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Player Information
Name: Gina
Timezone: EST
Personal Journal: >technicallysane
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM: ginaneko512
Email Address: komorigirl@hotmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: Former: Lance Sweets, Kevin Lucas, Current: Ryohei Sasagawa
How did you hear about us?: KELLY. 8| Also it’s been a year. Wow.
Character Information
Name: Gabriel
Canon Origin/Series: Supernatural
Teaching Position and why it suits them: Human ghost turned poltergeist
As with Castiel, Gabriel is an angel inhabiting a human body, and thus has no real tangible form to call his own. However, unlike Castiel, Gabriel’s rank is significantly higher, an Archangel of the Lord, and therefore has infinitely more power than Castiel. A poltergeist is able to effect the world around it, signifying that power, as well as his canon personality of causing mass chaos wherever he goes.
Gender: male
Age: Canon: well over 5000; HP!Canon: 193
Out of school living location: he wanders, and has no fixed location
Blood status: pureblood in life
Personality: Gabriel is a lot of things. From the outside, he is carefree. He snarks, he makes sharp retorts full of witty references every three words, and he acts like nothing bothers him at all. He has a cruel, twisted sense of humor, taking great pleasure in watching those who aren’t righteous get their just deserts. He’s almost achingly proud and defiant, and isn’t easily swayed by other people’s opinions and ideas. He’s self-confident, cocksure and headstrong. He loves belittling other people purely for his own self-gratification. He seems like an eccentric, intolerable little man who just generally loves making a nuisance of himself.
But deep down, past all the smiles and the laughter, Gabriel is emotionally sick, fragile, a ticking time bomb waiting to go off at any moment. He’s twisted with guilt and terror and deep, bone-aching sorrow that he himself can barely comprehend, and so hides it behind his carefree exterior, to the point where he can completely ignore these feelings. If these emotions are properly coaxed out, Gabriel will become a lashing, malevolent man, spitting out horrible things to people, tearing them open with his words until they leave him alone and he can flee. Gabriel is a coward, conditioned from years of being seen as the youngest of the eldest and struggling to be the best that he could be and being outshone by his other brothers. If given the chance, Gabriel will take the flight option every time, and it will take much persuasion to have him do otherwise.
He’s complicated in more ways than one, afraid of his brothers and yet despite all that they’ve done to him, all they’ve made him watch and suffer through, his love for them is unconditional. Gabriel truly, desperately loves his family, and in canon it ends up being his weakness. His driving force is his utter loneliness in the world. Gabriel has been hiding from his brothers and sisters for thousands of years in canon, conjuring up illusions of women as a way to keep himself occupied, bothered humans as a way to spend his time. For angels, that sort of separation is painful to the core, and it’s no surprise he’s such a tortured person. Gabriel abhors self-sacrifice, at least on his own side of the battle.
What separates Gabriel from his brothers more than anything is his inability to control his emotions. Most angels have emotional control to the point of appearing emotionless, but in fact they all keep it under tight lock and key-Gabriel’s long time on earth has rid him of that feeling of control, giving him a temperament unheard of among angels. When compared with other angels, who are stoic and uncaring, Gabriel’s feelings are deeply rooted in his being, possibly because of the necessity to fit in with humanity after leaving Heaven.
Behind all of this, beyond everything, buried somewhere deep down in the majestic Messenger of God he was always meant to be, but canon has yet to show him ever finding it.
Canon Background: Gabriel has only appeared in four episodes, but each episode has significantly strengthened his character. He shows up long before the introduction of angels, all the way back in season two, under the guise of a simple janitor at a local college. While Sam and Dean are investigating odd goings-on in the town, Gabriel’s initial introduction is that of a short, snarky janitor with a penchant for a quick wit and a wide smile. He gives the boys the necessary information they need and disappears for a majority of the episode, having served his purpose. Sam and Dean, on the other hand, eventually figure out that what has been killing people: a Trickster, a creature of indeterminate power with the ability to create something out of nothing with the simple click of his fingers. Sam and Dean attempt to kill him by stabbing him through the chest with a blood-covered stake, the method for killing a Trickster, but unbeknownst to them, the Trickster had created a copy of himself and lived. The second time he shows up, he traps Sam in an infinite time-loop in which Dean is killed in increasingly strange ways, to drive the point that no matter what Sam does, he cannot save his brother from his inevitable death, and that the reliance and instant instinct to sacrifice themselves for each one another will be the death of them. It is important to not that the Trickster specially says, “Dean’s your weakness. The bad guys know it too.” The Trickster, even then, didn’t count himself as a bad guy.
