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Name: Isabelle
Age: 22
AIM SN: vibishantheshiny
Have you played in an LJ based game before? yes
Currrently Played Characters: House, Anya Lehnsherr
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Supernatural
Canon Format: TV Show
Character's Name: Zachariah
Character's Age: Older than the human race and most angels, but younger than the archangels. His vessel, Adler, looks to be in his mid-to-late fifties.
What form will your character's NV take? He’ll be co-opting his vessel Adler’s Blackberry. Only for some reason, he’s switched its default setting to Mandarin.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
As a Seraph, Zachariah is a high-ranking angel, answering directly to the archangels, and he has an impressive range of powers. He is impervious to most damage. He can teleport vast distances instantly and bring others with him (though in Port he’ll be limited to within the Pull, obviously). He can heal grave wounds and resurrect the dead, or inflict damage or disease with a thought – at one point he simply removes Sam Winchester’s lungs. He is seen speaking with Adam in dreams, throwing Sam across the room with telekinesis, and traveling through time. He erases Sam and Dean’s memories, replacing them with false memories of his own composition, and even implants a fake prophetic vision in Chuck’s head. He can look into a person’s thoughts and feelings from all throughout their life: in “Lucifer Rising” he gives Dean his favorite hamburgers, from a seaside shack he visited when he was 11. It's also implied that he can has low-level local reality warping abilities. He creates the beautiful "Angelic Green Room," complete with a painting that is actually in a museum in Avignon, in what is really an empty California warehouse, and he offers to provide Dean with fictional women from Gilligan's Island, probably via the same mechanism that Gabriel uses to create his simulacra arm candy. (Anything that involves another characters thoughts, memories, or bodily well-being will obviously only be used with mun permission.)
Although he doesn’t demonstrate these in the series, as an angel he can presumably see most supernatural creatures for what they are, make himself invisible to human observers, and exorcise demons with a touch. He can hear prayers, as well as communicate with and listen to other angels using an 'angel radio' frequency only they can access. Part and parcel with his immunity to damage, he has greater than human strength and stamina, and does not require sleep, food, or other sustenance beyond his grace. He can also manifest a true voice of light and noise that is highly destructive to any nearby glass, as well as painful and dangerous to most humans unfortunate enough to hear it.
He does have a few limitations. If trapped in a circle of Holy Fire, he will not be able to escape or make use of most of his powers. Enochian sigils can hide people from him, bar him from entering a building, or banish him for a short time. He can be killed with an angel blade. He has to inhabit a vessel, which seems to reduce his reflexes to something close to human-normal (otherwise Dean never would have been able to stab him before, say, losing his tendons).
Zachariah also has emotional weaknesses – twice the mere implication of God’s involvement is enough to get him to back down in situations where he truly does not want to; he just doesn’t know how to handle it, and he has no reason to think God holds any affection for him. When he loses his temper, he stops using his abilities efficiently: Dean's last minute take-back on his yes, and his insistence that Michael wouldn't care about Zachariah once he ceased to be useful (which dovetails with Zachariah's own lack of value for himself) shock him so much that he miscalculates, giving Dean an opportunity to stab him even when Dean ought to be completely physically outclassed. He also seems reluctant to fight other angels. Through several confrontations with Castiel, who is shown killing fellow angels left and right, and even though Zachariah is Castiel’s superior and presumably stronger, he never so much as draws a weapon.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
Weapons: He has an angel blade, though he doesn’t seem to like using it – he never actually wields it on the show, even though an angel of his rank presumably has one.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here is a detailed rundown of all his appearances.
Point in Canon: He’s coming from the beginning of 5x18, “Point of No Return,” while he’s bitching about being fired in the bar with Stuart, before the archangels give him a final chance to extract Dean’s consent to be Michael’s vessel.
