Phillipa Graeling


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I first encountered Philipa Graeling through her relationship with the middle LeManche child. While Phillipa is not a decedent of Theraux LeManche and therefore should be beyond the scope of my work, it seems that one of her parents and I were once "co-workers" before I took up my current profession, and I have decided to treat this as a special case.

=• Formative Essay •= It begins with a being named Phia, a Seraphim, the highest order of angels. When Phia became aware of the “coming darkness”, and the toll it would take on her earthly brethren she went before the Divine- a privilege only Seraphim are granted- and asked to fight as humanity’s champion. Not only was she denied, but it was proclaimed that no angel would be allowed to fight in the coming battles. Aware of the buzzing but not its intentions, all the angels feared this was a death sentence for humanity- and Phia found she was unable to stand idly by.

Enter Theodore Graeling. As an Archangel, Phia had been assigned Graeling’s oversight. She had revealed herself to him twice: the first when she saved him as a child from an earthquake that claimed hundreds of lives and left him orphaned, and the second after he’d grown into a listless and sometimes violent young man- commanding him to take hold of his life or face eternal punishment in death1. It was fourteen years after their last encounter that Phia came to the now ordained -and much beloved- Father Graeling and asked that he conceive a child with her2.

Within a year Graeling would be excommunicated, with only the most faithfully of his parish willing to believe that the baby girl that arrived on his doorstep was anything more than evidence of a broken oath and lustful sin. 3 Knowing she would be punished for her perceived disobedience, Phia returned to heaven after the child’s birth and received the worst punishment an angel can be offered: she was sentenced to fall.

=• Psychiatric Analysis •= ' "Inside my mind there is a door and I must guard the latch..." '

That Phillipa presents herself as a rootless “party girl” is less a front or mask as it is conscious coping mechanism. In my time with her I found that she is greatly motivated by fears tied to her angelic heritage: With her summoning abilities as the main trigger (see physical analysis).

Even Philipa is not fully aware of how powerful her summoning ability is, though the sheer force of will required on her part to keep it under control (or in her words: "Keep the door latched.") informs her personality a great deal. Added to this is the truth of her angelic "bloodline", which when revealed has elicited reactions that span the gauntlet from violent rejection to devoted worship. Fear of how her others may respond has caused this to become a closely guarded secret for her.

That she is constantly in a state of concentrated retention on both these fronts has led to a very underdeveloped ability on her part to trust or establish intimate bonds4. Instead Phillipa attempts to hold everything inside, often using comedic wit to camouflage her guarded and evasive behavior, and undermine a genuinely affectionate personality. To meet Phillipa is to enjoy her company, but to attempt to befriend her means enduring her defensive barbs as she searches for reasons to find you trustworthy.

=• Physical Analysis •=
 * Subject displays an angelic trait that causes her eyes to periodically "flash" color at near luminous intensity, in this case the color is crimson- as it was with Phia.


 * With the exception of the previous note, sbuject has a completely human appearance.


 * Exhibits potential for limitless longevity, though she may not be aware of this. Angels do not age, and cannot take they’re own lives, but can be killed. Given selection by the “Bees”, subject is now unable to die by external means as well. In her current state, it is impossible to determine when- or if- subject’s will die of natural causes.


 * While requiring comparatively human levels of food and water, subject's circadian rhythm seems to be a fusion of the human requirements and the angelic lack there of. On average she sleeps only 60-120 minutes a day. It is my hypothesis, however that even this small duration is based more on nurture than nature, and that subject could endure 12-14 days of sleep deprivation before feeling any adverse affects.


 * Posses "divine sight", which allows her to see through any attempts by angels or demons to cloak or disguise themselves or others5. Also allows her to sense the presence, but not the location, of demons. An angelic trait.


 * Inability to be permanently marked or become intoxicated in anyway are both Angelic in origin. While she can consume intoxicants arrival at the point of full intoxication or the introduction of foreign agents (eg. Tattoo ink) results in what I have deemed an "angelic purge": a violent, bodily energy discharge that purges all foreign substances.

=• Powers and Abilities •= Any trait of angelic origin inherited by Phillipa Graeling was present at her birth just as hair color or skin tone would be in a completely human offspring. The one exception to this is her pryokinesis and summoning of the substance "hellfire" which, while angelic in origin, did not manifest until her adolescence.


 * Pyrokinesis: pyschic control of heat and fire (Angelic in origin)


 * Ability to summon "Hellfire" (See Foot Notes)


 * Cryokineses: Via extension of pyrokinetic abilities


 * Ability to summon through firearms. Acuity: Shotguns


 * Ability to summon through melee weapon. Acuity: Battle Axes

=• Secret Society •= Despite the Templar's general tendency to attract only the most dedicated (and/or fanatical), Graeling's connection to them has nothing to do with their mission or objectives. Her joining of their ranks came only after her father's diagnoses of intestinal cancer, with the hope of using their knowledge and resources in her attempts to locate the fallen Angel Phia, her mother.

That Theodore Graeling had come to love6 the woman he'd only met three times in his entire life was something he could not hide from Phillipa as she grew up (nor his loneliness), though he went to great lengths to. Unwilling to sit helplessly as her father worsened (the worst incarnation of what was already one of her greatest fears) Phillipa instead began her search. Theodore Graeling spent his life in service of God, even after he was stripped of all accolades and ejected from the church. Phillipa's hope is to reunite her father with the only woman he ever loved before he goes to spend eternity in the one place that woman can never go again.

=• Notes •= 1Angels do love their damnation stories, don’t they?

2Speculation: Phia was torn between her ardor for the Divine and for man, and that she felt this act would allow her to evade a contradiction of either. The Seraphim’s hope must have been to create a child whose humanity circumvented the proclamation, and whose divinity granted it enough power to beat back the “darkness”. That she explained none of this to Graeling is fact however, telling him only that were he to accept, this act would serve all creation. 3“The first act of love of God elicited by an Angel is a final choice; he will love God forever. On the other hand the Angel who sins will sin forever. Their first choice of good or evil is an immutable, an eternal choice.” –Pascal P. Parente

Being somewhat familiar with the angelic mind, I find it interesting that Phia would be punished so harshly by God (it is quite odd to write that with a capital “G”). All those angels who remain in heaven do so because they chose to at the time of the angelic war. The angelic mind being what it is there could be no fear that Phia had “turned traitor”. Indeed, this is why Falling is the worst punishment an angel can receive: any angel cast out (after the Son of Perdition and his lot, of course) is being sentenced to an eternity of separation from the one thing they adore the most.

Angelic devotion being of such permanence, and the Divine inevitably having been aware of what she had chosen to do, I must believe God need only have ordered Phia to cease her plan and she would have. So why allow it to happen, only to punish her when she returns, the deed already done?

4Having spent a great deal of time in near seclusion with her, then ostracized, father during her childhood must also play into this, but mommy and daddy issues are so boring to diagnose.

5It is worth noting that, while inheriting this trait shared by angels (heavenly or fallen) and demons, Phillipa did not inherit the ability to affect these cloaks and disguises.

6 I find it very hard to believe that Phia could have been unaware of this. Furthermore, while Angels and man process them in very different ways, Phia does have emotions and I am not convinced Mr. Graelings feelings are unrequited. An Angel revealing themselves to the same human three times is almost unprecedented, and there is no quantifiable reason to choose Theodore Greaeling to enact her plan that I have found.