Adriel Harper

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> "They're a reminder of what I lost. A reminder of the pride that tore me from glory. Also, they're really sensitive, and I can't have that kind of weakness out in the open for anyone to touch."
> ― Adriel to Lexi
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**Adriel**, now **Adriel Harper** due to his marriage to Lexi Harper, is an archdemon and fallen angel whose singular purpose seems to be so sow as much chaos as he can in as short a time as possible. He is currently a resident of Shawrose City. As a character, he belongs to and is portrayed by Lark.

## Description

### Appearance

He stands at a height that is only slightly above average. He doesn't look particularly otherworldly or superhuman, or even dangerous, when he completely masks his true features behind his human form. His preferred appearance is of a man with warm tan skin and a wild shock of dark brown hair. He dims his eyes to a dark brown when he can, but when particularly angered, they have been known to flash an amber-red. His form is not that of a professional athlete, but he is, by no means, without muscle. He also has a tattoo on the back of this human form of a pair of jagged angel wings. It is unclear if this tattoo transfers between his forms. Adriel can also make appear and disappear at will a pair of wings, which appear as charred and black while in his mortal form.

Adriel's true form is terrifying. Human eyes cannot sustain the sight of it, and any mortal who were to see him in his true form would immediately burn sight from their eyes and sanity from their mind. This is because his true form is not a shape that mortal eyes can comprehend. It is a roiling mass of concentrated power, energy in its purest form, with charred wings that burn constantly. disintegrating just to remake themselves in the flame.

### Personality

Adriel is very confident in his capabilities and has a mastery of himself that can only be achieved through hundreds of years of time spent knowing and exploring oneself. Due to this, he is also quite unused to the concept of being afraid of anything, and presents himself as an undaunted individual without an ounce of cowardice in his body. The dark side of this coin, however, is that he has been known to express a level of egoism and self-centeredness that gives him an inherent arrogance that can be hard to come to terms with. And if his pride were ever to be wounded, he would never forgive such a slight.

He is also described as having a soft heart that he hides quite poorly and that is reserved for a select few, which is quite unusual for a demon. Given how liberal he is with the love that he gives to others, it is safe to say that he tends to get attached to people quickly. However, Adriel has also displayed a lack of care for what happens to him, and has been known to be reckless about his own wellbeing, regardless of the effect this recklessness might have on those around him. This recklessness has also led him to, more often than not, value picking fights over handling situations with maturity and emotional intelligence.

Despite the way he often acts, there is a wisdom about him, though one that he more often than not chooses to hide. Furthermore, he can be quite charismatic, when he wants to be. More often than not, he just decides to go for the abrasive answer. He likes his secrets, and perhaps this is why he keeps his wisdom and his words so close to his chest. He loves to be unnecessarily cryptic, even when it would make more sense to be forthcoming.

## Biography

### Pre-RP

#### Before the Fall

Adriel doesn't remember his birth. He only remembers that there was a time where he didn't exist, and then there was a time where he did. He does not recall being a child, however; he sprung into the world fully-formed, an adult, for all intents and purposes. He was an angel. He felt little. The world was a distant mirror into which he could stare, but never venture, and for an indeterminate amount of time, he was content to look down upon the world. He had his soul-brother with him, Eramiel, who had been born from the same energy as him, and he had his duty, and nothing else mattered.

But then there was talk of rebellion. A rippling rumour of turning on that which had created them, for how very unfair it was, that these human creations were loved so much more than them? But Adriel envied humankind for their ability to care, for their ability to love, and it was this yearning that saw him drawn towards the dissenting crowd. This yearning would be his downfall.

#### The Fall

Adriel Fell. His bond with Eramiel was sundered agonizingly. No pain would ever come close to how it felt to Fall, for his very essence to burn away and be transformed, for him to be severed from half of his soul. His wings, once pristine and white and beautiful, became charred husks, faded memories of what they'd once been.

