FollowthePath

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

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Comic Book type superhero RP?

If you get an open spot, I'd be interested in joining... as a former cat burglar turned good (for the most part), with some magnetic abilities.

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

FLASHBACK



“Is that really what you want?” Aodh cooed, a small knife between her pale thin fingers. She drug it along her own jaw line as she kept a straight face, eyes wide and ghostly looking while she observed him.


“Please! Please let me go!” the demon squirmed. Aodh had wrapped him up in some ropes she’d been soaking in holy water. The more he moved, the more damage he did to himself, and the louder his moans became.


“I’m afraid I can’t do that,” Aodh said, continuing to circle the creature, her voice still sounding angelic despite the words escaping her lips. “You see… you didn’t just encourage that little girl to hang herself… you literally gave her the ropes. Made yourself a friend. You’re the reason an entire family is craving justice and revenge. But they can’t get to you like I can…”

“PLEASE!” he cried again, struggling.


*buzz buzz*

Aodh frowned, feeling her phone ringing in the pocket of the white leggings she was wearing. She skillfully pulled it out with the knife still in her hand and answered it without looking to see who it was.


“Hello?” she answered in her sing song voice. “Mmm hmm… mm hmmm…” Aodh listened, the soft moans of the demon who was becoming unconscious from pain fading in the background. “Yes, I will be there immediately.” Aodh hung up the phone and tossed it to her left hand. She flicked her right wrist and threw the knife straight into the chest of the demon. “I suppose that would hurt if you had a heart,” Aodh mumbled, walking over to the thing. “Looks like I have to go. But… I like the look of you just staying here like this. Etched forever in my memory. Just like the memories you’ve made for others that they didn’t deserve,” Aodh growled, pulling her knife back out and walking away, leaving the demon to his fate.



PRESENT DAY



Aodh arrived in The City, concealing her wings and making her appearance as human like as she could. She had her grey hair braided off to the side and was wearing a loose fitting white top, with a sharp white blazer over the top. She wore tight black jeggings and flat, pointed shoes that were also in black. Besides her wings, Aodh also had concealed her large sword on her back, a belt of weapons along her waist, and tried to make her skin a bit warmer looking.

Aodh had sensed a barrier before entering the city, and then once she did, it was like a cloud of heaviness. The evil contained within this place had cause her to take a step back before pushing forward towards the building they were to meet at. Aodh didn’t know how to walk or behave another way besides with her head held high, with a powerful walk of decisiveness. As a result, she noticed others around stoops and random shops look up and eye her. She would either ignore them or stare carelessly right back. Most were low levels demons or supernatural creatures. She had no fear of them. She could sense some larger evil in the city, however, and she was not coming into contact with it luckily before she got to her destination. It might have made her late.

Aodh walked inside and asked the front desk for directions to the conference room she was looking for. They kindly pointed her down the hall and told her which way to turn. Aodh smiled and thanked them graciously before waltzing that direction. On her way inside, Aodh saw a woman shaking her head. Aodh just raised an eyebrow in curiosity before looking around inside the actual room. Was that the Detective? Who was the black haired man with the long nose? Aodh had her hands in her pockets and looked between the two of them, as if awaiting an unspoken explanation.

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Hey folks, I had messaged a few of you with similar color scehmes that someone should change to make it unique. I didn't realize there were three people in the green color area until sheets started moving to the CS tab. Whoops! I was too distracted by the content itself, haha.

If green is a preferred color for multiple people, that is totally okay, and my apologies for pressing a change on some folks rather than making a blanket statement to the group.

If everyone wants unique colors for those pieces of dialogue and such, then y'all can figure out who wants what color, or how close together colors can be.

@Pascal

I can change mine 🙂

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

"I won't be held responsible for your mistakes."

Wrath

Name: Aodh, fallen angel of Wrath

Age: around 4,000

Race: angel

Appearance:
Aodh stands 5'8" tall. She is a average/athletic build and has very pale skin. She has piercing blue eyes and her hair is grey. She is able to alter her appearance slightly depending on necessity, and so often is not seen with her wings. She tends to wear loose fitting, comfortable clothing, and is not a fan of bright colors. She always has a weapon on her person, just not usually visible.

