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The Main Three
The three central protagonists of the story.
Pug
"Making pacts, revealing universal truths, pranking the pope, seeing the mortal world you guys are always chattering about...Yeah, that's where I need to be."
A small yet very ambitious Imp from the circle of Pride. Pug dreams of nothing more than to become a tempter in the mortal realm, mostly so that he can see the world. While not the sharpest tool in the shed, he makes up for it with boundless optimism and curiosity, as well as unshakable loyalty to the very few friends he makes.
- Affably Evil: Even when torturing a damned soul, Pug still tries to have pleasant conversation with it. In fact, there isn't really a bad bone in this demon at all.
- All-Loving Hero: Despite being a monster who tortures damned souls for a living, Pug is as cordial and affable as they come, seeing the good in just about every being he comes across. He even says himself that he must love everyone if love is all about hearing other's problems.
- Blithe Spirit: It's his cherry disposition that convinces Matilda and Alichino to help him ascend.
- Determinator: NOTHING is able to stop Pug from his quest. This ends up being essential to the victory over the intruders, as it's his resolve that emboldens him to succeed in getting to Heaven before everyone else manages to.
- Distressed Dude: Gets eaten by Valac before Matilda and Alichino rescue him.
- Dumb Is Good: Pug's total naivete and simple desires make getting to Heaven and negotiating with God a cakewalk for him.
- The Heart: As made most evident when Matilda and Alichino are on the verge of rejecting the mission to Heaven, Pug keeps everyone's heads up high with his supremely friendly attitude and ability to identify everyone's strengths, as well as his pure determination.
- Genki Guy: Gets impressed and excitable by just about everything.
- Magnetic Hero: Pug's friendliness nets him two very supportive companions, and helps motivate them and Mephistopheles to take the trek to Heaven.
- Nice Guy: One of the nicest demons you'll ever find.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Pug only once gets really angry with his friends when they deem the trip to Heaven impossible.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Pug could only be called an evil creature because he's a demon and not much else. All he wants is to see the world, meet new people, and reach new heights as a tempter.
Matilda
"There's no real pleasure to be had here. Just lighter shades of misery."
A succubus from the circle of Lust, and the second friend Pug makes. Once a temptress of great renown, she fell on hard times before falling in love with a mortal man in the 20th century. After his time was done, she was disgraced by Hell and demoted, never to see her husband again. Obviously, this has put a bit of a damper on her personality, but not enough for her to not lend Pug her assistance.
- Broken Bird: Once the cream of the crop amongst temptress demons, she now lives a miserable live in Dis as a laughingstock for the other succubi.
- I Choose to Stay: Stays in Hell to help out the souls who aren't ready to ascend yet, though she promises that she'll return to see her husband.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Despite all of her hardship, she doesn't take a lot of convincing to go along with Pug's quest, and remains supportive throughout.
- The Lost Lenore: Her husband is all the way in Heaven while she's stuck in Lust. They thankfully reunite when she visits Heaven.
- Love Redeems: Her affair with her husband made her into a much better person at the cost of her job.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Her husband died a while ago, and she couldn't follow his soul to Heaven due to her being a demon.
- Really 700 Years Old: Matilda was born around the time of the Fall, making her eons older than the mortal she fell in love with. Then again, time is rather meaningless to demons.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She wasn't looking for love, but she found it anyway in the form of a very nice guy.
- Succubus in Love: During a low point in her career, Matilda fell in love with a slightly troubled but nonetheless kindhearted and sincere mortal. This ended up causing her a few problems later down the line, but she still longs for him.
Alichino
"I, Alichino, Marquise of the Malebolge and officer of the Malebranche, fifth in command to Prince Abbadon, will gut any fool who dares impede my Pug's path!"
A high-ranking Marquise of the Malebranche, Abaddon's army in the circle of Wrath. This harlequin-like demon is Pug's first companion, albeit due to her thinking she owns him after he erroneously gives her his name. Her bloodlust is only matched by her desire to cut down anyone who dares lay a hand on her beloved Pug, but in a place like Hell, such fury might be necessary.
- Blood Knight: Like the other demons in the Malebranche, Alichino lives for war, and will choose violence at every opportunity.
