Filforth

Filforth, Defender of the Natural Order is an Apthalan multiversal singularity referenced across the Dozerfleet Megaverse, but primarily is considered a character of note to the mythologies of The Gerosha Chronicles and Stationery Voyagers. Being of the class of angels referred to as the "Naturalim," his primary focus is on ensuring the integrity of nature at a biological level. Given his role in the destruction of Sodom, he is the angel most passionately despised by sexual wants activist militants throughout human history.

Powers
It's difficult to assess the full range of Filforth's total abilities. The following are just some of his more known expressions of power:


 * Enhanced intellect: It's difficult to assess just how smart Filforth actually is. While he is not omniscient, he is able to learn quickly things about reality at levels incomprehensible to the human brain.  His expressions of self and intellect are also somewhat constrained by way of his mode lock, as he can only act within the parameters of what God's will allows him to do.


 * Tetradimensional existence: Filforth is an (at least) four-dimensional being. Thus, he is able to comprehend reality on planes the human mind can barely grasp - and exploit this to give himself other abilities that would be much harder for an ordinary human being to possess.
 * Tessenation: Due to being 4D, Filforth can traverse space in abnormal ways, allowing him to essentially teleport across the universe at faster-than-light speeds. This is similar to "tessering," or "wrinking," as described in A Wrinkle in Time, but doesn't rely on bizarre "frequency" theories about human emotion.


 * Autopercolation: In keeping with Filforth's above capabilities, and that there's only one of him, Filforth can traverse the Divergency effortlessly. He doesn't require the Percolation Wave nor its energies to visit universes outside of Earth-G7, and is the same Filforth in Camelorum Adventures and Volkonir as he is in any other world.


 * Invisibility: Due to his ability to reside on "shadow planes" just outside the normal view of human eyes, Filforth can continue to observe human activities while becoming entirely intangible and invisible, detectable immediately only by way of a sixth sense - or with special quantum equipment. His ability to remain invisible to the naked human eye for long periods of time dwarfs even the Gray Champion's phanto-mimicry.


 * Nigh-invulnerability: While inconsistent, Filforth is capable of charging up his humanoid manifest constructs to be capable of enduring heavy amounts of damage from human weapons before being subdued. His spirit form is also immune to attacks from ordinary human weapons.  Given he can usually generate new HMCs quickly, "killing" him merely slows him down a little.


 * Plant manipulation: Filforth can manipulate nature, including plant life, even more effectively than Extirpon, Butch Thunders, and Jeral Cormier.


 * Astherding: Also known as "asteroid shepherding," or "meteor summoning." Filforth can, God permitting / commanding, summon and guide asteroids and meteors to redirect wherever needed - including using meteors to inflict localized apocalypse on regions God deems fit to suffer such a fate.
 * Filforth is stated to have been the main angel responsible for destroying Sodom. He accomplishes this with large meteors and small asteroids, resulting in a kickup of burning sulfuric debris from triggered volcanic activity brought on by the meteor and asteroid impacts.  Said burning sulfur deposits then rained down on the city, hence "raining fire and brimstone," and turning the downtown region into a veritable "Lake of Fire," due to the sulfur burning blue.
 * Said activity also resulted in the volcanic activity producing pyroclastic clouds, such as the one believed to have flash-baked Lot's wife, killing her instantly and leaving her vulnerable to calcification due to the chemical reactions of falling debris. Calcium salt deposits petrifying her in this manner are believed to have been responsible for her becoming "a pillar of salt."
 * In Corando's "Don't Lose Hope", Filforth summons a less catastrophic meteor storm to wipe out Porbandar, as a warning to Hindi nationalist extremists across all of India that patience is running out with their incessant and extreme persecution of Christian churches in that country.


 * Matter phasing: Due to tessenation, as well as the spirit self of Filforth as an Apthalan being able to operate even without his Humanoid Manifest Construct physical form, tasks like walking through walls are effortless for him. This gives him the ability to exploit relative tangentialness with far less trouble than even the Gray Champion or Sarah Ruben, and without a need to rely on the Marlquaan.


 * Humanoid Manifest Construction: Similarly to Cherinob, Filforth may, God willing, assemble a massive mud ball. He may then shape it to create a golem avatar for his spirit self to occupy, chemically altering it until he becomes a sort of physical alien being - one capable of mimicking human physiology and appearance to a limited degree.
 * Also like with Cherinob, assuming a physical form comes at the expense that these physical constructs are capable of being destroyed, if they take enough of the right kinds of punishment.
 * While this does little to damage Filforth as a spiritual being, destroying his HMC slows him down slightly, as any task requiring him to construct a new body for himself in order to perform it will delay him.
 * Filforth's constructs are similar to Cherinob's, in that they make exceptions to their human mimicry insofar as to minimize the perversion potential of any human captors who might somehow successfully capture them.
 * However, his constructs are not entirely immune to physical damage, and can therefore be "killed."
 * Humanoid Manifest Constructs are only as strong as the angelic spirit (or God) allow them to be, circumstantially. As such, the endurance of Filforth's constructs may vary widely, with no way to scientifically measure their integrity with any consistency.  Some may survive an impact with a tungsten rod from space, while others may be easily decapitated by ordinary human weapons.


