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• Always an Angel, Never a God (I Can’t Love You How You Want Me To) by icarus_rise

  Fandoms: Paradise Lost - John Milton  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  06 May 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Abdiel/Satan (Paradise Lost)
  • Satan & Michael (Paradise Lost)
  • Satan & The Son (Paradise Lost)
  • Satan (Paradise Lost)
  • Abdiel (Paradise Lost)
  • Michael (Paradise Lost)
  • God (Paradise Lost)
  • The Son (Paradise Lost)
  • Sin (Paradise Lost)
  • Death (Paradise Lost)
  • Beelzebub (Paradise Lost)
  • Gabriel (Paradise Lost)
  • Heavy Angst
  • Angst and Feels
  • Lovers to Enemies
  • War in Heaven (Paradise Lost)
  • The Fall (Paradise Lost)
  • Heavy use of the Miltonic Or
  • Some dialogue pulled directly from Paradise Lost
  • i wrote this for university
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Hey Abdiel
  • what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament
  • well you see your honor they are in love
  • I Wrote This While Listening to boygenius
  • Song: Bite The Hand (boygenius)
  • Thank you Milton Playlist
  • Styled partially after John Milton’s writing
  • but i don’t know how to use Middle English conjugation
  • No Beta we die how Eve intended: by suicide
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Sad Ending
  • My own explanation of what’s going on with Sin and Death
  • Sin and Death represent Betrayal and Heartbreak
  • Gay
  • Trying to figure out what Milton meant when he said angels fuck
  • Excessive Snake Symbolism
  • POV Alternating
  • See: Sonnet 22
  • I’m being accurate to the style and showing my understanding of his works
  • If I get 100 kudos I get an A+ right? right?
  • Watch out in case you trip over the
  • Unironic use of the word orbs to describe eyes
  • Basically Raphael did not tell the whole story

  Summary

  Lucifer, offended that the Son, a Creation of God and by rights an angel, was given the title of God by no merit, decides to collect an army of rebels willing to fight for the equality and liberty in Heaven that he has aspired to his whole life. But the true betrayal has not happened yet: Abdiel, the love of Lucifer’s angelic life, refuses to see reason and join the rebels in their fight for freedom.

  Both angels clash at every opportunity to try to bring the other to his side, but each rejection leaves them feeling more and more resentful that the other is more devoted to a cause than to their love.

   

  Or,

  Spanning the introduction of the Son to the Fall at the end of the war in Heaven, this work asks why Abdiel was at Lucifer’s Palace when he was planning to rebel against God. The answer? He and Lucifer were lovers, of course.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  14,965

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  11

  Bookmarks:

  4

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