#### Nomad

Adriel spent his first few hundreds of years on the mortal plane wandering. He spent some time with a Viking tribe, where he got his first tattoo that eventually was burned up and erased due to his demonic healing abilities. Eventually, he found his way to an indeterminate civilization, where he first fell in love with a woman named Costanza. Costanza was already married, and their affair eventually ended when her husband chased Adriel from their village. Little else is known about the time Adriel spent wandering.

#### Telton

Sometime in the early 1300s, Adriel found himself in Telton's capital city, where he happened to frequent a tavern fairly often. One night, this tavern was graced by the presence of Ferris Whit, disguised as a peasant man, and Adriel became fascinated by the beautiful stranger. However, approaching him in his preferred form proved useless. Adriel made it something of a game, to transform himself into whatever form he saw fit and try to seduce Ferris via this form, guessing at what it would take to win Ferris's attention. Eventually, he fell upon the correct form: a tall, pale ginger man with green eyes. At last, Ferris fell into bed with him, and the two began a secret affair that they would maintain for approximately two years. They became such a common sight at the tavern that the room they used for their lightly rendezvouses that the tavern keeper would often leave that room vacant, reserved just for them. Even so, the affair was entirely sexual. Adriel came to develop feelings for Ferris, but since the latter never showed any interest in reciprocating when Adriel flirted with him or tried to make things more intimate, he never confessed, content to keep what little of Ferris he could have, even if Adriel always had to be the one to initiate things between them.

And then, one night, everything changed. Ferris came to the tavern distraught and slightly drunk, and when he brought Adriel up to their room, he initiated things for the first time. He also at last told Adriel his real name; up until that point, he'd been using an alias: Caspian. Emotional and in pain from something that Adriel would never become aware of, Ferris had cried during and after their coupling, eventually crying himself to sleep in Adriel's arms. This, too, was a first; Ferris had always packed up and left once they'd completed their business with one another. Even so, when Adriel woke up the next morning, Ferris was gone, and he wouldn't see him again until almost a decade later.

#### 20th Century

In the mid to late 1900s, Adriel met a woman named Irene Dumort, whom he came to love. They dated for a time, but eventually, Adriel came to resent that she never seemed as passionate about him as he was about her, and he broke things off with her. Sometime afterwards, he left France and came to the United States, where he has stayed until this day.

### Post-RP

Adriel and Lexi got married off-screen on an undetermined date.

## Abilities

* **Immortality**: Adriel has the curse and blessing of being able to live forever without physically aging, as well as being very hard to kill.
* **Pyromancy**: As a fire-aligned entity, Adriel has the power to control flame and is immune to fire.
* **Shapeshifting**: Adriel can change his form at will.
* **Teleportation**: As an archdemon, Adriel has the power to teleport. This ability is restricted and leeches a great deal more power when teleporting over large bodies of moving water.

## Relationships

* Family
* Romance
* Friends

* Eramiel
* Raziel

Little is known about Adriel's relationship with Eramiel, as Adriel doesn't speak very much of his time before the fall. What is known is that Eramiel was his soul-brother and was, thus, very important to Adriel. He was half of Adriel's spirit; his mirror. What Adriel lacked, Eramiel had, and vice versa. They completed each other.

However, whatever bond they had was entirely severed when Adriel Fell. Eramiel did not follow him, and though Adriel longs to see him again and misses him on a very deep, profound level, he knows that to see him again would be to sign his own death warrant.

Adriel and Raziel didn't have very much of a relationship before Adriel's Fall. He only came to know of Raziel later, after Raziel came down to the mortal plane and began conducting his strange machinations.

Adriel had heard of him enough to know that he was trouble, at least, and that he was stronger than Adriel. This was later truly proven when Adriel attempted to take Raziel down on his own and wound up close to death and unsuccessful.