Character Personality: On the surface, Zachariah shifts between jovial snark and vicious, hot-tempered callousness. Zachariah acts incredibly human, in spite of looking down on them. He comports himself in the idiom of a business executive, from his perennial suit to his offhand ways of describing even the most fraught situations. When he is interrupted tormenting the Winchesters in heaven, he points out, peeved, “I’m in a meeting.” He uses corporate lingo and pop culture references to everything from boxing to the Brady Bunch. Unlike most angels, Zachariah is immersed in humanity – “They don’t know. They’re not down on the ground, in the mud, nose to nose with all you pig-filthy humans, am I right?” – and he’s absorbed a lot of human mannerisms, superficially and psychologically, without letting the resemblance impact his certainty in his own sense of superiority. He’s bombastic and short-tempered, easy to provoke into speeches or straight-up rants, and he casually sends Adam keeling over, coughing blood, when he grows bored of Adam’s protests and no longer needs his cooperation.
Zachariah will manipulate people to accomplish a purpose, or lie to preserve the stability of heaven, but he doesn’t really like to lie, either outright or via typical angelic misleading omissions. When Dean asks how Zachariah found him in “The End,” he willingly tells Dean that it was the extremist Christian on the street corner who turned him in, even though it’s potentially useful information that Zach has no reason to tell him. He tells Adam about his role as bait rather than let him believe something untrue for a few more minutes until Dean arrives, even though there’s no benefit to it, and any joy he’d get from gloating seems undercut by how annoying Zachariah finds Adam’s predictable reaction. He prefers simple physical violence to elaborate mind games. He stops memory!Mary from poking all of Dean’s emotional sore spots even though Dean himself clearly suffers more listening to her, because Zachariah himself gets more satisfaction from just punching him in the stomach.
Zachariah is driven to excel. He describes himself as “On the fast track once. I was employee of the month, every month, forever.” The respect and approval of others is important to him. He’s furious when his failure to secure Dean’s cooperation makes him a laughingstock, but the loss of his reputation actually isn’t what bothers him most. He murmurs that the other angels are right to laugh at him. He despises himself for his failure. Zachariah is that hardass who makes everyone’s life miserable, but holds himself to standards that are just as high or higher.
He’s dynamic, decisive, pragmatic and a perfectionist. He’s not a long-term schemer, but he’s always organized and on point. He prefers to work with discrete goals and concise tactical actions. Dean thinks he’s a failure? Set up one hunt with some fake memories to get him to insist otherwise. Dean won’t say yes? Skip straight to worst-case-scenario zombie apocalypse with his own future doppleganger begging him to do it. Zachariah doesn’t pull any punches. He’s willing to take his time to set things up thoroughly, but all other things being equal, he wants to solve problems fast, and move on to the next task.
He gets incredibly frustrated when this is thwarted, especially by what he sees as irrational or emotional obstinacy. He thinks Dean’s refusal to say yes is not just annoying for him personally, but is downright bizarre and morally indefensible. When Zachariah tells Adam that the Winchesters would rather save each other than the planet, his look of bewildered disgust speaks for itself. In “Sympathy for the Devil,” he tells Dean they’re on the same team, and he seems honestly surprised when Dean banishes him with sigils. For Zachariah, the fact that their goals coincide – defeating the devil – should override any anger or enmity over previous deceptions. Because Zachariah himself ignores his emotions in order to do what (he thinks) needs to be done – even if he fails to actually get rid of them – he doesn’t understand why others aren’t so practical.
He describes himself as petty, and it’s true – but the fact that he’s honest with himself about that means he’s also at least a little bit introspective and self-aware. Zachariah can be cruel, vindictive, bitter, and vicious, but he knows all of this about himself, and he’s not ashamed of it, any more than he’s ashamed of acting human or having a paunchy balding vessel. He believes the end justifies the means – defeating Lucifer means breaking “a few truckloads of eggs,” - and he's also a dick to Dean just because he doesn't like him, up to and including perving on the heavenly hologram of Dean's mom. But he’s not under any self-serving illusions about it, and he’s willing to do his own dirty work.
Zachariah is in an unusual cosmic position, and it affects everything about him. Unlike the vast majority of the angels, he has long been aware that God left Heaven and is no longer giving orders; unlike the archangels who took charge in God’s absence, Zachariah has never seen God. The lower angels have their faith, and the archangels can remember His glory/presence/love. But Zachariah has neither of these, only the knowledge that every time he allows the angels in his charge to believe their orders come from God, he is deceiving them.
