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Of Medics and Magic
A Fallen Angel/Mesmer x Human/Doctor 1x1 RP featuring Oliver Pi as Abigale Regina Elliot and Nintendraw as Gabriel Angelo Navarre.
Please don't post if you weren't named. Otherwise, please enjoy!
A Fallen Angel/Mesmer x Human/Doctor 1x1 RP featuring Oliver Pi as Abigale Regina Elliot and Nintendraw as Gabriel Angelo Navarre.
Please don't post if you weren't named. Otherwise, please enjoy!
Details
Current Day: Monday, Nov 19, 1901
First Meeting: Saturday, Nov 10, 1901
Setting: London, England (Victorian era): Queen Victoria is on the throne; England is effectively at peace with the world. The telegraph and telephone have been invented, as has the gas lamp, allowing for a new record in productivity and interconnectedness (and insomnia). Darwin's Origin of Species upset the world, previously believing the creation and evolution of life to be God's domain alone; and the people turned towards science and pseudoscience to explain everything in life. Psychology, Mesmerism, seances, and the occult bloomed, and the clever con-man very promptly got rich off his more gullible fellows. It was a trying time for academics sifting through the manifold mess the con-men wrought, and also for the angels above, who struggled to keep their demonic brethren in line thanks to the massive upsurge in magic practice and belief augmenting their and their counterparts' powers. Thus the Watchers were created, angels who would protect the humans while on Earth. Though those assigned here carried out their job with aplomb, the distasteful work environment made for a distasteful job that most, thankfully, needed fill only part-time. Most angels could return to the heavens after a preset amount of work. But for the fallen angels, who signed up for the job en masse, this was their one best chance for coming home.
Locations:
Significant Characters: Red Spearman, MD; Madeleine Boleyn, Countess of Essex;
General Background: Heaven and Hell are enormous repositories/facilities set up to separate the chaotic mixture, known appropriately as Chaos, which birthed the universe and everything in it. Angels are the pure good and Demons the pure bad essence of Chaos; humans, however, are a mix, and both pure entities are supposed to guide them towards ideal sorting as per the Covenant. Angels do their job properly by advising without intervening (they operate through advice/suggestion—direct manipulation, including memory-wipe spells, is taboo) (memories are so interconnected with senses/other memories that memory erasure spells always do some collateral damage); Demons, however, take active roles in tempting man, most notably through coercion and facilities/persons of carnal excesses, ie nightclubs, brothels, bars, prostitutes, etc. Angels are generally much better at reining their own desires in (if, arguably, they have them at all), but they can drive modern humans who know of their existence insane (too much wisdom/etc for man to handle?). The stated reason for why angel-human intimate relations results in Fall for the angel (and severing soul from body for the human) is because it hurts the beings they're supposed to protect and guide. Truthfully, angel-human copulation results in Nephilim, who by virtue of their half-human heritage are susceptible to Demonic wiles (arguably more susceptible than man because [1] their angelic heritage gives them power in the mortal realm and power, to mortals, is corrupting, and [2] Nephilim souls are like iron ores which can be mined for the precious material, in this case Angel essence, by the pure entities--and since Nephilim are almost guaranteed to go to Hell, too many of them would cause Hell to become stronger than Heaven). Indeed, the threat of the Nephilim is the primary reason why humans suspected to have been involved in angel-human copulation are invariably killed--a human spirit cannot carry a baby to term. Female angel caught pregnant or copulating are smited and their essence sent back to Chaos for re-sorting.
Madeleine Background: (…) Gabe rescues Maddy from premature (unappointed by Fate) death, blowing his cover in the process, and when he attempts to disappear and let her forget him with time (because memory spells are taboo—obvious manipulation), she pines after him to the point of insanity. He feels guilty for doing that to her and appears to her once more to tell her to forget him, but she seizes the opportunity to make out with (and more?) him (he’s too surprised to resist) (“and more” could have prompted her subsequent death because Nephilim). He tries to disappear/make her forget him again, but she ultimately wanders into some dark alley(s) looking for him (since, since he appeared to her during her darkest moments, he might do so again this time) and dying due to assault (the irony). Maddy’s obsession with Gabe began after he rescued her because she wanted to thank him for it, but the more he stayed away, the more she romanticized him and fell in love with him and only him. When he didn’t come for her after she died, she waited, then lost hope, then became vengeful. Seeing Abby being friendly with Gabe could very easily set off her disastrous jealous streak, but she could also resent Abby’s richer patients if she sees some of them after retreating from dominance over Abby’s body (maybe possession is energy-costly).
