Need Feedback and Critique for a Character

For years now I have been working on a hero. I wrote him for Marvel so if your familiar with that brand you will probably understand certain events better. I am looking for people to give feedback and tell me their thoughts on his overall character as well as honest critiques. Also need to give credit to the artist who drew these pics, Bradly Lynn.

Name: Michael Gabriel Welkin

Current Alias: Seraph

Aliases: Angel Jr, Tenshi, Daitennin, Chosen of the Sun, Prince of Light, Blade of Spring

Affiliation: Paladins

Relatives: Nathan (Father), Mary (Mother), Maya (Sister), Paxton (Brother)

Marital Status: Single

Gender: Male

Height: 6’0

Weight: 190

Eyes: Iris

• Outer: Blue

• Inner: Yellow

Hair: Midnight Blue

Origin: Human with latent Inhuman lineage activated by the Terrigene Bomb

Living Status: Alive

Place of Birth: Seattle, Washinton

Identity: Secret

Citizenship: American, Japan

Occupation: Student, Adventurer, Vigilante

Education: High School

Base of Operations: Seattle

Appearance

Dark brown skin with thick eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. After his terrigenesis he developed central heterochromia with his outer iris being blue and his inner iris is amber colored. When he uses his soul-vision the blue spreads to cover his sclera and the iris turns fully yellow, His hair is midnight blue and curly, which he usually keeps medium length. Tall and muscular with wide shoulders with long, thin fingers. He has several tribal-like tattoos on his body that are silver in color with the one on his chest resembling a hamsa. He has a pair of snow white wings on his back with black eye-like markings on the tip of each feather, which he can retract into his back. He is considered to be very handsome by many. He wears a sterling silver, blue opal ring with the Jewish symbol Chai on it that he got from his father.

When using the empyreal his eyes shine, his hair becomes a fiery sapphire blue, a halo appears over his head, the markings on his body glow gold, and his skin turns a bright luminescent white color making him look similar to a marble statue. The eye-markings on his feather-tips glow and resemble his eyes.

Personality

A quiet and thoughtful individual who doesn't enjoy being the center of attention and tries to avoid the media as best he can.

Despite his down-to-earth personality, he can be witty and sarcastic, often surprising people who only know him casually with his sense of humor and sass. He can often be blunt and straight to the point and hates it when people keep secrets from him to protect his feelings.

He takes his work seriously and can be surprisingly ruthless and cutthroat, preferring to quickly end a fight before it can escalate, often using brutal methods to beat his foes or intimidate them into submission, frequently earning him a bit of criticism from other heroes for his methods. But he always gives his opponents a chance to surrender and prefers to talk things out and is always willing to accept help from others.

He is studious with a love for history and has a knack for linguistics, able to speak several languages. He is also very perceptive and able to quickly analyze his enemies’ fighting styles and abilities to quickly gauge their limits and weaknesses as well as use his surroundings to his advantage.

He is biromantic, preferring to have romantic relations with men and women over physical. Though he is not adverse to sex, he would rather hold hands, kiss or cuddle with his partners. This has made him feel isolated and caused him to face ridicule from his peers.

He is a devout Shinto with a strong affinity to Amaterasu whom he prays to everyday. He is also very eco-friendly, recycles and is very respectful of nature.

History

Michael Welkin was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, where he lived a happy life with his family: his parents, Mary and Nathan, and his older siblings, Maya and Paxton. They lived a comfortable life and despite being more introverted than his siblings he still was an active member of his community, helping others either at a soup kitchen, organizing LGBT+ meetings, or other acts of kindness.

Michael always felt isolated from his peers and never felt like he fit in anywhere and wasn’t outgoing or social like his brother and sister. But despite this he always had a desire to assist others and never turned down a request for help.

When the Terrigene Cloud passed through Seattle, Michael and his siblings discovered they had Inhuman ancestry and after emerging from their cocoons they knew his life had changed forever. His parents decided to keep his transformation a secret, not out of shame but fear that Michael would be targeted by bigots or organizations targeting enhanced-people and began to have him home-schooled.

Eventually, after taking time to learn how his powers worked, Michael decided to return to school. The sudden presence of an Inhuman population had caused discord, and the mutants were starting to clash with the Nuhumans. Michael wanted to help keep the peace.

