#boo womp

Mmmmph.

Okay, after all the flak this sentence caught on reddit, I guess I should finally acknowledge that I phrased this badly. Yes, having every single 'sinful' aspect stripped away from you upon entering heaven is dystopian.

It is also, I suspect, not the actual system in Housepets. Here is

The 'Soul Splitting is not real' theory

We're told about the Soul Split aspect by Eudoant. He tells this story to Steward, and presumably to Negabreel, as a way of convincing them both to help him. Negabreel had no loyalty to Eudoant, and the only way he could have gotten the demon to aid him in his earth invasion plan would have been to give him personal stakes. Thus, its possible he could have simply made it up.

More likely, however, it's a half truth. Eudoant may actually believe this is the case, but be self justifying his own anger with a perspective that isn't quite reliable.

In any case, I don't believe Negabreel is Actually every single flaw of Breel's made manifest, or that such a process is standard. Even the characters in story question the logic of it.

('Turns out'? Why wouldn't Breel know this if it was standard procedure? Why would Heaven keep that fact from him?)

I think this for a few reasons. First of all, we never see anything concrete to back it up. The soul-reforging is aborted when Nega Breel absorbs some of Breel's 'goodness'- or at least, that's how its described. Since Breel doesn't become less good after this, it's clearly more akin to copying his morals rather than stealing them; and if thats possible, doesn't it imply Nega Breel had that capacity for goodness all along?

So, this is what the characters believe to be the truth. It is neither refuted nor confirmed by any actual Celestials. More importantly, it just doesn't fit their modus operandi. Consider Henry's question here;

What is it about heaven that lets flawed people become better? Keene's theory is infinite time, and encouragement to heal. We never get a concrete answer, but I do not believe for a second the answer is just 'Because a magic guy takes away their bad stuff and throws it into a pit'. That's too simple, too cruel.

But now lets assume that IS standard procedure. Breel, along with every angel we see in canon, is pure uncorruptible pureness with no flaws whatsoever, because they had it surgically removed.

Lust is a sin.

(Yes, I'm sure there are other instances of angels displaying unholy behavior, but lust was the first one that came to mind. Don't read into that one.)

'But there's nothing evil about being horny-' EXACTLY. So much of Housepets' heaven mythos exists to deconstruct and defy Christianity's typical ideas of sin and evil. Why would this one individual aspect of worldbuilding decide 'Oh yeah, sin is real and you shouldnt have it btw'?

So, what is Negabreel then? I don't know. Possibly he really is SOME bad aspect of Breel, like his capacity to do harm, or his animal instincts, or something. Possibly heaven considered him a special case. Possibly he wasnt even tied to Breel initially and simply copied his personality when he made contact with the mana. I think we just don't know yet. It's a question I don't have an answer for, although I'm open to theories.

Regardless, that is my current stance until we get further lore dumps. 'Soul splitting' is a story told by a villain and confirmed nowhere, which is incompatible with the comic's entire philosophy.

I don’t know about you, but I honestly don’t blame Alastor for taking a solo swing at the first man aka the Supreme Misogynist. Sure, we can bash on him for his superego trip like “Alastor, what were you thinking taking on Adam all by yourself?”

But if that were me?

💥🥊 💥🥊 💥🥊

And really, should we expect Alastor, man-hating girl’s girl, to NOT try to beat the shit out of Adam?