Kaelith "Archangel" Virel | FAULTLINE

• Nova Pact: America's premier superhero coalition that once protected the American people and were seen as heroes. Now it is a fractured symbol. Their golden age crumbled after Ghostline's betrayal, sparking public distrust. Headquarters: The top level of the D.E.I.S. building.

• D.E.I.S. (Department of Enhanced Individuals Security): Government agency formed to regulate supers post-emergence. Mandates registration, power dampeners for "high-risk" individuals, and lethal oversight for those that do not follow the codes. The D.E.I.S. controls Nova Pact and where the Nova Pact go to help citizens. Ghostline created a group known as the Reclaimers who target their authoritarian policies, claiming they "cage gods to please bureaucrats."

• Civ's (civilian's) make up much of the population while Supe's (someone with enhanced abilities or super powers) are only about 2% of the population, often passed on through genetics

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Name: Kaelith Virel

Codename: Archangel

Alias: The Peoples’ Cherub, Angel, Kae

Race: Human

Gender: Genderfluid

Pronouns: She/They

Age: 38 years old

Height: 5’1 ft, 155 cm

Occupation: Kaelith is an ex-military captain, leaving the field at the ripe age of 28. She stayed out onto the streets to meet and talk to people before being recruited onto the DEIS team. Starting as a fledgling recruit, she worked their way through the ranks. After displaying their strong team work ethic and pointing out the flaws within the system that keep people hurt, she was promoted, being handed her own group she that she has been running for 6 years, to which she lovingly nicknamed “The Seraphim”, a medical deployment team that is sent out to clean up after the fights and nurse the injured back to health. She tends to be out and about a lot, always on call and ready for action.

Powers: Her powers were earned by her actions, not born with. Healing Touch-She can heal others through touch alone, curing ailments, aches, and open wounds. Empathic Voice-She can manipulate people’s emotions by speaking, which she typically uses to calm people down or command them. She has been known to subtly and rarely use it when she wants something. Aura Reading-She can view people’s auras, but she can only see their emotional states or health status.

Personality: While off the field, she is quite compassionate and principled, willing to keep her doors open for anyone that happens to wonder inside for help, whether that is her teammates, roommates, or the civilians she passes on the streets. Despite her natural soft nature, while she is different while working. While on the job, she is very headstrong about how things should be done and ran. She keeps a very open-mind to suggestions and requests. She is a nature-born leader, keeping her teammates in line and those around her in order. She takes pride in her work and will take the blame in errors caused by her team, disciplining or rewarding them when appropriate. They are quite loyal to the DEIS, but tends to be more loyal to their own standards and beliefs, and will go against orders that threaten them. She is as loyal as she HAS to be. She is very extroverted and doesn't even stop to think before saying whats on her mind.

Habits: Kaelith tends to keep a bag of sweets on her when she goes out, handing them to the people she meets. She visits the hospital on her time off, sitting with patients while holding their hands, healing them without thinking. During some nights, she sets up a watchfire, quietly sitting alone as if waiting. She reads over the old field journals of the comrades she lost.

Likes: Fixing broken trinkets, especially old war items. Reading the field journals. Enjoys getting drawings of “The Archangel” when she visits the children’s hospital wing. Mint or hibiscus tea.

Dislikes: Exploitative media and superheroes. Those who abandon civilians. Unnecessary acts of heroics just for news/civilian favor. Being called a hero by those who have never stepped foot into the battlefield. Those who try to stall aid to those who need it.

Speech: When she isn’t working or is around panicking people, she’ll have a calm, soft, and almost echoing voice that seems to almost instantly soothe people. While talking to her teammates, she takes on a louder, more commanding tone, drawing attention and authority.

Personal beliefs: Kaelith believes that every life has value, that if they are breathing, then they are worth saving. Despite being in war and experiencing it firsthand, she doesn’t view it-or any act of violence-as a solution. She believes that the truth must always be spoken, that lies create a wobbly foundation that will quickly come down on those who spoke them.

Appearance: She has a very ethereal presence, her bronze skin having a slight glow. She has short, tousled black hair that has a slight violet sheen to it. A glowing halo that’s more visible in darker areas. Her eyes are a teal color which glow when she is using her powers. On her back are a pair of white wings, measuring out to be 12 feet per wing. Her wingspan is measured up to 24 feet. On her right shoulder and down to her wrist, she has a very intricate tattoo of feathers, flowers, and a date on her wrist, stating “August 18, 2016” to which she refuses to explain.

