Post by mugenginga on Oct 23, 2010 23:01:41 GMT -5
Full Name: Barachiel (he has no true true name, Barachiel is what he goes by)
Pseudonyms: Patrick (male human form standard), Patience (female human form standard)
Pseudonym Nicknames: Pat, Patty (female only)
Apparent Age: Adult
Actual Age: ? (Older than Man)
Height: Tall End of Average
Weight: Slim
Gender: N/A (has no gender preference, but will use he for human comfort)
Race: Angel
Alliance: Good (Perhaps better said to be Law)
Home: Heaven (non-DC version)
Franchise: Potential Sins/Supernatural OC (see Other)
Physical Description (Angel Form)
Barachiel has no gender markings, lacking both nipples and groin. His chest is therefore smooth and his groin and butt have what is often called the "Ken doll" effect. They're completely smooth. His build is that of a slim man, lending to one to think he is male based on his clothed appearance. His height is on the outer edges of average for an American man. It is worth note that his face is more youthful than his overall appearance, more like that of a man in his very early twenties than nearing his thirties like the rest of his body seems.
The angel is a somewhat pale Caucasian. His dark brown hair is on the long end of medium. It begins a slight wave about halfway down and the way he wars it has a bit falling in front of his shoulder. His sharp green eyes are stoic, carrying a wisdom and maturity more fitting of a well adjusted old man than the firmly into adult years Barachiel appears.
Barachiel has a somewhat complicated looking outfit. The main piece is a pristine white dress-like robe and doesn't seem to be capable of being sullied. If he spends extended time outside of heaven, it can become dingy, and blood splatter will show just as well as it would anywhere else. The inner lining appears to be metallic and gold. The sleeves are wide, about half as over-sizzed as commonly seen priest or pagan robes. The outer edges of both the bottom and the top have gold embroidery. It is somehow actual gold formed into a thread for this. All the embroidery is fashioned in a way that is reminscient of storms and lightning. In addition, upright crosses are worked into the pattern at the bottom, which is long enough to conceal most of his feet when they are hanging downwards. The embroidery is about an inch tall at both locations.
The top of his robe is rather wide and has a thin gold border on the outside. However, this is rarely visible as Barachiel wears a shawl like piece over the top of his outfit. The shawl is all one piece, so he would have to pull it off over his head to remove it. It has extra fabric rolls a fair bit at the top, creating a kind of cloak top effect. The shawl is forest green. The rolled part is of the same oddly actual gold metallic as the lining of his robe as is the shawl's lining. There is a large ornate cross stitched to either side of the center on the front. The shawl hangs 2/3rd down Barachiel's stomach and the crosses start about seven centimeters down from the folded over area, ending the same distance from the plain bottom. On the back is a cross as large as the ones on the front, but it is dead center. There is some ornate embroidery to either side of it, vaguely resembling both stylized wings and a stencil glow effect.
Barachiel has a very long double-sided silk cloth tied around his upper wasit, dividing his robe into two distinct parts. It means the top of the robe seems more like a blouse with the bottom functioning almost as a dress. The part of the cloth that shows the most is the same forest green as his shawl, and embroidery reminiscent of storms and lightning with crosses worked in decorates it throughout. Of note is that the crosses always point upwards. The other side of the cloth is the same metallic gold repeated on the rest of his outfit. This long cloth is tied in the back and extends both up and down, defying the laws of physics. The part that hangs down follows them well enough, and is wider at the bottom. The part that goes up seems to float in the gentle wind illussion surrounding the angel's entire being. It loops at the top and hovers above his head by about an inch from the lower part. It si a bit forward from his back, meaning his arms, when spread tot he side, come behind it.
