Dramatis Personae
Dramatis Personae
Lilith (Lilly)
A disgruntled Angel of Death. Apparent age is late twenties, early thirties. She is drop dead gorgeous (as any divine creature of heaven should be), but carries herself with a weariness and fatalism of a civil servant far beyond her years (Imagine Angie Everhart, if she drove a sixteen wheeler, making deliveries cross country for a living).
She liked her job, even though she didn’t have a say about taking it in the first place. However, after millennia of ushering the departed to their eternal punishment, the job has lost all of its luster for her. She’s seen and dealt with humanity at its worst and most pitiful. Nothing grates on the soul more than having to drag countless souls kicking and screaming down into the pit.
The bottom line is that she’s sick of it and she’s about this close to telling God to “Take this job and shove it!”
Trenton (Trent)
A demon stuck in the office pool. Apparent age is mid to late thirties. Think of Willy Loman in A Death of a Salesman only if Willy was fatter and more secure about his lot in life. While the rest of Hell’s corporate raiders travel the globe corrupting God’s creatures, he’s stuck at the home office in a cubicle keeping numbers on the never ending flow of new arrivals.
In his younger days, he might have told the boss to shove off. He’s by no means completely happy with his situation, but he knows better than to cross the boss. Living in hell is bad enough, but at least he works in an office, has a decent 401k, and stock in the company.
Angela (Angie)
Another Angel of Death. Angie’s best friend. She’s got the cherry job-ushering the good and the faithful to the pearly gates of heaven. Sweet, perky and annoying as all fuck.
Scott (God)
The Lord and Master. Creator of all things and a real dick of a boss. He’s not mean or a real slave driver, but he’s clueless in regards to the status of his workforce.
Luci (Satan)
She’s the Devil. You don’t see her onscreen. She’s not evil. Just ambitious.
Theme(s)
Choice, Freewill (or lackthere of).
The irony lies in the fact that the humans have it and the divine don’t. Humans can choose to love God, hate him, or just plain ignore him. Angels have to love and Demons have to hate him because its their nature to do so.
Love
God’s greatest strength, or in Lilly’s view, his fatal flaw. The state of the world, and ultimate cause of Lilly’s misery is God’s love his mudbaby creations. He gave them freewill so that he could receive their worship and admiration freely. Love cannot be forced. But in doing so, humans chose to disobey God’s command and thus introduced sin into the world. The wages of sin is death, and the rest as they say is history.
Lilith (Lilly)
A disgruntled Angel of Death. Apparent age is late twenties, early thirties. She is drop dead gorgeous (as any divine creature of heaven should be), but carries herself with a weariness and fatalism of a civil servant far beyond her years (Imagine Angie Everhart, if she drove a sixteen wheeler, making deliveries cross country for a living).
She liked her job, even though she didn’t have a say about taking it in the first place. However, after millennia of ushering the departed to their eternal punishment, the job has lost all of its luster for her. She’s seen and dealt with humanity at its worst and most pitiful. Nothing grates on the soul more than having to drag countless souls kicking and screaming down into the pit.
The bottom line is that she’s sick of it and she’s about this close to telling God to “Take this job and shove it!”
Trenton (Trent)
A demon stuck in the office pool. Apparent age is mid to late thirties. Think of Willy Loman in A Death of a Salesman only if Willy was fatter and more secure about his lot in life. While the rest of Hell’s corporate raiders travel the globe corrupting God’s creatures, he’s stuck at the home office in a cubicle keeping numbers on the never ending flow of new arrivals.
In his younger days, he might have told the boss to shove off. He’s by no means completely happy with his situation, but he knows better than to cross the boss. Living in hell is bad enough, but at least he works in an office, has a decent 401k, and stock in the company.
Angela (Angie)
Another Angel of Death. Angie’s best friend. She’s got the cherry job-ushering the good and the faithful to the pearly gates of heaven. Sweet, perky and annoying as all fuck.
Scott (God)
The Lord and Master. Creator of all things and a real dick of a boss. He’s not mean or a real slave driver, but he’s clueless in regards to the status of his workforce.
Luci (Satan)
She’s the Devil. You don’t see her onscreen. She’s not evil. Just ambitious.
Theme(s)
Choice, Freewill (or lackthere of).
The irony lies in the fact that the humans have it and the divine don’t. Humans can choose to love God, hate him, or just plain ignore him. Angels have to love and Demons have to hate him because its their nature to do so.
Love
God’s greatest strength, or in Lilly’s view, his fatal flaw. The state of the world, and ultimate cause of Lilly’s misery is God’s love his mudbaby creations. He gave them freewill so that he could receive their worship and admiration freely. Love cannot be forced. But in doing so, humans chose to disobey God’s command and thus introduced sin into the world. The wages of sin is death, and the rest as they say is history.
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