 * Shapeshifting: The truest "true" form of Filforth is hard to grasp or know. But in ethereal form, he can twist spatial reality around him to assume any of a number of different appearances, any given one of them barely comprehensible to any human brain unable to think in enough spatial dimensions to grasp what is truly happening.  He is not limited to just his Starfish Island and Humanoid forms.


 * Desire clarity insight induction: Filforth, via instruction from the Holy Spirit, can sway human subjects in a direction of questioning their own desires, and can create a conscience effect as a deterrent to the pursuit of corrupt desires. He especially utilizes this to dampen homosexual desires.  However, his ability to erase such desires in fallen mankind are not absolute, due to the Volition Dilemma Paradox (see below.)


 * Healing touch: In addition to destructive power, Filforth can also use his God-granted circumstantial command over nature to heal the sick and injured rapidly.


 * Pride punishment via reality warping: While not as talented at this as Ferrymen like Maurice, Filforth has been demonstrated as capable of imbuing punishments on targets equal to the greatness of the sin in their hearts. His methodology is not too different from that of Arbustombre or Extirpon.  However, he is able to do what he does more efficiently, since he doesn't need to draw from the Marlquaan.
 * In the canceled series Stationery Voyagers, the planned episode "Choice After All" would have featured a scene of Filforth commanding fire from nothing, to torch the throats of homosexual activist militant rioters. Said rioters had just earlier attempted acts of violence against the Bindaf 3000 crew for refusing to endorse left-wing sexual politics as part of their mission from space.  Worse: they had poisoned Oceanoe Hendlebin with "reverse-Eros gas," causing him to suffer OCD hallucinations of personal contamination by way of sexual assault via same-sex assailants.  For this, Filforth had the rioters killed, torching an entire intersection in the downtown of a busy city to quell a riot that elected officials didn't allow police to intervene against.


 * Armor generation: Filforth is able to summon his suit of armor at will, often manipulating atoms of air around him to manifest physical constructs of his armor. He utilizes the 4th dimension as a vent, to minimize the explosive nature of the nuclear and chemical effects that might otherwise ensue from how he forces such armor into physical existence.

Weaknesses
As a member of the Angelic Army, Filforth has very few known weaknesses. Most of his weaknesses are those common to every Apthalan.


 * Demonic energy blasts: Corrupters of the Natural Order will actively seek to undermine his influence, and can damage him in direct battle. This usually only slows him down; but he can still feel spiritual pain.


 * Volition Dilemma Paradox: If the hubris of a human subject is great enough, they can overcome or defy his sway, succumbing to corruptions of imagination and sexual desire, and remaining in perversions. As such, his sway is not always enough by itself to completely remove homosexual tendencies.  He can influence someone to dampen sodomite desire or tendencies; but he cannot erase free will enough to eradicate such desire by way of pure force.


 * Penditula: If Filforth isn't careful, a sufficiently-powered Penditulum can imprison him inside its internal 4D prison walls. Conversely, he may trick whoever is wielding a Penditulum into capturing a demonic adversary inside instead.  If trapped inside, only a reopening of the Penditulum from outside (or an infiltration by God) may free him from it.


 * Sigil detectors: Filforth can never disguise himself completely to look 100% human, as that would involve deception. However, his partial disguise may be enough to fool some.  That, or his alliance with God may still be questioned.  These weapons can force him to project a sigil onto the nearest wall, or onto the space immediately above him.  Anyone who doubts that he is Filforth, Defender of the Natural Order, may know for certain that he is.  However, he rarely gets close enough to anyone with such weaponry to become a target.  He also has a tendency to identify himself to whomever need be concerned, minimizing the need for anyone to use such a device on him.