The angel has six pristine white feathered wings whose construct seem similar to a hawk's wings. Their cloring often causes them to be described as dove wings, although they are a fair bit more pure seeming than a dove's wings are. They seem to be attached at roughly the same area on his back, around the shoulder blades. How they manage to come out and function despite the outfit is both a mystery and a sign of his divinity. If you were to take a close look, they seem to melt through the clothes so they may attach to his body. The top set of wings are attached in a way that allow them to raise up and fold down, concealing much of his upper body and crossing over his chest. They are extremely long and the tips are parallel to his lower legs. The bottom set goes down and folds in a similar fashion, concealing much of his lower body and his bare feet. The final two, in the center, are at full spread when the surroundings allow it. It should be noted none of them flap, and are indeed for show. Barachiel is more than able to "put them away" for ease of movement.
Power seems to gather around Barachiel's head. It is a holy power of light, although it has no true religious connections. Humans do tend to interpret this energy as a ring or halo. Its worth note that this energy is around Barachiel's entire being, but a bit more of the focus is on the head.
Physical Description (Human Form)
Barachiel's human form itself has no signs of divinity, and any signs there of fall under his Abilities/Powers. Barachiel favors a form that is mostly average in height for either gender, although he tends to manifest as male. While he can take any form when his powers are at full, his preferred and easiest to take form is the closest to his angelic form. This means he tends to appear as a fairly pale white man on the taller ends of average with dark brown hair on the long end of medium kept in the same fashion he does as an angel. His eyes remain the same shade of green. He does tend to have a noticable number of freckles on his cheeks in his most common form despite them not being present as an angel.
He tends to dress in a sort of high casual fashion, meaning comfortable fitting button up shirts and pants and sensible shoes. It does tend to make him look just a bit uptight without losing the relaxed air about him. For colors he seems to favor dark green with brown compliments. Jewelry is as likely as not with him, although he does have a large gold band on his left ring finger, implying that he is married.
Weapons
Barachiel does not carry any weapons on his person in either form. He dislikes such precautions against situations going south, and is well able to fight without them. He isn't unknown for having less violent preventative measures, though. Things such as salt and blessed (aka holy) water are not uncommon.
Abilities/Powers
Barachiel possesses the potential for all the powers one would expect a Seraph to have. Enormous holy strength and the power of ligth incarnate.
A key power not obviously related to his status as an angel is the ability to sense when mortals have a lean towards the Virtue of Patience. He is by the nature of his being drawn to such individuals and is more able to appear before them and guide them, although like most of the Seraphs he tends to have a dislike of direct interference with most humans. While the Virtue of Patience may overlap into some other Virtues and Sins, it doesn't hamper Barachiel's harmonizaton with such individuals.
Like with all angels, his wings can function as both a shield and a bladed weapon. This is a concept borrowed from the movie Legion, but Barachiel has no connection to that canon.
Skills
Barachiel has the patience of a saint with his angelic brethren, and he often shows it among individual humans. He speaks calmly and his ability to avoid anger seems almost a skill. He is not unknown for causing fights by being unwilling to react to a situation due to his patience with it. This is not to say that he is stoic, merely that he copes better with potential stresses than many angels, let alone humans.
When a fight becomes inevitable, he plays the game of attrition with eerie ability, and he is often able to cause his opponent to the noose around their neck. He seems a somewhat passive fighter as a result. He is capable of waiting centuries for a set trap to play itself out right.
Being non-human as he is, he tends to have the skills he would need at the time. This isn't to say he can do everything and definitely not to say he can't be overpowered in many ways. It just makes creating a list very difficult. His strength, and the ones worth mentioning, center around things involving waiting and attrition. He's also quite good with children and other such "stressors".
Personality
At first meeting, Barachiel strikes many people as very stoic. He doesn't tend to react to much, and it seems nearly impossible to get a rise out of him. It is less that he is a stoic and more that he sees little worth getting all that worked up over. He is the sort of person that would make a point of saying it was time to panic about three days after everyone else had screamed themselves hoarse from a disaster. He is calm merely because he deals with stress well. He's a reasonable enough person to talk to, it just seems as if much doesn't effect him.
