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Player.

Name: Lily
Contact: [plurk.com profile] aeneia
Current Characters: N/A

Character.

Name: Angel the Siren.
Canon: Borderlands.
Canon Point: Where Angel's Fear to Tread.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s):

Ryslig, 7 months. City of Sin, 2 months.

Character History:
Angel | Additionally to this, as her page is very brief: Borderlands | Borderlands 2 | Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel


CRAU History:

RYSLIG - Angel lost her siren abilities, and instead became a fearsome minotaur. The physically strongest of all the monsters present, Angel gained an impossible ability to break through concrete, lift ten to twelve times her body weight, and above-average senses and speed that allowed to hear down to a heartbeat. Her transformation left her half animal, half girl, and like all the other monsters, with a desperate hunger to consume human flesh. But if it was supposed to make her free, having her Father present absolutely damned that hope to a desperate abyss. Despite having died, come back to life, turned from one mythical being into another, she was still trapped, and things just got worse until she finally murdered her father brutally, ran off into the forest and became a half-feral creature for a while that answered to no one and nothing, until her time ended in-game, and she finally started to feel like she owned herself.

City of Sin - When she arrived in this game, she was sans Jack and an infinitely content person because of it. Still a people-eating monster, but at least a happier one and she quickly got to doing everything she was allowed to while Jack wasn't there. She kissed boys and girls, drank, smoked, partied, explored alien planets, began development on her own weaponry, threw herself into every friendship with her whole entire heart, got herself an actual Boyfriend TM, became the left-hand leader of a gang and generally lived her life to the fullest for the first time ever. So that when Jack did turn up, despite her grief over it, she was more in control of her surroundings than she had at any other point in her life.

Personality: Angel is, first and foremost and to her great self-loathing, the daughter of Handsome Jack. To say Handsome Jack is a bad father is sort of like saying that the sun is hot, it gives you an idea of it, but hardly covers it. Their relationship is complicated as it is toxic. To that, she is her father's daughter. Angel in all her good and bad has been shaped by Jack. From a childhood where she loved her father to dying cursing him out, she developed coping mechanisms to deal with him - that was to become as manipulative, deceptive and cruel as he was. She gets people to trust her, follow her every order, then leaves them to die. In a world of so many shades of black and grey - she didn't think much about spying for her father, or worse. She's more than happy later on to use death threats and kill to get what she wants - using her abilities to cut off oxygen to the moon base on Elpis.

What aides that manipulation is Angel's intelligence, no matter the words Jack puts in her mouth, she is the one that manages to spin those tales believably. It because apart from sheer intellect ( quoted as having the brain the size of a planet at full power ), she's also very emotionally intelligent and with it, compassionate. She speaks warmly, affectionately and is genuinely kind when she's given leave too. She expresses concern frequently for things that most people in the world don't seem to care about - like the CL4P-TP robots, commonly commented on for being considered the most annoying things alive, Angel cares about them.

Due in part to the limited involvement she can take in any situation and having to use others as her proxy, she often prefers to work around problems than in out and out conflict when it can be avoided, and shows remarkable patience. Angel doesn't have Jack's temper, instead she keeps her head and assesses situations careful to the best possible outcome. She does what is best for her goals and the goals of the group. If that means killing, she doesn't even feel bad about it as being a necessity. When something is in her way, she gets it gone.

Underneath all that Angel is just a normal young woman who wants to do normal young woman things, most especially, have friends and to form real human connections of her own. Part of what makes her such a good manipulator there is that grain of truth to everything she says, she just want to be their friend and help protect those that she watches. After the abuses have begun to pile up and the emotional blackmail and manipulation and - well, drugging her to death, have finally become too much, that she seems to reach out more with them personally, showing her own opinions and quirks. You hear her be both genuinely excited and happy every time she speaks with the Vault Hunters, and to help them in whatever way she can. She becomes resentful of Jack, that she is being made to hurt and kill, just to serve his ends.

In choosing her own fate, she shows her own sheer strength of will and how far she's moved beyond Jack. For her it's not about giving up, but about choosing for herself, demanding better of herself than being complicit to his schemes. Even though the experience is clearly agonising for her, despite everything she must feel about Jack, she's gone past a point where he can emotionally touch her.

And you know, cursing out her dad, because fuck him.

CRAU Development: The biggest journey Angel has emotionally gone on between Canon and Now is learning to take self-ownership. It's been a bumpy road, and it hasn't always been one step forward all the time because Jack has bad habit of following her. In Ryslig, she had a learning curve that was steep in just being a human being that had to learn to walk again, then learn to be a monster, until she finally snapped and killed her father, instead of herself this time around. It was her first real and direct step to taking charge of her own life.

It continued in City of Sin, where for the first time, for a long while, she was without Jack. Free to talk to who she liked, do as she pleased, make her own fate, she went a little bit crazy with it all. She's dealt with the consequences of it all, too. After all, becoming a minotaur has its definite downsides, like really wanting to eat people, which she took her first big steps forward about learning to manage her guilt and inability to control what she is with her own measures, instead of just feeling helpless. As well as that, she possesses a deep and terrible rage, that for a person so absolute in controlling her emotional reactions in order to protect herself, it often takes her by surprise. The depth and the intensity of it is almost always absolute. Get her angry enough, and she will destroy everything in her path, she can, after all, kick through walls. It's been a very long process to forgive herself, and in turn let other people in to the parts of her that she likes the least, and to take happiness with both her hands, but she is learning to do it for the first time in her life.

Powers/Abilities: All her extra powers from being a minotaur + her remaining cybernetics are here. She has no Siren abilities after Ryslig.

Ryslig has three forms to the transformation, one is a baseline, very minimal, mostly human with some strange traits, the second is a "fog" form, where they truly become half-human, half-monster, the third is their "beast" form, where they become completely an animal. I've detailed all her powers in this post here.

As well as this, Angel is from Space Future and was a tech whiz and has some very basic features that still work inside her head that can be plugged into. She can't do it all with her mind powers anymore, she lost the siren ability, but she still knows how to build a lot of things and knows the ins and outs of programming even very difficult stuff like a pro.

Inventory:
- Clothes on her body.
- The two prototype guns that she built, one is a pistol that shoots fire, one is a SMG that shoots electricity.
- A pearlescent shell, that comes from the minions of the Elder God, Cthulu. ( Nothing special about it, just pretty ).

Anything Else? I want to make sure you know I have no interest in breaking the game so any way you feel like you need to nerf her, I am happy to work with.

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