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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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Sariel | El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron | Reserved | 1/2
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CHARACTER
Name: Sariel
Canon: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Timeline: After being defeated.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality:
It's hard to know where to begin with Sariel due to the complexity of his character, though a good place to start, would be with the fact that he's a Fallen Angel who fell due to being charmed with the idea of human love. As a Fallen Angel, it's fairly safe to assume that he has no idea what mutual love between humans and equals truly is, as the only love he has known is the love of Angels for God, which is more like idolization of one's father. His relationship with love even after he Falls and even after three hundred years living along humans who love him and worship him, is a near obsessive one, obsessed with holding onto the idea and as such, he has many lovers and doesn't even know where to draw the line as he has many lovers and doesn't care about their age or whether or not they're married when he finds them or or anything. But still, he is loved and also shows love toward those who follow him and toward his children. Even the souls of his loved ones stay by his side and he shelters his followers and his children, the Nephilim, from harm to the best of his abilities within the paradise created in the Tower. It's something to be said, for him to be attached to the point where he's willing to give up any even slight resemblance of a human being if it means he can protect his world and all that lives within it.
Because that's what he's like as a lover. As sincere as a lover can be, and obviously attached to everyone and willing to apologize if he fails and yet, he doesn't truly understand the love between humans, having it slip through his fingers. Even so, the point is that he believes he feels it, and won't be convinced otherwise. If he loves someone and they love him in return, then that's good enough for him, unable to really recognize those subtle lines between love and idolization of someone which is what many of his followers merely do. They love him, yes. But they also idolize him and worship him like a God which pretty much screws up the entire equality thing.
And as it's the same love that Sariel shows toward the Father, I believe it's hard for him to distinguish between the two and he has a long way to go in understanding it. Even so, he does feel sadness at failure, and he does care for everyone even if it may not be love in the same way that humans feel it. He does feel things that a human would feel, such as the need to protect, the need to be with, even the need to nurture and most of all desperation to keep those he cares for with him, unwilling to let them go and scared of never getting to see them again, even allowing himself to ask as much when time came to part.
To anyone threatening that which he cares for though, he's a very different man. He has bounds and leaps of confidence in himself and in his abilities, as shown throughout the game when he battles Enoch. Until the other actually does some damage, he merely saunters around the battlefield and attacks at his own pace, though his confidence shows regardless and his confidence borders on arrogance which, with what he is, makes sense. He has a lot of faith in his own abilities, despite weakening from his Fall. He'll engage in the occasional mockery, though as more damage is done to him he'll stop the taunts and start taking things seriously, especially when something he cares for is on the line. Rage falls ever so naturally to him when he believes that which belongs to him has been taken from him and he will fight fiercely when enraged and it takes a bit to quell it. Negative emotion seems to fall an Angel and especially a Fallen Angel in more easily than positive (and kind of half-baked not quite human) emotion. Basically as far as anything remotely positive goes he knows how to act, how to be gentle and sweet-talk, though it's merely things learned over the years away from Heaven rather than his true colors.
That said though, his default would likely be calm with an overtone of arrogance and the right words falling easily to him, unless provoked. He does know to keep things civil as he's far from stupid, even if he has a tendency to default to rage-mode when something goes against him and he actually can't control his anger. It does take a bit to get him to that point, though calming him from it can be troublesome and for anyone not equipped to deal with it (read: people he dislikes) it's better to get the hell out of dodge rather than trying to at all.
It's also worth mentioning that men aren't as much in his favor as women. I don't think he particularly minds them even if he talks his male followers into fighting each other as much as just not understanding they're just as valuable as women are.
As a final footnote I should mention that Sariel fell not to betray God but merely to find love which he has his own ideas and thoughts about. He still loves God and dislikes going against his Word even if he will to protect that which he feels belongs with him. His relationship with Angels outside the ones he fell with are bound to be slightly strained, though depending on who they are he'll try to fly under their radar or merely ignore them until such time they prove themselves enemy or ally (or indifferent). All in all, Sariel is beautifully tragic in his desire to obtain a love he could never understand and normally easy to get along if not somewhat aloof and hard to establish deep emotional connections with, though easily enraged should that which he cares for be threatened or torn away from him.
