Rachel

**Rachel** is a major antagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

She is a cherub, supervisor of C.H.E.R.U.B., and the assistant manager of Gabriel. As she is Gabriel's assistant, Rachel holds a powerful position that few Putti can attain. She founded C.H.E.R.U.B with the intention of bringing souls to salvation but also secretly enlist into Heaven's army to prepare for the upcoming battle against Hell under Metatron's orders. She's also a major antagonist towards I.M.P.

## Appearance

Rachel is a sheep putto with pink skin, white fur throughout her body, light blue eyes, and two small angelic wings on her back. She has white, puffy trousers which resembles fur and extend to her ankles, and wears no footwear of any kind. She has a halo that floats above her head.

## Overview

Rachel is a sheep cherub who spends most of her time dealing with the daily operations of Heaven's post office as assistant manager but mainly as a way to relieve Gabriel of the insurmountable workload that falls on him. This workload that falls on her made her bitter, envious, and cynical but hid it from others with a sweet exterior.

Rachel was also one of the few lower angels that were aware of the purported final conflict between Heaven and Hell but did not take into account of all the details. Nevertheless, she would adopt Metatron's ideology of bringing in souls to Heaven as quick as, if not quicker than, Hell is damning them. This led her to create C.H.E.R.U.B, a non-profit organization that sends Putti to Earth and protect humans from demons. On the front C.H.E.R.U.B appears as an organization designed to save and redeem human souls but overtime, Rachel would start to bend the rulebook in order for C.H.E.R.U.B to operate on a "less than legal" scale; such as "inadvertently" causing the death of a human and blaming it on demons so as to have a more efficient method of acquiring souls faster than Hell. This was also beneath the notice of the archangels mainly due to C.H.E.R.U.B being covered by Metatron and possibly Raziel.

Ever since its establishment, Rachel had been supervising the Putti that partake in missions to protect and redeem a human that is on the brink of death or is dead while also frustratingly having to deal with the likes of I.M.P. coming in and unintentionally thwarting her operations with their contract killings. However, the more it dragged on, the more risky it became of C.H.E.R.U.B being exposed which did not sit well with Rachel and eventually led her to banish Cletus, Collin, and Keenie since they were becoming liabilities, failing multiple times to take down I.M.P, and were starting to question the organization's methods.

## Personality

At first glance, Rachel appears to be meek, helpful, sweet, and energetic, albeit overworked.

However, this is a facade that disguises her true nature as a deceptive and cunningly diabolical mastermind. She is ruthless, power-hungry, and perfectly willing to eliminate anyone who gets in her way to the point where Blitzø outright called her a "Micro Metatron". It's even implied that Rachel worked behind the scenes by conspiring with Stella to support Stolas's exposure of his illegal use of his grimoire and I.M.P, knowing it breached Hell's laws, which enabled her to continue C.H.E.R.U.B's operations uninterrupted.

Due to her duplicitous nature, it's hard to determine how much of what she says reflects her true beliefs or is just her political posturing. On the one hand she deeply despises demons and other unholy beasts taking every measure to ensure their destruction while on the other she believes that Putti need to be more appreciated and have more power by showcasing her own capabilities during her tenure as supervisor of C.H.E.R.U.B.