Post by Angel on Jan 28, 2011 3:40:14 GMT -5
Angel!
[BASICS]
Name: Angel
Age: 278
Birthdate: April 9th, 1727
Gender: Male
Species: Vampire
Abilities:In addition to having the common powers and vulnerabilities of a vampire, Angel possesses many qualities unique to himself:
Advanced age grants him physical abilities superior to those of most other vampires and demons.
Psychic links with his sired progeny allow him to experience vague dreams based on their recent deeds and sense their presence.
Temporary precognitive visions granted by the Powers That Be passed down to him from Cordelia.
Superior hand-to-hand and weapons combat skills.
Fluency in several languages (such as English, Korean, Tibetan, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin, Romanian and Russian).
Master of both physical and psychological torture.
Superior knowledge of demonology and history due to his long lifetime.
Experienced in witchcraft and sorcery, adept with glamours, rituals, and exorcisms.
Photographic memory.
Skilled sketch artist.
Family Members: Conner (son)
Canon or Original: Cannon
[LOOKS]
Height: 6'1
Weight: 178
Build: muscular
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
[INSIDE]
Personality: As Angel - Angel's personality is complex on its own as being a notorious killer without a soul pulls on a lot of emotional strings when curse with a conscious aka a soul. He is often seen brooding as a result, the sorrow and pain in his non-beating heart will probably always remain.
He is stoic when it comes to showing his emotions and is notoriously known for doing such, people often find themselves calling him out on it but he feels its his reserved right to hold onto what he feels. However, those he becomes close to as friends and considers near family are people he usually and tends to open up to about things.
Despite his rather dreary over-bearing personality Angel has his moments were he is rather uniquely and oddly chipper especially when attempting to cheer up a friend. He is often very protective of the people he holds dear, even if its against others whom he holds dear. Family is a key phrase he tends to use when discussing his friends in L.A. as they live out their lives side by side on fight at a time, he will tend to rip anyone apart who dares threaten anyone within his group.
He has a habit of taking charge in situations as he is guilty for having some sort of hero-complex and admits to it on occasion. Although there is no doubt that he is a strong individual when it comes to leadership, he has more then once guided the ship out of storm and into port when it came to danger and dire circumstances.
Out of all of the people, friends and lovers in his life, Buffy nor Cordelia had such a drastic personality changing affect on the vampire with a soul at the snap of the finger. Spike however was different, Spike whom was often seen as a catalyst to a more irritated behavior over the years has after his ensoulment proved to make Angel more obnoxious then irritated, as they argue like squabbing siblings and often fight over ridiculous topics (Ex. Astronauts vs. Cavemen). Despite Angel begrudgingly accepting Spike's help over the past year or so, he is among the few who bring out perhaps more brighter (Irritated mind you) side of Angel.
History: Angel was "Liam" in the year 1727, an Irish commoner. By age 27, he had developed a taste for alcohol and women and an aversion to work. Though not a bad man, Liam's only real ambition lay in seeing the world. That seemed a laughable dream until he met an affluent woman named Darla.
Darla promised Liam a world full of excitement and travel - a world in which he could take anything he wanted. But this gift came with a price, for Darla was a vampire. And in her deadly embrace, Liam was transformed into Angelus, the cruellest vampire the world had ever known.
For generations, Darla and Angelus terrorized humankind, murdering and torturing anyone who crossed their path. It was a family of gypsies who finally destroyed Angelus. In their grief over the death of their favourite daughter, they cursed him, restoring his soul and condemning him to an eternal life of regret and guilt. Only a moment of pure happiness could break the curse.
A shadow of his former self, Angel eventually wandered across the path of a demon named Whistler. Whistler persuaded Angel to join the fight against the evil that had corrupted him and to help the newly called Vampire Slayer. Her name was Buffy.