Diseases
First Meeting: Saturday, Nov 10, 1901
Setting: London, England (Victorian era): Queen Victoria is on the throne; England is effectively at peace with the world. The telegraph and telephone have been invented, as has the gas lamp, allowing for a new record in productivity and interconnectedness (and insomnia). Darwin's Origin of Species upset the world, previously believing the creation and evolution of life to be God's domain alone; and the people turned towards science and pseudoscience to explain everything in life. Psychology, Mesmerism, seances, and the occult bloomed, and the clever con-man very promptly got rich off his more gullible fellows. It was a trying time for academics sifting through the manifold mess the con-men wrought, and also for the angels above, who struggled to keep their demonic brethren in line thanks to the massive upsurge in magic practice and belief augmenting their and their counterparts' powers. Thus the Watchers were created, angels who would protect the humans while on Earth. Though those assigned here carried out their job with aplomb, the distasteful work environment made for a distasteful job that most, thankfully, needed fill only part-time. Most angels could return to the heavens after a preset amount of work. But for the fallen angels, who signed up for the job en masse, this was their one best chance for coming home.
- Victorian era 1; mesmerism 1, 2, 3, 4; women's work (leads to more); cost of living (leads to more) and servant wages; Victorian fashion; Victorian slang 1, slang 2;
diseases that can be referenced: TB, pertussis, diphteria, cholera, typhoid fever (and vaccine), scarlet fever (Hellen Keller), smallpox, ...
Locations:
- University of London: Abby's secondary base of operations (her primary is her office), full of academics in all disciplines and a common staging ground for lectures and debate.
Whitechapel (The Cauldron): one of various slums lurking between the affluent thoroughfares of London. Approximately a 30-40 minute walk from the university.
Elliot, M.D.: Abby's office in Belgravia, inherited from her father.
Navarre Mesmerist: Gabe's office in central London. Similar to Freud's, but with fewer statues--just one Jesus crucifixion statue underneath that big, cut-off picture in the middle and a statue each of archangels Gabriel and Raphael, each with folded wings, the former blowing his trumpet and the latter with his left hand clutching a lyre to his chest and his right outstretched towards the sky, where those two busts near the window are. The small red desk next to the main one bears only his nameplate, and behind the bed/chair is a fairly recessed fireplace for coziness. The right unseeable wall has the entry door (behind that is a hallway that also contains the staircase to Gabe's personal quarters), and the left unseeable wall near the window has a giant painting of birds on a purple-gold sunset sky, so that Gabe can stare at it and dream of flight, while his quarters has a vertical pianola.
miscellaneous locations: hat shop, park cafe, St. James Theater,
Significant Characters: Red Spearman, MD; Madeleine Boleyn, Countess of Essex;
General Background: Heaven and Hell are enormous repositories/facilities set up to separate the chaotic mixture, known appropriately as Chaos, which birthed the universe and everything in it. Angels are the pure good and Demons the pure bad essence of Chaos; humans, however, are a mix, and both pure entities are supposed to guide them towards ideal sorting as per the Covenant. Angels do their job properly by advising without intervening (they operate through advice/suggestion—direct manipulation, including memory-wipe spells, is taboo) (memories are so interconnected with senses/other memories that memory erasure spells always do some collateral damage); Demons, however, take active roles in tempting man, most notably through coercion and facilities/persons of carnal excesses, ie nightclubs, brothels, bars, prostitutes, etc. Angels are generally much better at reining their own desires in (if, arguably, they have them at all), but they can drive modern humans who know of their existence insane (too much wisdom/etc for man to handle?). The stated reason for why angel-human intimate relations results in Fall for the angel (and severing soul from body for the human) is because it hurts the beings they're supposed to protect and guide. Truthfully, angel-human copulation results in Nephilim, who by virtue of their half-human heritage are susceptible to Demonic wiles (arguably more susceptible than man because [1] their angelic heritage gives them power in the mortal realm and power, to mortals, is corrupting, and [2] Nephilim souls are like iron ores which can be mined for the precious material, in this case Angel essence, by the pure entities--and since Nephilim are almost guaranteed to go to Hell, too many of them would cause Hell to become stronger than Heaven). Indeed, the threat of the Nephilim is the primary reason why humans suspected to have been involved in angel-human copulation are invariably killed--a human spirit cannot carry a baby to term. Female angel caught pregnant or copulating are smited and their essence sent back to Chaos for re-sorting.