The Trickster is absent for all of season four, but returns twice in season 5, and it’s during the first appearance that Sam and Dean figure him out for what he is-Castiel states that what they are fighting is far too powerful to be a Trickster, and they know no one could easily overpower Cas. They trap him in a ring of Holy Fire, and inform him that they’ve figured out his true identity. At Sam’s prompting, he coldly turns to him and states, “Gabriel, okay? They call me Gabriel.” He explains that the Apocalypse they’re trying so hard to avert is something he was more than used to; he expected it during his time in Heaven. Desperate to escape his brothers’ attempts to kill each other, he fled Heaven and carved his own little niche in the world, hiding from the Host of Heaven and becoming the Trickster. He claims that the Apocalypse can’t be stopped, and that he wants neither Heaven nor Hell to win. He has to watch his brothers whom he loves with everything he has kill each other, and there’s nothing he can do about it. He just wants it to be over. Dean leaves him, the sprinklers turned on to quench the fire, with a scathing, “This isn’t about some fight between your brothers, this is about you being too scared to stand up to your family!”
~Spoilers for 5x19~
The last and final time (as of now) that we see Gabriel, he rescues the boys from his pagan brethren in a motel off the side of the road. The pagans were planning to sacrifice the boys to Lucifer, the devil himself and Gabriel’s elder brother, in order to bring about the Apocalypse and with it, the end of humanity, so that they could rule the earth. Gabriel warns them that as long as their blood is bound to the goddess Kali (with whom he had a “fling” in the past) they are unable to leave the hotel, and he uncharacteristically offers himself up as an agent to get their blood back. Kali, however, sees through his attempts to seduce her and takes his blood as well, effectively binding him to her. She brings him to the other pagans, revealing his true identity, and takes from him his Archangel’s Blade, one of the few items known to be able to kill an Archangel (it can be assumed that a normal angel’s Blade cannot kill an Archangel). She apologizes quietly and stabs him with it, appearing to kill him. In reality, he’d created another copy of himself and Dean finds him in his car, hiding and willing to stay there until the boys could free all three of them. Dean once more confronts Gabriel about his unwillingness to fight his brothers. Gabriel whispers, “Dean. I can’t kill my brother.” Dean replies cynically, “Can’t? Or won’t?”
Just when it seems like Lucifer will win, will take over Sam’s body and bring death upon all humanity, Gabriel appears, flinging his older brother against the wall and saving Sam, Dean and Kali, but not before pressing a DVD into Dean’s chest with the order “Guard this with your life.” He faces up against Lucifer, who regards his brother with distaste, and starts to tell Gabriel that if he’s against him, he’ll have to kill him, but Gabriel interrupts him to say that he’s not on Heaven nor Hell’s side, previous words he uttered during his third appearance. No, instead he’s on humanity’s side. He believes that humans are capable of change, and that they are truly greater than the angels, and that he would bow to them as their Father commanded, the very reason Lucifer was cast down. Lucifer stares at him for a long moment, and then, after softly asking Gabriel to “not make [him] do this,” to which Gabriel replies with, “No one makes us do anything,” he shakes his head, saying, “You’re wrong. I know where your heart truly lies.” With that, he whirls around and grabs the real Gabriel-having been talking to an illusion the whole time-taking the Blade intended for Lucifer and shoving it deep into Gabriel’s chest. “Here.” As Gabriel stares up at him in terror and agony, Lucifer cups his brother’s face and mutters, “Amateur hocus-pocus? You forget-you learned all your tricks from me, little brother.” And with that, he twists the Blade and kills Gabriel, destroying his Grace and leaving nothing but the empty shell of his vessel behind, his burnt out wings spread wide under his body.