Over time, Buffy and Angel fell in love with each other. Though they tried to deny their feelings, they could not resist the passion growing between them. And so it was that one night of unrestrained passion led to Angelus' repossession of Angel. Angelus quickly returned to his former evil ways, except this time Buffy was there to stop him. In a battle to undo the evil that Angelus had unleashed on the world and to save humankind, Buffy killed her lover. But before the Hellmouth consumed him, Angel was cursed again and his soul restored.
When Angel was unexpectedly released from Hell's clutches, he knew it was for a reason. Departing Sunnydale, Angel left the woman he still loved and moved to L.A. to find his purpose and to redeem himself in the service of others. He found support from Doyle, sent by the Powers That Be, and Cordelia, a fellow Sunnydale transplant on the road to fame and wealth. They formed "Angel Investigations," protecting those who cannot defend themselves and helping other lost souls find their way.
After losing Doyle, his trusted friend and connection to the Powers That Be, Angel became even more protective of those who meant the most to him. Wesley, a former Watcher, came to town as a rogue demon hunter, but stayed to help Angel and Cordelia who were then joined a few months later by Charles Gunn, an unlikely partner and self-proclaimed Slayer yet a formidable force nonetheless. Extending their sources further, the AI Team also regularly enlist the help of Lorne aka The Host, an Anagogic demon who could read people's futures but only when they sing karaoke.
As Angel continued to help the hopeless in LA, his good deeds continually disrupted the plans of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart and in an attempt to control Angel, W&H resurrected the vampire with a soul's sire Darla, but brought her back as human. When Drusilla once again turned Darla into a vampire, Angel felt he had failed to save her and after firing his Angel Investigations crew embarked on a one-man vendetta against W&H. In a moment of perfect despair, Angel attempted to lift his soul by bedding Darla but instead found a moment of clarity realising his purpose was still for good not evil. Darla fled and after a difficult reconciliation, the AI team then found themselves transported to Lorne's home dimension, a strange world by the name of Pylea. Eventually they returned with a new team member, Winifred Birkle, in tow and to the news that his former love, Buffy, was dead.
Despite Buffy's miraculous resurrection a few months later, Angel realised that he was starting to see Cordelia as more than just a friend but before he had a chance to confess his feelings to her Darla returned bringing further impossibilities for him as their one night of passion had left her inexplicably pregnant with his son, Connor. False prophecies, time travellers and betrayal led to Angel losing his son to an old enemy who abducted Connor soon after his birth taking him to a hell dimension where time moves very differently. When Connor returned, he was a young man who was raised to believe that Angel was still a soulless monster. Connor vowed to make Angel pay for the suffering he had once caused and as he acted out his retribution by sending Angel to the bottom of the ocean in a steel coffin, Cordelia ascended to a higher plane, the feelings shared between her and Angel still left unspoken.
Rescued from his watery prison, Angel's relationship with Connor was understandably strained and was complicated further by the return of an amnesiac Cordelia. When the latest big bad known as The Beast and his Boss arrived to bring chaos to the Earth, Angel's worst fears were realised when he had to unleash his evil alter ego Angelus in order to defeat it. Although momentarily freed to wreak a little havoc of his own, Angelus was recaptured with a little help from a Slayer and a Witch and Angel returned to discover that the enemy he was battling was a little closer to home. A battle and an eventual victory over a divine being led to Angel inexplicably being offered the LA branch of W&H as a reward for ending world peace. Angel acted against all of his instincts and made a deal with his sworn enemy, which would allow him to demonstrate one final act of fatherly love.
