NAME: Chris JOURNAL:kawaiispinel EMAIL: whatineverhad [at] gmail.com AIM: KawaiiSpinel42 WIKI NAME: N/A CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER NAME: Gabriel, aka the Trickster FANDOM: Supernatural CANON: 5X19: Hammer of the Gods WHAT THEY LOST: His Grace. As an angel, it's THE most important thing to him- it's his essence, his spirit. He's more of a little spark in a meatsack than an actual angel without it. He will be, more or less, like Castiel post Point of No Return- he'll retain all his memories of being an angel, but won't have any of the actual powers that goes with it. As it's heavily implied his vessel isn't human, but, in fact, the Norse god Loki, he'll retain a slight strength and speed advantage as well as a slightly more elevated resilence to injury than a normal human, but beyond that will be fundamentally human.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: With all his layers and conflicting parts, Gabriel is something of a contradiction. Despite his jerky nature, he has a certain sense of charm and style that keeps him from being a bully. He can be a royal douche, but he doesn’t do anything without having a reason for it. He’s blunt and tactless, but that’s because he doesn’t sugarcoat things. He’s sympathetic to people, but his methods of showing sympathy are questionable at best and usually lacking. He will say exactly what he’s thinking and act like an arrogant prick, but he’ll do it in such a shameless way that it’s almost hard to take him seriously. He's generous, but only to people who deserve his generosity. He’s confident, probably overly so, but it’s not without merit- he’s an archangel and naturally defaults to an alpha status, usually without realizing it, simply because he knows he’s the most powerful being in a room at any given time and when you’re that powerful, you can’t help but come off as something of a dominant presence, even if it’s unconscious. He’s complicated, a contradiction, a mystery. He likes it that way.
When we first meet Gabriel in the guise of the janitor in Tall Tales, we see him as an extremely open, extremely flippant man, uncaring of how he might be perceived. He makes jokes regarding the dead professor and seems completely unperturbed by the whole thing and would probably, if Sam and Dean had shown shock or distaste regarding his reactions, just shrug it off. Gabriel's flippancy, his inability to take anything but the gravest of situations (and even then, he can rarely hold onto his seriousness) is one of his most obvious attributes. He's a sarcastic, smarmy jerk who speaks his mind and doesn't sugarcoat anything, even if it's to the detriment of people he's talking to- he has no problems telling Sam and Dean how completely screwed they are numerous times, for example. If people don't like him, then fine. He'll still find an excuse to hang around and aggravate them if he wants to be around them, and very little will get him to back off. He appears unintimidated and will snark at people threatening him like they’re nothing and not even worth his time. He exists to be disarming- even backed into a corner, he’ll still keep his sense of humor, although it tends to falter, the more desperate a situation becomes- such as the fact that he stayed perfectly calm in the holy fire trap until it became evident that Sam and Dean might leave him behind.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:59 pm (UTC)JOURNAL:
EMAIL: whatineverhad [at] gmail.com
AIM: KawaiiSpinel42
WIKI NAME: N/A
CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER NAME: Gabriel, aka the Trickster
FANDOM: Supernatural
CANON: 5X19: Hammer of the Gods
WHAT THEY LOST: His Grace. As an angel, it's THE most important thing to him- it's his essence, his spirit. He's more of a little spark in a meatsack than an actual angel without it. He will be, more or less, like Castiel post Point of No Return- he'll retain all his memories of being an angel, but won't have any of the actual powers that goes with it. As it's heavily implied his vessel isn't human, but, in fact, the Norse god Loki, he'll retain a slight strength and speed advantage as well as a slightly more elevated resilence to injury than a normal human, but beyond that will be fundamentally human.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: With all his layers and conflicting parts, Gabriel is something of a contradiction. Despite his jerky nature, he has a certain sense of charm and style that keeps him from being a bully. He can be a royal douche, but he doesn’t do anything without having a reason for it. He’s blunt and tactless, but that’s because he doesn’t sugarcoat things. He’s sympathetic to people, but his methods of showing sympathy are questionable at best and usually lacking. He will say exactly what he’s thinking and act like an arrogant prick, but he’ll do it in such a shameless way that it’s almost hard to take him seriously. He's generous, but only to people who deserve his generosity. He’s confident, probably overly so, but it’s not without merit- he’s an archangel and naturally defaults to an alpha status, usually without realizing it, simply because he knows he’s the most powerful being in a room at any given time and when you’re that powerful, you can’t help but come off as something of a dominant presence, even if it’s unconscious. He’s complicated, a contradiction, a mystery. He likes it that way.
When we first meet Gabriel in the guise of the janitor in Tall Tales, we see him as an extremely open, extremely flippant man, uncaring of how he might be perceived. He makes jokes regarding the dead professor and seems completely unperturbed by the whole thing and would probably, if Sam and Dean had shown shock or distaste regarding his reactions, just shrug it off. Gabriel's flippancy, his inability to take anything but the gravest of situations (and even then, he can rarely hold onto his seriousness) is one of his most obvious attributes. He's a sarcastic, smarmy jerk who speaks his mind and doesn't sugarcoat anything, even if it's to the detriment of people he's talking to- he has no problems telling Sam and Dean how completely screwed they are numerous times, for example. If people don't like him, then fine. He'll still find an excuse to hang around and aggravate them if he wants to be around them, and very little will get him to back off. He appears unintimidated and will snark at people threatening him like they’re nothing and not even worth his time. He exists to be disarming- even backed into a corner, he’ll still keep his sense of humor, although it tends to falter, the more desperate a situation becomes- such as the fact that he stayed perfectly calm in the holy fire trap until it became evident that Sam and Dean might leave him behind.