Of his brethren, he is one of the most pained by humanity's endless choices away from salvation. Unlike Zerachiel, it is not the fact that humanity must pay for their sins that bothers him, it is that they have pushed forgiveness past a point even he can accept. Related is that when it comes to stressful situations, he often functions as the voice of reason. He was able to convince the plans of his brethren to hold off the longest merely because he asked them to ask for more patience, more chances for humanity to redeem itself.
He has no qualms about doing what needs to be done, but he also has no qualms about it taking several human lifetimes to accomplish. Despite his disappointment in having to deal the potential final blows to humanity, he has actually been working towards it for sometime. It is a rare immortal that would not go insane in an attrition fight with him. In terms of his interactinos, Barachiel is ever reasonable, sometimes annoyingly so.
History
Barachiel claims to have been created by the Judeo-Christian god as one of seven key signs of His love for Man. He claims that when he and his six brethren arch-angels came into existance, the world was good. He views the reasons for the Angel of Humility's rebellion was a refusal to wait and see what great good could come of God's love for man, causing his fall into position as the Demon of Pride. The newly created man fell to this same Pride, and from it grew six more, creating a despicable balance between good and evil in the form of the Archangels and Archdemons, Barachiel's counterpoint being the Demon Lord Amon.
History advanced as it will, with the angels trying to guide humanity to the path their Creator and Father intended. Each Archangel tried to lead humanity down a path of Virtue, but it was always a thin lead at best. At some points of history one can well imagine, the Demons took a lead. Barachiel respected God's loving patience towards humanity... until about fifty years ago. When God seemed to abandon them, Barachiel was one of the first to question the action. If God had lost his patience with existance, how could he do better? He did try, and was one of the key angels in misleading hte lower ranks. However, it came out when the Demon Lords learned God was missing. Michael was able to convince Barachiel that this was a test by God and that they could do nothing but test humanity in his absence. The decision was made to find seven vessels who could lean either way in regards to great Sin or Virtue.
This got lost in translation somewhere down the lines thanks to Satan's machinations at command of the Archangels. This lead to years of the Demon Lords (and Satan) hunting humans that seemed to have psychic potential, and the lives of dozens of children and families being made into living hells. Among those victims was the Winchester family. It was about the time of Satan's disaster with the boy named Samuel Winchester that one of the Demon Lords realized things weren't being handled right. Lucifer chose to continue with the groundwork they had laid, but their activity in that regard dropped. The psychics were useful, but no longer the main targets.
Barachiel had no rush upon his attempts to find the human with potential to lean towards Sin or Virtue. Once he did, he forced an occurance in them. The next act they performed that followed his Virtue or Amon's Sin would draw the one that won out as a powerful side. By the acts committed by this side, the heavenly host would weight humanity's potential. As for the problems with the Winchesters, it seemed in the best interest for them to be protected. With Samuel still a key target, he had to be kept from the Demon's using them to skew the test.
The humans found to serve in the experiments would be sent away from their home dimension, to submit them to the stress to put humanity in its worst light, the best thing to judge them by.
Other
Alright, a little bit of clarification on details of the application. Me and Jilak have gone and went heavy AU with Supernatural. So heavy AU that we don't even regard our Supernatural canons as anything but AU (meaning I'm adjusting the character listing and the canon versions are up for grabs without our permission, although Jilak still has AU John on reserve). While characters like Sam, Dean, and Castiel are too canon be be anything but, the angels only matches to their canon counterparts are name and connection to Castiel. Satan is an exception as he is drawn directly from a Season 1 canon figure (despite completely changing the fact that he's a DEMON in canon).
What this means is that we don't think Gabriel or the other Seraphim are canon (and this has been approved by the site admin) seeing as how my Link and Zelda from Rebirth of Destiny are not canon. Canons that existed in S1 are all treated as such, and Castiel is also treated as such as he is more or less the same. Thanks for your understanding!
Also, he has a bit of an Irish accent when in his standard human form. It is actually juuuust present in true form as well, but its far less noticeable. I have no idea how to write this and he's for a plot with Jilak so magically pretend he has one, thanks. XD
I have no images of Barachiel in any form, but he is similar in many ways to Gabriel, so research of Gabriel should help give an idea.
