Meariel

### Weight

105 kg/231 lbs (wings included)73 kg/161lbs (wings not included), 32 kg/71 lbs (wings weight)

### Eye color

Light Blue

> *"It's natural for me to want to protect you."*
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## Storyline

The Listener makes contact with the angel  when they wake up in the middle of the night. Meariel has been watching them sleep, like he does every night, but tonight is different. He is surprised when the Listener awakens but sounds delighted when they do.

Meariel introduces himself as their guardian angel and doesn't hesitate to tell them he's enchanted by them since he's been watching over them for a while. He explains that he's taken them away to a limbo between heaven and earth that he's filled with all of their favorite things. Though he starts off as reassuring, protective presence it soon becomes clear that his intentions are not entirely pure.

He reveals that, as he watched over the Listener, he fell in love with them while protecting them from demons and other "corrupting influences". He claims that he could sense other people's lust, desire, and malicious intentions so he got rid of them. One such example is when he posed as a waiter to poison their date's drink. He explains that he's doing this to protect them, a person with a pure heart in a world filled with corruption. He is the only one who understands them and can love them the way they deserve to be.

His methods, however, came to the attention of the Archangels. Since he would not allow them to assign another guardian angel to the Listener he's taken them away to a place where they can't be found except by himself. He's choosing to forsake himself rather than deny his emotions and pretend to be eternally content like the other angels. He confesses the true depths of his feelings, the agony of wanting them and not being able to interact with them and starts to feel insecure but the Listener appears to forgive him.

They ask for a condition, to go back home, and Meariel reacts with confusion, saying he doesn't understand why they would want to go back when there's nothing left for them there. They insist and the angel finally admits that he can't bring them back even if he wanted to. The Listener's soul has been separated from their body to be with him in this limbo and their lifeless body remains on Earth, and as an angel he has no power to resurrect the dead. The Listener starts to cry and Meariel wipes away their tears, trying to comfort them with the knowledge that they will have an eternity to get used to their new life with him.

## Personality

Meariel is a guardian angel whose protective nature has been warped into one of possessiveness. He views the Listener as a pure soul in a corrupt world and disdains other humans, believing they have ulterior and selfish motives while he reveres the Listener for being a genuine person. His admiration of them grew into a selfish desire to protect and keep them for himself, or what he calls love. He believes that his love is not a sin but something natural since he is, after all, their guardian angel.

This utter belief that he is in the right has led him to do immoral things in the eyes of the Divine and probably humanity as well. It can be argued that he is delusional as well since he trapped the Listener's soul with him without their consent or a way to reverse their condition.

## Trivia

### Meariel

* This character was written by Raina based on an idea by Eri.
* Meariel's name is derived from the Latin word 'mea' which means "mine." His name was given by Eri.
* All angels are in a constant state of contentment to keep them from having their own desires and motivations.
* Calls the Listener "my sweet angel"

### The Listener

* They are confirmed to be essentially dead and immortal at the same time.