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Character Name: Samuel; a.k.a. Sam.
Fandom: The Keeper's Chronicles, by Tanya Huff

Age: > 1 (Physically; Spiritually, as old as the Christian world.)
Species: Cat. Formerly angel.
Gender: Male.
Sexual Orientation (if applicable): Kitty.

Physical Appearance: Marmalade tabby, medium length fur, nice golden eyes. No seriously. He's a fuzzy cat; in the book his orange gets darker around his legs and paws, almost making it seem he's wearing darker orange socks. He's eight inches tall at the shoulder.

Personality and Traits: Sam, from his point in canon, doesn't quite grasp sarcasm, even if he's learning to use it, and has a habit of forgetting he's not supposed to talk. He is also confident, simply because he is a cat -- he means angel -- he means cat. He loves food, especially if it's not cat-food, and believes he has more than the occasional glimpse of Higher Knowledge as befits and angel of the christian god. (Does he? Only very rarely.) He doesn't really understand why people would question his wishes - after all, they are his wishes, and it's not too terrible an imposition, is it? He also comments on the quality of his surroundings, and seems to have a more literal point of view on Why Things Are A Given Way. He does have flash of conscience (mostly for others) in line with his angelic background, and feels free to comment on this to those close to him. He also has a tendency to indulge in feline urges as those urges fit. Particularly around laundry, black clothing, and leather chairs.

Consequently, that background also makes him very proud when he figures something new out, a bit like a child mastering something at last. He also sucks at lying, and apologizes when he's called out on it. He also tends to tell the truth, even if someone else doesn't want him to - especially when they don't inform him to not talk.

Canon Background: Sam was originally white light thrown into existence in this world because the sex between Claire and her boyfriend was so pure, and so fantastic, only an angel could be born from their union. Unfortunately, Sam ended up being given physical form by a young woman with very specific ideas of what angels looked like, along with her father's fears on what strange noises in his daughter's bedroom would mean, and became an angel with a penis.

Problematic, when it's not part of the standard equipment, and a very, very confused angel finds himself stuck as a teenager and looking for someone to perform a miracle for to get back to heaven. With it being winter in Canada, this isn't as easy as it might sound. Once he was decently clothed, he unwittingly hitched a ride to a major city with a couple and their two screaming, incredibly annoying spawn. Stuck in the middle, he managed to distract the two enough that the parents were less likely to kill themselves and said spawn somewhere on the highway when their patience finally lost to their wish for peace.

Leaving the family, he was adrift in the city, running into a homeless man who helped him survive on the streets while feeding him wild information about angels in general, the great purpose of being on earth, and what pigeons wanted. This won Sam food, bad sex advice, and the ongoing battle with teenage hormones. (Angels simply weren't meant to suffer from these - nor were demons, and there was a female hormonal teenaged demon out and about in the same town by merit of equalization of power.)

Diana, Claire's younger sister, rather pigheadedly decided she needed to get a leg into this particular case. (She and Claire were both "Keepers," gifted individuals who maintained the balance of power in the world by fixing "tears" in reality that let both good and evil in according to the discrimination of the one making a hole.) By luck and good guesswork, Diane ended up locating the clueless, earnest Samuel and getting him to come along with her while she sought a way to help rectify the situation. While suffering his cluelessness (and sudden erections) at the hotel-room she procured, Diana was struck by an idea which could totally work for locating the demon - change the angel's form. Or send him back, but that was getting closer to impossible and closer to the deadline for the demon to do massive destruction.

Consequentially, she asked for the world to reshape him into something suitable and close to his original form, heard some angelic voices discussing office work and Samuel's "vacation," and was gifted with a furry marmalade kitty-cat where Samuel used to stand.

Sam didn't take immediately to walking on four legs, and also didn't take to not talking in public. He found it even harder to stop when a child was tugging on his tail, or when people were offering him food on the bus.

I mean, food. Come on.

He went with Diana in order to stop the demon-turning-human from opening a gate to hell. They arrived in time for Diana to talk with Blythe, and for Samuel to leap up onto a shelf and hide when Claire came running in minutes later. Just as Hell was about to use Blythe to jump into the world, Samuel made the choice that cemented him as a feline until death undid the deed by knocking Blythe out of Hell's Reach and becoming part of the Keeper Family.

Strengths/Abilities: Enhanced senses, as befits a feline. Good jumping skills. Occasional glimpse of Higher Knowledge.

Weaknesses/Faults: A lack of thumbs. A tendency to have a moral compass of things people should or should not do... applying to just them, of course. A tendency to really really like food.

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