- Captain Ersatz: Her name and status as a demon of Wrath are based off a minor demon from The Divine Comedy, except that the gender is swapped, and the design is much more akin to what the namesake roughly translates to.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: According to her, she was a rather small and disappointing Throne during the Fall. Now, she's one of the strongest demons in the Malebranche.
- Heel Realization: Climbing up Purgatory causes her to reflect on her violent ways, as well as all the times she demeaned others for not being as strong as her. It's so overwhelming it causes her to cry a lot.
- Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: The huge girl to Pug's tiny guy.
- Meaningful Name: As noted in the story, her name is a rough translation of the Italian word for harlequin, Arlecchino.
- Monster Clown: Alichino resembles a harlequin jester, albeit the clothes are a part of her body, and the typical jester hat is actually an extra set of eyes and horns.
- Might Makes Right: Is very dismissive of any demon who can't put up a fight for a while.
- My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Expect her to give her entire credentials every time she either meets someone or is threatening them. Just look at the quote above for an example.
- Rescue Romance: Her rescuing Pug from Valac causes him to start falling for her.
- Tears of Remorse: Coming to terms with her sins wracks her with guilt, causing her to sob uncontrollably as Raphael comforts her.
- Undying Loyalty: Her most endearing trait is her total devotion to Pug, saving him many times and always being the first to take his side on things.
- Yandere: After being given Pug's name, she decides she's entitled to have Pug for herself like some pet, and follows him almost everywhere. She gets better, her obsession becoming genuine love.
The Princes of Hell
The seven Archdemons who rule over the seven circles of Hell. Once united in their cause to overthrow Heaven, they were cast down and mutated into monsters by their sin. They abandoned each other to rule their own respective areas for the next many eons.
Lucifer
"I might be just one demon, but I'm the one demon you should ever worry about."
The former leader of the Princes, and the Archdemon of Pride.
- Animal Motifs: He has the look of a humanoid serpent, fitting for a being representing pure satanic evil.
- 24-Hour Armor: He always has his intimidating armor on. He only takes the helmet off at the very end.
- Big Red Devil: His skin and his armor is mostly a deep crimson red, fitting for the worst demon of all.
- Break the Haughty: Getting eaten by the main Intruder and imprisoned in its body causes him to openly admit to whoever listening above that he was a terrible leader who should have thought better than to assume he was always right. Heaven rewards his repentance with the power to keep fighting and save his realm.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While their relationship is incredibly strained, he does care for his daughter Lilith, as well as her mother, Paimon. They become his biggest priority when he's breaking the other demons out of the main Intruder.
- Fallen Angel: Once an Archangel named Lucifel, one rebellion later and he's down in Hell, mutated by his sin into a monstrous demon.
- Faux Affably Evil: He appears charming and cordial at first, but then quickly reveals just how sadistic and spiteful he can be to both sinners and demons who cross him.
- Heel Realization: It takes getting he and his entire army taken by the main intruder for it to dawn on him that he's a lousy person and an even lousier leader. The Heavens bless him for his repentance.
- It's All About Me: As befitting the Prince of Pride, there's rarely ever a moment where he isn't making everything about himself and his grudge with Heaven. He's even frozen the worst sinners to act as his audience when he one day rises to retake Heaven. It's this "I'm always right" mindset that really bites him in the ass later on.
- I Was Quite the Looker: The chapter detailing his rebellion states how Lucifel was very beautiful even by seraph standards, with his red skin and golden hair. All of that was lost the moment he fell.
- Jousting Lance: His weapon of choice is a huge lance that he wielded back during the Fall.
- Pride: His sin, and also his Fatal Flaw. In fact, out of all the sins embodied by the other Princes, he has it the worst. He's such an egotist that he didn't even notice his own tail freezing in Cocytus, and he assumes that he's right about everything despite even his fellow demon's words to the point of convincing most of Hell and even himself that the Intruders were either sent by or destroyed Heaven. It takes losing badly to the main Intruder to break him out of his pride, thus allowing Heaven to bless him with the ability to save the day. That being said, he's not totally prideful enough to not ask his fellow Princes to get his tail out of the ice.
- Satan: While Mephistopheles has this moniker, he fits the narrative connotation of the word, being a Fallen Angel who rules over all of Hell with an iron fist.
