transplant him with his family issues into being a guardian angel

I dunno, 'heaven politics = large Italian family" sounds pretty reasonable to me, fwiw.

going to be hard as fuck to transfer because all their personal stories were wrapped up in characters I do not feel comfortable transfering bcause they were Mat and Nora's

I have in the past done 1:1 replacements of characters that weren't mine; if you want to brainpick over this I'd be happy to chat with you on AIM or something about it.