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PLAYER INFORMATION
➤ NAME: Ary
➤ AGE: 24, birthday September 25, 1989
➤ JOURNAL:bedsidemanners
➤ CURRENTLY PLAYED: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Raphael
➤ SERIES: Angel Sanctuary.
➤ CHARACTER AGE: Raphael is several thousand years old but stopped aging when his powers matured, giving him the physical appearance of someone in his mid- to late-twenties.
➤ REFERENCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Angel_Sanctuary_characters#Angels
➤ CANON POINT: Chapter 89, just before interrupting Sara's trial.
➤ SEXUALITY: Raphael is heterosexual. Over the course of canon he is shown engaging in foreplay with several different women, mostly at entirely inopportune times, and is disinterested in men to the point he generally refuses to even heal them.
➤ PERSONALITY: Raphael is a jerk, pure and simple. Opportunistic and cynical, he's primarily out for himself and unashamed of it. A symbol of the corruption in heaven, he sleeps around constantly, "playing doctor" with the people he's supposed to be healing, and making a mockery of his holy title as the Archangel of Wind and the greatest healer in heaven. He acts entirely disinterested in the power games and politics of heaven to the point of flippancy; when asked about Alexiel, who fought against the other angels during the second war in heaven and whose reincarnation has returned, all he says is that he remembers her chest/waist/hip measurements, and boredly rattles them off.
His cynicism is showcased in the way he acts towards others, suspicious and constantly assuming they have some kind of selfish reasoning for what they’re doing-- and calling them out on whatever hypocrisy he perceives. He assumes the worst in people in general-- refusing to help save Assiah (Earth) because he thinks humans are basically destructive polluters-- and in people in particular, dismissing Sara’s love for Setsuna as nothing more than a selfish, childish infatuation. But for someone who so easily figures out other's supposed ulterior motives, he's most blind to his own true reasonings for what he does and his own feelings-- for instance, he is genuinely shocked when accused of being afraid of women.
Apart from his womanizing, he's not a natural rebel. Though he has his own opinions on the corrupt theocracy, in the thousands of years since Sevotharte took control, he never sees fit to take a risk and try to change things on his own until those he comes to care about become involved.
Raphael has a tendency toward grudge-holding-- after thousands of years, he refuses to forgive Lucifer for what he did to Michael-- and lying, most especially toward people he cares about, the very people he claims to himself that he "could never lie to." Most of this lying is in order to protect them from truths he believes will hurt them (like when he withholds information from Michael about Lucifer's return); unfortunately, some of it is to further his own aims, such as when he tells Sara that her brother didn't come to her trial.
Women are both a weakness and a fear. He's known mainly for his lechery, and purported to be unable to refuse a beautiful woman-- however as seen when Sara asks for his help, instead of coming to her aid initially, he tries to manipulate her into sleeping with him in exchange for his help.
Especially during his initial canon appearances, he is rarely seen without a woman in his lap-- while this is at first played as comic relief (he gets interrupted constantly during foreplay), as his backstory is exposed, the reasoning behind his womanizing grows much darker. It's not out of simple boredom like he claims or sheer unbridled lust (at least not entirely): he's really doing it because he fears and hates them, thanks to what Belial did to him and the way that scandal destroyed his social standing. Basically he paints women with the same brush as Belial and is out to hurt them before they can hurt him, "punish" them by proxy, and seduce them with sweet words, only to discard them at whim. The facade drops as soon as he's gotten what he wanted or as soon as it isn't beneficial, but it's a good facade, if you like hand-kissing, over-the-top declarations of love, and a little roleplay.
He claims in canon that he only sleeps with these women because life is so boring-- and if the way he can carelessly push these women aside and casually move on with the rest of his agenda is any indication, he’s not satisfied with them, either, by any stretch. He says they’re like toys to him, but they’re toys he isn’t getting much entertainment from.
There are few people he's close to in canon, people who he believes have seen the real him, rather than simply how lustful he is, and for those few he would and eventually does give everything. Much as he pretends to be completely self-sufficient and consumed with his own self-interest, he has a difficult time even dealing with the idea of being completely alone, probably thanks to his years of ostracism. This is showcased after Sara rejects him and he supposes that if Michael, his best and only friend, leaves him, too, he (Raphael) will finally break.
While he feigns not caring about what people think of him, he takes great pains with his appearance, mostly decked out in two- and three-piece suits, occasionally with his doctor's coat over it. Although some of the rest of his attire (zebra print) is best described as unfortunate, a good sign of some sort of trouble is Raphael not attempting to look dapper.