Outfit: She wears a black hooded canvas jacket, a band around her right sleeve that states “SERAPHIM”. It looks almost brand new despite the constant usage of it. The lining is a dark crimson, similar to the color of blood. She wears a loose, low collared white shirt. Her pants are high-waisted with a utility belt keeping it up. On her belt are multiple pouches of useful items such as adrenaline, morphine, or tourniquets for the team to use, though some tend to contain candy or trinkets she wants to fix. Additionally, she carries her old pistol from her military days, but never once has she needed to use it. She tends to wear a few pairs of iridescent earrings (one of which being a secret communications device back to HQ), along with a black choker around her neck. Furthermore, she wears her old dog tags around her neck, along with a second pair attached to her belt. She has a sleek pair of combat boots, worn but not horribly damaged.

Backstory: Kaelith was born in a slightly dysfunctional family, her source of comfort coming from her older brother. He would take her out when their parents argued to each other so she didn’t have to see it. He slowly moved his things into her bedroom just to be closer, sleeping on a mattress on her floor during the nights.

Over the years, it had gotten better, though talks of divorce were commonplace as she went to school. Despite her brother being old enough to leave the home, he primarily stayed for her, watching her grow up until being going off into the military. Much like her brother, as she turned 18, she turned her back on her home and entered the military as a Navy recruit.

The first few years were nothing special. Training, being commanded, doing punishments, but it all seemed to turn on its head as members were being sent out to stop a potential global war. She stayed close with her brother, staying perched behind cover as they waited in the silence, waiting for the first shots to be taken.

They were stuck there for... god, 4 years? She had lost count months ago as she watched her back, carefully pulling other soldiers from the field with the hot sun on her back. The soldiers, dazed, always seemed to whisper about how an angel came down to save them as she injected them with morphine and put pressure on their wounds.

After the news had spread of war, the Supes caught wind, coming to aid in the battlefield before leaving after it was over. What took the recruits years only took them mere days to finish... After they were gone, she realized... so was her brother, no sign left of him but a pair of dog tags.

She ignored the thought and continued to help out the soldiers that were left behind, exhausted but determined, all the while searching for her brother in the seas of bodies. She soothed the injured, picking them up and moving them closer together so she could take care of them. She watched over them, napping and waking to their groans, so she could help. It seemed to slowly begin the process of her powers showing, wings sprouting behind her in the days passing, her touch healing, her words completely soothing people.

Goals: To hold Supes accountable to their mistakes without the D.E.I.S./news outlets downplaying it. To have a world where civilians matter just as much as those with power. Most of all, she wants to find peace, for civilians, and for herself.

Connections: Due to being in the D.E.I.S., she has met almost every hero 0f the Nova Pact due to having to run errands, and has quite a few personal opinions on how they act.

She doesn’t mind the D.E.I.S., but doesn’t like how they control the media, and, in turn, control what innocent civilians see. She is tolerated by them because her ability is useful.

Extras: She has a strong sense of survivor’s guilt, but keeps it under wraps, hardly, if ever, talking about it with anyone. She isn’t immune to emotional outbreaks when everything feels like too much.

She has a small feeling of hatred against Supes, viewing them as very dangerous to others, pompous, and undeserving of their public favor due to the chaos that typically follows them wherever they are.

She tries to actively search for information on her brother, and continues to keep an eye on her parents, keeping Supes away from them as she believes if they show up, her parents would also disappear.

Her tattoo on her wrist is of the month, day, and year her brother had disappeared. She is waiting to get a tattoo below it of the day he returns into her life. She makes the watchfires in hopes he will find his way to it, no matter where he is.

She was nicknamed “The Peoples’ Cherub” 4 years before she was taken into the DEIS. She would sneak into areas blocked off by police to help the injured before realizing she could just ask to be let through (utilizing her Empathic Voice to do so).

She is well known within hospitals, always welcomed inside without needing a visitation reason. The staff typically lead her to the dying first, letting her save or comfort them if they are beyond saving. She always makes sure to visit the children's hospital in the early morning before she gets pulled away for work, leaving candy, toys, and magically cured kids behind for their parents to see.

Through various exams and experiments by doctors, it was shown that her bones are somewhat hollow, closer resembling the bones of a bird, making her lighter and making it easier for her wings to hold her. It seemed as though her powers changed her bone from a human to something more suitable for her current being. </Kaelith_Virel>