Madeleine Background: (…) Gabe rescues Maddy from premature (unappointed by Fate) death, blowing his cover in the process, and when he attempts to disappear and let her forget him with time (because memory spells are taboo—obvious manipulation), she pines after him to the point of insanity. He feels guilty for doing that to her and appears to her once more to tell her to forget him, but she seizes the opportunity to make out with (and more?) him (he’s too surprised to resist) (“and more” could have prompted her subsequent death because Nephilim). He tries to disappear/make her forget him again, but she ultimately wanders into some dark alley(s) looking for him (since, since he appeared to her during her darkest moments, he might do so again this time) and dying due to assault (the irony). Maddy’s obsession with Gabe began after he rescued her because she wanted to thank him for it, but the more he stayed away, the more she romanticized him and fell in love with him and only him. When he didn’t come for her after she died, she waited, then lost hope, then became vengeful. Seeing Abby being friendly with Gabe could very easily set off her disastrous jealous streak, but she could also resent Abby’s richer patients if she sees some of them after retreating from dominance over Abby’s body (maybe possession is energy-costly).
Diseases
Tuberculosis
Affected people of all ages; occurred in all social classes but more frequently among the poor due to overcrowding and poor sanitation
An incurable (at the time, though people could seem to get better) mycobacterial infection known as 'consumption' because of its wasting properties and as the White Plague by older generations, tuberculosis caused people to become thin, sallow, and fatigued. As with any true infection, from the earliest stages sputum would be yellow or green. As it progressed, it may become blood-tinged. The medical philosophy was to send people to sanitariums where they could get fresh air and sunlight to recover, hence all the sanitariums built (particularly in places like Colorado and whatnot). Wealthy people might send their loved ones to institutions to receive such therapy. Resolution of symptoms and "curing" of the individual only meant that the body's immune system and the bacteria had reached a 'stalemate' in which the immune system managed to contain the bacteria within masses of immune cells and tissue (called tubercles!) in the lungs. The bacteria was still alive, and should it escape the tubercle, the person would fall ill again. But some people, even in the modern era, have tubercles and might never know they had TB. Among the wealthy, 'consumption' was sometimes glamorized as a way to die. The suffering was thought to provide enlightenment, while the slow progression allowed people time to make their arrangements. The pulmonary lesions were studied in the first half of the 19th century, a man named Leanne (who invented the stethoscope, I think?, and who died from TB lol oops); his findings were published in 1821 and TB was demonstrated to be contagious in 1869. In 1882, good old Robert Koch (all hail Koch) determined it was spread by infectious agent, and in 1895, the advent of the X-ray allowed doctors to diagnose and track the course of disease and treatment (perhaps what Abigale refers to when she mentions not being able to formally diagnose Sully despite knowing it's TB because of the hallmark symptoms). This wiki has a good bit about the sanatorium movement which was the primary method of treatment. There were no antibiotics or proven medications. No wonder Abby feels so defeated by TB: she can't get her poor patients any kind of fresh air, and because she is a huge believer in the emerging field of microbiology, she doesn't think it's effective anyway. Well, it might be better than the London slums, but because she follows the research and knows that it's spread by microorganism, she knows there is a more effective treatment out there.
Pertussis
It's a respiratory infection that is fairly mild in adults. In fact, had we not been vaccinated, you or I might get it and only ever think we had a cold. It's particularly dangerous for young children and infants, who can cough so terribly that they experience apneic episodes (they stop breathing). It's unlikely that an adult would have it so symptomatically, and also, the threat is from the respiratory distress, not the accumulation of phlegm.
Diphtheria
Common childhood disease; again, like TB, it was a threat to everybody but ran especially rampant in the slums
The formation of a thick, gray, slimy coating of the throat makes breathing hard and can lead to respiratory distress. The thick gray coating is a result of inflammation of the ciliated epithelial cells (mucosa) of the upper respiratory tract that occurs when the bacterium latch to the cells and release an endotoxin. The widespread use of diphtheria toxoid to counteract this pathology would occur until the 1920s. Symptoms include fever and ataxia (weakness). It was very, very dangerous to susceptible populations (the very old and very young; those who were already ill, were immunosuppressed, and didn't have access to any healthcare).
