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[b]Name:[/b] Elijah 'Eli' (no last name)
[b]Alias:[/b] Archangel 
[b]Age:[/b] 26
[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Personality:[/b] Eli is best known for his bleeding heart of gold. He can't turn away someone who needs his help; he just can't. Even if it takes all of what little he has to help this person out, he'll do whatever he needs to. Eli is a pretty intelligent guy, but can be kind of a doofus sometimes. He's often up beat, and tries to look on the bright side of things. He's patient with people, but honest as well. Eli will call people out on their mistakes, usually with the intent of helping them fix them. 

[b]Skills:[/b] Archery, hand to hand, knife throwing 

[b]Abilities:[/b] Eli is fully capable of flight, has enhanced eyesight, and advanced healing.

[b]Equipment:[/b] His bow, arrows, and a few knives

[b]Other:[/b] Eli is 75% deaf. He can read lips, but unless you are face to face with him or shouting in his ear, he won't be able to understand you. He can also speak sign language. 

[b]Appearance:[/b] Eli is 5'9" with shaggy brown hair and hazel eyes. He usually has a good bit of facial hair. On his back, Eli has two large, feathered wings with brown dapples on the on side, and white down underneath. These wings are able to fold up nice and small against his back, allowing him to hide them when wearing a regular, loose fitted shirt. 
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[b]Brief Backstory:[/b] 

Eli was the product of mad scientist, Herman Schwartz. After being denied government funding for his experiments, Schwartz turned his home into your typical evil lair. To fund himself, he gathered henchmen to carry out crimes such as bank robbing and jewel theifing. And there, in that lab, the lines put in place by humanity and the law were crossed. 

Schwartz took human DNA and mixed it with that of animals, creating all sorts of horrific beasts in an attempt to make super soldiers. He planned to sell his formula, once he perfected it, to the highest bidding country and then live out the rest of his day being filthy rich. However, most of his experiments failed. Over half of them never made it past the embryo phase, and the ones that did usually died in infancy. That said, a few of them [i]did[/i] make it. 

Eli, a human/bird hybrid, was one of those few. He was raised in the lab by Schwartz's henchmen, who were less than great parents. Most of his days were spent in a large dog kennel to prevent his escape. He was taught basic education, such as reading, writing, science, math, ect. But along with this, he was trained to fight and use weapons. In the long run, Eli was created to be a weapon. 

It was during one of the scientist's experiments that Eli lost most of his hearing. He learned to communicate via sign language, teaching it to the other experiments when they were allowed to interact. Eli was probably one of the most successful things to come out of Schwartz's lab, but there were a few others that survived. Eli made friends with [url=http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs25/f/2008/078/f/3/f3361be5d3bd255e.jpg]Caleb[/url], a canine hybrid, [url=http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss64/FiestaSiesta/babyatrius-1.png]Sammy[/url], a lizard toddler, [url=http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss64/FiestaSiesta/tumblr_mk4najj05Y1qbighco1_500_zps9190b5f2.png]Elsa[/url], a blue reptile girl, and [url=http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss64/FiestaSiesta/caterpillar_by_wheredreamsdiverge-d34da7c_zpsd7ffa470.png]Jabiko[/url], a baby sized larva. 

This group of ragtag freaks became more or less a family to Eli. They were strange, sure, but they were all each other had. It was only a few year ago that Eli and his friends were able to escape the clutches of Schwartz. They fled to the nearest big city, Greenfield, to hide amongst the crowds. The gang has made the streets their home. With most of them unable to go out into public due to their appearance, it became Eli's responsibility to bring home food and supplies. The whole 'hero' gig helped. People rewarded him for his actions, and those rewards were split up among the group. 

(I'll be mostly playing Eli. The others are just a bunch of side characters to keep his story going)