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* NotSoDifferent: Believes he and Azazel are more alike than he once cared to admit.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Unlike the psychological turmoil that drives Chayne, Alice, and Leviathan, the craving for stimulation that motivates Ash, and the bitter, trillion-year-old sibling rivalry fueling Heaven and Hell, there's absolutely no greater force driving Pluto. He's nothing more than a sadist on a power trip, and he ''revels'' in it.
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Evolved transhumans immune to the Phantom virus.
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!!Others
[[folder:Jenny "Jen" Waits/Tango]
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!!Sect of the Broken Mind
[[folder:Celia Wilde/Aria Summers]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An eccentric girl from outside Haven introduced in ''The Touch of Heaven'' and another immune. She is actually Aria Summers, the lost daughter of Chayne Summers.
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* ActionGirl: Fully willing to take the initiative into rescuing Tango and Miles from Jango by ''plowing a car'' into the store they're being held in and leading a high-speed chase back to Haven.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Kooky, detached, slow to social cues, and seemingly oblivious to her own amorality, hinting at some sort of major social disorder.
* AntiHero: Celia's forceful, seemingly apathetic to the people she constantly puts in harm's way around her, and tends to make decisions for people without their consent – up to casually playing with the minds of people and wiping their memories when it's most convenient. Unlike many examples of this trope, Celia doesn't necessarily come off as a typical anti-hero or even consciously selfish, with many of her more unnerving or borderline sociopathic moments seeming to be a product of her own obliviousness.
* TheAtoner: Post-Haven, Aria blames herself for the destruction of Haven on her own selfish actions and spends years trying to get over it and make up for it. Naturally, Aria is absolutely ''pissed'' when Chayne Prime shows a similarly cavalier attitude toward all the lives she's ruined through the Cycle.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: To an extent, but Celia doesn't seem to register what's wrong with dragging people she barely knows away from their homes into life-or-death missions, casually controlling their minds, or even leaving the rotted corpse of her own dead grandmother simply splayed out in the middle of her own home. ''Heaven & Hell'' establishes she's getting better.
* BreakTheCutie: The original Chayne does this ''hard'' to her when she refuses to sit quietly in Nirvana, and the resultant MindRape ends up destroying her so thoroughly she's driven to kill herself.
* CloudCuckoolander: Celia seems to behave like she's on a different wavelength from everyone. Unfortunately, this behavior more often than not endangers everyone around her as well.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chayne's inflexible monstrosity and the horrific effect her MindRape has on Aria ends up driving her to hang herself -- [[YouAreTooLate scant days before Jenny arrives in Nirvana.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Celia's actions in ''The Touch of Heaven'' are definitively and consistently selfish, mostly hinging on a desire to take Tango out of Haven and into the Sect for her own convenience. Bizarrely enough, Celia doesn't even seem ''aware'' of her selfish actions until the very end of the story when her actions inadvertently result in the destruction of Haven and the needless death of thousands of innocent people.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As careless of other people's feelings she can be, Celia genuinely means well and she is ''horrified'' when her actions cause more destruction than they ever meant to cause. Come ''Heaven & Hell'', she seems to have mostly developed into a much nicer person, empathizing with Mint's desire to see Tango again and cheerfully socializing with them and many others at a party.
* KickTheMoralityPet: On the receiving end of this from Chayne, who dismisses the pain she causes her as 'education.'
* LackOfEmpathy: Deconstructed. Celia isn't necessarily ''intentionally'' unsympathetic to everyone around her, but her constant use of force and psychic powers to get what she wants and general antipathy towards everyone around her – including her ''own dead grandmother'' – don't seem to click with her. It's this behavior which ends up leading Jango directly to Haven, which, coupled with Alice's manipulations, ends up with ''thousands'' killed, which ''finally'' cracks Celia. She seems to have gotten her head on straighter by the time of ''Heaven & Hell'', even scrawling herself reminders not to casually play with people's minds in her room.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Aria's cavalier and aloof attitude towards everyone around her in ''The Touch of Heaven'' seems to be a byproduct of her being Chayne's daughter. Aria ends up calling Chayne Prime out on this after a stint of character development in ''The Radiance of Heaven''.
* MoralityChain: No pun intended, but Aria is the thing that keeps Chayne tied to any semblance of goodness.
* MoralityPet: One of the only things Chayne cares about. Unfortunately this doesn't do much to stop Chayne's plans.
* PeekABooCorpse: How Chayne and Jenny discover her after her suicide.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the first part of ''Heaven & Hell'', Aria's become notably kinder and more considerate to Mint, with any implicit consent she has in her father's plan to hurt Mint ''incredibly'' reluctant on her part.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her identity of Aria Summers, the daughter of Chayne thought dead for three entire books, seals her as one of these.
* YouAreNotMyFather: Chayne Prime's actions in having kickstarted the Heaven Cycle and destroying ''trillions'' of lives through it all to set up a paradise for Aria results in Aria furiously disowning Chayne as her mother, renouncing herself as Aria to adopt her old name Celia, and chewing Chayne out on her inability to own up to her actions -- [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter something Aria once did herself all the way back in Haven]].
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[[folder:"Erebos"/Nestor]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
The enigmatic leader of the Sect of the Broken Mind, and one of the most powerful immunes on Earth.
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* AbusiveParents: Azazel, for all intents and purposes, is his father. He is ''not'' a pleasant one to have.
* TheAtoner: He takes on this role as of the latest chapters, admitting his sins and what he's got to make up for.
* BadBoss: He, in the words of the story, 'doesn't seem bummed' at having abandoned all his followers to 'a horrible fucking death,' all for the sake of testing his emotional connection to them. It's downplayed -- if not quite subverted -- when he reveals it ''destroyed'' him to do this.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Admits that he's distanced himself from the notions of "right" and "wrong" and teaches his disciples to eschew individuality and any connections they may have with humanity. Thousands of years of having pursued his mission only to be revealed as Chayne's UnwittingPawn forces him to stop and question his mission, though, and Azazel's continued abuse leads to him accepting he's more human than he thought.
