I'm your average guy. Or at least what pass for average here in France, I'm not so sure standards the same everywhere in the world. I don't believe in the existence of any kind of god, for example, which may be an average way of thinking here but isn't much in the rest of the world as far as I know.
Anyway, I became a bit obsessed with a particular passage of a particular manga and its missed potential, to the point I actively research fanfictions that use said potential (which is limited to two, one abandoned and the other a compilation of "what-if") and even wrote stories inspired by what could (and should) have been in that Japanese comic, right here, on CYOC.
Said manga, which I won't reveal the name to prevent CYOC.net from having any problem, is mainly about a simple human, an average looking looser, ending up dating a far too perfect housewife of a goddess, who also happen to be the norn of the present. Like all goddess in that series, she share her soul with a being that's her without being her, something that reside in said shared soul and is called an angel, compete with immaculately white feathered wings. At some point her angel got forcefully removed, which seemed debilitatingly painful, and got replaced by a being called a devil, demon or familiar depending of the translation, in the hope to turn her into a demon. (The kind that's an evil version of a god, not the evil version of an angel, called devil/familiar in other translations. Try to keep-up.) It briefly worked but soon, thanks to her natural and plentiful niceness, she changed back into a goddess, making her devil/demon/familiar or whatever turn into an angel, albeit one with physical characteristics clearly marking it as a former devil/familiar.
She then tried to keep it while taking back her own angel, but it made said goddess very tired. So she gave her former devil/familiar/whatever to her human boyfriend, but it made him similarly drained. The "neo-angel" ended up in the hands of a demon-turned-cat who didn't have any devil/familiar, making said neo-angel turn back into what she once was, all that without any negative impact on the goddess or her boyfriend. (While the previous chapter of the manga clearly stated being separated from your angel would be so painful you would barely be able to move, at least for a time.)
Sorry for the rant, but I swear, you need it to understand how I will use this reality altering tread.
From now-on, angels will be real (if they weren't already) and will mostly be as described in that manga. And while they might usually be linked to a god or goddess if such beings exist, but we only know of them because some humans have one. Nobody remember how they got their angel, or what having an angel mean. The only certitude is that such a being will always push their "host", fault of a better term, to do everything in their powers to be the best they can, both mentally and physically. Some time it works, sometime none.
Most peoples with an angel have one of the same gender, but having one of the opposite one if far from unheard. Similarly, while most angels have feathered wings, some used to be devils, easily distinguished by their bat-like wings. But in either case, their wings are of a white so immaculate it almost seem to be emitting light, clearly marking them as angels. But while the existence of former-devils is proved, nobody ever saw an actual devil, to the point it is speculated they might be extinct.
I don't know if reincarnation is a thing. But I know that, if it is, then if someone with an angel reincarnate, they would keep it in their next live. That said, both host and angel would have forgotten their previous life.
And yes, I write all this to give myself an angel. A female one, even though I'm a man. She's also a former devil. Again, while rare, having an angel that's not only used to be a devil, but is also of the opposite gender to its host's isn't unheard of. It's rare, but not unheard of.
I was so young when she first apeared I don't remember what's its like to not have an angel, an entity that's simultaneously another manifestation of me and not, as contradictory as it sound.
Naturally, having an angel of the opposite gender does have its drawback. My other self is as female as I'm male, with all it means. She does have periods and, because of our link, they make me grouchy too. Not only that, but because we share the same soul, we search the same thing in a lover. (Which is a god-send, thanks to our "we are one-and-the-same, even if we're also not" little factoid.) Alas, it mean my heterosexuality make my angel a lesbian.
I know it will make my love-life harder, since most people without angel would concentrate on the human part of their lover, neglecting their other self. There is exceptions of course, but most couple in which only one has an angel will break, because of said angel being neglected in their love-making. So I need to find a bi-sexual girl, either with a female angel, or one of the few exceptions that wouldn't neglect my other self. A tall order, but I'm a firm believer in "plutôt seul que mal accompagné", which roughly translate to "rather alone than in bad company".
But I don't want anyone reading this wall of text to be able to find me thanks to it, so let me had that no-one will be able to make the link between me and the writer of this little thing, not even myself (angel include). After all, it's also why I never described myself or my angel more precisely, why I didn't even gave my name (or her's).