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“I wouldn’t forget a bad bitch like you, it’s why I named you after the best thing ever, Vaggie.”

“Actually it’s pronounced Vaggie”

It’s such a ridiculous line that’s meant to be taken as a joke but it implies so much about the way heaven operates.

Hell is composed of two large groups: the hell-born, and the sinners. With all the questions posed in episode 6, it’s kind of hard to place how the other side works or how people even get into heaven, but the line above helps place them into one of two systems

1. There are no “heaven-born” angels, there are only those who have been saved after their Earthly death. While this theory seems less likely, it is solidified when Sera calls Adam “the first to enter heaven” and not just “the first man” in the courthouse scene.

If this were the truth, Adam naming Vaggie would have some pretty screwed up implications such as heaven completely stripping human souls of their previous identities to better fit whatever role they need to play “for the greater good of all angels”

2. The second theory is that, much like Hell, Heaven has both earthly souls that have ascended and heaven-born angels that hold higher rank. This theory is also pretty solidified by the presence of a clear defined ranking system in the angels that seems to have more to do with bloodline (Emily and Sera) that with deserved power being passed down.

If this were the truth though, that would mean that some heaven-born angels were created (spawned? born?) simply to serve as exorcists. Kind of like the “guard class” of bees in a hive that are already born with the attack skills and genetics they need to defend their Queen. That would be why Adam named Vaggie, because working as an exorcist would be all she’d ever known at the time.

My theory is either that:

1) The stitches are symbolic of his deal and are keeping him from talking about SOMETHING (maybe the deal itself?) or-

2) Alastor made a point of talking about how a smile wasn’t always real and could be used to hide things behind. Maybe the stitches are where he (or someone) sewed a smile onto his face so that he could never break the expression?