Personality: Aodh is driven by truth and justice. She believes a balanced scale is poetry. She hates to see injustice against anyone and can be a very kind, caring person. She does come across often as cold or introverted or standoff-ish at times. This is due to her advanced age. She finds the less you speak the less you have to apologize for later. Aodh does have a switch that flips in her, though. When someone is treated unfairly or abused or even murdered, she will lose focus of everything else, and she feels out of control as she responds to these situations. When she saves lives, she's blind to the cost and it's one of the only times she feels joy. When she fails, she has been known to vomit, kill someone else who has barely sinned to make her feel better, or go hide in a cave for a while. When she isolates, she is contemplative and tries to contain the bloodlust inside her. She'll emerge calm and more patient, but it never lasts. It affects her much more than making the wrong choice. When she accidentally kills the wrong person, she rationalizes it, confesses it to the sky, and feels guilty for maybe a day or two. She does her best to justify her actions and push that particular guilt away. She knows evil will always exist, and perhaps she is evil to many people. However, she does her best to channel the Wrath inside her towards those she deems more evil that herself.

Background: Aodh began her life as a guardian angel. She would be moved from human to human as they passed on. However, one day, the 5 year old she was supposed to be guarding was lured away from home. Aodh was distracted by a couple of demons who were in on the whole ordeal, when the little girl was murdered. Aodh felt the weight of a thousand earth's fall onto her shoulders. She carried the guilt and shame, and it began to make her fearful. She was scared of failing, of injustice being done, of losing another innocent. But she could not stop it from happening again and again to other angels' children and assignments. The fear began to drive her mad until it became anger. A bubbling river of fury that she began to unleash on anyone, creature or human, that harmed innocent ones.
The first case of Aodh truly snapping was when she heard of a human serial killer targeting children. At that time she was still a guardian angel and so had an assigned sword that was supposed to only be used against supernatural beings who might harm only her assigned person, never a human. Those were the rules she'd always been held to. However, she did her own kind of detective work, and managed to stalk the man who was committing the crimes. She tied him up and tortured him for several hours before finishing him off. She was ridiculously happy afterwards and thought she'd be rewarded, but instead was reprimanded for breaking so many rules. She tried to be sneakier about her activities after that, but when one time she killed the wrong person, it triggered her to confess what she'd been doing, and thus she was expelled, kicked out of heaven and sentenced to live on earth til Judgment Day. She is still in possession of her powers as an angel, but none of the authority she had. So she can still use her powers, but every time she does use them for anything related to Wrath, it is another red mark in her ledger. And considering she becomes another being almost, something with red eyes and a lust for vengeance, she has a lot of red marks against her.
Since being kicked out, Aodh has avoided the City. She tends to believe ignorance is bliss at times. She instead has resigned herself more to rural places. She enjoys nature more than the city life and it's easier to keep the peace. Not to mention, she actually feels a sense of appreciation from locals when they gossip about how the town thief ends up mysteriously disappearing.
The Detective got in touch with Aodh via phone call. Aodh knows the City basically functions on nonsense (in her opinion), but when the Detective described the Outcasts to her, Aodh couldn't help herself. She is ready to show the Outcasts exactly what torture looks like.

Skills and Abilities:

* flight
(She does has large, grey feathered wings that allow her to fly. Without them, she would not be able to.)

* skilled in hand to hand combat
(Aodh has gotten into many fights over the ages and has not come away dumber. She has learned how to fight when her knives are out of reach or when she loses control in the moment. She is not officially "trained" in any particular fighting style, just basically street/survival fighting.)

* knife and sword skills
(All guardian angels were assigned a sword and learned to fight with it. Aodh still has her sword, which is cross shaped and about 35 inches tall. It has a blackened sheen to it with swirls carved throughout the steel. The handle is wrapped leather. She also has several smaller daggers she has collected over the years and has taught herself to use.)

* ability to minorly change appearance
(Aodh can cast a sort of illusion over herself. This illusion can hide her wings, hide wounds on her skin or create the appearance of them, or minorly change things like her hair color or eye color. She cannot change her appearance to look like some other creature or anything like that.)

* healing ability
(Aodh heals quickly from injuries. Because she is immortal, she eventually recovers from all wounds. However, she can be injured. Her skin is fairly tough to get through with average human weapons, while enchanted weapons do more damage. Her recovery time varies based on weapon and injury.)

* cannot be killed but can be bound in chains
(Expanded upon under weaknesses, but Aodh cannot technically be killed. She can only be bound indefinitely.)

Weakness:

* chains
(Enchanted chains will bind her very quickly. Regular old chains will work as well, but you would need many, and to constrain her while unconscious or work very quickly.)

* inability to control herself in the presence of injustice
(She's more of a "two eyes for an eye" type of angel.)

* weakness towards children, elderly, and animals
(She sees these groups as weaker, and thus whoever picks on them is especially sickening.)

