Immanuel

Siblings: The Powers

**Immanuel**, more commonly known as **Manny**, is a powerful angel who was responsible for saving Vergil from Hell, on Heaven's command. He was tasked with aiding the sons of Sparda and their allies in preventing the Illuminati from resurrecting Lucifer. However, upon discovering the betrayal of several angels whom were aligned with Lucifer, Immanuel defied Heaven out of mistrust and joined the sons of Sparda.

## Overview

Immanuel's presence was noted when he was discreetly aiding Vergil in his escape from Hell, guiding the eldest son of Sparda down a path that would lead him to freedom from the Inferno. After several confrontations with supernatural phenomena that were drawn to Vergil's escape, Immanuel finally revealed himself to the Devil May Cry agency, explaining his origins and mission; which is to watch over the brothers though Dante was initially skeptical, especially Vergil.

Despite being tasked to watch over the brothers, Immanuel did not intervene in certain events, and the reason was later revealed if it was not related to the oncoming Apocalypse. All in all, Immanuel was something of an enigma until he slowly proved his worth by helping the Devil May Cry agency with missions that have ties to Lucifer's release. It was not until the midst of the *Illuminati* arc that Immanuel appeared before the gathered power players that he revealed his purpose here on Earth: to stop the Illuminati from resurrecting Lucifer from his tomb. Though he was difficult to work with due to his nature as an angel, Immanuel became an invaluable ally to the protagonists and developed a close friendship with Dante and his partners.

## Appearance

As a human, Immanuel appears handsome man of average height in his thirties. He sports a pair of dress shoes, dark jeans, a grey sweater accentuated by a black leather jacket. His hair a dark brown color and combed forwards. Perhaps his most defining feature are his eyes which depicted as being a vibrant blue that pertain to his true nature as an angel. Although he has a very dire demeanor, his outward appearance radiates a natural calm and serenity which makes conversation easy and direct.

As an angel, however, experiencing Immanuel's true form will result in blindness, deafness, or even death, as the appearance of his natural visage is so overwhelming that it is capable of burning human, demon, or monster eyes from their sockets. However, Immanuel stated certain, "special people" are able to tolerate his true appearance and voice.

Immanuel's true form is revealed to be that of a colossal celestial being with three sets of massive wings, the first pair having rows of glowing eyes, a tall thin body, the hind legs of a lion, the arms thin and with four long fingers, and three heads: One humanoid and in the shape of a white mask with painted tears streaming down the sockets, one of a zebra, and the other of a ram.

## Personality

Immanuel is a strong, determined, impulsive, ignorant and naive celestial being. Like most angels, Immanuel expresses little to no emotion, which creates flaws and complexities in his persona. Despite this, he does not display the blank apathy or mocking superiority that seem to characterize angels such as Lucifer. His lack of emotion and understanding of human behavior such as sarcasm has led to several humorous situations. His vocabulary and endearments were also outdated and out of place in modern times, he was trapped inside, mystifying everyone around him into thinking he was delusional even though it was simply the way his kind spoke.

Immanuel frequently struggles to understand human behavior; due to being a celestial; as such he tends to come off as awkward or uncomfortable to others, such as when he casually ported in a room and interrupted a talk between Dante and Melissa instead of using a door. Despite his difficulty of expressing emotion and understanding things, Immanuel is a very kind celestial being. He deeply cares for humans, and is one of the vast majority of angels that has faith in God, despite having not personally seen Him. While he does have faith in God, he admits he may not always understand what God wants and may question His reasoning. But in the end he always follows his father to the best of his abilities. This, along with his interest and love for humans, has caused other arrogant and superior angels to label him as weak or naive, but also peculiar.

Immanuel is quick to making friends and gaining their trust, something which takes much time for other angels to do. While he is labeled as 'weak', he is far from it. Immanuel, however, did still appear to be somewhat hot-tempered, as when he battled Dante in the woods for the first time after he subdued the Shepherd for questioning. However, he quickly came to see that he and the other members of the Dark Knight Initiative were fighting for the same cause and befriended them. Immanuel's loyalty to someone becomes so strong he becomes very protective and will fight a threat that may kill his friend with great indignation and ferocity. He was also capable of great mercy, outright stating he did not wish to kill Lucifer and while he is against the Morningstar's plans in rewriting reality to remove God's hold over all life, he acknowledged that Lucifer was hurt and in pain from Heaven's treatment towards him as well as God's abandonment.

## Quotes

*"You misunderstand me, Dante. I'm not what you think. I was praying for you to save the town. These people...they're all my Father's creations. His masterpiece. I'm not...a hammer, as you say. I have questions, I have doubts. I don't know what is right or what is wrong anymore, whether you passed or failed here. But in the coming months, you will have more decisions to make. And I will be by your side to help advise you in times when you make such decisions...on the condition that you help me with my own." - Immanuel.*

## Powers and Abilities

**Angel Manipulation:** Immanuel can create, manipulate, and destroy angels. They can use angels to perform all kinds of tasks.

