Human

**Humans** are a sapient species native to the planet Earth. A majority of them who depart from life make up the sinner category of demons in Hell or saints in Heaven.

## History

### Background

The first humans created were Adam and Lilith, though according to Gabriel there were several "redraws" of the two as each one would end up worse than the last. Finally, after five attempts, a perfect draft for the two was made. However, after the Lilith left Adam due to arguments over who she be on top, God created several more females to be Adam's companion; Tiamat was driven out when Adam fainted after seeing how she was made, Agrat was not interested in romance, he was too pushy with Naamah, and Eisheth was too energetic. All of them left him except for Eve who agreed to be his wife.

After the war in Heaven and the forbidden fruit incident, Adam and Eve would slowly start to populate the Earth with their descendants, eventually becoming the dominant species on the planet. However, they would end up being either prey or play things for monsters and demons. In addition, because of Cain's actions, humans would go down a spiral of malice and darkness resulting in many wars, famine, and death. It got so bad that God Himself needed to do a hard reset on Earth as a whole via flooding the planet. Even so, that did little to put them back on the right track because as their society advanced and developed so too did their vices.

## Description

Humans are mainly composed of flesh, bone, and molecules. Human bodies range in terms of size, sex, and appearance in many ways, with races developing as communities that spread out across the globe. Despite their physical differences however, many humans have come to value equality of treatment and acceptance of the disabled, though there are still those who stubbornly adhere to the antiquated beliefs of Darwinism. Such beliefs are seen in sinners who themselves held true to them during their living days.

Human bodies can display a level of both fragility and durability depending on different circumstances, but in the grand scheme possess rather vulnerable bodies easily capable of being killed in many ways by the world around them. This knowledge of mortality is a driving influence on human society and individual humans, with some becoming emboldened by this fact while others become filled with existential dread. Throughout time, various religions have been founded in the attempt to find a way to escape this fate or be prepared for its eventual arrival.

Humans are unable to survive in Hell's atmosphere as it is incredibly toxic to both their physical and spiritual state. Even a glimpse of Hell would cause a human to fall over and violently convulse as though they were having a seizure as seen when Alastor showed a mere glimpse of Hell to Agent One. Humans are also incapable of perceiving an angel's appearance even when said angels compact their forms to be more humanoid. If an angel reveals itself to a human in its regular form the human will die from shock or in some cases will have their heads burst into flames.

## Mortality

Humans are the one species that are most susceptible to death. Each human's soul, upon death, must face judgment to determine where their soul will go in the afterlife. Those who have broken God's laws and/or lived a life of evil are to be sent to Hell for punishment, while those who lived virtuous lives find eternal solace in Heaven. However, human society as a whole is entirely unaware of the true nature of the afterlife, be it Heaven or Hell.

After dying, humans will be taken by Death and led to a subway or train station where they will undergo a process of 'soul identification' operated by Jerry, an abstract spirit who works as a ticket clerk, to which it will then manifest in the form of a train ticket. Departed humans cannot recall the exact details of how they died with many believing that they never died to begin with until realization hits them. They can only remember the last thing that happened to them before they find themselves boarding the Macabre Orient.

Humans that are damned to Hell painfully transform into their demonic forms that will forever be grafted unto the souls as a form of torment. Their demonic appearance corresponds with whatever mask they wore while on the Macabre Orient and Charon's ship simply finalizes what the mask reads from their soul and manifests it outward onto their bodies. Their physical bodies are torn apart and replaced with a "cage in the shape of their new body" that acts as both their prison and torment.

## Trivia

* Wars and conflicts between humans are often instigated by demons mainly as a form of entertainment for the latter. In one such case, Lucifer and the monarchs once participated in a bet on the outcome of the Thirty Years' War, and Mammon recalls that Apollyon had been the winner.
* Humans are looked down upon by demons and fallen angels with such contempt that they are constantly mocked with derogatory slurs such as "jackanapes" or "meat monkeys". Even sinners are not spared from such mockery as they were once human themselves.
* Humans can be taken to different underworlds or afterlives depending on their faith and culture.
* Metatron claims that one of the worst things humans invented were socks and sandals.
* When humans enter Hell, not only do their voices change but also their names. Very few sinners ever keep their original names but the majority change them to distance themselves from what they did when they were alive.
* Humans originally had 300 grams of salt in their bodies but were reduced to 250 after Audumbla licked the salt off of Adam and Lilith's rime models.