God

**God**, also called **Yahweh**, is the supreme sovereign of creation and a previously unseen overarching protagonist of the *Divine Comedy*.

He is the lord of Heaven and all there is once ruling it alongside His wife Goddess. He is credited with having created the angels with His wife and later humanity. God is known to be a writer and it is implied that all that occurs throughout the events of the *Divine Comedy* is due to the guiding hand of His pen and His sheets paint the picture of what will happen.

## History

### Background

God and Goddess were said to have woken up from nothingness and according to Belphegor they made love after "looking and strolling around nothingness" and were "bored playing Go Fish". Their union resulted in what would be called the Big Bang. However, everything was a mess and God decided to create helpers in the form of angels alongside Goddess. The first five that came to be were Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel which were then followed by Samael and innumerable other angels. Goddess suggested to God that their children could perhaps paint a clearer picture of creation through song to which He agreed with.

God then instructed His children to begin the proper construction of all things through music which is known as the Genesis Jam or the Jam. One by one the angels begin to sing and these creative musical elaborations only gradually, through exposure to each other, become collaborative. God was seen as the maestro of the chorus while Goddess was the lead singer as He guided the angels like instruments using their innate divine power to shape and fashion the physical and the immaterial. From what they fashion with their music they would govern in the future. The greatest among them of course was Lucifer as his singing and music is quite noticeable even amongst the innumerable choirs of angels. God was even impressed with Lucifer's talent during the performance.

### Creation and Heaven

As the music reached its peak, God literally ended it on a 'banger' as He clapped his hands to temper the reverberating music notes of creation which then gave way the modelling of all that there is, and no longer was it void. When the music was done, God showed His children the end result of their work while telling them that the aspects that now take hold and give meaning to creation would be associated to a particular angel that sung the thematics of said aspect during the Jam. God and Goddess then had their children go out to both explore and further help in the continuing development of the universe all the while He builds what would be known as Heaven.

After building their 'family house' the two decided to plant a tree in the garden which would come to be known as the Tree of Life with the tree acting as the centerpoint of all creation and what keeps everything ahold of one another and in balance. Goddess would be responsible in caring for the Tree of Life as it was Her 'own personal bonsai tree' that people show off in their homes according to Lucifer.

### Humanity and Lucifer

When the universe's development was fully finished, God had other plans in mind and He started to list or write them out in a book. All the while God would begin to develop a close bond with his son Lucifer which soon resulted in Lucifer being God's favorite mostly due to the fact that Lucifer was ambitious and unique compared to his siblings. Lucifer's status earned him the nickname "Morningstar" from God and Goddess. God would begin writing down the story of the events that would play out in the foreseeable future and the far future with few angels privy as to what he would reveal from His drafts. Often times whenever the angels were curious He'd only give them glimpses and sneak peeks which made some curious and others frustrated.

The angel He shared the most secrets with was of course Lucifer given that he was His favorite. Whenever God would finish a plot piece that detailed a whole event in history He'd excitedly call Lucifer to tell him certain parts of it. However, the more God revealed parts of His story to Lucifer the more the latter would drift away from his Father. It would result in Lucifer critiquing his Father's work and expressing his displeasure towards the way He writes on how the characters would enter and exit the scene. This of course did not sit well with God and resulted in the two arguing with one another. Even so, God would still call to Lucifer to ask for his opinion on what He was writing. Moreover, his focus on His literary work would only serve as the beginning of His isolation from His family.

After creating the Earth, and three great beasts who became the 'family pets', God would soon reveal His magnum opus: humanity. He would convince Goddess to create a garden, which acted as an animal pen in Lucifer's words, where He would house His new creations. He kept their existence discreet from the angels for a time as He apparently went through several failed "concept designs" that He drew only to dislike and throw away. After several "redraws" God was finally ready to reveal His latest and greatest creations - Adam and Lilith, who were said to have been modelled in His and Goddess' likeness respectively.

