Michaela (Trait)

Michaela (ミカエラ) is an alias used in Seraph of the End to refer a specific kind of Humans named and created by Shikama Dōji. Some are speculated to have the Seraph gene. This feature is explored in the prequel light novel Seraph of the End: The Story of Vampire Michaela.

Meaning
The Michaela trait only appears in one out of tens of millions of humans prior to the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, it is nearly impossible to find one. People with Michaela trait are beings that can become vessels for the Mikaela's soul, Shikama's child who was killed by the gods. For 10,000 years, Mika has become the only successful vessel.

Legend
The story goes back to the origin of vampires when the angel Michaela fell to the earth demanding God to give them blood.

Story
The first people with the Michaela trait were found by Shikama. Shikama used humans with the Michaela trait to create a vessel for his child's soul, Mikaela. But, despite the large number of them, they were all failures and Shikama abandoned them. Mikaela's body was kept in ancient Greece.

Saitō finds Ferid Bathory and turns him into a vampire. He mentions the Michaela trait.

Starting about 150 years before Crowley meets Ferid, Ferid watches and waits for him to be born. Ferid uses Saito's blood to turn Crowley into a vampire during the 13th century. He does not mention the term Michaela to Crowley, but he tells Crowley he was watching for him long before he was even born. He says he uses Saito's blood instead of his own in order to make Crowley much stronger and more akin to a brother than a servant.

In 21th century, after tens of thousands of years, Shikama finds the only perfect vessel with Michaela trait for the soul of his child in the form of Mika. Because of this, Saito brings Mika to the Hyakuya Orphanage.

In 2016, Ferid manipulates Krul Tepes and Mikaela Hyakuya and manages to have Krul turn Mika into a vampire. Mika is also one of the Seraph of the End, who was previously experimented on by the Hyakuya Sect.

History
Michaela is mentioned by Ferid to Guren, Mika and Crowley as he explains when he was human, that it is Saito who gave him the name and made an angel. After being abandoned by Saito, he tells Mika he is his new Michaela. Later it is believed that Mika might be truly a Michaela being.

After Mika becomes a demon, his Michaela trait awakens. Because of this fact, Shikama tries to get at Mika's soul, but fails.