* TheChessmaster: When he finally decides to atone for his crimes in Azazel's name? Erebos leads Azazel, Abaddon, and even Tango and Dirgence on with a supposed infiltration mission -- only to reveal his ''[[UnspokenPlanGuarantee true]]'' ace in the hole was Sarie, leading to him to ''successfully out-gambit Azazel''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was, in actuality, a Greek child from Helike who was taken raised by Azazel, who had Helike, and his parents, tortured to death by Naberius. Nestor, or ''Erebos'', was then used as a puppet for Azazel for thousands of years on a mission that turned out to be all a lie at the end.
* TheDogBitesBack: Thousands of having been led on by Azazel with a lie after Azazel had his entire civilization destroyed by Naberius. Erebos turns the tables on him ''utterly'' in the mission into Tartarus.
* FreudianExcuse: His homeland was annihilated by Naberius and he was raised by Azazel of all people.
* HeelFaceTurn: Thanks to Tango giving him a new perspective, though he was little of a "heel" in the first place.
* HeroicSacrifice: Gives his life to annihilate Uriel and save the universe.
* HiddenDepths: Under his cool stoicism? Erebos, or rather Nestor, is a much kinder man.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Nearly repeats this word for word to Tango at the end.
* TheMole: Reveals this with one word: [[WhamLine "There is no signal."]]
* MustMakeAmends: Decides to do this after his BigDamnHeroes moment in Untermyer, to embrace his humanity and finally give Azazel what's coming to him in repentance to his amoral actions.
* NotSoDifferent: Believes he and Azazel are more alike than he once cared to admit.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Erebos is actually thousands of years old and has presumably known how to use his powers since, having kept himself alive through {{Body Surf}}ing.
* UnwittingPawn: Azazel's kept Erebos as one for thousands of years, having him spread the message of Hell to locate more followers for him to pick out for his army of transfigured Shades and keeping Erebos' loyalty with a promise of eternal bliss at the end of the war -- which, in truth, was merely the eternal agony of transfiguration. The instant Azazel reveals his true treachery, though? Erebos turns the tables on ''him''.
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[[folder:Sarie Crowland]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')
One of Jackson's friends in the present day and a member of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* BadassAdorable: An adorable sweetheart, and a badass fighter who helps take out the Lord of Hell.
* BigDamnKiss: She gives a hell of one to Jackson toward the end of the Cycle.
* BuxomIsBetter: When Sarie first takes off her jacket, Mint briefly notes Sarie has ''quite'' a chest to her.
* CuddleBug: Immediately becomes ''very'' physically attached to Jackson in the ending, after they've officially confessed to each other.
* TheCynic: Though [[GenkiGirl one could never guess at a first appearance]], Sarie's one of the most cynical characters in the cast. Part of the reason she was never able to fully attach herself to Jackson is because she was resigned to the certainty he'd die in the war -- and even when she's roped into the plot to stop her, Sarie ''still'' has almost no faith in the mission. Heartwarmingly, [[KnightInSourArmor none of this stops her from putting her all into it]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her entire family was wiped out by angels, and she was narrowly saved by Erebos. It's part of the reason why she feels she owes him a life debt.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: It's her ace in the hole that helps unmake Azazel.
* GenkiGirl: Almost perpetually in a cheerful, energetic, go-getter mood.
* HeroAntagonist: Briefly serves as one of these to Mint as Sarie is lead to believe by Jackson that Mint is still [[TheSociopath Alice]]. Once Sarie gets a chance to read Mint's mind and realize that they aren't, Sarie immediately drops any signs of antagonism towards Mint and even helps them later when she fears Aria may want to cause Mint harm.
* HeelFaceTurn: Initially a member of the Sect of the Broken Mind, later one of the top good guys.
* HeroicSacrifice: Seems like she's going to attempt this, though it's negated.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her GenkiGirl exterior, Sarie is surprisingly cynical and depressed, having almost ''no'' faith whatsoever she'll manage to win the war.
* IOweYouMyLife: Pledged her loyalty to Erebos when he saved her from death at the hands of the angels, and even when Mint offers her an alternative to completing the war against Heaven, she still looks up to him as her idol.
* KnightInSourArmor: She has no faith in the heroes' crusade to stop the Cycle and never manages to fully attach herself to either Jackson ''or'' the Sect's own mission because she firmly believes it will all end in disaster. In spite of that, Sarie fights ''tooth and nail'' for the sake of their mission because she cares for her friends that much, even almost [[HeroicSacrifice throwing away her own life]] just for the slim possibility Jackson and the others can make it out.
* NaiveNewcomer: Compared to the other members of the Sect. Sarie's the most recent addition and the youngest among them, and thus is the first of theirs to turn around as she hasn't been fully indoctrinated by Hell's strange philosophies.
* NiceGirl: One of the absolute nicest characters in the series. Whereas most other members of the Sect are portrayed in various shades of aloof to downright callous, Sarie by contrast is nothing but supportive and cheerful, never having wanted to do anything with the Sect's goal of destroying humanity and acting friendly and supportive to almost everyone she meets, casting aside her crusade to hurt Mint (whom she thinks is Alice at the time) the moment she realizes they're innocent and helping the good guys without any form of hesitation.
* OfficialCouple: Loves Jackson just as much as he loves her.
* ProphetEyes: As a quick indicator she's an immune, Sarie has completely white eyes that flash whenever she uses her Mylotheian powers.
* PsychicPowers: Like the rest of the immunes. Sarie mostly seems to use passive mind reading in contrast to Aria who casually erases people's memories, only once ever using her powers to control Mint's mind once (when she [[HeroAntagonist still believes Mint is Alice]]).
