Gabriel || Revenge against the Council

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Name: Gabriel

Gender: Male

Age: ???

Species: Archangel

Abilities:

Appearance: Gabriel's armor is primarily white and gold. His armor includes golden pauldrons, gauntlets that extend to his shoulders, and greaves that reach up to his thighs. His breastplate is gold and white, likewise are his tassets and helmet. The sides of his breastplate have dangling tassels. His helmet visor is primarily white and contains a golden cross and breathing holes on the face of it. A golden ornate band is present on the back and sides of his helmet. Two sheathes are present on his right hip, which is where he keeps his two swords, Justice and Splendor. These sheaths have golden text written on them, one of them saying "Justice is Splendor", and the other saying "Splendor is Justice". Gabriel has black skin with gold designs on his abdomen and lower backside. His grey loin cloth and black skirt are attached to his belt. He has translucent blue wings and a floating halo that has the ability to vanish floating just behind his head. Said halo resembles an arrowhead in shape with unreadable markings along its base.

History: Long before the game takes place, he killed Minos, claiming it was justice, as the king reformed the Lust layer of Hell into a figurative utopia, which stopped sinners' punishments. Minos had refused to fight, believing in civil discussion but was promptly smote by Gabriel. The Heavenly Council then rewarded him with the title "Judge of Hell". Also before the events of the game, during the Sisyphean Insurrection, he was able to recognize the weakness of Sisyphus and his army's reliance on his leadership skill, he commanded the armies of heaven to focus their energies at Sisyphus. He was then able to behead Sisyphus himself, breaking the morale of the Sisyphean army completely and making mopping up the insurrection a mere formality. Due to his accomplishments and his charisma, he was revered and treated as an idol by the people of Heaven. It is also implied that unlike the Council, he cares for some of the lower castes of heavenly workers, such as the Ferrymen. Within the first layers of Hell, V1 encounters Gabriel when it trespasses into Gluttony, where Gabriel reveals he intends to stop the mechanical invasion of Hell. However, V1 defeats Gabriel, leaving the angel to promise that they will fight again as he retreats. However, for his failure and defeat at the hands of an object, the Heavenly Council, after stripping him of his connection to Heaven's light, demands that he rectifies his mistake within the next 24 hours, or die. When V1 arrives in Heresy, Gabriel detects its presence, and demands that it comes face him. After lamenting the loss of life on the upper levels caused by the machine intrusion, Gabriel engages V1 once more, but is once again defeated. With this defeat, Gabriel suddenly has an epiphany and retreats to the moon (presumably Heaven's first layer) in order to deliberate in the epilogue. He eventually comes to the conclusion that God is missing or dead, and he has been manipulated by the Heavenly Council to commit atrocity in an attempt to control the system God has left behind. He returns to the Heavenly Council and promptly executes the council members, and brandishes one of their decapitated heads before a crowd of heavenly denizens.

Personality: When first encountered, Gabriel presents himself as an arrogant angel with a holier-than-thou attitude, frequently belittling V1 for being a manmade object unlike a divine being such as himself. As such, he frequently taunts it during his battle, which the machine takes advantage of to attack him while Gabriel is off guard. After his first defeat by V1, Gabriel shows a more vengeful side of himself as he curses the machine for beating him, dropping his righteous and proper attitude for one filled with malice. Despite this, Gabriel is still rather merciful as he warns V1 beforehand that it doesn't belong to Hell and informs it of the combat expected at the end of its journey in Gluttony. During his second encounter, Gabriel is notably more emotional and vindictive, expressing his anger at V1 for taking everything away from him and his intentions to make it suffer for all it's done. Likewise, his taunts show off his maddened state, with Gabriel now beckoning V1 to fight him with all its might and ranting angry threats. However, once defeated by V1 again, Gabriel now shows a more introspective view as he leaves to ponder his defeats at the hands of the machine. As described by his Terminal Data, Gabriel now gains a newfound respect for V1 as his equal and hopes to fight it once more. The numerous pieces of text in the game give further elaboration to his character. From what is gleaned, Gabriel appears to not be malicious but merely strictly adherent to the law. This is shown that while he mercilessly slaughtered both Minos and Sisyphus, sealing away their souls, he is also revered by many of Hell's denizens such as the Ferrymen for being a kindly and good steward of Hell, with Gabriel even saving the one V1 fights from drowning in the past, showing that despite his cruelty Gabriel does believe in redemption and is willing to help sinners in times of need, with a hologram of him in a Ferryman's ship assuring sinners of their inner goodness. It's also shown that Gabriel was only sent down to fight V1 in the first place to stop its rampage through Hell which had eradicated life from both the layers of Limbo and Lust. Nonetheless, Gabriel is still villainous as once he realized that the Father's will that he served was false and warped, he slaughtered the Council for perpetuating it and displayed one of their heads to the crowds of Heaven.