Angela Warrant

Angela playing video games.

Spirit Guard Valor.

**Angela Warrant**, or **Ang** for short, is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. She also appears in the MGP Vignettes "Black Cats" and "Holiday Memories", and indirectly appears in "Image Problems". She is a sophomore at SAU. She is secretly **Spirit Guard Valor**, the first Spirit Guard and leader of the team that has fought monsters in Kessia City over the last year and a half. She is reincarnated from the Princess, accessing her powers while in Spirit Guard form, and has been selected by Fate to protect Earth as a Champion. She resides in Apartment 5 of a small complex in Kessia City with her best friend and fellow Spirit Guard Mallory Drake.

## Appearance

Angela has a trim figure with a height between 5'2'' and 5'5'' (Robynne and Eli's respective heights). She has wavy, shoulder-length, golden blonde hair and blue eyes. She is meticulous about her appearance and has a prim and proper style, often adhering to the university's business-casual dress code even at times when it's not necessary. She carries a shoulder bag at school, and has an apparent preference for purple clothing, matching her associated Spirit Guard color.

As Spirit Guard Valor, her hair is put into a pair of pigtails. Her costume consists of a purple two-piece cheerleader uniform and heeled boots. At her skirt's waist, there is an Ardentian emblem meaning "valorous", which consists of a six-sided diamond shape with a dot in the center. Artwork also depicts Valor wearing long white gloves and her skirt to have a jagged line pattern on it. The Disconnection Effect as well as the Hush Corps work to block those who would associate Angela with Valor.

For her "Alison Ward" disguise, Angela plans to have a goth style. Suggested elements include dark makeup, hair dyed metallic purple with snow white bangs, and a large hoodie that can cover the face. By transforming in then out of Spirit Guard form, the makeup and hair dye would be removed, letting Angela instantly return to her usual look.

Prior to transforming for the first time, Angela had dishwater blonde hair and a less curvaceous figure. Her altered hair apparently stems from her mother and her figure from an aunt who stripped in her youth.

## Personality

Angela is highly serious and a stickler for rules. She defines herself by her moral standards and finds the thought of compromising her ideals for any reason to be unacceptable. She is a bit stubborn and can struggle to understand those who don't share her values. She is an honest person and extremely poor liar. Her seriousness has given her an underdeveloped sense of humor, often being late to get a joke and having a reputation for being hard to make laugh.

Angela is a hard worker and has trouble relaxing. Being the only child of a single mother has taught her the value of doing things herself, but this sometimes has her spread herself thin. Proving herself a model student, in high school Angela was Class President, one of 27 valedictorians, a cheerleader, a member of several other extracurricular groups, and was committed to community service. Angela was on the SAU Cheerleading Team during her freshman year, but drama with captain Cammy DeCroix led to her getting booted off. With her social life strangled by said drama, she dedicates herself to her Spirit Guard duties and Law degree.

Angela begins befriending those outside the Spirit Guard again when Robynne convinces her to join SFEERS and play *Aspect Realms* with her and the Knights of the Spherical Table, as the club escapes Cammy's watch. Angela had never played video games before, but quickly finds herself engrossed in the game's mechanics and world. Angela uses Conviction (stylized as "Convictiön") as her handle and plays as a Seraphim Starsentry. Another one of Angela's interests is in ancient cultures, motivating her to take up an archeology minor at SAU. She also enjoys swimming, and will wake up early in the morning to use SAU's pool.

While transformed into Spirit Guard Valor, she is granted access to the Princess's combat instincts and swordplay skills. She takes charge of the team and is even more serious than usual when giving orders. Angela allows her Spirit Guard duties to rule her life and invests much of her character in being reincarnated from the Princess, considering her an extension of herself. She finds it inspiring that Fate intervened in her life to have her become a hero. Angela never feels any desire to examine these beliefs until Rob's life is ruined by becoming a Spirit Guard; all of the things Angela has such reverence for make Rob suffer.

Angela plans to create a goth alter ego called Alison Ward, who could appear in places where Angela could not without problems arising, and would be the one associated with the Conviction handle. Alison would present as an SAU student currently taking a gap year to work a job as a data handler for a billing company. She would retain Angela's attitude, but be vague with her background and deflect inquiries into her life by having the job she finds boring take up much of her time.

## Abilities

Like the other Spirit Guard, Angela has an aura of a plant scent: a sweet lavender fragrance that is compared to a lily's. True to Angela's Spirit Guard title, her aura has valor as its main component. While transformed into Spirit Guard Valor, the aura shields her from most forms of non-empathokinetic damage, including bullets.

Angela's empathokinetic perception is very strong among the Spirit Guard, second only to Rob's. She had become used to having to explain what her teammates couldn't sense, so she is surprised to find Rob's EKP surpasses her own. She is pained when Investiture is drained in her vicinity. Prior to her first transformation, Angela's EKP wasn't keen enough for her to notice it at all. Her EKP is strongest while in her Spirit Guard form.

