This is an element of my novel series' setting. I'm not trying to advertise it, but if you want more details, and how to access my so far only published book, DM me. I will warn you that only after publishing 1st edition did I realize how important accessibility is. The subject matter is confusing without my old writing style already. The only people who finished it are writers who knew to move on if they didn't understand something, while my relatives gave up after the first page.

The way I interpreted demons or devils is based on Islamic myths. "Jinn" or "spirit" is the term I use for all such creatures. "Demons" or "devils" are those antagonized by angels, or are spirits that actively oppose them. According to the myth, humans, jinm, and other intelligent creatures that supposedly lived on earth, all have free will, while angels do not. I don't see my demons as a manifestation of evil, but people with flaws. Angels, however, I've discovered are evil themselves, but believe their collective decisions are completely justifiable. They only appear as good cause they're overall very good at PR and propaganda.

As for stuff outside of my work, I've been told Lord of Light has a similar vibe to my book. God's Demon is a book about demons aka fallen angels going to war in hell. I didn't entirely like kt though and did not read the sequel. I found some of its ideas interesting enough to finjsh the first book at least.

I'll reply to this if I think of more. I have one or two artbooks in mind, but I don't remember their names.

In The Prophecy (1995), Christopher Walken played a corrupted Gabriel who is jealous of humans because God stopped talking to him (?). Viggo Mortensen plays Satan, not exactly sympathetically, but not too unrelatable. Constantine (2005) had a similar sub-plot With Tilda Swinton playing a jealous Gabriel, and of course Neo as Constantine.

Heaven's Gates, locked with barbed wire

Bow down to the God of Fire

Because subversions of tropes are dope, and that in itself became a trope. Also, demons weren't always beings of evil energies spawned in hell. They used to just be invisible entities that were mostly neutral in ancient Grecian mythology. What's happened in the last ten years is all forms of media are easier to create than ever. So you're gonna see a lot more of practically everything, but especially a lot more of what is popular and I guess deep down people still get hot over bad bois.

You should watch more Lucifer.

You have a very flawed perception on what's going on in the good place if you think the actors from "the bad place" are working to get people into heaven, or the reason the people of heaven leave so quickly.

But I'll bite on what I perceive to be a barely good faith question and not a concern troll post.

When you look at the idea pushed (especially in the last few hundred years) of a dichotomy of infinite joy or infinite suffering, there's a lot of realism that can be pushed in the gray areas. The absolutist of everything is good because everything is good and everything is evil because everything is evil has been portrayed from the good side for a long time, the somewhere in between that modern media takes from brings things towards the middle on both sides, but concern trolls can't rationalize heaven to be anything but perfect, so they go on tirades about media they don't care to look at critically, whenever they feel their absolutist belief of heaven good is analyzed with a modicum of scrutiny.

As a Christian I find it strange that the literal embodiment of evil is celebrated like this. Like people act as if the biblical satan is a good guy