- The Right of a Superior Species: His whole rebellion got started when he raged at how God had created and apparently valued the human race, in spite of the supposed perfection of Heaven's inhabitants.
- Snakes Are Sinister: His entire lower body has been replaced with that of a huge serpent.
- Skewed Priorities: It's more important that he and the other demons are convinced that the eldritch horrors at Hell's doorstop are from Heaven. Any other truth can go away.
- That Man Is Dead: During his fight with Michael, he renounced his title as Lucifel, trading it for a name that didn't mean "light of God" anymore.
- Villain Has a Point: When called out for twisting the news about the Intruders into a flimsily-evidenced attack from Heaven, he justifies it by stating how the demons will rally much quicker against an old foe as opposed to a new random one.
Abaddon
"They wounded us, and we did not return the blow. There can be no peace until we repay them measure for measure."
The rage-fueled warrior of the Princes, and the Archdemon of Wrath.
- A Father to His Men: Say what you will about his opinion on other demons, but he has great pride in his army, and is distraught when they're picked off one by one by the Intruders.
- Animal Motifs: He has the horns and legs of a ram, a rather stubborn and battle-ready creature.
- Badass Boast: Has several befitting the commander of Hell's finest army. "Retreat is not in our vocabulary!"
- Blood Knight: He and the rest of his demons live for battle, and leap at the opportunity to face the Intruders by themselves. It backfires horribly.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares deeply for his two daughters Draghignazzo and Malacoda, and will gladly drop everything to assist them.
- General Ripper: As the leader of Hell's biggest army, he relishes in causing death and destruction wherever they go.
- Human Pincushion: He still has the sword of Gabriel lodged in his chest. It causes him near-constant pain, adding to his anger.
- Lodged-Blade Recycling: After finding the resolve within himself to keep fighting for his demons and especially his daughters, he pulls Gabriel's sword out of his chest, and uses it to cut apart the main Intruder's insides.
- Might Makes Right: Views his fellow Princes as being pathetic and beneath him due to not being as strong as he is.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: His maw is full of long, razor-sharp fangs.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The disastrous fight between his army and the Intruders causes him to order a retreat for the first time, causing him no end of pain.
- Wrath: As this is his sin, the word 'calm' just isn't in his vocabulary at all. Everything he says and does is full of contempt at best and outright berserker rage at worst.
Asmodeus
"Pleasure cannot be obtained in full, and without it there is no paradise."
The carefree hedonist of the Princes, and the Archdemon of Lust.
- Animal Motifs: Befitting the great demon of lust, he has features of animals that are associated with raw sexual power, like roosters, goats, and cattle.
- Asmodeus: Like the original myth, he's a large three-headed Archdemon whom embodies the sin of lust. He even has features often seen in early depictions, such as the body parts of animals associated with sex, as well as his own personal harem.
- Compensating for Something: In truth, his lower regions are so shrunk that they can be tucked into his crotch without being noticed. Because of this, he tries to make up for it with a huge codpiece and his hedonistic life, none of which makes him feel better.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does like his harem, each member for different reasons. Remembering them helps him escape the main Intruder with Beelzebub.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Regardless of species or gender, Asmodeus has laid with them all.
- Freud Was Right: His tail looks a lot like a veiny...well, you know.
- Gag Penis: His codpiece is enormous, implying he's got one of these. He doesn't at all.
- The Hedonist: All he cares about is getting drunk, high, and having sex. Because of this, the city of Dis is one of the most poorly managed areas in Hell.
- Lust: His sin. He revels in the pleasures of the flesh, constantly getting drunk and doing drugs and, most of all, having lots of sex. It's all to make up for his reduced lower parts.
Beelzebub
"You cannot understand the pain of lacking Heaven until you have been there yourself. I have lost it for countless eons, yet still I can remember the taste of its eternal bliss on my tongue."
The silver-tongued Lord of the Flies, and the Archdemon of Gluttony.
- A Day in the Limelight: The chapter "No Sympathies" is all about the time he possessed a girl and foiled an exorcist, while at the same time demonstrating why he and his fellow demons hate humans so much.
- Animal Motifs: Flies, obviously.
- Beelzebub: Right down to being the ruler of Gluttony, this is a very faithful depiction of the Lord of the Flies.
