Post by Angel on Jan 28, 2009 21:46:52 GMT -5
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Name: Angel
Age: 280
Species: Vampire
Gender: Male
Sexual Preference: Girls
Celeb: David Boreanaz
Alliance: Good Side
Strengths / Powers: Angel has the common powers and vulnerabilities of a vampire though he is considerably stronger than most other vampires and demons. He has demonstrated enhanced speed crossing several meters in the blink of an eye. He is a highly skilled combatant and generally fights unarmed, using circular attacks such as spinning kicks and back hands. In addition to his proficiency in many forms of martial arts, he is quite skilled in the usage of a variety of weapons. He typically favors the axe and the broadsword. Angel also possesses some cognitive abilities; he has a photographic memory which is triggered on occasion, and has displayed a psychic connection to those he has sired on at least one occasion. As Angelus Angel displays considerable skill in manipulating others' emotional states and has driven his victims insane. With or without Angel's soul, he is shown to be an expert in torture, having tortured Giles as Angelus and Linwood as Angel. Angel seems to be aware of how skilled he is in a fight. In addition to his supernatural abilities and fighting skills, Angel has displayed a number of other talents. He apparently has "very nice handwriting" and is a skilled artist. He is fluent in several languages.
Weaknesses/ Flaws: Being cursed if Angel experinces a moment of pure happiness he reverts to his former evil self. Angelus' Achilles heel is his own narcissism. His tendency to gloat and relentlessly taunt opponents while fighting is sometimes exploited by his adversaries to seize the upper hand in battle.
Personality: Angel is rather calm and level-headed in moments of crisis due to his advanced age and extensive fighting experience. Nevertheless, he is fiercely protective of the people he cares about most. Angel has almost no social life and little humor. His brooding attitude is frequently mocked by Spike and once by Wesley and Cordelia he is also a fan of ice hockey. Angel has been able to do things that a normal vampire cannot. Angel constantly deals with vampiric urges, as well as a human conscience which prevents him from ever forgetting his past misdeeds. Angel as Angelus is pure evil before making a kill, Angelus takes great pains to terrorize his victims or damage them psychologically beyond repair.
Likes: Ice Hockey, friends, helping people,
Dislikes: Unable to save the people he loves, hurting people, sunlight, being used.
Current Motivation: To move to England and warn Buffy and her friends on what is about to happen.
History / What they have been up to: Born in 1727, Liam (no surname given) was born to a middle-class linen merchant in Galway, Ireland. By 1753, at the age of 26, he develops a taste for alcohol, women and sloth. Liam is a hedonist whose only real ambition lies in seeing the world. For a drunken layabout, this seems a laughable dream, until he is expelled from his house by his disapproving father. While engaging a drunken tavern brawl that evening, he catches the eye of Darla, a vampire disguised as a noblewoman. Upon being tossed out of the tavern for causing trouble, Liam is lured into an alley by Darla, who promises to show him the world, then transforms him into a vampire. The price is the loss of his human soul, along with his conscience, freeing Liam to act upon his darker impulses. On the night he rises from his grave, Liam sets about murdering the entire community, culminating in an attack on his own house. He first kills his little sister, Kathy, who unknowingly invited the demon in, believing that Liam had come back to her as an "angel", subsequently killing his parents. Kathy's belief that he was an angel was likely the inspiration for his vampire name. After leaving Ireland, Angelus and Darla cut a bloody swath through Wales and northern England, before finally reaching London in 1760. During Angelus' first meeting with the Master in the city sewers, he openly mocks the older vampire despite the power and authority, showing no fear despite the Master's greater age, and confronts Darla about her decision to remain underground when she could be traveling the world with him. Won over by his words, Darla chooses to live with Angelus, abandoning the Master's leadership. In 1898, while in Borºa, Romania, Angelus tortured and murdered the favorite daughter of a tribe of Kalderash Gypsies, apparently a birthday present from Darla. To avenge her death, the Kalderash gypsies curse him by restoring his human soul, thus afflicting him with a conscience and condemning him to an eternity of remorse for the crimes he has committed. Darla finds Angelus huddling in their apartment muttering about all the atrocities they have committed. Darla tries to coerce the father of the dead Gypsy girl to reverse the curse; an overeager Spike kills the rest of the tribe while Darla is busy negotiating with the man. Seeing her leverage has been wasted, a frustrated Darla snaps the father's neck and leaves. Angelus is left homeless and scavenging the streets for rats. He attempts to kill a woman, but finds that he cannot bring himself to do so.
