Dashiel, Seraph Angel of Hipsters – Google Docs
Dashiel
Seraph Vassal of Stone
Angel of Hipsters
Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 8 Agility: 8
Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 8 Perception: 8
Word-Forces: 2
Vessel/6 (human male, Charisma +2)
Skills: Artistry/3 (bookbinding), Chemistry/3, Detect Lies/3, Dodge/4, Electronics/1, Emote/3, Fighting/6, Knowledge/6 (Trivia), Large Weapon/3, Move Silently/3, Musical Instrument/3 (guitar), Savoir-Faire/1, Seduction/3, Singing/3, Stealth/3, Tactics/1.
Songs: Motion (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/4), Numinous Corpus/3 (Claws), Shields (Corporeal/2, Ethereal/3, Celestial/4)
Role: “Cobi” (Bartender/4, Status/3)
Attunements: Seraph of Stone, Cherub of Stone, Ofanite of Stone, Vassal of Stone, Angel of Hipsters
Angel of Hipsters: Dashiel has access to David’s Expanded Rite “Bring more than 20 people together for the first time in a good cause” (In Nomine Superiors 1: War and Honor, page 10). If the gathering becomes a weekly affair, he gets an extra Essence for attending it. Dashiel can get only one Essence per day this way.
To quote the classics: weird is relative.
Always remember that celestials are not humans. They may think as well as men — frankly, most them think better than men — but they are not men. A lot of the distinctions that humans reflexively make between subgroups appear arbitrary to the average angel or demon; while celestials can grasp the differences between those subgroups, and compensate for those differences, the moral calculus angels use to assess human lifestyle choices or belief systems is only tangentially like ours.
All of which is a long-winded way to say that Dashiel is the Angel of Hipsters because David, Archangel of Stone, looked at hipsters and simply saw another organized group of humans that needed strengthening. Are hipsters absurd? Yes. And no. And the difference between absurd and not-absurd is sufficiently small from the angelic point of view to be virtually irrelevant. But certainly hipsters would be targeted by Hell, so it would be best to assign an angel there.
Thus, Dashiel. Dashiel is a Seraph of good name and repute who was happy to take this assignment both because he legitimately likes humans, and because being the Angel of Hipsters is an excellent way to grow a Word into something with more oomph to it, like ‘Angel of the Counter-Culture.’ One major part of his job is, basically, to keep an eye out for demons sniffing around the area, then getting rid of them. Dashiel is rather good at that, particularly since he’s experienced at startling people into reflexively throwing the first punch. Dashiel is not Batman, but Batman would recognize the angel’s fighting style.
The other part of his job is to act as a helpful reference for angels doing jobs in the local area. Dashiel, in his Role as ‘Cobi,’ is a popular bartender in an excruciatingly hipster bar. Everybody knows him, virtually everybody likes him, and he eventually hears everything interesting. And since Dashiel is a Seraph, he can even determine whether the things he hears are actually True. It’s not a bad assignment, although he sometimes has to straighten out the occasional Soldier of God — or worse, actual angel — who can’t help but snicker.