- Demonic Possession: He made a habit of possessing people back in the day in order to feel the pleasure of eating and tasting again. One chapter is dedicated to the time he possessed a girl, and it isn't pretty.
- Dragons Are Demonic: Has very draconic features alongside insectoid ones.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a lot of fondness of his Dukes...except Valac.
- Metaphorically True: His ability to tell the truth while maintaining demonic bias is seen mostly when he's being interrogated by the exorcist, slowly but surely coercing him into giving him the benefit of a doubt.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Mammon, calling him out for talking of the need for progress, and yet having achieved nothing except for what's in his mines and estate.
- In a later flashback chapter, he derides humanity as a whole for having what demonkind can never.
- Red Baron: The Lord of the Flies.
- Sense Loss Sadness: When he became an Archdemon, he lost his ability to taste, causing him to lash out and cover his circle in excrement and disease. Afterwards, he tried possessing people to feel taste again, but it was only a temporary fix. Now, he's all but given up on feeling the sensation again.
- Skull for a Head: His head looks disturbingly like a human skull, albeit with blue scales all over.
- Villainous Glutton: Eating is one of his biggest obsessions, as gluttony is his sin. However, this mostly stems from how he's lost the ability to taste, and is desperate to feel that again.
Mammon
"I'm trying to make some progress, but you would rather moan and complain instead!"
The ambitious visionary of the Princes, and the Archdemon of Greed.
- All for Nothing: His efforts to make something in Hell are all destroyed when the Intruders cause Sheol to crush his city of Pandaemonium and destroy most of his riches.
- Dragons Are Demonic: His appearance is that of a huge dragon with wolf-like features.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He considers Mulciber as his best friend as well as his top supervisor. So much so that it motivates him to keep fighting within the main Intruder.
- Greed: His sin, as demonstrated by his ridiculously large amount of baubles and rings and jewels coating his body, as well as his obsession with his wealth.
- Mammon: As one might guess, he's the embodiment of avarice, and is coated in riches. He's a lot more monstrous-looking than most interpretations.
- Only Sane Man: Surprisingly, he's the most aware of how the Princes must stay united, and is the only one interested in trying to make Hell a less unbearable place. Well, at least less unbearable for him.
- Savage Wolves: His head looks a lot like a draconic wolf.
- Skewed Priorities: He's way more interested in polishing his riches and getting more out of the mines than actually making Pandaemonium a halfway-decent city.
- Visionary Villain: His dream is to create something that rivals the splendor of Heaven via his city of Pandaemonium. It only ends up half-complete due to him being distracted by his greed.
Belphegor
"The only way to keep our punishment from growing is to stop acting, for every attempt at rebellion — from war to misguided attempts at self-improvement — is just an invitation for more suffering."
The lethargic do-nothing of the Princes, and the Archdemon of Sloth.
- The Eeyore: Everything out of his mouth is about how futile everything is, as well as how stupid his fellow Princes are.
- Eyes Always Shut: Never once opens his eyes.
Word of God once made a post that implied that they're actually big anime eyes, but that was probably a joke. - Does This Remind You of Anything?: His throne looks almost exactly like a toilet seat. Quite fitting, as the earliest depictions of Belphegor have him sitting on an actual outhouse.
- Lean and Mean: He's a condescending demon Prince, and he's skinny as a rail. In fact, his body is constantly going through atrophy due to his laziness.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: the Intruder invasion causes him to be literally dethroned, forcing him to use whatever strength he has left and join the other Princes.
- Orcus on His Throne: Is always seen on his mobile throne, doing next to nothing.
- Perpetual Frowner: Almost never smiles, or emotes for that manner.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Likes giving these to his fellow Princes, but he gives a pointed one to Lucifer right before Hell's last stand, stating that he sounds like God with his pompous arrogance and demand to always be right.
- Sloth: His sin, making him unwilling to do anything about any situation.
Sheol
"They've got so much stuff! I want that! I want paradise! You want me to be happy with this?! We've got a ball of dirt!"
The great leviathan who opens up the portal between Heaven and Hell with his mouth, and is both the Archdemon and the very circle of Envy.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Calls Lucifer an idiot for assuming that the Intruders are from Heaven when HE was there to witness their arrival. Later, he calls Mammon out on chasing gold instead of making improvements to Hell like he promised.