Angela's complex Investiture inherited from the Princess grants her a strong resistance to having it drained by a monster. Prior to transforming for the first time, she is assumed to have had an Ardent Resonance like her fellow Spirit Guards that would appear while calling upon her Investiture's power. Based on the trend of Rob and Mallory's Ardent Resonance taking after their respective Spirit Guard motifs, Angela's presumably took the form of a purple glow around her body and the Ardentian symbol of valor on her forehead, marking her as a Champion and Spirit Guard Valor, respectively.

Angela transforms into Spirit Guard Valor by holding her Spirit Stick and, while feeling valorous, pulling the baton apart and saying "Foundation of Valor, Spirit Guard Power Up!" She is then placed in a personal dimension dubbed the Transformation Station, with a purple glow in her place in the real world until the process is complete. She reverts to her normal form by either losing consciousness or willing her power to return to her Investiture while subconsciously feeling out of danger, though her body returning to normal can leave her feeling weak or fatigued for a short time. As an added ability due to being the Princess's reincarnation, Angela can remotely retrieve and return each of the Spirit Guards' unclaimed Spirit Sticks from their storage within the Standridge Hill Stone Circle.

While transformed into Valor, she has superhuman attributes all around as well as the Princess's combat instincts. She has the most experience in battle and thus the greatest mastery of empathokinesis among the Spirit Guard, though by her own assessment Spirit Guard Tenacity is the superior fighter. In battle, she takes to the front lines and uses a mix of offense and defense to keep the enemy's attention on her.

Valor can mentally summon one or both of her weapons to her hands as well as dismiss them. They initially take the form of a pair of purple pompoms, but clapping them together switches between this form and their true appearance of a sword and shield. Her special moves require her to hold her weapons and speak the name of the move, which utilize the element of earth.

Valor has a fast-acting healing factor that seals up wounds, prioritizing the smaller ones. It also attempts to keep her appearance consistent, leaving her relatively unblemished even during a violent battle. Powering down resets much of Angela's body to how it was when she powered down for the first time. Angela herself has a lesser healing factor that acts like an accelerated version of the human body's natural regeneration. Both forms of healing are fueled by calories. Angela doesn't like to rely on this ability outside of battle, as she finds it an abuse of power.

The Disconnection Effect causes those who look at Spirit Guard Valor or her image to mentally view her as an entity distinct from Angela, but it's weakened via repeated exposure. The effect applies on some level even to those who know her true identity, who perceive the two forms slightly differently. It also prevents Valor herself from accidentally calling her fellow Spirit Guards by their real names.

Angela occasionally receives visions of her past life as the Princess during her sleep, complete with the Princess's emotions and other sensations. While said visions provide information on the Ardent Empire and thus some background on the Spirit Guard's mission, the team believes they're actually granted in order to help the Spirit Guard in the future. Angela has had 27 visions in total.

### Special moves

* **Plateau of Nobility:** Summons a giant stone out of the ground.
* **Avalanche of Truth:** Diamond-like spikes fly out of her shield.
* **Aegis of Resolution:** Purple lava appears from her shield and hardens into stone to absorb an attack. When broken, the debris hangs in the air for a moment so she can absorb it into her aura.
* **Seismic Justice:** Stomps the ground, which causes it to shake and crack as giant amethyst spikes spear out.
* **Rising Spirit:** Slices at the ground with her sword, stabs it, then pulls it up to create earthen walls.

## Biography

### Background

Angela Warrant was born an only child and was raised by a single mother, struggling financially. During her last semester of high school, Angela touching the Standridge Stones unknowingly triggered an empathokinetic pulse dubbed the Hero's Call, which alerted the Guide Kunapipi to travel to Kessia City along with her assistant Noriko Yukimura to aid the Champion. Angela met Kunapipi, learned of her mission, and received a Spirit Stick from the Stones, but they were unsure of what to actually do or how to use the mysterious focus. The Call had also inadvertently woke Platicore from his hibernation, who sent a monster to attack just after a football game a week later. Not knowing what would happen, Angela instinctively activated her Spirit Stick. The focus probed her subconscious to create the aesthetic of the Spirit Guard; Angela associated the idea of inspiring positive emotion in others with cheerleaders, being one herself, which led to the costume's cheerleader theme. Angela, transformed into Spirit Guard Valor, defeated the monster. Angela continued to periodically fight such monsters, with this time an experimental one requiring Angela and Kunapipi to figure out the Spirit Guard powers themselves due to Fate offering much less information than with previous Champions.

After graduating among the top of her class, Angela decided to attend Schuyler Adamson University to pursue a Law degree. She joined the SAU Cheerleading Team over the summer and senses a powerful aura from captain Cammy DeCroix, believing this to be a mark of a future Spirit Guard, though Kunapipi dissuades Angela from revealing the Spirit Guard's secrets to her. Angela, unaware of Cammy's aura affecting her, became the captain's go-to promoter, even uncharacteristically shirking her schoolwork.

