How would you portray angels or celestial beings in general as evil or morally ambiguous?

How would you portray angels or celestial beings in general as evil or morally ambiguous?

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Callous disregard for mortal lives.

Shin Megami Tensei style

Make them anything that isn't an "angel".
It's just dumb humans mistaking aliens, wizards or science for their own divine thing.

Angels are servants and messengers of the divine. Some (or all, if you want to be edgy) divine beings aren't exactly Good.

Make them like cosmic robots or automatons. They crush anything that goes against their prime directive, without malice or remorse; simply because it stands in the way.

Make them follow their religion to the letter and add some edgy elements to it.
e.g. death penalty for killing no matter how small, etc.
>A child steals a candy
>Gets killed by an angel

they have no free will and are basically sociopaths
they dont know what evil is thus they cannot commit it?
insect mentality: kill demons, those "tainted" by evil, and complete disregard for all other life

Sauce on the image?

Dogmatic adherence to a religion that's values & tenants are far removed from modern day notions of morality.

Think Taliban, with super powers.

Are they bullying him? Because it looks like they're bullying him

It's simple really. Anyone who does not abide by the word of god is wanting. The only luxury you are afforded is the chance to repent. Sinners are to be punished justly.

The faithful will naturally desire to be free of the self, to sing forever in the celestial choir the praises of the god who has liberated them from the weakness and frailty of morality.

Those who desire and desire to maintain the ruinous thing called "The self" are to be cleansed justly and thus we war with demons who are the embodiment of desire and self made form.

>Taliban
>Post picture of Osama Bin Laden

I think what is most important is portraying them as being "off" from normal people. Even if they are doing unambiguous good, something about it should make you a little uneasy. An angel rescues a child from a burning building and your impulse is not to thank it but wonder what is going through its mind.

Angels live with Purpose above all else. Each and every one of them having a driving function as automatic and important to their continued existence as a beating heart is to a mortal man.

>There are kids now who weren't even around for 9/11.

Yes, you idiot. That's why the US attacked Afghanistan; they were harboring him.

>Taliban
>Osama Bin Laden

AQ and the Taliban were working together closely during the Invasion and Occupation of Afghanistan.

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Angels are beings of Law and Order in its purest sense.
Such is their devotion to this concept that all who do not share their views or worship whatever Deity (or Deities, as the case may be) they serve are viewed as worthless infidels that must be annihilated down to the last man, woman, and child.

>he still believes in what us government says

How're those wmds that you manage to find in Iraq doing?

What about this picture turns me on?
What is that devil writing?
What is the source of this one-off image?

Well, it's two naked women threatening and bullying a visibly beat up and chained down equally-naked dude. There's plenty of things for a pervert to gravitate towards there, take your pick.

>"Having a bad day? Well go fuck yourself, your existence disrupts the cosmic balance, faggot, get fucked. Oh, and this city helps the disruption just by existing, so fuck it too."

go old testament on their asses.
>Angels carry out AGGRESSIVE evangelism
>people turned to salt
>firstborns taken
>SCORCHED EARTH MOTHERFUCKER

Possibilities:
* Just flat out evil. They may be from an exalted race, but they are evil people.
* Horrifyingly Dogmatic. Adhering to the letter of the rules when rather than the spirit.
* Alien moral code.

Tracked it down. nyoxion.deviantart.com/art/deadline-is-coming-

A couple possibilities left out is a supernatural/fantasy element or a dissonance between one's appearance and one's nature.

nyoxion.deviantart.com/art/deadline-is-coming-331022512
Didn't post the full link, sorry about that.

Perhaps even before Avacyn was slain, the angel Emeria became their/her master.

Just use the way the are portrayed in the bible. What was "good" when that fanfic was written is an unrepentant tyranical Evil by modern standards

are they daijobu?

Your post reeks of semen and angst but is mostly correct.

You mean right now or in the picture?
Pretty sure she was killed by Thalia (possessed by a benevolent ghost) and Brisela's sister Sigarda.

In the picture? Yeah, she's feeling great! Just look at those stats!

In fact, she was feeling so good, she tried to get Sigarda to join her. Sigarda said "no".

magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/saint-traft-and-flight-nightmares-2016-07-13

On second thought, I'm not sure about her mental health. M:tG doesn't have a SAN stat.

Sigarda said no, Brisela replied 'that's the spirit!' and did it anyway.

Based Thalia, saving the day.

Well, other than the Modron approach that other posters have suggested, it could be a matter of scale. The celestials are trying to ensure that "Good" triumphs over "Evil" in a trillion years time at the end of the universe. Whether a few million messy humans live or die won't really have much baring on that.

"I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is."

Oh look it's another "Good" is evil thread. Wonderful.

They kill demons and people who help demons. They'll take the help of humans, but will not tolerate any deviance from their strict religious creed. Their goal is to save creation from being overrun by hell on earth, no matter how many humans have to die to make it happen.

Angels cannot be evil, they don't have morals or free will, they have directives and don't comprehend anything they are not meant to comprehend.
They didn't eat the fruit, we did, they don't know of good an evil, they don't know death, fear, shame, pain.

From a human perspective their emotionless devotion to the holy directive may seem evil, because humans are selfish faggots who think anything that don't benefit them personally is evil, but angels are literally incapable of doing wrong.

This honestly.

Angels are actually evil as a concept is played out

But if you must, portray the difference between them as EXTEME LAW and EXTREME ANARCHY

Angels represent law. Old fucking testament law. And the only thing keeping them from burning you into piles of ash and pillars of salt is the mercy of God holding them in check. Legions of zealous servitors who not only love God but adore him and every time you step out of line and disobey him they want to fucking kill you. And the only thing preventing this is God continuously holding them back from unleashing holy omnicide upon creation

Or do the Diablo thing I guess. Where angels are good guys, but earth is just one of many realms they watch over and frankly more trouble than it's worth

Both Heaven and Hell are alien planes that use people of mortal realm as soldiers to settle their long war, and actually don't give half a fuck about them (with a few exceptions); it started because both factions claimed the other had shit taste in everything.

Revelation happens. The rapture happens

You are not one of the saved

Prepare your fucking anus

youtu.be/Ivlq8ndqVuo

Make them more concerned about their battle against demons than with human life like in Diablo.

See: Sorin Markov, Ugin, Galactus, The Watcher

The will of the gods they serve must be followed to the absolute.

That means a complete disregard for the happiness, well-being, and life of mortals if it conflicts with gods.

Also, they exist in their purest form, however horrifying it may be. As they have no regard for the sensibilities of mortals.

You may like a Pantheocide book. It have very biblical close to actual legends Angels tha are complete dicks to humand (and demons, but who cares, humans curbstomped them by that point) while believing themselves to be paragons of righteousnes.

Isn't this the purpose of Archons in the white slice of the pie?

They don't follow the same values as we do

If killing 1000 humans would mean saving 1001 thirty years later they would gladly do this