The constant farce wears and warps him. He builds barriers between himself and the other angels, and between himself and emotions in general. He treats his family like a business, because if the neglect and deceit and dysfunction of Heaven isn’t personal, then it can’t hurt him as much. It’s easier to mislead ‘employees’ than younger siblings, which lets him distance himself from the guilt and loneliness that his peculiar position brings.
As for God, Zachariah’s primary emotion is resentment. In “Lucifer Rising,” he tells Dean that “God has left the building,” with a flippancy that fails to hide the hurt and anger in his face and voice, emotions that he’s been forced to keep secret for centuries and struggled to erase. And yet, unlike other disillusioned angels we see over the course of the series, he neither rebels nor runs away.
Instead of serving the idea or the name of God, Zachariah obeys the archangels, whom he’s actually met, who took care of him and his family when God didn't. Zachariah calls Michael “the boss man”, which makes sense, but is slightly jarring when other colloquialism-wielding angels usually use ‘boss’ to mean God. Zachariah says “Michael has seen it,” in “Point of No Return,” displaying a flash of reverence and conviction in Michael that otherwise eludes him.
Duty is incredibly important to Zachariah, but he’s not mindlessly devoted the way most rank-and-file angels are. Zachariah doesn’t merely take his marching orders from Michael, he fully believes that the Plan to defeat Lucifer and transform the world into Paradise is for the best. Rather than unthinking obedience or adherence to any abstract moral code, he cares about results, about outcomes, about concrete achievements that affect the world. In “The End,” Zachariah navigates through time to one of one of many possible futures, explicitly to show Dean that “your choices have consequences.” Zachariah understands free will – he just doesn’t think it’s always a good idea.
He’s not a determinist, even though he uses the word ‘destiny’ a lot. For Zachariah, destiny isn’t what must inevitably happen, it’s what should happen, what he works to bring about. He tells Dean that having a destiny “Isn’t a curse. It’s a gift.” Because he knows that the fate of the world isn’t fixed, having a destiny to fulfill is an opportunity. It means having a job to do that actually matters. For Zachariah, there is nothing better than having a job worth doing and doing it well, and he believes that for him, assisting Michael in bringing about the Plan is that job. He begs unabashedly for one last chance to do so, is effusively grateful when he gets it.
At the canonpoint I'm taking him from, he still believes he’s failed in that job, and that he won’t get another chance. He tells the archangels that he’s ready to be killed for his failure. He’s a little maudlin while drinking beforehand, and a little melodramatic when it comes down to it, but ultimately he means what he says. He doesn’t value his own life if he can’t use it to serve a worthwhile purpose. But at the same time, even while literally suicidal, he doesn’t let that break him. Just before the conversation he believes will be his execution, Zachariah strikes up a perfectly amiable conversation with Stuart, shaking his hand and offering his name unprompted. Zachariah is tough in the strange and paradoxical way that lets him give up completely, but keep functioning more or less like he always does, commiserating with a pitiful mortal rather than collapsing in despair or flying into a rage.
Zachariah is a field officer in the clothes of a bureaucrat, a hufflepuff who looks like a slytherin. He cares more than he wants to but less than he probably should. When push comes to shove he’s loyal, thoughtful, determined, efficient, aggressive, snide, ruthless, and willing to take responsibility for himself. But even when everything he’s worked for comes apart, he’s willing to chat and enjoy a last drink before he presents himself for execution, just as prompt, cooperative, and disciplined as ever he was.
Character Plans: Zachariah is going to do exactly what he always does: whatever Michael tells him to. According to consultation with Michael’s mun, this will include working for AGI under Michael, doing the archangel’s dirty work, and babysitting his pets. He will have hideous reunions with the rest of his family and spend some time trolling the Winchesters.
Zachariah is also going to be his sardonically cheerful self at everyone else, chatting with colleagues and people in bars, networking and searching for someone to play golf with. I’d love to stealthily take him from having Stuart-like pals (aka ‘people he hangs around and is friendly at but wouldn’t blink if they got their eyes burnt out of their skulls’) to having some actual friends he cares about. He’ll be incredibly annoyed with himself when he realizes what’s happened, but being the pragmatic creature he is, won’t dwell or resist it for too long once he’s already crossed that bridge.
