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OVER 18? yes.
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: ye xiu | the king's avatar.
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Sariel.
CANON: Granblue Fantasy.
CANON POINT: What Makes the Sky Blue: 000 - Ending.
AGE: Unknown; roughly ~2000 years.
BACKGROUND: SARIEL | IMPORTANT FLOWCHART
More seriously now:
Long ago, the Creator - the Omnipotent, God - split into two beings as a result of its creations (Skydwellers) rebelling against who created them; one governed the Sky Realm, while the other governed the stars. The latter half eventually created beings called the Astrals, an ancient civilization known for their otherworldly knowledge, capable of forging powerful beasts (Primals) that serve to regulate the world.
Sariel's story dates over two thousand years in the past. He was created by the Astral researcher named Lucilius, rigged with a limiter that obstructed his mental capacity to have a full-fledged personality and intelligence. It was mostly out of the Astrals' fear of Lucilius most perfect creation, Lucifer, the Supreme Primarch, that angels like Sariel from the third generation onwards were limited as such. Known as the Angel of Execution, he was perceived as everything that came with his purpose; an existence to be feared, capable of sending shudders down both his enemies and allies' spines.
His feelings on the matter, however, were opposite to what many think of him, and it was with this opportunity and reveal that a fellow superior Primal Beast, Belial, offers to save Sariel from a lifetime in a job that he wasn't happy with. From then on, he worked under Lucilius (and by extension Belial himself) as a fallen angel, doing jobs much more suited for his personality - although this peaceful existence wasn't something that lasted.
Eventually, all thanks to Belial's serpent tongue, both he and Lucilius were able to spur the fallen angels into rebelling against the Astrals. The rebellion was rigged to fail from the very beginning; a false grandeur meant to hide Lucilius' true objective all along - to gather as many of the primal beasts' cores in order to create a monster powerful enough to destroy the world he grew bored of overseeing.
When Sariel shows up in What Makes the Sky Blue: 000, his core has been tainted with dark energy that essentially rendered him into a powerful, mindless weapon. He fights against his former ally, Uriel, and loses two of his wings in the midst of it. The dark energy's control wavers during their fight too, enough that Sariel is able to ask for eternal death - and yet before a finishing blow can be delivered, he's transported by Beelzebub so that he can be used as a meatshield against Belial.
It's during the fight against Beelzebub that Belial manages to break through to him - mostly by tugging at one of Sariel's most cherished memories, where the pair spent countless hours watching ants together - and he regains control over himself just in time to get stabbed along with Belial himself. Not that Sariel cares much about being used as a sacrificial pawn; in fact, he even urges Belial to use him as a shield so that he can escape - an offer Belial is too eager to take advantage of, seeing it as an opportunity to rip off Sariel's wings so that he can find out what a tainted core tastes like. (This jerk.) Sariel likely passes out both from the shock over Belial's betrayal and from the extent of his injuries.
The next time he wakes up, he's under the care of Uriel and Raphael, where Raphael explains that Uriel begged him to help heal Sariel's wounds so that they could finish their fight. The two of them are puzzled by Sariel's condition, stating that his wounds looked fatal but were actually not as bad as they could be. In fact, the blow was aimed just right so that it destroyed Sariel's tainted core. This revelation confuses the heck out of Sariel, wondering if this is Belial's way of telling him that he should live for himself, rather than as a tool meant to do other's biddings.
... Not that he gets that far with his own thoughts. An ant distracts him, and that's the end of that.
PERSONALITY:
I want to be an ant... A soldier ant who can fight without thinking at all.
As the Angel of Execution, Sariel lives up to his name in every shape and form. He's a terrifying existence with abnormal prowess, fighting every and any enemy he is pointed at with his scythe without mercy, without anything holding him back, without a single thought in his mind. He does his job and does it well; even Uriel, one of the four Primarchs in charge of regulating the elements of the Sky Realm, admits that only Sariel is capable of keeping him on his toes. There's very little (ie: nothing at all) that's capable of standing in his way. As long as the job needs to be done, Sariel will do everything in his power (if not even beyond it) to make it happen - even if it means losing fifty percent of his own body.
At least, that's how it all looks on the surface.
