#cityofangelsrpg.intro

[knightblocd]

Hey guys!! I’m Jade, and i’ll be playing my nightmare child Gabriel here. Feel free to hmu/comment here for plots and stuff, i’ll just be lurking and trying to sort out my blog on and off for most of the day :)

→ GABRIEL is a UNKNOWN year old LESBIAN, GENDERLESS, SHE/HIM, ARCHANGEL. Some people say they look a lot like BLAKE LIVELY. They are DAUNTLESS but can be UNPREDICTABLE. They are WITH Heaven. They are looking to become a GUARDIAN ANGEL

Gabriel has seen the rise and fall of kings and empires; is ancient enough to have been written down as man and reinvented as woman and found shelter in the flow of all that divinity. She’s old enough to know that permanence will always embrace change, that peace is an illusion humans cannot live with, and that it is causality which governs the Cosmos. Someone created for death, sculpted into a weapon -- and then expected to find peace. A walking contradiction;  with a mind for strategy, a heart full of empathy, and a smile made for war.

Gabriel was created during the time of legends, when much of the world still was coming to know itself, unsure how to perceive, let alone record, truth.

In all accounts, like all archangels, she was transcribed as a man.

As an angel forged for combat, to keep the demons at bay while ushering souls from one life to the next; she found many praying to her on the battlefield.

Later, scholars would draw parallels between her and the Greek goddess Athena—and she enjoyed the gender play there, too, to be likened to a woman birthed fully formed rather than a man of black and gold. And was she not?

As time passed, her compassion grew for humans. In each new generation, she would see a flicker of something she’d once held dear in herself.

Her dominion over death did little to quell her empathy for the souls she aided when their time came, and she soon found herself as a means of protection against the darker entities that would do them harm.

As the archangel of Powers, war and death is all she truly knows.

It’s the calmness before the storm, the serenity after the battle, and the quiet moments in between that she struggles to navigate.

She doesn’t know who she is when it comes to those moments, where she is forced to look inward and see all the walking contradictions that reside within her heart.

It’s perhaps for this reason the Lust is the ‘deadly sin’ Gabriel struggles with most. Wrath is part of her very being, but provided she is eliciting her father’s wrath as opposed to her own, it’s not an issue.  

Envy, greed, pride, sloth… None of the rest tend to affect her. Words never rile her because she takes them for what they are, jealously even less so. But Lust? Lust was impossible.

She hardly understood why it was even considered a sin in the first place, and perhaps that was half the problem. How was she supposed to fight something within herself if she could even rationalise why she should…

She’s wavered once in the past, and with a demon no less. It’s something she keeps very well guarded, even from her own siblings, but it’s the aspect of her life she seems to have the least control over, and perhaps that’s what scares her most.

TBA

[ossatvre]

MICHAEL is an UNKNOWN year old DEMISEXUAL, GENDERLESS, HE/HIM, ARCHANGEL. Some people say they look a lot like CHRIS HEMSWORTH. They are COURAGEOUS but can be TEMPERMENTAL. They are WITH Heaven. They are looking to become a GUARDIAN ANGEL.

Titles and Nicknames: Saint Michael the Archangel and Seraph, God’s Right Hand Man, Prince of the Angelic Hosts, Protector of Mankind, Leader of the Angelic Host, Michael the Healer, the Angel of Peace, the Defender of the Faith, the Angel of Deliverance, and the Terror of the Evil Spirits.

Rank: According to some Catholic interpretations, Michael started off as an archangel (and remains one) but was elevated to Seraphim (guardians of the throne of God) upon Lucifer’s revolt and Prince of Angels upon his victory. This was due to his humbleness, love, faith, and devotion to God.

Responsibilities and Powers:

Prior to his ascension, he was a guardian angel who mostly focused on guarding, healing, and guiding his charges. He had a profound sense of justice and was willing to turn a blind eye on acts committed by charges (and even sometimes assist them) when he deemed the actions just. He was known to favor truthful charges.

Later, his responsibilities were to lead the guardian angels protecting the kingdom of Isreal and its children. God dumped quite a bit of responsibility on him, giving him some of the most important figures to guard, guide, and heal. He also has a history of policing lower ranking angels and punishing the ones who interfered or obstructed God’s plans for Isreal and its people.

His power increased monumentally upon ascension to Seraphim. He carries with him a flaming blue sword and appears to have the ability to control the weather, with powerful bolts lightening being his signature move to end a fight. He has been tasked with protecting souls and delivering them to God for Judgement when Rapture finally happens and to lead a legion of angels against Lucifer and her demons for one final battle.

Other abilities: to appear as and control fire, to calm others, to instill courage and strength.

Other Tidbits

His favorite color is blue. He has blue armor, a blue sword, his lightning is described as blue, and his light a royal blue.

When trying to blend in with humanity, he does not take up the appearance of a wealthy individual. Rather, he will appear as a person of low income or even at times as a homeless person.

Injustice, poverty, corruption, abuse, oppression, and exploitation can set him off.

He’s quite offended by the fact that he was made the patron saint of law enforcement and police officers by the Church. The easiest way to piss him off is to show him an abusive, hateful cop wearing his image on a pendant or invoking his name in a prayer.

He’s very lonely and misses the camaraderie he had when he was just an ordinary angel. Being a leader, he’s found, is quite isolating given how busy he is.

He doesn’t like being called a prince or anything formal. The only time he expects to be called General is at formal settings or on the battlefield.

While he mostly relies on his own judgment when carrying out God’s plan, but there are individuals who he will hold back for and wait for God to respond to his prayer with her decision before doing anything (Lucifer, for instance).

He’s got the angelic equivalent of PTSD and occasionally deals with imposter syndrome but he does try his best to hide how he feels behind a cheerful mask.