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#but now I'm thinking about how traumatic that would've been for Sera too
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NOT ME
WRITING A LUCIFER FIC
AND REALIZING THAT WHAT BOOTED HIM FROM HEAVEN WAS THE HEAVEN ELDERS/ANCIENTS
AND NOT HAVING INCLUDED THATIN THE FIC
WHO ARE THEY????????????
anyways don't mind me just compiling any references of them I can find and/or other sources and/or speculate just to have it all in one place
K so first explicit reference is in Overture during the exposition dump by Charlie. Not sure which EXPLICITLY are these guys so Imma just add/assume who I think
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This them? Are these the assholes?
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hmmmm okay either that WASN'T them and she was just talking about angels in general, OR Lucifer was ONE OF THEM, but I'm skeptical
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okay assuming these 6 guys are the elders, I heard the number 6 somewhere else too, but that's an unverified source. Okay so maybe he's just a really OLD angel but younger than the elders? Were they like his strict homophobic/fantasy forbidding family or whatever?
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Okay so that's clearly Sera and these silhouettes are different, so NOT the elders
Side note, why is Sera so BIG
anyways
that was episode 1... I don't think there's any mention of elders until Dad Beat Dad so let's go to there
Here they are
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6 of them again, and the silhouettes match much closer the ones where Charlie directly talks about them. They have 6 wings too tho, so I'm willing to go out on a limb they're all seraphim like Lucifer and Lucifer and Sera were just younger ones (personally headcanoning that Lucifer is even older than Sera, maybe she looked up to him?)
TIME TO GO THROUGH WELCOME TO HEAVEN FRAME BY FRAME AHHH
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okay the way Emily says that makes it sound like there are only two seraphim, herself and sera, and lucifer but he clearly doesn't count anymore. So then what are the elders? A different class of seraphim??? they got the 6 wings so what's going on???
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"The seraphim" as in a group. But Emily didn't know about the exterminations... IM SO CONFUSED
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Sera okayed the extermination, we know that much, but Emily didn't know about it. Do/did the elders know???
K looking at the court angels
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Sera and Emily are clearly the highest ranking, there are at least a handful of familiar silhouettes that could be seen in the exposition, so I'm guessing none of these are winners and are all OG angels
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are the mysterious elders the ones passing divine judgement?? nobody else is in the loop and they seem the type to withhold information
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oh REALLY mmm say like the opinions of 6 crusty old angles is being treated like law??
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me: -trying my hardest to dig up lore that I need/want for the fic- Hazbin hotel: teehee you don't know >:)
I did find confirmation that the rest of the court (not-seraphim) in fact did not know about the extermination, look at how equally horrified they are during "You didn't know"
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I'm scrounging for scraps in a dumpster I swear
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Sera IS the head Seraphim, which would make sense if it's just between her and Emily who's younger (and her job is just to keep everyone happy, which is very suiting for her) but it does imply a degree of separation between Emily/Sera levels of seraphim and whatever the elders are
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"Heaven" needs them to perform their roles... but Sera isn't the highest authority, cuz she's scared that maybe someone else would boot Emily from heaven just for asking questions. The elders are clearly ABOVE Sera if she can't do anything about their verdicts.
okay side note
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ohhohoho did Sera feel bad for Lucifer >:3c were they CLOSE? >:3c DID SHE DO NOTHING TO HELP HIM??? >:3c Is she ashamed? Is this why she just folds to preserve whatever the elders ordered? Is she scared of them?
Okay only other episode I can look at rn is the last one
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sooooooo yeah these two are the only Seraphim that aren't considered "elders" ugh okay things gathered from the episode:
Both Elders and Seraphim have 6 wings
as far as seraphim go, including Lucifer, there are only 3 total that we know of if not period and they are highest ranking but subordinate to the elders
the Elders hold absolute authority being the ones who very clearly and (implied) violently booted Lucifer out of heaven, Sera cannot override their decisions and fears Emily also being booted
They have very specific silhouettes and there are 6 of them
TIME TO SCROUNGE THE INTERNET
nope nevermind, the only thing I found from an actual source was Vivziepop saying in a stream, and I'm paraphrasing the wiki that links it "Information about heaven is being wrapped for later in the series" "It is very interesting" and Dave Capdevielle has a thing about heaven he finds interesting but won't talk about it cuz it's spoilers
In conclusion: RIP ME guess I'll just have to head canon my way through chapter 1 of my fic, ugh I have so much rewriting/adding to do
Chapter 1 is already like 10k words (the fic so far has 30k words and I'm pretty sure that amount is going to quadruple or quintuple by the time I'm done) UGH FINE LETS GO
On the bright side, this gives me MOAR ANGST OPPORTUNITIES? hmmm I might just tweak what I have tho and add some extra scenes? Major thinking needs to be done
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