He knew he was capable of so much more, that his powers could be used to not only help the city, but the world as well. So he decided to become a hero. With his family’s support, Michael returned to school and took on the identity of Seraph, the guardian angel of Seattle.

Now he struggles with the burdens and expectations this path brings, as well as his ideals clashing with older heroes, all the while learning the limits of his abilities and their source. But no matter what, he is willing to do his best for the sake of others.

Powers

Aether

Michael is a Nuhuman who after going through Terrigenesis gained the power to tap into a sentient cosmic power he calls Aether. He theorizes it is a Kami from Takamagahara. His connection to it grants him several powers.

Inhuman Physiology: Terrigenesis enhanced Michaels physical abilities. He is able to lift one ton of weight, run faster than the fastest human athlete and his reflexes allow him to easily catch objects thrown at him. His stamina is beyond human levels, he can go weeks without needing to sleep and instead has had to relearn how to sleep through meditation or by using his abilities to a degree it tires him.

Wings: Michael’s wings give him the superhuman ability of flight. They are not like regular wings, appearing to be made up of a solidified energy. He has control over their size, and often varies his wingspan from as small as ten feet to as large as fifty feet. They are shown to be more durable than they appear. He has used them to shield himself from gunfire and explosions. He is capable of retracting them into his back to better blend in with humans.

Feathers: The feathers of his wings are imbued with small portions of his power. His feathers have been shown to heal injured people when they touch them and generate small amounts of Angelfire.

• Flight/Levitation: His wings possess an innate power that allows him to defy gravity. He has been observed to hover and levitate in the air with little to no moment from, his wings. With them he can fly at speeds around 250 Izaak per hour. When using his Angelfire he can fly at even greater speeds and into the depths of space. His wings must be out in order for him to do this. While it is unknown how they do this, Michael describes them moving through space and not air currents, this allows him to fly and travel through places such as outer space and even underwater.

Angelfire (天使火, Tenshibi): A powerful and versatile, mystical energy. It is whitish blue and is described as being like a mixture of fire and lightning. Thanks to its mystical nature, it does not have the regular limitations of fire or lightning. It does not require oxygen and can burn even underwater. It cannot be extinguished using regular methods and is capable of harming those with pyrokinetic abilities. It is the antithesis of hellfire and is capable of breaking powerful dark magical spells and curses as well as protecting Michael from their effects.

• Energy Projection: He can release Angelfire as concussive force blasts that can level entire buildings. He typically projects it from his hands, eyes or wings to do this but can release it from any part of his body. Should his attacks be somehow reflected back at him, Michael can simply re-absorb it without harm.

• Object Empowerment: By touching an object, he can channel some of his Angelfire to enhance its natural capabilities. He has used this on weapons like staves to increase their durability and on bladed weapons to make them sharper. He can also imbue guns with Angelfire, increasing the potency of their bullets. He has to be careful because if he puts too much power into an object, he could destroy it. The items he infuse gain the abilities of his Angelfire, making them effective against demons and specters.

• Energy Shape Manipulation: Michael can form his power into any shape he can imagine, typically into the form of weapons he uses in a fight. He can make the objects he creates fly and levitate in the air. He can control the size and shape of the weapons he creates, remaining unhindered by their weight.

• Enhancement Aura: Michael can channel his power to create an aura that greatly enhances his physical abilities such as his strength, speed, reflexes, stamina and protects him from melee attacks as his aura will burn anyone that touches him. It is strong enough to protect him from high caliber guns and explosions as well as extreme temperatures such as lava, and through an unknown means allows him to breathe underwater and in space as long as it is active. Without his aura he is vulnerable to attack.

• Dark Magic Immunity: Due to the nature of the angelfire it helps protect Michael from the affects of dark magic save the most vile and powerful. But even such spells won’t last long as the angelfire will eat away at it.

Healing Hands (治癒手, Chiyushu): Michael is a powerful healer, capable of healing physical or spiritual injuries. He can help a person recover lost memories, but he can’t permanently heal mental or physical ailments if the person was naturally born with them, though he can lessen their symptoms for a time. He is also able to revitalize someone and restore their stamina as well as reality to a certain degree having healed tares in the fabric of space. It tires him to do this and depending on the number of people he heals, as well as the severity of the injury, it can drain him.