In the "Black Cats" vignette, Angela and some of her cheerleader friends visit Poltergeist Halloween to look for Halloween costumes. Before entering, Angela senses something from the store attempt to drain her Investiture, so she uses the excuse of forgetting something in the car to split off from her friends and transform. Valor makes her entrance by ripping off the emergency door and confronts Tricky Streetcat, who revealed herself in response to Angela's unusual Investiture. The cheerleaders flee at Valor's command, and Valor repels the monster's attempt to capture the stunned employee Lauren. Valor convinces Lauren to run, then fights Tricky Streetcat and defeats her.

On occasion, Angela would be granted special permission by Cammy to join the cheer team's Pep Squad at games. During a rally for the volleyball team, she sensed a unique aura on volleyball player Mallory Drake, so she befriended her. When she and Mal were having dinner one day, the restaurant was attacked by the monster Alena Alfredo. When Angela ran off and returned after transforming, she saw Mal glow as the monster failed to drain her Investiture, so she instinctively summoned and tossed the correct Spirit Stick to Mal, who used it to transform into Spirit Guard Tenacity and defeat the monster. Angela would later inspect the remaining Spirit Sticks at the Standridge Stones and the accompanying symbols in order to more easily recognize new Spirit Guards. The period immediately following Tenacity's appearance saw Platicore create monsters more quickly than before, seemingly in hopes of exhausting the newly formed duo.

In a blog post, Taralynn Andrews shows art depicting Cammy, Tanya, and Angela at a Halloween party and describes the circumstances behind it. Cammy and Tanya are dressed as Spirit Guards Valor and Tenacity, respectively, while Angela has run late from promotion duty and is unable to change out of her cheerleader uniform. Angela is shocked at the provocative interpretations of the Spirit Guard costumes, and the pair's attempt to have her drink alcohol with them would damage her view of them.

Still convinced Cammy must be a future Spirit Guard, one day, Angela takes Mallory to feel the captain's aura, but Mal doesn't notice anything special about it. Later, Mal tells Angela how bad of an influence Cammy has been on her friend. Angela becomes suspicious of how Cammy manages promotion assignments and the exact relationship between clubs and the cheer team, so she asks Tanya, a nosy cheerleader getting close to Cammy, to help look into the matter. It is discovered that Cammy misuses the cheer team's funds and favors clubs to in a scheme to control SAU Student Association votes, so Angela confronts her about it. Nothing comes of this until Angela is suddenly called into the scholarship office; Cammy revealed that Angela had papers written by her tutors when she was putting off schoolwork, causing Angela to be put on academic probation and lose her Presidential Scholarship. Angela took out her phone to show evidence of Cammy's schemes, but the phone Cammy had gifted to her had its data remotely wiped. She was kicked off the cheer team and lost all of her friends except Mallory. Angela was only able to continue to afford her education after moving into Mal's apartment and being notified of a smaller scholarship that through a fluke had been neither claimed nor given away. Angela later had visions of the Princess and Empress and wondered if Cammy is reincarnated from the latter due to the two's interactions resembling those between Angela and Cammy. Angela kept this to herself, fearing that if she told Mallory (or later, her other teammates), she would just be pegged as obsessed with Cammy.

The "Holiday Memories" vignette is set in early December, during the string of more frequent monster attacks and Angela's academic probation. Valor and Tenacity battle Winter's Wrap at K.D. Schilling's Department Store. After Valor pins the monster at the arms and neck, Tenacity finishes it with Intrepid Blade. The fight was very easy for the heroes, with Winter's Wrap said to be weaker than the two monsters Tenacity had previously fought. Valor asks Tenacity to debrief with Kunapipi alone, as Angela has to meet with SAU staff to sort out her living arrangements for the next semester and see if she can take her last final exam while on probation. She shoots down Mallory fighting Cammy for revenge, and feels Ms. Kuna would be unable to help the housing situation. Noriko appears and has the two leave before the police can arrive so she can handle evidence at the scene, including one civilian, Donovan, who hid in the store from the monster and ended up overhearing their sensitive conversation.

One of Valor and Tenacity's battles with a monster saw the police enter the scene of an active fight. One of the police cars was too close to the action, however, and got fried by one of Tenacity's lightning attacks, prompting the cops to open fire at the duo. This is where the Spirit Guards learned they are effectively bulletproof; their auras shielded them from the bullets' impact.

After being booted from the cheer team, Angela focused herself on her studies and Spirit Guard work. Over the following year, Vivian Feliz and Kara Balmer would join the Spirit Guard, with Vivian becoming Spirit Guard Felicity to help defeat Dramatica, and Kara becoming Spirit Guard Charity to heal a wounded Valor and defeat a monster at a hospital. Shortly after each of them joined, Angela would have them observe Cammy's aura, but neither could sense its unusual properties the way Angela could, making her wonder if her EKP's sensations are mistaken.

A few months before the start of the series, Angela discovers an online blog run by Lihua Lo, a massive fan of the Spirit Guard. The blog posts images of the heroes, analyzes them, and attempts to deduce their tactics and motives. Angela decides to simply monitor the blog for the time being.