Angel's year spent running W&H was one marred with challenge and self-doubt. Trying to battle evil from within the belly of the beast proved to be more difficult than even imagined with the lines of good and evil becoming ever more gray with each decision made. The situation became even more complicated when shortly after assuming control of the law firm, Spike shockingly materialized from a familiar amulet sent to Angel in the mail. Sharing a complicated evil history of murder and mayhem, they spent more than a century as rivals in everything. Now both possessing souls and both still in love with Buffy, they have evolved into very different heroes in the war against evil. Forced to co-exist, their time together both viciously and subtly unfolds until they come to an understanding and acceptance of their unique brotherhood on their journey to redemption. Equally as important for Angel this year, was his chance to say a proper good-bye to Cordelia, who upon "waking" from a coma takes the opportunity to set the champion back on his true path. With her final gift of a vision, Angel gets a clear look at how to strike against the Senior Partners. He finally understands that he will never be able to stop evil, but he can destroy the Senior Partners hold on Earth by decimating the secret Circle of the Black Thorn. In his quest to overthrow them, he even signs away his chance of Shanshu, the ultimate reward of forgiveness and humanity he hoped one day to attain. So together with Spike, Gunn, Wesley, Illyria, Lorne and an opportunistic Lindsey, Angel sets in motion his final stand against the forces of evil – walking bravely into a battle where some fall and the final outcome for the others is unclear
[SAMPLE]RP Sample: He wasn't sure what was worse, the sun beating down on him with the inevitable thought of his body being engulfed in flame, the splintering wood sticking out all over his body, or the fact that he was just hit with a wrecking ball through a pile of skids, a wall, and a window. Hard to tell the which was the lesser evil of it all, maybe the wood but then again that happens to be the odd material to kill him if stabbed in the heart with, which doesn't seems too bad being a human as he would have been dead right now-- Anything stabbed in the human heart is generally going to kill them, he isn't really much seeing wood as a weakness but the fact he can get stabbed in the heart with metal and live an advantage. Thats right, the brighter side of things, or perhaps that was bad to say now that he was outside the warehouse and on fire. Wasn't really his day.
With a narrow limping dash back into safety he collapsed on the ground as a group of less-then-cool-vampires-not-playing-by-the-rules gathered around him with flashy tooth grins, their crinkled foreheads and mixture of normal to yellow eyes stared down at his now feeble nearly out-of-options body. It was one thing Angel learned in life is you generally aren't killed by the big things, its the stupid little things that getcha, if it be a sword in gut by your girlfriend or what. Was it Angel's time to get killed by a random group of vampires who seem less then pleased by his appearance since he busted their attempts to make a warehouse that harvested human blood? Probably, thats what it seemed anyway.
Most of his ribs were broken, he couldn't really move further, escaping the sun was a feat that he was surprised he could even accomplish, the fact he was still alive up to this point amazed him. Angel was pretty sure his anus somehow swallowed his spine and it was currently being digested backwards as everything in the lower part of his body felt like it was burning, breaking, and somehow packing bags and skipping town, some of it already put up with his vampirism and it felt like they weren't gonna put up with him dusting.
One of the assailant vampires, the one who hit him with the wrecking ball got out from the machine and stepped down to the floor, walking over the ruble and pushing back his companions so he could get a clearer look at his victim. Angel peered up from a bloodied gaze and scoffed, thats all they were, vampires. Not to have sound cocky, even if he was a vampire but he fought a lot worse. The assailing vampire lifted Angel by the collar of his shirt and tossed him up against the wall.
"You think you can just come in here all souled up thinking you're better then us? Huh? ANGELUS. Pathetic excuse for a vampire aren't you?" Angel smirked as he was stricken in the face, he couldn't help but feel slightly amused as the wrecking ball that they just used to plow Angel through the wall came back down hitting some of the vampires and the wall once more causing the sun to blare through frying most of the vampires in front of him. With a small shove he pushed his assailant into the sun who immediately burst into flames. Angel's enemies all ash.
"Better then you? Maybe, smarter? I'm not the one who forgot the security latch on the wrecking-- Ow--" Angel hunched over and fell against the wall he was against, moved a little away from the second newly formed hole as he chuckled in laughter. Dumb luck or divine intervention? Cordelia would see to it that he didn't get dusted by Vampire Henchmen #1-10 and Vampire Leader Stunt Double #1. Now if only he could get up and go home.
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