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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Castiel
Character Age: While no canon specific age is stated it's remarked upon by Castiel when speaking of his history that he'd been alive long before humans occupied the planet. Given that, it's safe to say that Castiel is anywhere from several thousand to several million years old. He's older then the sun and earth and his species took precedence canonically before mortal life ever did. This being said his vessel and the man that he hosts, Jimmy Novak, is in his late thirties to early forties and this is the appearance he will be taking in the game.
Character Species: Angel / Seraph
Current Health: Not great, with his grace diminished and without a long-term fix he's looking at an inevitable death. This makes him weaker than usual, and sick and vulnerable despite what would often be otherwise.
Outfit: Tan trenchcoat over a white dress shirt, no tie, over black slacks, and boots. As well as his angel blade.

Character Canon: Supernatural
Link to History: HERE
Canon Iteration: 9x23: Do You Believe in Miracles?

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills:

Occult Magic ; While some spells that he's used have originated from heaven, not all of them are tethered to his celestial background and his knowledge of the full scope of them and the practical application of the artform have grown over time.
Hunting Skills ; Due to his time spent with the Winchesters, Castiel acquired a basic level of hunting knowledge and skill such as using devil's traps to contain demons he captures and on a few occasions, using fake IDs convincingly enough to fool law enforcement in a similar manner to a hunter. However, the latter is a skill that takes him some time to master. Eventually, he became good enough to successfully wield the weapons used by hunters against supernatural creatures with a full understanding of their properties, and could also successfully figure out a monster based on their pattern and became an expert marksman of using weapons. He can also successfully operate a motor vehicle, though he remains unlicensed.
Reference Download ; in the episode, "Do You Believe in Miracles?" Metatron downloads all of the fictional and story-driven data humanity has ever been responsible for. Every TV show, novel, film, comic book, etc that has ever existed up until 2014 is in his repertoire to pull from where there had previously been very little knowledge of humans and their media-based art forms.

Canon Abilities:

Castiel's abilities are as follows. In terms of capabilities, his reach will be limited to the location he's bound in. He will not be able to see, fly, or move past the barriers that are there. The rest of the abilities will be nerfed or adjusted so as not to be game-breaking.

Angels in Supernatural canon vary as far as abilities and strength are concerned, Castiel, however, has been spoken of often as a lower-tier or division angel, and therefore his powers aren’t as considerable as the alleged four archangels and the prowess that they show canonically. All angels are required to have the consent of their vessel before using and possessing them and all vessels are designed well beforehand and born through blood and breeding.

• Castiel’s true form is the size of the Chrysler building, roughly, as spoken by him in canon.
• Angels have the ability to raise the dead, heal, exorcise demons, and transport people from one place to another by touch alone. They have also been known to ward charges against evil or others of their kind through a touch (as proven by Castiel and the Enochian sigils that he carved into the ribs of Dean and Sam simply by reaching out and pushing his palm against their chest.)
• They’re highly durable while in their vessels and are impervious to all human weapons. They can only be killed by another of their kind or with an angelic sword.
• Angels can warp time and transport or move within the future or the past. Castiel can do this but it exhausts him and leaves him unable to do much more after the fact, winded and in pain.
• Angels have an ability called Angel Radio wired directly into their genetic makeup. It consists mostly of other angels speaking Enochian (their native tongue) on the same frequency and it can even key into mortal prayer as well.
• Castiel seems to gain power when weak by touching the soul of another person, he can also see their souls when doing this and can sense their strength and/or vulnerability.
• Angels can literally fly from place to place with such intricate velocity that it’s unable to be seen by human eyes. It’s keyed into their wings (Castiel’s which he’s shown twice in canon) and allows them to move from one place to another within seconds and is seen by most of humanity as teleporting and teleportation. They appear in whatever place they’re needed with nothing but a flutter of wings. As spoken of above, angels can also do the same with other people by pressing two fingers into their temple and carrying them along with them on their journey.
• Angels have no need to rest, use the bathroom, eat, drink, or bathe. They can simply will themselves clean and it’s as if time has stopped for their vessels in question. They don’t age and it takes very much to kill them or make their powers dwindle.
• Their senses are also very keen. They’re able to pick up on other creatures immediately and can sense an entire area, sometimes further, for the sole being, they're looking for searching with mostly their mind and the power that is on their faculty.
• All of this ties into their grace, which is essentially what makes them angelic and keeps them as strong as they are. When their grace has expired, or they have willingly given it up, they’re little more than mortals but incredibly aged beings in the body of whichever vessel that they’re inhabiting.

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Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes:
Two Sets of wings, trimmed in gold with eyes to match between the marginal and secondary coverts.

