Angel (Hellblazer)

"Can't you hear the screaming?"

- Angel, while inflicting mind-rape

Angel Jorgensen is the main villain of the Hellblazer spinoff comic The Horrorist. A refugee brought to America and adopted by aid workers, Angel has somehow become what is later referred to as a "Horrorist," a living manifestation of suffering capable of unveiling the true scope of oppression and injustice present throughout the world - resulting in a sizable death toll among those who bear witness to her message. Little more than a vessel for the awful things she brings into reality, she has no other goal than to wander America and share these nightmarish experiences with anyone she meets.

Appearance
Immediately distinguished by her impassive face and dark eyes, Angel nonetheless rarely makes a spectacle of herself unless people look closely. An African woman of eighteen years of age, she keeps her hair close-cropped and almost never shows emotion of any kind outside of the nightmares and reality-warps she exposes people to. Consequently, though Angel appears attractive in a somewhat unearthly way, passers-by tend to find her a little bit disturbing after a while. By contrast, John Constantine almost falls in love at the sight of her.

Though she initially appears fully human and retains this guise throughout the story, it's quickly revealed that Angel is anything but human. One of the few ways that this can be recognized without the aid of her powers is through her eyes: already dark, in moments when her powers are apparently in use, they tend to darken to lightless, black pits in her face.

Despite spending most of her time as a drifter wandering from town to town in the middle of a brutal winter, Angel rarely dresses in anything other than the dress she has on at the start of the comic, nor does she ever acknowledge the cold. At one point, she acquires a jacket, but never any trousers or even shoes. Only after becoming a maid at a local motel, does she finally change her ensemble to that of a simple uniform.

Personality
Cold, unemotional and unsympathetic to those in her path, Angel is more a force of nature than an individual human being, and indeed argues that she stands for all humanity.