His most prominent talent is his ability to bend reality, however. He can create pocket dimensions that are tailored to his own whim and are indistinguishable from the real world, aside from the fact that he’s God of them and can do whatever the hell he wants with them. He’s powerful enough to hold people, including angels, in these dimensions and the only thing that seems capable of destroying them is killing him. He can manifest anything he chooses even outside of his pocket dimensions, from women to monsters to food to wormholes and everything he manifests is just as real as anything, except that he can make them vanish at will- all of his creations usually vanish in a wash of bluish light. On top of manifesting anything he can think up at the time, he can also create perfect copies of himself that can act as proxies and enter dangerous situations for him, so he doesn’t have to- however, they come with a downside. For example, Kali was able to bloodspell Gabriel by taking blood from a copy and while killing the copy didn’t kill Gabriel, the spell was still in effect, as Kali still had Gabriel’s blood, suggesting the copies are completely perfect down to the last detail. Due to the state of the game's universe, Gabriel will be prevented from warping the entire reality of the place and will only be able to manifest things out of nothing and even that has a chance to not work, depending on the circumstances.
As well as warping reality, Gabriel can affect the physiology of living things- he’s only shown taking Sam and Dean’s voices away onscreen, but as Zachariah as taken away a human’s lungs, given them stomach cancer, and caused internal bleeding, it’s likely that Gabriel can do much the same, but chooses not to, as he has a great deal more style than that.
He can shapeshift his vessel into any shape he chooses (human, although he could possibly choose other forms if he wanted), taking the form of a businessman, TV’s Dr. Sexy, and a cop at various points. He can also “hack” into various electronic devices and send “psychic” messages(as most angels can) and can even change his voice to make the messages seem legit- such as the scene where he pretends to be a cop on a scanner to lure Sam and Dean into a trap.
He can also manipulate time, such as creating time loops and slowing time down- for example, when Sam and Dean were locked in TV Land, he promised them 24 hours before he would speak to them, but when Castiel finds them, he claims they’ve been missing “for days,” suggesting that what was only an hour or so for Sam and Dean was actually a few days in the real world. In addition, Gabriel has an angel’s quasi-omniscience, including a keen awareness of potential future events- mentioning to Sam in Mystery Spot with utmost certainty that if he doesn’t let Dean go, bad things will happen and saying several times that he “knows how this story ends” and that he “skipped ahead.” Going even further, he claims that he and his brothers always knew that Sam and Dean would be the ones that would end everything, prompting Gabriel’s interest in them. This power will obviously be nullified in the game.
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Date: 2011-02-09 07:08 pm (UTC)As well as warping reality, Gabriel can affect the physiology of living things- he’s only shown taking Sam and Dean’s voices away onscreen, but as Zachariah as taken away a human’s lungs, given them stomach cancer, and caused internal bleeding, it’s likely that Gabriel can do much the same, but chooses not to, as he has a great deal more style than that.
He can shapeshift his vessel into any shape he chooses (human, although he could possibly choose other forms if he wanted), taking the form of a businessman, TV’s Dr. Sexy, and a cop at various points. He can also “hack” into various electronic devices and send “psychic” messages(as most angels can) and can even change his voice to make the messages seem legit- such as the scene where he pretends to be a cop on a scanner to lure Sam and Dean into a trap.
He can also manipulate time, such as creating time loops and slowing time down- for example, when Sam and Dean were locked in TV Land, he promised them 24 hours before he would speak to them, but when Castiel finds them, he claims they’ve been missing “for days,” suggesting that what was only an hour or so for Sam and Dean was actually a few days in the real world. In addition, Gabriel has an angel’s quasi-omniscience, including a keen awareness of potential future events- mentioning to Sam in Mystery Spot with utmost certainty that if he doesn’t let Dean go, bad things will happen and saying several times that he “knows how this story ends” and that he “skipped ahead.” Going even further, he claims that he and his brothers always knew that Sam and Dean would be the ones that would end everything, prompting Gabriel’s interest in them. This power will obviously be nullified in the game.