In most cases he brushes off what are really his acts of kindness, thinking that exposing himself like that would make him vulnerable to belittlement or rejection. It’s a defense mechanism. He’s been vulnerable before, during and after the scandal with Belial--and it hurt him, caused him to be socially rejected-- so, obviously, he doesn’t want that to happen again.
➤ POWERS: Raphael is an archangel, and the chief of the Virtues (a subset of angels). He's well-known as the greatest healer in Heaven, and the only one with the ability to truly resurrect the dead-- although, obviously, he won't be taking that particular ability with him to the game. He's shown diagnosing illnesses and healing through simple touch.
None of his healing powers are passive-- so basically, he can't heal himself or others without a conscious effort. He's the archangel of wind, granting him control over that element, which he uses primarily defensively, whether it's to cause objects to float out of his way or summon up a literal shield of wind. He's only seen all of once or twice using the wind offensively in a fight and is actually far more prone to go after someone with his fists or a gun. When he does resort to using the wind, however, it ends up acting like blades.
Unfortunately for him, his power over wind also has its caveats since he has a harder time using it in an enclosed space since there isn't enough air to draw on-- which becomes especially problematic since he has to call upon the wind to aid in more complicated healings, resurrections in particular. And while he doesn't utilize them often, like almost all angels he has retractable wings that enable him to fly, are the conduit of his astral power, and serve as his entire immune system.
Raphael has very extensive medical knowledge, running Lakia's hospital. He has a heavily military background, with experience commanding troops as well as in hand-to-hand combat and firearms. On a more mundane note, he can also drive.
➤ PREVIOUS GAME MEMORIES: N/A
➤ SUITABILITY: In a sense, Proxima is the exact opposite of his home environment. Raphael is a libertine in a world where any expression of sexuality is punishable by death-- that being said, he's very much a product of that repressed environment, and while he'd superficially enjoy what the island has to offer, figuring there may be a punishment if he voices any complaints, he would be privately very disturbed at the idea of enforced sex. While he's accustomed to being under surveillance and being used, the chip monitoring would disgust him while simultaneously make him even less likely to rebel for fear of the consequences (hey, if they can get inside you....).
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE: http://havenrpg.dreamwidth.org/207285.html?thread=34244021#cmt34244021
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE: http://timeand.dreamwidth.org/1750.html?thread=55510#cmt55510 (NSFW!)
➤ NAME: Ary
➤ AGE: 24, birthday September 25, 1989
➤ JOURNAL:
bedsidemanners➤ CURRENTLY PLAYED: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Raphael
➤ SERIES: Angel Sanctuary.
➤ CHARACTER AGE: Raphael is several thousand years old but stopped aging when his powers matured, giving him the physical appearance of someone in his mid- to late-twenties.
➤ REFERENCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Angel_Sanctuary_characters#Angels
➤ CANON POINT: Chapter 89, just before interrupting Sara's trial.
➤ SEXUALITY: Raphael is heterosexual. Over the course of canon he is shown engaging in foreplay with several different women, mostly at entirely inopportune times, and is disinterested in men to the point he generally refuses to even heal them.
➤ PERSONALITY: Raphael is a jerk, pure and simple. Opportunistic and cynical, he's primarily out for himself and unashamed of it. A symbol of the corruption in heaven, he sleeps around constantly, "playing doctor" with the people he's supposed to be healing, and making a mockery of his holy title as the Archangel of Wind and the greatest healer in heaven. He acts entirely disinterested in the power games and politics of heaven to the point of flippancy; when asked about Alexiel, who fought against the other angels during the second war in heaven and whose reincarnation has returned, all he says is that he remembers her chest/waist/hip measurements, and boredly rattles them off.
His cynicism is showcased in the way he acts towards others, suspicious and constantly assuming they have some kind of selfish reasoning for what they’re doing-- and calling them out on whatever hypocrisy he perceives. He assumes the worst in people in general-- refusing to help save Assiah (Earth) because he thinks humans are basically destructive polluters-- and in people in particular, dismissing Sara’s love for Setsuna as nothing more than a selfish, childish infatuation. But for someone who so easily figures out other's supposed ulterior motives, he's most blind to his own true reasonings for what he does and his own feelings-- for instance, he is genuinely shocked when accused of being afraid of women.
Apart from his womanizing, he's not a natural rebel. Though he has his own opinions on the corrupt theocracy, in the thousands of years since Sevotharte took control, he never sees fit to take a risk and try to change things on his own until those he comes to care about become involved.
