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There are three classes of Cherubim - Muses (occasionally called Graces), Cupids, and Fortifiers. They angels are the least powerful of all the angels, and do not need Vessels while appearing to humans. Muses help people create, Cupids help people fall in lust and/or love, and Fortifiers strengthen and encourage people. They cannot bring into being what is not already there, only bring out what is.
Despite the differences between the other types of angels, they all share some powers and abilities.
All the names of the prophets are seared into an angel's memory, as is every language which has existed (at least in their Creation).
The angels have two ways of foreseeing the future. One is simply fore sight - that is, looking ahead a span of time and seeing the way things can occur. The other is to jump forward into time and see it in person. Combining the two is not allowed, as Lucifer's faceprint on the steps to The Throne can attest.
They are also psychic in general, telepathy, empathy, telekinesis/terrakinesis, dream walking, time travel/travel to parallel worlds and memory manipulation accompany the near-omniscience and foresight. Healing and body manipulation, reality warping, conjuring and Creation, supernatural perception, weather manipulation, and likely along with others I'm forgetting at the moment round out their power.
Angels are the weakest, Seraphs stronger, and Archangels the strongest.
However, angels - archangels even more than their younger siblings - are not Humans and there are things which are different about them, although none of the angels would consider them powers. Angels are superhumanly strong and durable, immortal, can be both invisible and intangible, can alter their voice to perfectly mimic others, and speak to each other via the Symphony. For the most part they do not have their own vessels, and angels have only a single pair of wings.
The difference between angels and seraphs rests in the seraphs being much more powerful than the angels, and having two pairs of wings compared to the angels having one single pair. They also are not limited to simply mimicking voices, but can mimic the appearance of others as well - provided those people actually existed. The cannot for instance, mimic characters from non live action medias.
The archangels have three pairs of wings, as well as being more powerful, and having more differences. Archangels posses the ability to use a fraction of God's Holy Light which will utterly destroy any who are not righteous or divine, often leaving behind the impression a bomb has gone off. This is seen in them raising their right hands, and while Michael is the one more likely to use this ability, all four of them are able to. They can also not just mimic voices and bodies, but totally alter themselves to create new personas (or shapeshift into nonhuman forms as well). Additionally, each archangel has a field over which he is master. Michael pyrokinesis, Lucifer crynokinesis, Raphael electrokinesis, Gabriel hydrokinesis. The first and third are often warmer to the touch and the second and fourth are often cooler.
Put the four archangels together and their are neigh omniscient, but there are things God can - and does - conceal from them. Gabriel and Raphael know the most, while Lucifer and Michael know the least. It amuses all of them that the youngest know more that the eldest (although Lucifer does understand why he's limited - he tries to circumvent things he doesn't like, leading to getting told Thou Shalt Not - and he hates getting told that).
The archangels each command Garrisons, and the angels of the garrisons mimic the archangel in command. For instance, human body temperature ranges from 96 to 99F (35.5 to 37.2C) - Lucifer is normally at the very lowest range of that and Gabriel a little warmer but more likely to vary, while Michael is normally falls at the highest with Raphael a little cooler but also more likely to fluctuate. However, if they stop attempting to fit in with humanity the hot angels (Michael and his) will run hot enough to cause spontaneous combustion to materials around them, without harm to the angel, which the cold angels (Lucifer and his) will become so cold that not only will the surrounding area freeze and become painfully lacking in humidity, it could also freeze the marrow inside living creatures, Gabriel and his won't grow as cold but roll powerfully through frigidly cold temperatures to warm ones more welcoming to humans, and Raphael and his spike white hot, painfully, blisteringly hot before cooling to more habitable. Noticing a theme? The archangels balance each other.
They will also occasionally forget to breathe while resting or intently focusing, and yes, are known for their perching, headtilting, puffing up and other nonhuman body language - angels who interact with humans less display these traits the most.
The easiest way to look at the Archangels, Seraphs, and Angels is to see them less as biological siblings and more like three different types of extremely closely related species. They still consider each other siblings however. Comparing the general Host of Heaven to the Cherubim, it's most like comparing the Care Bears and the Care Bear Cousins - they are related but not as closely. Still, they will call each other brother.
