Date: 2010-10-16 05:03 pm (UTC)
His moods can shift on a dime. He can go from being calm and rational one minute, to throwing you into a wall the next. While he defaults to a belligerently cheerful state (or a grumpy, cynical, sardonic state, depending on the day), it can change with almost no warning. At his worst, he can run hot and cold- flitting between two extremes until it feels like you’re stepping on eggshells, waiting for him to snap again. He doesn't stay angry long and he doesn't hold obvious grudges, but when he gets mad at you, you are keenly aware of it. His temper is heavy, but short-lived, because staying angry or holding obvious grudges implies that something actually got to him. (Note that while he does make a comment about tormenting Sam and Dean during Mystery Spot as being revenge for trying to kill him, it really wasn’t- it was always about Sam. And there’s no animosity towards the boys at all in Hammer of the Gods, other than Gabriel’s usual smarm, despite Dean ripping Gabriel a new one in Changing Channels.)

As an archangel, Gabriel is naturally inclined towards dominance without even realizing he is. When he walks into a room, he knows he's the most powerful creature in it and people will respect that. Take the scene in Hammer of the Gods where he crashes the god meeting, for example- to them, he's a minor deity, but he walks in and talks to everyone in the room like his is the biggest dick there and alpha males his way through the entire conversation. He doesn't need to show off or abuse his powers to prove to people what he can do, because he expects people to already know. When he brings down the pain on someone, that person will have deserved it in some way, either because they were a target or because they needed to be shown that he won't be toyed with. Gabriel doesn't expect to be taken seriously or even respected, but he does expect to be considered the dominant force in the room- the alpha, essentially. He doesn't flaunt his abilities, aside from providing himself with creature comforts- he merely does what's necessary to keep up his appearances as a Trickster and nothing more.

It bothers him immensely to not hold all the cards in a situation, even though he tries not to let it show. If anything, he tends to get cockier and more belligerent when he knows he's losing just to show that he hasn't completely lost it. Even when the Winchesters had him trapped, both in Mystery Spot and in Changing Channels, he retained his sense of cool and snarked at them up until the situation became dire and only then did he show some hint of strain and nervous anxiety towards the situation. Losing his power is one of the worst things that could happen to him- it would destroy a good portion of what he's made of himself. It's hard to be the belligerently cocky, controlled powderkeg when you have no gunpowder to speak of. Note the scene in Hammer of the Gods, when he's bloodspelled to Kali, he is extremely visibly uncomfortable any time he's not speaking. He knows he can't do anything- he's utterly powerless and it scares him. And while he does cover it up better than he might have had the situation not be an elaborate ruse, the fact that Kali still had him by the balls bothered him.
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Gabriel, aka The Trickster

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