* SenselessSacrifice: Almost. Tries to give her own life to save the others from a mob of demons and angels -- which wouldn't have taken as Tara's BigDamnHeroes moment saves them all a second later. Jackson is ''mortified'' Sarie tried to throw away her own life after she'd promised she'd make it out with him.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Sect's members all have an end goal of the destruction of all humanity, with varying states of morality about them, but Sarie's easily the most straight-laced of them and admits she's happy Mint and the others came to the Sect with new information, meaning she doesn't ''have'' to help in the destruction of Earth.
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[[folder:"Digit"/Lucas Gilbert]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An immune specializing in the research of Heaven and Hell's energies, particularly the Menhirs.
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* BoomHeadshot: Killed like this in the Battle of Yonkers, directly by Pluto.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Digit ''hates'' Captain Crunch, in sort of a bizarre parallel to Tango's love of Fruit Loops, and takes this hatred to comically exaggerated levels by using his hatred of the cereal to provoke an emotional reaction strong enough to split his Shade from his body.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Digit's not entirely exempt from the Sect's more bizarre, callous tendencies, but the revelation of Azazel's true plot in Solomon -- and his banishment of Cryne to Tartarus -- ''horrifies'' Digit.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Seems to think the pinnacle of fashion is wearing around a tuxedo everywhere, which Tango utterly ridicules him for.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Digit's a bit smug and prone to many of the Sect's more condescending tendencies at times, but compared to someone like Burles, he's one of the nicest people in the Sect and he's quick to join Tango after seeing the true scope of Naberius' power for himself.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: After he's shot by Pluto, Sarie sees his corpse with the shot having gone through his eye, through his glasses.
* NerdGlasses: Wears a large, round pair similar to Mint's own, further accentuating his place as the "smart guy" of the Sect.
* TheSmartGuy: Essentially serves as this for the Sect, with his role seeming to be to collect and use information on Heaven and Hell's special energies for the Sect.
* TaughtByExperience: Seems to promote this kind of ideology, if him tossing Tango and their friends off a ''cliff'' to teach them how to harness Hell's energies for {{flight}} is any indication.
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[[folder:"Cryne"/Zita Schultes]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An immune Tango meets in Hell and part of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Too angry to flee the demons and angels after Horace's death, and ends up torn apart as a result.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Whatever is in store for her in Tartarus, it's hinted to be along these lines, enough to horrify even the more hardened members of the Sect.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Ended up cluing into Azazel's scheme to destroy Solomon by using Tango as live bait for Naberius. Azazel shuts her up before she can go too far.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Tries to become this to Azazel's scheme to destroy Solomon when she becomes the sole outside force to clue into it. She's a little bit too late.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seems to function as this alongside Dirgence. The two are hardly ever seen apart, and Dirgence is ''devastated'' when she's taken to Tartarus.
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[[folder:"Dirgence"/Horace Armstrong]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An immune Tango meets in Hell and part of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Relishes a chance to take a shot at the demonic Adrammelech.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Dies after confessing his love one last time for Zita in the apocalyptic war.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Helping to take down three major villains in the apocalypse war before succumbing.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seems to function as this alongside Cryne.
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[[folder:"Burles"/Claude Carvel]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
One of the most experienced -- and haughty -- members of the Sect.
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* TheFundamentalist: Believes the followers of Hell and their divine crusade is right, and everyone else is wrong. Performs MindRape on anyone who protest that in any way, shape or form.
* HeelRealization: Naberius forces him to see the futility of his mission and that he and the rest of the Sect are playing right into Chayne's hands. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Unfortunately for Naberius]], this also gives Burles the motivation to stop being such a hard-ass and give his life to let the others escape as "one last thing right."
* HeroicSacrifice: His last action is to deliberately use Hell's energies to blow himself to let the others escape from Naberius, as well as liberate the thousands of souls Naberius was keeping in tortured bondage in his "art house."
* {{Jerkass}}: Among the biggest in the Sect. Burles is aggressive and condescending almost every moment he's on-page, treating Jango and Maxine as liabilities at best due to their lack of power and using open violence to shut up their protests. He snaps out of it a minute before his death.
* SacrificialLamb: One of the first named characters to bite it in ''Radiance'', conveniently not a few chapters after he's introduced.
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!!The Children of Heaven
[[folder:"Pluto"/Lazaros]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
The leader of the Children of Heaven, the contingent of immunes that serve Heaven, and the archenemy of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* AssholeVictim: Finally killed in the war between Heaven and Hell with nobody mourning him, left ignominiously just like the thousands he'd left dead behind him.
* BadBoss: Will abuse his minions at the slightest provocation when he's feeling stressed Just ask Leviathan.
* BerserkButton: Reminding him of being Lazaros is a surefire way to trigger his anger. Insanely so.
* BodySurf: How he's stayed alive for centuries, and he shows ''much'' more willingness to do so than Erebos.
* ButtMonkey: Every single time he appears, something goes wrong for him. Mint kicks him out of their mind with relative ease and utterly humiliates him the second time in front of Uriel, and Naberius slashes his face and taunts him the next time. This starts to change after he murders Charles, where he becomes a truly ''dangerous'' threat utterly intent on seeing the heroes and their hopes destroyed.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Tango blows a hole through him, and Mint proceeds to slowly crush his skull. A rare case where this is utterly, ''wholly'' deserved, as Pluto specialized in doing even ''worse'' to people.
* DeadpanSnarker: he does have a knack for quipping.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Has a knack for utterly out-of-proportion vengeance to anything that slights him and Heaven. When Tango ''accidentally'' plays into a scheme that ends with the destruction of Solomon? Pluto decides fair retribution to them is to murder their father and then proceed to order ''all of Yonkers to be massacred'' by his followers.
* DirtyCoward: Pluto's first response to his plans and schemes being waylaid is to book it as fast as he can, keeping a reserve of well over ''thirty'' bodies to possess just in case he needs to mind-jump out of a hairy situation.
* EvilCounterpart: Though Erebos isn't exactly a paragon of goodness, Pluto is still noted to be ''much'' worse, taking Erebos' distance from humanity UpToEleven by expressing murderous sadism and a willingness to casually possess or torture people at his own leisure.