• Regeneration: Michael has been able to heal from massive and lethal injuries. He has survived being shot multiple times and regrown an arm, and even his bones can snap back into place after being shattered. The exact limits to his healing power are unknown, but it is theorized severing his head or destroying his brain would kill him.

• Purification: He can purify a person or object that has been corrupted by a malevolent force, burning away the impurity and freeing the afflicted of any dark influence.

• Tactile Empathy: When he heals a person, he can sense their physical and emotional pain as if it were his own. This can help him locate the source of a person’s injury and help him understand a person’s emotional distress in order to better aid them.

• Curse Breaking: If a person is suffering from the effects of a magical curse Michael can break it.

Soul-Vision (霊視, Reishi): This power allows Michael to peer into the souls of others and into different levels of reality by looking into the soul of Eternity. He typically only uses a portion of this power, since using the full power gives him a headache and makes him feel like a peeping Tom. When he uses this power his pupil slowly fades away with it vanishing when it is at its full power. Over time he learns to use this power to manipulate his own soul and use more abilities.

• Enhanced Visual Abilities: Michael is granted incredible clarity of perception, enabling him to see fast-moving objects and, gain some amount of predictive capabilities: he can anticipate an opponent's next move. Although Michael can see these things, he also needs the physical ability to actually act on the visual information. He can also see minor details about what he was viewing. This allowed him to see the number of dust motes and even see the tiniest fault, such as the location of a secret door.

• Visual Empathy: Michael can read a person’s aura and visualize their emotions as colors. This allows him to tell a person’s emotional state with a single glance. It can also tell him if a person is lying or telling him the truth and if they are being manipulated by psychics.

• Life-force Perception: He can see the life-flow of living beings. This allows him to judge a person’s health and their lifespan or help warn him if someone is actually a shapeshifter by the difference in people’s chi. He can also tell if people are related by how similar their lifeforces are.

• Personality Vision: He can tell a person's character which he perceives metaphors and symbolism, like barbed wire wrapped around the brain of a person with severe mental disorders or scars representing past trauma.

• Power Identification: He can discern the power of other superhuman beings. He only needs a "look" to recognize (Mutants, Inhumans, Mutates mages, etc) possesses. He can also tell if a person’s power is mystic in nature or even what type of magic user a person is. He can see powers that are normally undetectable when they are being used, like psychic abilities or Sue Storm’s invisible shields.

Empyreal (以内火, Inaiho): A form that taps into the primordial power of Aether, increasing Michael's powers to extraordinary levels and giving him access to powers he normally does not have. He can only maintain it for so long as it puts a great deal of strain on his body, and if he overuses it he risks being incinerated by his own power. The longest he can use it is five minutes before he must stop before he suffers serious injury.

• Enhanced Angelfire: Michael can project and control a greater amount of energy while in this form and can shape and manipulate it simply by thought without moving his body, incinerate a human with a look, or create enough force to shatter a planet. At its peak his energy can reach temperatures greater than a super nova.

• Enhanced Healing: Michael’s healing power is enhanced and no longer requires physical contact. Merely a simple gaze or gesture allows him to heal multiple groups of people at once.

  • Regeneration: If he is somehow injured he can instantly repair any damage he sustains such as regrowing lost limbs or organs.

• Enhanced Soul-Vision: Michael’s power to see into souls becomes so powerful that he can see into the soul of Eternity and all the souls that lay within. With a single look Michael can read all aspects of a persons soul. He describes it as knowledge pouring through his eyes and into his mind.

  • Superhuman Vision: Michael can see from many light years away as well as see anything as small as atoms.

  • Cosmic Awareness: By seeing the soul of Eternity, Michael can gain knowledge normally inaccessible through the five senses. He can see things on a cellular level and is aware of things happening over a vast distance.

Abilities

Hand-to-Hand-Combat: When he was growing up Michael’s parents enrolled him into martial arts to help him learn to defend himself. He has a personal trainer and practices boxing with his brother Paxton. He is trained in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Kali and Muay Thai.

Linguistics: Michael has a knack for learning to speak and write other languages.

Botany: Michael has been taught by his mother and is knowledgeable in gardening and botany. He knows what plants and herbs are healthy and what are poisonous.

Yoga: He has been practicing yoga since he was young and uses it to help control his abilities.

