The Angel of Record

Pronouns: They/them, although they're mostly resigned to she/her and won't actually object to it.

An angel of the BLANKSWORD setting: a humanoid with ceramic skin and insect-like wings, created by Literally God to serve His empire. The Angel of Record is tasked with preserving an archived account of important events and distributing divinely-approved tellings of that history to the populace; that is to say, propaganda, and they became increasingly uncomfortable with the discrepancies between the things they knew and what they were required to say.

Portrait of the Angel of Record bundled in winter clothing.

Record is partnered with the Angel of Corrections, at first as an acrimonious professional relationship where they often clashed over perspective, subjectivity, and the nature of truth. When they realized how much they had in common, it eventually became a covert workplace romance (very much illicit; angels are not permitted to be gay or transgender). Corrections is more gregarious and high-strung, and Record more taciturn and reserved.

Record and Corrections bickering.

Record does not live in a world that gives them a lot of support for gender dysphoria and autism, and they often lapse into mutism, especially when distressed. They use sign language to communicate with Corrections when their voice isn't working, or if they simply want to say something privately.

The Angel of Record in flight over the world below.

Their task's magic gives them an eidetic memory, that is, perfect recall of events they've witnessed. They don't have the same kind of divine alignment with truth as the Angel of Corrections (who knows when someone is lying to them, and can force a confession or 'correct behavior' out of others) but they do have a personal distaste for lies and misinformation. They're also capable of generating pigments from their fingertips or temporarily changing an object's color.

Their service weapon is a combination chain mace and censer, which emits a thick multicolored smoke as it's swung. They have a high Defense, good Finesse and Constitution, decent HP, but poor Power.

In the style of an in-game combat sprite, Record wielding their service weapon.

In the 'bad timeline' version of events, Record becomes increasingly withdrawn. Corrections throws himself into advancing in the Angelic hierarchy out of "enact change from within" ambitions, leaving Record (less able or willing to mask their disability) isolated and resigned, largely giving up on political resistance and trying to dissociate their way through life.

Voxpop and Kip, freelance reporters.

In the 'good timeline' (the actual chronology here is loosey-goosey because I don't really care - this might be two divergent timelines or it might be sequential), Record and Corrections leave their positions on the mainland. In their attempts to spread awareness of the divine authority's atrocities, overreach, and other injustices, they basically reinvent guerilla journalism from first principles. Record uses the alias Voxpop as a pseudonym for their articles/reporting (from vox populi, vox dei - the voice of the people is the voice of God - a direct challenge to Him).

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