Gabriel

**Gabriel** or **Jibrail** ('*Strenght of God*') is the main character of *The Apocalypse According to Gabriel*. He is one of the Archangels of Presence and the 2nd most important in the hierarchical scale of the angels, second only to his older brother Michael. Unlike his brother, Gabriel is a mongrel, meaning his birth was the result of a stellar anomaly making him half-cherub and half-virtue. Thanks to his charisma and Michael's efforts to join the Celestial Militia, Gabriel quickly made his way to the celestial court and became one of G-d's closest angels.

After his best friend Samael was unexpectedly exiled from Heaven, Gabriel spiraled into a depressive, paranoid state, and worsened his already settled self-worth issues. This sudden change in behavior caused him to become subject of an investigation regarding conspirations agaisnt G-d, partially losing his privileged position and turning other angels agaisnt him.

## Appearance

Gabriel is a young man who appears to be in his late teens or early 20's. He has pale skin and a medium but bundled build. He stands at about 1,80 m, making him the second tallest Archangel of Presence right after his brother Michael. He has light blue eyes, which are practically unresponsive to light due to his cherub blood, enabling him to interact with G-d directly while not being blinded by Its brightness. He owns a regular golden halo that sits right above his head, and a pair of regular, short-spanned white wings.

He has a small mole in his left cheeckbone. His hair is curly and blonde with lots of volume. He wears it in a messy short hairstyle, with one strand always lying right on top of his forehead. He sometimes puts his hair in a bun. After his fight with Azrael on Earth while presenting as Satan, he received a deep wound on the left side of his face, which left a permanent scar on him from his chin to right above his eyebrow.

Gabriel is the angel who changes clothes the least during the series, with all of his outfits being variations of the same clothing items. In the first episodes, Gabriel wears a light blue, skin-tight turtle neck plugsuit, with his neck piece being a white pattern that purposely resembles bandages. His plugsuit has a black archangel cross on the front, ranging all the way from his collarbones to his crotch. On top of it, he wears a cropped, long-sleeved blue jacket that folds on the neck like a shirt. It has the drawings of the top half of a white and yellow daisy on both lower corners of the jacket. He also wears a pair of black thigh-high boots with short metal heels on the back.

Later on, he also wears a light green-ish mint plugsuit, with a half moon in a lighter mint all the way down from his hips to his thighs, as well as a pattern on the upper area of the chest. He also wears a similar jacket, except changing the white and yellow daisies for plain, light blue ones.

He begins dressing in darker colors after retiring to Earth. One of his main outfits consists of a black plugsuit with two dark blue rectangles drawn diagonally on the sides of his waist, with two thinner stripes right on top of it. He wears a pair of light gray thigh-high boots with heels, as well as a cropped dark blue jacket. Instead of the flowers, the jacket has the shapes of two suns on the lower corners of each side.

### As Satan

When presenting as Satan, Gabriel wears a black wooden mask with thick red lips and white teeth and two sharp rounded fangs that point towards his eyes emerging from the lower part of his mouth, as well as a red tongue. Above it, it shows a thin but wide nose with small diagonal nostrils. His eye cavities are two white semi-circles, slightly tilted updwards, with two holes in the middle for his eyes, which appear mostly black from a distance. His hair is styled as if slicked back, so his curls flow with the wind. On both sides of his head, he wears long, red paper stripes called *fitas,* which are held together by two black dahlias that grow over his ears.

His torso appears mostly naked, so that he's only wearing a pair of dark red pants with black lace around the knees, and a small belt with seven cowbells tied to it around his hips. He tends to wear some sort of head garment, be it a pair of bull horns or a flower crown that Gabriel himself creates. Similarly, he sometimes wears a chestpiece resembling an armor plate made completely out of colorful flowers, with a pentagram in the middle.

