#asmo would make a good cupid figure tho

[inhuman-obey-me]

Is it canon that beel is a cherub ? Because aren't cherubs supposed to be children?

It is indeed canon! It's mentioned in Lesson 44:

The reason this isn't a contradiction is because cherubs weren't actually supposed to be children! This is a common misconception which has overtaken pretty much all depictions of them, but cherubs were not originally meant to look like that at all.

The winged child angel imagery we now tend to think of as cherubs actually came from something called a putto, which are described as "associates of Cupid," who you might also imagine looking the same way! But Cupid actually comes from Roman mythology as the son of Venus, goddess of love, and was depicted as a young man who shot at people with his bow. During the Renaissance, artists began depicting him also like the putti, and they were together associated with "the glorious feeling of being in love." They were, however, major tricksters and would make people fall in love for the ensuing chaos.

Now, as for cherubs, the confusion apparently comes from people associating said "glorious feeling of being in love" with "God's pure love" and conflated the two. However, cherubs have their own, very different description in the Bible (Ezekiel 1:1-14):

In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.

Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. [...] The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches.

Cherubs actually also had the role of guardians. Cherubs were the protectors of the Garden of Eden, and they are described as having somewhat serious personalities. We can see that Beel occasionally has a somewhat similar stoic attitude (at least when he's not scarfing down 20 burgers at a time), and he was formerly a guard at the gates of the Celestial Realm, not to mention Lucifer's bodyguard! This is a deep protectiveness he still has now for his loved ones, such as his brothers and MC.

So, if we stick to biblically accurate descriptions, Beel being a cherub is actually quite fitting!

#obey me #obey me swd #obey me! #obey me shall we date #obey me beelzebub #ask and ye shall be answered #angels being terrifying #actual biblical angels are ... that #which is what the game follows so!! great #now make their demon forms scarier please :) #asmo would make a good cupid figure tho