Metatron

**Metatron**, formerly known as **Enoch**, is a major and overarching antagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

He was the overarching antagonist in volume one, a major antagonist in volume two, and the main antagonist in volume three.

Metatron is the self-proclaimed King of the Angels and the Voice of God. He operates as the mouthpiece of God and whatever is said through him is to be followed since they come from God. However, Metatron is simply feigning such revelations to establish order and strict obedience from all angels and saints. Metatron was also the one who issued the annual Exterminations and is the reason behind Heaven's strict authoritarian ways making him the biggest foil to Charlie.

## History

### Background

Metatron was actually the prophet Enoch who alongside his "brother" Sandalphon - then known as Elijah - lived during the time of the Watchers and the Flood. Seeing the depravity and chaos committed by the Nephilim and the Watchers, Enoch developed a burning hatred towards the Nephilim and their ilk (that being other unholy entities) and also opted to redefine the way angels would now operate in Heaven in order to ensure that the incident with the Watchers would never happen again.

Enoch was taken to Heaven by Jehoel and brought before God. Impressed by his ambition, Enoch ascended and became Metatron. Metatron's elevation to being the chancellor of Heaven had some of the archangels believe that Metatron served as Lucifer's replacement after he fell from grace. After Lucifer was condemned to the pit, God felt lonely, even amongst His own His children, especially after Goddess left Heaven. God anointed Metatron as Regent of Heaven to fill in the void and became the self-anointed King of the Angels after God locked Himself in study. He had Jehoel as his loyal bodyguard and Sandalphon as his advisor.

### Regent of Heaven

As the Regent of Heaven, Metatron had high standards and put forth several laws that are expected and demanded to be obeyed by both angel and saint. This effectively made Heaven the authoritarian realm many would come to know it as from that point on. While some would question the ethicality of these laws Metatron would always shut them down by saying that these laws come from God and are not to be questioned. While suspicious at first, the angels obeyed especially since Metatron is the Voice of God. He also had Raziel, the Scribe of God, under his service and given that he was privy to the secrets of God and the side talks that occur in Heaven, anything that may involve potential rebellion, doubt, or oppression is to be reported by Raziel.

Seeing as how he was privy to what goes on behind the locked doors of God's study, Metatron is aware of the prophesied Apocalypse and the arms race between Heaven and Hell in regards to gaining the most amount of souls to prepare themselves for the inevitable war. As a result, Metatron issued forth and installed the Extermination Protocol where he commits the culling of sinners and sin so as not only to give Heaven a chance but also ensure the complete eradication of all sinners and sin even if they are not completely bad people. However, Metatron was mainly doing this for the sheer satisfaction of wiping out sin and those who commit sin from existence entirely by harvesting the souls of sinners to power the Merkabah and destroy Hell.

## Personality

Metatron is first seen as a respectable, generous and calm angel that inspires many angels and saints. However, this was merely a facade to hide and reveal his true nature: that of a purist, dogmatic, and theocratic individual. Because he was never a true angel but a former human Metatron retains his impure human feelings and became greedy for God's rule. As he is the self-proclaimed Voice of God and the Chancellor of Heaven Metatron would act as God's mouthpiece where anything that he orders the angels to do or Heaven to comply is God's will. Because of his purist and theocratic nature, he was basically the one who arranged Heaven to be the strict almost authoritarian environment that it is. Metatron wanted people to be purely good so they could enter Heaven hence why if someone committed even just **one** sin they wouldn't be permitted to enter Heaven.

Because of his warped view on evil and his very position as the Voice of God he grew bitter, oppressive, jealous, and malicious. He is a religious fanatic that believed anything that was not God's way was pagan, occult, or not good in the way it 'should' be. He may possess both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex; the former especially grew to where he no longer acknowledged God's ways but genuinely believes that **his** way is the only way, and that Heaven is destined to be sovereign authority of the universe. Though calm under certain circumstances he easily loses any and all composure when someone or something comes along to challenge these beliefs. He considered dissimilar or contrary views, practices, and ideas unholy and profane. Metatron is also hypocritical for despite proclaiming to be a purist Metatron displayed several sinful acts, most notable of which is lust for when he was Enoch, he had many wives because he loved their flesh, and understood why the Watchers were so satirical towards human women.

Metatron has a deep hatred towards sin and evil which stemmed from his experience with the Nephilim on Earth before the Flood hit. In relation, he deeply loathes the Nephilim themselves, seeing them as nothing but abhorrent abominations that must be wiped from the face of existence no matter what their intentions are. This also extends to Charlie and her cousins as Metatron would become a major and personal antagonist towards the princess because of her true nature as a Nephilim and her beliefs of redemption for sinners. His loathing towards sin and evil led him to installing the Extermination Protocol where the Exterminators would go down and cull the overpopulation of sinners in Hell, but Metatron was mainly doing this for the sheer satisfaction of wiping out sin and those who commit sin from existence entirely.

It is also stated that Metatron could be very cruel if pushed too far, as seen by having tortured Gadreel during his imprisonment every day. He also ordered Michael and the Exterminators to kill every sinner and hellborn demon they could find in the most brutal way so as to "cleanse God's palette of filth", showing no remorse for his actions and treating Michael as nothing more than an attack dog. He is also not above going against the celestial decrees signed by angels and gods such as when he took Vaggie from Mictlantecuhtli's claim over her which breached the terms of the ESD and not caring about the consequences as he was more focused on evening the playing field. Metatron can also be quite sadistic such as when he used Vaggie (whose programming was reactivated as an Exterminator) to fight and kill Charlie as well as break her morale. Metatron is somewhat argumentative and has a slight control over his temper, as he tells Charlie and congratulates her for setting it off. Even then, he remains mostly calm despite his clear annoyance. However, following the thwarting of his plot, Metatron completely lost his calm attitude, becoming hellbent on sadistically and maddeningly killing the princess.

## Trivia

* He is based on the mythical archangel of the same name mentioned in some Jewish writings. Said to have once been the human Enoch, Metatron is believed by some to be the highest of angels and is often associated with the occult.
* Metatron's theme song would be "King of the Clouds" by Panic! At The Disco.
* Metatron can be viewed as the catalyst behind the forthcoming chain of events in the story.
* It is implied that Metatron was mainly taken by God to be Lucifer's replacement.
* Since he was never a true angel, Metatron is fully capable of lying and deceiving others whereas true angels are incapable of lying.