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APPLICATIONS.

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_________applications.

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character info;
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samples;
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Character Info

[personal profile] gained_a_level 2012-07-02 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Character Info;
Character Name: Castiel
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Link: This is a concise history of Castiel by season of his appearance.
Canon Point: Season 5 finale.
Character Age: Unknown, has been alive since the Big Bang. His vessel appears to be in his 30s.
Character Suitability: N/A
Personality: Castiel is an Angel of the Lord. Among the Host of Heaven, he is a warrior of God, a captain of the Garrison... executing the will of their Father through the upper management -- the Archangels -- with unquestioning loyalty and dedication. When God commanded him to carry a message, he did so. When He ordered the destruction of a settlement, Castiel carried this out personally as an avenging angel sending a very different kind of message. Castiel was a good, obedient soldier.

...That is, until he met Dean Winchester. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.

Castiel is a man of subtleties. When he is first encountered in the series, his mannerisms and speech were stoic, oddly serene and practically alien. As time goes on and he spends more time with his 'charge', he gradually begins to show more emotion, the depth and range of his expressions expanding greatly, but only in subtle shifts of tone and expression. In a way, the slightest lean of his head and a hesitant reply becomes as obvious to read as a sign saying, "I'm not sure I follow you." Castiel would open his mouth and speak the blunt, honest truth -- no matter the consequences. It was out of deep respect and love for his Father that he admired mankind, despite their flaws, simply because God chose them to rule the earth. But after spending time with humans on earth, his admiration for his Father's "works of art" had become more empathetic.

He began to feel attachment, to forge strong bonds of companionship and friendship. Where his relationships were previously purely of a professional nature, one of superiors who acted as leaders and those who followed their orders, he had begun to sympathize with their pain. He would grieve (in his own way) when those closest to him did. He would offer a little smile when his friend laughed. He'd rest a hand on his shoulder in comfort when Dean seemed lost in despair. Despite the concerns that he'd grown too close to the humans he protected, and despite the fact that angels were not supposed to feel such strong emotions and ties with mankind, he began to learn how.

But that doesn't mean he was particularly good at it, either. Castiel is often at a loss as to how to properly behave in an emotionally charged situation. While he can comfort, it is limited -- He fails to lie to spare someone's feelings, only to fumble through an attempt far too late to be at all effective.

Castiel was one of the remaining angels directly involved in the lives of the Winchesters who still had faith that their Father had not abandoned them, seeking him out when all seemed lost and going at any length to find him to ask him to fight Lucifer. All of this to save Dean from the extraordinarily heavy burden on his shoulders as the 'Sword of Michael', or the Archangel Michael's vessel and to save the world from being burned to a cinder by Lucifer, knowing that it would mean pitting brother against brother.

Although eventually, he fell into despair and lost faith in God when his request for aid was refused as essentially 'not his problem', he went on a 'bender', turning to drink to drown away his frustration and feelings of betrayal and abandonment. It must have been the very thing that had caused so many of the other angels to despair and lose their way, resorting to bringing out the Apocalypse just because they were tired of caring for the world without God’s help.

Orders. Goals. He worked best under such conditions. Given a path and his renewed faith, he felt his resolve strengthen, giving him renewed confidence and patience. From this point in canon at the end of season 5, Castiel has renewed confidence and sense of mission, but has not yet returned to Heaven to see what this new sense of free will has done to it.

Powers & Abilities: NOTE: I realize he has a lot of potentially twinky powers. I am a firm believer of obtaining consent from players prior to using powers, because I'd rather have fun than 'win'. :3 And let's face it, Cas gets his ass beat on a regular basis.
  • Angel Cavity Search - More painful than it sounds, if you believe it. Castiel can shove his hand and forearm deep into a person's chest, lighting up what appears to be scattering vein-line paths of burning light just under the skin. This excruciating experience might cause permanent physical damage in some people. The results of this ability is being able to read someone's soul -- specifically if someone has a 'mark' on it (kind of like a deed, someone signed the soul to own it) or to detect if someone's soul is intact or even present. Alternatively, he can use this to touch the soul of a human being -- gingerly -- to siphon off some of it's pure energy. This is very dangerous and leaves both the angel and the human feeling frazzled after the painful, stressful process. (Perhaps touching a human soul is the only means for Castiel to regain full power on a very temporary basis, but he would hate doing this, as seen later in canon -- if he ever resorts to this, he would have no desire to attempt it a second time.)

  • Enhanced Senses - Angels are able to see things that are invisible to humans, such as Enochian sigils, Reapers and other things outside the range of human perception. In addition, Castiel can locate anyone not obfuscated from angelic sight as a sort of 'angelic GPS'. (Powered down, his 'angelic GPS' doesn't work. He must be present in order to sense anything.)

  • Enochian/Blood Magic - Banishing and Exorcising are more commonly used, as are Locating spells. Castiel can exorcise demons with a touch, although some are too powerful. The Banishing sigil works on angels, regardless of rank. In desperate times, he can even carve the sigil on his body and become a mobile banishing 'bomb' -- At the risk of banishing himself to some random location.  He can also create a warding sigil against angels, preventing any to enter where he's marked it in blood. (I sincerely doubt angels and demons will be something he runs into very often, so its likely never to come into play. I would say that banishing sigils for angels and exorcisms for demons are up to whomever might be affected by it and the same goes with locating spells. I suspect that if these are ever to be used in game, it would be player vs. player.)

