Voicetesting the Good Son and looking at a game....

[nofreewill]

Don't patronize me. Are you truly foolish enough to believe that I will bow down to an unimportant little life? You are not He who gives me orders. I seek no pity from someone like you.

[Ignoring]

I've lived for aeons, and I'll live for aeons more past your decayed body. You have no means of controlling me.

[If only it were true, Michael.]

I urge you to reconsider your foolish plan. A world that has already suffered the apocalypse has no need of me. [Most especially when it's not even Lucifer's fault.] There is simply no point in bringing me there. What is the use of such fruitless endeavor when archangels such as myself need nothing else to survive?

You are bitterly mistaken if you believe that I shall follow you in hopes of seeing my darling little brother. He seems content taunting his vessel, or so it seems. Either way, he's a monster.

More importantly, I'll be forced to use John's body, instead of my true vessel. Useless I tell you. Now go on with your original plan and bring my vessel there and forget about toying with powers that are far beyond your reach.

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[servingmichael]

They don't listen.

[ Just saying Brother. ]

At best they ignore you.

[nofreewill]

It seems like it.

[He takes a deep breath. Receiving orders feels so new.]

I'd rather the human ignore me, but it seems unlikely.

[servingmichael]

I managed to be ignore for several months but otherwise. But I still ended up in one of those games for some time.

[ Where he watched the Leviathans murder Michael. ]

And then another after that.

There are worse places than this.

[nofreewill]

I would be blessed if I had such a luxury. But this human seems to be intent to bring me in as soon as possible.

[Hopefully, he won't have to suffer through that.]

I take it nothing gets better through time?

[servingmichael]

Mine is luckily distracted with new 'muses' so he hasn't much interest in putting me in a game.

[ Give me three archangels and the right game and I WILL Raphael. ]

Generally not. They tend to get creative when they meet others. But it might not be all a trial.

[nofreewill]

I'd wish a similar distraction for mine. But it would prove fruitless as there are almost a dozen other active ones at the moment. I don't even understand where any of this is going.

[As if that has ever stopped me.

Too bad that Gabriel has recently departed, else, Raphael may suddenly find himself in a game with all four of them.]

Creative? How? Should I even hear the answer?

[servingmichael]

They often don't understand where any of this is going.

[ Very lucky, though there are other factors I look for too. ]

I once ended up, due to an "event", looking like a toddler-ish cherub humans are of found of drawing, littering everywhere with glitter and confetti. Another time, I watched the Leviathans kill a version of you. Still another, Gabriel and I witness God's death. Another I was turned into a human.

[nofreewill]

Yet they do not cease their futile attempts. How worthless.

[See how his emotionless face is showing a hint of both disgust and disdain?]

And you were powerless in all this ill displays? I doubt they could even understand the concept of a cherub.

[servingmichael]

Seeking to control what they cannot. More useless than worthless. It would be sad if it didn't cause us grief.

[ Raphael actually likes humans, at least in theory. ]

Mostly. Or at least not powerful enough to prevent them. Though his point with that one was that they weren't like our cherubs. To make me into something 'other'.

[nofreewill]

You gotta hand it to them. They're getting creative. In the end, it's all just a futile attempt to make them believe they have actual power over anything.

[Michael loves them too, but he's a firm believer of destiny and how nothing could ever stop it.]

Still. I could only imagine your grief on the matter.

[servingmichael]

Yes it is. But some of them seem to know that.

[ Raphael, meanwhile, felt they were the agents of destiny - it didn't apply to them. ]

I'm not sure you can.