### Week 1

Kara senses a monster disguised as a *Zombie Mansion* machine at the Loose Change arcade, leaving the area to transform and alert her fellow Spirit Guards. Valor and Tenacity arrive just after Charity forced the revealed Polygal to release Robert, Cory, and Eli. She notices Rob glowing with what appears to be the Ardent Resonance of Spirit Guard Serenity, but decides against giving him his Spirit Stick out of concern of the unusual situation of the Shrine Maiden's apparent reincarnation being male. After the day is saved, Robert presses the heroes on what his glowing meant, as he had overheard Valor say it was something to be dealt with later. He is convinced to give them his phone number so he may be contacted after they do some research into the exact meaning of his glowing.

The Spirit Guard tell Kunapipi and the Hush Corps about the encounter with Robert, then everyone begins looking into him. Wanting to feel out Rob's character, Angela meets him in their World History class the following morning and takes notes of his reactions to Spirit Guard-adjacent topics, such as her "theory" of the Standridge Hill Stone Circle being constructed via magic as well as connected to the Spirit Guard and monster attacks, which confuses him. Angela claims to be a fan of the Spirit Guard since they had saved her from the water monster Saturationa, and is appalled when he considers the monster evil yet clever for taking hostages and says emotion has no place on the battlefield.

Later that day, the Spirit Guard and Noriko meet in Angela's apartment to discuss their findings on Robert, who Kunapipi has confirmed is the one to become Spirit Guard Serenity. Angela worries about Rob's apparent coldness clashing with her idea of what the Shrine Maiden's reincarnation would be like, but the others assure her it's just part of his calm, calculating demeanor. Mallory's brother Eli visits to retrieve a graphing calculator she had borrowed, and is introduced to Mal's friends before leaving. The team decides Rob can be trusted to join them, so the Hush Corps text him to meet the Spirit Guard at the Standridge Circle tomorrow night to learn why he glowed. Angela is apparently the one who authored this message, as it is signed "SGV" for Spirit Guard Valor.

At some point recently, Angela secretly stole important paperwork from the Sock Hop Society before it could be processed at the Student Association offices, causing the club to lose its SAUSA privileges for the year. She did this to sabotage Cammy's schemes, as it is a large club that the captain had power over. Now that it lacks Association votes, Cammy will lose interest and stop interfering with it. Cammy is certain Angela was involved in this incident, but has no evidence to accuse her with.

The Spirit Guard and Kunapipi meet Robert at the Standridge Circle, where he is told about Fate, the Ardent Empire, and his own role as the last Spirit Guard, which he confirms by retrieving his Spirit Stick from the Stones. Robert turns down joining the team, as becoming Spirit Guard Serenity would transform him into a woman and ruin his life. When he mentions having to leave Cory and Eli as a reason why he won't do it, Tenacity tells him he could remain part of their lives and convinces the Spirit Guard to reveal their identities to him. When Noriko appears with Cory and Eli, who had been spying on the meeting at Rob's request, Angela is in disbelief that Rob didn't trust the Spirit Guard. Angela appeals to the promise of the Shrine Maiden in an attempt to convince Robert, but he makes it clear he's his own person and won't throw his life away for some unknowable past life business. At Rob's behest, Angela convinces Noriko to give his phone back as well as return Cory's laptop as soon as evidence of the meeting is erased. With everyone sworn to secrecy, the meeting ends.

Angela has difficulty sleeping that night, apparently due to being distraught over how poorly the meeting with Robert went. In class next morning, Angela finds the similarly exhausted Robert, who was kept up by the sensation of his Spirit Stick seemingly watching him at all times. She explains it as his empathokinetic sense awakening, and that he'll be able to tune out the Stick's presence given time. She invites him to have lunch with her, Mallory, and Vivian to help clear the air from last night, but he turns her down, clarifying that he holds nothing against them but won't be changing his mind on not joining the Spirit Guard.

Angela, Mallory, Vivian, and Kara go to Rale Valley Mall for some shopping, but after sensing a strange empathokinetic humming from seemingly random locations, they split up to find the source. Angela and Mallory run into Robert, who senses it as well and offers to join the search, as while he has no intention of transforming, he's not opposed to working with the Spirit Guard to help protect people. The two are grateful for the offer but ask him to leave the mall, as Mal doesn't want Eli or Cory to risk their lives to stand by Rob like they had with Polygal if there turns out to be a monster. A short while later, Angela and Mallory sense Investiture being drained in Rob's direction and transform. Valor grabs Rob, Cory, and Eli and directs them toward the food court, where Day LaMode has no mannequins to attack with. Felicity and Charity arrive, but the team gets split up by LaMode's mannequin army, and Valor finds herself surrounded. During the fight, she senses Robert's aura flare up in the distance, and realizes he must have transformed into Serenity. When the mannequins suddenly return to normal, Valor, Felicity, and Charity regroup and rush to the wounded Tenacity's side, where they find that Robert had transformed to kill LaMode and save Tenacity's life. Noriko appears to warn of the incoming police, so it's decided that Charity will operate on Tenacity while Serenity renders them invisible. Before Valor leaves, she tearfully expresses her gratitude for Rob's sacrifice and promises to help in any way she can.

