Bio, verses and rambling

[cattygabriel]

St. Gabriel the Archangel, Strength of God, Divine Messenger, One of the Seven who Stand before the Lord, Chief of the Angelic Guards of Paradise, Bringer of the Word of Truth, Angel of the Power of God, Angel of Birth and Mercy, Angel of Death over Kings, Prince of Ice and Thunder, and Maker of Changes.

Gabriel is pretty much my take on the Biblical character, and heavily based off Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, along with the Abrahamic faiths and the literature associated with them, especially angelology.


Back when everything was sunshine and roses in Heaven, Gabriel was very close to Lucifer Morningstar, but ultimately refused to join him in rebelling (which I see as very Murder Mysteries-inspired). He was very withdrawn immediately after Lucifer Fell, grieving in private for his friend.

He loves humans, and spent a lot of time travelling among them. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah (I generally assume the other angel was Uriel, but this can vary). He spent a fair amount of time in the Middle East and Egypt, and became good friends with the goddess Bast. This became awkward around the time of Moses, when the Plagues were unleashed on Egypt; Gabriel took the life of Pharaoh's son, and Bast didn't react well. (She eventually forgave him centuries later, but cannot forgive Yahweh.)

Then came the Annunciation. Gabriel was also the angel who showed up at the Resurrection.

He recited the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad, but faltered while reciting a particularly harsh passage; being an angel of mercy, he doubted God's Plan and questioned why He was so harsh towards His people. For questioning God's Plan and misspeaking the Word, Gabriel was cast out of Heaven. At first, reeling from the loss of His Presence and in a great deal of pain, Gabriel holed up in an abandoned, half-ruined Babylonian temple for a while. He slowly recovered and tried to go about life as he normally would on Earth, still in pain but with hope that he would be forgiven and allowed to return eventually. While he was in the Arabian desert, Lucifer came to him (this is a retcon of a previous fic, proper fic to come soon; also, this bit can easily be ignored if it doesn't suit the other player), but Gabriel resisted him. After twenty-one days had passed since his exile, Gabriel was allowed to return to Heaven.

He spent a fair amount of time in the Middle-East between his Heavenly duties before moving on to Europe. He went to the New World with the conquistadores and was deeply hurt by his experiences there, and spent quite some time in Heaven following that.

He was a friend of Jane Austen, and very much enjoys her books.

During the World Wars, he tried to keep humanity's faith and hope alive as well as he could - Sandman canon is worked into his backstory a bit here, as with Morpheus' permission, he often used the Dreaming to send dreams of hope.

When Adam Young almost started Armageddon in Good Omens, Gabriel was heartbroken at the thought of losing humanity and the Earth but fully prepared to do his duty. He was very much relieved when it was averted, and while he had been spending more time in Heaven over the past few centuries, he has been spending more time on Earth recently to appreciate what was almost destroyed.


- lt_safe_house verse: Gabriel spent some time at Tadfield Manor. He organised the library there, caught up with old friends, made new ones and adopted the local cats. After spending a few months there with others like Aziraphale, Michael, Belial and Uriel (and several pagan gods and other beings) and helping defeat the first nightmare ever created, he grew increasingly restless and left to continue his travels. There are two splinter verses for that:

1) He left with Michael, his lover.

2) He left with his younger brother, Uriel.

- synechist verse: Dark verse where the world was on the brink of Armageddon, heavily influenced by the show Supernatural. It's sort of dead now, but if anyone from there wants to poke Gabriel, he's still mostly on Earth, wandering amongst the humans and keeping hope and faith alive as best he can.

- Cupcakes verse: Ongoing. Started out as a crack smut thread between Belial and Uriel, sort of spawned plot along the way. Basically, the effects of the cupcakes from this meme resulted in Uriel being introduced to Lust by Belial. Eventually Uriel Fell, and Gabriel did not react well. His confrontation with his Fallen brother led to Lucifer using the cupcakes to make Gabriel listen to him, and plant doubts in his mind.

- Fallen verse: Where Gabriel Fell for vaguely-defined reasons because we wanted a Fallen!Gabriel (aka Gabri) to play with Uri (in Uriel's Fallen-verse).

- Private crack AIM RP: The partners in crime were Michael, Aziraphale, Baraq (who became Barachiel again over the course of the RP) and, later, Sylix. Pure self-indulgent crack RP via AIM and MSN, where our characters were dumped in various universes (Narnia, Arthurian legend, Middle-Earth, the Mayan jungle after being chased by Caribbean pirates, fairytale-land, superheroes, RPG, Resident Evil...) and proceeded to make a mess of things while occasionally being randomly genderbent.

Gabriel likes books, cats, nature and chocolate and long walks on the beach.

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