* Lexi Harper
* Irene Dumort
* Ferris Whit

Adriel's first impression of Lexi was that she was beautiful. He knew she didn't like him, but she appreciated her spirit and the way she pushed back against him, especially in an environment where most seemed to find him bizarre or scary. So when it seemed like he did have a chance with her, he was determined to fight for it, and luckily for him, she chose him over Rhett Kalo, her other prospective lover at the time. What spawned from there was a relationship that surprised both him and Lexi alike in how serious it got.

His devotion to Lexi is as of yet unparalleled in his experience. Unlike so many of his previous others, she has never seemed to want him to change, nor has she ever needed to feel superior to him in their relationship. It has been refreshing, for him, and he loves it. He loves her. He is absolutely certain that there is no soul more fit to stand by his side in all of the universe. There is a great relief in knowing that, in having at last found what he was looking for. An even greater relief to be married to her.

He loved Irene, long ago, but it has been ages since he felt anything remotely close to love for her. Over time, as she would contact him, over the years, he developed a sort of resentment towards her, for she would not leave him alone and let him move on properly. He knew that she only wanted him for what he could do, and not for who he was. Power was her only desire. Even so, her death did sadden him to some degree, for he'd always hoped that she might change for the better.

Perhaps his old feelings for her and the bittersweetness of her death was what urged Adriel to take what remained of Irene's vampire gang, Les Vampires de L'Ivoire, under his wing, bringing them back with him to Shawrose and inducting them into his gang, The Wildfire.

Adriel first knew him as simply Caspian. But before that, he barely knew him at all. For quite some time, to Adriel, Ferris was just a very attractive man who would come to the tavern and ignore his advances. Determined to win his regard, however, Adriel concocted for himself a game in which, every night Ferris came to the tavern, Adriel would shapeshift into a different human form before approaching him, trying out different genders and color palettes in the hopes of eventually landing on one that would earn him a positive reaction from Ferris.

And, in fact, he did, in time. Wearing the guise of a pale man with ginger hair, Adriel finally took Ferris to bed, and thus began their arrangement. It was just sex, but Adriel could almost convince himself, every time, that Ferris had shown him a bit more of himself in some small gesture, or that something he'd said in the heat of the moment might've meant that he cared for Adriel, and it wasn't long before Adriel was wholeheartedly enamoured with the man. Still, he knew it was a doomed love that he had for him, and it didn't surprise him when Ferris stopped showing up for their little trysts.

It was only years later that he learned that all along, this handsome stranger from the tavern had been, at the time, the crown prince of Telton, now its king.

* Jay Lane

Jay was an unexpected friend, encountered by chance while out on a date to Taco Bell with Lexi. They'd had a little bit of fun with him, messed around with him a bit, claiming that he was their long-lost son, and so, of course, when he turned up at the college a few days later, he'd leapt at the chance to befriend him. Ever since, Jay has been his closest friend. He also refuses to call him anything other than "Fitzwilliam" or various nicknames for said name, such as "Fitz" or "Fitzy."

When Adriel needed advice about his worries surrounding the act of proposing to Lexi, he called Jay, who talked him out of his own fear and urged him to go through with his plan. Ever since, Adriel has been convinced that he needs to help Jay find a lover of his own.

## Trivia

**Fun Facts**

* Over the course of his conversations with various individuals, Adriel brags at different points in time about his previous romantic exploits. These include: LIST.

**Behind the Scenes**

* Adriel was originally created as a joke character. Over time, he evolved into a character with more emotional depth and more interesting intentions than to simply be the butt of the joke for the purpose of having fun.
* It is entirely possible that Adriel's existence is what inspired the creation of Benny, or vice versa.
* Adriel was once thought to be a better match for Koby Barker rather than his actual love interest, Lexi Harper. This opinion later changed.
* Adriel and Lexi were the second "big" ship to appear within the Mythicalverse, with Shadow Knight and Damian Walter being the first.

## References

1. ↑ Citation needed
2. ↑ *Dreams as Reality*. October 7th, 2019.
3. ↑ *Do a Flip.* December 2nd, 2018.
4. ↑ FIND REFERENCE