Many would easily see Sariel as someone who lacks empathy, if his title and job are anything to go by, if there's anything they can understand from his quiet personality. However, this couldn't be further away from the truth, and the truth itself is barely hidden under several layers of anything. It's all thanks to a limiter provided to the third generation of Archangels (due to the Astrals' fear of the Supreme Primarch Lucifer's power) that Sariel finds himself lacking in two important things - a fleshed out sense of identity and an intelligence that wasn't hindered by anything. His idea of who he is, it's very much tied to his role as the Angel of Execution; anything beyond that is simply not something he is truly aware of. Additionally, although he can communicate like any other, he does it poorly and does it in such a way that many would think he's a little bit slow. He speaks as though he were a child, in simplistic words and sentences that he keeps to a minimum and rarely carries a conversation himself.
I see... That's why I'm so bad at conversation. I didn't need any of it... Not the half-baked intellect, or the crude sense of self.
In his own words, he admits that intelligence and a sense of identity aren't things that an executioner like himself needs to function. As long as he's able to shut down his mind and swing his scythe, then it'd be enough. It would be much better, actually, if he didn't have to think at all while he's out on the battlefield. Much like the soldier ants he adores so much, who think of nothing while performing its duties. All because above everything else, despite the terrifying nature of his role, Sariel is someone who is kind, someone who quietly confesses that hurting others brings him pain. He's someone who would never hurt a fly if he had it his way, if he were ever capable of rebelling against the purpose he was created for.
That confession is what opens the door to abandoning his former job and joining the fallen angels' ranks. Belial sings promises to tasks that accommodate Sariel's personality more, jobs that won't likely require the use of his strength to hurt anyone, regardless of whether they're ally or foe. It might either be due to his limiter incapacitating further development of his brain, or it might be solely because Sariel's nature is naive in itself, that makes him believe those words spoken to him wholeheartedly.
Primal Beasts were always tools... Sentience was an inconvenient by-product of our creation. But the Deputy Head never treated me as a tool. He gave me assignments suited to my personality rather than my abilities.
Sariel is loyal to Belial no matter what. Later on in What Makes the Sky Blue: 000, it's shown that said loyalty is less blind and more genuine than previously thought, because when our motley crew of heroes tells Sariel that he's being used and taken advantage of, Sariel admits that doesn't care about whether Belial has been using him as a sacrificial pawn or not. His reasoning is painfully simple too: Belial has assigned him jobs that catered to his personality rather than his skills, and that Primal Beasts like himself have always been tools to begin with so he doesn't mind being used as such. When he remarks that Belial never saw him as a tool and that he treated him like he mattered, those actions were enough for Sariel to be willing to give up his own life to protect Belial despite being aware of the true nature of their relationship.
This genuine loyalty, no matter how misguided it is, is what contributes to Sariel's innocent nature, and perhaps it makes him far too naive for his own good, but that's fine with him. At the end of the day, he is nothing like what many would first think of him; possibly the perfect representation of that saying, never judge a book by its cover. While he is strong and capable enough to take down a horde of enemies, this executioner would much rather spend his days watching ants live out their simplistic lives. He possesses a simple heart and humble wishes, and perhaps a hidden desire to be more than just a tool for his superiors to use as they wish, disregarding completely the feelings he has trouble expressing.
POWERS/ABILITIES: SUMMON WIKI
As the archangel of execution, Sariel possesses terrifying power and strength - capable enough to rival the strongest Primarchs out of them all. His elemental affiliation is darkness so he's able to deal out massive dark damage to his foes. He is equally experienced in both war and combat, with the scythe as his main weapon of choice. Truly a harbinger of death. Perhaps the scariest thing about him is the fact that even if it seems like he's on the losing end of things (ie: missing about fifty percent of his body), he'll keep fighting and even succeed until the bitter end.
If you need anything to be buried (as Sariel likes to call it), he's the guy you call even if he isn't going to enjoy doing it... Oops.
Other notable skills are the same ones other archangels possess: he's capable of flight despite only having one wing (although I'm okay with removing this entirely since it's his summon that shows the wing...); he's an immortal and therefore cannot die as long as his core remains intact; he's capable of regeneration, the speed of which is dictated by the extent of his injuries (if he's missing more than fifty percent of his body, it's going to much slower).
INVENTORY:
☆ a black feather
☆ his scythe
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis.
▶ SAMPLES
TOPLEVEL @ TDM | please let me know if this isn't enough!
HANDLE: wren!