Appearance/PB: Zachariah is portrayed by Kurt Fuller.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
Wow. It’s like 49th Parallel meets Doctor Moreau down here.
Which sounds like a great show, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not really the vacation type. I have an important appointment back home, and stalling in Monster Mash Canada isn’t going to do anyone any good.
So I'm going to get to work on that, and while I do, I’ll take any recommendations you folks have for top shelf local menswear outlets and/or decent bars.
Third Person Sample
He sips his Bourbon, letting the smoky-sweet burn work its corrosive magic on his vessel’s throat before his grace revivifies the layer of stinging tissues and listening to Stuart speculate about the internet-related job market. It’s nice, a lull to gripe and stew and say goodbye to the kind of trite, tangential mortal connections that have actually made up a depressingly large chunk of his life.
What a waste.
He feels sudden pressure, and the room starts to shake. Zachariah is sure for a moment that it’s Michael, but he can’t feel his presence, and the lack of it is as inexplicable as it is cruel. He gasps, stumbles on an open, dilapidated baseball field, whiskey glass still in hand, liquid trickling down his fingers on one side where some of it splashed out.
He stares. There’s nothing disorienting for him about being abruptly in a new place, but to find himself here without his own volition or any hint of another angel’s power is beyond disconcerting. It’s disturbing and a little bit galling besides, because Zachariah was not going to run away from Michael’s judgment. He was prepared to face the music. He’s so appalled and perplexed, and the sensation itself is so alien to him, that he doesn’t notice he feels nauseous until his vessel is already vomiting. He doubles over, stomach emptying onto red dust and dandelion weeds.
He manages not to get any on his suit or his shoes.
It’s the little victories.
He downs the last swallow of bourbon that managed to linger in his glass, neatens his tie, and sets out to get to the bottom of this.
Name: Isabelle
Age: 22
AIM SN: vibishantheshiny
Have you played in an LJ based game before? yes
Currrently Played Characters: House, Anya Lehnsherr
Conditional: Activity Check Link: Here
Conditional: Official Reserve Link: Here
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Supernatural
Canon Format: TV Show
Character's Name: Zachariah
Character's Age: Older than the human race and most angels, but younger than the archangels. His vessel, Adler, looks to be in his mid-to-late fifties.
What form will your character's NV take? He’ll be co-opting his vessel Adler’s Blackberry. Only for some reason, he’s switched its default setting to Mandarin.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
As a Seraph, Zachariah is a high-ranking angel, answering directly to the archangels, and he has an impressive range of powers. He is impervious to most damage. He can teleport vast distances instantly and bring others with him (though in Port he’ll be limited to within the Pull, obviously). He can heal grave wounds and resurrect the dead, or inflict damage or disease with a thought – at one point he simply removes Sam Winchester’s lungs. He is seen speaking with Adam in dreams, throwing Sam across the room with telekinesis, and traveling through time. He erases Sam and Dean’s memories, replacing them with false memories of his own composition, and even implants a fake prophetic vision in Chuck’s head. He can look into a person’s thoughts and feelings from all throughout their life: in “Lucifer Rising” he gives Dean his favorite hamburgers, from a seaside shack he visited when he was 11. It's also implied that he can has low-level local reality warping abilities. He creates the beautiful "Angelic Green Room," complete with a painting that is actually in a museum in Avignon, in what is really an empty California warehouse, and he offers to provide Dean with fictional women from Gilligan's Island, probably via the same mechanism that Gabriel uses to create his simulacra arm candy. (Anything that involves another characters thoughts, memories, or bodily well-being will obviously only be used with mun permission.)
Although he doesn’t demonstrate these in the series, as an angel he can presumably see most supernatural creatures for what they are, make himself invisible to human observers, and exorcise demons with a touch. He can hear prayers, as well as communicate with and listen to other angels using an 'angel radio' frequency only they can access. Part and parcel with his immunity to damage, he has greater than human strength and stamina, and does not require sleep, food, or other sustenance beyond his grace. He can also manifest a true voice of light and noise that is highly destructive to any nearby glass, as well as painful and dangerous to most humans unfortunate enough to hear it.