The DVD that he leaves behind is an important clue-talking through a prerecorded message, Gabriel tells them that Lucifer can be thrown back into his cage with the use of the Horsemen’s Rings; Death, Pestilence, Famine and War. Gabriel ended up providing the information necessary to defeating the Apocalypse.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Born into a very large pureblood family, Gabriel was among the oldest, younger only than Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Uriel. Where the rest of his brothers were quiet and tame, emotionless and obedient, Gabriel was the opposite; loud and brash, short-tempered and rebellious. He loved pulling pranks, refused to listen to his father and elder brothers when they told him how to act and behave. Despite one of his many responsibilities being to take care of the younger siblings, Gabriel preferred to teach the kids through his own twisted way that expressing yourself, instead of merely following orders like a good soldier, is the better way of living. Among those siblings was Castiel, whom Gabriel developed a fondness for.
Despite all his misgivings, Gabriel truly, deeply loved his brothers, most of all Lucifer, who, like him, had a rebellious streak, but for Lucifer it was much more incriminating. Lucifer was banished from the family, which started a long line of emotional issues for Gabriel that would ultimately culminate in his haunting. He spent the majority of his Hogwarts years watching Michael and Lucifer at each other’s throats, attempting in vain to keep peace and failing. As the years wore on he became increasingly more miserable, hating having to watch his beloved brothers work their damn hardest at trying to kill each other.
Even though the family rules stated that Gabriel would have to stay with the family and continue to help raise the younger children, toward the end of his seventh year Gabriel left the family without a word, packing up and taking off, leaving the country entirely. He couldn’t bear to see his brothers fight, as well as the inevitable war that would no doubt follow. He fled, knowing he was a coward, but willing to be seen as such rather than stand another second of Lucifer and Michael’s quarrels. Gabriel felt betrayed by his father as well, believing that he didn’t care about his children, preferring to watch them try and kill each other rather than intervene.
Gabriel settled in Scotland, making himself nigh impossible to find, but unbeknownst to him, no one was looking for him. As he stayed, he found that Muggles, while not quite as disgusting and foul as more pureblood families had led him to believe, were rather gullible, but in a cute way, the way you’d find a puppy cute. He went about with his favorite pastime of pranking them, causing little mistakes here and there with the use of his magic. However, as the years wore on, Gabriel came more and more lonely, missing the company of his younger siblings. Sinking deeper and deeper into despondency, Gabriel eventually noticed the horrors that people committed on each other-murder, rape, theft. Feeling a vague sense of justice, he went about punishing those he found worthy, giving them their just deserts with an increasingly cruel sense of irony.
Eventually it came to Gabriel’s attention that the inevitable fight between Michael and Lucifer would be going down at Hogwarts, and despite his better judgment, he returned to his school, and his family. What he found troubled him deeply; students were being considered to be asked to join in a battle that had nothing to do with them, a war that was not their own. Enraged, Gabriel confronted a very startled Lucifer, asking him what the hell he thought he was doing. Lucifer, twisted by his estrangement, merely smiled smugly and asked Gabriel that if he returned, then he’d have to choose a side. Gabriel, on the other hand, told Lucifer that if given the option, he would chose the side of the students. It was not up to Michael and Lucifer to chose those children’s destinies for them, and less so to throw them into a family feud with the complete disregard for their lives.
Lucifer saw this as a betrayal, however, and quietly asked Gabriel one last time who he planned to side with. When Gabriel repeated that he would not join Lucifer, Lucifer pointed his wand at Gabriel’s heart, saying that if Gabriel left once, he would leave again. The last thing Gabriel remembered seeing was green before a smothering blackness.
When Gabriel woke up, he was a ghost. But his mental state was warped from the combination of the rush of emotions; betrayal, hurt, terror. He fled Hogwarts once again, just as his brother told him he would, and went back to his little estate back in Scotland, trying to return to his life of normalcy by haunting Muggles. He practiced, over and over, until he was eventually able to move objects. It was a long process, taking him a hundred and fifty years to master it and become a poltergeist. Eventually he decided to return to Hogwarts, sure that his family would be gone by now, and was eager to return to a place he’d considered a home, regardless of the pain he’d felt there.
