I'm guessing the whole maintain the balance thing is more about keeping the peace rather than any sort of actual power struggle. If humans are valuable to both Heaven and Hell, and any war between the two would spill out into the mortal world and cause complete carnage and chaos, it would mean that angels would win a pyrrhic victory which doesn't do them any good in the long run.
That only really works if both sides would be at least remotly close in power.
If i had to do a comparison, it is as if you have the USA on one side and Luxembourg on the other and try to establish a power balance...that just doesn't work, the US could do whatever they want.
But let's say some angels break the balance, then what ?
Any kind of actions against them would lead to war and complete elimination of the demons in short time. Would they all go willingly in their own death, out of camaraderie, loyality, honor or the like, because the balance was broken and few of them died ?
Even if humans have some value to them, i really doubt it would matter if millions or even billions die (and i have real doubts the demons would manage that, even if they tried to kill as many humans as they can, bevor the angels wipe them out). Humans would need a few decades, maybe a century or two and the loses would be replenished, no time for immortals.
There's also the point that demons lack means of an easy way to go to earth in large numbers, which angels can easily do.
So far the most powerfull being of Hell and Azel clashed, the city stands, at best the college is gone, which i doubt. I just can't see how humanty would end up destroyed as collateral damage...
hat is true. I guess the only defense is that the MC was willing to do dark magic or whatever? Wasn't there a stigma against it? Maybe there's a rule against angels using it that goes beyond principles. We know the Demons that Emma sent could do it, but we also have to remember the MC isn't really an angel anymore and he also has the special power to use other powers. If dark magic counts as that, Raphael already has healing and Emma control, so maybe they weren't able to PERSONALLY use said portals of dark magic to get there.
No the MC is still an angel, just without wings and dark magic is as the name implies, magic, which has nothing to do with abilities. Even demons with no abilities can learn/use it and was ''created'' by Azazel an angel...
So what if there was a stigma ?
The family pretty much said, 'fuck you' to god, is going against his direct orders to get their son/brother back.
But dark magic is not allowed, so that's the point were we draw the line ?
A. So we can't blame the family for the way they are handling the MC as unrealistic.
No we can, i don't expect them to be perfect, not even an entirely human reaction, but their reaction is so far of the charts that it is just mind blowing dumb.
Instead of a caring and worried mother, we have a cougar in heat. Her first reaction being, drooling over his body. Her first reaction seeing the MC in underwear, scarred from top to toe, it's not shock or anything alike, but again her being horny.
And no, she acted like this before the MC had any chance to begin to copy her powers.
Azel, there is said enough about her already. But even after she sees that her brother tried to kill himself because of the shit she dumped him in, she is just being herself.
I mean, for fucks sake, she is the angel of death. After her own statement she is dealing with death and suicide for thousands of years, she should be an expert on the topic, but any help or sympathie for her brother, nope.
Raphael, expert on healing and works as doctor...same shit. Lets send the guy which just escaped Hell after torture since childhood, tried to kill himself and hates crowds to college...yeah, that's pure genius. We all know college is the most pressing issue a tortured and suicidal person could have...
Also lets ignore the MC's opinion everytime, let's force him in human society against his will, berate him at every change and act like he is the one doing them wrong if he doesn't want to go along with their crap...
This isn't just how a ''normal family'' behaves. Either it's completely retarted behavior or they are simply uncaring, as they just do what they want with little regards to the MC.
I get it, suspension of disbelief and i have normaly no problem with that, but this is just to much...
B. We can't blame the way they are acting if they truly didn't know that he was tortured for centuries.
Humans know what Hell is about, demons know how Hell is. Yet for some reason the Godess, the second most powerful and likely one of the oldest beings in existence (which is friends with powerful demons), as well as the angels, which are cosmic guardians have no clue how Hell is ? No really, how should that even work ?
Then we have the MC which says, he was tortured in Hell and Azel which notices that the MC tried to commit suicide because of the trauma he suffered... yet they still don't get that he was literally tortured in Hell ?
Again, how should that work ? They would need to be the dumbest beings in existence to not understand that at this point.
Also why would Kreon keep it a secret that the MC is favorite toy in the first place ?
It was an archangel which dropped him in Hell, on god's order no less. Then god closed of all conections with Hell and forbad any angel to go there.
He shouldn't be worried about that getting out and i don't think he is well informed about what Emma and Raphael do.
The chances that the only angel in Hell stays secret for long is close to zero imo.
C. We can't blame them for not trying to reach him.
True, we got an explanation on that. A really bad explanation, which make them look retarded, as even children are more capable of tactics then the Godess and 2 archangels are...
Like why didn't Emma not go (or god forbid all 3 of them) ? She would have ordered the guardian to stand down, go to Hell and well, Hell would be kneeling infront of her...that's the problem you have with over powerfull characters.
Same like why do they need to work ? Emma could be the leader of a religion, a country, or whatever she wants. She could go to a meeting of the rich elite and they all would be willingly give her all the money she wants....and they could spend their time on more productive things, like trying to get the MC out of Hell.
There's also no way god doesn't know where Emma is, like every angel seems to know, even the ones still working for him like Aniel...
So either god doesn't give a fuck about what Emma does, is watching it for entertainment, or he can't beat her in a confrontation, at least not without risiking his own hide.
D. And we can't blame them for not hearing his prayers.
Yeah again a strange explanation imo. God closed off Hell completely, so airtight not even prayers get out.
But for some reason demons can still come and go as they please, dark magic and human summoning among other things, so that kinda works...
In my honest opinion, both the explanation of why the prayers not worked, as well as why they couldn't reach the MC look like damage controll to me. Likely as the dev got some backlash about the family, which should be the main LI's.
As for Emma, there is no way she didn't lose any ''children'' before, angels being cosmic guardians and all.
Also Emma is normaly way colder, she only behaves completely different towards the MC, for some reason.
I think it would be more apt to say the angels are her creation, rather than her children, well with a few exeptions were she cares.