  • Pyrokinesis/Incinerate - Not one to normally resort to such strictly destructive powers, Castiel does have the ability to set things ablaze with divine fire with a gesture, which seems to have the same effect as salting and burning something to destroy a demon or spirit. He can also extinguish flame... even a circle of Holy Fire, as long as he's outside of it. (This has been reduced to manipulating/starting small fires, like lighting torches or allowing someone to escape a burning building by lowering the intensity of fire in a doorway, or extinguishing a fireplace quickly.)

  • Increased Strength/Stamina - Castiel is stronger and more resilient than appearances would lead one to believe. He can easily pick up and throw a fully grown man, crush brick and mortar with a punch into a wall, etc. Normally, punching an angel is like punching an iron wall. In fact, you can quite clearly hear a clank if you attempt it, like Dean once did. Furthermore, as an angel, he does not require food, sleep or water to survive. Injury sustained by mundane (and even some supernatural) means have little effect on him, and wounds heal very quickly (for example, Castiel is stabbed in the heart and shot multiple times, and he simply looks amused). In addition, angels are immune to all diseases and plagues. Oddly, he is not completely immune to the effects of alcohol, but it seems to take as much alcohol as a liquor store contains to get him heavily intoxicated. (Immunity to disease and toxins are still in effect, and he still doesn't require food, sleep or drink to survive. However, he's not like hitting metal anymore.)

  • Invisibility - Just like it sounds. (Powered down, I suggest he becomes obfuscated... eyes tend to slide right over him as long as he doesn't do anything attention grabbing, like attack someone or climb a lamp post, or talk. Furthermore, any sounds he makes are muffled, his heat signatures are lessened, and any scent he gives off is muted. Instead of the all powerful invisibility, he's got a stealth mode.)

  • Lay On Hands - With a touch Castiel can heal, render unconscious, alter memories, carve Enochian sigils into bones or organs without damaging anything else... even resurrect a dead person to life. In addition, Castiel can self-heal instantly and restore his clothes to a pristine state. (He is permitted to perform minor miracles -- restoring his clothes to their original state, making broken glass whole again -- and his vessel remains in that eternal five-o'clock shadow state. His healing ability is slowed greatly; minor cuts and wounds heal instantly but otherwise he benefits only from an accelerated natural healing process. A broken leg would take a few weeks rather than a few months, for example. With player consent, he can alter memories or put to sleep, but he can no longer resurrect the dead to life again.)

  • Possession - An angel can possess a willing vessel, as long as they give their consent and as long as they have that special 'something' in their blood that makes them a suitable vessel (generally, it runs in the family). No angel, not even fallen angels like Lucifer, can possess an unwilling host. The experience of being possessed by an angel is reported by one as like 'being chained to a comet' and you can lose all sense of time. (It would be ill-advised for Castiel to leave his vessel, so I'm going to say that he cannot vacate his vessel at all... which in and of itself has very distressing implications.)

  • Salvation - Castiel can rescue humans from Hell, although it may leave a hand print seared into the skin where his hand 'gripped you tight and raised you from perdition'. It did not in the case of Sam Winchester, strangely. (Seeing as this is unlikely to ever come into in-game play, I don't think this one matters.)

  • Smite - Castiel can, with the touch of his hand, cause someone... or something (like a vampire or a demon) to burn from the inside out by planting his hand on their head as bright, burning light fires from their eyes, nose and mouth. The ranged version of this comes in the form of a bolt of lightning from the sky... even on a clear day. (I am open to suggestions on how to power this one down.)

  • Telepathy, Telekinesis, Teleportation (Time & Space) - Castiel is able to enter the dreams of humans and speak to other angels in Enochian, or to psychics telepathically. Angels can also implant visions into the mind of a prophet. He can also speak through EVP. Angels can move objects with their mind, and can increase their focus on even the most delicate manipulations of objects with a gesture. Lastly, Castiel can travel instantly to whatever location (in space or time) he desires as well as teleport someone else with a touch. (Teleportation through time should be only a means to go on hiatus, or it just doesn't work at all. Teleportation through space is limited to short distances, such as navigating through a building, limited to a few miles distance. Repeated teleportation to go across greater distances via shorter ones will prove to be exhausting, and after about a dozen attempts in a row, he will collapse from exhaustion until the next day.)

  • True Form - An angel's true form and voice is overwhelming at best, fatal at worst. It can instill fear, can burn out the eyes of those who look upon it or deafen with it's piercing quality, or kill mortals outright. There are some who are unaffected, however. Castiel's true visage is approximately the size of the Chrysler Building. He can apparently focus this into a destructive explosion of blueish white light from his hands, which can clear a room of living beings/monsters if they don't take care to shut their eyes. (Castiel cannot vacate his vessel at this time, so he will not be able to assume his true form unless someone else has the ability to force him to 'show his face' as Pamela the psychic did in canon. Lastly, the massively destructive area-of-effect ability is not available when powered down.)


    • Items on their Person:
    • Sword of Lucifer - The fancy name for that short-sword all angels come equipped with. The only blade that can kill another angel, and it can apparently kill other supernatural creatures as well... such as a Hellhound.

    • Jimmy's wedding band - Tucked away in his breast pocket, because it reminds him of what Jimmy sacrificed to be his vessel.

    • Aside from a cellphone and his attire, Castiel carries nothing else.

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