Angelo Fox

Angelo Fox in his Ranger Officer Uniform

Enzo Fox (Father)

Daniela Blanca (Mother)

Vittorio Fox (Brother)

Florencia Fox (Sister)

> "*I'll show you what a real devil looks like.*"
> ― Angelo Fox, 58 P.T.
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**Angelo Fox**, otherwise known as **Angelo Blanca**,is a Metahuman and Military Officer of the United Republic of Orion, more specifically, a Gendarmerie Ranger. During the events of Legacy, he investigated the Ancient Relics created by a Greek Metahuman.

## **Appearance**

Angelo is a tall and well-built man. He has messy brown hair, brown eyes and a defined nose. He shares a mild resemblance to his father, Enzo Fox.

For most of the time, Angelo wears his Ranger Officer Uniform, a long black coat, a black eyepatch on his left eye and ocassionally a dark grey hat with the Orion Star.

## **Personality**

Angelo is introduced as an exasperated soldier set on completing his missions, however his true personality is that of a serious and level-headed man. The Ranger seems to have an irrational hatred towards his parental last name (Fox) and is prone to fly into blind rages when it is mentioned. However, this anger is diminished after he encounters the spirit of his grandfather.

Angelo is also very matter-of-fact person when dealing with situations and a quick thinker mid-battle. When not in combat, Blanca is shown to be empathetic and melancholic, deeply dissatisfied to where his life has led him. Fox seems to only have a real friendship with Oskar Laake and his team loyalists, otherwise keeping his schemes and thoughts to himself.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

#### **Childhood**

Angelo Fox was born in the year 20 P.T. in the Martian city of New Helsinki. He spent most of his childhood living with his mother and siblings while his father worked as a General of the Solar Union.

#### **Service in the Military**

In 38 P.T. Blanca would join the URO's military academy in Minseach-Valencia, where he would endure a year-long training programme where he befriended Oskar Laake, Clara Wolf and Erin. Eventually, he was recieved an invitation to join the Gendarmerie Rangers of the Grand Army alongside Erin. He served under the command of Captain Marino and was stationed in the city of Madrid in the Interregnum Spain.

During this time, he would distance himself from his Foxist brother Vittorio, who had taken a political career, and would go as far as changing his last name to his maternal one due to his resentment towards Foxism and his father's side of the family. He would maintain good relations with his mother Daniela and his sister Florencia.

During his early service with the Rangers, Angelo befriended fellow trainee Luca Treacy and would awaken his Metahuman ability to move an object's time state, similar to his grandfather Luigi Fox's TMD. During this time he also lost Erin during an accident out of his control.

### **Iron Nations: Legacy**

#### **Mission for the Ruby Sword of Enton**

In 46 P.T., Angelo would be contacted by his long time friend, Agent Oskar Laake of the TDO in order to commence an investigation into the Ancient Relics made by an arcane Metahuman, which were of paramount importance to the URO. The two set out with the objective of preventing the relic to fall onto the Vortex Empire's hands.

After convincing the civilian Henry Davis (Wielder of the Ruby Sword of Enton) to join their mission, Angelo went looking into the story of Agent Maximillian Draxler of the TDO, where he discovered the man had travelled from Saavedra's town in Mars back to Earth in the search of an archaic workshop. With Oskar having to fight the mercenary Felix Corrie, Blanca and the others realized they were being hunted by the Etinson Mercenaries.

Shortly thereafter, Angelo and the team visited the Darkwater Base on the planet of Stagnum where he and Oskar faced off against the pyrokinetic mercenary Paul Musso while Henry and Clara Wolf fought and killed the other mercenary Brock. After Musso's escape, the group discovered of the location of the Sword through the Stagnum starmap.

Once the trio arrived at Enton, a battle broke out and Angelo was placed in charge of clearing the outside of the temple while Oskar and Henry faced off Paul Musso and Keane Valensi on the park they had landed. Discovering a cohort of monsters ravaging the city, Angelo engaged the mercenaries Howard Etinson and Regine Kessler, whom which he dispatched by destroying their tower and later shooting down their parachutes.

