Xavier
Ofanite of the Wind
Angel of Lost Paperwork
Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 6 Agility: 10
Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12
Word-Forces: 10
Vessel: human male/6
Skills: Chemistry/6, Computer Programming/1, Dodge/6,
Fighting/6, Knowledge (Bureaucracy/1, Research/1),
Ranged Weapon/4 (Shotgun), Running/6, Tactics/1
Songs: Battle (Celestial/3), Fire (Corporeal/6), Light
(Celestial/6), Might (Corporeal/3, Celestial/3),
Motion (Corporeal/6, Celestial/6), Shields (all/3),
Speed (Ethereal/3), Submission (Celestial/1),
Thunder/3
Attunements: Ofanite of the Wind, Malakite of the
Wind, Passage, Swipe, Library Card, Angel of Lost
Paperwork. Note that Xavier's little excursion could
be seen as a use of Destiny's Right of Passage
Attunement, but it's just as likely that the Library
itself arranged matters. He's certainly never shown
any sign of having it since.
Angel of Lost Paperwork: Xavier recognizes on sight
any form, record, entry or file that would be better
off lost, spindled, mutilated, altered, or destroyed.
With a Will roll, he can automatically accomplish that
happy state of affairs.
Rites: Effectively ruin a piece of paperwork that
will, if left alone, serve the cause of Hell. Xavier
gets 1 Essence for each 40 pieces of paperwork (note
that this includes all forms of organized data) so
destroyed, and he may use this Attunement as many
times as he likes per day.
Relics: Fiery Sword/3, two reliquary/6 (pen and
pencil)
Yes, Xavier is a dead man walking. Did you have a
point, or did you just feel like wasting some oxygen?
The angel didn't expect to be this much of a target
when he accepted the Word: interference, sure, but
Lost Paperwork isn't exactly earthshaking enough to be
worth the heat he got. However, his new task was
enough to get both Kronos' and Asmodeus' noses
seriously out of joint. It would seem that they took
it personally. Petty, sour misanthropes that they
are, they decided to vent their spleen by having
Xavier taken out loudly and publicly - just to make
the point. They didn't get him - quite - but their
agents did soul-kill a few angels in Xavier's vicinity
- one of whom the angel was quite fond.
Never do an enemy a small injury. Xavier had plenty
of time while in Trauma to muse upon what happened to
his friends and lover, and came back quite mad, in any
number of ways. It was a useful madness, however.
First he went and talked to Janus, who smiled nastily
and gave him permission. Then he went and talked to
Michael, who smiled even more nastily and gave him the
supplies that the angel had asked for. Then he went
and talked to Yves, who looked in his books, sighed,
gave him the Library Card Attunement and stepped out
of his way. Finally, Xavier walked into the Library,
calmly announced to the empty air what he wanted to
do, walked through a doorway at random - and stepped
into the middle of Kronos' Archive.
Xavier doesn't know how much Michael paid for
explosive incendiaries that work on the celestial
plane, but however much it was, it was cheap at twice
the price.
Needless to say, one angel can't hope to burn down the
Archive all by himself, no matter how transcendentally
pissed off he is. One angel can, however, if
sufficiently motivated, quick and militantly
indifferent to such petty concerns as survival, burn
his way through a lot of files. Once Xavier had used
up half his ordinance load, he grabbed another door at
random and lo! there he was in Asmodeus' little
playground, which was even less ready to receive him
(after all, what lunatic would attack two Princes'
sanctums in succession?). The Game's files burn even
better than those of Fate's; so did the Demon of
Misfiling, once Xavier found him.
Xavier's not sure how he got back: there was a red
haze across his vision pretty much the entire time,
and he was assuredly the worse for wear when Servitors
of Archives found him wandering the library, high on
the pure destruction that he had just evoked. It's
pretty much agreed among the Host that the angel had
come as close as you can to Jumping without going over
the line: not something that an Ofanite should repeat.
A prudent angel would have stayed in Heaven. Xavier
loaded up on Essence and went right down to the
Corporeal plane, where he used a few files randomly
'borrowed' along the way to seriously discommode
certain of Fate and the Game's Earthly operations.
He's got a life expectancy that you could measure in
weeks (Kronos and Asmodeus want him dead. Now), but
who cares? When all is said and done, who really
cares?
Personally ... well, Xavier stopped having a
personality while he was still in Trauma. About the
last vestige left of that smiling, easygoing angel is
a grim determination to not let anyone else be around
to take a bullet for him. By his own choice, he
doesn't have friends anymore. Dead men don't have
friends. He's careful about dissonance, too - it'll
just get in the way - but he doesn't really expect it
to be too important in the long run. Worse comes to
worse, he'll just turn it into Discord. Heck, he
already acts Angry.
Despite his new loner status (which makes the
Inquisition very, very nervous), Xavier actually has a
sort of secret Patron. Unfortunately, said Patron's
from the wrong side. When Kobal heard about the Angel
of Lost Paperwork's demonstration of what a real
insult looks like, reliable rumor reports that the
Prince of Dark Humor cracked the happiest, most
joyful, most beatific smile that anyone's seen on his
face since the First Rebellion. Kobal wants this
angel around, kicking and blowing up Kronos' and
Asmodeus' schemes and property for just a bit longer.
He doesn't even want Xavier to Fall: it'll just make
the angel less effective, and it's not like it'll keep
him alive longer anyway...
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