He does have a few limitations. If trapped in a circle of Holy Fire, he will not be able to escape or make use of most of his powers. Enochian sigils can hide people from him, bar him from entering a building, or banish him for a short time. He can be killed with an angel blade. He has to inhabit a vessel, which seems to reduce his reflexes to something close to human-normal (otherwise Dean never would have been able to stab him before, say, losing his tendons).
Zachariah also has emotional weaknesses – twice the mere implication of God’s involvement is enough to get him to back down in situations where he truly does not want to; he just doesn’t know how to handle it, and he has no reason to think God holds any affection for him. When he loses his temper, he stops using his abilities efficiently: Dean's last minute take-back on his yes, and his insistence that Michael wouldn't care about Zachariah once he ceased to be useful (which dovetails with Zachariah's own lack of value for himself) shock him so much that he miscalculates, giving Dean an opportunity to stab him even when Dean ought to be completely physically outclassed. He also seems reluctant to fight other angels. Through several confrontations with Castiel, who is shown killing fellow angels left and right, and even though Zachariah is Castiel’s superior and presumably stronger, he never so much as draws a weapon.
Weapons: He has an angel blade, though he doesn’t seem to like using it – he never actually wields it on the show, even though an angel of his rank presumably has one.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here is a detailed rundown of all his appearances.
Point in Canon: He’s coming from the beginning of 5x18, “Point of No Return,” while he’s bitching about being fired in the bar with Stuart, before the archangels give him a final chance to extract Dean’s consent to be Michael’s vessel.
Character Personality: On the surface, Zachariah shifts between jovial snark and vicious, hot-tempered callousness. Zachariah acts incredibly human, in spite of looking down on them. He comports himself in the idiom of a business executive, from his perennial suit to his offhand ways of describing even the most fraught situations. When he is interrupted tormenting the Winchesters in heaven, he points out, peeved, “I’m in a meeting.” He uses corporate lingo and pop culture references to everything from boxing to the Brady Bunch. Unlike most angels, Zachariah is immersed in humanity – “They don’t know. They’re not down on the ground, in the mud, nose to nose with all you pig-filthy humans, am I right?” – and he’s absorbed a lot of human mannerisms, superficially and psychologically, without letting the resemblance impact his certainty in his own sense of superiority. He’s bombastic and short-tempered, easy to provoke into speeches or straight-up rants, and he casually sends Adam keeling over, coughing blood, when he grows bored of Adam’s protests and no longer needs his cooperation.
Zachariah will manipulate people to accomplish a purpose, or lie to preserve the stability of heaven, but he doesn’t really like to lie, either outright or via typical angelic misleading omissions. When Dean asks how Zachariah found him in “The End,” he willingly tells Dean that it was the extremist Christian on the street corner who turned him in, even though it’s potentially useful information that Zach has no reason to tell him. He tells Adam about his role as bait rather than let him believe something untrue for a few more minutes until Dean arrives, even though there’s no benefit to it, and any joy he’d get from gloating seems undercut by how annoying Zachariah finds Adam’s predictable reaction. He prefers simple physical violence to elaborate mind games. He stops memory!Mary from poking all of Dean’s emotional sore spots even though Dean himself clearly suffers more listening to her, because Zachariah himself gets more satisfaction from just punching him in the stomach.
Zachariah is driven to excel. He describes himself as “On the fast track once. I was employee of the month, every month, forever.” The respect and approval of others is important to him. He’s furious when his failure to secure Dean’s cooperation makes him a laughingstock, but the loss of his reputation actually isn’t what bothers him most. He murmurs that the other angels are right to laugh at him. He despises himself for his failure. Zachariah is that hardass who makes everyone’s life miserable, but holds himself to standards that are just as high or higher.