Raphael has a tendency toward grudge-holding-- after thousands of years, he refuses to forgive Lucifer for what he did to Michael-- and lying, most especially toward people he cares about, the very people he claims to himself that he "could never lie to." Most of this lying is in order to protect them from truths he believes will hurt them (like when he withholds information from Michael about Lucifer's return); unfortunately, some of it is to further his own aims, such as when he tells Sara that her brother didn't come to her trial.
Women are both a weakness and a fear. He's known mainly for his lechery, and purported to be unable to refuse a beautiful woman-- however as seen when Sara asks for his help, instead of coming to her aid initially, he tries to manipulate her into sleeping with him in exchange for his help.
Especially during his initial canon appearances, he is rarely seen without a woman in his lap-- while this is at first played as comic relief (he gets interrupted constantly during foreplay), as his backstory is exposed, the reasoning behind his womanizing grows much darker. It's not out of simple boredom like he claims or sheer unbridled lust (at least not entirely): he's really doing it because he fears and hates them, thanks to what Belial did to him and the way that scandal destroyed his social standing. Basically he paints women with the same brush as Belial and is out to hurt them before they can hurt him, "punish" them by proxy, and seduce them with sweet words, only to discard them at whim. The facade drops as soon as he's gotten what he wanted or as soon as it isn't beneficial, but it's a good facade, if you like hand-kissing, over-the-top declarations of love, and a little roleplay.
He claims in canon that he only sleeps with these women because life is so boring-- and if the way he can carelessly push these women aside and casually move on with the rest of his agenda is any indication, he’s not satisfied with them, either, by any stretch. He says they’re like toys to him, but they’re toys he isn’t getting much entertainment from.
There are few people he's close to in canon, people who he believes have seen the real him, rather than simply how lustful he is, and for those few he would and eventually does give everything. Much as he pretends to be completely self-sufficient and consumed with his own self-interest, he has a difficult time even dealing with the idea of being completely alone, probably thanks to his years of ostracism. This is showcased after Sara rejects him and he supposes that if Michael, his best and only friend, leaves him, too, he (Raphael) will finally break.
While he feigns not caring about what people think of him, he takes great pains with his appearance, mostly decked out in two- and three-piece suits, occasionally with his doctor's coat over it. Although some of the rest of his attire (zebra print) is best described as unfortunate, a good sign of some sort of trouble is Raphael not attempting to look dapper.
In most cases he brushes off what are really his acts of kindness, thinking that exposing himself like that would make him vulnerable to belittlement or rejection. It’s a defense mechanism. He’s been vulnerable before, during and after the scandal with Belial--and it hurt him, caused him to be socially rejected-- so, obviously, he doesn’t want that to happen again.
➤ POWERS: Raphael is an archangel, and the chief of the Virtues (a subset of angels). He's well-known as the greatest healer in Heaven, and the only one with the ability to truly resurrect the dead-- although, obviously, he won't be taking that particular ability with him to the game. He's shown diagnosing illnesses and healing through simple touch.
None of his healing powers are passive-- so basically, he can't heal himself or others without a conscious effort. He's the archangel of wind, granting him control over that element, which he uses primarily defensively, whether it's to cause objects to float out of his way or summon up a literal shield of wind. He's only seen all of once or twice using the wind offensively in a fight and is actually far more prone to go after someone with his fists or a gun. When he does resort to using the wind, however, it ends up acting like blades.
Unfortunately for him, his power over wind also has its caveats since he has a harder time using it in an enclosed space since there isn't enough air to draw on-- which becomes especially problematic since he has to call upon the wind to aid in more complicated healings, resurrections in particular. And while he doesn't utilize them often, like almost all angels he has retractable wings that enable him to fly, are the conduit of his astral power, and serve as his entire immune system.
Raphael has very extensive medical knowledge, running Lakia's hospital. He has a heavily military background, with experience commanding troops as well as in hand-to-hand combat and firearms. On a more mundane note, he can also drive.
➤ PREVIOUS GAME MEMORIES: N/A
➤ SUITABILITY: In a sense, Proxima is the exact opposite of his home environment. Raphael is a libertine in a world where any expression of sexuality is punishable by death-- that being said, he's very much a product of that repressed environment, and while he'd superficially enjoy what the island has to offer, figuring there may be a punishment if he voices any complaints, he would be privately very disturbed at the idea of enforced sex. While he's accustomed to being under surveillance and being used, the chip monitoring would disgust him while simultaneously make him even less likely to rebel for fear of the consequences (hey, if they can get inside you....).
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE: http://havenrpg.dreamwidth.org/207285.html?thread=34244021#cmt34244021
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE: http://timeand.dreamwidth.org/1750.html?thread=55510#cmt55510 (NSFW!)