| Mad Hatter | |
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| Angel Sanctuary Character | |
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| Profile
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| Race: | Angel (formerly)
Demon |
| Gender: | Ambiguous |
| Hair Color: | Red |
| Status | |
| Allegiance: | Lucifer |
| Status: | Alive |
| Relationships | |
Belial, also known as the Mad Hatter, is one of the Seven Satans, representing Pride, and the Court Jester of the lowest layer of Hell, Sheol. Her/his real name is Belial, and s/he was formerly a member of the order of Virtues and the deputy of Raphael in Heaven.
History[]
At the time, Belial believed s/he was supposed to become a woman, as all angels are born sexless and their true gender only manifested fully later in adulthood. However, s/he took pills to halt the process, gaining an androgynous body.
While still an angel in Heaven, s/he enjoyed seducing and tempting angels into sexual depravity, for the sake of amusement and to prove that the so-called purity that people tried to live by was corruptable. S/he is also responsible for Raphael's later in life womanizing behavior, which stemmed from Raphael's hatred for women, due to Belial seducing and publicly humiliating him with the truth of his own deep-seated desires for carnal pleasures.
A pivotal moment in one Belial's carnal games resulted in meeting the man s/he would become wholly devoted to: Lucifer. At the time, Belial was actively sleeping with two men and after allowing both of them to find out about the other, one of the men killed the other. The remaining man, full of guilt and on the brink of obsession towards Belial, asked to be killed. Belial refused and instead coldly told him to die on his own, which he did by shooting himself. It was in the aftermath of this that Lucifer saw Belial and immediately expressed disgust and revulsion for her/him. Belial was shocked and awed by Lucifer's brunt honesty in seeing her/him for who s/he truly was, and begged to be told more about how worthless s/he was. Because of Lucifer's unyielding rejection of Belial, s/he swore to follow him always with the intent of one day making him fall to his knees for her/him instead. After becoming a demon, Belial later goes on to search for and chooses Lucifer's brides, because s/he loves Lucifer. Nonetheless, s/he has also said that the day Lucifer ever reciprocates this love, s/he can die happily, while also simultaneously no longer desiring him and growing to hate him, as he will be like the others before him who all fell in love with Belial.
S/he has a tattoo of a butterfly on the upper-thigh, which is the origin of the nickname "The Mad Butterfly." Mad Hatter also has a habit of taunting Setsuna and his friends, particularly Sakuya, who has another identity which he doesn't know: Lucifer, Ruler of the 9 Hells.
Later, after Setsuna's successful attempt of destroying YHWH, Mad Hatter withdraws the forces of Hell away from Heaven, thus forming a truce between the two realms.