Ryssa Elizabeth Titania

[attr="class","appcontent2"]Ryssa is still pretty old fashioned. Probably stems from growing up in an age where politeness was key to everything. She's taken classes at the University to learn to blend in but there are still some things you can quickly confuse her with and there are other times, the things she says might not make any sense. But Ryssa is easy to get along with. She's not shy at all and is always looking to make you laugh. However, when it comes to her "job" as an Angel, she's sure footed and serious. Being trained as a warrior since the moment of her parent's death, she really knows nothing else of her life. She practices every day with her bow and arrow to make sure she's still on top of her game and keeps tabs on all of her old contracts. There have never been any reports that Demons stripped of Magik regained their Magik ability but Ryssa doesn't like the idea of forgetting about them. Some people like to joke that the warrior Ryssa and the girl Ryssa are complete strangers to each other. Blending in with her human friends or at the university itself, she's nothing more than the sweet innocent girl everyone admires but when it comes to fighting and the Angels, she's a dire hard and very serious warrior. She doesn't tolerate a lot and does her job to the letter. She feels as though she has an obligation to the Silver Cross since they had taken her in, raised her and spent the time to train her.

When it comes to every day normal girl things, Ryssa is the quiet sweet type. OFten times, you can find her staring aimlessly out the window with a smile on her face. Surprisingly, even though she looks like a book worm, Ryssa likes exercise as her comfort. When she's not in class, she's either at the gym, running or hiking. She's definitely one of those girls who doesn't like to sit still for too long. She's always looking for the next adventure and finds great pleasure in getting herself lost just to see something new. The world she had grown up in had been so small. This world, there were endless things to see and people to meet and she doesn't like the idea of sitting around and waiting for them to comet to her. Because of this, she hardly has time for a love life. Not that she hasn't gotten enough chances. She's a popular choice among the men on campus but she's always politely turned them down. Secretly, she's searching for another Angel, like herself. She knows there are others out there but lately, it seems as though the Demons were beginning to take over in numbers and there just aren't as many Angels left in the world.

[attr="class","appcontent2"]As far as Angels go, Ryssa is rather young. Born in the late 1700's, she started her life in the early Americas during war and confusion. It was during this trivial moments of America's early days where her parents were killed by demons and she was left an orphan, to be raised and trained by the Silver Cross. She inherited her father's Divine Weapon, since her mother's wouldn't obey her. Her father's divine weapon, which was passed down from his father, is a simple recurve bow made with exquisite carvings of the Goddess. She keeps it close to her disguised as a bracelet. She was born in the booming town of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to two angels and learned early on in life that the Silver Cross meant to her. They were her life and she was to obey everything they said. Ryssa was well loved by her parents. As citizens of Philadelphia, her parents blended in quite well, even sending little Ryssa off to school to learn to read and write. She made many friends but couldn't understand the difference between her and her friends. Her mother and father had made a point to explain to her that keeping her identity as an Angel a secret. Her parents even kept to jobs that would keep their angel tattoos hidden. It wasn't until Ryssa was ten years old that the world she knew was turned upside down. During the night, her parents had been called away by the Silver Cross to eliminate a target and left their daughter at home. It wasn't until morning, when Ryssa realized she was alone in the house, that she realized what had happened. Her parent's bodies were never found. It was the Silver Cross that took her in and her life as a normal child was officially over. They treated her like a warrior, sending her through training the moment she was under their care. She learned quick, using the anger of her parents death as an incentive to train harder. She wants to find the demon that killed her parents.

When she turned of adult age, the Silver Cross relinquished their rights to her and allowed her to be on her own. With years of training under her belt and the gift of her father's Divine Weapon, Ryssa was ready to tackle the world. However, when she returned to the world she thought she knew, she came to realize that it wasn't the same. Several hundred years had gone by and she had to learn, quickly, how to blend in. She picked up the persona of being a college student and with the help of many classes, was quickly able to pick up how to live and act in this new world. But her first and main allegiance is to the Silver Cross. If they serve her a contract, she does everything in her power to complete it. Unlike most Angels, however, she doesn't kill the demons she contracts. Instead, she uses her Divine Weapon to stripe them of their Magik as was the original order given by the Goddess. She doesn't see the point in senseless killing, even though she seeks revenge for her parents deaths. Thoughts and actions are two completely different things for Ryssa.