Diana, sometimes called the Devil, was a tier 1 Angel in sector 666 of Heaven. Her job was to be a servant to a family of humans; to cook their food, mend or make their clothes, cleaned, or care for the small children when the other adults were busy. But the family much preferred to do these things themselves, giving Diana a lot of free time. The family loved her, and would teach her to do human things like singing, dancing, making art, playing games, and she even ate with them. She adored them. The other angels never showed her such love and kindness.
Sometimes, a Cherubim would come to the home to inform the family that someone in their lineage has died, but did not earn their place in the kingdom of Heaven. Back then, the souls were simply destroyed. The entire being permanently erased for their mistakes. Diana watched the family mourn, just as heartbroken as they were. One day, around 3000 B.C.E., the grief turned to rage, and she gathered other Angels of her tier to convince them that God was wrong, that humans deserved forgiveness. Thrones witnessing this dissent reported her to Cherubims, and she was arrested and tried before God as an insurgent.
She had the opportunity to apologize and plead for forgiveness, but she refused. She called God a tyrant before millions of other angels, who believed themselves to be incapable of such sin and insurrection. As punishment, God created a new plain between Earth and Heaven: Hell, a place of endless scorching dirt under a blinding sun. Sinners would no longer be destroyed, but instead cast into Hell where Diana was now forced to torture them for all eternity. God sent her there without supervision, and if, upon returning in 5000 years, she did not create the cesspool of suffering It desired, she would be destroyed like the sinners of old. This was her chance to redeem herself in the eyes of the Lord. Of course, she refused.
Angels were created by God pulling out a piece of Itself and forming it into a body. Death was not an angel. Instead, Death was created by pulling a random human skeleton from the Earth and imbuing it with some of God's power. In a practical sense, physically human. As such, the angels of humans treated him like they would a human they didn't have to serve. He was shunned, ignored, and feared. While some humans would blame him for their own demise, most saw him as a kind-hearted guide, gently taking their hands and wiping their eyes as he led them into the light.
Only very ancient humanss were actually taken to Heaven by Death's hand. After a certain point, the population had grown too high, and simply too many humans were dying a day for Death to keep up. Humans were then brought automatically, and Death was allowed to live in the kingdom of Heaven as reward for his dutiful work. It was there that he witnessed the Trial of Diana. He, too, loved the humans like she did, seeing them as his fellow kind, and her words stuck with him for years. God had never removed Death's ability to travel between the plains of Its universe, and Death followed Diana into Hell. By this time, he was never seen outside his home, and no one noticed his disappearance.
Diana was cursed when cast into Hell so that she could not use the powers she was born with as an Angel, even if the power remained within her. In Hell, she tore it from her body and planted it into the ground, where it grew into a great tree and became Magic. With the combination of Magic, and Death's angelic powers still available to him, they were able to create a child together, and named her Edith. Edith is the in-between of an Angel and Human. Some of her body is made up of cells and chemicals, and some of it his made of up of the holy material of God.
She was raised to have the same love for humans as her parents, although it didn't quite work out the way they intended. While she doesn't hate them, she lacks an understanding of their Earthly suffering and the grief that comes with death. To her, none of it matters, dying is basically just travelling from one place to another. As such, she is often reckless when she travels to Earth, which she does often so she can report back information to her mother.
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