He’s dynamic, decisive, pragmatic and a perfectionist. He’s not a long-term schemer, but he’s always organized and on point. He prefers to work with discrete goals and concise tactical actions. Dean thinks he’s a failure? Set up one hunt with some fake memories to get him to insist otherwise. Dean won’t say yes? Skip straight to worst-case-scenario zombie apocalypse with his own future doppleganger begging him to do it. Zachariah doesn’t pull any punches. He’s willing to take his time to set things up thoroughly, but all other things being equal, he wants to solve problems fast, and move on to the next task.
He gets incredibly frustrated when this is thwarted, especially by what he sees as irrational or emotional obstinacy. He thinks Dean’s refusal to say yes is not just annoying for him personally, but is downright bizarre and morally indefensible. When Zachariah tells Adam that the Winchesters would rather save each other than the planet, his look of bewildered disgust speaks for itself. In “Sympathy for the Devil,” he tells Dean they’re on the same team, and he seems honestly surprised when Dean banishes him with sigils. For Zachariah, the fact that their goals coincide – defeating the devil – should override any anger or enmity over previous deceptions. Because Zachariah himself ignores his emotions in order to do what (he thinks) needs to be done – even if he fails to actually get rid of them – he doesn’t understand why others aren’t so practical.
He describes himself as petty, and it’s true – but the fact that he’s honest with himself about that means he’s also at least a little bit introspective and self-aware. Zachariah can be cruel, vindictive, bitter, and vicious, but he knows all of this about himself, and he’s not ashamed of it, any more than he’s ashamed of acting human or having a paunchy balding vessel. He believes the end justifies the means – defeating Lucifer means breaking “a few truckloads of eggs,” - and he's also a dick to Dean just because he doesn't like him, up to and including perving on the heavenly hologram of Dean's mom. But he’s not under any self-serving illusions about it, and he’s willing to do his own dirty work.
Zachariah is in an unusual cosmic position, and it affects everything about him. Unlike the vast majority of the angels, he has long been aware that God left Heaven and is no longer giving orders; unlike the archangels who took charge in God’s absence, Zachariah has never seen God. The lower angels have their faith, and the archangels can remember His glory/presence/love. But Zachariah has neither of these, only the knowledge that every time he allows the angels in his charge to believe their orders come from God, he is deceiving them.
The constant farce wears and warps him. He builds barriers between himself and the other angels, and between himself and emotions in general. He treats his family like a business, because if the neglect and deceit and dysfunction of Heaven isn’t personal, then it can’t hurt him as much. It’s easier to mislead ‘employees’ than younger siblings, which lets him distance himself from the guilt and loneliness that his peculiar position brings.
As for God, Zachariah’s primary emotion is resentment. In “Lucifer Rising,” he tells Dean that “God has left the building,” with a flippancy that fails to hide the hurt and anger in his face and voice, emotions that he’s been forced to keep secret for centuries and struggled to erase. And yet, unlike other disillusioned angels we see over the course of the series, he neither rebels nor runs away.
Instead of serving the idea or the name of God, Zachariah obeys the archangels, whom he’s actually met, who took care of him and his family when God didn't. Zachariah calls Michael “the boss man”, which makes sense, but is slightly jarring when other colloquialism-wielding angels usually use ‘boss’ to mean God. Zachariah says “Michael has seen it,” in “Point of No Return,” displaying a flash of reverence and conviction in Michael that otherwise eludes him.
Duty is incredibly important to Zachariah, but he’s not mindlessly devoted the way most rank-and-file angels are. Zachariah doesn’t merely take his marching orders from Michael, he fully believes that the Plan to defeat Lucifer and transform the world into Paradise is for the best. Rather than unthinking obedience or adherence to any abstract moral code, he cares about results, about outcomes, about concrete achievements that affect the world. In “The End,” Zachariah navigates through time to one of one of many possible futures, explicitly to show Dean that “your choices have consequences.” Zachariah understands free will – he just doesn’t think it’s always a good idea.
