ANGEL FEATHERS MISCELLANEOUS [private]

[Mister Glass]

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CHARACTERS​

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NAME | Ezra Abara
AGE | 23
SEXUALITY | biromantic arospec
PRONOUNS | he/him

APPEARANCE | More painting than human, Ezra stands at about 6'4 and has flair for the dramatic, preferring dressing 'classy' to blending in. Well. Classy as according to him, and he seems to have gotten his sense of a style from a shroom induced fever dream. His nails are filed down to neat squares, and he smells like freshly washed laundry most days, the barest hint of an airy cologne coloring the air if one were to get close.

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BACKSTORY | Born from the union of a ia and a mortal, Ezra grew up a little strange. He was raised in a small town in Transilvania, and picked up travelling as an adult, retaining a lot of his education from Romania. He was the definition of charm as a teenager, though academics stuck to him like water to a duck. He never knew his mother, though his father tried his best to be the role model his son needed. Cooking was the way they bonded, with both Ezra and his dad cementing acts of service as their love language. As an adult, he registered with a monster-hunter guild situated in Transilvania, and spent three years hunting minor strigoi and mori. Upon coming to the United States, Ezra was out of work, and resorted to hunting down angels for money. It was fun, lucrative, and he made a lot of friends in the angle-hunter community. The ethics never really bothered him as long as there was money to be made.

PERSONALITY | Ezra is an easygoing man with a certain charm. He's the type to draw eyes when he walks into the room, making friends with even the grumpiest of people. Compliments flow easily from his tongue, as does familiarity and comfort. He operates on a 'do no harm, take no shit' philosophy, and always has a good word to say about everyone he meets. Drama seems to look him in the eye, and consistently decide to bother someone else. As the son of a ia, Ezra never had any trouble integrating within social groups. He was charismatic, and his unnatural heritage made romance an easy game to play. One foot in, one foot out of the faewild made the boy a particular breed of trouble, retaining his mother's fae beauty but not her inability to lie.

ABILITIES | Charming, and a convincing liar. Has the ability to see unnatural things, and walks very quietly. Has a basic grasp of thaumaturgy.

FUN FACTS | He's addicted to peppermint. Chances are you'll catch him with a packet of mint gum in every coat, bag, or pair of pants he owns. If it's not gum, it's candy. If it's not candy, it's fake menthol cigarettes (that do no harm because it's fiction and slay), mint chocolate, mint cheesecake, everything mint and then some.

MINOR CHARACTERS

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EZRA'S MOM | coming soon
EZRA'S DAD | coming soon

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STORYBUILDING​

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IELE

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The iele are feminine mythical creatures in Romanian mythology. Often they are described as faeries (zâne in Romanian), with great seductive power over men, with magic skills and attributes similar to nymphs, naiads and dryads found in Greek mythology.

They mostly appear at night by moonlight, as dancing Horas (circle dancing), in secluded areas such as glades, the tops of certain trees (maples, walnut trees), ponds, river sides, crossroads or abandoned fireplaces, dancing naked, with their breasts almost covered by their disheveled hair, with bells on their ankles and carrying candles. In almost all of these instances, the Iele appear to be incorporeal. Rarely, they are dressed in chain mail coats. The place where they had danced would after remain carbonized, with the grass incapable of growing on the trodden ground, and with the leaves of the surrounding trees scorched. Later, when grass would finally grow, it would have a red or dark-green color, the animals would not eat it, but instead mushrooms would thrive on it.

They are not generally considered evil genii: they resort to revenge only when they are provoked, offended, seen while they dance, when people step on the trodden ground left behind by their dance, sleep under a tree which the Iele consider as their property, drink from the springs or wells used by them. Terrible punishments are inflicted upon the ones who refuse their invitation to dance, or the ones who mimic their movements. The one who randomly hears their songs becomes instantly mute. A main characteristic is their beautiful voices which are used to enchant their listeners, just like the Sirens from ancient Greek mythology. Invisible to humans, there are however certain moments when they can be seen by mortals, such as when they dance at night. When this happens, they abduct the victim, punishing the "guilty" one with magical spells, after they previously caused him to fall into sleep with the sounds and the vertigo of the frenetic Hora, which they dance around their victim, who is abducted, to disappear forever without a trace.

