Michael Demiurgos
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Michael Demiurgos is a principal character in the Lucifer series by DC comics, and is a creation of Mike Carey. When the God of the Covenant began his creation of the Universe he formed two beings to fulfil his desires: one was Michael who was given the demiurgic (having "an autonomous creative force or decisive power"[1]) power to enable the physical creation to occur (Big Bang moment). The other was Lucifer who infused creation with energy and life (sometimes called Sunmaker). Michael and Lucifer are said to be twins and the first beings in creation after the entity called God (though it is implied that Lucifer is the older brother). God's name is written on every atom of creation by Michael's power and Lucifer's will: this forms a central part of the series later on.
When Lucifer Morningstar began his revolt in heaven (detailed in the Lilith special edition) he was eventually defeated by his brother Michael who used the Demiurgos (God's power) to destroy his forces. However, during the aftermath of the attack a renegade angel called Sandalphon thrust his spear into Michael's back and took him captive into a pocket reality. There Michael was chained to a very large pillar (his physical form at the time being very large) while Sandalphon attempted to create a new generation of angels. Using Michael's power to impregnate women and then gestating the fetuses in Michael himself, he produced thousands of failures before producing Elaine Belloc with her 300 viable ova. Just as he attempted to claim Elaine, however, Lucifer stepped in.
Easily defeating the cowardly Sandalphon he took Michael - who never bore animosity towards his brother - and used him as a means to end the then-ongoing assault by the Heavenly Host against his home. Lucifer had obtained a Letter of Passage outside of Creation due to an earlier arrangement with Heaven. The subsequent doorway had been intended to be one-way and one-time only, but Lucifer bound it open with YHWH, God's own name. To destroy the door would be to unmake Creation.
Unable to allow this, the Host had laid siege to Lucifer's home in his absence. Arriving with Michael, the Host was instantly defeated: if Lucifer were to kill Michael there, the demiurgic power would wash over Creation, wiping it clean of all life. The Host receded. Michael, however, remained suffering and awaiting the death promised him by Lucifer. The injured Michael was taken through Lucifer's gate into the Nihilo (nothingness) where Lucifer thrust a sword into him and released the demiurgic power inside Michael, creating his own cosmos. Having acquired the demiurgic power over that new Cosmos, Lucifer reconstituted Michael after the event, but Michael refused Lucifer's offer to stand at his side. This is a theme throughout the comics as Michael is always offered a form of partnership with Lucifer but often refuses.
Michael is seen as patient and kind, but not someone who will stand by and watch injustice and evil. Initially he is stubborn in following the will of God but later begins to have doubts (exacerbated by his brother's enigmatic revelations from time to time). Having been ejected from heaven for questioning God's wisdom in ordering the death of his daughter, he travels either alone or with the Cherub Gaudium.
Michael's half human/angel daughter Elaine Belloc starts to play a more prominent role as the series continues. Initially guarded in his feelings for her he begins to feel genuine affection and love, which is compounded when Lucifer, having been near fatally injured by the Basanos, is given regeneration by the death/sacrifice of Elaine.
Events take a very serious turn after issue 50 when Fenris the wolf attempts to destroy the World Tree Yggdrasil and upset the balance of all creation. Having been wounded very badly in his fight against Lucifer (acting against his own will), Michael tells the now revived Elaine that he loves her and wishes he could have known her better, saying that she must be the holder of the Demiurgos before he can die.
Michael is one of only two angels that Lucifer has respect for (the other being Duma) and is seen as the other side of the coin to Lucifer. The Morningstar himself says that each has what the other lacks. He is tall with very long blond hair and has two white wings, and he is very powerful when moved to anger. Unlike Lucifer, he won't use creatures as pawns on some chess board, and thus has the humanity that Lucifer sometimes appears to lack.
