Chief Superintendant González was born in the city of El Paz, Bolivia. He was a child of the streets, being born into poverty to a family of drug addicts and petty criminals, and like most children from such a background his childhood was spent struggling rather than living. But Ángel was not an average Bolivian boy. He saw the spiral of poverty that his family was in, and from the beginning he wanted no part of it.

In those days in Bolivia, the easiest way to get off the streets was to join the police. They didn't demand an education and they were hard up enough for material that the desperate, corrupt, and broken were accepted so long as they could walk a beat. On his seventeenth birthday, the legal minimum age, González signed on, joining El Paz's collection of misfits and failures that they called a police force. Advancement was slow. Recruits like Ángel were put on miserable beats and expected to put up with it in anonymity until some local thug murdered them. Promotion was almost unheard of, but González was a man of unique talents. He forced the brass to pay attention to him, and he slowly climbed the latter.

By 2740, González was the assistant chief of the El Paz police. His days on the beat were behind him but they'd earned him plenty of respect. He was smart as a whip, as strong an investigator as El Paz was ever likely to get, and he was in demand. He was looking to take his career to the next level, and in Persephone, immortality beckoned. As soon as the position of chief superintendant and leader of the Colonial Police opened, González applied. He was accepted and started his work in December of 2740.

Ángel González does not suffer fools gladly. His home police force back in Bolivia was a mess of inept officers and corrupt beat cops: a familiar situation for those in Persephone. And as in El Paz, González tries to solve his problems on this world with a combination of intelligence and brutality.

He has a well-developed sense of justice, and he holds everyone to it. He takes his job on Persephone very seriously, and he understands what is at stake for humanity here. He's not above doing something extreme to someone who he believes deserves it, and this has made him as unpopular as he is effective.

He isn't the most approachable individual. He has never married and most people on the Colonial Police Force, who see him the most, are not even sure if he's got any kind of private life outside of police work. One would imagine that this would make Angel rather rigid and two-dimensional, but the truth of the matter is that he is a rather complex individual with an overabundant sense of justice and right and wrong.