STRIGOI

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In some parts of rural Romania, strigoi were thought to be living dead that are said to be able to rise at night to pray on the living by draining their life force. They are usually drawn to their old home, and pray on their former family or friends until laid to rest.

The night before St Andrew's Day (29-30 November) is thought to be exceptionally magical in Eastern European folklore, and it's when supernatural beings such as strigoi are thought most likely to be seen.

They are generally believed to be able to:
- rise from the grave at night and return before dawn
- change into animal forms (cats, rats, owls, etc..)
- drain life force from living humans (usually not all at once, but the victim will wither and die if not stopped)
- change weather, bring draught
- steal milk from animals and crops from the fields

Thier weaknesses are:
- they are vulnerable to holy water
- they dislike garlic and it can be placed around a house to keep them at bay
- they can be stopped by having their body taken out of the grave and either burned or having a wooden stake driven through the heart (yes that part was genuine)

Main difference from the vampire myth are:
- strigoi feed on life force ("your soul") and not blood
- being bitten by a strigoi doesn't turn you into one. Strigoi appear as either a result of a peron's evil during their life, or as a result of their mother's sins (in which case they can be saved if the signs that the child is "marked" are seen in time).

 

[Strawberry Scream]

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Kauru Hawthorne​

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NAME: Azaziel (Current mortal name: Kauru Hawthorne)

Previous locations, names, and presenting genders, in order:

1. Chicago, Illinois, USA (1924 - 1965), Spencer Smith, Female
2. Seoul, South Korea (1965 - 1969) Eun Jun-Seo, Male
3. Moscow, Russia (1969 - 1973), Nikolayev Adam Nikitovich, Male
4. Salem, Massachusetts, USA (1973 - 1977): Elaine Johnson, Female
5. Okinawa, Japan (1977 - 1983), Kida Morie, Female
6. Leeds, Britain (1983 - 1987), Amelie Brooks, Female
7. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (1987 - 1991), Max Flemming, Male
8. Dublin, Ireland (1991 - 1996), Cillian Crowe, Male
9. Oslo, Norway (1996 -2002) Astrid Heide, Female
10. Athens, Greece (2002 - 2008) Myrto Perrou, Female
11. Kodiak, Alaska, USA (2008 - 2013) Dylan Sode, Male
12. Dundee, Scotland (2013 - 2017) Artur Gòrdan, Male
13. Barcelona, Spain (2017 - 2022) Gael Santiago, Male
14. Long Beach, Washington, USA (2022- Current), Kauru Hawthorne, Male

AGE: Angelic age unknown, too old to remember human life. Fallen age: 99 (Fell in 1924). Appears somewhere in his early twenties.

SEXUALITY: Demisexual, Questioning

PRONOUNS: Currently He/They

APPEARANCE: Clocking in at 6'0 at a whopping 150 pounds, Azaziel is a skinny person with a strangely androgynous face. It's impossible to tell right off the bat if they're male or female, which makes it easier for him to constantly move around and change identities to hide from hunters. His skin is a sickly pale color, stemming from chronic pain from painfully disabled wings. His skin seems even paler against his mess of shockingly dark black fluffy hair with lots of messy layers, which falls just past his ears with a fringe and bangs. Dark blue eyes just like the depths of the ocean have shadows underneath them from being exhausted from living such a long, painful life after falling from the Heavens. Fingers are long and slender, perfect for playing the violin and piano.

