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The Angel

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Another original Silent Hill monster. This is the Angel, the result of doubts and fears regarding faith. Any kind of faith, really, not just religious. I suppose it's more about lacking trust more than anything. The figure in the middle of the Angel has entrusted itself too heavily to its wings, its uplifting guides, and has therefore become enslaved by them. It can't live without them, but it would rather not live at this point, realizing it cannot live on its own anymore.
TL;DR: It trusted too much and is paying for it.

It walks on its bare wings, bloody at the joints from its constant crashing into objects, walls, and doorways. The creature is large, about the size of a Closer, and doesn't get around very well. It has a rather vicious method of attacking, though; when near its target, its "wings" will twist, swinging the suspended body at the target. The body doesn't move much other than twitching at the fingers, and it shows. Its legs are atrophied and useless, black from being suspended and swung so much.
TL;DR: It swings the body at you and can kick you.

Its finger twitching signifies that the body still very much wishes it could be on its own, but it is helpless to what it has become. Unable to take care of itself, its hair is long, covering its face in what you could almost call shame. The body is androgynous, having no gender.
TL;DR: No. Read. It's not that long.

Angels are easy to track down if you should ever actually want to find one. Just look for the prints of blood on the ground left by its wing knuckles. When you do find one, however, it will fight back with a wide reach, either from swinging the body or balancing on one wing while smacking you with the other in sort of a snap kick. The best way to deal with an Angel is to stand at its side, hacking away at its wings ala Scarlet. It's not enough to just hack the wings off, though. You'll still have to deal with the suffering weakling left behind... Unless you like hearing it groan in pain and cry over its helplessness.
TL;DR: Sweep the leg and kill the body.

Suggested weapons: Pipe, Axe, Crowbar, Plank
Ranged weapons are not suggested, since though the Angel takes up a lot of space, it is a very slim target that moves around quite a bit.
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LeitaKree's avatar
Another monster! Yay!

I really like the wings, but I'm afraid your concept didn't carry over quite as well as it did with the Hoodie one. While I like the idea of the hair hiding the Angel's "shame", I think you'd do better adding some sort of twisted "halo" (to help reinforce the angel idea). And then I'd think you'd do better with some sort of tattered robe on it (or even just some bandages or something), giving it some symbolism about defiling innocence and corruption and etc.. I adore the wings, though, particularly how they surround the center creature like a cage, and how that it uses its living "body" as a weapon. However, it seems too much like the wings are a part of the body, instead of "cancer" that took it over and left the host helpless. Maybe adding some large, nasty tumors to the back/base of the wings?

Basically, I LOVE your concept, but I didn't get that same concept from your drawing. Of course, you've also expanded your definition to be broader than loss of Christian faith specifically, so maybe I'm just biased because we discussed that briefly beforehand. :shrug: