Roquiel

[TW: violence]

Roquiel is a high-ranking angel executioner who was banished from the afterlife realm because the god found out that they've been toying with the bodies of those sent to be executed and that was heavily against protocol.

Boredom with their job led them to be banished, they got so bored having to watch people get executed with no problem over and over they wanted to amuse themself by trying new methods of pain to see more interesting reactions out of people. Sometimes they'd pluck out an eye, chop off a finger, cut locks of hair and store it all in their wings, as angel wings serve as a small pocket dimension where anything can be stored.

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Roquiel’s division oversees those to be executed without pain, which means the ones sent there are those who willingly wish to move on. The people there are usually the ones who did little to no bad deeds while in the afterlife and only wish for a peaceful eternal death. Roquiel has always been the head executioner for these people and he does his job effortlessly.

As long periods of time have passed, Roquiel has started losing interest in his job. Days and days would pass by where they would do the same thing to people over and over, and most of the time the people in question would have no qualms about moving on. Roquiel wanted to stay with their job but also wanted something a little more… interesting.

First it started with something simple. Shaving people’s head. Making them strip down naked. Having them perform embarrassing acts and ordering them around to feel degraded. Roquiel wanted the people to feel a little shame before their deaths, even when the people didn’t want to. No one could defy Roquiel though, as they were the head executioner and all orders that go through him are to be followed.

Roquiel was amused by all this but it didn’t seem to be enough. The torture moved to becoming more physically painful. They would hurt them one by one, up to the point where the people just wanted to die immediately. This would go on for hours until they got bored and went on with killing them by slicing off their heads clean using a sharp halo.

This went on for years until Roquiel was caught in the act of torturing someone by a lower officer and reported to god. The god was furious with Roquiel’s actions, especially since they were one of the longest commanding officers whom the god trusted. As punishment, Roquiel was banished from the afterlife realm and was sent to the land of Nilangad. The god took away most of Roquiel’s powers and was left behind being able to feel thirst, hunger, and pain, all which officer angels appointed by god would not be able to normally feel in the afterlife.

Roquiel was furious at first, as she only wanted to find a way to entertain herself while doing their job. Thankfully, previous training meant Roquiel knew how to survive on their own. Their only problem though, was food. It seemed like along with the punishment of being banished, god also made it so whatever Roquiel ate would taste like ash and cardboard. Roquiel tried eating vegetables, fruits, cooked animal meat, anything they could get their hands on but to no avail.

Roquiel wandered around, looking for something, anything to eat that wouldn’t make them spit it out. Roquiel collapsed on the ground out of hunger and decided to go for their last resort—getting the body parts they’ve collected and stored in their wings. They took a finger, chomped on it, and was greatly surprised to find out that it did not taste like how their other food tasted like. It was the first time they have tasted something so similar to how they imagined it. Roquiel wasted no time taking out more and more parts from their stash and started consuming it all. The god left Roquiel on land to die a slow death of hunger and thirst but failed to notice the fact that Roquiel did more to the bodies than just torture.

With Roquiel’s newfound information of how they can survive, they decided to conjure up a plan. They would approach those isolated and in despair and appear to them in the guise of being a “guardian angel sent from the afterlife” to watch over them and keep them safe. With Roquiel’s angelic looks, people would often believe their story. Roquiel would bond with the victim for at least a month, and once their hunger starts to act up again, they would proceed with dismembering the body using their halo and eat parts easy to take out like the eyeballs (their favorite), fingers, and feet. The rest of the parts such as the legs, arms, and head they would store in their wings as an extra stash in case they could not find someone who they could prey upon.

This would usually go smoothly for Roquiel, since their victims are those who have little to no friends or family so no one would go looking for them. Others would only assume they would pass away because of suicide, despite there being no body to be found.