He’s not a determinist, even though he uses the word ‘destiny’ a lot. For Zachariah, destiny isn’t what must inevitably happen, it’s what should happen, what he works to bring about. He tells Dean that having a destiny “Isn’t a curse. It’s a gift.” Because he knows that the fate of the world isn’t fixed, having a destiny to fulfill is an opportunity. It means having a job to do that actually matters. For Zachariah, there is nothing better than having a job worth doing and doing it well, and he believes that for him, assisting Michael in bringing about the Plan is that job. He begs unabashedly for one last chance to do so, is effusively grateful when he gets it.
At the canonpoint I'm taking him from, he still believes he’s failed in that job, and that he won’t get another chance. He tells the archangels that he’s ready to be killed for his failure. He’s a little maudlin while drinking beforehand, and a little melodramatic when it comes down to it, but ultimately he means what he says. He doesn’t value his own life if he can’t use it to serve a worthwhile purpose. But at the same time, even while literally suicidal, he doesn’t let that break him. Just before the conversation he believes will be his execution, Zachariah strikes up a perfectly amiable conversation with Stuart, shaking his hand and offering his name unprompted. Zachariah is tough in the strange and paradoxical way that lets him give up completely, but keep functioning more or less like he always does, commiserating with a pitiful mortal rather than collapsing in despair or flying into a rage.
Zachariah is a field officer in the clothes of a bureaucrat, a hufflepuff who looks like a slytherin. He cares more than he wants to but less than he probably should. When push comes to shove he’s loyal, thoughtful, determined, efficient, aggressive, snide, ruthless, and willing to take responsibility for himself. But even when everything he’s worked for comes apart, he’s willing to chat and enjoy a last drink before he presents himself for execution, just as prompt, cooperative, and disciplined as ever he was.
Character Plans: Zachariah is going to do exactly what he always does: whatever Michael tells him to. According to consultation with Michael’s mun, this will include working for AGI under Michael, doing the archangel’s dirty work, and babysitting his pets. He will have hideous reunions with the rest of his family and spend some time trolling the Winchesters.
Zachariah is also going to be his sardonically cheerful self at everyone else, chatting with colleagues and people in bars, networking and searching for someone to play golf with. I’d love to stealthily take him from having Stuart-like pals (aka ‘people he hangs around and is friendly at but wouldn’t blink if they got their eyes burnt out of their skulls’) to having some actual friends he cares about. He’ll be incredibly annoyed with himself when he realizes what’s happened, but being the pragmatic creature he is, won’t dwell or resist it for too long once he’s already crossed that bridge.
Appearance/PB: Zachariah is portrayed by Kurt Fuller.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
Wow. It’s like 49th Parallel meets Doctor Moreau down here.
Which sounds like a great show, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not really the vacation type. I have an important appointment back home, and stalling in Monster Mash Canada isn’t going to do anyone any good.
So I'm going to get to work on that, and while I do, I’ll take any recommendations you folks have for top shelf local menswear outlets and/or decent bars.
Third Person Sample
He sips his Bourbon, letting the smoky-sweet burn work its corrosive magic on his vessel’s throat before his grace revivifies the layer of stinging tissues and listening to Stuart speculate about the internet-related job market. It’s nice, a lull to gripe and stew and say goodbye to the kind of trite, tangential mortal connections that have actually made up a depressingly large chunk of his life.
What a waste.
He feels sudden pressure, and the room starts to shake. Zachariah is sure for a moment that it’s Michael, but he can’t feel his presence, and the lack of it is as inexplicable as it is cruel. He gasps, stumbles on an open, dilapidated baseball field, whiskey glass still in hand, liquid trickling down his fingers on one side where some of it splashed out.
He stares. There’s nothing disorienting for him about being abruptly in a new place, but to find himself here without his own volition or any hint of another angel’s power is beyond disconcerting. It’s disturbing and a little bit galling besides, because Zachariah was not going to run away from Michael’s judgment. He was prepared to face the music. He’s so appalled and perplexed, and the sensation itself is so alien to him, that he doesn’t notice he feels nauseous until his vessel is already vomiting. He doubles over, stomach emptying onto red dust and dandelion weeds.
He manages not to get any on his suit or his shoes.
It’s the little victories.
He downs the last swallow of bourbon that managed to linger in his glass, neatens his tie, and sets out to get to the bottom of this.