Cholera
THIS WAS THE BIG DADDY OF THE ERA. Affected all ages, and as outbreaks usually began with contaminated food and water sources, it was most likely to occur among the working poor and the desolate within the city's slums-- though it could affect anyone should they come into contact with the bacteria by chance
With hallmark symptoms including fever and profuse diarrhea, cholera is a gastrointestinal bacterial infection that can kill within a day of onset. The ultimate cause of death is severe dehydration. The idea that it emanated from contaminated sources emerged with this. I actually learned about that outbreak in my fav micro class because it had major implications for the field. Fun fun!
Typhoid Mary Fever
Can strike anyone. As with basically everything else, more rampant in areas of poor sanitation due to its fecal-oral transmission, but as evidenced by the reign of terror of Typhoid Mary, it can affect anyone
The etiology and dangers of typhoid fever are well-represented in the true story of Typhoid Mary. Mary was an immigrant to NYC at the end of the 19th c. She found work as a cook for a wealthy family, but moved on to a new family when several members of the household became ill with typhoid fever. Mary herself was never ill, but typhoid followed her wherever she went. When health authorities picked up on the trend of sick (and occasionally dying) wealthy families, Mary resisted their efforts to teach her proper sanitation. She did not appreciate the need for hand-washing and was contaminating the food. I think a couple times she changed her name and/or promised to change but never did and kept getting people sick until she had to be quarantined on North Brother Island in the East River. And by some accounts, her wake was small: there are other similar tales where contaminated cooking cause more sickness and death.
Typhoid was not a certain death sentence, though it could very well be fatal. Maybe like 10-30% died? Probably a greater number among the poor. Symptoms included fever, malaise, abdominal cramping, and constipation. It's actually often caused by salmonella bacteria! Without treatment, the bowel may perforate, resulting in septicemia and certain death. Delirium was common in severe cases. The first vaccine was developed in the 1980s and would have been being actively developed in Abby and Gabe's time.
Scarlet Fever
Common among all classes and especially in children; obvs more common yet among the overcrowded (basically just assume that forever)
Scarlet fever is a post-streptococcal infection, meaning it might arise after any otherwise benign strep infection (like strep throat). While anyone might be infected, it was particularly deadly to the very old and very young. In an outbreak, a family might lose all of their children in days or weeks. It was super super common in kids. Like almost expected sometimes, and it wasn't always fatal, though it was very feared and for good reasons. Symptoms are fever, a red rash of tiny bumps, throat inflammation, and other flu-like symptoms (ashiness, fatigue, etc). Here's a great link for historical context.
Small Pox
Like cholera and scarlet fever, small pox occurred in endemics and pandemics (outbreaks). Thanks to the work of Jenner and his vaccine (which he left unpainted to keep it accessible), smallpox wasn't really a common cause of death by the end of 19th century in London. It continued to affect rural immigrants and communities in the United States, but I believe there was actually legislature mandating a vaccine in the 1870s or something. Some poor people did not receive the help they needed / could not afford it, but thanks to principles similar to the herd immunity we rely on today, it was not a big a monster as others of they day.