As a fallen celestial angel, Azaziel has pure white, glimmering wings like freshly fallen snow. They are painfully disabled, bones snapping and breaking, then healing incorrectly after falling. Another angel once took pity on him and made him a set of braces with celestial matter, which is semi-opaque and invisible to the human eye. They help keep his wings pulled in and folded against his back although they'll never be able to fold all the way in or expand all the way out again. His wings are clearly mangled, feverish and hot to the touch from pain and ever-crackling bones. His wings allow fabric to pass over them, so he doesn't have to worry about cutting holes in his clothes. His white, sparkly aura is so weak that it can't easily be seen in the sunlight, only at night, and it's completely invisible to humans.

Currently, his style could be labeled as soft alternative. Tattered black jeans paired with various metal and symphonic goth band t-shirts, Doc Martens, usually a baggy black and grey plaid flannel to cover up his scarred arms from the celestial glass tearing into him when he fell. His ears have multiple piercings with black metal jewelry, and there's a black metal hoop on the left side of his bottom lip. As his wings are attached to his nervous system, the pain from his wings spread all over his body and he walks with a cane and heavy limp. Some days are better than others, but hot days are worse and cold days are better.



PERSONALITY: Understandably, Azaziel is a bit of a nervous, jumpy person. They are friendly though, with an easy smile and a soft voice that makes it even more impossible to tell if he's male or female. Although he hates being snuck up on, he's never lashed out at someone who's startled him, although they've been known to jump about six feet in the air and whip around as if someone was about to plunge a knife in his back. A gentle soul with a green thumb, Azaziel can often be found on his days off from the book shop working in the community garden or working on his own garden that grows on his balcony above the book store, where his apartment is.

BACKSTORY: Too old to remember who he was before he was an angel, Azaziel was once a beloved celestial angel chosen by the Highest to tend to the Celestial Gardens. For eons, that's exactly what he did; tended to every soul plant with care, gave every single one a piece of his aura until they glowed with angelic power, and poured his heart into taking care of the connections souls had to the Heavens. It was like this for longer than he could remember.

And then, one moment ruined it all. A child had passed away, and her soul sprout was so small, so hidden behind a massive soul tree, that Azaziel didn't notice her. As they neglected to care for her, the soul plant withered and died, and Azaziel was the one at fault for sending a small child to Hell. As such, Azaziel was cast out of the Heavens and cursed to become a fallen, crashing through the celestial glass barriers. Right after he fell just outside Chicago in 1924, a man named John Smith took them in, thinking they were a young girl struck by lightning. Azaziel relearned English and the Smith family hid her until 1965, which is when angels were discovered to be real - and valuable. Azaziel never stayed in one place for more than a few years after that, constantly moving around the world and creating new aliases to stay safe from hunters. As of now, Azaziel goes by Kauru Hawthorne in Long Beach, Washington, where he owns a bookstore and coffee shop blend.

ABILITIES: Although he is a fallen angel, Azaziel does still carry minor healing abilities and his feathers are still mildly effective. Other than that, he's more or less powerless.

FUN FACTS: Over the century he had been back on Earth, Azaziel has learned how to play multiple instruments, went to medical school (which was an interesting hurdle to jump when he changed his name twice turning the 12 years it took to do so, although it was astonishingly easy to fake old school records when he created new aliases), and successfully became an author - six times. Of course, there's no picture of them on the backs of the books, and all of the authors have tragically 'passed away too young'. He also had a small hand in helping invent smartphones, although he took no credit and dipped out before any fame came from it.

SIDE CHARACTERS

Spoiler: Sorrel Luxien

NAME: Sorrel Luxien

AGE: 27

SEXUALITY: Bisexual

PRONOUNS: She/Her

APPEARANCE: All gold; metallic golden curls to her shoulders, golden eyes, gold skin. Standing at 5'11, Sorrel is leanly muscular and clearly fit, a heavily trained gymnast and dancer. She generally wears comfortably fashionable clothes, which can range from anywhere between goth and preppy depending on her mood.

PERSONALITY: Bold, honest, and straight to the point, Sorrel is a tough cookie who doesn't let much slide. She'd fiercely protective of her friends and family. Although she may be bold up front, she's a softie for the people she loves and isn't afraid to give an encouraging word here or there. However, she does struggle to give deep, meaningful pep talks. That is left to Aurora.

