Angel-88

Angel-88, often referred to by her epithet **"Heavy Metal,"** is a member of the Hershey Pirates, a pirate group active in the New World, and one of the four current Yonko pirate crews.

She initially joined the crew as a temporary member, her seeking to return to her homeland via Miku's offer to let her stay on the Hershey's ship until they eventually found it, as Angel's nation of Svarga at the time was still completely unknown in it's current state to the rest of the world, and wasn't logged via log pose. After some time on the ship, though, Angel developed an actual bond with the crew, deciding that they could put finding her home on hold, as she declared that she would sail the sea with the Hershey Pirates as an official member of the crew, becoming their Musician.

Angel has decades worth of combat information stored within her mind drive, initially constructed to be an infantry soldier by Phanta Borea while Scopas were still in their early stages of development, slated to be used and operated not unlike robots. Because of this, aside from her amazing ability in the spectrum of music, she provides herself as a powerful asset in combat should these skills prove necessary, additionally having great swaths of knowledge in the fields of survival and health/safety.

As a Scopa, Angel, while not inherently trained to do so, is able to use Haki. She currently can only use Busoshoku Haki, though she can supplement her lack of Kenbunshoku Haki with the various gadgets and systems spread throughout her body, with different sensors and detectors that pick up sound, sight, temperature, direction, and general spatial awareness much better than the average human.

## History

### Past

**Angel-88** is visibly not human, and rather in fact quite visibly robotic in nature. Angel isn't a robot, although the mistake upon first glance is easy, and is actually a Generation One Scopa, manufactured in the first batch of Scopas by Phanta Borea, a company owned by Saturn Rezka and located in Svarga. Angel was made to be an infantry soldier, given programming that included years, decades, entire lives' worth of information dictating and regarding battle tactics, combat maneuvers filled with various martial arts and styles, knowledge on how to use almost every weapon known to Svarga, and further all weapons popularized in military culture worldwide. Angel additionally has knowledge on survival skills, as Angel was initially meant to be partnered with an actual human companion on the field, where the two would coexist and work as a unit. Before Angel was deployed, of course, the voices rang throughout the streets and factories calling for the Scopa Project to be stuttered to a halt, as Scopa were discovered to have tangible, not only logical and reasonable intelligence, but emotional intelligence. Thus, all Scopa were freed from the manufacturing centers with a simple and rushed briefing telling them about the society they were being let loose upon before being so. Many found themselves lost from this. While it was true that they were intelligent beings, and that doing things that could be considered immoral and unfit for a mind that thought as people do (by the moral standards of Svarga), being let loose towards the ideal that was "freedom" was not as freeing as it would make itself out to be. Angel, like many others of the First Wave, was left without a purpose. There was no longer a place to call home, if there ever had been one in the first place, Angel's immense martial skills had little application within the society at large, though it was an option to join the armed forces as a soldier rather than a machine. Many did in fact do this, though Angel decided against it. Angel was walking along a street in the Jana District when one day she heard something that rang beautifully to her. Looking up at the sound, Angel saw that it was one of Jana District's renowned Jazz Bars, a place where music sung freely and an atmosphere of relaxation and joy filled the room. Angel eagerly went to check it out, and she immediately fell in love with the vibe. Angel decided to become a musician, as sher learned from scratch how to play the guitar, and additionally modified their own body to become something of a soundboard in itself, able to create music from willpower alone.

This lasted for some time, Angel becoming quite reputable of a musician in a relatively short period of time, her gaining a reputation as being someone who could mix many types of music together to create beautiful songs that spoke in a unique manner, familiar yet new altogether. Unfortunately, on one fateful day, Angel was playing at a beach concert when suddenly a massive gust of wind hit, blowing her prized guitar into the sea beyond. Without a moment's hesitation, Angel dove into the sea after it, swimming frantically to get her guitar back. It only seemed to drift further and further away, in a chase that felt like it lasted days, though Angel not once letting the drifting guitar out of her sight. This lasted for almost a week, before Angel finally got her guitar back in a momentary rejoice. However in this moment she also realized that she was now far, far from home. Her energy reserves were also almost completely drained at this point as well, as Angel resolved to use the last of her energy to swim to a nearby isle with her guitar. Angel's make contains a built-in Solar Panel, however the energy efficiency of it would require her to remain idle on this small island for a day or two before being able to provide her enough energy to make the week's journey back. This time passed smoothly, but then Angel ran into another problem. Which was was back, exactly? There had been many tides and currents that had altered her course as she chased her guitar on the way here, and there was no way of knowing which direction Svarga now lay. The nation had no log pose pointing to it, nor was it remotely near within range of Angel's built-in radar. She didn't know where to go, and so she decided "screw it." Angel got out her guitar, and began to play as if it were the best moments of her life, a beautiful song resonating from her small isle for days on end.

Sometime later, this song was picked up by none other than the Hershey Pirates, one of the yonko crews, as they approached Angel with great curiosity. Angel explained her situation to them, receiving both sympathy and curiosity alike, as the Hersheys had never heard of Svarga before, let alone seen someone quite of Angel's make either. Komodia Aphrodite offered to help bring Angel back to her homeland, saying that the group were pirates and that they were bound to stumble upon the land eventually even if it didn't have log pose coordinates. Angel was initially hesitant. She knew not of pirates aside from idle tales and stories told within Svarga, though they were ancient tales at best. She accepted though, seeing this as the best, and only, opportunity to make her way back without potentially getting herself even more lost. And thus, she temporarily joined the crew.