Ezekiel

revolutionist, godslayer, and 700-year strong chosen of wilddog, holding a day job as the advisor to pangean royalty

## Personality/General

ezekiel is an exceptionally devoted chose of WILD\_DOG WATCHING, and as such is trusted with a frankly terrifying amount of offensive prowess. within wilddog's standings, they tend to function as an enforcer; while not *expressly* an assassin, they are generally the last resort brute force measure sent to get a troublesome entity to comply where more diplomatic tactics are have already failed.

on pangea, they keep a tight lock on thier past and their powers, keeping to themself in a clandestine home in the forest.

## Story/Origin

ezekiel was not the first to lose someone to matriarch's way of 'protecting' pangea; but they were, perhaps, the one who lost the most. a friend and ally who had briefly left pangea in effort of finding a decent life for the two of them, killed upon his return; and with him died all of ezekiel's ambitions of happiness. until now, it had been easy to pass off those matriarch struck down in this manner as enemies set on pangea's harm--but ezekiel knew this friend and his intentions, and his demise was no act of justice or defense.

in hopelessness, in vengeance, and in recognizing the characteristics of yet another malevolent "caretaker" looming over them, they wished matriarch dead.

as things would have it, this was a wish similarly shared by WILD\_DOG WATCHING, who also had its sights set on matriarch for its involvement in the orochi incident; it reached out to them to offer its power in exchange for matriarch's fall, and they readily accepted.

ezekiel then set to quietly searching out others who had been similarly wronged by matriarch, and who had begun to question its benevolence and place as the planet's authority. over the next few years, they gathered a small but dedicated following who would help them carry out the Razing; an uprising designed all to remove matriarch from power, to set an example to its followers, and to rebuild in the wake of its absence.

when the day finally came, ezekiel's attack was swift and ferocious. their person preceeded by their power, a great flaming bird set ablaze the scene before them, and with the stage set they first saw to sealing matriarch. the surrounding populace watched in stunned silence as they trapped the god; melting down its divine helm and revealing the now-charred face of the enraged beast below, while just as swiftly reforging it into a cursed collar that would prevent its healing back to a truly godlike state. the fallen being would come to be known as Raathe, and though this had been their only true target, it was not the only one necessary to seeing their plans to fruition, and they just as quickly set to disposing of those it had touched with its 'blessing'. striking down its the last shards of its dispersed power, they likewise destroyed any of its hope of returning to glory, and when all was said and done, the people watched their figure give itself to the flames.

the razing itself, as far as anyone knew, was carried out only by that one rogue individual. those who rose to unite the masses in mourning of their god, and to rally in defense against future attacks, were naturally assumed to be unrelated. in realty these were, of course, fellow members of ezekiel's group, and the support and organization they gave to the rest of pangea soon led them to be hailed as its new leaders.

while ezekiel saw to it their initial identity burned with the flames of the razing, they soon rejoined their allies in charge under a new guise. only this first generation of leaders still knew who ezekiel was and what they'd done. since then, ezekiel has taken several different names and identities through the ages to mask their immortality, all the while keeping close to the rulers of pangea; whether as a historian, an archivist, or an advisor, to monitor the state of things and to see that records and information pertaining to matriarch are closely maintained.

### in Static Sound

ezekiel is the only character created specifically for the static sound timeline; likewise, all of the above backstory is relevant to it. ezekiel's involvement in the main plot begins when they receive word that amaranth has discovered the lost queen in the wastes of nk's domain. they quickly head off to snuff out the last connection to matriarch, but face complications in the form of toxinvein and amaranth herself. they end up putting aside their initial mission to see to these new problems, keeping a close eye

after the events of the main story-with their secret fully exposed and raathe gone permanently- they decide to finally leave pangea behind for good, to find a cleaner-and perhaps better- start somewhere else among the cosmos.

## Relations/Standings

ezekiel doesn't particularly like people and has no interest in maintaining any sort of relationship with anyone. they keep an an aggressively low profile within their position, and their unlikable demeanor helps to ensure no one cares enough to try prying into their personal life outside their work as an advisor

ezekiel and amaranth both do their best to avoid eachother. has a hardline focus on stability and survival, and to say their ideals clash with amaranth's hedonistic nature is an understatement. they're constantly at the other's throats when forced to work together, and very little gets accomplished. still, as ezekiel works where amaranth lives, frequent run-ins are inevitable.

they get along much more nicely with arpeggio, who is also, generally, much more agreeable.

there is something of a tense [if ultimately harmless] power triangle between the three; amaranth knows ezekiel has no real power over her directly and seldom listens, but ezekiel *does* have sway over arpeggio- which th, who in turn *can* often get amaranth to concede.

[SS] after a decidedly rough first impression, ezekiel and lily end up surprisingly good friends. being the last two left from pangea's old age, they share a certain understanding of personal experiences that their world has otherwise long since forgotten. moreover, ezekiel respects her for her unguarded kindness to them despite everything, and lily appreciates their willingness to earnestly engage with her and treat her as an equal.

WILD\_DOG WATCHING

they are something of a mythic figure among other chosen; their role is widely know but they've never actually met with other chosen, and any information about them is similarly elusive. wilddog

## Skills/Abilities

ezekiel primarily uses catalyst in its base form, and excels at putting it to use as a physical force or offense, defense, and mobility

though all chosen have a sort of quasi-immortality, ezekiel's is once again

## OTHER NOTES:

* ezekiel has changed so dramatically since initial conception that their true base track scarcely fits. i've unofficially assigned them BLUEALiCE by Onoken as a "proper" track, but this is purely to give a more accurate sense of their demeanor-nothing about the character actually comes from this track
* ezekiel is one of the ones with a hard canon LGBT status; the most obvious one, certainly: they're nonbinary. likely also genderfluid, depending on what their past aliases were like.
* there's a good possibility they might have PTSD. i don't feel i'm qualified to make a canon call on it, but it was definitely in consideration while developing them.