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[It's something to be said for having one's consciousness fade to the sound of the people he failed to protect. And that is that it's not very comfortable to wake up in total silence in a train on the move and far different from what he'd expected. His soul was to be imprisoned for eternity, and yet, here he is, stepping out onto the platform once the train grinds to a halt and the doors open.
Golden eyes scan the area, finding no familiarity, no comfort in it though it's preferable to where he thought he was going, dilapidated buildings and general disarray compared to what he's used to aside.
He feels something in his hand then, lifting it up and finding it to be a watch. He turns it carefully in his bony fingers, checking it out and trying to figure out where it came from when it pops open and the video feed switches on. He leans closer and gives the City a nice view of a rather sunken in looking face that has a strange sort of beauty to it regardless.] Hm...
Rather than what it appeared to be, it would seem that this is a communicator. [Smart. It doesn't take him too long to figure out of it- video, voice, text... A simple contraption all in all, yet intriguing.]
I am assuming I am not on my own here then. [Where there's a network of communication there has to be people, right?] In that case, being given some insight to where I am would be appreciated.
Third Person:
There was a lot that was unexpected about being free when he was pretty sure that he was going to an eternity being locked away and imprisoned, his soul never to roam anywhere ever again. It was unexpected to the point that for a moment he merely stood at the station, letting the summer wind ruffle his hair, blond strands being tugged at by it and he breathed in, and then back out. Alive, but separated from all that he loved. No, not separated- Having it taken from him and suffering crushing defeat prior to his arrival which resulted in the loss of his lovers, his followers, and the death of his children. A spark of anger flew through him before he could quite stop it and he had to take another moment to calm himself and remind himself that the one who had taken everything from him was not here.
In fact, if anything this place was a place he needed to explore, in order to seek out answers of what had happened to him. If this was God's plan, then... That would be strange because he thought he had already known what God wanted to happen to him and this was definitely not it and to be honest, Sariel wasn't quite sure what action he should take right now. Was this planned, had something gone wrong? Was this his 'prison'? It didn't feel like it. Or look like it. Was it part of some sort of trial he should go through to repent maybe, though if so, Heaven had seriously miscalculated because he had no intention to do that when he had done nothing wrong. There would be instructions though, wouldn't there? If that was truly the case and he glanced around once more and listened to... Actually, not much to listen to either other than the sounds of the wind and some animals. No matter where he looked and how much he listened, there was no sign of what his next move should be which left him with a choice- Either sitting down and waiting for some sort of sign or taking the matter into his own hands. It was difficult to choose really, because he wasn't sure as there really wasn't anything motivating or prompting him one way or another. There was the watch in his hand that seemed to be connected to some type of network. He had no explanation for that yet, though he didn't think to get rid of it just yet. It might be necessary to keep it after all. It could have some purpose. Had to have some purpose.
After a moment of merely standing there, the Fallen Angel began walking, deciding to take matters into his own hands as he was in no state of mind to wait around for anything really, be it a sign from God or anything else. He wished for answers to the questions he was mulling over in his head, preferably ones that would clear his doubt and the rage that bubbled beneath the surface, that prickling feeling of being all on his own that he'd never felt before welling up and overtaking making his rage thinly veiled at best. It was most unpleasant and unfamiliar, though it felt a lot like the fear he'd felt when he realized his defeat had come and that the price of it was the separation of him and his lovers and followers as well as the death of his children that he loved and wished to protect and shelter, despite their pain. They were his children after all, what kind of a father would be be if he didn't shelter them? They were family, as much as anyone, Angel or God, was.
He didn't wish to dwell on it right now though, making his move throughout the city in search of.... Something. Anything.
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