I was working on something about fallen angels being exiled to the mortal world and immediately drowning in all the little details of being alive, which could have had an existential tone, except that I had the thought “and one of them is breathtakingly horny about it” so now it’s a comedy
the problem wasn’t that they did anything wrong, but that too much contact with humans erodes an angel’s objectivity. they were all record keepers, which has gotten more and more complicated the more humans there are, meaning they were spending ALL their time working and basically burnt out. they started developing personalities and nope, enough of that, out you go
their personalities as angels were barely more than quirks in old machinery, but those little hints of individuality IMMEDIATELY exploded into being people the moment they became mortal.
The horny one kept records of every instance of humans killing each other, and worked closely with the angel who kept records of the motives— they consider themselves siblings once they’re put into a human context. They call each other Motive and Murder for a while, until Murder decides “Cain” fits. Motive solemnly refuses to go by Abel because you are not bringing that energy into our relationship oh idiot brother of mine and eventually everyone just starts calling them Mo.
Cain is so used to cataloguing pain that the discovery that you can be just as creative with pleasure blew his damn mind, his big thing is sex but he’s also into incredibly indulgent food, massage, and scented oils. He’s got a weird relationship with music because the music HE thinks is pleasurable is a little. unexpected.
Mo, on the complete opposite of the scale, absolutely HATES this mortal shit. They aren’t supposed to be a living thing, why the hell would they play at reproduction?? No, Cain, I don’t care if it feels good, that isn’t the point—
“the one who is determined to use every nerve ending in pursuit of pleasure” and “the one who is thoroughly horrified by the fact they have saliva and blood, never mind that they need to use the bathroom now, who authorized bodies to be LIKE THIS” being siblings is going to be a riot, the rest of the angels are going to be done with them by like week 2
I put it in a separate post but for the sake of organization:
—the angels are mostly human now and don’t really have much by way of special powers
—they DO have imprints of their original bodies, though, which are sometimes barely noticeable and sometimes VERY noticeable
—said original bodies are much closer to ‘totally incomprehensible do not be afraid’ monstrosities rather than ‘pretty guy with wings’
—Cain’s imprint is bands and loops of color ‘tattooed’ onto his limbs and especially his hands, which are fine as flat designs but would be physically impossible in three dimensions
—Mo has six eyes, two normal ones on their face and then 2 sets down their throat. they wear a scarf in public.
pleaseletthisjimbetaken