* EvilGloating: He ''loves'' engaging in this.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Casually warns he may find someone being eaten alive by their own son as amusing.
* EvilIsPetty: Willing to unleash the Phantom, having the populace tear each other apart... to pin it on Mint.
* FacePalmOfDoom: How Mint kills him, taking him by the head -- and ''crushing'' it like a grape, killing both his body and his Shade.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Seems to love to hear himself talk, casually chatting up Mint with a friendly smile while simultaneously letting them know with the same face and tone he's here to either turn Mint into a God or torture them into Ascending. Pluto also indicates to Mint he acts more vicious to "keep up appearances" in the real world.
* FantasticRacism: Believes humans to be little better than apes now.
* FreudianExcuse: Pluto grew up as a Nubian slave in ancient Egypt with no friends or family, living as such until he was liberated by a strange, swarthy man who awakened his powers. It's not even remotely enough to excuse him.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: His above excuse? Not nearly sufficient to explain or to excuse him. At his core, he's a sociopath who delights in the power he's given.
* HateSink: A loathsome, vile, sickening bastard who orders atrocity after atrocity, and represents the worst evils of the Heaven side.
* GodzillaThreshold: Weaponizing the Phantom is considered a point of no return by Amanda, enough to horrify her with its potentially disastrous effects on the populace.
* InTheirOwnImage: Pluto's long term goal, as well as the rest of the Children he commands, as a reward for serving Heaven. Pluto plans to help Heaven win the war and annihilate all life on Earth so he and his followers can create their own versions on Earth over top the ashes to rule over as gods.
* KickTheDog: Murdering Charles Waits just to spite Tango.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: You see everything else on this page? When you're down, Pluto keeps kicking.
* KnightTemplar: As a servant of heaven, Pluto is hellbent on supporting Uriel and Heaven, no matter how hideous the work.
* MindRape: Engages in this with utter aplomb, tormenting his victims with mental assaults to break them down or leave them vulnerable for him to go in for the kill.
* NeverMyFault: Pluto never accepts responsibility for ''anything'' that goes wrong.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Pluto, for a while, talks a big game and certainly showcases his viciousness eagerly and willingly, but he's a small fish in a big pond and he has a tendency to get his ass whupped every time he's on-screen while accomplishing nothing, with even Mint treating him as nothing more than a nuisance. Then Pluto decides he's done screwing around and murders Charles Waits right in front of Tango's eyes.
* PsychoSupporter: Completely and utterly for his lord Uriel. He's a vicious fanatic to say the least.
* PsychopathicManchild: Pluto is highly immature and totally insane, frequently lashing out in tantrums at the nearest target.
* {{Sadist}}: Pluto really enjoys the pain of others.
* SmugSnake: Probably beyond any other villain in the series. Pluto talks a big game and he's a relentless, arrogant sadist, but he is ''way'' out of his depth when it comes to the war between the tulpas, with Mint, Uriel, and Naberius all letting him know how misplaced his arrogance is.
* SmugSmiler: He is almost ''always'' smiling when things go off as he plans.
* ThatManIsDead: He's Pluto, ''not'' Lazaros. Never Lazaros.
* ToThePain: Pluto believes in making punishments ''hurt.''
* WeCanRuleTogether: For all of his wanton murder and sadism, Pluto ''really'' wants Mint on his side and tries to convince them to Ascend, through coercion, threat, and even trying to genuinely assure them that as a God, they'll be able to recreate all those they've lost on Earth when the war starts. Mint always responds to him with a pronounced ShutUpHannibal.
* YouKilledMyFather: Murders Charles after mentally tormenting him, to get on the receiving end of this from Tango.
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[[folder:Leviathan]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
Pluto's right-hand, and the second-in-command of the Children of Heaven.
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* AffablyEvil: He's exceedingly well-spoken and courteous despite being a Nazi with a fondness for MindRape.
* TheDragon: To Pluto. Pluto even remarks a former ''[[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Obersturmführer]]'' seemed a good picked for the job.
* FauxAffablyEvil: That politeness is just a cover for what a monstrous bastard he is.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As sick and twisted as Pluto, and he showcases it during Yonkers when he spearheads some horrific violence and mental torture.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Leviathan is clearly not his real name, but it's unknown what his real name is.
* ThoseWackyNazis: A former ''Obersturmführer'' who happens to also be an immune affiliated with Heaven, who's stayed alive through body-surfing. Specifically, Leviathan seems to be of the WickedCultured variety.
* VillainousBreakdown: He ''freaks'' when he's banished at Yonkers, vowing hideous vengeance.
* VillainsOutShopping: Apparently had a stint with reality television in his past unrelated to his occupation in the Children.
* WickedCultured: Chides Mint for branding him as "just" a Nazi, professing himself as a purveyor of fine arts (and apparently [[NoodleIncident reality television]]).
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[[folder:Avery]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
A member of the Children of Heaven.
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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Between him and Everiett, Avery is clearly the one with the more sadistic sense of humor, cheerfully mocking the mangled corpse of one of the Children's "loose ends" and getting a good chuckle out of it to Everiett's clear irritation.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Seems to function as this to the Children of Heaven with Everiett.
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[[folder:Everiett]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
A member of the Children of Heaven.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Seems to function as this to the Children of Heaven with Avert.
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[[folder:Tex]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
A particularly eccentric member of the Children of Heaven Mint and George encounter.
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* AxCrazy: An utter ''nutcase'' whose ideal utopian Earth is one filled with thousands of severed heads sewn into “grim caterpillars of agony.” This seems to be more played for laughs than anything given Avery’s exasperation with his psychotic ramblings -- up until Tex murders George while giggling.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn’t seem to be all there mentally, apparently believing that spiked {{eldritch abomination}}s speak to him and want him to “take the Earth.” Tex implies acid might have something to do with it.
