Corporeal Forces: 5 Strength: 8 Agility: 12

Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 8

Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 8 Perception: 8

Word Forces: 11

Skills: Chemistry/6, Dodge/5, Fighting/4, Knowledge (Biology/3, Genetics/3, Zoology/3)

Songs: Beasts (All/3), Entropy (Corporeal/6, Ethereal/3), Light (Corporeal/3, Celestial/2), Movement (Ethereal/3), Shields (All/3), Tongues (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/3)

Attunements: Kyriotate of Animals, Call of the Wild, Animal Magnetism, Vassal of Animals, Angel of Plastics

Angel of Plastics: Gethel always knows the approximate location of every piece of plastic within 100 yards. With a Perception roll, it can detect whether there's a hidden dump of the stuff within a mile. Gethel also has a +2 to any resonance roll to possess someone who is illegally disposing of plastic materials.

It is untrue, however, that the Kyriotate can possess items made out of plastic. Nope, not at all. It just possesses the bacteria on the plastic, which is hardly the same thing.

Rites:

: Reveal the public an illegal dump of plastics (+2 if it also manages to identify the entity or entities doing the dumping).

: Recycle at least 20lb of plastic materials.

Funny. Vapula had exactly the same look on his face when he heard about Gethel.

Well, what did he expect? There have been four Angels and six Demons of Plastics since the 1920s: on at least two occasions the holders have died at the same time, their hands wrapped around each other's throats. Word-friction is fierce when it comes to Lightning and Technology, anyway - and in this case it was practically a vendetta from the start.

So, when the Seraphim Council got word that Plastics was free again, there was serious debate about just letting the Word stay vacant. It probably wouldn't (if nothing else, Technology would have had a field day), but the Council was ready to think outside the box. Possibly Jordi was a bit too outside the box, but at least he was taking an interest. Also, his visual aid (sixteen corporeal tons of plastic scraps, representing the take from one small landfill) was fairly impressive when it materialized on the Seraphim Council's floor. A shame that the heap overflowed into Jean's section, but this interdimensional transportation is fairly difficult, no?

It at least kept the Archangel of Lightning occupied while Jordi argued that, if Heaven was just going to let humanity throw this crap around every which way, the least that they should do is blessed well let his people have the blessed Word. They were the ones that to clean it up, anyway. Besides, Jordi could hardly do a worse job than Jean could - and it is a very good thing that Elohim master their passions, because that comment did nothing to improve Lightning/Animals relations.

So, Jordi got the Word ... and then demonstrated what he was planning to do with it. You see, from Lightning and Technology's point of view, plastics are a tool: from Animals', it's a whole new ecosystem. Good only for bacteria, mostly, but then bacteria have to eat too. Gethel's whole point of existence is to encourage species that will look upon your average polymer as manna from Heaven. Nothing too drastic, of course: one wouldn't want the poor dears to overpopulate their ecology. Just enough so that the damned stuff rots eventually - and without polluting the soil, either. Novalis wouldn't like that: she was nice enough to support Jordi getting the Word, after all.

Gethel's actually a pretty good choice for the job: it's a very patient entity that's absolutely fascinated with the way that microscopic life can eventually gear up to consume just about everything. It also likes seeing beaches and woods that are free of non-biodegradable crap: for the most part, Gethel blames Vapula for that, but the Kyriotate is convinced that humanity would be better off if the species got a metaphorical and collective boot to the head regarding recycling. This makes it a member of Jordi's pro-human faction, amusingly enough: many Servitors of Animals favor instead real and individual boots to the head - or maybe knees to the groin.

Anyway, right now Gethel's pretty close to letting the first batch of his little darlings out and humming "Born Free". Lightning has - very, very reluctantly - agreed to not wipe them out, and to make sure that nobody else does, either. They've also agreed, with much more enthusiasm, to make sure that the next Demon of Plastics has little time to appreciate his promotion. With any luck, by the time Hell manages to find a survivable candidate the point will be moot. Plastic will be like wood and iron: useful, but you won't be allowed to just ignore it and go away. Gethel can hardly wait: it's already looking forward to helping sponsor another Word-bound, once Jordi's methodology is proven to be Superior.

After all, if there's anybody who deserves to have his wheels similarly spoked, it's that thrice-damned Demon of Styrofoam...