She has a normal human body, but otherwise looks the same.
AU HISTORY:🦋 Angela is born into a distinguished military family, of which every person in every generation has had some sort of military service––many of which earn various honors in the line of duty. Angela’s Father is such a case, with her Mother coming from a similar background.
🦋As Angela grows up, she becomes kind, creative, playful, and loud––much of which her parents scold her for in a desire for her to be a more proper young lady. However consistently she rebels against this, her parents are able to drill good manners and a smart, verbose way of speaking into her with enough attempts.
🦋At a relatively young age, Angela falls in love with music and begs her parents to pay for guitar lessons–but not seeing music to be a worthwhile venture, they forbid her. Determined to learn anyway, she scrounges up enough money to buy a cheap, used acoustic guitar and looks up how to videos on YouTube.
🦋Eventually, her parents relent and fund her legitimate lessons, but only after Angela agrees to attend a prestigious military school instead of the typical high school she had been hoping to attend. Throughout the end of middle school, Angela begins writing music and performing at school talents shows. She begins to favor themes of peace, kindness, and the joys of being alive.
🦋In Military School, Angela excels and grows into a smart, strong, and athletic teenagers. Despite all of her promise, Angela continually laments actually enlisting once she’s an adult, and the relationship between her and her parents becomes more and more tense as the years go on. While Angela tries her best to stay positive, kind, and gentle, she begins to develop a quiet anger of dissatisfaction inside of her.
🦋After graduating Military School, her parents pressure her to enlist, but Angela chooses instead to focus on her music–not finding too much success, but she does get the occasional coffee shop gig. The relationship between her and her parents continues to fracture.
After a year of pursuing music and going nowhere fast, Angela’s parents have had enough, and at the end of October 2017 her parents make the ultimatum for Angela to follow along in the family tradition and enlist, or no longer be welcome in their home. On the first of November, she is officially kicked out of the house.
AU PERSONALITY: Angela Aust is not a robot. Thus, she is markedly different from Aigis when it comes to the core of her being as a person, as well as the journey she has taken to arrive where she is emotionally at present. Where Aigis is created as a robot without emotions that slowly develops them over time, the way that Angela grows up is the opposite. A creative, happy, and emotive child, Angela continually has her light dimmed by strict parents. Good manners, soft spokenness, and an inexpressive face are drilled into her during her childhood. The military background of her parents lead them to being especially harsh on her, as the expect her to follow in their footsteps in military service. Despite her parents’ efforts, Angela only grows up to be even more emotive–mirroring her canon self’s later personality as someone who is bright, kind, and helpful. That said, her upbringing has caused her to become incredibly strong, athletic, and smart, with a verbose and polite manner of speaking–resulting in a high level of confidence.
Ever friendly and casual with others, she’s not afraid to tease or make playful remarks at the people that she likes, although these gentle barbs will sometimes be a way of masking buried feelings of jealousy or resentment. Like Aigis, her bonds with others are of the utmost importance and motivate her to find her own happiness. Kept at arms-length from most other kids most of her life, she’s now thrilled to be able to connect with others emotionally and is always willing to lend an ear to others’ problems–to the point where she can be a bit nosey and unselfaware. With a practical swiss army knife skill set, Angela manages to be pretty helpful no matter what the situation–which often leads to her feeling like she should butt into most situations in order to lend a helping hand.
While her kindness and gentle, free soul matches up with that of Aigis, Angela, due to the treatment by her parents growing up, manages to be at times just as emotive negatively as positively. While she’s all smiles as much as she can be, she has a tendency to lash out in anger when her buttons are really pushed, with jealousy and resentfulness abound in those moments. Sent to military school instead of a normal high school as part of a family tradition, she struggles with feeling anger towards other people her age that got to have a typical teenage life. Angela uses music to cope with these feelings, playing guitar and singing about her problems as well as the things that make her happy. While Angela shows considerable musical talent, she has had little success in terms of popularity–only managing the occasionally coffee shop gigs. This becomes another point of contention for her that leaves her feeling frustrated and wondering if her parents had let her focus on what she liked rather than their tradition, maybe she’d be further along. She’s spent many a night feeling sad and angry about it as well as the way her parents treat her for being more interested in music than holding up their family tradition.
Angela is a free spirit that refuses to fit into any molds that are thrust upon her, much the way that Aigis rejects the nature of her being a machine. Even as a difficult childhood and parental situation causes her to, at times, have to struggle for her own happiness, she still does her best to approach life with a sense of kindness, lightheartedness, and optimism–which she uses almost as a form of rebellion from her “initial purpose” of becoming a serious, hardened member of the military. Her aspirations fold into this, as she simply wishes to make others smile, feel good, and spread a message of peace.