#but did u know azrael is an actual angel of death

[pumbkinrabbit]

*me connecting two unrelated things together to craft a batshit theory*

WHAT IF RALSEI IS ARCHANGEL RAZIEL

[incandescent-creativity]

i appreciate you telling us how u named ur characters bc its very clever and i really need you to know that i did NOT do that. azrael's name is azrael bc that means the angel of death and when i was edgy and 14 i thought it was cool and sabina's name was actually sabrina for the whole first draft bc i was making a joke abt sabrina the teenage witch

Listen, whatever works for you XD I just can’t pick names at random, I need some sort of clever tie in or else my brain just. Will not come up with names.

But if I know I need an A name and an R name to go with the last name Gentum, suddenly my brain is like “Oh ya why don’t you use Ashlyn Rose” and well

There she is

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

For the spelling a character's name do give me Azrael headcanons. (Jean-Paul Valley)

ANGEL BOY. I actually haven't been keeping up with the DC Rebirth comics as well as I'd like to, so I'm just gonna stick with classic Azzy and Jean Paul Valley.JJean-Paul's sense of humor consists mainly of puns. He doesn't actually get humor that well. Most stuff goes right over his head. Azrael has no sense of humor.E-It's canon that JPV (and even his Azrael side) has a soft spot for children. However, NEVER LEAVE HIM ALONE WITH THEM. CAKE BATTER AND FROSTING WILL BE EVERYWHERE AND ALL OF THE FURNITURE WILL BE USED FOR BUILDING FORTS AND YOU WILL NEVER GET THE GLITTER GLUE STAINS OUT. EVER. OR, EVEN WORSE, THOSE CHILDREN WILL STRAIGHT UP MURDER HIM. NOT EVEN AN AVENGING ANGEL IS ANY MATCH FOR A HYPERACTIVE CHILD.

-He's very protective of children, especially since he didn't really have the best childhood. If you try to hurt a child, JPV will probably give you a black eye or two, but if Azrael has control, well, hope you're ready to start eating through a straw.A-Well, before he found out about his heritage as an assassin of The Order of Saint Dumas, Jean Paul Valley went to Gotham University for Computer Sciences, so probably that. 

-Besides that, though, he also probably did pretty well in art class too, especially with those Azbats costumes and that one Azrael costume he designed himself. I'm actually pretty jealous, it takes me hours to complete one thumbnail sketch.

-Azrael would have failed every class except gym. Then he'd fail that too for breaking someone's nose in dodgeball.N-He's not too big on cooking, so he mostly eats sugar-loaded cereals and whatever's in the fridge with milk straight from the carton. Living alone has its perks.P-I'm pretty sure Batman gives him an allowance or something. With how many cars he's wrecked through car surfing and just parking at the wrong place at the wrong time, I can't imagine he'd be that responsible with money. U-Oracle always said she could "recognize his dulcet tones anywhere", so I'd imagine that he probably literally sounds like an angel. He'd probably have a really sweet singing voice, maybe like a soprano. Azrael’s voice is also like an angel, but it’s angry. Lovely, but also booming and accusatory. More like an Angel of Death than a guardian angel or even an avenging angel.L-His favorite game would probably be some obscure DnD spinoff or some kind of nerd game like that. Or something like Hungry Hungry Hippos.

-He’s also pretty good at Clue. That doesn't really matter though, since the only people he'd play games with would be the Batfamily, and everyone in the Batfam has mad detective skills and someone always figures it out within two turns. No one likes it when Oracle or Batman plays.

-Azrael would probably be aggressively good at Risk and Chess. Jean Paul probably tried to get into it at some point for aesthetic or something, but he probably didn't get the point very well.V-Try to steal his shoes or threaten to steal his shoes. He’s honestly hadmore than enough weirdos try, that joke is so old. If you make the mistake of asking Azrael instead of Jean Paul, you better say goodbye to both of your kneecaps.

Y-He'd probably want to know if he's doing the right thing. His past is so full of shades of gray, his moral compass is kind of shaky and he knows it. He's made a lot of mistakes, but he wants to change that and do what's right. Or maybe he’d want to know if that woman in the desert who sacrificed her life for his was actually his mom, or who his mom actually was and what happened to her. He probably has a lot of questions.