Name: Gina
Timezone: EST
Personal Journal: >technicallysane
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM: ginaneko512
Email Address: komorigirl@hotmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: Former: Lance Sweets, Kevin Lucas, Current: Ryohei Sasagawa
How did you hear about us?: KELLY. 8| Also it’s been a year. Wow.
Character Information
Name: Gabriel
Canon Origin/Series: Supernatural
Teaching Position and why it suits them: Human ghost turned poltergeist
As with Castiel, Gabriel is an angel inhabiting a human body, and thus has no real tangible form to call his own. However, unlike Castiel, Gabriel’s rank is significantly higher, an Archangel of the Lord, and therefore has infinitely more power than Castiel. A poltergeist is able to effect the world around it, signifying that power, as well as his canon personality of causing mass chaos wherever he goes.
Gender: male
Age: Canon: well over 5000; HP!Canon: 193
Out of school living location: he wanders, and has no fixed location
Blood status: pureblood in life
Personality: Gabriel is a lot of things. From the outside, he is carefree. He snarks, he makes sharp retorts full of witty references every three words, and he acts like nothing bothers him at all. He has a cruel, twisted sense of humor, taking great pleasure in watching those who aren’t righteous get their just deserts. He’s almost achingly proud and defiant, and isn’t easily swayed by other people’s opinions and ideas. He’s self-confident, cocksure and headstrong. He loves belittling other people purely for his own self-gratification. He seems like an eccentric, intolerable little man who just generally loves making a nuisance of himself.
But deep down, past all the smiles and the laughter, Gabriel is emotionally sick, fragile, a ticking time bomb waiting to go off at any moment. He’s twisted with guilt and terror and deep, bone-aching sorrow that he himself can barely comprehend, and so hides it behind his carefree exterior, to the point where he can completely ignore these feelings. If these emotions are properly coaxed out, Gabriel will become a lashing, malevolent man, spitting out horrible things to people, tearing them open with his words until they leave him alone and he can flee. Gabriel is a coward, conditioned from years of being seen as the youngest of the eldest and struggling to be the best that he could be and being outshone by his other brothers. If given the chance, Gabriel will take the flight option every time, and it will take much persuasion to have him do otherwise.
He’s complicated in more ways than one, afraid of his brothers and yet despite all that they’ve done to him, all they’ve made him watch and suffer through, his love for them is unconditional. Gabriel truly, desperately loves his family, and in canon it ends up being his weakness. His driving force is his utter loneliness in the world. Gabriel has been hiding from his brothers and sisters for thousands of years in canon, conjuring up illusions of women as a way to keep himself occupied, bothered humans as a way to spend his time. For angels, that sort of separation is painful to the core, and it’s no surprise he’s such a tortured person. Gabriel abhors self-sacrifice, at least on his own side of the battle.
What separates Gabriel from his brothers more than anything is his inability to control his emotions. Most angels have emotional control to the point of appearing emotionless, but in fact they all keep it under tight lock and key-Gabriel’s long time on earth has rid him of that feeling of control, giving him a temperament unheard of among angels. When compared with other angels, who are stoic and uncaring, Gabriel’s feelings are deeply rooted in his being, possibly because of the necessity to fit in with humanity after leaving Heaven.
Behind all of this, beyond everything, buried somewhere deep down in the majestic Messenger of God he was always meant to be, but canon has yet to show him ever finding it.
Canon Background: Gabriel has only appeared in four episodes, but each episode has significantly strengthened his character. He shows up long before the introduction of angels, all the way back in season two, under the guise of a simple janitor at a local college. While Sam and Dean are investigating odd goings-on in the town, Gabriel’s initial introduction is that of a short, snarky janitor with a penchant for a quick wit and a wide smile. He gives the boys the necessary information they need and disappears for a majority of the episode, having served his purpose. Sam and Dean, on the other hand, eventually figure out that what has been killing people: a Trickster, a creature of indeterminate power with the ability to create something out of nothing with the simple click of his fingers. Sam and Dean attempt to kill him by stabbing him through the chest with a blood-covered stake, the method for killing a Trickster, but unbeknownst to them, the Trickster had created a copy of himself and lived. The second time he shows up, he traps Sam in an infinite time-loop in which Dean is killed in increasingly strange ways, to drive the point that no matter what Sam does, he cannot save his brother from his inevitable death, and that the reliance and instant instinct to sacrifice themselves for each one another will be the death of them. It is important to not that the Trickster specially says, “Dean’s your weakness. The bad guys know it too.” The Trickster, even then, didn’t count himself as a bad guy.