During the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing, China, the ensouled vampire, now known as "Angel", tries and fails to resume his life with Darla. To satisfy her, he starts killing humans again, but Darla notices that he is only hunting rapists and murderers, never targeting innocents. Darla catches Angel trying to hide a group of Christian missionaries from her. When Angel goes to feed on rats down at the waterfront, Darla kills the missionary family and brings back their infant child as a test for Angel. Unable to kill it, Angel flees with the baby and separates from Darla for good, stating that he can't continue to be something he's not. Angel arrives in New York City, New York through Ellis Island in 1902. Some time later, during the Great Depression, he traveled through Montana. He also visits Chicago during the 1920s. During World War II, Angel is coerced by The Demon Research Initiative into undertaking a secret mission: he must rescue an American submarine crew from three vampires. who were captured by the Nazis as part of an experiment to create super-soldiers. During the mission, Angel is forced to sire a fatally-injured Sam Lawson in order for him to repair the submarine's engine, which was damaged during a German attack. Angel later claims to have known Bugsy Siegel around this time, in the early days of Las Vegas, Nevada's metamorphosis into a gambling mecca. In New York during the 1970s, Angel witnesses a robbery at a doughnut shop. After the robber shoots an employee and runs away, Angel stays with the man as he dies, and then proceeds to feed on him. Disgusted with himself, Angel then exiles himself to the alleyways, where he spends another 20 years homeless and feeding on rats. Two decades later, a shadow of his former self, the reclusive Angel is sought out by a demon named Whistler in 1996. Whistler persuades Angel to join the fight against evil. He then brings Angel to meet the newly-called Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers, in Los Angeles. The following year, when he and Buffy finally meet in Sunnydale, he introduces himself, not as Angelus, but as Angel.
Although Angel already sees Buffy while she is still in L.A he does not introduce himself to her until after her move to Sunnydale, and after her first day at Sunnydale High. two fall in love, but Buffy does not realize Angel is a vampire until several weeks later. When they finally consummate their relationship Angel experiences one moment of pure happiness, which breaks the Gypsy curse, and loses his soul. Without the compassion and conscience instilled by his human soul, Angel instantly reverts to his former evil self, Angelus. Angelus allies himself once again with Spike and Drusilla, who have recently settled in Sunnydale. Resenting the humiliation he felt because Buffy had made Angel feel like a human being, Angelus takes immense pleasure in tormenting the Slayer and her friends. First, he helps Spike and Dru deploy a powerful demon known as the Judge. After Buffy destroys the Judge, Angelus embarks on a guerilla campaign, lurking in the shadows, preying on Buffy's classmates, sending her gruesome messages, even drawing pictures of her and her mother as they sleep and leaving them in her bedroom. Angel and Buffy attempt to resume their relationship, but Angel begins to doubt that he will ever be able to give Buffy a remotely human life. Mayor Richard Wilkins, tell him that he cannot give her a real future, he tells Buffy that he is leaving Sunnydale after they stop Wilkins, although they share a last dance at her prom. In an attempt to distract Buffy, rogue slayer Faith Lehane shoots him with an arrow coated with poison that can only be cured with the blood of a Slayer. When Buffy is unable to bring him the body of Faith, she tells him to drink from her. He is cured, but nearly kills her in the process when he gives in to his instincts, although he manages to get her to the hospital in time to save her life. He tells Buffy that he's just going to leave without saying goodbye; when they win the fight against Wilkins, Angel and Buffy share a look, and then he leaves for Los Angeles.
In L.A., Angel spends a few months alone, patrolling dives and dark alleys, battling vampires who hunt there. Soon enough, he receives support in his attempts to redeem himself in the service of others. First, Doyle, a half-demon and fellow Irishman, is sent by The Powers That Be. Almost immediately thereafter, Angel runs into Cordelia Chase, a former classmate of Buffy's who has moved to L.A. to find wealth and fame. The trio form Angel Investigations, a shoestring operation whose mission statement is to "Help the Helpless." Doyle, Angel's trusted friend and sole connection to the Powers, sacrifices himself o save others, leading Angel to become even more protective of those few he holds dear. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, who had briefly served as Watcher to both Buffy and Faith in Sunnydale, arrives in L.A. claiming to be a "rogue demon hunter," a lone wolf sort who only works solo. After their first case, however, Wesley is eager to stay and assist Angel and Cordelia in their mission. A few months later, they are joined by lifelong demon fighter, Charles Gunn. As Angel continues to help the helpless in Los Angeles, his good deeds begin to seriously disrupt the plans of the evil inter-dimensional law firm, Wolfram and Hart. In an attempt to control him, the firm resurrects his sire and former lover, Darla, who comes back as a human rather than as a vampire. Wolfram and Hart then summons Drusilla, who turns Darla into a vampire again. Angel turns to a darker side of himself, fires his crew, and embarks on a vendetta against both the law firm and the newly reunited Darla and Drusilla. During this time, Angel refuses to prevent the slaughter of a very large group of Wolfram & Hart employees at the hands of Dru and Darla, although he later aids the Host in averting the end of the world when an attempt to stop time goes wrong.
