Liberty's Finest

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[font=Trebuchet Ms]The Guardian Angel - played by [font=Trebuchet Ms][color=#CCEECC]Hideki.

At first glance he's your typical good-looking, middle-aged Libertonian guy. Tall build, fairly muscular, clean-shaven, well-dressed and well-mannered with that aura of confidence around him wherever he walks, but what is behind the veil is a much more complicated picture with a rather tragic history of lost love and guilt, of rage and grace. A born Libertonian, he spent most of his lifetime defending his home as an utmost loyal member of the Liberty Security Force, and he was actually quite happy with that until a certain assignment that ended up with him taking part in the assassination of two people who happened to be the parents of the sisters Grace and Natalie Callahan. While that hadn't been a major turning point in his life by itself, it became one once he met Grace, during a period of time when she wasn't yet overtaken by the thirst for vengeance that would have later on led to her joining the Legion, and they two became friends in a way.
And for Angel friendship grew into something that would lead to his inevitable downfall.

[color=#CC99CC]Love.

He hadn't realized yet that the woman he had fallen in love with was the actual daughter of the people whose deaths he was responsible for, but once he did he started to question his actions at the time, started to second-guess, started to regret, and what was worse for him, he hesitated. Unable to bring himself to confess to Grace he kept his feelings for her hidden and swore to himself that for the things he did, he would keep her safe at least, no matter what, until some day he maybe, maybe could tell her the truth.
And so he did, until Grace, at the time Star Colonel of the Hellfire Legion, got shot down in Zone-21. Angel had failed to live up to his own oath and, once he found out, most parts of the man he had been simply died. His hopes of ever being able to make up for what he had done and tell the woman he loved what his feelings were after were shattered, and whatever of his life was still left around him lost all meaning.
A man turned into a machine, living for the sake of existence, but nothing more, nothing less.
Driven by the one thing he suffered from the most.

Guilt.

It wasn't until he came over a report that prominently featured the words 'Liberty's Finest' and name of a 'Natalie Callahan' that something in him moved.
The same old guilt that had been lurking somewhere in his cold heart for years surfaced and brought the latter to life again.
As he was still a member of the Security Force at that time, he used all the options he had available to him and started to dig.
And he had to dig very deep until he got his hands on the background for the Callahan family and that assignment he had been sent on time ago.
It was that, just a single file, which brought this carcass of a man to life again, and with life and guilt came something new.

Rage.

Rage directed at his superiors, who never had told him everything he could've known about that assignment back then.
Rage directed at the Security Force as a whole, whom he now knew to be responsible for Grace's death.
Rage at himself for having been so foolish to believe that he had known everything there was to know, and for having wasted time not making a move, drifting along in the stream of time without a purpose.
The latter would change quickly, but the same rage and the same old guilt would stay.
He cut off all ties to his old life and set out to find Natalie at all costs, using every method, every Credit, everything he had to find her.

And find her he did in the end.
One particular day as the Stellar Ranger was moored at Rochester he came aboard, wishing to talk to Blue herself.
Luckily for him she was in a good mood, and as they two crossed ways, he only spoke out one sentence.
It was the only thing necessary for him to say in order to be able to find out whether she'd give him the chance to make up for his failure.

I loved Grace Callahan.

The only thing everyone aboard the Ranger knows regarding the things that happened after is that Blue and him spent the rest of the day behind closed doors.
What they talked about even Viva, Blue's lover and most trusted friend, doesn't know.
But one thing is certain, Angel got his chance and now he is part of the Ranger's crew.

He's a man who prefers to keep to himself for his own reasons, never mentioning anything that could give anyone a clue about who he really is, called the 'Guardian Angel' by everyone around him because he will protect Blue and all the women close to her with utmost tenacity and force of will, no matter the cost and risks he must face, and without any regard for his own well-being.
And he's also a man who can't be bargained or reasoned with.
The tragedy of losing the only woman he ever really loved and his hatred of his own being have turned him into a someone who stands above the temptations that would affect mortal men.
Someone who becomes a divine savior in times of need, and a demonic nightmare to everyone who stands in his way.