The Trickster is absent for all of season four, but returns twice in season 5, and it’s during the first appearance that Sam and Dean figure him out for what he is-Castiel states that what they are fighting is far too powerful to be a Trickster, and they know no one could easily overpower Cas. They trap him in a ring of Holy Fire, and inform him that they’ve figured out his true identity. At Sam’s prompting, he coldly turns to him and states, “Gabriel, okay? They call me Gabriel.” He explains that the Apocalypse they’re trying so hard to avert is something he was more than used to; he expected it during his time in Heaven. Desperate to escape his brothers’ attempts to kill each other, he fled Heaven and carved his own little niche in the world, hiding from the Host of Heaven and becoming the Trickster. He claims that the Apocalypse can’t be stopped, and that he wants neither Heaven nor Hell to win. He has to watch his brothers whom he loves with everything he has kill each other, and there’s nothing he can do about it. He just wants it to be over. Dean leaves him, the sprinklers turned on to quench the fire, with a scathing, “This isn’t about some fight between your brothers, this is about you being too scared to stand up to your family!”
~Spoilers for 5x19~
The last and final time (as of now) that we see Gabriel, he rescues the boys from his pagan brethren in a motel off the side of the road. The pagans were planning to sacrifice the boys to Lucifer, the devil himself and Gabriel’s elder brother, in order to bring about the Apocalypse and with it, the end of humanity, so that they could rule the earth. Gabriel warns them that as long as their blood is bound to the goddess Kali (with whom he had a “fling” in the past) they are unable to leave the hotel, and he uncharacteristically offers himself up as an agent to get their blood back. Kali, however, sees through his attempts to seduce her and takes his blood as well, effectively binding him to her. She brings him to the other pagans, revealing his true identity, and takes from him his Archangel’s Blade, one of the few items known to be able to kill an Archangel (it can be assumed that a normal angel’s Blade cannot kill an Archangel). She apologizes quietly and stabs him with it, appearing to kill him. In reality, he’d created another copy of himself and Dean finds him in his car, hiding and willing to stay there until the boys could free all three of them. Dean once more confronts Gabriel about his unwillingness to fight his brothers. Gabriel whispers, “Dean. I can’t kill my brother.” Dean replies cynically, “Can’t? Or won’t?”
Just when it seems like Lucifer will win, will take over Sam’s body and bring death upon all humanity, Gabriel appears, flinging his older brother against the wall and saving Sam, Dean and Kali, but not before pressing a DVD into Dean’s chest with the order “Guard this with your life.” He faces up against Lucifer, who regards his brother with distaste, and starts to tell Gabriel that if he’s against him, he’ll have to kill him, but Gabriel interrupts him to say that he’s not on Heaven nor Hell’s side, previous words he uttered during his third appearance. No, instead he’s on humanity’s side. He believes that humans are capable of change, and that they are truly greater than the angels, and that he would bow to them as their Father commanded, the very reason Lucifer was cast down. Lucifer stares at him for a long moment, and then, after softly asking Gabriel to “not make [him] do this,” to which Gabriel replies with, “No one makes us do anything,” he shakes his head, saying, “You’re wrong. I know where your heart truly lies.” With that, he whirls around and grabs the real Gabriel-having been talking to an illusion the whole time-taking the Blade intended for Lucifer and shoving it deep into Gabriel’s chest. “Here.” As Gabriel stares up at him in terror and agony, Lucifer cups his brother’s face and mutters, “Amateur hocus-pocus? You forget-you learned all your tricks from me, little brother.” And with that, he twists the Blade and kills Gabriel, destroying his Grace and leaving nothing but the empty shell of his vessel behind, his burnt out wings spread wide under his body.