**Angelology Mastery:** Immanuel, either innately or through training, is a master of angelology, the study of angels. They research the behavior, abilities, weaknesses, and anatomy of angels to pursue the documentation and categorization of them.

**Dermal Armor:** Immanuel has or can generate an innate armor as a part of their body, which is resistant to attacks, harm or pain, and temperature extremes. The armor varies from obvious, physical defenses, such as scales, thick skin/fur, natural shield, armor or shell, in-organic skin, etc, to bone-nodules below the skin, particularly wide/sturdy rib cage, blubber, or simply dense muscle.

**Divine Force Manipulation:** Immanuel has control of anything that is divine. They are able to manipulate divine objects and relics that are connected to the gods or divine power. With this, Immanuel is completely considered worthy of spiritual respect, allowing them to achieve feats that are impossible to be reached by mere mortals.

**Hybrid Physiology:** Immanuel possesses the genetic traits and abilities of two or more different species.

**Transcendent Hybrid Physiology:** This power grants Immanuel great levels of power by combining two or more transcendent dna of two or more species possibly including a race of gods. Since Immanuel is a transcendent hybrid being, Immanuel can control the abilities/capabilities/powers of the species/race/creatures they transcend but on a godly level. Theoretically, being a extraordinary powerful cyborg could also be considered as a transcendent hybrid, of technology and organic material.

**Natural Weaponry:** Immanuel possesses some form of natural weaponry, including claws, fangs, horns, beaks, clubbed tails, etc., and knows how to use them.

**Physics Manipulation:** Immanuel can create, shape, and manipulate the Laws of Physics, everything dealing with matter and its motion and behavior through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force, including momentum, friction, vectors, inertia, etc. They could, for example, change the direction a ball moves and how fast it travels.

**Psychic Entity Physiology:** Immanuel's "body" is formed from psionic forces and materialized thought making them immune to all forms of physical attacks. Due to being a psychic entity, Immanuel would have psionic powers that would appear limitless maybe even god-like.

**Quantum Manipulation:** Immanuel can manipulate quantum physics, a branch of physics that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on a microscopic scale. The interactions in this scale are mostly unpredictable, as particles interact differently in contrast to macroscopic material due to the complexity of quantum mechanics and the universe's fundamental interactions occurring at this level.

**Science Intuition:** Immanuel, either innately or through training, is a master of the field of science and all their variant studies, allowing them to intuitively understand scientific information like no other and learn and master any scientific phenomenon with ease.

**Superpower Manipulation:** Immanuel can create, manipulate, remove, change, etc., the supernatural energies/properties in all beings that give them their powers, including themselves, thus allowing every variation of superpowers and manipulative ability.

**Transformation:** Immanuel can morph into superior, more powerful versions of oneself. At times, the appearance of such forms is merely cosmetic, while in others, Immanuel bodies are completely altered.

**Telekinesis:** Telekinesis (from Greek: τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement") is the ability to influence/control/manipulate matter or another aspect of a physical system with the ‘mind’ or through other non-physical means. Commonly, the most fundamental trait is to move or otherwise interact with objects (or to generate and apply physical force on a target, or potentially, an area) both from a distance and without physical contact.

**Omni-Manipulation:** Immanuel can manipulate anything and everything. This is can be physical (matter, energy, the space-time fabric, etc.); or metaphysical (soul, mind, life, death, logic, aspects of reality, and even concepts). Immanuel has complete control and precision over absolutely everything and whatever is beyond. They can manipulate the totality of all things to the highest degree; there is nothing imaginable and unimaginable that Immanuel cannot perfectly manipulate.

**Telepathy:** Immanuel has telepathy, the ability to receive and transmit information with one’s mind without physical interaction. However, many other mind-based abilities fall under telepathy due to those powers overlapping with the core concept of telepathy, allowing a telepath to interact with their own mind and the minds of others in a variety of ways. Some of the more common abilities also considered telepathy would be perceiving the thoughts of others and detecting the presences of other minds through extrasensory means. Immanuel can influence or completely control the minds of their targets and manipulate their thoughts, memories and emotions at will. Potentially, they even control Psychic energy from their telepathic abilities, strengthening their previous powers and maybe even gaining new ones.

**Teleportation:** Immanuel can teleport; moving instantaneously from one location to another without physically occupying the space in between or transfer matter (beings/objects, including themselves) or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. This can be achieved by various means, including causing the atoms/molecules to travel at light-speed, warping the space, or use quantum superposition, in which Immanuel can teleport by spatially rearranging the subatomic contents of a system.

**Meta Teleportation:** Immanuel can teleport absolutely *anything* to literally *anywhere*: any place and time they desire, including physical locations such as: in a locked room, in Space, in Heaven, or in Hell, as well as metaphysical places such as: inside a dream, inside a heart, inside thoughts, and even inside people or yourself.