 * Neutrino footprint: All Apthalans and Biroots produce neutrinos whenever they interact with any star system, especially with any rocky planet within that star system that has an atmosphere even remotely equivalent to Earth's atmosphere. Their surroundings emit neutrinos in wave amplitude and frequency patterns that vary by being, and this makes them more detectable to any scientist or ghost hunter capable of getting their hands on portable neutrino detection equipment.  Hiding in "shadow planes" is one of the only ways to dampen his neutrino pattern enough to avoid detection entirely, though Filforth's "footprint" is often much fainter than Cherinob's - in which the latter's can be detected from science stations deep inside the Earth's crust.  Due to this, Icy Finger Apthalan hunters (as well as agencies like SCALLOP) are far more interested in hunting down Cherinob than they are in doing so to Filforth - in spite radical LGBTQPIZON militants hating Filforth much more.

Equipment

 * Suit of armor: Filforth is able to summon his armor at will, flawlessly. This makes him more resistant to attacks from Biroot adversaries, and also makes him look slightly less human.  He is most often depicted with his armor on, as he has less need to blend in with humanity than some other angels, such as Cherinob.

Character bio
It's difficult, given his multiversal relevance, to pinpoint Filforth to a singular continuity nor a singular biography. That being said, Filforth is able to be defined by his most prominent appearances in the following media:

In Stationery Voyagers
Some early Stationery Voyagers artwork depicted him as having been present for the Annunciation of Gabriel to Mary about the Coming of Christ, mentioned in the Book of Luke - even though Luke's first two chapters never once specify Gabriel having any angel assistants with him when addressing Mary. An episode titled "Essentials of Nativity" would have shown both the Angelic Army and an ancestor of Liquidon Ethereteel battling the Mantithian political, Drismabonian, and supernatural adversaries that were all obsessed with assassinating Mary to prevent the birth of Christ.

Filforth was later to appear in an episode of the third season of Stationery Voyagers, a season titled Surfaces and an episode titled "Choice After All," in which Filforth rescued the Bindaf 3000 envoy Oceanoe Hendlebin from a mob of rioting sexual wants activists. Other than a preserver of nature, referred to as a member of the class of angels called the "Naturalim," or "Defenders of the Natural Order," and that mostly meaning that they protect against homosexual corruption of the human soul, little else is known of Filforth in this continuity. He rarely ever got to shine, outside of a few appearances in "Essentials of Nativity," "Choice After All," and "Several Millennia Prior."

In The Gerosha Chronicles
Filforth is implied to have been around since the First Day of Creation. As part of the Naturalim, he was part of God's will for ensuring the integrity of nature at a biological level since before the War in Heaven. After the war, he was made soldier-sub-class Naturalim. In spite his war upgrades, Filforth prefers to take a pacifist approach, unless guided to the contrary. He emits a mellow personality, even in times that would drive others to distress and anger - even able to keep his tone cool in situations that would drive Maurice and Cherinob to raise their voices in anger! When his fury is unleashed, it is most often expressed as a "tranquil fury."

Unlike in Stationery Voyagers, Filforth is rarely seen playing an active role in front of humanity. He keeps tabs on Boris Heminski for a time, but later lets Cherinob and Cavalore be the two that primarily guard Boris. He is involved briefly in the Battle for Bucharest, along with other Naturalim, and also involved in assisting with the cleanup of Cherinob's fallout. He is later part of a team of angels that compel Kritchobol into destroying Astirnah's bugs inside of Cherinob by way of detonating her by twisting the Shard. Kritchobol agrees to this, in exchange for a more comfortable spot in Hell (also, for the privilege of getting to torture Cherinob again.) Kritchobol himself is not heard from again after this incident, since the Angelic Army keep their word. As such, Kritchobol, while still suffering eternally, is put where he is spared from facing any reprisal from Belay or Astirnah for having betrayed them.

Filforth also assists in the Battle for Brookings, as well as in the Battle for The Hague. While active in the background, defending natural order, Filforth's only other major contribution to anything in the 2010s is his role in the destruction of Porbandar. He otherwise vanishes from the spotlight of the human world, in spite remaining on the radar of intelligence agencies around the world over his role in Porbandar's destruction. He is referenced by Darshan Chawla and Mahima Zecharia-Chawla during interviews, with Mahima even claiming to have been instructed by Filforth in which direction to flee as the meteors fell, after she escaped from the cage that Daruka Naidu had been keeping her in as a prisoner. She also claimed that before being directed by Filforth, she had a vision of Jesus, encouraging her not to give up - in spite the world she knew her whole life being destroyed all around her.

Filforth is not seen active in a Humanoid Manifest Construct again until he assists Arbustombre in surviving an assault by an envious Butch Thunders. From there, he briefly keeps tabs on various Swappernetter youths. He is among those monitoring Tabitha Pang and Jordan Sterlie, even giving them the sway push necessary to not give in to their lust for one another completely.

However, when Tabitha finally snaps free from Frotchimar's control and resists him, it is Cherinob rather than Filforth that forcibly sends Frotchimar back to Hell. Some other evil spirits that were with Frotchimar fled when Tabitha regained her resolve via faith to resist, in keeping with James 4. Frotchimar's decision to physically assault Tabitha for refusing to have sex with Jordan, as opposed to retreating, sealed his fate in being subjected to Cherinob's atomic death stare.

Filforth later assists in the Grand Battle for Little Rock, where the Sodality of Gerosha is reinstated to assist in defeating Rappaccini. He is seldom seen again by human eyes in Earth-G7, in spite being a diligent defender of the multiverse as it slowly re-merges into a singular universe.

In Percolation Warriors
When a variant of Rappaccini that has yet to die in the Grand Battle for Little Rock teams up with Lord Mogabir and Xironooti to begin a new multiversal Triumvirate, the Percolation Warriors are established to deal with said new multiversal threat. Filforth is de-facto recruited, mostly to assist with cleaning up damage to the environment across the Divergency's timelines brought on by the Percolation Warriors' and Triumvirate's activities. He seldom fights anything or anyone directly via Humanoid Manifest Construct, mostly leaving that to Cherinob and Soetera - as they deal with demonic assists to the Triumvirate who are seeking to reestablish the Kritchabloid Protocols.

In Gerosha mythos
While capable of some extremely violent acts, Filforth tends to show the least emotional outburst of anger of any of the Apthalans to feature in Dozerfleet media. He is the most laid-back of the angels to appear "stoic," and appears to be trying the third hardest (right behind Cherinob and Soetera) at being relatable to humanity (while others often tend to act strictly like jobbers.) When not getting down to business, Filforth is the most likely to casually sit in a diner and sip coffee, something even Cherinob is usually too uptight to do.

Filforth typically assumes a human form of a late-30s brown-haired white male, often dressed like he's about to collect neighborhood trash - or drive a delivery truck across several counties. He usually has a small beard or goatee, along with short-to-medium-length hair, and an affinity for dressing in green.

In Stationery Voyagers mythos
Filforth is declared the Defender of the Natural Order and the Frustration of Abomination. He is known to be an aggressive defender of nature and natural order as well as a very protective guardian angel over the Voyagers.

He is also known to have a violent streak when dealing with unruly crowds of fanatical homosexual activists; at one point engulfing in flames a crowd of demonstrators' tracheae for threatening undue violence against the Voyagers. He has even on one occasion, with approval from God, bashed in the heads of arrogant protesters who had threatened to rape him out of revenge. Of those men, he used their blood pools to write cryptic messages on the sidewalk - as warnings to the living to abandon their evil hobbies.

He has appeared in humanoid form on several occasions, always wearing his battle armor suit. In spite his usually calm demeanor, he is extremely violent when provoked. Not knowing he was an angel, the panicked Illontin City police even tried unsuccessfully to arrest him for arson. His symbol in this timeline is the Green Leaf-of-Promise, signifying that he is there to try to keep nature functioning on as routine a timetable as possible. He was shown to be close friends with Levío, whose job was to ensure that perverse forces didn't intervene with supernatural interference in the course of things. Filforth is considered one of the most frustrated of the angels, as even a single harmful genetic mutation is considered a case of Volition Dilemma overruling him. His armor color was an off-white green with dark green trims.

Development
Filforth was originally developed alongside Levío the Nullifier, to be one of the angels that was secretly guarding over the Bindaf 3000 crew and its mission in Stationery Voyagers. He was later repurposed to be a multiversal singularity in the Abrujanian Continuity Family of Timelines, also known as the Dozerfleet Megaverse. As such, he is the same entity in every rift of the Divergency, be it the original Anna Ford's pocket dimension, be it Cataclysmic Gerosha, the Eccentriaverse, the Dromedeverse, or any other timeline to which he needs to be relevant.

Little was known about his appearance at first, except that his power was nature-themed, and gave his armor green lights and trims instead of the golden yellow ones that Levío had. It was only once he started being included for Cherinob media that he was given more defining traits; such as his Eldritch form of being a giant island starfish monster with multiple eyes; or his non-armored humanoid manifest construct form, where he resembles a bearded "hippie" garbage truck driver.

Trivia

 * Filforth derives his name from a time when the Dozerfleet founder, very sleepy while the family was headed north to Michigan along I-75, misread a sign as "Filforth." It is possible the sign was actually for Florence, Fort Wright, or Fort Mitchell.
 * Filforth is stated repeatedly in Dozerfleet lore to be one of the angels involved in the destruction of Sodom. Therefore, he is possibly intended to be the Archangel Raphael.
 * Since the Bible itself never specifies Raphael, it's speculative if Filforth and Raphael are truly the same.