After debriefing at Kunapipi's office, Angela goes to help Cory and Eli move Robert's belongings, as he is to be moved into Vivian, Kara, and Noriko's dorm. Angela laments how things could've gone differently if she had convinced Tenacity to stay with the team and Rob to transform earlier, but is told nothing can stop Mallory from defending her brother and that Rob only transformed because the decision to save Mal was entirely his own rather than something pushed onto him by the manipulation of Fate and the Shrine Maiden.

After moving everything into Robert's new room, Rob arrives and surprises Angela with her powered-down appearance. They discuss Mallory's condition, with Eli offering to help Angela look after her. Rob tells them about her cover story and new identity of Robynne Darling. Angela is worried when Robynne wants to eat dinner alone to process everything, but complies and says she can use the Standridge Stones to come over at a moment's notice.

### Weeks 2-4

The next day, Robynne briefly visits Angela's apartment to check on Mallory and borrow a bra from Angela. Angela wants to come along on Robynne's trip to buy a new wardrobe, but is told to stay with Mal. Rob really wants few people with her while she's in a foul mood on the shopping trip and predicts Angela would be poor company. Later, Eli comes over and notices Angela's lack of sleep over worrying about Mal and Rob, so he makes her take a nap while he looks after Mal.

At some point during the days following the Day LaMode battle, it is determined that it would be too great a risk to allow Lihua's Spirit Guard blog to continue. Relevant photos from the blog and Lihua's other libraries are deleted, including those on her backup hard drive, and a letter from Valor is left with the drive to explain the situation. It is assumed that Noriko is the one who broke into Lihua's house to find the hard drive and that Will deleted the pictures by hacking. In the "Image Problems" vignette, Lihua returns from school to discover what has transpired. Valor's letter asks Lihua to discontinue the blog and instead focus on her education so she might a career that'd make use of her investigative skills, with Lihua agreeing to both.

That Tuesday, Angela and a largely recovered Mallory visit everyone at Robynne's dorm. Robynne says her first day back to class could've been worse, and intrigues Angela when she mentions the auras she felt around campus. Robynne sensing Angela and Mallory's auras before the Standridge Stone lit up, describing the team's auras in the most detail, and sensing Eli's aura at all leads to the conclusion that she has the strongest empathokinetic perception among the Spirit Guard. Angela acts up at the mention of SFEERS president Fretribution's unusual textured aura, as Cammy has a similar but more potent aura.

The next morning, an impromptu Spirit Guard meeting is held when it's learned Robynne had a vision of the Shrine Maiden during the night. Angela assures Robynne that the Maiden's plan requiring the Ardentia's extinction was apparently decided after at least a year of planning, and the vision has been very informative as it revealed the drama within the Church of the High Spirits.

On her way to get lunch the next day, Angela is surprised to notice Robynne eating with the cheerleader Stacy, and watches from a distance as Cammy joins the two. After Rob leaves, Angela texts her and meets in her room, where they briefly talk about the event before turning to Angela's sensitive history with Cammy. Angela then explains her theory of Cammy being reincarnated from the Empress, something she hasn't told the others out of fear they wouldn't believe her since they can't sense auras as strongly as she and Robynne. Rob opens the door when she senses the rest of the team eavesdropping, letting them and Angela cry out their misunderstandings. Returning to Cammy's desire for Robynne on the cheer team, Angela notes that Cammy must see the rapidly growing SFEERS as a threat to her controlled Student Council votes, and that she must be desperate for Rob's help if she sent an exorbitantly expensive dress as a bribe. The gang figures the best way to deal with Cammy is to have Rob accept Cammy's offer to join the team to act as a spy. Robynne is uneasy about this, but finds herself wanting to take Cammy down regardless of the Empress theory so the captain can no longer hurt people the same way the similar Evelyn Gray ruined Robert's high school life, which she explains to the others when prompted. They decide to send Robynne in to return Cammy's dress bribe along with a list of demands, such as letting Vivian join too so she won't be alone.

Angela fills Robynne and Vivian in on Cammy and her officers Jodi and Tanya, and coaches Robynne on how to approach the captain. Precautions are taken to ensure Cammy doesn't discover Robynne and Vivian's connection to Angela, such as the Hush Corps removing traces of it from social media. After Robynne and Vivian join the cheer team, Angela helps the former fill out her bio for use on the team's website, suggesting she twist her battle with Day LaMode into something that fits the "Favorite Cheer Memory" field.

After Robynne returns from the cheer photo shoot and SFEERS opening social, Noriko suggests she warp to Angela's apartment to tell her about it in person, as Angela is lonely due to not having the budget to go out with Mallory and friends that night or the pride to accept Mal's treat. On her way there, Robynne senses something like a song within the iris of the Standridge Stones, which should be empty now that the Spirit Guard is fully assembled. She also gets the sense of being watched, but loses track of both when her focus wavers. She explains this to Angela, who had similarly felt watched while particularly introspective, and the two wonder if the watchful presence could be Fate or some sort of spy, but decide against pursuing it for now so as not to alert the presence. Angela and Robynne talk about their respective experiences with the cheer team, realizing they have a lot in common despite their opposite personalities. Angela apologizes for how she acted to Robert at the Circle; she had assumed the Princess and Shrine Maiden's lifelong friendship would somehow translate to him eagerly joining the Spirit Guard, always thinking of the team's past lives as extensions of themselves until Rob pointed out the absurdity of it all. When Angela laments how she can't meet Stacy or be seen in public with Robynne due to Cammy's surveillance, Rob convinces her to join SFEERS and borrow her old computer to play *Aspect Realms* with her and the Knights of the Spherical Table guild so she can make new friends, as the club escapes Cammy's watch, uses online handles rather than real names, and has Fretribution's aura to study.