* not skilled in guns or archery or spears
(She could possibly figure them out, but guardian angels are tasked with swords. She has never used these weapons before so if given one in battle or coming up against one in a fight she will be at a disadvantage.)

* does not recover quickly from being knocked unconscious
(Aodh heals quickly but if knocked unconscious she is just like any other being. Depending on the strength of the hit, she could be unconscious for hours.)

* fear of doing the wrong thing
(Aodh isn't a full on perfectionist, but it's inbred into angels to do the right thing every time in order to please God. So she has some issues with needing approval and enjoying pleasing others. This has caused her to make mistakes in the past in order to win the approval of others.)

Equipment:

Aodh has her "knightly sword" that she calls her blade of justice. It is described under skills. She also carries various daggers and throwing knives. She will acquire anything else she needs at the moment or use what's around her if she gets in a situation where she needs anything else.

Quips:

"Liars lose their tongue."
"Don't forget me in Hell."

Aodh still speaks to a couple angels who aren't fallen. They consistently try to convince her to stop her warpath.

Aodh does know Cain fairly well. Besides the obvious history and legends about Cain, there was a time when Aodh was isolating in a cave after mistakingly murdering the wrong person after a shoddy detective job. Her sword was sitting near the cave entrance. Aodh felt a presence, like a shadow slyly try to grab her weapon. Aodh rushed the thief and they blindly fought hand to hand. Aodh twisted their arm, only to glance and see the Mark of Cain blazing on his skin. Surprised, Aodh slowly released Cain's arm. The way Aodh stepped back seemed to halt the fight, and then Aodh called his name. They began a conversation and realized the similarities they had, and came to an agreement. Aodh has contacted Cain several times over the millenia to ask if he wanted to help her on a task, if the person she is tracking or destroying has some nice things that Cain might take an interest in, or siphon some interesting memories from.

The Spirits Within/Aeon

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HELENA "DOVE" WESTERLY — UDF: CETRA EAST COMMAND [Briefing Room] — Day 1 - 05:00AM — @FollowthePath Helena “Dove” Westerly was running late as usual. She had a toothbrush sticking out between her lips while pulling on a dreaded pair of pants. She almost always wore dresses when she could get away with it, but since they’d been asked to wear the special rainbow of UDF gray, she complied. Helena finally spit the toothbrush itself out in the sink and pinched her cheeks a few times for a rosy glow before tying up her dark red hair into a lazy bun. She frantically dug for matching socks (as her preferred footwear was sandals or barefoot) and finally settled on something that looked navy blue and another that was dark purple. Good enough. She tied up the boots and took a glance at herself in a full-length mirror she’d never gotten around to hanging up. It was simply leaned against a vintage chair that she never used. Helena frowned a bit at how drab she looked, along with seeing her last name emblazoned upon the patch that was pre-sewn onto her shirt. She much preferred to go by her nickname, since her surname reminded her of her mother. “Swarg,” Helena smirked, reading the patch that had a wolf upon it. She still had trouble believing she’d been chosen to be a part of the Special Warfare and Reconnaissance Group. Yes, she knew she was an aeon. And one who could be useful in a group setting. But she had the names of the others who had been called to the meeting running through her mind. They were all so… powerful. Violent. Special. Interesting. She tilted her head a bit, zoning out as she thought about how awkward her interactions could possibly be with the others, until she realized she was daydreaming and snapped out of it. “Get it together, Helena,” she whispered to herself, grabbing the papers the UDF had sent her home with. She had gotten the news while working in Medical had been trying to prep for this since then. However, her nerves were still buzzing under the surface of her skin as she locked her apartment and headed out. ~ Helena sat patiently, trying her best to look wide-eyed and interested as Jeff spoke about their assignment. She was happy right off the bat that their target was to be brought in alive. However, when Jeff mentioned who they were after, Helena couldn’t help but catch her breath and glance over at Garuda. Eyes darting between the general and the well-known aeon, Helena chewed her bottom lip nervously as she watched them interact. She was just thankful the attention wasn’t on her, and what this mission was going to entail was fascinating. Helena had not just heard of Benjamin Regardie before. He had ended up in Medical once before under her care. He’d gotten severely damaged during a mission once and was having trouble shaking it. When he arrived, he had several bits and fragments of shrapnel sticking into him, with lines of blood dripping from various injuries. His breathing had been labored and it’d been hard to get from him exactly what had happened. She didn’t need to know though. Helena rapidly began working on laying her hand on any injury he had as other medical team members removed the shrapnel. It took a good hour, but by the end of it, he was good as new. Well, minus the sweat, dried blood, and the fact he was exhausted. He hadn’t talked much to Helena as she wanted him to rest and sleep after such an ordeal, but when she went to check on him a couple hours later he was gone. A general had checked him out without letting her know. That was the longest she’d ever interacted with Bahamut. Helena realized she’d been zoning out for a minute, so she intentionally nodded vigorously as Jeff gave them instructions. She had a little notebook and pen and began mumbling under her breath as she tried to catch the most important parts. “Steelwater… World Eaters…psychopaths in one battalion…” When Jeff mentioned some of the other aeons, Helena glanced up from her notebook and looked around. She knew of Isolde but avoided her like the plague. Gossip ran amuck in Medical, especially when everyone got bored, so Helena had heard of most of these aeons before, although not all of them. And what she knew, she didn’t know if it was all true or not. People did like to exaggerate. Helena was trying to keep a mental list in addition to her notebook though and tucked it in a pocket as she gingerly got up and went to go get her gear.

