Then: Eat the apple. Now: Throw the stone.
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Story: Lucifer was cast out of Heaven for not bowing down to Adam when he was commanded to. Lucifer is an inherently vindictive entity that made it his personal mission to screw over Adam and by extension, humanity. His first act of this was successfully seducing Lilith to his side. Then it was manipulating Eve into eating the apple. But it was not enough. Nothing would ever be enough. Sure, he had robbed Adam of his first wife and paradise but it will never be over. So why not take another victory over Adam by taking away his kids?
Lilith developed a fixation on Cain the second he was born. Cain could have been her son if only she had stayed loyal to Adam. She could have lived a more fulfilling life instead of being turned into an unholy demon for taking Lucifer’s side. She didn't care much about Abel, she wanted the firstborn above all.
Charlie Morningstar is sin incarnate. She was brought into existence when Lucifer and Lilith successfully made Eve eat the apple. She is eager to please her parents and gladly follows their evil legacy. She doesn't care about having Cain as an adoptive brother but if that is what her parents want, then she lives to make it happen.
Cain’s entire life was spent with the Morningstars whispering in his ears. Adam knew that Lucifer would always be a looming threat over his family and he did his best to warn his sons to not listen to any of their lies. But it wasn't enough, Cain was successfully manipulated into believing he was inferior to his brother and that his parents didn't care about him. Lucifer tasked Charlie with tempting Cain to commit the first murder. It was poetic, the child of Lucifer tempting the child of Adam. It was the Garden of Eden all over again, being carried out by the next generation.
Lucifer manipulated Eve into forcing Cain to be a farmer while Abel was to be the shepherd. He sent her nightmares about the murder that in trying to avoid the loss of both of her sons, tried her best to keep them away from each other. What resulted is her treating Cain as more of an outcast while being more protective over Abel and she never told anyone about her fears.This validated the lies Lucifer was telling Cain and tore a rift between the two brothers. What hurts is that if the Morningstars stayed away, Cain and Abel would be happy and have a strong bond.
We all know the end result of this scheme. Another unforgivable sin was introduced to humanity. Through his brother’s blood, Cain was baptized into the Morningstar family and was given his mark. He was too scared to go back to Adam and Eve, so he ended up following the Morningstars. For a time, at least, Cain became a prince of Hell.
In one day, Adam lost both of his sons.
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The animatic is in a silhouette style as a reference to the opening of ep 1 of Hazbin Hotel, where Charlie reads the storybook about Hell. I'm not used to this style. That bit about Eve having that bad dream is a reference to an ancient Jewish text called ‘The Life of Adam and Eve'. And, surprise! Charlie is evil in this AU. When I saw all the comments about how people thought she was gonna be Adam’s ally, I'm like ‘remember, this is based on the Swap AU’. The opposite of good is evil and I wanted the Morningstars to be the traditional bad guys instead of misunderstood. They are not sympathetic at all.
In this AU, Adam is fighting a war on 2 fronts: Abel waging an extermination on sinners and Lucifer continuing to tempt Adam’s descendants so that his kingdom can grow. I consider Lucifer to be more of the big bad antagonist, the type where everyone would set aside their differences to take him down. As for the whole ‘Cain is a Prince of Hell' bit, don't worry, that will be expanded upon later. Keep in mind, this animatic is in the context of Cain being in the peak of a delusion that Lucifer has him under. That façade instantly breaks after committing his crime.
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p.s. What's sad about the Cain and Abel story is that in some versions, Cain was only 15 when he became a murderer. But not in my version, he's 22 when this all goes down while Abel died at 20. Seth was born a year after this incident
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6 май 2024
