privatepurchases | Angelic Headcanons (Some Book, Some Show)

And the Lord said to Gabriel: "'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have." —1 Enoch 10:9

Who is Gabriel? Gabriel is tasked to be God's "revealer". He delivers prophecies and visions to major biblical figures explaining Daniel's visions, foretelling John the Baptist and telling Mary of the impending birth of Jesus Christ. He's also delivered visions to Muhammad in the Islamic faith According to scripture he sits "at the left hand of God". He and Michael are the protectors of Israel. When the world ends he'll blow his trumpet to signal the beginning of the final battle.

In Good Omens Good Omens is fiction - Gabriel is one of the 7 major archangels and one of the four angels who keep "watch" over the powers. While Michael is traditionally depicted as leader, Michael is the merciful and long suffering and traditionally balances out Gabriel's more zealous aspects. He's known as the angel of "powers". Michael is basically number one in God's eyes and Gabriel is number two.

The Archangels: So there are 7 archangels and 4 major angels - Gabriel, Michael, Uriel, and Sandaphalon. The four of them oversee heaven's day-to-day operations in heaven and rotate their duties under the Lord's instructions (she's taking a much needed vacation.) The archangels tend to keep to themselves and the four lead angels keep themselves very close and consider themselves siblings. In that little group, Gabriel, Michael, and Uriel are extremely close.

Good Omens Angels headcanon Since everybody gets to think in their own brainmeats about things I'm just gonna go with archangel headcanon:

- All angels are canonically nonbinary and the archangels switch corporations frequently - it's written in the rules. Gabriel's current corporation is one he's attached to and has kept the longest. His female corporation is Wynonna Ryder. Gender is a confusing concept for Angels since god has intended mankind to abandon the concept and they've stuck with it. Gabe's pronouns are He/Him/They depending on current location.

- archangels have four wings: Angels can change the color of their wings (and have it forcibly changed IE-if they fall) but they are all feathery and either mottled white and gray or black. Asking an angel to show their wings is difficult (in canon it seems to involve going to a different plane of existence.) Gabriel and the other archangels can show their wings in public but if they do it's a sight that's too impressive for mortal eyes and even they don't want that.

- WING SEX So. While Angels aren't Kevin Smith levels of unequipped they derive personal and physical pleasure from having their wings touched and massaged. Essentially they are birds that want to be petted. They LOVE being petted but it takes a lot for an angel to agree to anything remotely like this (the closest Gabriel has come is an angel Selaphiel - who was thrown out of heaven and became the prince of hell Beelzebub)

Archangel powers and abilities: So Gabriel is incredibly powerful - he's a watcher angel and pretty high up in heaven's hierarchy. He's one of the four angels who hear God's instructions (basically a long grocery list).

Powers:

typical angel powers,/b> - healing his corporation, able to sense (smell) evil, knowledge of the great plan, summoning, miracles that aid in her work. There are rules to all these things that must be beneficial to her plan (IE, he can't use them for "evil" things according to a religious text (this applies to both the bible and Quran.)

Additional archangel abilities - Michael, Uriel, Sandaphalon and Gabriel can all travel via bolts of lighting. God's wrath looks like lightning so when they're in their full power they tend to operate via blasts of electricity.

Patronage: Archangels tend to be representative of her messages which means they have purviews and dispense their patronage, IE bless certain things. This is a small part of why he doesn't spend a lot of time on earth. He's a bit lazy as well as more than a bit grossed out by humans - but while there the longer he spends time there the more he sort of becomes an autonomous robot that exists to purely dispense support and prayer to other beings. It's painful and mostly renders him with a really bad headache thanks to sorting out the massive amount of human correspondence. In heaven he can outsource it and has resources to channel his power.

It works the same for Michael and Uriel. Michael is compelled to hospitals to heal the sick, Uriel is compelled to inspire artists as well as perform art themselves (they're rather fond of cooking) and Gabriel becomes incredibly annoying when it comes to text messages and emails. He knows when phones are about to ring, what people are texting and emailing each other, and what's in people's packages.

Stop sending your dick pics people he has no desire to see them without permission and he's pretty sure human females don't either.

The Wrath of God Gabriel is God's herald and when called upon will announce Micheal's coming and the group of them will basically descend upon earth like a flock of pigeons and make every day a very bad day.