Amell Rakena

> *"I've no lofty goals of world peace, just small things that I hope can give me please and closure."*
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**Amell Rakena** is one of the main characters in the Stormbite series, and is a Transhuman Avio. He is the eldest of the Rogues at thirty-one years old, as well as the tallest and heaviest.

## Appearance

Amell is by far the tallest of the Rogues at 6'7'' ft, with broad shoulders and a roughly 20'0 ft wingspan.

He has bronze skin and a mane of dark hair. He is apparently covered in scars with a prominent one given to him by Malana across his face from the lower side of his chin on the right side up across his nose to the left side of his hairline. He has dark eyes.

#### **Avio Features**

The Avio aspect which Amell's base came from was apparently based upon a Philippines Eagle. His wings are broad rather than long with rounded primaries. They are cream with dark brown, and it is noted several times that along the mantle Amell has some purple glossiness to the feathers.

## Personality

Amell is a very mellow person, confident, calm, and has a dirty sense of humour and lewd behaviour sometimes.

Of all of the Rogues, he is the most calm and mature, being a lot older than the rest and can be seen as a voice of empathy and understanding. He relates very well with Wilny without the sharpness of Storm, and assures him that if he needs to talk then he is there to take any punches that Wilny may need to throw.

## History

#### **Past Life**

Originally, Amell's name was Amiri Ka'eo Rakena, and according to Beth's research he was a medical student from the University of Aukland, though he came from Tauranga, New Zealand initially.

He had a large family with four younger siblings, and according to one of his brothers, Grant, Amell had a much different personality to what he currently has.

He ended up in Atlas after joining a clinical trial to earn some money, but instead signed up for Transhumanism. After this he was designated as a beta tester and would have to trial new products which included technological, synthetic, and medicinal items which he would have to report back on and show doctors and producers what would need to be fixed. He was apparently in this role for roughly seven years.

### **Stormbite**

In Stormbite, Amell is first introduced under the control of Teal and Kathy, who use his strength to their advantage to kill and defend them. Once this control is broken Amell is regretful of what happened and also vengeful, going off to hunt Kathy down. He manages to track her all the way to france before returning chasing her tail to London where he interupts a fight between Kathy and Kat.

After this fight, Amell joins the Rogues although initially there is a lot of reluctance from Raoul and Wilny.

## Abilities

As far as is known Amell does not possess any talents such as being a Muser, Telkens, or Bioelectricity like the other Rogues, instead his abilities include Hyper Healing, and an alteration to the MSTN gene (myostatin) which usually would limit muscle growth but was possibly altered to allow an increase in muscle to support the size of his wings and his former human body weight.

### **Resilience**

Amell is shown to have a great resistance to a lot of damage, able to take a hit and keep on moving due to the transhuman alterations he was given.

### **Flight**

Amell can fly, just not acrobatically or fast. All around he finds flying a little difficult and does have some dysmorphia issues over his wings.

## Relationships

### **The Rogues**

* **Storm Fraser-Swann**
* **Wilny Mira**

Amell sees the pain that Wilny is in and understands it better than most. He is very sympathetic and empathetic with Wilny, as well as patient and jokes with him.

* **Malana Été**

Despite what happened with Malana's family, there's no bad blood between the two. Malana is a little wary of Amell at first but she is confident enough in her abilities to turn him upside down with her Telkens.

* **Raoul Hunter**

* **Katana Tsume**
* **Beth Lovelace**

## Quotes

* *"Kia ora!"*
* *"I'm sorry bro, it wasn't my personal intention to do that, but at least you're alive right?"*

## Trivia

* Amell's name means Eagle. His former name however was *Amiri Ka'oe Rakena*.
	+ Amiri means "The East Wind", "Prince", and "Treetop" in several different languages.
* He is Half-Hawaiian-Half-Maori according to Beth's research, with tribal ties into the Ngati Ranginui iwi.
* Amell had a friend called Spice who he was forced to kill by Teal and Kathy.
* He has a strong Kiwi accent which initially confuses Raoul.
* He's slept with a lot of people of all genders, making him canonically pansexual.
* Amell's first iteration of design had him with blue eyes.

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