Ezekiel



revolutionist, godslayer, and 700-year strong chosen of wilddog- moonlighting as the advisor to pangean royalty

Personality/General
ezekiel is an exceptionally devoted chose of WILD_DOG WATCHING, and as such is trusted with a frankly terrifying amount of offensive prowess. within wilddog's standings, they tend to function as an enforcer. while not expressly an assassin, they are the one sent in to use brute force to get a troublesome entity to comply, should their attempts at diplomacy fail.

on pangea, they keep a tight lock on thier past and their powers

Story/Origin
ezekiel was not the first to lose someone to matriarch's way of 'protecting' pangea; but they were, perhaps, the one who lost the most. a friend and ally who had briefly left pangea in effort of finding a decent life for the two of them, killed upon his return; and with him died all of ezekiel's ambitions of happiness. until now, it had been easy to pass off those matriarch struck down in this manner as enemies set on pangea's harm--but ezekiel knew this friend and his intentions, and his demise was no act of justice or defense.

in hopelessness, in vengeance, and in recognizing the characteristics of yet another malevolent "caretaker" looming over them, they wished matriarch dead.

as things would have it, this was a wish similarly shared by WILD_DOG WATCHING; it reached out to them to offer its power in exchange for matriarch's fall, and they readily accepted.

ezekiel then set to quietly searching out others who had been wronged by matriarch, and who had begun to question its benevolence and place as the planet's authority. they gathered a small but dedicated following who would help them carry out the Razing; a swift uprising to remove matriarch from power, to set an example for its followers, and to rebuild in the wake of its absence.

the razing itself, as far as anyone knew, was carried out only by one rogue individual. those who rose to unite the masses in mourning of their god, and in defense should an attack like this ever happen again, were naturally assumed to be unrelated. in realty these were, of course, fellow members of ezekiel's group, and the support and organization they gave to the rest of pangea soon led them to be hailed as its new leaders.

while ezekiel saw to it their initial identity burned with the flames of the razing, they soon rejoined their allies in charge under a new guise. only this first generation of leaders still knew who ezekiel was and what they'd done. since then, ezekiel has taken several different names and identities through the ages to mask their immortality, all the while keeping close to the rulers of pangea; whether as a historian, an archivist, or an advisor, to monitor the state of things and to see that records and information pertaining to matriarch are closely maintained.

in Static Sound
ezekiel is the only character created specifically for the static sound timeline; likewise, all of the above backstory is relevant to it. ezekiel's involvement in the main plot begins when they receive word that amaranth has discovered the lost queen in the wastes of nk's domain. they quickly head off to snuff out the last connection to matriarch, but face complications in the form of toxinvein and amaranth herself. they end up putting aside their initial mission to see to these new problems, keeping a close eye

after the events of the main story-with their secret fully exposed and raathe gone permanently- they decide to finally leave pangea behind for good, to find a cleaner-and perhaps better- start somewhere else among the cosmos.

Relations/Standings
ezekiel doesn't particularly like people and has no interest in maintaining any sort of relationship with anyone. they keep an an aggressively low profile within their position, and their unlikable demeanor helps to ensure no one cares enough to try prying into their personal life ouside their work as an advisor

ezekiel has a hardline focus on stability and survival, and to say their ideals clash with amaranth's hedonistic nature is an understatement. they both do their best to avoid eachother, as they're constantly at eachother's throats when around eachother and very little gets accomplished. still, as ezekiel works where amaranth lives, frequent run-ins are inevitable.

they get along much more nicely with arpeggio, who is also, generally, much more agreeable.

there is something of a tense [if ultimately harmless] power triangle between the three; amaranth knows ezekiel has no real power over her directly and seldom listens, but ezekiel does have sway over arpeggio- which th, who in turn can often get amaranth to concede.

[SS] after a decidedly rough first impression, ezekiel and lily end up surprisingly good friends. being the last two left from pangea's old age, they share a certain understanding of personal experiences that their world has otherwise long since forgotten. moreover, ezekiel respects her for her unguarded kindness to them despite everything, and lily appreciates their willingness to earnestly engage with her and treat her as an equal.

WILD_DOG WATCHING

Skills/Abilities
ezekiel primarily uses catalyst in its base form, and excels at putting its phyiscal properties to use all for offense, defens, and  mobility

while not truly immortal per se, ezekiel is effectively ageless, and extremely hard to kill by physical means. though their body is as easy to damage as any human, any injury they sustain is immediately filled in/held together by catalyst, keeping them stable and functional until their body heals it back together naturally. the caveat of this i

OTHER NOTES:

 * ezekiel has changed so dramatically since initial conception that their true base track scarcely fits. i've unofficially assigned them BLUEALiCE by Onoken as a "proper" track, but this is purely to give a more accurate sense of their demeanor-nothing about the character actually comes from this track
 * ezekiel is one of the ones with a hard canon LGBT status; the most obvious one, certainly: they're nonbinary. likely also genderfluid, depending on what their past aliases were like.
 * there's a good possibility they might have PTSD. i don't feel i'm qualified to make a canon call on it, but it was definitely in consideration while developing them.