- Evil Is Bigger: He's a sinful demon who's bigger than all of the others combined.
- Extra Eyes: He's got eyes all over his body so that he may gaze at what he can not have easier.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He wouldn't be the Prince of Envy if he weren't one both figuratively and literally. The entire reason he's the topmost circle is because he gazes at Heaven, longing for it again.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: At one point, he reveals that he was once in a relationship with a demon named Forneus, but they had to break up because he was so much bigger than her. Post Character Development Lucifer asks him to maybe try again.
- Kaiju: Sheol is so huge he constitutes as a circle of Hell just by existing.
- No Indoor Voice: Is almost always shouting about how awful his life is.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a VERY bitter and accurate one to Mammon within the main Intruder, ruthlessly chastising him putting his greed over making anything in Hell better like he oh so loved to prattle about. It actually causes Mammon to realize that he's been in the wrong for a very long time.
- Sizeshifter: Sheol can shrink himself down to size, but he hates doing it, dramatically stating how painful it is.
- Snakes Are Sinister: He's a demonic great flying serpent with a huge mouth like an anglerfish.
- Thinking Up Portals: His mouth can open up a portal in-between Hell and the mortal realm.
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Wangst: Everything out of his mouth is some form of complaint or wailing about how unfair everything is, and how he wishes he had what's up in Heaven again.
Demons of Pride
Mephistopheles
"To live is to think and scheme. To live is to act."
The first demon to manipulate humanity into committing sin, and the boss of all the imps in Pride.
- Bad Boss: While he presents himself as a Reasonable Authority Figure, it's hard for him to hide the contempt he has for the demons below him.
- Mephistopheles: The master tempter himself. In this interpretation, he was the first to tempt Cain into killing his brother, although it turns out that would have happened without his intervention.
- Satan: Presents himself as such to Cain, though Lucifer is the one who rules all.
- Token Evil Teammate: Alongside Pug, Matilda, and Alichino, he's sent to message God in Heaven. Naturally, he's the least trusting of the realm and its inhabitants.
- Villainous BSoD: Hearing from God that mankind would have discovered sin without him and that he inadvertently helped them by showing them what not to do causes him to briefly lose it, much to Matilda's amusement.
Lilith
"Everyone here is loyal to my dad. I want someone who's loyal to me."
Lucifer's rebellious daughter, whose mother is unknown.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Fell in love with Samael, a demon from Envy. As far as Lucifer was concerned, everyone outside of Pride couldn't be trusted with her.
- Hates Their Parent: Clearly does NOT have any respect for her father, whom she views as an arrogant blowhard who never listens to her. It's only when he comes to her and everyone else's rescue that she changes her mind.
- Lilith: True to her origins, she is a demonic woman, though she does not embody Lust or is even associated with the tale of Adam and Eve like a lot of stories. Here, she's merely Lucifer's daughter.
- Rebellious Princess: She actively goes against her father's wishes, from trying to elope with a demon from another circle to orchestrating Pug and company's meeting with God, as well as gathering all the damned souls to fight the Intruders.
- Spanner in the Works: It was her plan to have Pug and his friends consult God for help that ensured Hell's survival.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Samael. Unfortunately, Lucifer saw to it that it didn't last.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Has the same winged man-serpent look of her old man, and the comparatively good looks of Paimon.
Paimon
One of Lucifer's top-ranking generals, and Lilith's caretaker.
- The Dragon: Is often the first to carry out Lucifer's will.
- Lady of War: Has the appearance of an armored demon woman, and acts the part as well.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: She's actually Lilith's mother, though the demon princess always suspected that, seeing how she's always taken care of her.
Moloch
A brutal general of Lucifer who sometimes visits Wrath.
- Bad Boss: Is explicitly said to torture any imp who works for him.
- Blood Knight: To the point where he gives the Malebranche a run for their money.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: As befitting most depictions of this demon, he's a large winged bull-man.
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Tries to bring down the first Intruder that comes in, only to make it stronger with his own sin.
- Red Baron: The bloody, the child killer, the vast stone of war.
Old Scratch
One of Lucifer's more respected lesser devils.
