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Day 17 What's your character's desk/workspace look like? Are they neat or messy?

"When I was a soldier, I worked wherever the host sent me, so all of Father's creation could - in some way - become my workspace... As long as I did not over-extend my grace, I could move through multiple dimensions of time and space...

"It came with being a multidimensional wavelength myself. Upon receiving revelation, I would move to expend my grace, carry out what I believed to be God's work, and then go about replenishing said grace. Rinse and repeat.

"I'd like to think I was as neat or messy as was... required. Now, it's good enough to me to be relatively clean, if not still pure, but... The thing is, I... made a mess of so many things. I tried to enforce order upon the world, to neaten it, when I proclaimed myself the new God.

"It's not about cleaning up messes so much as it is about doing what is right... At least, that's what humanity is teaching me."

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Day 16 Are there any blood relatives that your character is particularly close with, besides the immediate ones? Cousins, Uncles, Grandfathers, Aunts, et cetera. Are there any others that your character practically considers a blood relative?

"I'm an angel. All angels are, I suppose... siblings, but we are not related by blood.

"Technically, we don't have blood at all unless we are granted permission by a living human to use their body as a vessel. Once we take over, that vessel becomes imbued with our grace. If the two are incompatible, the human will eventually... break down, their body unable to contain the angel any longer.

"Compatibility is determined through what might be considered 'angelic bloodlines,' which can be traced back to the first humans... Jimmy Novak, for example, is of my bloodline. That is to say, under normal circumstances, no harm will come to his body in containing my grace.

"Were another angel to possess him...

"...I don't have blood relatives. In terms of cousins, uncles... relatives though, I do consider Anna my closest elder sister. All those in my garrison, I consider my 'immediate' family: Rachel, Balthazar, Hester, Inias... Even Uriel, who was an assbutt.

"The archangels are... bigger assbutt brothers I sometimes wish I never had... And the rest of the angels, outside of the garrison, are more akin to distant relatives. Almost strangers.

"We all know of one another, but... I can... barely tell one cupid apart from the next."

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Day 15 Is your character an early morning bird or a night owl?

"These terms... I have come across them before. But what type of bird is an 'early morning bird...' Or is a 'night owl' not a bird at all? Human terms can be so confusing."

ooc: baby bird doesn't need to sleep when he's all graced-up; when he's human he doesn't know when to stop so he just sleeps whenever he gets dead tired.

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Day 14 How does your character react to temperature changes such as extreme heat and cold?

"As an angel, I note the differences, but temperature changes don't affect me greatly. I feel them as energy filtered through the barrier that is my vessel and into my true form, which has its own changeable temperature that's based on how I use my grace... 

"I do however react more strongly towards temperature changes when I am... out of juice.

"The trench coat is ridiculously warm at times, but otherwise a very good thing to have when it is cold... and dark... and wet..."

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Day 13 What does your character's bed look like when he/she wakes up? Are the covers off on one side of the bed, are they all curled around a pillow, sprawled everywhere? In what position might they sleep?

"Um...

"Sleep is difficult. I feel I should be familiar with it by now, with no shortage of dreams - mostly nightmares - that form when I inevitably fall asleep. But it's still... disconcerting to lose sense of time and consciousness. To wake up cold and wonder why the blankets have gone down past my waist. Or where I am. What time of day...

"When I wake up on a bed, the wrinkled sheets usually suggests that I have slept uncomfortably. The covers would often be kicked down when I am unaware, and I my head may not actually stay on the pillow.

"However, I tend to curl up in my trench coat and pull it up close. I suspect that if I only use it as a blanket without wearing it, it would be kicked down though. The coat is also especially useful when I end up sleeping without a bed."

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Day 12 How is your character with technology? Super savvy, or way behind the times? Letters or email?

"I think I had only managed to grow familiar with my cellphone before the global telecommunications network shut down."

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Day 11 Is there an animal you equate with your character?

"I am particularly partial to bees.

"They're very hard working. And team players. Dutiful and uncomplicated. When threatened, they give their all to neutralize perceived dangers - to the point of self-sacrifice. Why? I cannot begin to guess, but when I look at bees, I think, There, it's possible. The way hives are run, they're small, concentrated and idealized versions of different fractions within the Host.

"How do they run so smoothly, bees...?

"Sometimes, I think I would give anything to live like them. Know my place, my purpose, and simply achieve the work I was meant to achieve.

"But life is not so simple. If it ever had been, I think I might begin to understand why Father might have left... Because while I sometimes long for the simpler days, my world has become bigger than a single hive, and I can't go back. Everything's changed.

"But I do admire bees and their direction, their tireless dedication to their work... They also serve as a clear warning that there is danger in single-mindedness, to others as well as to yourself."

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Day 10 Can you define a turning point in your character's life? Multiples are acceptable.

"I have experienced many a turning point since I raised Dean from perdition. Those points have been recorded in the Winchester Gospels, and worded in more accessible English that I don't feel the need to repeat.

"Beyond Chuck Shurley's records, I have been changed upon meeting meeting various people:

"The vampire Jessica... Her blood introduced physical desire. Urges for sexual intimacy that I barely managed to hold back from for months until the second time I stayed at Anna and Nathaniel's camp.

"Anna's forgiveness and Nathaniel's acceptance - their love was unexpected and overwhelming, rekindling hope in me when I was lost in self-doubt and paralyzing guilt. They took care of me where I could barely take care of myself, without asking for anything in return and knowing that I would leave them to find the Winchesters once my resolve grew strong enough. There was a time when the Host felt as safe and good to me, but now the past is colored with doubt while my time with these fellow angels showed me that we could still have all that without agenda.

"When I reached camp, I was still convinced that I would have to continue alone. I avoided the Winchesters as best I could while trying to help their camp where I could be of most use. That was where Inias came up to me, begging for the forgiveness that I myself had been subconsciously seeking. Through him, I realized that I wasn't the only guilt-ridden angel seeking some form of redemption. While I saw myself as unworthy, he still saw enough in me to consider me part of his garrison. Which is as good as knowing that regardless of what you have done, some part of your estranged but beloved family still considers you one of their own. That they may share your hopes and fears and possibly even understand them...

"The incident with Lucifer... I know it triggered an aethyr in me. An confusing, exhilarating thing that I barely understand. It too has changed something inside of me. In the past, as I wandered through the palace of my mind, I come across sealed doors with rusted locks, deformed knobs and melted hinges.

"They are crumbling, like some sort of wall coming down... I keep hearing the voice of a sister ordering me to destroy, to kill. I keep hearing another voice - a new voice - telling me to 'come away'...

"God knows where, I hope."

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