Darla returns, pregnant with his son, to be named Connor. False prophecies, time travelers and betrayal lead to Angel losing his infant son to an old enemy, Holtz, who abducts Connor soon after his birth, taking him to a hell dimension (Quor'toth) where time passes differently. When Connor returns days later, he is a young man who has been raised by Holtz to believe that Angel is still a soulless monster. Holtz takes his own life in such a way that Connor is led to believe he was killed by Angel, and vows to make Angel pay for the suffering he had caused Holtz. That same night, Connor sinks his father to the bottom of the ocean in a steel coffin and Cordelia ascends to a higher plane, the feelings shared between her and Angel still left unspoken. Rescued by Wesley from his watery prison three months later, Angel's relationship with Connor is strained. It is complicated further by the return of an amnesiac Cordelia, who prefers to stay with Connor because he told her the truth while the others lied to her. The lines between good and evil blur as Angel moves into Wolfram & Hart, and they challenge Angel's perceptions of himself and his destiny. Matters are further complicated when Spike appears as a ghost, emerging from a familiar amulet sent to Angel in the mail. Sharing a complicated history of murder and mayhem, they have 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, they wage a protracted, insidious battle of wits, ending when they finally come to an understanding and acceptance of their unique brotherhood on their journey to redemption. Lindsey's defeat coincides with a last visit from Cordelia, who passes along a single vision to Angel. Now finally understanding that he will never be able to completely stop the forces of evil, Angel decides that temporarily severing the Senior Partners' hold on Earth is enough. Together with his comrades, Angel prepares to suicidally incur the apocalyptic wrath of the Senior Partners as a way of going out in a blaze of glory. They assassinate the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Senior Partners' instruments on Earth for pulling all the political and economic strings. In this effort, Gunn is badly wounded, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce is killed. Lorne is instructed to kill Lindsey, temporarily an ally, after they've completed their mission, and he does so, leaving behind Angel and his team afterwards. Gunn manages to make it to the meeting point, the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel, where he, Angel, Spike and Illyria engage in battle with the dark armies that the Senior Partners have sent against them. Latter on Angel still battles aginst the forces of evil though he prepares to leave to England to tell Buffy and the gang of an even more danger they now face.
Sample RP:
From Stargate Helix
Neverland
Infirmary
Khan walked towards the infirmary in Neverland he didn’t bother to stop when the other medical doctors ran up towards him to check him out he had other things on his mind. Khan walked into the infirmary and sat down on an empty chair and waited till a doctor was free. “Your lucky Mr. Soriano any upwards you would have to lose the leg take some rest we’ve got a empty bed set up for you we’ve already informed Colonel Johnson.” Khan nodded and slowly walked towards the bed and feel into a deep sleep.
Dream: Past
It was a typical morning for Khan and his family; Khan was up first and already changed into his military uniform for his daily task it was going to be a good day for Khan he was finally going to get a chance to command his own strike team. At twenty one years old Khan had been training hard and he was promoted to Specialist only yesterday; his father was proud of him. A figure ran down the stairs; it soon was revealed to be Khan’s fifteen year old sister Kari who looked more like Khan’s mother than anything else. “Hey you know what today is brother? I start medical training.” Kari replied smiling; Khan almost forgot about it he was too busy thinking about his new command position. “Sorry sis I completely forgot about your training today was caught up with my own.” Khan smiled looking embarrassed though Kari just smiled and shrugged it away the bond that the two shared was amazing even as other siblings fought a lot though for Khan and Kari it was different.
Khan stood up from the table and placed his empty bowl in its proper place he turned to his sister. “Well good luck Kari I’m of to the base to receive my first assignment tell father and mother that I may be a bit late home.” Khan explained to his sister the two shared in a hug and Khan walked over to a cupboard to collect his rifle and his combat pistol he noticed that his father’s weapons where already gone since he left already. “Bye Khan see you this afternoon.” Kari called as Khan walked out from the home. The walk to the military base wasn’t really far since Khan’s father was a commander several ranks higher than Khan’s rank specialist though Khan was bothered about he new his father earned the rank as did he with his own. Another soldier ran up to Khan; the other man was Khan’s best friend since childhood. “Lorkin you made it ready for today’s assignment?” Khan laughed as he watched his friend approach him. “As always Khan, though I’m surprised I’ve made it; I would’ve sworn I’d be late after the night I’ve had.” Khan just shook his head and laughed.