Learning of the desertion of the last mercenary, Rose Kessler, Angelo and his allies stormed the temple on which the sword was hidden. Amidst the crossfire, he and Oskar were critically wounded by Commander Norgaard Slovknet's cryokinetic metahuman ability, leaving Davis alone to confront the enemy. Once Slovknet was neutralized, he retrieved the sword and the mission ended. After this assignment he returned to the Interregnum and to his post in the Ranger Guard base.

#### **Operation Pioneer**

On 50 Post Terra, Angelo was once again called in by the now promoted Colonel Oskar to join his Unit 505 to fight in the Mid Rim. Angelo initially was sent to Zaragoza in order to recruit Henry Davis, Rose Kessler and the former ace pilot Nolan Ferrand into the unit. Later, the Ranger participated in the mission to investigate the disappearance of Colonel Kingsbury's Team on the planet of Vassallo, capturing the Sicarii survivors Veskon and Laikana in the process. Following the unit to the TDO's Base Tranquility in Novaterra, Angelo was tasked with the interrogation and guarding of Veskon. During his extended stay in the planet, Angelo would begin an investigation on his own accord after he was barred from intel following the First Pioneer's attack on the Lassen Valley with the help of the scientist Kondo.

Angelo was also present during the offensive of the Second Pioneer, where he was the first person to figure out the enemy's EMP attack on the base's reactors. Rushing for a bomber plane after emerging on the surface, Angelo was nearly killed by the Second but was saved by the Sicarii Veskon who had escaped his cell and promptly annihilated the beast with Essence. A few days later while guarding Veskon, the alien willingly offered his service to help the Ranger uncover the truth behind Operation Pioneer and the Sicarii species.

Angelo and the Sicarii deserted that night and travelled through the sea of dreams to the snowy planet of Squalor in the Mid Rim. There, they traversed through a large undeground temple that belonged to the now nigh-extinct race while the others dealt with the Third Pioneer off the coast of New Vancouver. During their expedition into the temple, Angelo and Veskon ran into an infected corpse of a dead sicarii, which was possessed by the Fourth Pioneer. The two were forced to fight and were eventually able to kill the monstrous enemy, however, during this battle Angelo's left eye would be destroyed and infected by the parasite inside the Child of Scotus. Making use of Essence, Veskon was able to temporarily bind the creature inside of Blanca while they investigated the unguarded library.

Once they found the stone tablets with the prophecy regarding the Children of Scotus and the Abyss, the Ranger and Veskon prepared to return to Novaterra in order to stop the other Sicarii from continuing their deception to cause a galactic cataclysm. However, the parasite almost broke free of it's binding and Angelo fell into a short coma. In this catatonic state, Angelo had a dream of the life of his grandfather Luigi Fox who used what remained of his essence to create a stronger and definitive seal to force the parasite into coextisting with the man.

Corporal Blanca finally came to his senses after this, and arrived at Base Tranquility using the Celestial Compass alongside Veskon. Finding Davis atop the spire of the base, he learned of the attack and subsequent death of Director Otto Laake of Darkwater and the Fifth Pioneer, as well as the desertion of Kessler and Duvallier as well as Oskar's mission to the Abyss. The trio headed into the prison dimension and joined the fray shortly after. During the fight, Angelo would face off against the Vortex forces and Laikana while Henry sacrificed himself to destroy the tomb. After Operation Pioneer ended, Angelo spent the next few months in the hospital and was cleared off all charges after the Pioneer Comittee finished it's investigation.

#### **Metahuman Revolutionary Comittee Conflict**

Having distanced himself from his circle of friends, and having been promoted to Sergeant, Angelo spent the next four years working with Private Ines Miranda on an assortment of missions still under the command of Marino. However, after capturing Maximillien Duvallier in Apollo, he and his work-partner were relocated to the La Plata region on Earth, with an assignment to create a spec ops team and to work under Captain Vesna Pavelic and Lieutenant Felix Sarvar of the Gendarmerie Regiment stationed there. Before leaving, Angelo took Miranda, Duvallier and IIA agent Ettore Rondizzoni with him.

