Background: The youngest of the four archangels in Heaven, Gabriel was known as The Messenger, the angel who bore good tidings to humanity. He was the signal to Lucifer's beacon and Michael's tower (Biblical canon, not specifically Supernatural canon) and, more than anything, he loved his family to the point where he would have done anything for any of them. He loved the Father with all his heart and even though he never quite shared God's enthusiasm for humans, he still respected the fact that He believed they were worthy and watched over them and protected them.
And then Michael and Lucifer had their falling out and while all the other angels supported one or the other, Gabriel hung back. Both of his older brothers urged him to choose a side and Gabriel just turned to God and asked Him why He didn't just stop them from tearing each other apart. God refused to answer, Lucifer was cast into the pit, and Gabriel departed from the curtain of Heaven sometime after the Birth of Christ, never to see his family again until much later.
The strain of being away from Heaven would've eventually rendered him one of the Fallen and he half expected that his family would eventually track him down if he wasn't careful, so he entered what he would eventually call "witness protection" by taking the Trickster god Loki on as his vessel (angels must take human vessels when they're on earth, but it's heavily implied that Gabriel is using Loki as a vessel). Using Loki's powers to supplement his Grace, he was able to stay on Earth for two thousand years while still keeping hold of his archangel powers. He took on Loki's identity and mingled amongst pagan gods, turning to them as a surrogate family and among them and the pleasures of Earth, he became less and less of an angel and more and more of a Trickster. Using a Trickster's MO, he delivered "just desserts" to people who deserved them and delighted in every second of it.
Years (more like centuries) later, while targeting a college campus in Springfield, Ohio, he met Sam and Dean Winchester, two Hunters who were investigating his string of murders and general weirdness in the town. Well aware that the boys were Michael and Lucifer's destined vessels, he decided to toy with them to keep them off his scent and to see just how far he could push their buttons, figuring that if they couldn't even get through a prank war without wanting to kill each other, there'd be no hope for them when the eventual Armageddon rolled around. Eventually, he was found out and believing Dean to be trying to go after him alone, tried to tempt him with women as a means to get away without having to hurt the boys. Dean refused and then when "The Trickster" told him that he shouldn't have come alone, Sam and Bobby showed up, revealing that the Trickster had gotten tricked. The Trickster held them off with his manifestations, but eventually Dean got one up on him and stabbed him with a wooden stake, supposedly killing him. Unfortunately, what Dean stabbed turned out to be a copy and The Trickster lived to fight another day.
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Date: 2011-02-09 07:06 pm (UTC)And then Michael and Lucifer had their falling out and while all the other angels supported one or the other, Gabriel hung back. Both of his older brothers urged him to choose a side and Gabriel just turned to God and asked Him why He didn't just stop them from tearing each other apart. God refused to answer, Lucifer was cast into the pit, and Gabriel departed from the curtain of Heaven sometime after the Birth of Christ, never to see his family again until much later.
The strain of being away from Heaven would've eventually rendered him one of the Fallen and he half expected that his family would eventually track him down if he wasn't careful, so he entered what he would eventually call "witness protection" by taking the Trickster god Loki on as his vessel (angels must take human vessels when they're on earth, but it's heavily implied that Gabriel is using Loki as a vessel). Using Loki's powers to supplement his Grace, he was able to stay on Earth for two thousand years while still keeping hold of his archangel powers. He took on Loki's identity and mingled amongst pagan gods, turning to them as a surrogate family and among them and the pleasures of Earth, he became less and less of an angel and more and more of a Trickster. Using a Trickster's MO, he delivered "just desserts" to people who deserved them and delighted in every second of it.
Years (more like centuries) later, while targeting a college campus in Springfield, Ohio, he met Sam and Dean Winchester, two Hunters who were investigating his string of murders and general weirdness in the town. Well aware that the boys were Michael and Lucifer's destined vessels, he decided to toy with them to keep them off his scent and to see just how far he could push their buttons, figuring that if they couldn't even get through a prank war without wanting to kill each other, there'd be no hope for them when the eventual Armageddon rolled around. Eventually, he was found out and believing Dean to be trying to go after him alone, tried to tempt him with women as a means to get away without having to hurt the boys. Dean refused and then when "The Trickster" told him that he shouldn't have come alone, Sam and Bobby showed up, revealing that the Trickster had gotten tricked. The Trickster held them off with his manifestations, but eventually Dean got one up on him and stabbed him with a wooden stake, supposedly killing him. Unfortunately, what Dean stabbed turned out to be a copy and The Trickster lived to fight another day.