifer and Elaine. While Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Duma and the rest of the Host are usually referred as brothers/sons in a ceremonial or emotional way, they aren't Yahweh's blood. Michael and Lucifer are His sons, both created everything as His intermediaries, including the other angels (Gabriel appears to be the first). The Host were created for them to have mirrors to grow and interact with. They couldn't have inherited His Throne because they seem to have not the "godly genes" (or whatever makes those two special) in their system. Elaine, being Michael's daughter, and unlike her dead siblings (again for some reason are not acknowledged as Michael's children or Yahweh's scions like Elaine is. Likely because unlike she, they are still part of the patrimony of Adam? Who knows. Cal was even alive and Michael didn't move a finger when Lucifer used him to bring back Elaine), had the same potential and birthright in theory. Originally, it wasn't her fate to reach apotheosis, Yahweh had planned for his sons to succeed him.
Their rejection of his Plan and her ascension came as a pleasant surprise to Him. The sweet randomness he was looking for and always eluded him. The reason why he walked out his Creation, left everything fall apart in order to not know some of the outcome.