The Spirits Within/Aeon

I'm here! No problem waiting. I've just been trying to keep up with the lore, map, character sheets, and IC, rereading them a lot. Promise to jump in as soon as my brain can figure out the best way to go about it, ha.

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Updated

"I won't be held responsible for your mistakes."

Wrath

Name: Aodh, fallen angel of Wrath

Age: around 4,000

Race: angel

Appearance:
Aodh stands 5'8" tall. She is a average/athletic build and has very pale skin. She has piercing blue eyes and her hair is grey. She is able to alter her appearance slightly depending on necessity, and so often is not seen with her wings. She tends to wear loose fitting, comfortable clothing, and is not a fan of bright colors. She always has a weapon on her person, just not usually visible.

Personality: Aodh is driven by truth and justice. She believes a balanced scale is poetry. She hates to see injustice against anyone and can be a very kind, caring person. She does come across often as cold or introverted or standoff-ish at times. This is due to her advanced age. She finds the less you speak the less you have to apologize for later. Aodh does have a switch that flips in her, though. When someone is treated unfairly or abused or even murdered, she will lose focus of everything else, and she feels out of control as she responds to these situations. When she saves lives, she's blind to the cost and it's one of the only times she feels joy. When she fails, she has been known to vomit, kill someone else who has barely sinned to make her feel better, or go hide in a cave for a while. When she isolates, she is contemplative and tries to contain the bloodlust inside her. She'll emerge calm and more patient, but it never lasts. It affects her much more than making the wrong choice. When she accidentally kills the wrong person, she rationalizes it, confesses it to the sky, and feels guilty for maybe a day or two. She does her best to justify her actions and push that particular guilt away. She knows evil will always exist, and perhaps she is evil to many people. However, she does her best to channel the Wrath inside her towards those she deems more evil that herself.

Background: Aodh began her life as a guardian angel. She would be moved from human to human as they passed on. However, one day, the 5 year old she was supposed to be guarding was lured away from home. Aodh was distracted by a couple of demons who were in on the whole ordeal, when the little girl was murdered. Aodh felt the weight of a thousand earth's fall onto her shoulders. She carried the guilt and shame, and it began to make her fearful. She was scared of failing, of injustice being done, of losing another innocent. But she could not stop it from happening again and again to other angels' children and assignments. The fear began to drive her mad until it became anger. A bubbling river of fury that she began to unleash on anyone, creature or human, that harmed innocent ones.
The first case of Aodh truly snapping was when she heard of a human serial killer targeting children. At that time she was still a guardian angel and so had an assigned sword that was supposed to only be used against supernatural beings who might harm only her assigned person, never a human. Those were the rules she'd always been held to. However, she did her own kind of detective work, and managed to stalk the man who was committing the crimes. She tied him up and tortured him for several hours before finishing him off. She was ridiculously happy afterwards and thought she'd be rewarded, but instead was reprimanded for breaking so many rules. She tried to be sneakier about her activities after that, but when one time she killed the wrong person, it triggered her to confess what she'd been doing, and thus she was expelled, kicked out of heaven and sentenced to live on earth til Judgment Day. She is still in possession of her powers as an angel, but none of the authority she had. So she can still use her powers, but every time she does use them for anything related to Wrath, it is another red mark in her ledger. And considering she becomes another being almost, something with red eyes and a lust for vengeance, she has a lot of red marks against her.
Since being kicked out, Aodh has avoided the City. She tends to believe ignorance is bliss at times. She instead has resigned herself more to rural places. She enjoys nature more than the city life and it's easier to keep the peace. Not to mention, she actually feels a sense of appreciation from locals when they gossip about how the town thief ends up mysteriously disappearing.
The Detective got in touch with Aodh via phone call. Aodh knows the City basically functions on nonsense (in her opinion), but when the Detective described the Outcasts to her, Aodh couldn't help herself. She is ready to show the Outcasts exactly what torture looks like.

