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Name: Angela
Age: In human years? 36. In gargoyle terms? 18.
Gender: Female
Movie / Series: Gargoyles
Position: College (1st Year) / Security Staff
Animal Companion: Bronx
Powers: Although Angela doesn’t think of them as ‘powers’, but she has all the abilities of the gargoyle race - the ability to glide on currents of wind, immense physical strength and a rejuvenating stone sleep that she passes into during the day. Furthermore, her mother has a certain aptitude for magic, so, after a certain amount of discovery and a lot of practise, there is a change that she’ll find herself sharing that as well.
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Personality: Because of her peaceful upbringing on the island of Avalon, Angela is more naïve than the rest of the Manhattan gargoyle clan. She was raised by humans, and, consequently, struggles to understand why so many of the people in New York fear - and, worse than that, hate - her clan. (She is greatly distressed by the attitudes they display when the existence of the gargoyles is finally announced to the world, for example.) She is still a little too trusting for her own good, largely because, for the first few decades of her life, she had no experience of malice or even of danger. Although her travels forced her to become a fast learner, she still has a lot to learn about the modern world and the types of people that live in it. (This is particularly a problem when it comes to her mother, Demona. Despite knowing what the older gargoyle is capable of, Angela can’t help but hope that her mother will one day be able to overcome her hatred of humans and find redemption.) She is wiling to give people second chances if they apparently deserve them and she always does her best to see the best in people. It is difficult for her to acknowledge that in some people there is no good to see. That doesn’t fit with the optimistic world view she learned on Avalon.
Admittedly, when it comes to humans, Angela is now a little more wary. Some of her encounters in New York have given her a better idea of what humans - particularly humans who don’t approve of gargoyles - are capable of, even if she isn’t particularly pleased with the knowledge. She has to be a little more cynical, as she has no desire to put herself or her clan in danger. However, she is still very much willing to give people a chance if they want it. She wants to find humans who will accept her kind. She wants the hostility of the humans in Manhattan to be an isolated incident. She knows that skulking in the shadows is not going to help her clan to find friends and allies or help them to prove their benevolence to the people who fear them. She truly believes that the gargoyles will be accepted eventually and that, in the meantime, is important to show humans why they deserve that acceptance.
Unlike most gargoyles, Angela knows the identity of her biological parents and considers their specific family bonds to be very important in the same way a human child would. (This is, again, due to her unusual upbringing on Avalon. In the past, young gargoyles were raised by the clan as a whole.) She considers the rest of her clan - the rest of her family, though not related by blood - to be of utmost importance as well, and loves and trusts them implicitly. She would never consciously do anything to endanger them and is usually happy to defer to the clan leader, Goliath, when decisions need to be made. (However, because of their father-daughter relationship, she will question his judgement if it’s truly necessary. She’ll just do so … carefully.) The idea of one of them lying or betraying the others is worse than anathema. It is impossible. She grew up listening to the legends of the Wyvern clan from Princess Katherine and the Magus and, consequently, shares the gargoyle ideals of loyalty and justice despite being raised in a highly unusual fashion.
Although she is usually kind and relatively gentle, Angela occasionally displays traces of a familial temper. She is angered by injustice (and, on occasion, by the nickname of ‘Angie’) and was therefore more than happy to join the clan in its mission to protect the people of Manhattan. During the course of her travels, Angela has learned to put her temper to good use and hold her own as a gargoyle warrior. Although she was considered capable enough on Avalon, there were no foes there for her to face there and she didn’t have much cause to practise. It wasn’t until the attack of the Archmage - and Goliath’s subsequent arrival - that things began to change. It triggered a desire to see the world outside the island, as well as a desire to prove herself that persists to this day.
Angela left the safe haven of Avalon in order to find her place in the world and, in the process, prove herself to be a worthy gargoyle. Her worst fear is failing to find where she belongs and remaining without a true home. Although she was raised by humans, she values family, friendship and loyalty as much as any gargoyle. The Mist might have taken the memories of her clan, but she is determined to recover what she has lost and take her place among them.
Canon History: The Gargoyles Wiki
AU History: In the early years of the 10th century, the world was inhabited by two very different races. Humans and gargoyles lived, if not in harmony, then at least side by side. It was a time of superstition and warfare, but one Scottish castle, the Castle Wyvern, thrived due to an alliance between a gargoyle clan and a human ruler. However, the gargoyles were eventually betrayed and the majority of the clan were shattered while the slept as stone. The surviving adults - including the clan leader, Goliath - were frozen in time by a magic spell, fated not to wake up until the castle ‘rose above the clouds’. The surviving eggs were left in the care of three humans: the Magus, Princess Katherine and Tom.
Eventually, the humans were forced to leave their own world behind to protect the eggs. They travelled to the magical island of Avalon and it was there that the eggs - including Angela - hatched. They were raised in peace and prosperity by their guardians, listening to the tales of the heroic Wyvern Clan and doing their best to become warriors despite the lack of foes to fight.
When Angela was an adult, a malevolent sorcerer known as the Archmage attacked the island. Tom returned to the real world in search of help and was reunited by Goliath, who had made his home in Manhattan after being woken up at last. The clan leader - along with Bronx and his human ally, Elisa Maza - travelled to Avalon and fought alongside the adult eggs in order to defeat the Archmage.
Eager to learn about the outside world, Angela elected to accompany Goliath and Elisa when they left Avalon. The group did not return to Manhattan straight away, however, and instead travelled to many locations around the world. During their travels, Angela learned the identity of her biological parents: Goliath and his former mate and present enemy, Demona. (Although gargoyles usually raise their children as a clan, Angela’s unusual upbringing meant that she began to call an initially unwilling Goliath “father” at once. It took him a lot longer to accept their relationship.)
After many months of travelling, Elisa received - and ignored - an invitation to the mysterious Disney Academy. However, Avalon’s magic - which took their boat where they needed to be, rather than where they wanted to go - was not as easy to ignore. Elisa found herself thrown off the skip and sent to the school against her own volition, while Goliath and Angela unwillingly returned to New York without her.
Angela was immediately welcomed as a new member of the Manhattan Clan and was more than happy to join them in their task of protecting the city, even as the Black Mist crept across the map towards them. When her father received his own invitation to the Academy and left to join Elisa, she stayed behind with the rest of their family.
Then the Black Mist reached New York. Despite their attempts to stick together and fight, the gargoyles were facing a foe that they didn’t fully understand and couldn’t hope to stop with brute force alone. In the chaos, they were separated and scattered.
The unusual amnesia caused by prolonged exposure to the Mist left a great many gaps in Angela’s memory. She remembered her childhood on Avalon and she remembered making the choice to leave Avalon, but she couldn’t remember what had finally encouraged her to leave the enchanted island or what had happened afterwards. All she knew was that she had become a part of a new and now forgotten clan.
For weeks, Angela wandered aimlessly across Evangeline, attempting to recover what she couldn’t remember losing. Her invitation to the Disney Academy reached her shortly after a mob of frightened and angry humans had chased her from the suburbs of New York. It was a chance that she couldn’t afford to pass up. She was eager to be a part of the fight against the Mist and, perhaps more importantly, eager to uncover any clues about the clan that she’d lost
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Injuries? Sure! But we should work out the details.
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