The next day, Robynne receives the new computer she had extorted from Cammy, so she packs up her old one and gives it to Angela. Angela starts playing *Aspect Realms* and quickly finds herself enthralled. She joins SFEERS and the Knights of the Spherical Table guild under the handle Convictiön.

At some point over the following three weeks, a meeting with the entire Spirit Guard team is held to more completely lay out Rob's cover story and plan to infiltrate the cheer team. Rob starts getting taught tumbling by Angela so she may be competent at cheer practice.

### Week 5

Angela receives a text that Robynne has sensed a monster at a Buy Bright store, so she transforms and heads over. She arrives as Serenity and Charity are struggling to gain the upper hand against Cell-celia. Valor tells Serenity she can recall her lost weapon by mentally dismissing it first, hinders Cell-celia's signal vision with her Rising Spirit walls, and has her two teammates cover her for a finishing blow. Valor chews Serenity out for recklessly starting the fight alone, then escapes with Charity while Serenity leads the police on a chase. The Spirit Guard, minus Vivian, then debrief at Kunapipi's office. Rob's mention of Cell-celia's human disguise, signal vision, and low-key Investiture draining method has the team conclude that Platicore is shifting his monster designs in hopes of harvesting as much Investiture as possible before the Spirit Guard find them. Mallory suggests nightly patrols of the city in order to snuff out newly planted monsters, but the plan is put off until Robynne explains her situation to her Uncle Taylor, who is scheduled to arrive at Kessia City in six days.

At Angela's suggestion, Robynne destresses that night by playing *Aspect Realms* with her, who is joined by Mallory's commentary. Mal worries about Rob staying up late given her injuries and correctly guesses that she's trying to keep her mind off of her uncle's upcoming arrival, so she tries to assure her by bringing up the relief she felt at recently revealing her own Spirit Guard business to her parents. At this, Angela explains why Rob's situation is more dire: while Mal told her parents knowing her brother supported her, Rob has much more at risk due to Uncle Taylor being her only remaining family. Robynne's fatigue is apparent, so she heads to bed at her friends' suggestion.

The next morning, the team discusses Robynne's vision, which notably featured the Princess utilizing her religion's forbidden emotions to lie her way past the corrupt Vice-Archon Liff. Angela is distressed at this, so Robynne reminds her that despite any past life connection, the Princess was a distinct person who need not share Angela's trait of never compromising her values even in desperate situations. The others wonder if this revelation is because perhaps the Shrine Maiden, like Robynne, had the keenest empathokinetic perception among the team. When Tanya visits to give Robynne and Vivian a surprise promotion assignment for tonight's SFEERS *Mega Mash Family Battle* tournament, Angela, Mallory, and Noriko hide in the latter's room until she leaves. At Rob's frustration over this job violating her agreement with Cammy to receive only skippable ones, Angela tells her it is likely meant to test her loyalty now that she's had her extorted computer for a while, so this job is vital to the infiltration mission, then helps Rob get ready.

Later, another team meeting is held, where Robynne tells the others how during the promotion she ran into NightKnight, who has a different appearance from their previous encounter, sports a new textured aura, and is a member of the ConSpiriters. The plan for Taylor's arrival is also laid out: Angela and Mallory will pose as representatives of the contest he won and lead him to his hotel room where Rob will be waiting, with Noriko on standby and the surrounding rooms rented out for their privacy. The team wonders if there is significance in Rob happening upon the textured auras of NightKnight, Dale, and Fretribution in such short time, as before this Cammy's was the only one they knew of. Hearing from Eli that Dale intends to go to the *Mega Mash Family* tournament, the team figures it would be an ideal opportunity for Rob, Vivian, and Kara to study his textured aura side by side with Fretribution's, with Rob intending to convince NightKnight to come as well. Angela also wants to attend the tournament, but Noriko fears Cammy might learn of Angela's appearance at SFEERS, so Robynne suggests she go in a goth disguise, which the club goers will associate with her Conviction handle. Vivian adds that it could be used whenever it'd be inconvenient for Angela to be recognized, and going in and out of Spirit Guard form would let Angela instantly remove the hair dye. Noriko offers a name and background for this alter ego: "Alison Ward" would be taking a gap year from college and currently have a boring job of handling billing data. Angela, Mallory, and Vivian go to prepare the disguise, while Noriko goes to meet the Twins to create ID for Alison and see whether Cammy will have a spy at the tournament.