These wings while being physical in nature now and not just in liminal space or a manifestation that he can will others to perceive will be a constant source of frustration for him to navigate until he learns to do with them what he does with his own wings putting them in a realm less than physical and therefore not immediately connected to his person.
Role Reasoning:
Since Castiel's constant grapple in the series is with what and who he is, and how he identifies with all of that he falls most easily into Legend with a slight leaning at any given moment to Myth. His full potential is tied into his role as a seraph and his responsibility to the host. Every uninformed decision he's ever made has had to do with his self-imbued sense of loyalty to heaven and its machinations. Castiel spends the better part of his life on earth trying to make amends for choices he'd thought would help the state of unrest he'd left his home in when he'd chosen to abandon the ill-conceived plan of starting the apocalypse. It's the core of his character and acts as an opposition to his relationship with the Winchesters and his loyalty to humanity as a whole.

★ Personality ★

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not?

Castiel is constantly grappling with who he is in the grand scheme of things now that he's no longer part of the garrison and what he used to call home. His loyalty is to humans and mankind, and while he doesn't regret this he does regret some of his failed attempts to do the right thing. He holds his losses heavily against himself and carries more blame than the average being might - his track record withstanding.

He's killed brothers, subverted an apocalypse led by agents of heaven, and openly defied "fate," he's hunted for it and has been considered a traitor for the choice of free will. In doing so, he has to reckon with emotions and the maelstrom of feeling.

His doubts, his concerns, and even his desires are something he typically tries to contain being an agent of God and therefore focused on long-term solutions and the overall outcome of his choices. He's come to regard Dean and Sam Winchester as his family, instead of the heavenly host, and is still learning how to occupy the same space as so many different and more vulnerable beings. His understanding of humanity is more of a studious comprehension and time and time again he's had to readjust beliefs he'd otherwise held due to lack of exposure.

In canon, up to his current point, he has spent most of his time trying to right wrongs that he's responsible for and fix the collateral damage brought on by his choices. Time doesn't move the same for him, and he's aware of multiple realities, timelines, and to some degree string theory and its applications. He's been unmade more than once and indoctrinated to suit heaven's purposes and his choice of free will has made him feel like an open wound raw and unprotected.

In a sense, all of Castiel's core ambitions, how he perceives himself, and how he copes with feeling and the human condition are all things he keeps buried and under lock and key. His sense of morality is subjective and quite often he defaults to the soldier precept and uses it to mask what he can't readily reason with. A creature of habit more than anything, having spent millennia one way in the face of his constant chaos remaining at a neutral stance is most comforting to him.

If you could give your character a Taylor Swift playlist, which songs would be on it and what would they represent about your character?

01. The Lakes : His struggle with God being absent, and the structures of heaven deteriorating. Finding solace in humanity in the maelstrom of that and his choice to abandon his post.
02. State of Grace : His stint with his grace being taken and the host being ejected from heaven because of Metatron's manipulation. Being rendered little more than human and having to live on the lam and hide from fellow fallen angels and Metatron's agents.
03. Soon You'll Get Better : After taking on the damage he'd been responsible for in Sam's subconscious, broken and with the burden of the same instability. Left behind by the Winchesters in Meg's care at the psychiatric ward at the Northern Indiana State Hospital.
04. Ivy : Being in love with Dean.
05. Happiness : His reindoctrination and subsequent blackmail at the hands of Naomi and the things he did while being marionetted without his knowledge.
06. Epiphany : His relationship overall with the Winchesters and his tendency to put their needs before his own regularly.

Which Taylor Swift era is your character going through right now and why?
In the median between Speak Now and Red Castiel is at an impasse between innocence and understanding and dealing with the weight of the world and his role in it. He's no longer hopeful of his father's involvement or dependent on a "bigger plan," and is moving through the world making calculated choices to remain loyal to those that matter and fix the aftermath of his own naivety. Castiel is coming into his own, finding his own motivations and alignment despite Noami's cloying torment, and the lives he's taken by believing in paradise. His dalliance with the Leviathan and the damage he'd sustained making choices at the expense of himself are things he's learned from and knowledge he's taken with him into an understanding that not everything fixed or helped. Sometimes people do the best they can with what they're given and that effort is to be commended.

What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it?
Choosing Freedom — His choice to defy orders, to fight alongside the Winchesters for humanity was the first decision he'd ever made that was solely his own. Up until that choice, he'd been a creature of design created to carry out tasks, a being of subservience.

After his rebellion, he was forced to navigate the human world and considered a traitor by his brothers and the host. More time spent among humanity, alongside the Winchesters, and their plight ultimately meant experiencing and having to contend with emotion.

That choice being what it was, and his inexperience with being in control of his own fate created a series of events that snowballed into decisions like working with Crowley to find souls for heaven and retrieving Sam from hell without his soul.

The residual effects of having free will have been difficult for him to reconcile. “Now I realize that there is no righteous path, it’s just people trying to do their best in a world where it is far too easy to do your worst.”

Purgatory and penance both played a huge part in his awareness of his own independence and how choices even made with good intentions can still have unintended repercussions. In choosing freedom he's had to apply his life to that uncertainty and continue forward despite nothing being guaranteed or preordained.

★ Player Information ★

Player Name: Noodle
Pronouns: She/Her
Are you over 18?: Yes
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