* CompanionCube: His spiked club. When it breaks as he stabs George, Tex flies into a sobbing panic, long enough for Mint to kill him.
* NeckSnap: Mint kicks the bottom of his head hard enough to break his neck.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Appears for all of one chapter before he’s killed by Mint.
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[[folder:Celia Wilde/Aria Summers]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An eccentric girl from outside Haven introduced in ''The Touch of Heaven'' and another immune. She is actually Aria Summers, the lost daughter of Chayne Summers.
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* ActionGirl: Fully willing to take the initiative into rescuing Tango and Miles from Jango by ''plowing a car'' into the store they're being held in and leading a high-speed chase back to Haven.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Kooky, detached, slow to social cues, and seemingly oblivious to her own amorality, hinting at some sort of major social disorder.
* AntiHero: Celia's forceful, seemingly apathetic to the people she constantly puts in harm's way around her, and tends to make decisions for people without their consent – up to casually playing with the minds of people and wiping their memories when it's most convenient. Unlike many examples of this trope, Celia doesn't necessarily come off as a typical anti-hero or even consciously selfish, with many of her more unnerving or borderline sociopathic moments seeming to be a product of her own obliviousness.
* TheAtoner: Post-Haven, Aria blames herself for the destruction of Haven on her own selfish actions and spends years trying to get over it and make up for it. Naturally, Aria is absolutely ''pissed'' when Chayne Prime shows a similarly cavalier attitude toward all the lives she's ruined through the Cycle.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: To an extent, but Celia doesn't seem to register what's wrong with dragging people she barely knows away from their homes into life-or-death missions, casually controlling their minds, or even leaving the rotted corpse of her own dead grandmother simply splayed out in the middle of her own home. ''Heaven & Hell'' establishes she's getting better.
* BreakTheCutie: The original Chayne does this ''hard'' to her when she refuses to sit quietly in Nirvana, and the resultant MindRape ends up destroying her so thoroughly she's driven to kill herself.
* CloudCuckoolander: Celia seems to behave like she's on a different wavelength from everyone. Unfortunately, this behavior more often than not endangers everyone around her as well.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chayne's inflexible monstrosity and the horrific effect her MindRape has on Aria ends up driving her to hang herself -- [[YouAreTooLate scant days before Jenny arrives in Nirvana.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Celia's actions in ''The Touch of Heaven'' are definitively and consistently selfish, mostly hinging on a desire to take Tango out of Haven and into the Sect for her own convenience. Bizarrely enough, Celia doesn't even seem ''aware'' of her selfish actions until the very end of the story when her actions inadvertently result in the destruction of Haven and the needless death of thousands of innocent people.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As careless of other people's feelings she can be, Celia genuinely means well and she is ''horrified'' when her actions cause more destruction than they ever meant to cause. Come ''Heaven & Hell'', she seems to have mostly developed into a much nicer person, empathizing with Mint's desire to see Tango again and cheerfully socializing with them and many others at a party.
* KickTheMoralityPet: On the receiving end of this from Chayne, who dismisses the pain she causes her as 'education.'
* LackOfEmpathy: Deconstructed. Celia isn't necessarily ''intentionally'' unsympathetic to everyone around her, but her constant use of force and psychic powers to get what she wants and general antipathy towards everyone around her – including her ''own dead grandmother'' – don't seem to click with her. It's this behavior which ends up leading Jango directly to Haven, which, coupled with Alice's manipulations, ends up with ''thousands'' killed, which ''finally'' cracks Celia. She seems to have gotten her head on straighter by the time of ''Heaven & Hell'', even scrawling herself reminders not to casually play with people's minds in her room.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Aria's cavalier and aloof attitude towards everyone around her in ''The Touch of Heaven'' seems to be a byproduct of her being Chayne's daughter. Aria ends up calling Chayne Prime out on this after a stint of character development in ''The Radiance of Heaven''.
* MoralityChain: No pun intended, but Aria is the thing that keeps Chayne tied to any semblance of goodness.
* MoralityPet: One of the only things Chayne cares about. Unfortunately this doesn't do much to stop Chayne's plans.
* PeekABooCorpse: How Chayne and Jenny discover her after her suicide.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the first part of ''Heaven & Hell'', Aria's become notably kinder and more considerate to Mint, with any implicit consent she has in her father's plan to hurt Mint ''incredibly'' reluctant on her part.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her identity of Aria Summers, the daughter of Chayne thought dead for three entire books, seals her as one of these.
* YouAreNotMyFather: Chayne Prime's actions in having kickstarted the Heaven Cycle and destroying ''trillions'' of lives through it all to set up a paradise for Aria results in Aria furiously disowning Chayne as her mother, renouncing herself as Aria to adopt her old name Celia, and chewing Chayne out on her inability to own up to her actions -- [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter something Aria once did herself all the way back in Haven]].
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[[folder:"Erebos"/Nestor]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
The enigmatic leader of the Sect of the Broken Mind, and one of the most powerful immunes on Earth.
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* AbusiveParents: Azazel, for all intents and purposes, is his father. He is ''not'' a pleasant one to have.
* TheAtoner: He takes on this role as of the latest chapters, admitting his sins and what he's got to make up for.
* BadBoss: He, in the words of the story, 'doesn't seem bummed' at having abandoned all his followers to 'a horrible fucking death,' all for the sake of testing his emotional connection to them. It's downplayed -- if not quite subverted -- when he reveals it ''destroyed'' him to do this.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Admits that he's distanced himself from the notions of "right" and "wrong" and teaches his disciples to eschew individuality and any connections they may have with humanity. Thousands of years of having pursued his mission only to be revealed as Chayne's UnwittingPawn forces him to stop and question his mission, though, and Azazel's continued abuse leads to him accepting he's more human than he thought.
