Description of the Archangel of Water

Misha Kreutzev. The shape of the angel’s body was not unusual. It looked just like the body of a woman in her twenties. This was unmistakably Gabriel, the only angel in Christian lore said to have female attributes. But when you looked closer, you could see that she was not human. The entire surface of her body was covered by slippery cloth of an unknown material, her face had no eyes or nostrils, only shapes that superficially resembled such parts created from the ridges and depressions across the surface of the cloth. The cloth spread out around the back of her head in a way as to resemble hair. There was no noticeable difference between the “skin” and the “clothing”, the two seemingly blended into one. What looked like gold leaf veins ran across the white cloth surface and occasional identical colored pins held them in place. The overall color of her attire was more grey than white, but a bluish glow radiated outwards from her entire body, not unlike the glow of a computer screen. Wings of ice. About a hundred of them. The sizes ranged from a few dozen meters to well over one hundred meters in length. They resembled nothing less than countless gigantic swords of ice piercing through the sky. The beauty of the crystalline wings was similar to the beauty precious gems like diamonds held for humans.
(Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 21, pg 110)

Inspecting her from close range, she was a remarkable creature indeed. When looking at her from afar, Kamijou only thought of her as a winged being that had the outline of a human. From close range, she resembled and yet did not resemble Sasha at the same time. Kamijou estimated her to be about two meters tall. Going by Kanzaki’s description, Gabriel resembled a female angel. However, her expressionless face reminded Kamijou of an unfinished mannequin. That featureless face of hers with only depressions and rises in the cloth covering her entire body gave Kamijou an unnerving feeling just by looking at it. It wasn’t to say that it didn’t look feminine. Certainly it was more feminine than masculine. It was hard to tell the skin and clothing apart. A smooth white fabric wrapped around the contours of her body. Everywhere across the cloth were fastened golden safety pins. The entire body was composed entirely only of two colors, white and gold. However because of the silvery white glow emitted from the angel’s body, overall she looked more silverish in color. Her hair was composed purely of the white fabric fanning out behind her head. There were lotus motifs on the top, and Kamijou guessed it had some religious significance. Bobbing above her head was a small halo composed of water. Kamijou did not know how or why, but it seemed the halo rotated faster or slower in accordance with the angel’s behavior. Kamijou wondered what Sasha, a devout Christian, felt as she looked at the angel. Kamijou and the angel’s “eyes” met. Her face was only a collection of indents, and there was nothing you could really call “eyeballs”. However Kamijou felt a cold, uneasy feeling down his back as he stared at the depressions where her eyes should be.
(Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 21, pg 126-127)