Fun Game - Assign Angels to the circles of Inferno and Purgatorio from Dante's Divine Comedy

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Fun Game - Assign Angels to the circles of Inferno and Purgatorio from Dante's Divine Comedy

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Postby sithsauron » Tue Oct 04, 2022 6:56 pm

While its pure speculation, let's go out on a limb and assume ETV's story layout is based on Dante's Divine Comedy, where each Angel would be assigned to either one of Inferno's Circles or Purgatorio's Terraces. How would you assign each angel to one of those circles/terraces based on what they represent?

Just a quick TLDR of the Divine Comedy, Dante is guided through the 9 Circles of Inferno and 7 Terraces of Purgatorio before he can connect with the essence of god.

For Inferno, the options are:

First Circle (Limbo)
Second Circle (Lust)
Third Circle (Gluttony)
Fourth Circle (Greed)
Fifth Circle (Wrath)
Sixth Circle (Heresy)
Seventh Circle (Violence)
Eighth Circle (Fraud)
Ninth Circle (Treachery)

For Purgatorio, the options are:

First terrace (Pride)
Second terrace (Envy)
Third terrace (Wrath)
Fourth terrace (Sloth)
Fifth terrace (Greed)
Sixth terrace (Gluttony)
Seventh terrace (Lust)

Keep in mind Inferno represents hell and the actual physical manifestation of sin. For Purgatorio, sin is not physically manifested, but each terrace represents the root cause of sin in the mind being present in a person, just not acted upon.

So here's a quick example, not so serious, but could be.

Sachiel - First Circle (Limbo) - because it looks flexible with its gangly arms and legs, and might actually be able to do the Limbo dance
Shamshel - Second Circle (Lust) - because it's shaped like a dong or vibrator
Ramiel - Third Circle (Gluttony) - because if fatness was cube shaped instead of round, this would be considered the fattest angel
Gaghiel - Fourth Circle (Greed) - it has a huge mouth to eat everything so I consider it very greedy
Israfel - Eighth Circle (Fraud) - I'm gonna switch up the order, it appears as one angel until Asuka splits it and it becomes 2 angels, pretty crafty
Sandalphon - Seventh Circle (Violence) - Because it is a feisty little baby angel
Matarael - Sixth Circle (Heresy) - It has fake eyes painted on it, doesn't activate its AT field to protect itself (if it has one), calling it an angel would be a joke
Sahaquiel - Fifth Circle (Wrath) - If suicide bombing Tokyo-3 isn't Wrath, I don't know what is.
Ireul - Ninth Circle (Treachery) - because it infiltrated Nerve as an innocent widdle bacteria, pretty treacherous bugger, and maybe it goes with the theme of the episode (although maybe in hindsight it should switch places with Matarael)

Now for the Angels of Purgatorio

Leliel - First terrace (Pride) - Talks to Shinji in his mind about how he has too much pride in his edgyness
Bardiel - Second terrace (Envy) - Because, I WANNA BE AN EVANGELION TOO, strategy
Zeruel - Third terrace (Wrath) - Because this angel was a true bad-ass
Arael - Sixth terrace (Gluttony) - Switchin' the order up again, the angel shines light on Asuka's selfishness issues
Armisael - Fifth terrace (Greed) - Because the angel really just wants to merge with everybody
Tabris - Seventh terrace (Lust) - because he makes Shinji blush in the sauna (platonic)
Lilin - Fourth terrace (Sloth) - because the Japanese Gov't was just a hair too late to stop the third impact (shoulda had your shit together folks)

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