Shortly after meeting with Sarvar in Silberberg, capital of La Plata, the promoted Fenrik Blanca and his team were breifed on the metahuman crisis related to Charles MacMahon's Metahuman Revolutionary Comittee, and how his mission was to eliminate the group while cooperating with Pavelic. However, Angelo's first task was to act as a bodyguard for his brother Deputy Vittorio Fox, who was visiting the region to appease the political conflict. During the first two days, Angelo was given command of Corporal Johan Van Bronx's squad (composed of Eamon de Valera and Alba Cardona), and with Sarvar dealt with an assassination attempt on Vittorio, and later carried out an operation to neutralize the Vortex's Assassin Android working to kill the politician.

After the successful operation, Angelo's squad was formalized by Captain Pavelic, who sent Blanca's Epsilon Squad into the countryside to investigate the rural town of Torget Boerr, which had lost all comms with the regional capital. In the initial investigation, the deserted town soon turned into a death trap for Angelo and his crew who were attacked by stone golems, and being saved only by the Metacorps squad (composed of Lena Krasnov and Julia Paris) attached to his team. The Fenrik and his squad, now almost entirely complete analyzed the situation at hand and formulated a plan to draw out and capture the MRC soldier hidden in the town. The night after, Blanca and a couple of his team mates distracted the stone golems with Krasnov's metahuman ability, and Angelo's essence seal in the sky, while Johan's squad (composed of himself, Paris and Alba) managed to get to the MRC member hiding in the train station.

However, the capture mission soon turned into an assassination, when Corporal Paris murdered the enemy instead of capturing him, creating a short-lived but dangerous standoff between herself and Van Bronx. After defusing the situation and clearing the town of enemies, the group set camp on a farmhouse north of Torget Boerr, where Fenrik Blanca reorganized his unit to mobilize north to the town of Vinstra to meet up with the last member of the metacorps squad. At Vinstra, Angelo searches alone for Frank Brett, but the two of them are attacked by MRC agent Kai Kromer, with the enemy managing to kill Brett. With Johan and Eamon unable to capture the enemy, the team uncover a code and a signal coming from a town further north. Sending the code to Ettore and Max in Silberberg, Angelo and Epsilon Squad sets off via train to the town of Usher.

When they arrive, Felix talks to Angelo over the phone about the code, and how an individual called Captain Raven is involved with the MRC conflict since an attack on the Great Lakes region. Angelo also learns that Kromer was another co-conspirator of Raven. The next day, Angelo and his team inspect an abandoned manor where they find a stash of MRC weaponry and are attacked by MRC agent Sergei, who mortally wounds Krasnov. After her death, the squad are able to find the MRC's order of battle, pinpointing their headquarter's location. Due to the rising tensions between Captain Pavelic's regiment and Governor Krenz' own Ranger squad, Felix calls back Angelo from the north but the latter once more goes rogue to find and destroy the MRC headquarters. The remaining six members of Epsilon squad head to the graveyard of starships where the MRC are located. During a battle inside a fallen freighter, Angelo fights with MRC agents Kromer and Faust, and a third unidentified soldier inside his mind landscape. However, he is defeated but then saved by Fox and later his squad.

Upon retrieving yet another transmission during their raid, Angelo returns to Silberberg and stumbles upon his former comrade Lieutenant Luca Treacy under the command of Tau Squad and then heads for Company HQ to discuss the new findings with Felix. As they discover that Captain Vesna Pavelic is an MRC spy with the decryption, Felix explains his plan to overthrow Krenz to Angelo and the squad, who agree to take part in the operation. On February 1st, whilst Felix's forces seized the countryside and the key locations of Silberberg, Angelo and his team participated in the arrest of Governor Krenz, Civil Guard Captain Frey and the assassination of Captain Vesna Pavelic in the Regional Government Building alongside units from the La Plata Gendarmerie Company. On February 2nd, Angelo was amongst the officers that surrendered to Lieutenant General Drakeford, being confined to the Genesis-class Cruiser *Monitor* before being sent to the Karl Artelt Station in the orbit of Mars to await his sentencing.

