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NATHANIEL MURPHY, who strongly resembles JOEL KILLAMAN, has made Ceres Centropolis their home. They are a THIRTY-FOUR/AGELESS year old FALLEN ANGELand has been in the city for TEN YEARS. They have been known to have FALLEN ANGEL PHYSIOLOGY. They are known to be DOGGED & LOYAL and GRUFF & AGGRESSIVE.  If you’re lucky, you may catch them working at the POLICE STATION as a DETECTIVE.

i’m jenn. always tired. she/her.

IMPORTANT FACTS

Nate tries to keep his heritage well under wraps. Some fell out of sympathy, others out of empathy.  His excuse can’t be found in either, and certainly not in the idea of vengeance.  It came in slow, quiet decent after the first angels fell; it was a steady realisation that lightness was blinding without shadow beside it.  He stepped away from the pearly gates and the palaces on high in less than agreeable terms.  

Nate did not initially fall with Lucifer and the others that went with him. He remained in Heaven, known by the same name, as an archangel.  When he did finally step away from heaven, the process wasn’t without a trip to hell for a good batch of torment that was likely at the pleasure of both those he left, and those he didn’t initially join.  His fall has put him in an odd place, not excepted by either Heaven or Hell. 

Among the heavenly hosts, Nathaniel was a spirit of fire. Not necessarily a being of vengeance, he more specifically ruled over a very specific type of law, one that handled cause and effect, and even more pointedly, karma.

At this point, Nate might as well be the patron saint of alcohol and strippers. He has a tendency towards those who’ve been beaten by life, and the hand that a scornful god dealt them.

He doesn’t come off particularly well. He has a reputation, even among the detective’s offices for being particularly gruff and brash. The things that come out of his mouth are often inflammatory at best, and take little care for the emotions of those involved. His point is always a search for what’s solid truth.  It seems like, more often then not, the police department lets him out out of necessity, and begrudgingly at that.

POWERS: FALLEN ANGEL PHYSIOLOGY

ETERNAL LIFE

Living amoung the heavenly host, watching the path unfold, Nathaniel has been within his mind and existence since before the beginning, and Jesus Christ, is he tired of y'all. He’s going to keep living, even after he spent some lovely torment in hell, even after he’s been stuck on this Earth.

SUPERHUMAN BODY

Some strands of divinity tend to cling to fallen angels regardless of where they surface, embedded firmly in their souls.  Superhuman sensory, celerity, and healing aren’t unheard of. 

EVOCATION

Evocations take various form. As a previous angel of fire, Nathaniel’s evocations tends to bleed past light and into destructive, though he rarely makes use of them. It’s been a decade in the city, and he can’t remember any evocation he’s utilized besides the occasional scorching light across his mind to create a mental shield. Nate doesn’t like to utilize the vigor that’s clung to his body. He’s carried a long disdain for where he once sat and the powers that created him. Smokey, marred wings don’t make an appearance. He doesn’t smite. Beyond his own protection, and the occasional healing hand, Nate’s evocations are relatively abandoned; shadows of power he once wielded and left behind.  

PERSONALITY

ALOOF – Emotions are a general “no, fuck off”. If he’s learned nothing else, it’s that little good comes from attachment; and as a being that’s just going to keep on living, it’s best to let others go by the wayside.

CRITICAL – With the extra sensory his heritage has given him, it’s difficult not to pick up on details. It always feels like too much, more often hinting at the unsavoury edges of humanity as opposed to the moments of good. As a result, he’s jaded and bitter, fullfilling his archetype.

BRUTALLY HONEST – Put simply, lying is a pain in the ass. He isn’t honest out of altruism, only out of laziness and disinterest.

CREATIVE-MINDED – In another world, Nate would be a writer. He finds therapy in written word— in what he scratches onto paper. His home is haphazard at best, a decay memorial to a similarly matched man. Amoung it all, scribbled notes can be found. They’re a mix of musings from other lives and other worlds. It’s a mix of fiction and memory, all come together under then hand of a man who’s sipped one too many glasses of whiskey.

WEATHERED – The man is old. The man it really fucking old. Let him drink his alcohol, enjoy strippers, and half-heartedly find bad guys.

QUICK FACTS

he’s an istp and true neutral

his sense of humour is shitty af. lmao. it’s 90% making fun of people, and if he’s feeling gracious, he’ll mask it with a straight face and an even tone that makes sarcasm seem benign for a moment.

pansexual as hell

generally doesn’t enjoy interaction with other angels and/or demons. having been an archangel, his name is pretty recognizable, and he just doesn’t need to hear their shit. (and demons always talk mad shit)

despite how he might shrug it off, there is something undeniably altruistic about the way he tends to stick close to those in need.