History Fanfic / UncleAdam

--> "I am your enemy. The man that hates you, ''both'' of you, most in all of time and space! No exception. So why am '''I''' had to save '''YOUR''' daughter while she was attacked in '''YOUR''' kingdom by one of '''YOUR''' sinners?"

** In canon, Lute's convicted response to Charlie's question of her really thinking that Angels don't mistakes makes her a bigoted [[TautologicalTemplar tautological]] KnightTemplar. [[spoiler:In the fic, her beliefs are much more sympathetic and justified given that the InternalReveal of Lucifer and Lilith caused plenty of problems for Heaven that would've led to it becoming a ''second'' Hell.]]

* AlternateUniverseFic: Unlike the canon show, the fic starts off with a 10-year-old Charlie Morningstar deciding to confront Adam and his Exorcist on the 1920 Extermination Day.

** Sinners usually wage war against each other for various of reasons when Adam and his Exorcists aren't around.

* EvilVersusEvil: Alastor specifically goes after Sinners who either became or are Overlords to demonstrate his own power.

* AssholeVictim: While there are plenty of Sinners who didn't deserve to be killed by Adam and the Exorcists in the Extermination, the canon series and its sister series show that Hell is still '''{{Hell}}'''. There ''are'' Sinners who were [[BeyondRedemption fully unrepentant of their malicious actions]] in life (whether for if they are an [[AtLeastIAdmitIt admitted]] CardCarryingVillain or a KnightTemplar with narcissistic delusions of their "righteousness") and continue to do so after they've died and become demons. Ultimately, you'll be cheering for Adam, the Exorcists, or any other "nice" character (i.e. Lucifer and Alastor) giving those Sinners their eventual "just desserts".

* TheGrandHunt: The Extermination is this to the Exorcists, where they treat it like a game with scores counting.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Make no mistake, Alastor is still a sadistic and cannibalistic SerialKiller like in canon. But thanks to his [[BlueAndOrangeMorality weird moral compass]] and growing up as a Crecole man in the early 20th century of New Orleans, Louisiana, he has plenty of [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]] that would make him a '''saint''' compared to the [[spoiler:Axis Powers]].

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: {{Reconstructed|Trope}}. As Adam tells Charlie most bluntly and truthfully he would, if she wasn't a Hellborn (and even then, he probably wouldn't care if he can get away with it), nevermind the Princess of Hell, he wouldn't hesitate to kill her upon first sight. Gradually, this allows Charlie to become something of a MoralityPet to Adam during the yearly timeskips.

** Lute also gets this treatment in the fic

** Lute is [[spoiler:a Heavenborn angel, making her views and beliefs ''very'' different from that of a Winner and a Sinner. Also, she's implicitly a Houri for Adam, meaning her morality and beliefs center around what Adam wants her to be.]]

!!The story has the following examples:

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Adam, which is a fundamental premise of the story. He's ''still'' a misogynistic asshole who greatly enjoys slaughtering Sinners, just like in canon. However, his interactions with Charlie (and his first one with Emily) bring out his softer side, and even outside of that, he demonstrates positive aspects and characteristics that are absent from his canon incarnation.
** He's a BenevolentBoss to the other Exorcists. He allows Earthborn Exorcists to leave without anything more than effectively signing a secrecy oath after they claim revenge against a particular Sinner who's wronged them in some way.
** He is willing to offer deals to Sinners to spare them from the Extermination in exchange for selling out Overlords AND honor those deals (instead of just killing them anyway, which he could easily do without consequences given how powerful he is).
** When the rare Sinner appears before him and asks for a MercyKill, Adam treats him with dignity. He even takes the time to answer a few sincere questions that the Sinner has about why he was sent to Hell before giving him a quick, relatively painless kill.

* AdaptedOut: The story begins in 1920, so Rock music hasn't been invented yet, therefore Adam uses a spear like everybody else instead of an electric guitar.

** The yearly Exterminations also get this treatment in the fic. As seen at the beginning of the first episode with Adam and Lute, the Exterminations of Sinners are merely Heaven's [[NoSoWellIntentionedExtremist attempt to cull the overpopulation situation of Hell, while also preventing any demon from rising up against them and serving as]] "[[ItAmuseMe entertainment]]". [[spoiler:That's also not getting into the general population of Heaven being unaware of the yearly exterminations and the GovernmentConspiracy with Heaven's elite and the Exorcists]] In the fic, the yearly Exterminations of Sinners [[spoiler:are revealed to have been a ''last'' resort of dealing with the numerous problems that arise from Hell's overpopulation of Sinners using contracts to empower themselves into Overlords and eventually '''Archfiends''', with the latter having enough power to kill angelic beings and eventually invade Heaven to turn it into a ''second'' Hell.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: According to Charlie's inner narration, there have been several internal conflicts in Hell over the centuries, including a revolt against Lucifer and Lilith by Crusader Sinners, an attempt by Dracula to unite Pentagram City, and efforts by Roman Sinners to establish an Overlord Republic. And in the period actually covered by the story, we see a war break out between Lucifer and Elizabeth Bathory when the latter tries to abduct Charlie.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler:Ultimately, there's little innocence of both sides of the story and the characters.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Like in canon, Emily is this for Charlie. Both are PrincessClassic in their respective worlds with friendly, optimistic, and idealistic personalities. Most importantly, it's to a plot point that they both bring out Adam's better qualities, slowly reconcile their WideEyedIdealism with the [[GrayAndGreyMorality nuances of their respective worlds]], and think more heavily about their goals to be TheRedeemer. Adam, and many other characters who knew Charlie and Emily by extension, lampshade the similarities between the two girls.
* MoralityPet: Charlie gradually becomes one to Adam throughout the story.

