Lovecraftian Tale... with angels

It's been something on my to do list. Though, I'm torn apart from a straight cosmic horror story, or a tale from an angel's perspective, to showcase how alien the thought processes are (a la "The Things").

I love angelic abominations. :D

Personally, there's a different route to either of those that I prefer. There's a quote in Perelandra: “As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it is also dreadful? ... Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.”

That said, though, I think it might be extremely difficult to write from an angelic abomination's perspective, but it's possible it could be done well. It'd be more interesting - to me, at least - than simply writing cosmic horror and referring to the abomination as an angel.

edited 13th Jul '13 4:40:45 PM by Noaqiyeum

Indeed, I wanted to go through that route to avoid simply slapping the "angel" label to what could be interpreted as an otherwise generic otherworldly horror.

While the "you can't be saved from horror if it's good" sounds delightfully twisted, I preffer moral grayness, so I can't make something unambiguously good or evil, though making it a "no hope for rescue" situation as perceived by the victim is defenitely possible.

Oh, for sure! The quote as I understand it isn't about "being rescued by Good is bad" - what it makes me think of is of a protagonist in desperate straits at the hands of some eldritch/fae/demonic/nightmarish/whatever power, is rescued by angelic intervention; but, because the angel is itself so terrifyingly Other, the protagonist has to actively try to keep in mind that they are in an objectively better situation, despite feeling that they've evaded Scylla only by being caught by Charybdis.

I think that's something like what you're talking about.

Either works (i prefer angel's perspective, it's rarely done but seems hard as Noaquiem said). write whatever the hell you want. if it's turns out good. people will like it and it will get big. just look at Twilight. not a very good example but it DID get big.

hi.

maybe you should get into the mind of an angel, however impossible getting into the mind of an otherworldly being sounds.

think about what an angel would consider good and bad. perfection, perhaps? maybe innocence?

an angel is a being that serves God. what is the nature of God in that world? unyielding Order? perhaps Tyranny? take that divine nature, and place it into the angels. if tyranny, make them slaves to the Demiurge, ever following the mad whims of the Maker of the Physical.

i don't know. do whatever.