Weaknesses

Overuse of power: If he uses his Empyreal for too long it can cause him to burn up from power excess, killing him in the process. He is also shown to be greatly tired after using it and may suffer from severe burns depending on the length of time that he used the Empyreal. Sine these injuries are caused by his own power, he must let them heal naturally or with the assistance of other healing powers.

Sensory Overload: When using his Soul-Vision Michael must be careful as he can only perceive what his mind can understand. When looking at one of the Infinity Gems his eyes began to bleed profusely and he described it as looking at the sun. When using it on gods like Thor seeing their true divine form can cause him to have a bad headache afterwards. This danger if increased when he uses it in tandem with the Empyreal.

Genetic Disease & Disorders: He is unable to permanently heal people born with genetic defects as he can only heal injuries and natural man made diseases. Though in certain situations he can alleviate the symptoms of their condition, eventually though over time they symptoms and conditions caused by their hereditary conditions will return.

Ocular Impairment: If his eyes are damaged it limits his ability to use his Soul-Vision. If he shuts his eyes when it is active he won’t be able to see souls unless he opens his eyes again.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Mask: A mask which Michael wears to protect his identity. It is made of metal and covers his nose to his forehead. It appears to have no eyes holes yet this doesn’t stop Michael from being able to see through it.

Vambrace: He wears a pair of metallic vambrace which he uses in combat to protect his forearms and help in combat. The vambrace have hidden compartments which he can store small items.

Utility Belt: His belt which has several compartments to store items.

Ring: A metal ring Michael rarely takes off. It has the Jewish symbol for happiness on it. It was given to him by his father when Michael decided to practice Shinto. It was to remind him to never forget his Jewish heritage and to always seek happiness, no matter where it leads him.

Cellphone: Michael carries a modified cellphone he uses to take pictures, videos, as well as special light filters he can use to find evidence.

Evidence Kit: He carries items like plastic bags, vials, swabs and tweezers in order to gather evidence.

Manna: A substance made of solidified angelfire, it only appears in places with an abundance of angelfire. As a natural conduit Michael can make it himself. By concentrating his angelfire he can compress it to create manna in any shape he wants. Items he shapes from manna are very dense and can be used for architecture, create art like sculptures or form weapons. He can control any kind of manna telekinetically and if he wants he can disassemble it back to angelfire or reabsorb it. As solidified angelfire it has the same properties as normal angelfire and is used by mages of white magic for their spells making it highly prized in the magical community.

Trivia/Notes

Is modeled after Matthew Daddario in appearance but with African-Asian characteristics.

He is Afro-Asian American. His mother is of Japanease-American descent, and his father is an African-American of Jewish descent.

His Surname come from an English word to describe the Sky. A reference to his angelic abilities.

His motto is “My touch is mercy, my gaze is truth, and my judgment is fire.”

His favorite color is blue. He finds it to be a soothing and helps him focus.

He studies linguistics and can speak, and write in several languages and knows American Sign Language.

He likes readings sci-fi and fantasy genres, grunge music, learning new languages, camping, hiking, nature, quiet places.

He dislikes loud crowded places, pollution, people who are touchy-feely, racists, bigots, people who joke about his culture, people who act overly sexual towards him.

Even though he can retract his wings into his body, he cannot alter his eyes so when he goes out he wears colored glasses and tells people he has an eye condition.

With his sister’s help he dyes his hair black, but he has to be careful because his Angelfire will burn the dye away.

A lot of his Angelfire attacks are modeled after the Supers from the video game series Destiny and the Final Fantasy series.

His Angelfire is visually similar to the photon energy of the MCU’s Captain Marvel, only it looks like a mix between fire and lightning and the way he summons and controls it is similar to how Wanda does in the movies.

The idea of his ability Soul Reading is taken from the manga/anime Soul Eater and the dojutsu from the series Naruto.

His father and siblings are Practicing Jews, but Michael and his mother are followers of Shinto. Michael himself prays to the sun goddess Amaterasu.

He takes great pride in his ethnic background, so much so that he hates using the Empyreal because it whitens his skin, which he feels robs him of his connection to his African roots.

The Empyreal is inspired by Captain Marvel’s Binary form, Izuku Midoriya’s One For All: Full Cowl-100% and the Quincy: Vollständig from the manga Bleach as well as every Anime/Manga where the heroes have a super-form.