* TheChessmaster: When he finally decides to atone for his crimes in Azazel's name? Erebos leads Azazel, Abaddon, and even Tango and Dirgence on with a supposed infiltration mission -- only to reveal his ''[[UnspokenPlanGuarantee true]]'' ace in the hole was Sarie, leading to him to ''successfully out-gambit Azazel''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was, in actuality, a Greek child from Helike who was taken raised by Azazel, who had Helike, and his parents, tortured to death by Naberius. Nestor, or ''Erebos'', was then used as a puppet for Azazel for thousands of years on a mission that turned out to be all a lie at the end.
* TheDogBitesBack: Thousands of having been led on by Azazel with a lie after Azazel had his entire civilization destroyed by Naberius. Erebos turns the tables on him ''utterly'' in the mission into Tartarus.
* FreudianExcuse: His homeland was annihilated by Naberius and he was raised by Azazel of all people.
* HeelFaceTurn: Thanks to Tango giving him a new perspective, though he was little of a "heel" in the first place.
* HeroicSacrifice: Gives his life to annihilate Uriel and save the universe.
* HiddenDepths: Under his cool stoicism? Erebos, or rather Nestor, is a much kinder man.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Nearly repeats this word for word to Tango at the end.
* TheMole: Reveals this with one word: [[WhamLine "There is no signal."]]
* MustMakeAmends: Decides to do this after his BigDamnHeroes moment in Untermyer, to embrace his humanity and finally give Azazel what's coming to him in repentance to his amoral actions.
* NotSoDifferent: Believes he and Azazel are more alike than he once cared to admit.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Erebos is actually thousands of years old and has presumably known how to use his powers since, having kept himself alive through {{Body Surf}}ing.
* UnwittingPawn: Azazel's kept Erebos as one for thousands of years, having him spread the message of Hell to locate more followers for him to pick out for his army of transfigured Shades and keeping Erebos' loyalty with a promise of eternal bliss at the end of the war -- which, in truth, was merely the eternal agony of transfiguration. The instant Azazel reveals his true treachery, though? Erebos turns the tables on ''him''.
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[[folder:Sarie Crowland]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')
One of Jackson's friends in the present day and a member of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* BadassAdorable: An adorable sweetheart, and a badass fighter who helps take out the Lord of Hell.
* BigDamnKiss: She gives a hell of one to Jackson toward the end of the Cycle.
* BuxomIsBetter: When Sarie first takes off her jacket, Mint briefly notes Sarie has ''quite'' a chest to her.
* CuddleBug: Immediately becomes ''very'' physically attached to Jackson in the ending, after they've officially confessed to each other.
* TheCynic: Though [[GenkiGirl one could never guess at a first appearance]], Sarie's one of the most cynical characters in the cast. Part of the reason she was never able to fully attach herself to Jackson is because she was resigned to the certainty he'd die in the war -- and even when she's roped into the plot to stop her, Sarie ''still'' has almost no faith in the mission. Heartwarmingly, [[KnightInSourArmor none of this stops her from putting her all into it]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her entire family was wiped out by angels, and she was narrowly saved by Erebos. It's part of the reason why she feels she owes him a life debt.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: It's her ace in the hole that helps unmake Azazel.
* GenkiGirl: Almost perpetually in a cheerful, energetic, go-getter mood.
* HeroAntagonist: Briefly serves as one of these to Mint as Sarie is lead to believe by Jackson that Mint is still [[TheSociopath Alice]]. Once Sarie gets a chance to read Mint's mind and realize that they aren't, Sarie immediately drops any signs of antagonism towards Mint and even helps them later when she fears Aria may want to cause Mint harm.
* HeelFaceTurn: Initially a member of the Sect of the Broken Mind, later one of the top good guys.
* HeroicSacrifice: Seems like she's going to attempt this, though it's negated.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her GenkiGirl exterior, Sarie is surprisingly cynical and depressed, having almost ''no'' faith whatsoever she'll manage to win the war.
* IOweYouMyLife: Pledged her loyalty to Erebos when he saved her from death at the hands of the angels, and even when Mint offers her an alternative to completing the war against Heaven, she still looks up to him as her idol.
* KnightInSourArmor: She has no faith in the heroes' crusade to stop the Cycle and never manages to fully attach herself to either Jackson ''or'' the Sect's own mission because she firmly believes it will all end in disaster. In spite of that, Sarie fights ''tooth and nail'' for the sake of their mission because she cares for her friends that much, even almost [[HeroicSacrifice throwing away her own life]] just for the slim possibility Jackson and the others can make it out.
* NaiveNewcomer: Compared to the other members of the Sect. Sarie's the most recent addition and the youngest among them, and thus is the first of theirs to turn around as she hasn't been fully indoctrinated by Hell's strange philosophies.
* NiceGirl: One of the absolute nicest characters in the series. Whereas most other members of the Sect are portrayed in various shades of aloof to downright callous, Sarie by contrast is nothing but supportive and cheerful, never having wanted to do anything with the Sect's goal of destroying humanity and acting friendly and supportive to almost everyone she meets, casting aside her crusade to hurt Mint (whom she thinks is Alice at the time) the moment she realizes they're innocent and helping the good guys without any form of hesitation.
* OfficialCouple: Loves Jackson just as much as he loves her.
* ProphetEyes: As a quick indicator she's an immune, Sarie has completely white eyes that flash whenever she uses her Mylotheian powers.
* PsychicPowers: Like the rest of the immunes. Sarie mostly seems to use passive mind reading in contrast to Aria who casually erases people's memories, only once ever using her powers to control Mint's mind once (when she [[HeroAntagonist still believes Mint is Alice]]).
* SenselessSacrifice: Almost. Tries to give her own life to save the others from a mob of demons and angels -- which wouldn't have taken as Tara's BigDamnHeroes moment saves them all a second later. Jackson is ''mortified'' Sarie tried to throw away her own life after she'd promised she'd make it out with him.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Sect's members all have an end goal of the destruction of all humanity, with varying states of morality about them, but Sarie's easily the most straight-laced of them and admits she's happy Mint and the others came to the Sect with new information, meaning she doesn't ''have'' to help in the destruction of Earth.
