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This isn’t part of the AU but after reading your post about Michael ,what are your honest thoughts of people hating on Raphael and them thinking he is also “evil” or “bad”?
I think Raphael's reputation is far more deserved than Michael's. We've seen countless examples of evidence of Raphael being blatantly abusive, both physically and verbally. I'll be honest, from everything we heard in Season 3, I hated Raphael's guts before he ever showed up on screen.
That said, in Obey Me it's never that simple. For example, Lucifer is the same way. The two both engage in very toxic and inexcusable behavior. I think it's a little hypocritical how people will overlook Lucifer's misdeeds while condemning Raphael's. Though, this may very well be because we've had a lot more time to familiarize ourselves with Lucifer's "good" aspects, while Raphael is a fairly new character who we really only know from his worst aspects right now. With Lucifer, we've seen a lot of WHY he is the way he is, we've seen how much he loves his brothers and we've seen a much more tender side to him, we've seen what he's really trying to do even if he's going about it all wrong, and we've seen him trying to improve. We haven't seen this with Raphael yet.
I think people are making fair judgements based on what we know so far, and I think Raphael is FAR from a good person, but I also think Raphael will end up being a lot more complicated than we're giving him credit for and I look forward to the character development he'll get in the ongoing season.