## Personality

Young Gabriel used to come off as a charismatic, social, over-confident and bubbly person. All these characteristics are common to cherubs alike, but Gabriel appears as a particularly magnetic and open person, which makes it easy for him to socialize with anyone. However, his troubled childhood and inferiority complex made him a lonely and deeply troubled person. This was greatly fueled by his anger issues and resentment of his brother, who always seems to come on top of him in whatever they are competing at. As a child who grew up practically alone, Gabriel developed a fear of not being seen, causing him to act out and try to get attention by any means growing up. All of this made Gabriel someone who was driven by anger and envy. His inability to fight in the Celestial Militia due to his useless power of creating flowers and floral life, forcing him to work creating life on Earth instead, evolved into a deep hatred for humanity, who Gabriel deemed as simple creatures unworthy of G-d's love. With the span of time, upon maturing and coming closer to G-d in the heavenly court, he started becoming a calmer and quieter person.

   However, Gabriel always had trouble developing closer personal relationships with anyone on an emotional level. Once he met Samael, he began learning how to better get in touch with his emotions and interact with the world around him in a more peaceful, hedonistic way, agaisnt his usual hot-tempered demeanor. He started developing this behavior further after meeting Azrael and consequently falling in love with her, in an effort to get her out of her depressive state.

Years later, after Samael's fall from Heaven, Gabriel quickly spiraled into a paranoid and depressive episode, thinking his best friend was dead. His self-hatred issues worsened, finding himself all alone once again. His deep hatred for humanity and close relationship with Samael turned him into a suspect for conspiration agaisnt G-d, amidst the general panic that overtook Heaven in the following years.

*The Apocalypse According to Gabriel* situates us a few years after Samael's exile. Gabriel's self-worth issues turned into a bitter, self-centered personality, and the need to protect himself from everyone who surrounds him. He began seeing everyone as enemies, remaining close only to Azrael and Raphael. His emotions, specially anger, became specially difficult to keep under control. Gabriel started hyper-focusing on his failures, trying to make up for them by achieving his goals in whatever way possible.

## Story

### Background

Gabriel was born from Moldoveanu's supernova in the 277th celestial year, making him Michael's younger brother and part of the 3rd Generation. Unlike his brother, Gabriel was product of a stellar anomaly, making him a mongrel or half-blood. Because of this, he presents both characteristics of virtues and cherubs. On one side, he has a specific natural ability, which is creating flowers and floral life from scratch, while portraying the social role of a cherub due to his charismatic and open nature. Michael, due to fear of Gabriel being killed or kidnapped because of his condition, decided to hide the boy during the first years of his life, making him pass as another domination. Because his brother and him were the first ever angels to have been born from Moldoveanu, and with Michael being naturally a low-hierarchy domination, Gabriel was born into practical poverty. Him and his brother struggled to survive in the First Sphere. However, Michael's extraordinary effort and strenght, as well as his relentless struggle to get his brother a better life, led him to socially climb in an unprecedented way.

While still an infant, Gabriel moved out of the First Sphere and quickly became an important member of the celestial court, surrounding himself with important cherubs and angels of the liking. After his brother Michael, now ascended as one of the Commanders-in-chief of the Celestial Militia, decided to leave him and work full-time on said army, Gabriel, now a young teenager, was left on his own and thus ascended to G-d's closest sphere. In this new position, Gabriel met Samael, his work partner, and stablished a deep emotional bond with him, becoming best friends. He also met Azrael around this time while the two were in charge of brutally destroying a city on Earth, falling for her quiet and intriging personality.

## Abilities

### Flower control

Since he presents both virtue and cherub traits, Gabriel has a unique natural power asigned to himself. He can create flowers and any wild floral life at will from scratch. This allows him not only to use nature as a means of defending himself and creating life on Earth, but also modifying the environment and creating unlimited food out of nowhere. These flowers and vegetation often appear unwillingly according to the user's emotional reactions if they are unable to control their emotional state.

## Trivia

* Gabriel is a Capricorn Sun, Gemini Rising and Aries Moon.
* He mains Ganondorf in Smash Bros.
* The mask and outfit he wears when presenting as Satan is based off traditional Galician ritual masks used in Viana do Bolo's Entroido festivity.
* His MBTI personality type is ENTJ.