Fallen: So Bad the Cover Face-Palms
Long ago there was an angel. The most sublime of his kind. So much so that he was sometimes called Morning Star. Despite his standing, he was still, of course, considered inferior to the one that created him. This angel decided that it was "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven" and managed to turn fellow angels against the very being they
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No one seems to fucking know what the fuck an angel is.
They're not cute fucking winged things, they're scary motherfuckers with dozens of eyes and thousands of wings and flaming swords whose job it is to generally fuck something's day. Maybe it's your day, maybe it's a demon's day, but someone's day is getting fucked.
Moreover, angel's don't even possess free will, and I can quote the Talmud on that one. Then again, Christianity has righteously fucked up the concept of angels to begin with. You want to hear a good one? According to Judaism, Satan isn't even a fallen angel. He's the malevolent Angel of Death, who's job it is to fuck up people's day to test them to see if they're good enough for God (See Job, especially that whole beginning part where Satan has to ask God for permission before he can take a chainsaw to Job's life.)
Even better? The epithet "Morning Star" is used exactly twice in the bible. Once in Isaiah, once in Revelations. In Isaiah the person being called "Morning Star" is the Babylonian King Nebucchannezzer II. In revelations, it's a reference to Jesus. Yeah, Lucifer's really Satan guise, good one there.
For me, all you have to do is start a book where angels are these sympathetic disobeyers of a questionably moraled God and I'm already convinced that you can't fuck up your story more. Fallen has proven that wrong though, since there's a nice added dash of female self loathing and general wankery.
Fuck this shit, me and angel ya fiction are professionally done with each other.
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