BACKSTORY: Born in Seattle, Washington, Sorrel is a pure sun elf. Her story is simple; she was born, she was raised by a good family in a good home, and set out on her own at 19 to face the world. She ended up in Long Beach, where she works part-time at Azaziel's (though she knows him as Kauru) bookstore and part-time as a real estate agent. She makes plenty of money but uses her time at the bookstore to help Azaziel since she knows he wouldn't accept her help for free and he clearly needs the aid.

ABILITIES: As she is a sun elf, Sorrel has the gift of pyromancy.

Spoiler: Aurora Iris

NAME: Aurora Iris

AGE: 26

SEXUALITY: Heterosexual

PRONOUNS: She/Her

APPEARANCE: With fair skin (though still not as pale as Azaziel), Aurora has soft blonde waves to the center of her back and light freckles all over her body. She stands at a mere 5'4 and is very petite. Blind, Aurora has cloudy white eyes, though she carries no cane or service dog (see abilities). Aurora can generally be found wearing a floor-length dress with varying sleeve lengths depending on the weather.

PERSONALITY: Like Azaziel, Aurora is a gentle, soft-spoken person but has a fierce maternal side to her and is not nearly as skittish. Should she see someone not taking care of themselves properly, she's not afraid to launch into a lecture.

BACKSTORY: Born to a human and a witch, Aurora grew up with minor magical abilities. Her witch mother left when she was a baby, so she was raised by a single human father who didn't really know how to handle her abilities. Even so, it was soon apparent that while she couldn't see, she could sense - so she didn't need a cane or guide dog. She graduated from college with a BA in English Studies and is an at-will tutor for wealthy families and a part-time bookstore worker.

ABILITIES: Aurora has mild telekinesis just powerful enough to move a heavy book, but most impressively, she has the Sense. It's the ability to simply sense what is around her, from the color of the floor to who is around her. It's a little eerie to see those foggy white eyes following you, knowing she can't actually see you.

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Spoiler: The Tiers of Heaven

(Loosely based on Mormon/LDS Mythology)

Heaven is not what the Bible claims. It is not always a paradise, nor is it always filled with angels. Rather, heaven is made up of six tiers. From the bottom, there is the Lower Realm, Center Realm, Highest Realm, and then the Celestial Realms: the Angel Realm, the Celestial Gardens, then the Highest. Each tier is separated by Celestial Glass, which is a thin, iridescent sheet of glass-like holy material.

Placement in the realms is not determined by religious affiliations, but rather by the deeds and desires that are shown in life.

Lower Realm

The Lower Realm is known as the lowest tier of glory. Those who have ascended to the Lower Realm are those of mediocre status. They were neither good nor evil; too sinful for true Heavens (Center to Highest Realm), but too good for Hell. Life in the Lower Realm is more or less identical to life on Earth.

However, those of the Lower Realm are in a unique position. They, unlike the other tiers of glory, have a chance to either damn or redeem themselves. Should they work towards being a better person, they have a chance to rise to the Center Realm or possibly even the Highest Realm on rare occasions. However, should they give into sin and become more wicked than they were on Earth, they will fall through the Lower Celestial Glass to Hell. There is also an option to stay there without ascending or descending.

Center Realm

While the Lower Realm is the lower tier of heaven, the Center Realm is the next highest tier. Here, those who leaned more toward kindness and patience, though still had fallen into somewhat serious sin, are welcomed. Life here is pleasant in an Earthly sense. Similar to living on Earth, there are no weapons nor drugs, and honesty is treasured above all else. This is the largest Realm, where most people on Earth tend to fall.

Similarly to the Lower Realm, there is a chance to ascend, although the chances are much slimmer, as an Angel must decide you are worthy and take you to the Highest Realm.

Highest Realm

It is still the smallest of all the main three realms. The Highest Realm is where the kindest, most patient, and honorable people go when they pass. Those who achieve status in the Highest Realm are most likely to be welcomed into the Angel Realm to become angels. Here, life is perfect for every individual person. Each person has their own personal paradise while still able to be with the other people who had ascended. This is where all animals go as well.