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[[folder:"Digit"/Lucas Gilbert]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An immune specializing in the research of Heaven and Hell's energies, particularly the Menhirs.
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* BoomHeadshot: Killed like this in the Battle of Yonkers, directly by Pluto.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Digit ''hates'' Captain Crunch, in sort of a bizarre parallel to Tango's love of Fruit Loops, and takes this hatred to comically exaggerated levels by using his hatred of the cereal to provoke an emotional reaction strong enough to split his Shade from his body.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Digit's not entirely exempt from the Sect's more bizarre, callous tendencies, but the revelation of Azazel's true plot in Solomon -- and his banishment of Cryne to Tartarus -- ''horrifies'' Digit.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Seems to think the pinnacle of fashion is wearing around a tuxedo everywhere, which Tango utterly ridicules him for.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Digit's a bit smug and prone to many of the Sect's more condescending tendencies at times, but compared to someone like Burles, he's one of the nicest people in the Sect and he's quick to join Tango after seeing the true scope of Naberius' power for himself.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: After he's shot by Pluto, Sarie sees his corpse with the shot having gone through his eye, through his glasses.
* NerdGlasses: Wears a large, round pair similar to Mint's own, further accentuating his place as the "smart guy" of the Sect.
* TheSmartGuy: Essentially serves as this for the Sect, with his role seeming to be to collect and use information on Heaven and Hell's special energies for the Sect.
* TaughtByExperience: Seems to promote this kind of ideology, if him tossing Tango and their friends off a ''cliff'' to teach them how to harness Hell's energies for {{flight}} is any indication.
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[[folder:"Cryne"/Zita Schultes]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An immune Tango meets in Hell and part of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Too angry to flee the demons and angels after Horace's death, and ends up torn apart as a result.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Whatever is in store for her in Tartarus, it's hinted to be along these lines, enough to horrify even the more hardened members of the Sect.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Ended up cluing into Azazel's scheme to destroy Solomon by using Tango as live bait for Naberius. Azazel shuts her up before she can go too far.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Tries to become this to Azazel's scheme to destroy Solomon when she becomes the sole outside force to clue into it. She's a little bit too late.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seems to function as this alongside Dirgence. The two are hardly ever seen apart, and Dirgence is ''devastated'' when she's taken to Tartarus.
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[[folder:"Dirgence"/Horace Armstrong]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
An immune Tango meets in Hell and part of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Relishes a chance to take a shot at the demonic Adrammelech.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Dies after confessing his love one last time for Zita in the apocalyptic war.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Helping to take down three major villains in the apocalypse war before succumbing.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seems to function as this alongside Cryne.
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[[folder:"Burles"/Claude Carvel]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
One of the most experienced -- and haughty -- members of the Sect.
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* TheFundamentalist: Believes the followers of Hell and their divine crusade is right, and everyone else is wrong. Performs MindRape on anyone who protest that in any way, shape or form.
* HeelRealization: Naberius forces him to see the futility of his mission and that he and the rest of the Sect are playing right into Chayne's hands. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Unfortunately for Naberius]], this also gives Burles the motivation to stop being such a hard-ass and give his life to let the others escape as "one last thing right."
* HeroicSacrifice: His last action is to deliberately use Hell's energies to blow himself to let the others escape from Naberius, as well as liberate the thousands of souls Naberius was keeping in tortured bondage in his "art house."
* {{Jerkass}}: Among the biggest in the Sect. Burles is aggressive and condescending almost every moment he's on-page, treating Jango and Maxine as liabilities at best due to their lack of power and using open violence to shut up their protests. He snaps out of it a minute before his death.
* SacrificialLamb: One of the first named characters to bite it in ''Radiance'', conveniently not a few chapters after he's introduced.
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!!The Children of Heaven
[[folder:"Pluto"/Lazaros]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
The leader of the Children of Heaven, the contingent of immunes that serve Heaven, and the archenemy of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* AssholeVictim: Finally killed in the war between Heaven and Hell with nobody mourning him, left ignominiously just like the thousands he'd left dead behind him.
* BadBoss: Will abuse his minions at the slightest provocation when he's feeling stressed Just ask Leviathan.
* BerserkButton: Reminding him of being Lazaros is a surefire way to trigger his anger. Insanely so.
* BodySurf: How he's stayed alive for centuries, and he shows ''much'' more willingness to do so than Erebos.
* ButtMonkey: Every single time he appears, something goes wrong for him. Mint kicks him out of their mind with relative ease and utterly humiliates him the second time in front of Uriel, and Naberius slashes his face and taunts him the next time. This starts to change after he murders Charles, where he becomes a truly ''dangerous'' threat utterly intent on seeing the heroes and their hopes destroyed.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Tango blows a hole through him, and Mint proceeds to slowly crush his skull. A rare case where this is utterly, ''wholly'' deserved, as Pluto specialized in doing even ''worse'' to people.
* DeadpanSnarker: he does have a knack for quipping.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Has a knack for utterly out-of-proportion vengeance to anything that slights him and Heaven. When Tango ''accidentally'' plays into a scheme that ends with the destruction of Solomon? Pluto decides fair retribution to them is to murder their father and then proceed to order ''all of Yonkers to be massacred'' by his followers.
* DirtyCoward: Pluto's first response to his plans and schemes being waylaid is to book it as fast as he can, keeping a reserve of well over ''thirty'' bodies to possess just in case he needs to mind-jump out of a hairy situation.
* EvilCounterpart: Though Erebos isn't exactly a paragon of goodness, Pluto is still noted to be ''much'' worse, taking Erebos' distance from humanity UpToEleven by expressing murderous sadism and a willingness to casually possess or torture people at his own leisure.
* EvilGloating: He ''loves'' engaging in this.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Casually warns he may find someone being eaten alive by their own son as amusing.