## Relationships

### Kunapipi

Angela touching the Standridge Stones for the first time triggered an empathokinetic pulse dubbed the Hero's Call, which signaled the Guide Kunapipi to arrive at Kessia City and advise the Champion-to-be, also getting a job as a counselor at SAU to offer help within the school system to minimize conflict between Angela's education and Spirit Guard business. With little information from Fate, Angela's early days as a Spirit Guard saw Kunapipi help her stumble through figuring out how her powers work. Unlike the other Spirit Guard, Angela considers Kunapipi to be a genuinely useful Guide for the team.

### Noriko Yukimura and the Hush Corps

Angela has known Kunapipi's employee Noriko since the very beginning of her Spirit Guard career. Because of this, Angela has a better understanding of her than most and is used to her methods and showmanship. Noriko, Nick, and Will are charged with keeping the Spirit Guard's secrets under wraps, and as the team's leader Angela takes it upon herself to be most directly involved with the Hush Corps, who will generally defer to her orders.

### Platicore's forces

As a Spirit Guard, Angela opposes Platicore and fights his monsters to protect the people of Kessia City. Angela expresses sympathy for the monsters she kills, as through no fault of their own they were given life knowing only to serve Platicore's evil ambitions.

### Princess

Reincarnated from the Princess due to the High Spirits, Angela inherits a portion of her soul, including her Investiture. Angela's appearance (especially in Spirit Guard form) and personality are similar to her predecessor's, with Angela for a long time considering the Princess simply an earlier aspect of herself, which is reinforced after having numerous visions experiencing moments from the Princess's life. She begins questioning this belief after meeting Rob, who is drastically different from the Shrine Maiden and readily points out of the absurdity of the Spirit Guards equating themselves to their predecessors. Angela has access to the Princess's battle skills and instincts while in Spirit Guard form.

### Fate

Angela was selected by Fate to be a Champion, and finds being singled out for something so important to be inspiring. She is notable for being the only Spirit Guard that is known to actually like Fate. Angela's love of Fate is likened to worship, and she is seen seemingly praying to the deity when first meeting with Robert. Angela believes the sensation of being watched she sometimes has in moments of introspection is likely Fate checking in on her.

### Cammy DeCroix

When Angela was on the cheer team her freshman year, she found herself enthralled by captain Cammy's aura, assuming it to be a future Spirit Guard's, and became the captain's go-to promoter. Though nominally friends, Cammy patronized Angela for being poor and pressured her into doing things she was uncomfortable with. Unaware that Cammy's aura was affecting her, Angela was often in awe at Cammy and tended to be unusually passive in her presence. After Mallory pointed out how bad of an influence Cammy was on Angela, Angela looked into the captain's shady dealings and threatened to expose them. Cammy retaliated by using her influence to have Angela kicked off the team, her scholarship revoked, and her social life suffocated. Angela wonders if her visions of the Princess and Empress mean Cammy is reincarnated from the latter, and continues to quietly keep an eye on Cammy's activities. Once an opportunity presents itself in the form of Robynne being invited onto the team, Angela leaps at the chance to help take Cammy down. Once the plan is put into motion, efforts are made to keep Cammy from realizing Angela's connection to Robynne and Vivian.

### Tanya Tell

Angela knew Tanya before the latter became Cammy's left hand and used the gossip to obtain intel on Cammy's schemes. She's never liked Tanya for being a shallow liar that was obsessed with trying to find Angela a boyfriend to end her virginity.

### SAU Cheerleading Team

Angela was part of the Promotion Squad her freshman year, and as an eager promoter and friend of Cammy's, she was well-liked among the team. Following her drama with the captain, however, she was booted off the team and found her supposed friends no longer wanting to associate with her, in part due to Cammy spreading rumors that Angela's tutor helped her cheat in return for sexual favors. With she and Cammy's bad blood, Angela is certain her reputation as someone to be wary of persists among the team even a year later. Angela's continued enthusiasm for cheerleading suggests she would like to rejoin if given the chance, with her lamenting that she's in no position to meet Rob's friend Stacy while Cammy's watch remains.

### Mallory Drake

Angela and Mallory have been best friends since they met at a volleyball game their freshman year, eventually becoming roommates as well. Mal joining the Spirit Guard strengthened their bond even further, and they fight together on the front lines. As Angela's most trusted friend, Mal is often the one to advise the team's leader, and the two's different mindsets complement each other. Angela appreciates her well-off friend's willingness to help out financially, but will sometimes turn down going out with her due to not wanting to entirely depend on her treat. Once Angela takes to playing *Aspect Realms*, Mal complains that Robynne turned her friend into a nerd, but gladly joins in on the banter when the two play the game together. Mallory doesn't share many of Angela's enthusiastic views on topics like Fate, past life business, and the appropriate use of Spirit Guard powers, but keeps this from her so as not to hurt her feelings.

### Vivian Feliz

Angela met Vivian at some point after the brunette befriended Mallory. Angela has a reputation for being a stick in the mud, so Vivian finds it particularly fun to annoy her with her antics. Angela dislikes that Vivian regularly uses her healing factor for convenience. In battle, Spirit Guard Valor keeps the enemy's attention so Felicity can effectively fight from a distance.

