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[bloodysacrifice]

is mostly from Milton's Paradise Lost with filler from religious texts and demonology

LAST UPDATED: 12/31/2019


Names:
Moloch, Razorwings, Molech, Milcom, Malcam, Baal Hammon, Bosheth, Bronzed Minotaur, the Despairing, The Cannibal, Malach-bel, The Abomination, Horrid King

Symbolic alignments: Human sacrifice (particularly children), crying, war, cannibalism, torture devices (particularly the bronze bull that was heated from the outside), holy/unholy relics, war drums, funeral pyre, minotaurs, bronze statues of cattle, butcher and ritual knives, vampirism, purification tools, holy water, death masks

Angelic type: Archangel, Spirit of Human Sacrifice and Purification

Key Sins and Virtues: Wrath, Pride, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Justice, Courage, Faithless

Prayers: answers prayers for assistance with ritual sacrifice, sanctifying funeral pyres and rites, purification, those dying in war, victims of torture, people who have lost faith, the depressed, those who are reckless or feel they have nothing to lose, (Accused of assisting bullies and tyrants.

Personality:
Moloch is fearless and courageous because of despair and self loathing. He abandon all hope and angelic presence when he Fell from heaven. He can be cruel, hate-filled, mocking, and rarely sees anything or anyone worth his time. He does not make friends but does try, sometimes successfully, to force others into servitude. He can be arrogant and aloof. Internally, he is depressed, suicidal, feels worthless, carries contempt and hatred. In human terms, Moloch suffers from continuous Major Depressive Disorder with Suicidal Thoughts.

Appearance:
Moloch is 6 foot tall, pale skinned and black haired, though it shimmers with red in sunlight. His wings are black with silver blade-looking flight feathers trimmed in a thin edge of red. This gives his flight feathers the look of being bloody knives. The top joint of his wings are featherless and have three outward pointing claws. His eyes are golden with a red ring at the outer edge of the iris and the whites almost always appear as if some of the vessels have burst. Typically he is dressed in all black leather, though he sometimes wears black funeral shrouds.

Gender/sexuality: Masculine, but has little care for gender or sexuality.

Weapons and armor:
Moloch carries torture devices, ropes, and poisoned daggers. the leading edges of his flight feathers are often tainted with poison. His favored weapon, particularly in bull form, is the double bitted, two handed axe.


Angelic abilities:
Super human strength/agility/speed/resilience, telekinesis, empathy, telepathy, Immortality, regeneration, healing, resurrection, Shapeshifting (bronze minotaur or a cocktrice), induce fear, supernatural fearlessness, can sway people to act against their conscious and morals, prevent death even with extraordinary wounds, purify curses and other magics, create holy water, cause religious fervor, remove faith and hope, can create fires

Skills: Medical crafts, engineering, torture, ritual music/drumming, silver-tongued, artifice, consecration rites, leadership, manipulation, slight of hand, escape (Houdini style), religious rites of purification and sacrifice, Cooking (mostly humans and other immortals more than typical food), butchery

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[bloodysacrifice]

1. What never fails to make them smile
**Seeing others suffer misery for karmic like reasons. Calves, particularly black bulls

2. What gives them goosebumps
Electricity and lightning, left over fear from being smited by God

3. Do they like to sing
Yes. Moloch routinely sings funerary dirges, war chants and melancholic airy and haunting songs

4. Do they snore
Moloch doesn't sleep

5. What do they do to comfort themselves
Find deserving people to cook alive. Self harm particularly cutting with hot blades and glass

6. Best way to make them fall asleep
Doesn't sleep

7. Favorite childhood toy
Moloch didn't have a childhood though he has a dagger given to him, when he was very young, by Beelzebub.

8. Where do they blush (ears, cheeks, nose etc.)
If you could manage it, across his face.

9. Do they win snowball fights
He will win and occasionally, will start them.

10. Do they win pillow fights
He's never been in one but he hates losing

11. Do they win tickle fights
Moloch is ticklish but the chances of being killed or eaten from trying is very high

12. Favorite game to play
Anything that challenges his mind. He does play an odd game of hide and seek, sort of, with Azazael to keep up their stealth abilities.

13. Best way to cheer them up
He's not very cheerful. Hunting with him, especially hunting humanoids deserving of torture might work.

14. Do they cry at sad stories
As the angel of sorrow and the angel that helps others through sorrow and pain he cries a lot, mostly in hiding away from others.

15. How are they with kids
Moloch eats children, so bad. However, he is protective and kind to children he perceives as part of the angelic family.

16. What never fails to make them laugh
God being stabbed by Lucifer. Lucifer making Michael look like an idiot. Generally making beings who see themselves as greater look foolish.

17. Favorite animal
Bull and cattle

18. Favorite time of year
Winter, particularly in deep cold snaps

19. Favorite holiday
He doesn't like them

20. Favorite snack
Angel blood

21. Do they like sweets
Moloch can't eat sweet without becoming violently ill.

22. Favorite snuggle position
He is not snuggly with people but he does lay with his animals while spreading his wings over them like a mother bird. (As a rabbit in Aziraphale's waistcoat.)

23. Are they a blanket hog
He doesn't use blankets

24. Are they afraid of bugs
No

25. How difficult is it to get them out of bed
He can fall into unending emptiness and despair which immobilizes him.

26. Are they good at video games
Yes

27. Any pets
Kuyūthā a winged black calf and Athena a Kipine both given to him as gifts by sohoangel

28. Can they keep that houseplant alive
Yes. Moloch is an accomplisher herbalist.

29. Do they like to dance
Ritualistic dances

30. Favorite funny memory
Watching Lucifer slap God in the face at the gates of heaven.

31. Favorite childhood memory
He didn't have a traditional childhood but he has fond memories of Lucifer and Belial coming to check on him when he was abandoned by God and the other angels.

32. Favorite story to tell
Stabbing God in the Back. The first angelic council under Lucifer's rule.

33. Most embarrassing memory
He isn't embarrassed.

34. Do they collect anything
Bones, knives, sacred relics

35. What makes them happy to think about
Moloch has no truly happy thoughts. Everything is sorrowful by most standards.