Another benefit of being in the Highest Realm is that one is able to travel down. They may visit the Center and Lower Realms at will to see family, friends, or strangers who they believe had the potential to move up in the realms. Those who travel to the bottom realms are considered to be Teachers and are often the ones who become angels, although it is exceedingly rare.

Angel Realm

Above the three tiers of glory are the Celestial Realms, and the first one is simply known as the Angel Realm. This is where those who earned their wings are, and like the Highest Realm, each angel has their own paradise. The Angel Realm is divided into three micro-realms: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. See types of angels for more information.

Celestial Gardens

Also known as the Highest Heavens, the Celestial Gardens are the heart and soul of the six tiers. Here is where the source of power that fuels the heavens grow in the form of a garden. Each plant represents a soul in the three tiers of glory, and it is incredibly important that each one is threatened with tender love and care, except those who fall into Hell from the Lower Realm. Should a plant fade or wither, so will the soul; and should it die, the soul will fall to Hell whether they deserve it or not.

The upkeep of these plants is done by the rarest type of angel of them all: Celestials. See types of angels for more information.

The Highest

Although technically a part of the Heavens, the Highest Realm is a separate ralm away from the others altogether. Here, there are four of the oldest angels: one each bronze (male, Alizel), silver (female, Erazael), gold (male, Caliraz), and celestial (female, Ozriel). These four angels are known as the Highest and are the angels who decide whether or not a soul is ready to Ascend to become an angel. The one with most authority is Ozriel, as she is the oldest angel of them all.

Spoiler: Types of Angels

There are five subcategories of angels: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Celestial, and Fallen. All can go to Earth, but Fallen angels cannot return to the Heavens until they pass away.

Bronze

Bronze angels are also known as shepherd angels, and are the most common type of angels. These angels are mostly made up of Teachers from the Highest Realm, and their role is simple; to guard the souls entering heaven. While danger is minimal, souls have a tendency to wander and get lost if they didn't have a guide, which is what shepherd angels are for. Their wings are metallic bronze. If they prove themselves to be faithful, true, and caring for the souls, they may be invited to become silver angels.



Silver

Second most common, silver angels have metallic silver wings and are often described as guardian angels. They are the most common on Earth, as it is their duty to try and guide souls who are becoming lost back into the light of the heavens. To do this, they often engage in human activities, melding themselves into the culture and making friends. Some of them even fall in love with humans, usually the ones they are meant to be guided back to the light. This is generally frowned upon, but not technically unallowed. Rarely, should they show their true worth, they may be invited to become gold angels.



Gold

The third most common type of angel is the golden angel, with wings of metallic gold. Their job is to protect the heavens from threats and dangers, which there are few - but those few are fierce. They are passionate, fierce angels, often named as warrior angels. These are some of the oldest angels, who have grown hard and proud from fighting off the enemies for eons.

Once every few centuries, a single golden angel is selected to become a celestial angel, the highest honor of them all.



Celestial

The second rarest type of angel is the Celestial Angel. These are the angels one may see in stained glass windows and painting in churches, but a hundred times more beautiful. Their wings are white and glittering, and their auras are the most powerful. Celestial angels have one job and one job only; to nurture the soul plants in the Celestial Gardens, the one place where no soul or other angels may go. They must be truly gentle and humbled before entering the gardens, which is why they are so rare; the golden angels are often proud and firm.

Fallen

By far, fallen angels are the rarest of them all. For every million and a half souls, only one angel falls. Usually, these are bronze angels who have lost too many souls. However, every few eras, a celestial angel may fall. A celestial angel falls when they lose a soul, when they neglect to care for a soul plant either purposefully or mistakenly. When angels fall, two things may happen; they may lose their wings entirely, or their wings may become crippled if their sin was terrible enough.

