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I don't care if heaven won't take me back

You're an angel. Not metaphorically, not in the "you're so sweet" way; you're a literal angel - ethereal energy form, wings, and all. But you're not just any sort of angel. You're a guardian angel. Guardian angels are a caste, or choir, created with the sole purpose of protecting those they're assigned to. Each angel is created specifically for the person they guard, with a few exceptions. The only thing you're programed to know is duty.

Naturally, being invested in your charge is expected. What if your feelings for them veer away from "dutiful" into "fondness" and then...something else? Angels aren't supposed to know love, at least not in the way those in the living realm do. Still, nothing is as certain as it used to be, and you're not so sure of your purpose. All you know is that you want to keep your charge safe.

Can you guarantee that, now?

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How to Play

Comment with your character and preferences.

Mention if you'd rather play the guardian angel or the guarded.

Tag others.

Use the RNG to determine your fate.

Prompts

Watching: You've been watching this person as long as both they and you have been in this world. Maybe over years, maybe suddenly, things aren't the same when you look at them.

Guilt: You realized that these pesky emotions are growing and you know this is against everything you know to be true. Your kind cannot love, and even if you could, this is wrong. You have known this person their entire life and thinking of them as more is unacceptable.

Terrible Angel: You're not angelic at all and fail neatly at almost all the benchmarks, but when it comes to the one you guard, you don't folly.

Righteous Fury: Usually, angels must be removed and impassive. You see your charge mistreated, though, and you lose control.

Relegated to Guardian Angelhood: You used to be much more important, of a greater choir of angel. Then, you screwed up and got pushed down into the ranks of guardian angel. It would be easy to be bitter towards your charge. You aren't, for some reason.

Can't Be Seen: The person you care for the most can't see you. It's typical angel protocol, yet you can't help but want to make yourself noticeable.

Affecting Your Work: Your growing and sometimes erratic emotions make your job harder. You're getting sloppy. You may even allow your charge to be hurt or allow yourself to be conspicuous.

Jealousy: You saw your charge with someone else and it...it really ruffled your feathers. Maybe you lost your cool. Hopefully, that won't mean bad mojo for the other person involved. No one would be any wiser if you made their head more attractive to bird droppings, though.

Kiss: Can you kiss someone when you technically have no lips? They might just feel a pleasant breeze; still, you're kissing them, and this is...nice.

How They'd Like You to Look: You've decided to make yourself known to them, and you want your appearance to be to their liking.

Inhabiting the Vessel They Love: A bit more sinister than the above, but also somewhat practical. They already love this body, anyway.

Revealing Yourself: You're taking the big step and coming into their life as an actual, tangible presence. Of course, "I'm your guardian angel" rarely gets the response you hope.

Stay with You: You promise that you'll stay by their side always, now as a physical companion.

Confessions: No matter the costs, you're revealing your true feelings.

Deciding to be More: It's dangerous, it's unheard of; however, both of you want to become more than just angel and charge.

Intimacy Without a Corporeal Form: They know you're there even when you're not in human form, and they want to touch you. This can be a smut option, but it doesn't have to be.

Intimacy With a Corporeal Form: You're beginning to learn what it's like to be intimate with them while you're in this new form. Again, this can be a smut option, but it doesn't have to be.

Wings: Letting someone touch your wings is the ultimate show of trust and, in angel terms, one of the closest things you have to sexuality.

Called to the Mat: Your higher-ups have learned of your sins. Now, you're on trial. Will you deny your charge?

Not Officially Yours: Problem number one: you're in love. Problem number two: it's with some other angel's charge.

Second Chance: As previously stated, most guardian angels are created for that one special person. However, some angels whose charges have died young are allowed a second chance. Will this new person ever replace your old?

Protection: Now is time to do the guarding - by any means necessary, especially now, after realizing just what your charge means to you.

Fallen: Because of your sins, you've lost favor. You've been stripped of your heavenly grace and you've fallen.

Immortal: You must deal with the implications that your charge will die and you will be sent on to a new heavenly job.

Failed: You didn't do enough. You let yourself slip, and now your charge is dying. They were more than just a charge, so you must do what you can to let their soul pass on in the most peaceful manner possible. But can you let go?

CHOOSE YOUR OWN

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[ angel! she will set your enemies on fire :-) ]

[Probably the guarded but open to a possible scenario where she is the guardian!]

((Could be the Angel or the Guarded very easily.))

{ so, he's a vampire... but i can happily throw that out in favor of him being an angel because this entire meme is the sort of story he would read and cry about for years. so i'm determined to make this work out.

unless, your character is the angel, governing over this vampire (unless!! you choose to intervene before his sire tempts him past the point of no return? c. 1800s) in which case please do, i already slightly headcanon vampirism as a trickle down evolution off of demons anyway, so, uh, o o p s how did that happen?? also Ambrose was raised in that kind of archaic Catholic way without ever feeling the Great Inspiration about God, ultimately feeling a disconnect but a yearning for the idea, so any sign that he has someone heaven-sent and devoted to his existence? it's going to shatter his entire world.

