#gabriel|character

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Gabriel smiled at the other, leaning closer as he did to avoid being overheard by what he were pretty sure were a delegation of the fae. This was supposed to be a summit of some sort for the supernaturals of the city, something about recent acts unbecoming. Gabriel had zoned out half an hour in, and the same man was speaking and didn’t seem to have any interest in stopping two hours later.

“I’m sure we could think of something more... pleasurably invigorating than this.”

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Why do you hunt monsters?

actually, you're on the monsters' side.

here's a sad story: once upon a time, you were an angel, and all you knew was how to sing. you sang and sang and sang and never got tired. then, when they sent you to earth, here's the thing, they didn't prepare you, nothing could have prepared you. when the count drowned you in his opal bathtub, all you could see was the chandelier swinging above you -- you hoped the lights would fall, you hoped it would crush him -- and you realized, oh, so this is it, this is what it is to hate something. you were never the same after that but the angels kicked you out (you were sullen, you were changed, and how dare somebody act different? only they don't know what you know, they haven't seen the things you've seen, they don't know what water tastes like when it's burning your nostrils and bubbling in your throat) and before they could kick you out for real you just left. fuck it. fuck it. you are a demon and this is your last shot. you've got to make it here. got to. because heaven and earth have eaten you -- there's nothing left for you there. but if you can own hell, you can prove what you always knew. that you deserved better. that you deserved everything. you're on the monsters' side because heroes have never been there when you needed them, and if they're going to think you're a villain anyway, you might as well act the part. they wanted a villain and they created one!

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but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless, and he was running out of lullabies.

Little Beast by Richard Siken [x]

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He had green eyes, so I wanted to sleep with him— green eyes flecked with yellow, dried leaves on the surface of a pool- You could drown in those eyes, I said.

Little Beast by Richard Siken [x]

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✪ Gabriel && Ragnor

- Gabriel doesn’t meant to get attached to the somewhat prickly, green, much, much older warlock, but he does. Even if he does tease, with much delight, and much frequency, he really respects Ragnor. 

- Gabriel only learned the very basics of what being a warlock even meant before he met Ragnor, but it was Ragnor that took him in and taught him how to make a portal, and a glamour that didn’t flicker and fade.

- Gabriel is still quite young to other immortals, he’s only stopped ageing for a few years, and the first year he’s with Ragnor, he jokingly gets him a father’s day card; it’s aggressively green, and plays an obnoxious jingle when opened- and Gabriel absolutely loves the facial expression it made Ragnor make when he got it. (he made sure to get a picture of it). 

- Gabriel finds it hard to believe most of the time, that Ragnor is really that old. he can happily sit for hours and listen to Ragnor tell stories about history, it’s like being in history class but better. He wouldn’t believe the stories were true but... it’s hard to argue with physical letters addressed from Jane Austen. 

- Gabriel has, more than once, asked to borrow some of the vintage clothes that Ragnor has in his collection. 

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The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

The Secret Box

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If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why? (Gabriel)

Catalyst - Kyla La Grange

Okay, so this is based off what I’ve collected for Gabriel so far, but I think this one works surprisingly well. it has a sense of... tragic romance to it with lines like “Oh nobody caught me yet, I hope that you will” and “I'll give you a love that cannot last”. Which is a defining trait for Gabriel I think. He’s very content to play his part, and most of the time he legitimately enjoys the hedonism, but he’s still starved for any actual, lasting emotional attachments. 

Though he doesn’t exactly encourage people to stick around- “For all that I needed, I need you not to care”. The verse begins with “Lie down take your clothes off, and let me stare”, which sets up this more... physical things, something inherently intimate in a way. Gabriel is very much a collection of physical desires that are met to excess; sex, and food, and fabrics, but without nay real joy behind them. they’re fun, but the shine wears off eventually. 

The song has a very slow, almost somber mood to it, which works surprisingly well for Gabriel, who bounces between things like this, and the more techno, highly synthetic sounds, and both are very fitting for the character but I think that the more techno-sound will fade with time, as the new fad comes in, and a new exiting things sweeps the world.

Gabriel may want those connections, but there’s no small part of him that does like losing himself in the world of being immortal, and the slower, quieter mood of Catalyst works well for the person Gabriel is, when he isn’t being himself.