During his stay at the prison, Angelo would reflect upon his previous actions and on Julia's treachery, later being set free of all charges after Vittorio's negotiations with Drakeford. What remained of Epsilon Squad would all take an indefinite leave of active duty, staying in Madrid awaiting the results of the trail against Sarvar and the other officers of the revolution. The Ranger travelled to Helsinki, on Vittorio's request, to discuss important business. There, he was given Luigi Fox's *Rhetoric* and *Chronicle* journals, which he read a few days later, finally comprehending his grandfather's actions and story. He also became interested in what had happened to him, and what Raven's mention in *Chronicle* meant for the La Plata incidents, so the Ranger decided to mobilize in order to learn of Fox's fate. In Bordeaux, Angelo met with Johan, where he learned about the recent uncoverings regarding McMahon and his link to Julia's treason, then gave his subordinate the order to carry on as the leader of Epsilon while he commenced his hunt for Raven. The Fenrik met up with old colleagues of the military to catch up on their lives, giving him the decisive resolve to desert.

A couple of days later, Angelo infiltrated Base Terra and stole Veskon's Celestial Compass for his journey. With two TDO Agents sent to detain him, Blanca fled to Valencia, where he utilized the object to escape from his pursuers, sending him off to the unknown Gemini Dimension.

#### **Investigation into the Dagger of Skavann**

On the year 57, Captain Blanca set out on a mission to the Far North in hopes of finding the fourth relic created by the Greek Metahuman, leaving behind his team in favor of a stealthier approach, as he was dealing with the infamous mercenary Leone Romano. Using new leads he eventually reached the planet of Skavann, deep in Vortex territory, and found the location of the dagger already looted by the mercenary and his partner, Kross, whom he fought and killed while Romano escaped.

A few months after the skirmish on Skavann, Blanca acquired new leads on the relic and discovered the Dagger had been kept under Romano's keeping who was now hiding in the Western Apollonir capital planet of Avan. He installed his own base of operations hidden in the city while the Vortex invaded and took control over the planet. He spent another couple of months monitoring Romano's movements, but was unable to find any openings to fight him, during this time he killed a female Chimaera agent whose gunship and codes he used to slip by the captured territories easily. A year later, Angelo's mission was allowed to continue after he rescued TDO Agent Elizabeth Jäger and the MUQ Agent Theocydes Lohart, learning that Romano was now working with Viceroy Kedric Castellon, who was in possesion of the dagger.

The three joined forces and fought a series of battles against Romano's elite team, effectively wiping out the whole unit. Upon their return to Avan, they partook in it's liberation. Firstly they engaged and killed the last mercenary, Romano, outside the Administration Building. Once inside, Blanca, Elizabeth and Lohart confronted Castellon in his office. During the intense fight, Angelo was gravely injured by an explosion and was forced to use his revival ability to heal his nearly fatal wounds, and with the temporary adrenaline boost was able to wear down the Viceroy long enough for Elizabeth to deliver the final blow.

When the hidden light dreadnought tore through the industrial area of Avan and was destroyed in orbit by General Roux's fleet and the Sovera cannon, Angelo joined Von Osus in the regroup efforts with Admiral Jäger. After the battle was finished shortly after, Angelo offered the two agents a place in his team with both accepting. He later took the dagger to the TDO's Foundation Division and set off for Apollo.

#### **Atlantean Galactic Crisis**

Six months after the Apollonir liberation, Blanca took on another mission with a few members of his team to visit the planet of Atlann in search of the fifth relic, the Wings of Naucrates. Him and his team were unable to find any clues however, and their stay was furtherly jeopardized after the Supreme Praetor and the Atlantean Military carried out a violent coup d'etat against the neutral Emperor Sylvanus. Threatening to kill Lt. Colonel von Osus, Angelo and the rest of his team fled from the planet ferrying the Angel Vaultkeeper Azurean and the Grand Captain Artoria, as well as Alexa herself.

Once arriving in a deserted planet on the borders of the Atlantean territories, he learned of the true nature of the uprising and discovered Marshal Kassandra Scippius' Vortex forces were given clearance to set up base on the MUQ allied planet embedded deep into the Galactic South. Blanca then fought the infamous spy Crane Crater alongside Lohart, Artoria and Van Bronx but was met by Lieutenant General Crossley and the Cosmos Man spearheading an emergency Task Force assembled by the Galactic Parliament. After a short discussion, Angelo defied the General and with support from the Cosmos Man declared he would deal with the Atlantean Crisis himself without the need of sending the entire Task Force into a massacre.