The two walked up the hill together and they flashed their id badges once they walked towards the front gates. The guards checked the id badges and gave a nod; moments latter the big gates opened and Khan and Lorkin walked through the gates and towards the command center. “Man everyone seems tense today see that guard before Khan?” Lorkin explained Khan merely nodded he knew something was up he didn’t know what. After showing their id badges at the front counter of the command post and stepped forward Khan looked back and noticed the guard looking scared and afraid Khan could sense it from the guard pouring out of him. “Khan; son hurry up the meeting is about to start we’re in trouble we’ve just got word of a wraith attack on our home world it’s why everyone is so bloody tense.” Khan looked back at his father in shock. “What when?” Was all Khan managed to say. The three warriors ran the rest of the way into a small room where the entire department heads where. Khan took a seat next to Lorkin he watched his father sat next to the military’s commanding officer.
“Good morning as you may have herd our senses have detected several wraith hive ships coming towards us. We new this day was soon upon us and we must defend this world for generations to come. Our battle plan is to get all non military personnel of the planet as quickly as possible once done we can focus all our military strength on the wraith. If we fall today we will safely no that our race will live on we will not give in to the wraith’s demands nor their threats we are a proud people and have great honor. Good luck to you all dismissed.” Khan exchanged a few nods to his father as he watched him leave the room he found out that his father had been given the task to command the retreat of non military people. Khan however was soon given the task for security he knew what to do as did Lorkin who was with him. It didn’t take long before the first hive ship to enter the planet from space and the bombing started. Khan and Lorkin bolted towards the nerve center as they just got word that a small group of wraith had broke in and blocked several non military personnel from escaping.
It didn’t take long for Khan and Lorkin to reach the nerve center as they did they spotted several wraith troops. Khan and Lorkin opened fire and within moments they where engaged into a battle with the wraith. An explosion erupted and several soldiers where thrown back. Their bodies landed next to Khan which only angered him further which will be very bad for the wraith. One last energy bolt from his combat pistol ended the first match with the wraith; Khan and Lorkin walked silently into the nerve center searching for the non military personnel that where being blocked from the wraith before. “Where are they?” Khan asked. Lorkin just shrugged he didn’t either then several figures approached them and soon Khan realized that one of them was his sister Kari. Another woman spoke to both Khan and Lorkin. “Specialist we’re part of the medical training group here at the military base that’s when the wraith attacked us we lost our escort. Till you two showed up that is.” The woman explained. “If you follow us we’ll lead you through the escape routes and to the departure group.” Khan replied to the woman he was also thinking for his sister’s well being as well.
“Thanks Khan.” Kari explained as she hugged Khan. Khan could tell that his sister was scared heck even he was and wasn’t very often but the wraith was a pain to deal with. “Hey that’s okay glad your okay. Alright everyone stay close and don’t stop for anything till we are out of the escape routes.” The escape routes was a tunnel that lead to another small building close to the Stargate where they could escape off world though Lorkin and Khan where going back to the main battle after they made sure that the medical training group and Khan’s sister Kari where all right and home free. Though getting to the tunnel was going to be hard but Khan wasn’t going to give up and he knew that Lorkin wasn’t about to as well. The small group started to walk towards the tunnel it was several floors down from where they where at the never center and it’s likely that the wraith would be in the building well more than the first group they already killed. Khan noticed the steps to lead to the next floor down; he signaled Lorkin to be on guard as the group walked down the steps.
Upon approaching the first floor from the nerve center Khan noticed no one only scorch marks and flames nothing more no people and no wraith. This confused Khan never much though he wasn’t about to relax just because they couldn’t see anyone or anything. The small group reached the center of the room that’s when the wraith jumped out of no where and blasted one of the students which ended in that student’s death. Lorkin and Khan opened fire at maximum setting in their combat pistols. When the last wraith fell down dead Khan, Lorkin and the small group rushed towards the steps to get to the second floor from the nerve center. Upon arriving in the second floor from the nerve center Khan noticed a battle and the soldiers where out numbered by the wraith and needed help. Khan turned towards the medical instructor. “Take the students there and hide. We’re going to help those people go now.” Khan explained as both Lorkin and Khan approached the group. Though upon arriving at the group Khan Saw Grintin get shot by a wraith blaster in the chest which angered Khan even more. Grintin was another one of Khan’s friends but he and Lorkin met during military training Kahn was now officially pissed off. Rising from cover Khan pulled the trigger and blasted the wraith that shot Grintin and a few more.