Pseudonyms: Patrick (male human form standard), Patience (female human form standard)
Pseudonym Nicknames: Pat, Patty (female only)
Apparent Age: Adult
Actual Age: ? (Older than Man)
Height: Tall End of Average
Weight: Slim
Gender: N/A (has no gender preference, but will use he for human comfort)
Race: Angel
Alliance: Good (Perhaps better said to be Law)
Home: Heaven (non-DC version)
Franchise: Potential Sins/Supernatural OC (see Other)
Physical Description (Angel Form)
Barachiel has no gender markings, lacking both nipples and groin. His chest is therefore smooth and his groin and butt have what is often called the "Ken doll" effect. They're completely smooth. His build is that of a slim man, lending to one to think he is male based on his clothed appearance. His height is on the outer edges of average for an American man. It is worth note that his face is more youthful than his overall appearance, more like that of a man in his very early twenties than nearing his thirties like the rest of his body seems.
The angel is a somewhat pale Caucasian. His dark brown hair is on the long end of medium. It begins a slight wave about halfway down and the way he wars it has a bit falling in front of his shoulder. His sharp green eyes are stoic, carrying a wisdom and maturity more fitting of a well adjusted old man than the firmly into adult years Barachiel appears.
Barachiel has a somewhat complicated looking outfit. The main piece is a pristine white dress-like robe and doesn't seem to be capable of being sullied. If he spends extended time outside of heaven, it can become dingy, and blood splatter will show just as well as it would anywhere else. The inner lining appears to be metallic and gold. The sleeves are wide, about half as over-sizzed as commonly seen priest or pagan robes. The outer edges of both the bottom and the top have gold embroidery. It is somehow actual gold formed into a thread for this. All the embroidery is fashioned in a way that is reminscient of storms and lightning. In addition, upright crosses are worked into the pattern at the bottom, which is long enough to conceal most of his feet when they are hanging downwards. The embroidery is about an inch tall at both locations.
The top of his robe is rather wide and has a thin gold border on the outside. However, this is rarely visible as Barachiel wears a shawl like piece over the top of his outfit. The shawl is all one piece, so he would have to pull it off over his head to remove it. It has extra fabric rolls a fair bit at the top, creating a kind of cloak top effect. The shawl is forest green. The rolled part is of the same oddly actual gold metallic as the lining of his robe as is the shawl's lining. There is a large ornate cross stitched to either side of the center on the front. The shawl hangs 2/3rd down Barachiel's stomach and the crosses start about seven centimeters down from the folded over area, ending the same distance from the plain bottom. On the back is a cross as large as the ones on the front, but it is dead center. There is some ornate embroidery to either side of it, vaguely resembling both stylized wings and a stencil glow effect.
Barachiel has a very long double-sided silk cloth tied around his upper wasit, dividing his robe into two distinct parts. It means the top of the robe seems more like a blouse with the bottom functioning almost as a dress. The part of the cloth that shows the most is the same forest green as his shawl, and embroidery reminiscent of storms and lightning with crosses worked in decorates it throughout. Of note is that the crosses always point upwards. The other side of the cloth is the same metallic gold repeated on the rest of his outfit. This long cloth is tied in the back and extends both up and down, defying the laws of physics. The part that hangs down follows them well enough, and is wider at the bottom. The part that goes up seems to float in the gentle wind illussion surrounding the angel's entire being. It loops at the top and hovers above his head by about an inch from the lower part. It si a bit forward from his back, meaning his arms, when spread tot he side, come behind it.
