Gabriel John Cotton

Gabriel is an Evangelists Chaplain [MR] at Thirlcrest Academy. He is played by Plescit
== Appearance ==
Gabriel is a short and slim man standing at a below average height of 5’9 and weighs at a light weight of 140 lbs. He has wavy naturally blonde hair thanks to his dear mother that he keeps in a comb over. He is seen with a rigid military-like posture drilled into him by his father giving him an extra inch to his height. He has an underlying Georgia accent that portrays his Southern roots every time he opens his mouth.
His skin is a typical pale white that shows small signs of sun damage. He has a small thin stubble beard on his face but due to his blonde hair almost blends onto his face. He has a strong round jawline and a straight Greek nose. His brown eyes are baggy and sunken causing him to look slightly worn and weathered. He has both a chipped left lateral incisor and canine after one of the more brutal fights he’s had with his family.
He wears the typical white collared shirt with the Evangelist tie around his neck and a pair of gray aviators that obscures his eyes. 
Outside of the school, he can be seen wearing a pair of dark jeans, a plain white t-shirt, blue jacket and a pair of dog tags around his neck.
== Characteristics ==
Gabriel is a manipulative, narcissistic and sadistic snake of a man whose morals are a twisted mix of survival of the fittest, Puritanism and Southern Baptist beliefs. Just like the rest of his family he’s a strong willed, short-tempered fiend. Driven by a warped sense of Christianity he has a fanatical devotion to his version of scripture and the lord believing that the only way for atonement is through rebirth. A self declared born again Christian he is driven by the idea that for one to be fully free from sin one must clear their mind from the filth and noise of the world and purge it of all earthly desires that have led us astray from the lord. Once your mind is finally open you will be able to fully accept the lord and become reborn as one of his chosen children. Whether his belief is this idea is genuine or just another way to manipulate is up to speculation. But what is known is that Gabriel is one of the most conservative old fashioned Christian in the Evangelical club. 
Gabriel has had the ideas of discipline and only the strong survive beat into his sister and him by both his Father and Uncle causing him to view life through a lens of the weak and the strong and growing the idea that only through discipline can one live a pure and righteous life in the eyes of the lord. 
It’s clear to anyone who knows Gabriel that he is packed to the brim with traditional Conservative and Southern values. Well taking a more progressive approach then his forefathers before him, his views on certain issues still cause issues with some members of the student body.
A self described master manipulator Gabriel has learned how to put up a mask and bite his tongue. He is extremely careful with what he says as to not show his hand or allow others to have information to hold over his head. He is also an impulsive liar fabricating stories or thoughts that may benefit him or his cause. Though he is still human and his quick drive to anger can get in the way of his manipulation.
== Character Background ==
=== CHAPTER 1: An Old Beginning ===
"We grew up in a broken home, given broken lives. No wonder we became such broken kids."
-Gabriel J. Cotton, Bryce Hospital: Attending Psychiatrist Liam Osborn (03/11/2005) 
Gabriel was born into a middle class family in Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia. His father was a US Army Ranger Instructor with a long line of service members dating back to the American Revolution. His mother was a dutiful housewife and small-time socialite with political ties to the city of Columbus thanks to her family's former planter class. Two years after his birth Faith would be born, becoming the Cottons' second child and Gabriel's little sister. 
On the outside the Cottons looked like a family right out of the American Dream. A middle class Christian suburban family with a well respected breadwinner father, housewife mother, and two beautiful children. But if you looked under the surface the ugly scars and cracks would emerge revealing the broken rotten mess that laid just beneath the façade. 
At home his father was a mean and abusive drunk who always could find a fault or imperfection to beat out of his children. A man with strict discipline he treated his house more like a boot camp than a neutering family environment giving way to some of his sisters and his less desirable traits. Though he learned overtime to withstand his fathers physical abuse, his mother created another hell that continued to break the two children. A zealous schizophrenic she would spend most of her children's childhoods going in and out of mental institutions leaving Gabriel to look after his little sister. But those were the good days as when their mother was home it would be a tirade of religious ramblings, accusations and verbal abuse. Seen as devils and having tainted souls by their own mother this led to them being psychologically tortured by their mother and overzealous fundamentalists pastors. As the years went by their mothers mental state would only continue to deteriorate.
This left the Cotton siblings to look after themselves with very little time for social interaction or outside activities. This caused the Cotton siblings to develop a codependent relationship with each other, seeing each other as the only people they could trust in their broken family. As their household continued to fall apart this relationship would continue to grow.
=== CHAPTER 2: Gaby and Fai and the Search for the Devil ===
"She's a sadist, a bitch and a demon. But she's my sister and my best friend."
-Gabriel J. Cotton, Bryce Hospital: Attending Psychiatrist Liam Osborn (11/21/2005)
Even though Gabriel and Faith Cotton had a codependent relationship with each other, their relationship was as stable as their parents. Faith took the reins in the toxic and often abusive relationship as Faith guilt-tripped and harassed Gabriel into sticking with her and hanging out together. Over time this relationship would consume his life striping away and social life with the outside world. This left him fully dependent on his sister for any social stimulation and sent the final nail into his social life. This would be the best or worst time in Gabriel's life depending on who you ask. But nether the less it was an influential part of his childhood that shaped him into the person he is today. 
By 2002 the situation on base was untenable with the MPs knowing them on a first-name basis and his father’s court marshal. This led to his father being dishonorably discharged and moving the family to his brother's farm in Elkmont, Alabama so they could get back on their feet. This move to this small farming town left the Cotton children even less supervised as they began to soak in their new country lifestyle. After a month of relative peace living with their uncle hell would once again reemerge as their parents bought a farm. With his father now a broken man and a shell of his former self who spent most of his time passed out with a bottle in his hand their mother took the reins of the family turning the new family farm into a cult-like compound of ultra-zealous Christianity. This would drive the two children to turn to the ideas of occultism just to spite their mother. This caused Gabriel to fall into the teachings of Aleister Crowley, Anton LeVay, and Guido von List much due to his sister's insistence. 
Often kicked out of the house the Cotton children would spend most of their days in the Alabama wilderness. During these times his sister Faith would hold her countless rituals to drag their parents to hell, summon a demon to take them to a place their they would fit in and be loved or force Gabriel to become hers and stay with her forever. Of course, nothing came out of this but it didn’t stop her from dragging Gabriel out into the woods at every opportunity.  
This carried on for years as his sister got more sociopathic using animals and their blood in rituals. This conflict began to eat away at Gabriel as he swore to protect and always be there for his little sister but became disillusioned with the monster she was becoming. But this would all come crashing down when on a crisp December morning in 2004 the family farmhouse caught fire. Set by Faith with Gabriel by her side the house quickly went up in flames but lucky for their parents and unlucky for them both their mother and father were able to escape the inferno. As the Cotton children ran off into the woods a manhunt was launched for them before they were found two days later. After a short trial in the case of Gabriel Cotton vs Alabama, he was found legally insane and sent to Bryce Hospital for psychiatric treatment. Though now separated from his sister they where still able to keep in contact through letters.
=== CHAPTER 3: Walls of White and Gold ===
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