CONTACT:
OVER 18? yes.
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: ye xiu | the king's avatar.
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Sariel.
CANON: Granblue Fantasy.
CANON POINT: What Makes the Sky Blue: 000 - Ending.
AGE: Unknown; roughly ~2000 years.
BACKGROUND: SARIEL | IMPORTANT FLOWCHART
More seriously now:
Long ago, the Creator - the Omnipotent, God - split into two beings as a result of its creations (Skydwellers) rebelling against who created them; one governed the Sky Realm, while the other governed the stars. The latter half eventually created beings called the Astrals, an ancient civilization known for their otherworldly knowledge, capable of forging powerful beasts (Primals) that serve to regulate the world.
Sariel's story dates over two thousand years in the past. He was created by the Astral researcher named Lucilius, rigged with a limiter that obstructed his mental capacity to have a full-fledged personality and intelligence. It was mostly out of the Astrals' fear of Lucilius most perfect creation, Lucifer, the Supreme Primarch, that angels like Sariel from the third generation onwards were limited as such. Known as the Angel of Execution, he was perceived as everything that came with his purpose; an existence to be feared, capable of sending shudders down both his enemies and allies' spines.
His feelings on the matter, however, were opposite to what many think of him, and it was with this opportunity and reveal that a fellow superior Primal Beast, Belial, offers to save Sariel from a lifetime in a job that he wasn't happy with. From then on, he worked under Lucilius (and by extension Belial himself) as a fallen angel, doing jobs much more suited for his personality - although this peaceful existence wasn't something that lasted.
Eventually, all thanks to Belial's serpent tongue, both he and Lucilius were able to spur the fallen angels into rebelling against the Astrals. The rebellion was rigged to fail from the very beginning; a false grandeur meant to hide Lucilius' true objective all along - to gather as many of the primal beasts' cores in order to create a monster powerful enough to destroy the world he grew bored of overseeing.
When Sariel shows up in What Makes the Sky Blue: 000, his core has been tainted with dark energy that essentially rendered him into a powerful, mindless weapon. He fights against his former ally, Uriel, and loses two of his wings in the midst of it. The dark energy's control wavers during their fight too, enough that Sariel is able to ask for eternal death - and yet before a finishing blow can be delivered, he's transported by Beelzebub so that he can be used as a meatshield against Belial.
It's during the fight against Beelzebub that Belial manages to break through to him - mostly by tugging at one of Sariel's most cherished memories, where the pair spent countless hours watching ants together - and he regains control over himself just in time to get stabbed along with Belial himself. Not that Sariel cares much about being used as a sacrificial pawn; in fact, he even urges Belial to use him as a shield so that he can escape - an offer Belial is too eager to take advantage of, seeing it as an opportunity to rip off Sariel's wings so that he can find out what a tainted core tastes like. (This jerk.) Sariel likely passes out both from the shock over Belial's betrayal and from the extent of his injuries.
The next time he wakes up, he's under the care of Uriel and Raphael, where Raphael explains that Uriel begged him to help heal Sariel's wounds so that they could finish their fight. The two of them are puzzled by Sariel's condition, stating that his wounds looked fatal but were actually not as bad as they could be. In fact, the blow was aimed just right so that it destroyed Sariel's tainted core. This revelation confuses the heck out of Sariel, wondering if this is Belial's way of telling him that he should live for himself, rather than as a tool meant to do other's biddings.
... Not that he gets that far with his own thoughts. An ant distracts him, and that's the end of that.
PERSONALITY:
I want to be an ant... A soldier ant who can fight without thinking at all.
As the Angel of Execution, Sariel lives up to his name in every shape and form. He's a terrifying existence with abnormal prowess, fighting every and any enemy he is pointed at with his scythe without mercy, without anything holding him back, without a single thought in his mind. He does his job and does it well; even Uriel, one of the four Primarchs in charge of regulating the elements of the Sky Realm, admits that only Sariel is capable of keeping him on his toes. There's very little (ie: nothing at all) that's capable of standing in his way. As long as the job needs to be done, Sariel will do everything in his power (if not even beyond it) to make it happen - even if it means losing fifty percent of his own body.
At least, that's how it all looks on the surface.
