Something I always thought about is, the pressure and fear of failure, in an enviroment in which, what happened to the last person that fucked up? What happened with that one fellow angel that, coincidencially, was on just hanging out with some rebellious angels?
Something I like to think is, "Gabriel is God's favourite, that's why he's such a prick", but like...do you know, what happened to God's, last favourite, prodigy, star child? God literally is playing games with them, with all of them, and never cared to tell them the rules, they just have to figure out how to navigate under the fear that the smallest mistake could make you fall, forever, and then once you're a demon, there's no forgiveness.
They're all doomed to kill who once was their friends, companions, coworkers, siblings and any other kind of relationships. Being emotional about it won't help anyone, what can they do? Toughen up up, distancing, hidding away emotions, desensitize, putting on a mask.
Gabriel may be the leader, and may not be good at it, but how is he supposed to know, I ask? Is probable, that his ONLY Role Model is God, a Mother who is quiet, plays games, is never clear about anything, and who, honestly, is prone to decide to yeet anyone into boiling sulfur just because she pleases. The sin ranges from, what, asking questions to literally rebelling?
I also wanna add, they aren't humans. And yeah, they're very human without realizing. But angels, demons, they can't, and yet they're being held with mostly human standards. And because they were created (alleguelly) to serve God, to be God's soldiers and messengers, they don't try, and probably don't know how the human world's morals, standards and rationalizations work.
Aziraphale & Crowley have spent 6000 years on earth, whereas most higher ups (or lower downs, in Hell's case?) must be extremely busy trying to keep their sides on check, to spent much time learning about humanity, it's unfair to try to compare them with A & C, it's like trying to get mad at a shark for being unable to understand why dogs follow humans.
To summarize; I just think Heaven, and by this I mean every single angel, including Michael, Uriel, Sandalphon or Gabriel, must feel like walking eternally on eggshells, always with the fear of being punished, or falling.
Gabriel probably believes that, without rules, they will loss even more angels by falling, and yeah. An "Ends of the Times", will also mean the end of thousands and thousands of years of stress, of being repressed and unable to enjoy anything at all. The end of the constant fear of failure.
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