Joséphine Delamarre

"Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that heaven sends to earth. Thanks to her psychological finesse, her ability to persuade and her magical powers, she is able to help people who are having problems"

- Josephine Delamarre’s description

"Joséphine: You’re a coward, Arcamboise! Arcamboise: The witch! So, what are you going to do? Melt the bars of your cell? Joséphine: Good idea."

- Joséphine to Duke of Arcamboise before escape of her cell in Middle-Age

Josephine Delamarre is the main protagonist of the French television series Josephine, Ange Gardien. She is a guardian angel who intervenes in each episode to solve the problem(s) of one or more clients.

She is portrayed by Mimie Mathy.

History
In each episode, Josephine is sent from Heaven to earth to solve her clients' problems through psychology and her magical powers. She is then sent on the cover by practicing various trades related to the environment of one or more of her clients. At the end of the episode, her mission accomplished, she returns to Heaven in a snap of her fingers

Personnality
As a guardian angel, Josephine is gentle, eccentric, optimist, compassionate and empathetic. She is also clumsy, easily frightened. She is finally a qualified psychologist able to reassure and convince anyone with more or less time. She also has a funny side with her grimaces, mimics and humorous dialogues.

Powers

 * Angel powers: As a Guardian Angel, Josephine is an immensely powerful being endowed with a great arsenal of powers, making her a being capable of potentially controlling the universe itself, since she summon a Milky Way without effort.
 * Immortality: Josephine is immune to aging, having lived for a millennium, but it is unknown if she can be killed as a human.
 * Divination / limited-omniscience: Josephine is able to read the future, and has a limited degree of omniscience, since she has been able to know everything about a man and perhaps to reveal another person's future.
 * Supernatural perception: On several occasions, Josephine was able to see ghosts while most other people could not.
 * Animal control / animal talking: Josephine was able on a few occasions to talk to the animals, and sometimes to control them.
 * Underwater breathing: By appearing in an aquarium, it is shown that Josephine breathes underwater, even if she wears a mask.

"Lord: Did you fly a sword through the air? Joséphine: No memories. Lord: Did you or did you not erect a wall of flames? Joséphine: That's very exaggerated. They were little flames of nothing at all..."


 * Magic: Due directly to her status as a guardian angel, Josephine possesses a magic of unknown and probably very high power. His powers must be even more powerful than guardian angels like Gabriel or Ismael Pasdebol. Its powers are usually triggered by the snap of a finger, but there are exceptions.
 * Teleporting: Josephine is able to teleport at greater or lesser distances. She can also teleport objects or people, for example, to change clothes quickly.
 * Super-hearing: By a snap of her fingers, Josephine can temporarily increase her hearing to an unknown degree.
 * Transmutating: Josephine can transform one thing into another, like a snake, into a rabbit.
 * Telekinesis: Josephine has advanced telekinetic abilities allowing her to move objects without any contact. For example, she could have control a balloon, levitate a violin, unscrew a nut or pull a ring into her hand.
 * Elementary control: Josephine has advanced elementary control skills that probably allow her to control all existing natural elements.
 * Pyrokinesis: Probably the ability she uses most and her most powerful power, Josephine can create and control fire as she pleases; thus, she was able to ignite banners, erect a wall of flames or melt metal without difficulty.
 * Phytokinesis: Josephine was able to bring dead flowers back to life.
 * Hydrokinesis: Josephine was able to dry out immediately after getting wet, suggesting water control.
 * Electrokinesis: Josephine was able to put electricity back into an electrical barrier.
 * Photokinesis: Without snapping her fingers, Josephine was able to generate light with her fingertips.
 * Telepathy: Josephine has advanced telepathic abilities; thus she was able to enter the head of a man in a coma.
 * Flight: Josephine has repeatedly shown her ability to fly and float in the air; thus, she was able to fly at high speed through an entire city, and later, rise from the ground to spy on a room.
 * Time manipulation: Josephine demonstrated at least limited control over time; she was able to completely freeze people, and travel through time by teleporting.
 * Meteokinesis: Josephine has demonstrated her ability to control the weather, particularly by invoking and stopping the rain.
 * Oneirokinesis (maybe): Josephine can maybe enter in people's dreams, one of her clients having seen her in a dream.
 * Portals: Josephine can invoke portals, not to move around, but to observe events where she is not physically present.
 * Sleep inducment: Josephine can magically put people to sleep and wake them up.
 * Space manipulation: Josephine has demonstrated her ability to invoke a milky way, but it is unknown if it was an illusion or if she really changed the space.
 * Size-changing: By appearing in an aquarium, Josephine is shown much smaller than she normally is, showing that she has changed her size.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intelligence: Unlike the other Guardian Angels shown in the series, Josephine is exceptionally intelligent. Her intelligence allows her to successfully carry out his missions every time, even without her powers. Her intellect extends hee capacities of mentorship, psychology, chemistry and learning.
 * Psychology / charisma: Josephine is a charismatic and reassuring phsychologist, able to find good advice and to reassure and convince anyone, even the most gruff peoples.
 * Investigation: Josephine proved to be a qualified investigator, able to solve mysteries and find guilty people quite easily.
 * Chemistery: Although not often shown, Josephine is a competent chemist, able to work in the laboratory and determine a substance with chimist equipment.
 * Enhanced learning: During her missions, Josephine demonstrates each time that she is able to get used to the work she has to do quickly, even in a relatively short period of time.
 * Mentorship: Josephine is a competent mentor, as she has trained different Guardian Angels such as a Guardian Angel child, Gabriel, another Gabriel and Ismaël Pasdebol.
 * Skilled shooter: In the Far-West, Josephine was able to shot a can with a gun, proving that she is a good shooter although her skills in this area are unknown.

Trivia

 * She is very close friends with Tom Delorme from the parallel series Camping Paradis.
 * Her name remains constant in each of her missions, although it is probably not her real name.
 * She feels the same emotions as humans, but is forbidden to love.
 * It only happened once in the series, and Josephine almost died from it.
 * She often loses her powers to advance the plot.
 * She is at least 3000 years old.
 * Her name is spelt "Joséphine Delamare" in Police Blues episode.
 * She had three known guardian angel apprentices: Gabriel, another Gabriel and Ismaël Pasdebol.
 * She seems to be a superior guardian angel.

Externals links

 * Joséphine Delamarre at the Joséphine Ange Gardien wiki
 * Joséphine Delamarre at the Fictional Characters wiki