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NAME: Malphael – "Mal"
RACE: Fallen (light; former angel of abstinence)
GENDER: Male
AGE: Appears to be 29
APPEARANCE: Handsome, as pictured. Tall, lean and lanky, with scruffy black hair and a blinding white smile. His eyes are particularly unsettling and inhuman, a pitch-black colour that are simultaneously flecked with gold while not allowing any light in whatsoever.
To the naked eye, his wings are non-existent, sealed into an elaborate tattoo on his back that only supernatural beings (including sensitives) can see. He uses it to keep a track of his impending demise. The illusion is stronger than others, concealing rose-red wings that, as the feathers begin to fall off, turn grey.
PERSONALITY: In general, Malphael is charming – if a little quirky. He is a smooth-talker, a wordsmith, and often uses verbose language even when he ought not to. He admires and hoards the finer things in life selfishly, from jewellery and fine clothes to beautiful people (not just in appearance); however, he goes through periods of crippling guilt and self-loathing as a result. Even so, Malphael considers Falling to be the best thing that ever happened to him, allowing him the freedom to experience things like the strong emotions love and hate. He is weak-willed and indecisive, wanting both to return to his angelic ways by repenting for his sins and continue his hedonistic lifestyle all at once.
ABILITIES:
Healing – The natural ability to heal himself and others. Not very good at the latter.
Empathy – A strange version of empathy wherein he can only feel others' physical pain and lust (for anything). With permission, he can transfer it to himself. This is useful because he has a uniquely high tolerance for pain and torment as well as impeccable self-restraint after a year of debauchery. It is somewhat related to his willpower as a former angel of abstinence.
Conversion of Energy – Waste not want not. Malphael can take some of the life-force of a creature or plant and bolster himself with it; however, if it is capable of conscious thought he requires permission or an understanding first. This storage of energy allows him enhanced physical speed and supernatural endurance at the cost of reducing his remaining lifespan just as his fallen abilities would.
HISTORY: Malphael is (or was) a relatively young angel, particularly immature and not entirely devoted to his code of strict rules. He abstained, as commanded, from everything that could lead him into sin and ruin. Before falling, he had never experienced strong emotions because there was no need for them. After a few years of merely observing the human world, he began to influence it, if only in tiny ways – good ways, like saving a man from the grip of alcoholism via prophetic dreams. His work was a matter of pride for him, though it didn't quite lead him into sin directly.
Eventually he came across Evangeline, his first experience with a sensitive. Her piety attracted him first of all: she was a Christian girl with far too little confidence and a problem for him to solve. Normally he wouldn't have even considered helping but Malphael was leaning towards various sins anyway, particularly lust and envy, so he decided to wing it and hope for the best. He took away her problems (or more accurately, took her away from her problems) shortly before being cast down for one misstep too many.
The first year of freedom that followed was fun, an entirely new experience for him as he committed various crimes and accumulated enough money to help his sensitive through university and life in general; however, he is beginning to regret it... if only because he believes Evangeline has a chance of ascending to a higher plane of existence after her life is over and he cannot risk his actions corrupting her. As a result he is not contracted to her, though he has pledged to protect her.
NAME: Evangeline Spears
RACE: Sensitive
GENDER: Female
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: As pictured. Blonde hair either in a plait or left loose, often seeming like it has never been brushed ever. Her eyes are grey with particularly narrow pupils. She has many, many freckles.
PERSONALITY: Evangeline is truly innocent, almost as if she'd never experienced evil in her life. She devoutly believes in the healing power of forgiveness and refuses to hold grudges. She is kindhearted almost to the point of silliness; a vegetarian because she doesn't want animals to suffer, poor because she gives money to every charity case she sees, lacking in confidence because she is certain that others are better and more worthy of miracles than she is – she'll even say as much.
Ultimately she cares very little about her life and her future and is quite self-destructive in that. Having realised that her romantic ideals are just that – ideals – she is only now beginning to let go of her hero-worshipping tendencies and replacing them with a depressing fear of being alone forever. Evangeline is surprisingly fragile in her psyche and the only thing holding her together is the promise of becoming an angel after death, just as Malphael says.
ABILITIES:
Sight – Like all sensitives, Evangeline can see the true forms of angels and demons as well as being able to sense nearby supernatural creatures.
Psychometry – People (and angels, demons and fallen) leave imprints of memories behind on whatever they touch. If Evangeline touches something, she often receives a brief flash of memory if the object in question is associated with a time of strong emotion. Often when Evangeline comes into physical contact with another person, she experiences a glimpse of an event in their lives and can quickly build a picture of someone's true nature.
Runes and Rituals – Evangeline is not half-bad at banishing angels, though her work with demons is limited.
BIO:
Evangeline was a straight A student, a hard-worker if not naturally intelligent, but she had few friends – mostly for the reason that she didn't want anyone to know how excruciatingly lonely and difficult her life was under parents that didn't care. She took refuge in her favourite subject, history, and near the end of her high school career she had hopes of going to university that were dashed quickly by a lack of funds and no applicable scholarships. In addition to this, she was considered a burden in her household, so she locked herself in her room all day and tried not to be a bother.
It was during one of those times that she came across Malphael, an angel who was just as surprised that Evangeline could see him as she was. To the pious Christian, it was simply an act of God, a miracle that he was sent down and just happened to come across her, and so began the endless hero-worship. It was only made stronger when he practically gave up his immortality and powers to save her from a life she hadn't even considered to be all that bad. She ignored his criminal actions and drinking and often despicable actions (not towards her) and simply followed blindly as he began to teach her everything she would need to survive as a sensitive.
For the past few months, she has been living her life under the belief that if she stays as she is (pure, untainted, not evil) she has the chance of becoming an angel after death. Whether this is true or not is unclear; however, it is slowly getting harder to resist the temptations life throws at her.