Demons of Wrath
Draghignazzo and Malacoda
Abaddon's daughters, and the top-ranked generals of the Malebranche.
- Gender Flip: In The Divine Comedy, the Malebranche are all male.
- Morality Pet: Both daughters are this to Abaddon.
Demons of Lust
Asmodeus' Harem
Asmodeus' personal harem of demons, including Marbas, Beleth, Furtur, and Gressil.
Demons of Gluttony
Duke Valac
A vile draconic Duke of Gluttony who lures demons in to eat them.
- Draconic Abomination: Resembles a three-headed dragon with a young human's torso replacing the middle head.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Beelzebub states how much he likes his Dukes, but not Valac, whom he sees as an ass.
- Off with His Head!: Alichino mutilates the head that ate Pug, getting him out and leaving the Duke grievously wounded.
Duke Naiberius
A Duke of Gluttony, and one of Beelzebub's major confidants.
- Cerberus: Looks a lot like the three-headed Hellhound, even residing in the circle of Hell that the monster guarded in The Divine Comedy.
Demons of Greed
Mulciber
Mammon's right-hand demon, and the main supervisor of Pandemonium's construction.
- Only Friend: He seems to be this to Mammon, being both his top demon and confidant.
- Only Sane Man: He certainly tries to manage Pandemonium well, but he has to put up with his boss' inane decision-making.
- Undying Loyalty: For all of his frustrations with Mammon, he's very clearly his best friend.
Melchom
One of the highest-ranking bureaucrats in Greed, with the nasty disposition to match.
- Not So Stoic: Matilda exposing every loophole to get her and the others to the next circle causes him to fume in anger.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: The most obstructive one in all of Greed. It takes someone as resourceful as Matilda to get through him.
- Perpetual Frowner: Never seen happy at all.
Astaroth
Mammon's main general.
- Eaten Alive: One of the first major demons to be absorbed by the Intruders. She gets better when they're all defeated.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Described as being a humanoid serpent like Lucifer and Lilith.
Demons of Sloth
Verrine and Gemory
A succubus and an imp that our heroes encounter while in Sloth.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The two are shown to clearly care about each other, as shown when they tearfully reunite with each other after the main Intruder is defeated.
- Evil Counterpart: To Matilda and Pug respectively.
- Smug Snake: Their demeaning attitudes towards our heroes dissipate when Alichino threatens them by pitchfork-point.
Demons of Envy
Keryon
A former Cherub, and a messenger between circles.
- Butt-Monkey: Doesn't have the best treatment from either Lilith or Azazel, being the one who takes most of the heat for giving messages between circles.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Plunges into the Intruder horde to give the heroes time to reach the top of Hell.
- Shoot the Messenger: Azazel beat him senseless until he came clean about Samuel's actions.
Samael
A high-ranking demon who was once Lilith's secret boyfriend before Lucifer found out.
- A Day in the Limelight: He gets a whole chapter dedicated to he and Lilith's brief affair.
- Groin Attack: Lucifer made him pay the price for his affair with Lilith by castrating him.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Lilith. It didn't end well.
Azazel
A "partner" of Samael who gladly sold him out to gain acclaim.
- Karma Houdini: Never once gets punished for ruining the relationship between Samael and Lilith.
Heaven
The beings that inhabit the realm of Heaven.
God
The Creator Himself, whom the demons all think of as a Tyrant. Lucifer very nearly killed Him before being overcome by His very visage.
- All-Loving Hero: Has nothing but love and patience for all of His creations, even the demons whom He feels nothing but sympathy for.
- Deus ex Machina: In the most literal sense. Pug and company come to Him in order to stop the Intruders, and He does, giving Lucifer power via virtue and His entire army of angels to the cause.
- God Is Good: Despite the horrible reputation He has in Hell, He's a truly benevolent God who wishes for everyone to come to Heaven someday, no matter how sinful they are. He also helps save the day with His forces.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: It's no surprise that the demons view Him as a horrible being who condemned them to eternal suffering.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: The description of God is almost intentionally vague. The most we get is that He's everything all at once, and so beautiful it defies description entirely. Not to mention, one look nearly incinerated Lucifel when he tried to attack Him outright.
Michael
The leader of the angelic Choir, and the one who struck down Lucifer personally.
