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   You called me angel for the first time (My heart leapt from me) by Dorian_Is_Dead

   Fandoms: The Mandela Catalogue (Web Series)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M, Gen, Other
   • Work in Progress

   29 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Archangel Gabriel (The Mandela Catalogue)/Reader
   • Archangel Gabriel (Mandela Catalogue)
   • Adam Murray
   • Jonah Marshall
   • Evelin Miller
   • The Intruder (The Mandela Catalogue)
   • pastor AU
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Eventual Smut
   • Blasphemy
   • Prayer
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Author Is Not Religious
   • religious trauma(?)
   • Alternates(Mandela Catalogue)
   • Horror
   • Friends to Lovers
   • workplace acquaintances to lovers
   • Author has firsthand knowledge of Christianity so this is gonna be fairly accurate
   • There's gonna be some PLOT
   • It's an alternate universe but Gabriel is still evil
   • He's hot tho so its ok
   • The aching grief of a fallen angel (in real time)
   • Exploration of religious trauma
   • Gabriel is a pretty princess
   • Gaslighting
   • Blood and Injury
   • lots of blood
   • If blood discomfits you this fic IS NOT for you
   • Trans Character
   • Trans Male Character
   • Religious Content
   • Religious Discussion
   • Pain Kink
   • Blood Kink
   • serious injury
   • Minor Character Death
   • Wound picking
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Murder
   • Undergoing edits
   • Implied/Referenced Cannibalism
   • Is it cannibalism if it's alternates eating other alternates?
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Vaginal Sex
   • Vaginal Fingering
   • Cunnilingus
   • Creampie
   • erotic wound licking
   • Aftercare
   • because I have a soul
   • Dom/sub Undertones
   • gabriel is a switch
   • Reader is also a switch
   • Manipulative Relationship
   • Blood As Lube
   • Sort Of
   • Major Character Undeath

   Summary

   You're hired at the local church, and you definitely don't have the hots for the pastor, but when there's strange disappearances around the county and your headaches keep getting worse, it's nice to have a comforting presence around during those long working hours.
   Even if he has secrets that seem dangerous enough to kill.
   Even if his kindness sometimes seems like a façade for something much darker lurking beneath that easygoing expression.
   Or, workplace romcom, Mandela Catalogue edition <3

   Reader is written to be a trans man, so there's going to be ample depiction of that.
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   "You try to pick yourself out of the pieces of nightmares, unfinished dreams hissing and bubbling in the back of your head, words in a voice distorted and malicious.
   ‘I am your true savior.’ It says, and it almost sounds sweet."
   

   Language:

   English

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   12 Dec 2025

   Bookmarker's Notes

   this is the only public bookmark on my profile it's so good ohjmy god goh my godddd