Profile Canon: The Dickmaster Refused To Stay Dead (art by dondoko_00)
For anyone wondering why this Adam is still yelling on Reddit instead of being dead in a ditch where Niffty left him, here is the account canon.
Adam survived Niffty’s attack, but only barely.
The angelic blade did enough damage to make everyone believe he was dead. After Lucifer’s beating, the repeated wounds, and the collapse of his angelic power, his body completely shut down. To Heaven, his presence vanished. To Hell, he looked like a corpse. So everyone assumed the obvious: Adam was dead.
The problem is, Adam is not a normal Exorcist.
He is the first man, a Winner, and an angel with far more raw divine energy than most people realise. Niffty’s knife pierced his physical body, but it did not fully destroy the angelic core anchoring his soul. Instead of dying permanently, his body forced itself into a deathlike stasis to stop that core from burning out.
Because it happened in Hell, with an angelic weapon, after the portal closed and his power was already shattered, Heaven could not properly pull him back or detect him. His soul basically got jammed between realms. Not alive enough to be retrieved. Not dead enough to stay gone.
Heaven registered him as dead. Abel was promoted. Lute grieved him. Hell celebrated. Everyone moved on.
Unfortunately for literally everyone involved, Adam did not.
He was later found under the wreckage near the old battlefield by demons scavenging angelic remains. They thought they had found a valuable corpse, until the corpse started breathing, bleeding gold, and being a complete asshole about it.
After that, he was hidden away and forced to recover in Hell. Too weak to return to Heaven, too proud to admit he needed help, and way too pissed off to stay dead.
So yes, canonically dead in the show.
For this account?
Death fumbled the bag.
Art by dondoko_00