Ambrose in his personal lore lives in the early 1800s and is turned around 1840, but Events Occur (details on journal) that leave him MIA and incapacitated until modern day. Also open to AUs. Pick anything you like! I'm open to any of these prompts, intimacy cool but I suck at keeping up with smut, so I'll officially pass on it. However I'm fine with anything leading up to that. Ambrose is a very romantic and emotionally-driven character, and great for these kind of wistful and longing scenarios. }

[ Either role, slight preference for the angel. ]

[Angel. Not very angelic but he makes a decent bodyguard.]

[ Near had always been a quiet, reserved child and from the moment he came to Wammy's House he never quite fit in with most of the other children. When he was much younger he didn't mind, but the older he got, the worse they would treat him, because he was miles ahead of them in smarts and his indifference would often make the other kids uncomfortable.

There was only one person who took an interest in him and who piqued Near's curiosity for a multitude of reasons. He kept his name guarded, much like they all did, but the other kids would call him Beyond. Near had to admit, he was somewhat fascinated by him as well- he was the smartest, the most cunning, and he got away with a lot of things that most of the other kids wouldn't even think to try. Even though he would roughhouse with the other children much more than Near would have liked, and came into his room late at night when Near didn't particularly want him there, Beyond would tell him fantastic stories and what sounded to Near like plans.

As time went by, the stories got more extreme and Beyond would ask him what he would do, or how he would deal with certain situations and when Near decided he wanted no part in those replies, Beyond would get angry at him and start hurting him, slamming him up against walls and pulling his hair hard enough to rip out strands.

There wasn't anyone Near could really talk to, nor did he want to, even though he knew he probably should have. Beyond was getting more and more violent, dangerous, further away from what their goals were supposed to be. Sometimes Beyond would just suddenly stop, and Near had no idea why. Maybe he was going crazy, seeing shadows in the room, but whatever that was, it scared Beyond away enough for him to stop, at least for a little while.

When he had to skip classes because the pain in his head was to great, he knew Beyond would come looking for him anyway to try and pick at his brain. But that day there was nothing but hushed voices and no one came to bother Near at all. Something had happened to Beyond. One minute the older boy was okay, the next minute he wasn't, and no one could figure out what it was, or... who it was. ]

[Mello hadn't been at this game for very long, but in his never-humble opinion he had a natural talent for it. That, and the fact that his charge was somehow INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT to that archangel who had been put in charge of justice, meant that Mello got away with things he really shouldn't have. This time he'd actually faced disciplinary proceedings for intervening as effectively as he had, but in the end the higher-ups let him go with a warning. Yet another warning, which meant what all the other warnings did: Mello was not only good at what he did, but he was VERY good at covering his ass in the process. Meticulous evidence, highly persuasive arguments, and extremely detailed and sound logic had gotten him out of every single jam.

Maybe he was getting a little TOO cocky.]

Don't worry about him.

[Visible only to Near, Mello leaned on a nearby wall. He had to prop himself up on his elbow and forearm because his white feathered wings would be mashed uncomfortably if his shoulder or back touched the wall, but this was fine. The black leather clothes and combat boots, or the limited visual illusion of them, offset the floofy white well enough that Mello could stand to look at himself. Near was quick enough on the uptake that he wouldn't start screaming, or tell other people that he saw something impossible in his favorite niche of the main toy room. It would be fine.]

[ Near doesn't start screaming, that much is true, but at the site of this unknown figure standing against the wall, he sits up suddenly and scoots back a little, still careful not to knock over any of his toys in the process. He stares at the... angel? It looks like an angel, wide eyed.

He glances around the room quickly. There aren't too many kids there, but no one else seems to be alarmed in any way and Near wonders if maybe he hit his head too hard. Hallucinations are a symptom of brain injury, but Near hasn't noticed a decrease of brain function with anything else.]

What... what are you?

[It's practically a whisper, but none of the other kids are paying attention to him anyway]

Are you seriously that far behind on your modern Western Mythology?

[Now that Near has so graciously cleared some extra space for him, Mello takes a non-threatening step forward and crouches to get to the kid's eye level.
His wings were stretched out at a diagonal to the floor. Unlike real creatures with real wings, he didn't have any way to fold them neatly against his body.]

You should turn on a television set once in a while. Get a basic grasp of pop culture.

That's not what I...

[ Near starts, but then he stops as the angel comes closer and he tenses up, averting his eyes to look down at the cards in front of him. Do angels exists? Do gods exist? He's never had any proof. He still isn't a hundred percent sure he can trust his eye. ]

I know what you are, but I don't know if you're real.

Rachel Amber | Life is Strange | f/f

Christine Daaé | Phantom of the Opera | OTA

Jaune Arc | RWBY | M/F

Ambrose Sinclair ✨ original character ✨ m/m

leopold mountbatten | kate and leopold

Mello | Death Note | ota

some kind of weird AU if mello had never made it to wammy's, but was a guardian angel instead??

That works! Mello showing up with wings after Near catches Kira was also possible.

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Part 2: After Kira.

Re: Part 2: After Kira.

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