Fallen angels are often hidden from humans in plain sight. They look like humans, as their wings (if they still have them) are often invisible and their aura is too dim to see unless it is pitch black. They age very, very slowly, often living for a few hundred years unless they are killed. This is to give them time to repair their sins and achieve a chance to become a soul in the three tiers of glory, although they may never be an angel again.

Spoiler: What are angel auras and what do the feathers do?

To put simply, angel auras are just what they sound like - auras surrounding an angel. It's also called their halo. It's seen as a gentle glow in the air around them, and they are the same color as their status. Bronze angels have a bronze aura, silver angels have a silver aura, and gold angels have a gold aura. Celestial angel auras are pure white and a little sparkly.

Auras are also known as the Angel Soul because that's exactly what they are. Angels are neither living nor dead creatures, so they don't really have a body to hold the soul, but they don't don't have a body to fully release it into the Heavens. Their bodies are known as transexistance beings - meaning that while they're on the surface of the world, they are solid, but once they fly back to the heavens, they are not. Hence, their soul is kept around their body as an aura. Fallen angels have semi-mortal bodies that must die for their souls to be released.

Now, different angel auras can do different things, as well as their feathers. Feathers do not have to be whole to have their effect.

Bronze Aura: Bronze angels can manipulate their aura into a guiding light from the world to the Heavens. This is the pathway that souls follow to the Heavens. From there, the angels deliver each soul to the tier of glory that they belong in, using their auras as a sort of 'key' to unlock each celestial glass gate.
Bronze Feathers: Bronze feathers are known to bring luck in finding where you need to be, wherever that is. A new house, a new job, a new person to fall in love with - just where you need to be. People who suffer from loneliness, homelessness, and feeling lost are usually the ones who benefit the most from these feathers.

Silver Aura: Since silver angels, AKA guardian angels, are usually on the surface to help guide people onto the right path, their auras work by giving people minor blessings by touching them and gifting them a tiny sliver of their aura. When a silver angel blesses someone with a bit of their aura, that person suddenly finds it easier to find the right path to the Heavens. However, this blessing does not work for people who don't want to do better. They have to actively want to change in order to receive a blessing.
Silver Feathers: These feathers tend to help clear your mind of negativity and help bring you to a better emotional place. People with depression, anxiety, OCD, or other mental disorders that may cause distress often find themselves in a much better place after coming into contact with silver angel feathers.

Gold Aura: Gold auras are unique. They are the only aura that can solidify, and for good reason. Since gold angels are the protectors of the Heavens, their aura can turn into armor and weapons, both physically in the mortal realm and in the outskirts of the Heavens, where they fight against demons and other Hell-sent dangers.
Gold Feathers: These are extremely protective. Should someone get their hands on a gold feather, which is rare as gold angels rarely leave their posts, they will find themselves suddenly safer and far less in danger. People who have been stalked, harassed, or otherwise unpleasantly or even dangerously treated by others are those who in most need of gold feathers.

Celestial Aura: The rarest of aura in the mortal realm, celestial auras are also unique. In the Celestial Gardens, each soul plant is tended to by celestial angels giving pieces of their auras to each plant. These plants thrive on the pure, gentle, kind souls of celestial angels, and so do people, too. Celestial auras are known to heal, soothe, and calm those who touch their light. These auras are by far the most powerful.
Celestial Feathers: While celestial auras are the most powerful of auras, celestial feathers are the same. These feathers can heal ailments, soothe pain, and calm hysteria and fear. Those who suffer from terminal illnesses/wounds, chronic pain, paranoia, perpetual fear, and panic attacks are the ones who benefit most.

Fallen Aura: Fallen auras are the same as their original, except very, very weak and only visible to those with special eyes. As fallen angels are generally hidden from mortal sight, meant to hide as humans, most people don't even know they have an aura.
Fallen Feathers: While some fallen angels no longer have wings, those who do are the ones who are most punished as they are crippled painfully. Like their aura, their wings are invisible to most mortal eyes. However, their feathers remain the same as their original status, though far, far weaker and far more fragile.