Philip Howell

**Philip (Ankh) Howell** is one of the Nox Industries 1st Generation Guardians that was born through the result of inhumane breeding and gene splicing. He first appeared briefly during Chapter 81.

## Appearance

Phillip is a neat male guardian/canine cross with a fine velvety black coat and tan patches resembling a doberman, his nose and hooves are darker black, and his eyes are blueish grey. He has a notch missing from his right ear from his old factory tag, and now has two more in his left: a yellow squared Nox brand tag, and a brown rounded ID tag. Around his neck he usually wears a shock collar for training, a spiked collar with diamond ID tag, and a chain for attaching leads. Like most Nox guardians he is de-clawed and his wings have been clipped, as well as having his tail docked.

## Personality

The inhumane mix of a guardian and canine, otherwise known by his lab name ‘Ankh’, Phillip is incredibly trusting and loyal to the lab staff, and never acts aggressive towards them or intentionally disobeys unlike his peers, seemingly well liked amongst the workers. He is easily excitable and energetic, and requires his routine and repetitive actions to cope, struggling to be kept in his holding cage for long periods of time without spiralling. From his unethical creation, Phillip’s intelligence lies somewhere between his two parent species, though he is very capable of speech and holding conversation, his emotions are very surface level, and he can struggle to process anything too complex, though he does have an excellent memory for grasping routine behaviours and tasks, making him ideal for Doeforrah use.

## Relationships

### Jacob Sye

Phillip utterly adores Jacob, as the one other captive who’s both mentally sound and not at all aggressive towards him, he finds a great deal of comfort and protection in him. Jacob has a lot of pity for Phillip, though can’t find himself able to form a strong bond knowing the other isn’t all completely there, despite this though he does still attempt to show kindness to him whenever he can, and even if he himself is not one for contact, he never stops Phillip from doing so with him.

## History

### Pre-Series

Phillip Howell is a guardian cross owned by Nox Industries. As part of the newer era of guardian domestication by the Doeforrah, Phillip was constructed in the lab by splicing genes of a female guardian and male canine, before being placed back in his mother to grow. As do most Nox guardians he has a lab given name of ‘Ankh’, though in actuality he was named properly as Phillip Howell by his mother, he had little contact with her before being taken away to a different containment site for training, he was ‘lucky’ enough that during the mass factory explosion a few decades before the world’s end, he was away from the site, making him one of only four captive guardians to do so, and would spend the rest of his life in a new unit with them. From his unethical creation, Phillip’s intelligence lies somewhere between his two parent species, though he is very capable of speech and holding conversation, his emotions are very surface level, and he can struggle to process anything too complex, though he does have an excellent memory for grasping routine behaviours and tasks, making him ideal for Doeforrah use.

Despite their clear power imbalance over him, Phillip remains incredibly trusting and loyal to the lab staff, he never acts aggressive towards them or intentionally disobeys unlike his peers, and he is seemingly well liked amongst the workers. He is easily excitable and energetic, and requires his routine and repetitive actions to cope, struggling to be kept in his holding cage for long periods of time without spinning, pacing, digging, or chewing at the bars. While Jacob and Whisker have sympathy for his situation and are more understanding in caring for him, Sport often snaps at him, finding his behaviour irritating and despising how he so readily obeys the staff. As the basis for the domestication program, Phillip has had his DNA spliced into dozens of offspring as the Doeforrah continue to handcraft the perfect specimens, though he does not fully grasp that he technically has children, or the weight of the whole situation in general, probably for the better, though his existence is inhumane nonetheless.