Many would easily see Sariel as someone who lacks empathy, if his title and job are anything to go by, if there's anything they can understand from his quiet personality. However, this couldn't be further away from the truth, and the truth itself is barely hidden under several layers of anything. It's all thanks to a limiter provided to the third generation of Archangels (due to the Astrals' fear of the Supreme Primarch Lucifer's power) that Sariel finds himself lacking in two important things - a fleshed out sense of identity and an intelligence that wasn't hindered by anything. His idea of who he is, it's very much tied to his role as the Angel of Execution; anything beyond that is simply not something he is truly aware of. Additionally, although he can communicate like any other, he does it poorly and does it in such a way that many would think he's a little bit slow. He speaks as though he were a child, in simplistic words and sentences that he keeps to a minimum and rarely carries a conversation himself.
I see... That's why I'm so bad at conversation. I didn't need any of it... Not the half-baked intellect, or the crude sense of self.
In his own words, he admits that intelligence and a sense of identity aren't things that an executioner like himself needs to function. As long as he's able to shut down his mind and swing his scythe, then it'd be enough. It would be much better, actually, if he didn't have to think at all while he's out on the battlefield. Much like the soldier ants he adores so much, who think of nothing while performing its duties. All because above everything else, despite the terrifying nature of his role, Sariel is someone who is kind, someone who quietly confesses that hurting others brings him pain. He's someone who would never hurt a fly if he had it his way, if he were ever capable of rebelling against the purpose he was created for.
That confession is what opens the door to abandoning his former job and joining the fallen angels' ranks. Belial sings promises to tasks that accommodate Sariel's personality more, jobs that won't likely require the use of his strength to hurt anyone, regardless of whether they're ally or foe. It might either be due to his limiter incapacitating further development of his brain, or it might be solely because Sariel's nature is naive in itself, that makes him believe those words spoken to him wholeheartedly.
Primal Beasts were always tools... Sentience was an inconvenient by-product of our creation. But the Deputy Head never treated me as a tool. He gave me assignments suited to my personality rather than my abilities.
Sariel is loyal to Belial no matter what. Later on in What Makes the Sky Blue: 000, it's shown that said loyalty is less blind and more genuine than previously thought, because when our motley crew of heroes tells Sariel that he's being used and taken advantage of, Sariel admits that doesn't care about whether Belial has been using him as a sacrificial pawn or not. His reasoning is painfully simple too: Belial has assigned him jobs that catered to his personality rather than his skills, and that Primal Beasts like himself have always been tools to begin with so he doesn't mind being used as such. When he remarks that Belial never saw him as a tool and that he treated him like he mattered, those actions were enough for Sariel to be willing to give up his own life to protect Belial despite being aware of the true nature of their relationship.
This genuine loyalty, no matter how misguided it is, is what contributes to Sariel's innocent nature, and perhaps it makes him far too naive for his own good, but that's fine with him. At the end of the day, he is nothing like what many would first think of him; possibly the perfect representation of that saying, never judge a book by its cover. While he is strong and capable enough to take down a horde of enemies, this executioner would much rather spend his days watching ants live out their simplistic lives. He possesses a simple heart and humble wishes, and perhaps a hidden desire to be more than just a tool for his superiors to use as they wish, disregarding completely the feelings he has trouble expressing.
POWERS/ABILITIES: SUMMON WIKI
As the archangel of execution, Sariel possesses terrifying power and strength - capable enough to rival the strongest Primarchs out of them all. His elemental affiliation is darkness so he's able to deal out massive dark damage to his foes. He is equally experienced in both war and combat, with the scythe as his main weapon of choice. Truly a harbinger of death. Perhaps the scariest thing about him is the fact that even if it seems like he's on the losing end of things (ie: missing about fifty percent of his body), he'll keep fighting and even succeed until the bitter end.
If you need anything to be buried (as Sariel likes to call it), he's the guy you call even if he isn't going to enjoy doing it... Oops.
Other notable skills are the same ones other archangels possess: he's capable of flight despite only having one wing (although I'm okay with removing this entirely since it's his summon that shows the wing...); he's an immortal and therefore cannot die as long as his core remains intact; he's capable of regeneration, the speed of which is dictated by the extent of his injuries (if he's missing more than fifty percent of his body, it's going to much slower).
INVENTORY:
☆ a black feather
☆ his scythe
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis.
▶ SAMPLES
TOPLEVEL @ TDM | please let me know if this isn't enough!