- Archangel Gabriel: Fits most descriptions as God's top angel, complete with combat prowess.
- Pyrrhic Victory: She defeated Lucifel, but lost a brother-in-arms to sin in the process. She broke down in tears shortly after beating him.
Gabriel
The second-in-command of the Angelic Choir, who's ready to blow her horn to rally the troops, and who drove her sword into Abaddon permanently.
- Archangel Gabriel: A very faithful depiction that has the horn and everything.
- Blow That Horn: Typical of most interpretations of the character, Gabriel comes with a horn to rally the troops.
- Nice Girl: Explicitly stated to be one of the most kindhearted angels.
Raphael
An angel in the Choir who acts as a shepherd and a guide for those ascending the mountain of Purgatory.
- Archangel Raphael: In this story, there's more emphasis on her status as someone who helps others up Purgatory.
Azrael
A skeletal Psychopomp of an Angel, and the personification of death itself.
- Archangel Azrael: The one who guides the souls of the dead, she fits the bill entirely.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her unsettling appearance, she's nothing but helpful to our heroes.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: As with the other angels, she's entirely benevolent, and admits to Pug and friends that she wishes she could help them beyond the mountain of purgatory.
- The Grim Reaper: Her appearance is that of a skeleton with large bat-like wings and a plague doctor mask, and she's the one who shepherds the dead.
Matilda's Husband
The man who Matilda fell in love with and married all those decades ago, who currently resides in Heaven, waiting for her.
- Genre Savvy: Catches on very quickly that the weird woman trying to seduce him is a succubus trying to make a deal with him.
- I Will Wait for You: It's implied he stated this when he went to Heaven. And sure enough, he did.
- The Lost Lenore: Was this to Matilda.
- Nice Guy: While stated to be not perfect, he is a very warm-hearted and caring person in both life and death.
- No Name Given: Word of God states that he has no name because in the Bible, most non-major figures went unnamed. However, Cope did suggest something like John Mark (named after the main character in "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and the fact that he was Matilda's mark).
Spoiler Character
The True Antagonist
The Intruders
Horrifying, unsightly, and more prominently ravenous monsters made from pure concentrated sin. With no more living mortals to hold onto sin, it has all come together into a sapient horde birthed from a massive abomination shaped like a star with many eyes and teeth. Their apparent goal is to devour all demons and make them a part of themselves.
- Allegorical Character: Aside from them representing unbound sin, Word of God has stated that they represent the more modern idea that demons should be a form of horrifying conflict devoid of personality in contrast with the more characterized and sympathetic demons derived from old-age folklore.
- Angels, Devils and Squid: The squid in this universe, coming exclusively from the mortal realm.
- Body Horror: The Intruders run the gamut, looking like amalgamations of limbs, bones, and other nasty inside-out parts of people mashed together with little to no coherence.
- Beast of the Apocalypse: The main Intruder is this, being a sin-powered beast that arrives after the end of humanity to destroy Hell.
- Captain Ersatz: Deliberately made to be pale imitations of the monsters of H. P. Lovecraft and Junji Ito.
- Eldritch Abomination: Aside from their HORRIBLE appearances, they fit the bill being enigmatic horror shows that exist solely to devour and multiply with no greater motive besides their spread.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Invoked. The Intruders are voracious monsters made out of pure sin...and not much else, further distancing them from the sinister but far more nuanced demons. Pug lampshades this, calling them outright dull.
- The Heartless: They are monsters made of sin, now loose from the mortal shells that kept them at bay.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: Actually, human sin is so, but these beasts are exclusively from the mortal realm.
- Feed It with Fire: Any time the demons try and destroy an Intruder, it usually only gets stronger and/or multiplies. Only fighting in the name of selflessness and virtue can they truly be destroyed.
- Made of Evil: They are made purely from sin, which is only able to take form due to there being no mortals to keep it in check.
- Near-Villain Victory: The main Intruder ate every last demon in Hell that wasn't elsewhere at the moment until the Princes rediscovered their virtue and camaraderie.
- Rasputinian Death: The main Intruder is utterly wrecked from the inside by the Princes and lesser demons ripping holes through it from the inside before being obliterated by the concentrated powers of both the angels and the demons.
