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Keying a whole story on one of those screens is a heck of an effort. I get pissed off half way through a tweet. Amazing work if you manage it!

It was definitely something of a back and forth, as the joke “reenactment” suggested. There’s a bit of exposition in Part Four about how two members of the “cult” are working on controlling information, and that would have been a good place to talk about Caulfield’s “vacation.” However, if people are going to notice anyway, I figure it’s best to explain it somewhat earlier. Sorry, I may have given you the wrong impression there (and also messed up what book these guys come from). I wasn’t trying to say that the archangels in question were noncanonical, but rather that their mention in the Book of Enoch was. You are absolutely correct in saying that Michael and Gabriel are mentioned in the Bible. As for the seven archangels, I just discovered that those are from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, which is presumably what you were referencing (“I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who stand in the glorious presence of the Lord, ready to serve Him.” Tobit 12:15), with Michael, Gabriel and Raphael specifically being named. Pseudo-Dionysius, this time in the Corpus Areopagiticum, names all seven (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Camael, Jophiel and Zadkiel). My confusion came from the fact that I’m a Protestant (Lutheran, specifically), so I haven’t actually read Tobit. It’s deuterocanonical, which means it’s canon for Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, but not for the Protestant denominations; it’s literally not in our bibles. As I said, none of the angelic hierarchies are considered hard canon (I certainly never heard about it in church). It’s mostly just a neat idea from medieval Christianity that works for this story (I’ll explain when we get to Part Seven), so I put it in. Well, yes and no. Michael commands a force of angels, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s in command of everyone. “Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world – he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” Revelation 12:7-9 (English Standard Version) So Michael commands a force of angels, but not necessarily all of them. In addition, this is an aspect of the story that diverges from its biblical roots. Whore of Heaven mentions that Luzurial is the strongest of the host, except for angels who serve as direct vessels for the Creator’s power. Presumably Michael (and perhaps the other six archangels from Tobit) are vessels, far stronger than any other archangel and thus outside the normal ranking system.

AFF is mobile-friendly, but I would strongly recommend downloading a free app for word processing like Google Drive, to allow you to properly save your word. You can copy and paste from pretty much most word processing software into AFF’s Rich Text Editor, tweak the format a bit, and publish from a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. While you could write directly in the Rich Text Editor, it doesn’t have the ability to save your work, and if the program closes before you actually publish the story, it’s lost. For more information, you can try this FAQ: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/63417-how-to-upload-a-story/ (As an update, the recaptcha is no longer required, which makes it even simpler to post that story.)

It is Uriel that is not part of archangels in Catholics and the Ortodox tradition. The others are the three named archangels out of seven that is supposed to exist. I have heard Michael and Gabriel mentioned in protestant services even if most books that mentions these are not considered good for canon use. The reason I mentioned Masekat Atzilut is the angels you list as most alien is the upper level of angels in that source. The nine level of christian angels I think is most associated with Dante Alighieri today. All power to you if you want to use that in your story. Personally I would not call the angelic hierarchy to be very Christian...more like medieval beliefs than anything anyone consider today. Micheal that command the forces of heaven on the hand is something that is directly mentioned in the book of Revalation. Does not make sense if he a low level angel.. Go with what feels best for you to make a great story. One plot device you could keep in store is that Luzurial can maybe not shapeshift after loosing her wings. Actually using medieval style Seraphs in you story sound like a headache…imagine how unstoppable they will be...

Well, you’ve done well with the PTSD stuff, at least from my experiences with it. And heh, that’ll happen. The update to dialogue does make sense in the context, and it makes a lot more sense knowing it’s not supposed to last for even an overly long time, though I would have accepted a “You’ll find out next chapter”.

“When I put my band together can I get a picture of you for the logo and later an album cover? Also, is rude to do this while picturing you?” Kate makes the sign of the horns and headbangs. Edit: I meant to say! You don’t need to wait to be asked, you can use these forum threads to lay out any background info you want, some authors have done it and then put a link to the thread with extra info. It’s just story extracts that are limited to something like 10 lines. So, like, if you wanted to explain stuff like the thought you put into character names or whatever you can throw it all in here. S’up to you really.