Shortly after declaring his intentions, Blanca and his team set base in the Mid Rim planet of Benitan in order to organize his operation. He first met with his commanding officer Colonel Felix Sarvar to ask him to testify for him before the URO's High Command, and later fought Captain Aurelion when he attacked the two. For the next month, Angelo sent reports to Sol and organized his plan, which was kept secret to the rest of his team and even to his collaborators. Sending his team to deal with the former Scarlet Moon weilder Aurelion while he figured out what to do. After he was given clearance to carry out his operation, Angelo intervened his subordinates' joint training excercise to eliminate Aurelion himself. He injured the enemy Atlantean but also slipped a note declaring an alliance with him, using his powers in secret to heal Aurelion. Later that same day, he declared Operation Full Moon as started.

The group then travelled to Atlann in order to meet with a shadow organization Blanca had make contact with to help with the insurrection to depose the Supreme Praetor and to stop Scippius from completing the revival of her god. Revealed to be a force of soldiers led by Emperor Sylvanus' only son, Selenos, and Aurelion himself, who was also a member of the revolutionary army, Angelo's Team and the insurrectionists prepared to attack the Capital of Atlann.

At sunset, the joint force launched an assault and were supported by Crossley's ship the RSS Allegiance as well as the Cosmos Man. Angelo and his team were tasked with clearing the entrance to the Imperial Acropolis while Artoria, Aurelion and Azurean fought the Royal Guard and their leader, Captain Ferus . Once the scarlet moon weilder was killed and the gates to the command building were caputed, Captain Blanca called in his reinforcements which consisted of Kai Kromer, Clara Wolf and Oskar Laake. When the God of Thorns was awakened by Scippius, Angelo and a portion of his squad stayed inside the Acropolis to fight the Supreme Praetor while Elizabeth Jäger led her own squad to hunt down the Vortex Marshal.

During the duel with the Supreme Praetor, Angelo was able to resist the powers of the Scarlet Moon employed by the Atlantean Tyrant and later when Aurelion regained control of his power, he used his sword to put the Praetor in a lock and allowing for Selenos to deliver the final strike. When the battle ended with Jäger Squad and the Cosmos Man killing Kassandra and the God of Thorns, Angelo was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and expanded the personnel in his unit back in Apollo. Once Operation Full Moon was finished, him and his soldiers would then return to base in order to remain on standby for Vittorio Fox's coup d'etat.

## **Abilities**

### **Time State Manipulation**

Angelo is able to change an object's time state, meaning he can 'move' an object in time to how it used to be or how it could be in the future. With this, he can desconstruct and reinstate an object's status, such as disintegrating one of the legs of a watchtower or reverting wounds on his body. In it's heightened state, this ability can completely heal the Ranger and even grant him an adrenaline boost, however it can only be activated if he is near death.

### **Essence**

After Angelo's left eye was infected with the alien parasite known as the Fourth Pioneer, he was able to gain control of it with the help of his grandfather's seal, allowing for him to manipulate the magical element known as Essence to a certain extent. However, he can only do very small apparitions, such as small essence shields capable of protecting him. This essence also allows him to enter a dream landscape (a mountain amidst a sea of mist) where he can freely talk to Luigi Fox, also allowing the spirit of the terran hero to sense the actions outside and sometimes even intervene when deemed necessary.

### **Seal of Eternal Control**

Aside from attaining a limited use of Essence, the sheer presence of the Fourth Pioneer within his body allows him to use a technique which stores up to three abilities he can freely use, although he does not know how to release or acquire a new one. The first ability he has is the Seal of Eternal Control, which cannot be replaced or removed. The second ability is his essence manipulation. And his third and final ability is the ocular power to see a couple of seconds into the future, which he can only use by marking a singular individual and only when said marker is within his eyesight, this allows him to predict his enemies' movements and to come up with better fighting strategies. Blanca acquired this last ability after his fight with Castellon, stealing the original power from the deceased mercenary Wackerman.

The Seal also can be visually seen when Angelo uncovers his left eye, having six pointed arrows with three in the sclera of his eyes and three in the orange iris.