Raphael

Raphael is the Image of Unix featured in the last five pages of Session 5 of Eyes of Katobi 2.

It is the sixth and final evolution of Unix Image, preceded by Longinus, Spriggan, Forneus, Genesis, and Lucifer, with the ability to accelerate, slowing down, rewind, and stop time using gravitational forces for everything except living beings. It is considered by Unix himself, the true ultimate Image and the key to becoming the Platinum Voice.

## Biography

### Origin

Raphael, or Raphaela, is one of the four main seraphim or archangels of God within the hierarchy of angels from Christian and Islamic mythology, His name means "It is God that heals." Not all branches of these religions consider the identification of Raphael to be canonical.

He is said to be the guardian of the Tree of Life, opposite the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. He also expounds to Adam the War in Heaven in which Lucifer and the Fallen angels fell, and the creation of the Earth. Raphael first appears disguised in human form as the traveling companion of Tobit's son Tobiah, calling himself "Azarias the son of the great Ananias."

Most of Raphael's exploits take place in the Apocrypha, where he has roles as an imprisoner of Azazel (an Angel that gets exiled from Heaven for having sex with human females and one of the Grigori) and guide of Sheol, the Hebrew underworld. Although Raphael is not named in the Bible, theologians believe he was the archangel who healed the infirm at the Bethesda Pond described in the Gospels. He is also thought to be one of the three angels who visited the patriarch Abraham and his wife, Sarah, to help with their conception; as well as the angel who healed Abraham’s grandson Jacob’s wrestling injuries and who gave King Solomon his magical ring.

Though he is not depicted as a lover of another being, Raphael appears in The Lovers Tarot Card, and his status of the patron Saint of lovers is due to his involvement in uniting Sarah & Tobias in the Book of Tobit. Raphael is also portrayed in religious art as carrying a stick or cane and walking, often leading a lost child or traveler back in the right direction, symbolizing Raphael's role as patron saint of travelers and exemplary guardian angel. Saint Raphael is also known as a patron of the blind, happy meetings, nurses, physicians, medical workers, matchmakers, Christian marriage, and Catholic studies.

In Islam, Raphael is the angel responsible for signaling the coming of Judgment Day by blowing the trumpet (namely Sûr) and sending out a "Blast of Truth." According to tradition, the trumpet will be blown two times. According to some sources, the demon lord Asmodeus is his counterpart and they have a longstanding feud with each other.

### Appearance

Raphael (inspired by Napoleon Crossing the Alps) is depicted as a thin, white, winged feminine humanoid fused at its feet to the back of a horse vaguely resembling a four-legged centaur. An RF cable, split in two and forming two clean arcs, joins the humanoid half at the navel, and on the horse’s buttocks.

The humanoid-half wears a fencing helmet with a smooth black surface a large Aristotle’s solar system on where the face should be and a crown with fire decorations (which was inspired by the Chinese headdress Sarah Jessica Parker wore at the 2015 Met Gala) representing a lit torch. A red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, and magenta fading wig can be seen behind the humanoid half. Its humanoid half has six fluffy wings of varying colors as well.

It is the least dressed out of all of Unix’ Images, only being wrapped in a multitude of white cloths and a white towel draped over its arms.

The horse-half wears blinkers and reins, held in the hands of the humanoid half, and barding that only covers the horse’s chest and nearly its back.

In contrast to its predecessors, Raphael doesn’t follow the appearance tropes that represent Unix’ appearance, to be more exact, the tattoo on the cheek that represents Unix’ leaking eye is replaced with raspberries and thorns wound around its mask which are also tied in a way that resembles shimenawa rope, complete with four strands of long shide that extends to the horse’s knees, and instead of the “αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσϛτυφχψωϗϝͱϻϙϡϣϥϧϩϫϭϯ” pattern on its body, it has world maps embedded on its breasts, shoulders, elbows, hands, knuckles, knees, ankles, feet, metatarsophalangeal joints, on the horse’s forehead, shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and blinkers, and the aforementioned Aristotle’s solar system on its mask.

The aura that appears around Unix when active is yellow sparkles appearing and fading away around Unix.

### Abilities

Raphael is an extremely powerful speed oriented time-controlling Image. Although its physical abilities may not be remarkable, its control over time grants it an overwhelming speed, agility, and evasion advantage.

However, Unix isn't particularly interested in Raphael’s time manipulation, but rather its capability to rewrite reality.