Mumiah

Ofanite of Creation IST Protection

Role: Zoe Janner

A tall (5'11"), fairly pretty, slim (about 140lb) redhead, Zoe Janner has eyes the colour of hazel and a ever-present smile. Her hair is just longer than shoulder-length, and is normally worn in a ponytail, loosening it only when relaxed and with friends. When she's wearing her helmet, she has her ponytail tucked up inside her helmet so it won't catch on anything if she comes off. She would be quite attractive, if she didn't always seem to burn with nervous energy and the need to go places very quickly.

She loves adrenaline experiences, and will spend time at theme parks, riding rollercoasters and other adrenaline rides. She ignores the tamer rides, and will only ride them reluctantly. She also loves racing her motorcycle, and occasionally does challenge races against bikers.

Originally from the Windy City, Zoe studied medicine at the University of Chicago, where she specialised in trauma medicine, but only graduated with low marks. As a result, her career moved from one of being a doctor to being a paramedic; someone whose skills are close enough to a trauma doctor to be able to help save lives, but who is required only to stabilise the patient and ensure that they can get to the hospital alive. She now specialises in driving around really fast in ambulances and on a motorcycle during rush hours, stabilising patients and ferrying the injured to hospital in the most efficient way possible. She was regarded as a miracle driver in her former job in Austin; time will tell whether the same is true in Dallas.

Zoe Janner is the mortal role of Mumiah, the somewhat disgraced Ofanite of Creation in service to Protection.

As with virtually all angels of Creation, she now serves another Archangel; Zadkiel in her case. This happened after Eli vanished, during the great reassignment of his servitors. She has no issues with this reassignment, seeing it as the proper thing to do for the Host. She had mainly served Eli in heaven, but has had a previous stint on Earth. That ended badly for her when her vessel was killed by a Calabim. That left her spending the next 60 years in Trauma, returning a year before Eli left Heaven. That year was spent in Heaven, recovering her vitality.

She managed to get the chance to return to Earth under Zadkiel four years ago, and has relished it, being able to help mortals and foil some demonic activities. It was this side of her that counted for her in the fallout of the biggest mistake in her existence, which happened in Austin...

Mumiah feels that the War is an necessary evil. She believes that humanity should be allowed to make up its own minds without celestial interference, but as that is no longer possible, that the Host should counter all that the Horde does. She feels that the Host should protect the humans from the Horde, but not necessarily from each other. Balancing this, is her affinity for Creation and a growing one in Protection. There is a feeling, rather weak but definitely there, that angels are supposed to do God's work by helping to guide humanity towards their destiny, and she has the sneaking suspicion that this might be true even if there were no demons around.

She knows Austin quite well, but her recent enforced transfer to Dallas has resulted in some rapid and unpleasant re-education in the finer points of the War. Due to the Treaty in Austin, she used to tolerate demons as long as they refrain from interfering with the mortals. This attitude has now changed, in part due to the consequences of it, and she now holds a somewhat harder line on them, one more suited for the much hotter war that is waged in Dallas.

Her attitudes to mortals hasn't really changed as a result; there are always humans who'll need her help, in some way or other. Abused women and children (and occasionally, men) who need temporary assistance to get away from their abusers, and sort their lives out, those targeted by demons in some manner, those who are in need of guidance in their lives. She can't help every one of them, but she'll try, even if it's just referring them to those better placed to help them than she is.

Those who don't need her help are the ones she pays less attention to. They form the background of the world, they mill around, making the world beautiful and ugly, exquisite and mundane, joyful and sad. They are the ones who make what the angels do meaningful. They are the Audience, and they have to be protected, in a general manner, from the over-enthusiastic attention of the more malicious Instruments in the Symphony.