The angel has six pristine white feathered wings whose construct seem similar to a hawk's wings. Their cloring often causes them to be described as dove wings, although they are a fair bit more pure seeming than a dove's wings are. They seem to be attached at roughly the same area on his back, around the shoulder blades. How they manage to come out and function despite the outfit is both a mystery and a sign of his divinity. If you were to take a close look, they seem to melt through the clothes so they may attach to his body. The top set of wings are attached in a way that allow them to raise up and fold down, concealing much of his upper body and crossing over his chest. They are extremely long and the tips are parallel to his lower legs. The bottom set goes down and folds in a similar fashion, concealing much of his lower body and his bare feet. The final two, in the center, are at full spread when the surroundings allow it. It should be noted none of them flap, and are indeed for show. Barachiel is more than able to "put them away" for ease of movement.
Power seems to gather around Barachiel's head. It is a holy power of light, although it has no true religious connections. Humans do tend to interpret this energy as a ring or halo. Its worth note that this energy is around Barachiel's entire being, but a bit more of the focus is on the head.
Physical Description (Human Form)
Barachiel's human form itself has no signs of divinity, and any signs there of fall under his Abilities/Powers. Barachiel favors a form that is mostly average in height for either gender, although he tends to manifest as male. While he can take any form when his powers are at full, his preferred and easiest to take form is the closest to his angelic form. This means he tends to appear as a fairly pale white man on the taller ends of average with dark brown hair on the long end of medium kept in the same fashion he does as an angel. His eyes remain the same shade of green. He does tend to have a noticable number of freckles on his cheeks in his most common form despite them not being present as an angel.
He tends to dress in a sort of high casual fashion, meaning comfortable fitting button up shirts and pants and sensible shoes. It does tend to make him look just a bit uptight without losing the relaxed air about him. For colors he seems to favor dark green with brown compliments. Jewelry is as likely as not with him, although he does have a large gold band on his left ring finger, implying that he is married.
Weapons
Barachiel does not carry any weapons on his person in either form. He dislikes such precautions against situations going south, and is well able to fight without them. He isn't unknown for having less violent preventative measures, though. Things such as salt and blessed (aka holy) water are not uncommon.
Abilities/Powers
Barachiel possesses the potential for all the powers one would expect a Seraph to have. Enormous holy strength and the power of ligth incarnate.
A key power not obviously related to his status as an angel is the ability to sense when mortals have a lean towards the Virtue of Patience. He is by the nature of his being drawn to such individuals and is more able to appear before them and guide them, although like most of the Seraphs he tends to have a dislike of direct interference with most humans. While the Virtue of Patience may overlap into some other Virtues and Sins, it doesn't hamper Barachiel's harmonizaton with such individuals.
Like with all angels, his wings can function as both a shield and a bladed weapon. This is a concept borrowed from the movie Legion, but Barachiel has no connection to that canon.
Skills
Barachiel has the patience of a saint with his angelic brethren, and he often shows it among individual humans. He speaks calmly and his ability to avoid anger seems almost a skill. He is not unknown for causing fights by being unwilling to react to a situation due to his patience with it. This is not to say that he is stoic, merely that he copes better with potential stresses than many angels, let alone humans.
When a fight becomes inevitable, he plays the game of attrition with eerie ability, and he is often able to cause his opponent to the noose around their neck. He seems a somewhat passive fighter as a result. He is capable of waiting centuries for a set trap to play itself out right.
Being non-human as he is, he tends to have the skills he would need at the time. This isn't to say he can do everything and definitely not to say he can't be overpowered in many ways. It just makes creating a list very difficult. His strength, and the ones worth mentioning, center around things involving waiting and attrition. He's also quite good with children and other such "stressors".
Personality
At first meeting, Barachiel strikes many people as very stoic. He doesn't tend to react to much, and it seems nearly impossible to get a rise out of him. It is less that he is a stoic and more that he sees little worth getting all that worked up over. He is the sort of person that would make a point of saying it was time to panic about three days after everyone else had screamed themselves hoarse from a disaster. He is calm merely because he deals with stress well. He's a reasonable enough person to talk to, it just seems as if much doesn't effect him.
Of his brethren, he is one of the most pained by humanity's endless choices away from salvation. Unlike Zerachiel, it is not the fact that humanity must pay for their sins that bothers him, it is that they have pushed forgiveness past a point even he can accept. Related is that when it comes to stressful situations, he often functions as the voice of reason. He was able to convince the plans of his brethren to hold off the longest merely because he asked them to ask for more patience, more chances for humanity to redeem itself.