### Fallout with Lucifer

Upon presenting the humans to the angels, God had them praise and be awestruck at His latest work despite the fact that they were far beneath the might of the angels. The only ones that did not join the 'shilling' of God's work were Lucifer and Samael. With that God went back to His devices but not before tasking Lucifer in showing Lilith the ropes on what goes in Heaven and how things work around the universe whilst Raphael would be assigned to teach Adam. Upon returning, God saw that there was strife between Lilith and Adam mainly because Adam wanted to be top and demanded Lilith to be the bottom during sexual intercourse. Lilith cursed Adam, giving him the finger, before sprouting wings and flying away from the garden.

God then resorted to "plan B" where He gave a dismayed Adam another wife by the name of Eve. Samael would be assigned as Eve's teacher just as Lucifer was to Lilith. He also made other wives for Adam such as Naamah, Agrat, and Eisheth in case he rejected Eve but when Eve was the only who accepted Adam's proposal God let the other sisters leave from the garden.

As time went on, the relationship between God and Lucifer strained for the worst until it eventually reached the boiling point where Lucifer began to think that with the way God was ruling creation by use of some handbook that He himself wrote things, everyone and everything would be confined inside their own house and bound to the house rules. As such, he began to rebel against God and gathered followers in the process. God was approached by His oldest son Michael who wanted to talk to him about an issue regarding Lucifer's increasingly concerning behavior. God simply dismissed the claim and told Michael that Lucifer will eventually grow out of his "phase. When Michael asked about the contents in the book that had Lucifer be so upset God, whether accidentally or intentionally, revealed that at some point Michael is going to have to kill Lucifer. Shocked and appalled, Michael rushed back to Lucifer but couldn't bring himself to tell Lucifer the truth especially when Lucifer was in the midst of his rants in dealing with God's overbearing authoritarian ways. When Michael hesitantly revealed what God told him, Lucifer flew into a rage, accusing Michael of keeping such a secret from him under their Father's orders and waged war against Him and Heaven.

### War in Heaven

Lucifer attacked Heaven, having amassed 1/3 of the angels in Heaven to fight alongside him including Samael himself. Seeing the commotion outside, God ordered Michael and the angels loyal to Him to fight back against Lucifer and his armies. When the chaos died down as Michael and his army defeated Lucifer and the renegade angels, God was enraged and appeared before his rebellious sons, preparing to punish them for daring to raise their hands against Him and bring down all His precious work. When Lucifer accused God of being nothing but a senile and bitter old man that wants everything and everyone to kowtow him because He said so in his little "handbook". God was about to destroy him until Goddess stopped Him, pleading to give them a chance. But God refused and instead banished Lucifer and the rebel angels out of Heaven.

As they fell, their forms lost their once beautiful and majestic grace and collapsed into the remnants of the Abyss. God didn't even spare Belphegor nor Salathiel as the former wanted no part in the war while the latter defended Belphegor for the same reason. Salathiel, now known as Sam Hill, explains that He did so because of Belphegor's "uncertainty in His order" and what He called His "ambivalence."

Following the war, Goddess left Heaven and God which resulted in God feeling depressed and bitter about what happened. It wasn't until Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, courtesy of Samael and Lilith, that God snapped, cursing them and their descendants to live out their lives as mortals suspitable to death, disease, and other bodily pains. God would then come to lock Himself in His own study, cut off from the angels and presumably focusing on His work.

## Trivia

* His name "**Yahweh**" means "He Who Makes That Which Has Been Made" and is composed of four Hebrew consonants (YHWH, known as the Tetragrammaton) which the prophet Moses is said to have revealed to his people.
* God's theme song would be "Pure Imagination" from *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory*.
	+ This is fitting considering His character is depicted as being whimsical and whacky even.
* God purposely chose to have "el" at the end of His children's names because He liked the rhyming. Though He does respect if they have chosen a name for themselves such as calling His children by their infernal names instead of their angelic ones.
	+ The suffix "el" or "iel" in angelic names is Hebrew for "God". In addition, "el" is also a family name given to all the angels.
* It is implied by Gabriel that God knows about His grandchildren which consists of Charlie and her cousins.
* God is a skeeball fanatic, a game He thoroughly enjoys in His breaks.
* Raphael states that God is the best hugger in the universe.
* Chicken is God's favorite food, which is why there is the saying "Tastes like chicken."
* Apollyon states that while her Father has good intentions He often does them in a "wrong-kinda" way first.