** In canon, Lute's convicted response to Charlie's question of her really thinking that Angels don't mistakes makes her a bigoted KnightTemplar. [[spoiler:In the fic, her beliefs are much more sympathetic and justified given that the InternalReveal of Lucifer and Lilith caused plenty of problems for Heaven that would've led to it becoming a ''second'' Hell.]]
** As shown in ''[[Recap/HazbinHotelS1E6WelcomeToHeaven Welcome to Heaven]]'', Heaven is eventually revealed to be something of CrapsaccharineWorld where [[spoiler:''no one'' knows what gets a deceased soul into being ascended and they refused to try and "fix" the system as they fear it would lead them into becoming {{Fallen Angel}}s like Lucifer.]] [[spoiler:In the fic, for all its perceived flaws, Heaven ''do'' want to create a better afterlife for the ascended human souls after all of Creation and Eden being broken from Lucifer and Lilith's extremely short-sighted attempts to do good. Also, while they still don't exactly know what gets a soul into Heaven, they do know what actions can lead a soul to damnation (i.e. [[ThouShallNotKill murder]]).]]

* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Downplayed. According to Adam, there's no such thing as the Abrahamic {{God}} or the various polytheistic gods, only angels and demons that humanity has collectively mistaken for them due to justifiably being [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incapable of comprehending their true form]].

** The more Charlie spends time and bonds with Adam during the yearly timeskips, the more she gradually realizes that the stories she read and heard from her parents about him, the history of hell, and themselves as "rebellious dreamers being unfairly persecuted", are becoming ''very'' inaccurate. [[spoiler:In chapter 8, Lilith goes as far as to tell Charlie (off-screen) that while the stories aren't fully true, it did feel that way to her.]]

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] with Adam. While Adam does have a traditional sense of right and wrong and what's objectively moral and amoral, his overall (albeit nuanced) views and judgment of the newly deceased souls after spending over many millennials as an angel mostly focuses on how they live on Earth and what they've done by the time of their death rather than NatureVersusNurture.

* CerebusRetcon: InUniverse. In the canon, Adam's current appearance as an Exorcist Angel has him wearing TwentyFourHourArmor for what's heavily implied to be CompensatingForSomething [[spoiler:given his first relationship with Lilith being a complete failure and the implication that Lucifer may have seduced his second wife]]. [[spoiler:In the fic, his heavily covered armor is the result of him dealing with the "shame" of feeling exposed after gaining free will, and he describes it as a "tear in his soul".]]

* DecapitationPresentation: Alastor makes his debut during 1933's Extermination Day by creating a pile of Overlord heads for the Exorcists to find, and hook up to a radio to broadcast their screams across Hell.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Downplayed with Lute. While she's still an angel like in the canon series, it's not clear if she's a natural-born angel or a really, ''really'', '''''really''''' old human soul who managed to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence (i.e. a "[[AngelicTransformation Winner]]"). In the fic, Lute is of the former interpretation and [[spoiler:heavily implied (if not implicitly) to be a Houri as well]].

* NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus: According to Adam, there's no such thing as the Abrahamic {{God}} or the various polytheistic gods, only angels and demons that humanity has collectively mistaken for them.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Downplayed with Lute. While she's still an angel like in the canon series, it's not clear if she's a natural-born angel or a really, ''really'', '''''really''''' old human soul who managed to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence (i.e. a "[[AngelicTransformation Winner]]"). In the fic, Lute is of the former interpretation and [[spoiler:heavily implied (if not implicitly) to be a horui as well]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Adam, which is a fundamental premise of the story. Make no mistake, he's still a misogynistic asshole who greatly enjoys slaughtering Sinners, just like in canon. However, his interactions with Charlie (and his first one with Emily) bring out his softer side, and even outside of that, he demonstrates positive aspects and characteristics that are absent from his canon incarnation.

* AgeLift: Inverted and justified. Since the fic starts off in 1920, Charlie is only 10 (by Hellborn years) compared to her older canon counterpart.

* AssholeVictim: While there are plenty of Sinners who didn't deserve to be killed by Adam and the Exorcists in the Extermination, Hell is still...Hell. there ''are'' Sinners who are [[BeyondRedemption fully unrepentant of their malicious actions]] that definitely earn their cruel demise.

** Lute is [[spoiler:a Heavenborn angel, making her views and beliefs ''very'' different from that of a Winner and a Sinner. Also, she's implicitly a houri for Adam, meaning her morality and beliefs center around what Adam wants her to be.]]