The battle raged on with a few more soldiers losing their lives till there was only four remaining including Khan and Lorkin. The remaining people managed to back the wraith into a wall and finish them of within a matter of moments. Khan had only one thing on his mind he turned away from the dead wraith bodies and quickly ran to find the medical training group still alive. Khan sighed in relief knowing that they where now safe and out of harms way for now. “Okay one more floor to go then the tunnel hopefully the wraith hasn’t blocked that path but for now we’re alright.” As Khan finished speaking another bomb dropped from the hive ship and rocked the building they where in; Khan only hopped that his parents where okay. Khan turned and with the group of soldiers and medical training group they made their way towards the steps and finally the tunnel which then will be home free to the escape building. Khan went first as he slowly made his way down the steps, next was Lorkin and the rest of the soldiers and medical training group. Upon reaching the last floor Khan noticed how quiet everything was; remembering what happened before he signaled the medical training group to go find somewhere to hide.
Reaching in his military jacket Khan took out a couple of grenades he pointed to Lorkin to where a desk had fallen over. Lorkin spotted the wraith head moving and nodded taking out a grenade as well. Activating one grenade Khan threw it over the desk which bounced of the wall and exploded above the group of wraith causing them to split apart and charge towards Khan and company. The small military group opened fire while Khan and Lorkin threw a grenade each causing the wraith to launch into the air and falling dead onto the floor. “Medical group move towards the tunnel now we don’t know how many more wraith are here this is our only open window now move!” Khan yelled as he watched his sister Kari move first then the rest of the training group. Satisfied that they where safe Khan and the soldiers scouted the place for a moment till a wraith blaster was herd. Turning towards Lorkin Khan noticed the blood now pouring from his chest. Khan raced towards Lorkin and held onto him as the remaining soldiers engaged in battle with the wraith. “Please Lorkin don’t give up on me now you can still make it.” Khan yelled though Lorkin simply shook his head.
“Sorry buddy not this time here take it lead your sister and the others out of here.” Lorkin shakily handed Khan his combat pistol and closed his eyes. Khan broke into tears as he watched his best friend die in his arms standing up he took both pistols and engaged into combat with the wraith to help the reaming soldiers while they listened to battle outside the building. Khan knew they where losing but that didn’t stop him from trying he wasn’t about to give up not now not ever. “Concentrate fire on the first line of wraith if you have any grenades left use them.” Khan yelled. Within moments the remaining soldiers defeated the wraith that where blocking their path. Khan and the other soldiers turned and made a run for it towards the tunnel. With every step Khan took his heart pumped even harder wondering if his sister was alive or not. His answers where answered when they reached the other side other the tunnel and he noticed his sister and the medial training group inside the escape building waiting for them. “Where’s Lorkin?” Kari asked Khan. “He’s gone a wraith shot him.” Khan explained to his sister. Taking out a telescope Khan walked over to a window to see if he could spot his father and the non military personnel.
It wasn’t long and Khan noticed his father as he hurried to the Stargate. His father started to dial the gate; Khan didn’t know what planet he had chosen to take the people though if he knew is father they would be safe. “Lets go your ride is about to depart.” Khan yelled as the medical group and the remaining soldiers bolted from the building. Khan was out first his father notice his approach with several other people. “Khan you’re alive. I’m sorry your mother the wraith bombed out house and your mother was still in the building she’s gone son.” Khan now was shocked beyond belief. He’d lost to many people today and now his mother. There was time to mourn for them they still had a duty to do; Khan however now noticed that his sister was still in the building and now a wraith cruiser was approaching them. Turning back he saw his father getting shot several times by a wraith blaster. “Everyone take cover when the ring of the ancestors activates ran for it.” Khan explained it was then he herd a large explosion the building that his sister was in just exploded in flames. Khan got everyone safely through the ring of the ancestors. Khan ran back towards the building when a wraith dart picked him up.
Present Day
Khan opened his eyes he noticed the doctor standing over him. “Mr. Soriano are you okay? You where screaming in your sleep. Something about Kari?” Khan just turned away from the doctor still shaking and seating. He took out a combat pistol from his jacket pocket which had stained blood on it.
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Character Name: Angel
Brief 10 words or less description: Vampire with a soul
Celeb: David Boreanaz