The DVD that he leaves behind is an important clue-talking through a prerecorded message, Gabriel tells them that Lucifer can be thrown back into his cage with the use of the Horsemen’s Rings; Death, Pestilence, Famine and War. Gabriel ended up providing the information necessary to defeating the Apocalypse.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Born into a very large pureblood family, Gabriel was among the oldest, younger only than Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Uriel. Where the rest of his brothers were quiet and tame, emotionless and obedient, Gabriel was the opposite; loud and brash, short-tempered and rebellious. He loved pulling pranks, refused to listen to his father and elder brothers when they told him how to act and behave. Despite one of his many responsibilities being to take care of the younger siblings, Gabriel preferred to teach the kids through his own twisted way that expressing yourself, instead of merely following orders like a good soldier, is the better way of living. Among those siblings was Castiel, whom Gabriel developed a fondness for.
Despite all his misgivings, Gabriel truly, deeply loved his brothers, most of all Lucifer, who, like him, had a rebellious streak, but for Lucifer it was much more incriminating. Lucifer was banished from the family, which started a long line of emotional issues for Gabriel that would ultimately culminate in his haunting. He spent the majority of his Hogwarts years watching Michael and Lucifer at each other’s throats, attempting in vain to keep peace and failing. As the years wore on he became increasingly more miserable, hating having to watch his beloved brothers work their damn hardest at trying to kill each other.
Even though the family rules stated that Gabriel would have to stay with the family and continue to help raise the younger children, toward the end of his seventh year Gabriel left the family without a word, packing up and taking off, leaving the country entirely. He couldn’t bear to see his brothers fight, as well as the inevitable war that would no doubt follow. He fled, knowing he was a coward, but willing to be seen as such rather than stand another second of Lucifer and Michael’s quarrels. Gabriel felt betrayed by his father as well, believing that he didn’t care about his children, preferring to watch them try and kill each other rather than intervene.
Gabriel settled in Scotland, making himself nigh impossible to find, but unbeknownst to him, no one was looking for him. As he stayed, he found that Muggles, while not quite as disgusting and foul as more pureblood families had led him to believe, were rather gullible, but in a cute way, the way you’d find a puppy cute. He went about with his favorite pastime of pranking them, causing little mistakes here and there with the use of his magic. However, as the years wore on, Gabriel came more and more lonely, missing the company of his younger siblings. Sinking deeper and deeper into despondency, Gabriel eventually noticed the horrors that people committed on each other-murder, rape, theft. Feeling a vague sense of justice, he went about punishing those he found worthy, giving them their just deserts with an increasingly cruel sense of irony.
Eventually it came to Gabriel’s attention that the inevitable fight between Michael and Lucifer would be going down at Hogwarts, and despite his better judgment, he returned to his school, and his family. What he found troubled him deeply; students were being considered to be asked to join in a battle that had nothing to do with them, a war that was not their own. Enraged, Gabriel confronted a very startled Lucifer, asking him what the hell he thought he was doing. Lucifer, twisted by his estrangement, merely smiled smugly and asked Gabriel that if he returned, then he’d have to choose a side. Gabriel, on the other hand, told Lucifer that if given the option, he would chose the side of the students. It was not up to Michael and Lucifer to chose those children’s destinies for them, and less so to throw them into a family feud with the complete disregard for their lives.
Lucifer saw this as a betrayal, however, and quietly asked Gabriel one last time who he planned to side with. When Gabriel repeated that he would not join Lucifer, Lucifer pointed his wand at Gabriel’s heart, saying that if Gabriel left once, he would leave again. The last thing Gabriel remembered seeing was green before a smothering blackness.
When Gabriel woke up, he was a ghost. But his mental state was warped from the combination of the rush of emotions; betrayal, hurt, terror. He fled Hogwarts once again, just as his brother told him he would, and went back to his little estate back in Scotland, trying to return to his life of normalcy by haunting Muggles. He practiced, over and over, until he was eventually able to move objects. It was a long process, taking him a hundred and fifty years to master it and become a poltergeist. Eventually he decided to return to Hogwarts, sure that his family would be gone by now, and was eager to return to a place he’d considered a home, regardless of the pain he’d felt there.