[Gabriel falls into step beside him and sticks his hands in his pockets.]
Humans always say "once upon a time". I mean how can there be "a time"? Time is relative to human experience. I don't experience time the way humans do. Them starting stories like that has always confused me. My story starts with In the beginning.
[He stares at head.] In the beginning there were a bunch of people all united in one goal - helping the family matriarch build a business enterprise that would last for eternity. Not just business. We joined in making things because she had made us.
[His voice softens.] And there were a lot of us. I know you're thinking. Humans talk about the fall from heaven and either feel empathy, sympathize with him, or just don't believe it happened.
[He sighs.] It did. For millennia I've been asking myself why Lucifer did what he did and it was free will that did it to him. A good man, led astray.
[This is...false. It has no respect for what Lucifer did, but Gabriel was young and stupid and genuinely hurt about why anyone would want to leave her. He'd taken others too. His friends and compatriots and loved ones and his purple eyes flash angrily before he calms himself.]
So he had free will and it turned him away and with him he turned others away. It can be seen as a lesson to all of you that to stray from the path will make you lose everything that matters to you. Unfortunately however, each of you have free will which means you must chose a path of suffering or of righteousness.
[he paused] Don't mistake me, the two can be a part of the same path. Suffering makes someone righteous but ultimately you must chose if you want to be responsible for them, or take care of yourself.
That's...the downside to free will. People are going to chose their own path.
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Humans always say "once upon a time". I mean how can there be "a time"? Time is relative to human experience. I don't experience time the way humans do. Them starting stories like that has always confused me. My story starts with In the beginning.
[He stares at head.] In the beginning there were a bunch of people all united in one goal - helping the family matriarch build a business enterprise that would last for eternity. Not just business. We joined in making things because she had made us.
[His voice softens.] And there were a lot of us. I know you're thinking. Humans talk about the fall from heaven and either feel empathy, sympathize with him, or just don't believe it happened.
[He sighs.] It did. For millennia I've been asking myself why Lucifer did what he did and it was free will that did it to him. A good man, led astray.
[This is...false. It has no respect for what Lucifer did, but Gabriel was young and stupid and genuinely hurt about why anyone would want to leave her. He'd taken others too. His friends and compatriots and loved ones and his purple eyes flash angrily before he calms himself.]
So he had free will and it turned him away and with him he turned others away. It can be seen as a lesson to all of you that to stray from the path will make you lose everything that matters to you. Unfortunately however, each of you have free will which means you must chose a path of suffering or of righteousness.
[he paused] Don't mistake me, the two can be a part of the same path. Suffering makes someone righteous but ultimately you must chose if you want to be responsible for them, or take care of yourself.
That's...the downside to free will. People are going to chose their own path.