Trin's Backstory

Guardian of the Angel
Trin’s Backstory
(With some of Gabe’s and Nick’s as well)

Trin was the most powerful of the Thrones Angels and the right hand of God for over two thousand years. Being the strongest, she had the ability to absorb human pain and suffering. To help with this burden her create bestowed her with the gift of an emotionless memory. She never felt what she took from suffering humans. Instead the emotions weighed on her as a dark emptiness needing to be filled with something. Anything! The desire to feel the suffering she carried pulled so strongly that one day she turned to Gabe, one of her two guards who had sworn their lives to protect her for help.

When she touched Gabe she was overcome with his sadness and longing to become human, as well as his feelings for her. He’d been sworn to protect her and with that vow he could never love her. His devastation was the last cherry on the pile. She let go of her beliefs in Heaven for just a second, long enough to be excused had she been human, but too long for an angel. She was cast down from Heaven’s gates and stripped of her powers.

God couldn’t let her become one of the Fallen. For one, she had been his favorite right hand. And, without her power the balance between good and evil would flip and the gates of Heaven would open to all. He couldn’t protect Heaven from Hell without her, so instead of burning in the Fall to Hell, Trin was born on earth to a Fallen father and Wiccan mother.

Gabe, following his orders to protect Trinity no matter the cost, dove head first from Heaven. Maybe among the Fallen they could be together. Instead, his wings were burned off from the Fall. On the way down he renounced Satan as his master and God took mercy, sending him into exile on Earth instead of a life of servitude in Hell. With strict instructions from the Arcs to never approach Trin, he tried to find purpose with the Fallen. A small group had banned together to pledge their allegiance to Heaven even after their Falls in hopes of fending off the growing army of demons threatening to take the gates. Gabe split him time between training with the tribe and searching for Trin. Over time, Gabe became their leader, but he had different ideas about how their unified powers should be used. He would come to Heavens rescue when the Great War begain, but at a price.

Nick, the second guard sworn to protect Trin, let her fall. He didn’t go after her. He didn’t hold her back. He watched. Instinct told him Gabe would be rash and Fall after her, but what Trin really needed was a guy on the inside. Someone still in power in Heaven to guide her home when the time was right. He’d been in love with God’s right hand from the day, over a thousand years ago, when he’s first laid eyes on her. Maybe living among the humans, feeling what they felt both the good and the bad, would help Trin understand the importance of her job in Heaven.

What Nick hadn’t counted on was the shift in power that would come from her Fall. If he had, he would have stopped her when he first thought she might try. Now, faced with the guilt of upsetting the whole of Heaven and Hell, he has to fix his mistake, but the only way to do that is keep Trin safe as a human and hope after death she chooses Heaven, and him, again. Gabe had been his best friend, but now that their fighting on different sides of the Great War, he can’t afforded the cost of their friendship. Trin must choose him and Heaven or all of humanity will suffer.

In a split second, a seed of doubt could unravel the kingdom of Heaven.