* EvilIsPetty: Willing to unleash the Phantom, having the populace tear each other apart... to pin it on Mint.
* FacePalmOfDoom: How Mint kills him, taking him by the head -- and ''crushing'' it like a grape, killing both his body and his Shade.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Seems to love to hear himself talk, casually chatting up Mint with a friendly smile while simultaneously letting them know with the same face and tone he's here to either turn Mint into a God or torture them into Ascending. Pluto also indicates to Mint he acts more vicious to "keep up appearances" in the real world.
* FantasticRacism: Believes humans to be little better than apes now.
* FreudianExcuse: Pluto grew up as a Nubian slave in ancient Egypt with no friends or family, living as such until he was liberated by a strange, swarthy man who awakened his powers. It's not even remotely enough to excuse him.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: His above excuse? Not nearly sufficient to explain or to excuse him. At his core, he's a sociopath who delights in the power he's given.
* HateSink: A loathsome, vile, sickening bastard who orders atrocity after atrocity, and represents the worst evils of the Heaven side.
* GodzillaThreshold: Weaponizing the Phantom is considered a point of no return by Amanda, enough to horrify her with its potentially disastrous effects on the populace.
* InTheirOwnImage: Pluto's long term goal, as well as the rest of the Children he commands, as a reward for serving Heaven. Pluto plans to help Heaven win the war and annihilate all life on Earth so he and his followers can create their own versions on Earth over top the ashes to rule over as gods.
* KickTheDog: Murdering Charles Waits just to spite Tango.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: You see everything else on this page? When you're down, Pluto keeps kicking.
* KnightTemplar: As a servant of heaven, Pluto is hellbent on supporting Uriel and Heaven, no matter how hideous the work.
* MindRape: Engages in this with utter aplomb, tormenting his victims with mental assaults to break them down or leave them vulnerable for him to go in for the kill.
* NeverMyFault: Pluto never accepts responsibility for ''anything'' that goes wrong.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Pluto, for a while, talks a big game and certainly showcases his viciousness eagerly and willingly, but he's a small fish in a big pond and he has a tendency to get his ass whupped every time he's on-screen while accomplishing nothing, with even Mint treating him as nothing more than a nuisance. Then Pluto decides he's done screwing around and murders Charles Waits right in front of Tango's eyes.
* PsychoSupporter: Completely and utterly for his lord Uriel. He's a vicious fanatic to say the least.
* PsychopathicManchild: Pluto is highly immature and totally insane, frequently lashing out in tantrums at the nearest target.
* {{Sadist}}: Pluto really enjoys the pain of others.
* SmugSnake: Probably beyond any other villain in the series. Pluto talks a big game and he's a relentless, arrogant sadist, but he is ''way'' out of his depth when it comes to the war between the tulpas, with Mint, Uriel, and Naberius all letting him know how misplaced his arrogance is.
* SmugSmiler: He is almost ''always'' smiling when things go off as he plans.
* ThatManIsDead: He's Pluto, ''not'' Lazaros. Never Lazaros.
* ToThePain: Pluto believes in making punishments ''hurt.''
* WeCanRuleTogether: For all of his wanton murder and sadism, Pluto ''really'' wants Mint on his side and tries to convince them to Ascend, through coercion, threat, and even trying to genuinely assure them that as a God, they'll be able to recreate all those they've lost on Earth when the war starts. Mint always responds to him with a pronounced ShutUpHannibal.
* YouKilledMyFather: Murders Charles after mentally tormenting him, to get on the receiving end of this from Tango.
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[[folder:Leviathan]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
Pluto's right-hand, and the second-in-command of the Children of Heaven.
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* AffablyEvil: He's exceedingly well-spoken and courteous despite being a Nazi with a fondness for MindRape.
* TheDragon: To Pluto. Pluto even remarks a former ''[[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Obersturmführer]]'' seemed a good picked for the job.
* FauxAffablyEvil: That politeness is just a cover for what a monstrous bastard he is.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As sick and twisted as Pluto, and he showcases it during Yonkers when he spearheads some horrific violence and mental torture.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Leviathan is clearly not his real name, but it's unknown what his real name is.
* ThoseWackyNazis: A former ''Obersturmführer'' who happens to also be an immune affiliated with Heaven, who's stayed alive through body-surfing. Specifically, Leviathan seems to be of the WickedCultured variety.
* VillainousBreakdown: He ''freaks'' when he's banished at Yonkers, vowing hideous vengeance.
* VillainsOutShopping: Apparently had a stint with reality television in his past unrelated to his occupation in the Children.
* WickedCultured: Chides Mint for branding him as "just" a Nazi, professing himself as a purveyor of fine arts (and apparently [[NoodleIncident reality television]]).
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[[folder:Avery]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
A member of the Children of Heaven.
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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Between him and Everiett, Avery is clearly the one with the more sadistic sense of humor, cheerfully mocking the mangled corpse of one of the Children's "loose ends" and getting a good chuckle out of it to Everiett's clear irritation.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Seems to function as this to the Children of Heaven with Everiett.
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[[folder:Everiett]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
A member of the Children of Heaven.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Seems to function as this to the Children of Heaven with Avert.
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[[folder:Tex]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
A particularly eccentric member of the Children of Heaven Mint and George encounter.
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* AxCrazy: An utter ''nutcase'' whose ideal utopian Earth is one filled with thousands of severed heads sewn into “grim caterpillars of agony.” This seems to be more played for laughs than anything given Avery’s exasperation with his psychotic ramblings -- up until Tex murders George while giggling.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn’t seem to be all there mentally, apparently believing that spiked {{eldritch abomination}}s speak to him and want him to “take the Earth.” Tex implies acid might have something to do with it.
* CompanionCube: His spiked club. When it breaks as he stabs George, Tex flies into a sobbing panic, long enough for Mint to kill him.
* NeckSnap: Mint kicks the bottom of his head hard enough to break his neck.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Appears for all of one chapter before he’s killed by Mint.
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