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echofiends · 3y

I don't hear about Semil as often... What kind of relationship did he have with Vassa, and how'd he feel about her falling? Can you tell us his having dominion over earth?

I haven’t gotten the chance to work on Semil since his first draft! I think it’s because I was still in the stages of working out a rough idea for him.

Semil was very loving of Sitael before her fall. He encouraged her to seek humanity and to understand those he held dominion over. For him, he believed that understanding humanity could allow an Angel to be able to integrate among them. He supported the Watchers but..

The Nephilim incident caused an immense rift between him and the Watchers. Due to having dominion over earth, he is forced to follow the decisions of Metatron and the Sefirot. He must /always/ remain neutral. In an RP I’d done, Vassa had fragmented memories of when numerous watchers begged for her to reach out to Semil to try and convince Metatron otherwise for punishing them. He felt pained over the choice of her damnation. He allowed sway to have her memories fragmented of her time on earth instead of having her sent into the abyss when she was damned.

Holding dominion over the earth, he is privy to the history of events that unfold across the world from the other angels. He reports back to Metatron of any angels that stray off their course of fate. Sadly, it was by him that he reported the Nephilim incident. Remaining neutral meant he cannot intervene by the decisions of Metatron from his reports of events that unfolded by angels..

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