Skills and Abilities:

* flight
(She does has large, grey feathered wings that allow her to fly. Without them, she would not be able to.)

* skilled in hand to hand combat
(Aodh has gotten into many fights over the ages and has not come away dumber. She has learned how to fight when her knives are out of reach or when she loses control in the moment. She is not officially "trained" in any particular fighting style, just basically street/survival fighting.)

* knife and sword skills
(All guardian angels were assigned a sword and learned to fight with it. Aodh still has her sword, which is cross shaped and about 35 inches tall. It has a blackened sheen to it with swirls carved throughout the steel. The handle is wrapped leather. She also has several smaller daggers she has collected over the years and has taught herself to use.)

* ability to minorly change appearance
(Aodh can cast a sort of illusion over herself. This illusion can hide her wings, hide wounds on her skin or create the appearance of them, or minorly change things like her hair color or eye color. She cannot change her appearance to look like some other creature or anything like that.)

* healing ability
(Aodh heals quickly from injuries. Because she is immortal, she eventually recovers from all wounds. However, she can be injured. Her skin is fairly tough to get through with average human weapons, while enchanted weapons do more damage. Her recovery time varies based on weapon and injury.)

* cannot be killed but can be bound in chains
(Expanded upon under weaknesses, but Aodh cannot technically be killed. She can only be bound indefinitely.)

Weakness:

* chains
(Enchanted chains will bind her very quickly. Regular old chains will work as well, but you would need many, and to constrain her while unconscious or work very quickly.)

* inability to control herself in the presence of injustice
(She's more of a "two eyes for an eye" type of angel.)

* weakness towards children, elderly, and animals
(She sees these groups as weaker, and thus whoever picks on them is especially sickening.)

* not skilled in guns or archery or spears
(She could possibly figure them out, but guardian angels are tasked with swords. She has never used these weapons before so if given one in battle or coming up against one in a fight she will be at a disadvantage.)

* does not recover quickly from being knocked unconscious
(Aodh heals quickly but if knocked unconscious she is just like any other being. Depending on the strength of the hit, she could be unconscious for hours.)

* fear of doing the wrong thing
(Aodh isn't a full on perfectionist, but it's inbred into angels to do the right thing every time in order to please God. So she has some issues with needing approval and enjoying pleasing others. This has caused her to make mistakes in the past in order to win the approval of others.)

Equipment:

Aodh has her "knightly sword" that she calls her blade of justice. It is described under skills. She also carries various daggers and throwing knives. She will acquire anything else she needs at the moment or use what's around her if she gets in a situation where she needs anything else.

Quips:

"Liars lose their tongue."
"Don't forget me in Hell."

Aodh still speaks to a couple angels who aren't fallen. They consistently try to convince her to stop her warpath.

(Aodh is definitely more of a loner, but I would love for her to have connections to one or two other of the Lesser Evils, or even to have worked with the Detective in the past. I will update this section if this works with anyone else!)

Added:

Aodh does know Cain fairly well. Besides the obvious history and legends about Cain, there was a time when Aodh was isolating in a cave after mistakingly murdering the wrong person after a shoddy detective job. Her sword was sitting near the cave entrance. Aodh felt a presence, like a shadow slyly try to grab her weapon. Aodh rushed the thief and they blindly fought hand to hand. Aodh twisted their arm, only to glance and see the Mark of Cain blazing on his skin. Surprised, Aodh slowly released Cain's arm. The way Aodh stepped back seemed to halt the fight, and then Aodh called his name. They began a conversation and realized the similarities they had, and came to an agreement. Aodh has contacted Cain several times over the millenia to ask if he wanted to help her on a task, if the person she is tracking or destroying has some nice things that Cain might take an interest in, or siphon some interesting memories from.

The Spirits Within/Aeon

@Archangel89 sorry for the laughing face on the CS, I can't figure out how to undo it 🤦‍♀️

Lesser Evils. (CoGM Found!)

Really interested in wrath. I like the idea of a fallen angel who sees wrath as a virtue to accomplish what they think is "good" and "just."