Posting this one because this is a topic thats been coming back a few times and I’d love for people to continue the discussion :3
There have only been a few mentions about Michaels or Eliots body in that sense. What I am sorta wishing for is that the one we see in heaven on the meeting for example is a fake as well. I would love to see Michael with several wings, that is mainly what I think ‘real’ Michael looks like and what we have seen now is just another vessel or something. Lucifer have been seen with several wings, I think I can see at least 5 in this picture bellow.
The highest rank of angels are named Seraphs, they are known for having 6 wings (and a lot of eyes) the wings covering up their body, two of the wings for covering their eyes and considering how little we’ve seen of Lucifer, I think he is a Seraph. Or welp was. He keeps hiding behind wings and there are always a mess of a feather drape covering his eyes, perhaps that being the two wings. Lucifer was the highest of angels before his fall, being a Seraph wouldn’t be so surprising. Now Michael is his younger twin brother, Chief Archangel and sometimes mentioned as a seraph as well. Though Seraphs haven’t been brought up in makai ouji at all I think so not officially. But this is basically why I think Michael having 6 wings would make sense and just be beautiful o/
But back to what the manga actually have given us.
First through chapter 23, Michael himself said something like ‘this body wont last long’ then followed up with Dantalion giving an explanation to why Michael could control Eliots body. We even get to see Elliot walk by with apperantly a broken arm or something. So I’m guessing Michael used his body and Elliot actually was damaged for real as well. What was there was Elliot for sure, Michael just controlling him.
Dantalion later saying something like Michael controlling that body from afar. What we have never gotten an explanation from though is why Elliot and the Michael we see in heaven are basically the same. Same as to why Uriel from long ago, meeting Solomon for example, Kevin and Uriel still looks the same.
Though we haven’t seen Uriel in heaven so him keeping his form as Kevin is pretty understanding but it’s still weird how he looked exactly the same back when he met Solomon. Same with Michael when he met Enoch and in the latest chapter when we see Dantalion and Gilgamesh encountering Lily, we see a bit of Michael as well still looking the same as Elliot.
I can’t remember who but someone made a comment long ago (a year? ) that it was because the whole manga is based on from Williams perspective and so we see the angels like if he had seen them. (I think something like that? Can’t find the thing ;;)
Another mentioned that the angels doesn’t really have a physical form so that’s what they can picture it with.
I don’t think we’ve actually reached something that explains why they still look the same. Through Metatron we know that they can change their appearance so perhaps the shapes that are displayed are just something that they themselves ‘wish’ to appear like. (think someone mentioned this as well) although Metatrons human shape and angel shape seems very alike, maybe he just wanted to keep it like that.
My little wish is that Michael doesn’t look like that in reality, that he resembles Lucifer a lot more not only with the 6 wings thing but like, taller, slimber. Lucifer looks so elegant so perhaps a mix between the little round and very childish body we see him in now and Lucifers. Though so far there’s nothing to support this so.
Right now it seems that he looks just the same as Eliot and Uriel looks just like Kevin, only that he borrowed Elliots body for a moment.