Neru

the ash on his face

the mark left behind by his scarf

3. his noticeably shinier eyes compared to his base + other skins

3. his arm muscles 🥺

4. the scars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love this guy

HOLY SHIT

2 of them (sion and ashe) are mechanical, manmade. there is a white hair motif and they're skin, not feathers.

1 of them (senna) just has an angel heart (for some reason). so her design isnt angelic at all. disregarding entirely. (sorry senna)

that leaves us with irelia and varus being the only 'true angels.'

irelia has no feathers on her except like, one in her hair. (which is prolly just stuck in there) and her wings. she's got a bit of gold markings on one hand and some hellish markings on the other, bc she's tainted by the darkness. other than that she's just skin. (i guess you COULD argue that she like... lost all her feathers... but her wings only turned dark, not fell off. and the feather in her hair is still gold)

varus has a feathery ass arm on one side of his body. other than that, he's just skin too.

and then, there's talon, who's not an angel but instead a demon infected with angel blood. and he's ALSO got feathers literally growing up his body/prolly inside him too.

so my big question is like: WHY ARE SOME OF THEM FEATHERY. are they supposed to be all feathers like a body horror angel?

as of typing this post out i dont really think so. varus was killed by talon (and came back). i think my hc explanation is that feathers on the body (not wings) act as like, a cocoon or scab, something that will eventually slough off and reveal like, normal ass angel skin underneath.

reasoning being:

mechanical angels that people built dont have lots of feathers. ofc you can argue a lack of resources but you can also argue that humans tried to make a mechanical angel that looked like the angels they historically killed.

varus was killed by talon. going with my theory, maybe his wound was via his (now feathered) arm. maybe he got cut up, or it got torn off, or he bled out in the desert. and after coming back to life his arm has to recover and go through this weird molting process.

talon's transformation could be angel blood trying to 'fix him.' as he's already partially changing, though for him it might be super duper painful and potentially life threatening. demon/devil (yeah i kno they're different) skin is specifically like, smoky, got a miasma over it. and talon is not entirely that. i think eventually he might scratch the feathers off, bloody, and discover 'ugly soft skin' underneath.