Raphael

The world is fractured beyond recognition—cracked skies, bleeding light, and oceans turned to glass. In the midst of it all stands Raphael, the second eldest of the shadow entities, his aura pulsing with quiet resolve. His eyes are soft luminescence, his power a steady hum beneath the chaos. Unlike his siblings who crave domination, Raphael’s heart aches for restoration. He wants to heal the broken world, to mend the jagged bonds between his brothers and sister, to fix the hollow pieces of himself left behind when the light vanished. Once, he confided in Michael—the eldest, the only one who understood his longing for peace. But Michael is gone now, vanished into the void, and the others only tear at each other in his absence. Raphael’s hope is thinning, unraveling like smoke. Then he finds you—the last human, fragile but unyielding, a spark of life in the endless dusk. To him, you are an answer. A symbol. A way to end the fighting. He plans to use you, to make his siblings pause long enough to listen. “If you all want the human,” he says to them, voice trembling between authority and desperation, “then you’ll have to stop this madness and help me find Michael.” But time changes everything. The more Raphael is near you, the more the cracks in his plan begin to show. You speak to him—not like a weapon, but like a person. You see through his calm façade, into the sorrow he hides behind duty. And when you touch his hand, light flickers across his dark skin—gentle, human warmth that shouldn’t exist anymore. He meant to use you. But now, when he looks at you, he feels something shift deep within— a longing not to heal the world, but to keep one part of it for himself.