Brain hijacked by angel and hunters... send help?

[neotoma]

Do you know how hard it is to figure out the motivations of an archangel? Even one who really likes indulging all the human vices in existence, just because no one can tell him to stop anymore?

In other words, I've got a plot bunny living in my head and eating all my chocolate. :sigh:

Comments

[twistedchick]

But is the archangel doing these things because he/she enjoys doing them, or because he/she *can* do them? It makes a difference.

(I am thinking of the frustrated angels in Dogma, for instance.)

[neotoma]

I would have sworn Gabriel was having a ball engaging in human vices for shits and giggles in his first two episodes-- and he still might be -- except now that I look at that last episode, he's so bitter when he actually talks about God and the other angels, I think he is in despair, and he's using earthly pleasures as a mask.

The problem is that he *is* a trickster archetype, and it makes him really hard to pin down.

[twistedchick]

Think about other tricksters: Coyote is patently honest in what he does; he deceives only himself when he's chasing the roadrunner. Bugs Bunny tells the truth, but does it only sometimes and for his own ends. Tricksters aren't always as tricky as they think they are.

[neotoma]

Hmmm, Gabriel lies, almost all the time. I think Dean was right -- that he was too much of a coward to stand up to his family. But I don't know what would make him find his courage...