Sera is a seraphim angel and a supporting antagonist in Hazbin Hotel who made her debut in "Welcome to Heaven". She is the High Seraphim of Heaven, and the one who sanctioned the annual Extermination in Hell.

Appearance

Humanoid form

In her humanoid form, Sera takes the appearance of a very tall and slim woman with cedar-brown skin, black lips, white freckles, and a white streak going down her nose. She also has hip-length, curled hair colored in a silver-like ombre.

Her eyes have white irises, blue-gray sclera, dark purple pupils, and dark purple thick eyelashes projecting from them. Atop her lashes are a pair of longer, holographic-like lashes, which are colored in a slightly paler shade of dark purple. Her eyelids are colored like her holographic-like lashes.

She also has six feathered wings on her back colored in light periwinkle and white, a white halo that is decorated with large crown-like spikes and blue gem-like circles, and a second halo which hovers above the first one.

Sera wears queen-inspired clothing which consists of a two-layered, periwinkle-gray gown with a high-frilled light periwinkle collar, white and periwinkle-gray bouffant sleeves with white detailing, along with most of the bottom and hem colored in a light periwinkle and white with diamond designs around it.

Angelic form

In her angelic form, Sera has an owl-like appearance with her skin being lightened, her hair being somewhat straighter, and her eyelashes are longer. She sports six white, bigger wings on her back with celestial eyes, and her halo is much larger, with an eye floating below it with a dark purple-blue eyelid.

Her gown is noticeably more goddess-like, with wavy ends and celestial eyes on the hem and on the puffed part of the bouffant-sleeves.

Personality

Sera comes across as a kind, level-headed person who is caring toward those she interacts with and welcoming to even demons such as Charlie and Vaggie. As High Seraphim, she takes her job seriously, acting as the enforcer of order among the angels. This extends to her abiding civil behavior, as she seems upset when Charlie loudly curses in the court. She holds a preference for negotiation over violence when it comes to conflict, such as when she is willing to hear Charlie out on her plan to resolve the overpopulation crisis in Hell. Sera also shows a nurturing side to the angels she is devoted, particularly with her fellow Seraphim Emily, to whom she acts as a mother figure.

Due to her peaceful nature, Sera greatly disapproves of Adam's juvenile and spiteful tendencies and the more violent and bloodthirsty of Exorcists, such as Lute. This is shown when Sera disapproves of Adam's declaration of targeting the Hazbin Hotel as the first area for him and his Exorcists to slaughter in the next Extermination. Sera deems his actions as uncalled-for and disapproves of Adam's delight and bloodthirst at doing so.

Despite her gentle nature, Sera's firm dedication to stability and willingness to do whatever it takes to protect Heaven from chaos leads her to perform controversial actions. This even motivated her to allow Adam's yearly extermination. Her care for the other angels also factors into these decisions, fearing the same outcome that happened to Lucifer would happen to Emily and other angels if they questioned Heaven's methods, going as far as to protect Emily from the truth to ensure her happiness.

Although she was complicit, Sera does express regret and anguish when making such decisions, claiming that creating an extermination to wipe out sinners yearly was a hard decision but was a required action. Furthermore, Sera herself showed numerous times that she greatly empathized with Charlie and her dreams of redeeming Sinners, but ultimately considers it impossible to accomplish, and thus Sera does what she believes is best with what she thinks is possible. This shows that when it comes to upholding the peace, Sera will act by underhanded means to silence questioning the rules to ensure this, even if it goes against what she believes in or ignoring how other angels feel in the matter. This was shown later when Sera ultimately rejected Charlie's proposal to accept rehabilitated souls, even after acknowledging that the rules of redemption were unknown.

Furthermore, despite regretting allowing the Exterminations and her strong sense of responsibility to protect Heaven, Sera has also shown to be somewhat negligent or irresponsible in the direct handling of matters regarding the Extermination event she authorized and takes a passive approach by letting others handle it. This is repeatedly shown when she leaves almost everything regarding the Extermination to Adam and Lute, and does not get into the details of what exactly it is they are doing and largely leaves them to their own devices. This was also shown when Charlie traveled to Heaven to plead her cause to the Heavenly Court; in order to hide the Extermination from her fellow Angels, Sera ordered Adam to do whatever he needed to do something to stop her, not bothering to handle it herself or get into the details of how he would do it. Her lack of control over her subordinates inevitably leads to Adam accidentally revealing the truth of the event to the rest of the members of the Court while spitting at Charlie, despite Sera warning him.

