Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Adam, the White-Winged Angel

Adam is an interesting character that came out of nowhere. He represents the celestial forces of good fighting back against the madness spread by the forces of evil in my book On Black Wings. He is part of the heavenly response team, and needless to say, they probably played this entire situation wrong. The forces of good up above were clearly taken by surprise here, and Adam appears in two places in the book.

He confronts Jessica once peacefully as first under human guise, and he wants her to stop what she is doing. He tries to do things without invoking his angelic form, and he probably has a good reason to stay hidden. At that point, he doesn't know how far she has fallen, so there is a bit of walking on eggshells for him when he first meets her, feeling her psyche out, and he was possibly told to check her and then report in to the angelic forces back home.

He returns, and she is gone. She does look for him, but he is gone at first. It is an awkward moment between them, two people 'losing' each other because of an ability one doesn't understand and the other does. It's a strange twist of fate they lose each other, but it's one of those things that just happens.

He loses track of her until later in the book, and he attacks Jessica and two of the horsemen with furious intent, and he was sent to take the three of them out. There's obviously something going on up above that labeled her as a threat, so he swoops in and changes the direction of her path. She was cooperating with evil up until that point, but his sacrifice makes her think twice, and she is back to a familiar place again.

Adam's fall signifies what she could become, and the blood on white wings metaphor is a strong one. Adam is quite likely who she wants to see herself as in an ideal world, a white-winged angel of goodness and light. When he falls, she is taken aback, and she takes it upon herself to save his life.

She takes his sword and his bow, and in a way, she becomes him in spirit.

Adam's fall puts her back on the path, and she has a wonderful scene on a stretch of desert highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas that is a classic scene, again right out of a movie. She's on the freeway, sexy armor and black wings, and cars are speeding by her honking their horns thinking she is an exotic dancer heading home to LA. Nobody knows the better, the world ends in seven hours, and she waits for her friends to pick her up so she can get back to saving the world.

It's another one of those moments where you ask if someone isn't sending these people her way to gently guide her back on the path. You'll need to read the book and think about that one, and I don't have an answer because I'm leaving it up to you.

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