He has no qualms about doing what needs to be done, but he also has no qualms about it taking several human lifetimes to accomplish. Despite his disappointment in having to deal the potential final blows to humanity, he has actually been working towards it for sometime. It is a rare immortal that would not go insane in an attrition fight with him. In terms of his interactinos, Barachiel is ever reasonable, sometimes annoyingly so.
History
Barachiel claims to have been created by the Judeo-Christian god as one of seven key signs of His love for Man. He claims that when he and his six brethren arch-angels came into existance, the world was good. He views the reasons for the Angel of Humility's rebellion was a refusal to wait and see what great good could come of God's love for man, causing his fall into position as the Demon of Pride. The newly created man fell to this same Pride, and from it grew six more, creating a despicable balance between good and evil in the form of the Archangels and Archdemons, Barachiel's counterpoint being the Demon Lord Amon.
History advanced as it will, with the angels trying to guide humanity to the path their Creator and Father intended. Each Archangel tried to lead humanity down a path of Virtue, but it was always a thin lead at best. At some points of history one can well imagine, the Demons took a lead. Barachiel respected God's loving patience towards humanity... until about fifty years ago. When God seemed to abandon them, Barachiel was one of the first to question the action. If God had lost his patience with existance, how could he do better? He did try, and was one of the key angels in misleading hte lower ranks. However, it came out when the Demon Lords learned God was missing. Michael was able to convince Barachiel that this was a test by God and that they could do nothing but test humanity in his absence. The decision was made to find seven vessels who could lean either way in regards to great Sin or Virtue.
This got lost in translation somewhere down the lines thanks to Satan's machinations at command of the Archangels. This lead to years of the Demon Lords (and Satan) hunting humans that seemed to have psychic potential, and the lives of dozens of children and families being made into living hells. Among those victims was the Winchester family. It was about the time of Satan's disaster with the boy named Samuel Winchester that one of the Demon Lords realized things weren't being handled right. Lucifer chose to continue with the groundwork they had laid, but their activity in that regard dropped. The psychics were useful, but no longer the main targets.
Barachiel had no rush upon his attempts to find the human with potential to lean towards Sin or Virtue. Once he did, he forced an occurance in them. The next act they performed that followed his Virtue or Amon's Sin would draw the one that won out as a powerful side. By the acts committed by this side, the heavenly host would weight humanity's potential. As for the problems with the Winchesters, it seemed in the best interest for them to be protected. With Samuel still a key target, he had to be kept from the Demon's using them to skew the test.
The humans found to serve in the experiments would be sent away from their home dimension, to submit them to the stress to put humanity in its worst light, the best thing to judge them by.
Other
Alright, a little bit of clarification on details of the application. Me and Jilak have gone and went heavy AU with Supernatural. So heavy AU that we don't even regard our Supernatural canons as anything but AU (meaning I'm adjusting the character listing and the canon versions are up for grabs without our permission, although Jilak still has AU John on reserve). While characters like Sam, Dean, and Castiel are too canon be be anything but, the angels only matches to their canon counterparts are name and connection to Castiel. Satan is an exception as he is drawn directly from a Season 1 canon figure (despite completely changing the fact that he's a DEMON in canon).
What this means is that we don't think Gabriel or the other Seraphim are canon (and this has been approved by the site admin) seeing as how my Link and Zelda from Rebirth of Destiny are not canon. Canons that existed in S1 are all treated as such, and Castiel is also treated as such as he is more or less the same. Thanks for your understanding!
Also, he has a bit of an Irish accent when in his standard human form. It is actually juuuust present in true form as well, but its far less noticeable. I have no idea how to write this and he's for a plot with Jilak so magically pretend he has one, thanks. XD
I have no images of Barachiel in any form, but he is similar in many ways to Gabriel, so research of Gabriel should help give an idea.