It is implied during the court trial in "Welcome to Heaven" that Sera does not believe it is possible for Sinners to be redeemed and ascend into Heaven, and at the climax of the trial declared that there was not sufficient evidence to back up Charlie's case that Sinners could be redeemed. Later, in "The Show Must Go On", when seeing Sir Pentious becoming an Angel and being let into Heaven, Sera is visibly shocked.

Abilities

• Longevity - As told in "Overture", Sera has existed since before the creation of the world, meaning she is at least thousands of years old and presumably is unable to die of old age.
• Angelic power - Being a High Seraphim, she has powerful angelic power.
• Flight - As an Angel, she has wings that are capable of flight.
  • Levitation - Sera can be seen always levitating.
• Teleportation - Sera can teleport herself and others to any location she wishes by covering them with her glowing wings.

Skillset

• Musical talent - She is adept at singing.

History

Past

Hazbin Hotel Season 1

"Welcome to Heaven"

"The Show Must Go On"

Relationships

Emily

Sera cares greatly for Emily and is overprotective of her, even keeping Emily naïve about the exterminations as she thought she should shoulder the burden as the older angel. When Emily found out the truth about the extermination, Sera tried to explain to Emily that it was a tough decision she had to make in order to protect Emily and all the angels in heaven.

As Emily sides with Charlie about Heaven being hypocritical, Sera desperately tries to stop her. After the trial was over, Sera tells Emily that they need to look after their people and not question on what they do. Sera has the fear that if Emily began to question the system then she could end up a fallen angel like Lucifer.

Adam and Lute

Sera is considered Adam and Lute's superior. She can get rather annoyed with Adam's immaturity and Lute's blood thirsty tendencies. Sera allowed Adam's idea of the Extermination explicitly under the condition to keep it a secret from the rest of Heaven.

In "Welcome to Heaven", Sera was upset that Adam accidentally revealed to the court about the Extermination, but still allowed him to continue the Extermination as there was no evidence that Sinners could be redeemed. When Adam threatened about going to the Hotel first during the upcoming Extermination, and because of how upset Charlie and Vaggie looked, Sera gave Adam a stern glare which he then apologized for.

Hell's Royal Family

Charlie Morningstar

Sera was rather welcoming to Charlie entering heaven in "Welcome to Heaven", despite being the daughter of Lucifer, but did remind Charlie that she's only staying for one day. Sera thinks of her as misguided and that she was bringing trouble to heaven's door.

Sera gave a disapproved look when Charlie swore in the angelic court, but let it slide to give her a second chance to plead her case. Sera expressed sympathy for Charlie about trying to prove that sinners could be redeemed by showing Angel Dust protecting Niffty from Valentino, but as Angel Dust didn't get into heaven and gave no evidence of redemption Sera ruled that there was no proof a sinner could be redeemed.

Lucifer Morningstar

It's unknown what relationship Sera had with Lucifer, but it can be assumed that she, along with the elders of Heaven, believed Lucifer was a troublemaker and rejected his ideas. However, in "Welcome to Heaven" shows that Sera does express pity and sympathy for Lucifer when he was banished to hell for bringing evil to earth. His becoming a fallen angel also caused Sera to fear the same thing would happened to Emily.

Others

Sir Pentious

While the two have yet to interact, when Sir Pentious proved redemption was possible Sera was greatly shocked at the revelation.

Gallery

• Sera/Gallery

Trivia

• Sera's name may be a shortening of the type of angel she is, a Seraphim.
  • Her name could also be a reference to Seraphiel, an angel mentioned in the Apocryphal Book of Enoch who is also said to be the highest-ranking member of the Seraphim.
  • Sera's angelic form may be an evocation of the Hebrew term for Seraph, which in biblical texts was also used to describe snakes and serpents.
  • Strangely, while in her partial form, Sera has eyes in her hair even though she does not have any in her humanoid or angelic forms.
• Sera, along with Emily, has an otherworldly, many-eyed angelic form she changes between her more human-like form. She can also cause more eyes to appear on her Halo and hair. However, it is unknown whether this shift between appearances is a result of transformation or a heavenly disguise.

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