
Azrael befriends Ella and introduces herself as "Rae-Rae", but since being visited by invisible angels was not the thing, she told Ella she was a ghost which did not help matters.


When Ella was eight, she was injured in a "gnarly car accident" and met Azrael, who " didn't do her angel of death thing" because Ella was still alive, but she took a liking to Ella, whom she found to be a good and happy person, who makes other people feel good about themselves. In " A Good Day to Die", she comments, " It's not fun if you don't drive 'em really, really fast." In middle school she learned how to pick locks, and she spent her teens stealing cars. Ella grew up in a rough neighborhood in Detroit, with four brothers, as part of a devout Catholic family.