### Kara Balmer

Angela and Kara met through Vivian. Kara first transformed into Spirit Guard Charity to heal Valor after the latter got her elbow dislocated while saving her from a monster. In battle, Valor keeps the enemy's attention so Charity can effectively fight from a distance. Angela never turns down Kara's cooking.

### Robert Dreese/Robynne Darling

The Spirit Guard rescue Robert from Polygal, with Valor refraining from giving the boy with Spirit Guard Serenity's Ardent Resonance a Spirit Stick due to confusion over the Shrine Maiden's apparent reincarnation being male. Angela proper meets Robert in their World History class and is appalled to find his personality is nothing like her assumptions based on her visions of the Shrine Maiden. Angela had believed the bond of the Princess and Shrine Maiden would translate into a similar situation with her and Rob and thus inherently trusts him, so is shocked when he refuses to join the Spirit Guard and distrusted them to the point of recording his meeting with them. Angela is moved by Robert's selflessness when he sacrifices his way of life to transform into Spirit Guard Serenity and save Mallory from Day LaMode, promising to help Rob in any way she can. Despite Angela and Robynne's clashing personalities, the two eventually bond over their similar backgrounds, being only children with one parental figure and had their sense of justice land them into drama with sociopathic cheerleaders. Angela is eager to be involved in Robynne's mission to infiltrate the cheer team and topple Cammy, briefing Rob on the team's inner workings and training her in tumbling as well. Angela is lent Robynne's old computer to play *Aspect Realms* with her and join SFEERS in order to make new friends away from Cammy's surveillance. Robynne becomes a sort of mentor figure to Angela when it comes to gaming, feeling proud as she watches her student gradually morph into a nerd like her. Even after getting to know Rob, a part of Angela still clings onto the bond the two's past lives had, such as trusting Rob more than the teammates she's much closer to to believe her Cammy-Empress theory. Rob's critical eye and unfortunate experiences with issues such as Fate and past lives makes Angela think about her beliefs in more depth than before.

### Eli Drake

Angela had heard of Eli from his sister Mallory's praises, so the two shortly become friends when Eli finds himself involved in the Spirit Guard's business. Eli looks out for Angela by readily pointing out when she's unnecessarily stressing herself over things she can't control or spreading herself too thin as the Spirit Guard's leader.

### Cory Frost

Angela had only vaguely heard of Cory as a friend of Eli's Mallory would mention, and finds his banter with Eli to be odd when they finally meet. Cory takes to joking around with Angela, often calling her Blondie or Goldie. He likes to tease her for being overly serious, and feels proud when he can get her to laugh at his jokes. Angela is advised to not take Cory too seriously if she wants to remain sane around him.

### SFEERS and the Knights of the Spherical Table

At Robynne's suggestion, Angela joins SFEERS to make new friends without fear of interference from Cammy. She borrows Rob's old computer to play *Aspect Realms* with her and the other Knights of the Spherical Table. Angela had never been one to play video games, but quickly finds herself enamored with the game, preferring story quests. She uses Conviction as her handle and befriends her guildmates like ergoAwesome and TurtleSmuggler. Angela's newness and fascination with the game is a breath of fresh air for the experienced and relatively jaded players in the guild. As Angela has not attended any in-person SFEERS events nor shared her real name with the Knights, she plans to have them associate her Conviction handle with her goth alter ego Alison Ward, making her presence in the club harder for Cammy to discover.

### Lihua Lo

A few months ago, Angela became aware of Lihua's Spirit Guard-centric blog and started to keep tabs on it. After the Day LaMode battle, it is determined that the blog's content could become dangerous to the heroes if allowed to spread, so measures are taken to stop Lihua's pursuit: her Spirit Guard photo libraries are wiped and a letter from Spirit Guard Valor advises Lihua to stop updating the blog. Valor is very supportive of Lihua in the letter, encouraging the girl to apply her investigative talents towards a career, which would be a greater boon to society than the Spirit Guard. Lihua complies with both requests.

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## Gallery

Angela in her Spirit Guard Valor form.Angela on promotion duty.Angela meets Cammy and Tanya at a Halloween party.Robynne meets with Angela after the SFEERS social.Angela playing video games.Spirit Guard Valor performs her Rising Spirit move.Spirit Guard Valor with the rest of the Spirit Guards.Angela as an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader.Angela has a Pokémon battle with Robynne, and is dressed as Ethan from the same series.
## Trivia

* Angela is referenced in a header on the original Taralynn's Desk: "Spirit Guard Valor Says be a productive member of society!" It is a parody of "Sailor Says", an educational segment in DiC Entertainment's English dub of the anime *Sailor Moon*.
* In the October 2016 Q&A, Taralynn Andrews reveals that Angela had two boyfriends in high school, but didn't take the relationships too seriously. At college, she is too preoccupied with Spirit Guard business and drama with Cammy to get back into dating.
* In the November 2016 Q&A, Andrews imagines Angela has a fondness for pumpkin carving on Halloween, as she gets to bond with her mother.