Affected people of all ages; occurred in all social classes but more frequently among the poor due to overcrowding and poor sanitation
An incurable (at the time, though people could seem to get better) mycobacterial infection known as 'consumption' because of its wasting properties and as the White Plague by older generations, tuberculosis caused people to become thin, sallow, and fatigued. As with any true infection, from the earliest stages sputum would be yellow or green. As it progressed, it may become blood-tinged. The medical philosophy was to send people to sanitariums where they could get fresh air and sunlight to recover, hence all the sanitariums built (particularly in places like Colorado and whatnot). Wealthy people might send their loved ones to institutions to receive such therapy. Resolution of symptoms and "curing" of the individual only meant that the body's immune system and the bacteria had reached a 'stalemate' in which the immune system managed to contain the bacteria within masses of immune cells and tissue (called tubercles!) in the lungs. The bacteria was still alive, and should it escape the tubercle, the person would fall ill again. But some people, even in the modern era, have tubercles and might never know they had TB. Among the wealthy, 'consumption' was sometimes glamorized as a way to die. The suffering was thought to provide enlightenment, while the slow progression allowed people time to make their arrangements. The pulmonary lesions were studied in the first half of the 19th century, a man named Leanne (who invented the stethoscope, I think?, and who died from TB lol oops); his findings were published in 1821 and TB was demonstrated to be contagious in 1869. In 1882, good old Robert Koch (all hail Koch) determined it was spread by infectious agent, and in 1895, the advent of the X-ray allowed doctors to diagnose and track the course of disease and treatment (perhaps what Abigale refers to when she mentions not being able to formally diagnose Sully despite knowing it's TB because of the hallmark symptoms). This wiki has a good bit about the sanatorium movement which was the primary method of treatment. There were no antibiotics or proven medications. No wonder Abby feels so defeated by TB: she can't get her poor patients any kind of fresh air, and because she is a huge believer in the emerging field of microbiology, she doesn't think it's effective anyway. Well, it might be better than the London slums, but because she follows the research and knows that it's spread by microorganism, she knows there is a more effective treatment out there.
Pertussis
It's a respiratory infection that is fairly mild in adults. In fact, had we not been vaccinated, you or I might get it and only ever think we had a cold. It's particularly dangerous for young children and infants, who can cough so terribly that they experience apneic episodes (they stop breathing). It's unlikely that an adult would have it so symptomatically, and also, the threat is from the respiratory distress, not the accumulation of phlegm.
Diphtheria
Common childhood disease; again, like TB, it was a threat to everybody but ran especially rampant in the slums
The formation of a thick, gray, slimy coating of the throat makes breathing hard and can lead to respiratory distress. The thick gray coating is a result of inflammation of the ciliated epithelial cells (mucosa) of the upper respiratory tract that occurs when the bacterium latch to the cells and release an endotoxin. The widespread use of diphtheria toxoid to counteract this pathology would occur until the 1920s. Symptoms include fever and ataxia (weakness). It was very, very dangerous to susceptible populations (the very old and very young; those who were already ill, were immunosuppressed, and didn't have access to any healthcare).
Cholera
THIS WAS THE BIG DADDY OF THE ERA. Affected all ages, and as outbreaks usually began with contaminated food and water sources, it was most likely to occur among the working poor and the desolate within the city's slums-- though it could affect anyone should they come into contact with the bacteria by chance
With hallmark symptoms including fever and profuse diarrhea, cholera is a gastrointestinal bacterial infection that can kill within a day of onset. The ultimate cause of death is severe dehydration. The idea that it emanated from contaminated sources emerged with this. I actually learned about that outbreak in my fav micro class because it had major implications for the field. Fun fun!
Typhoid Mary Fever
Can strike anyone. As with basically everything else, more rampant in areas of poor sanitation due to its fecal-oral transmission, but as evidenced by the reign of terror of Typhoid Mary, it can affect anyone
The etiology and dangers of typhoid fever are well-represented in the true story of Typhoid Mary. Mary was an immigrant to NYC at the end of the 19th c. She found work as a cook for a wealthy family, but moved on to a new family when several members of the household became ill with typhoid fever. Mary herself was never ill, but typhoid followed her wherever she went. When health authorities picked up on the trend of sick (and occasionally dying) wealthy families, Mary resisted their efforts to teach her proper sanitation. She did not appreciate the need for hand-washing and was contaminating the food. I think a couple times she changed her name and/or promised to change but never did and kept getting people sick until she had to be quarantined on North Brother Island in the East River. And by some accounts, her wake was small: there are other similar tales where contaminated cooking cause more sickness and death.
Typhoid was not a certain death sentence, though it could very well be fatal. Maybe like 10-30% died? Probably a greater number among the poor. Symptoms included fever, malaise, abdominal cramping, and constipation. It's actually often caused by salmonella bacteria! Without treatment, the bowel may perforate, resulting in septicemia and certain death. Delirium was common in severe cases. The first vaccine was developed in the 1980s and would have been being actively developed in Abby and Gabe's time.
Scarlet Fever
Common among all classes and especially in children; obvs more common yet among the overcrowded (basically just assume that forever)
Scarlet fever is a post-streptococcal infection, meaning it might arise after any otherwise benign strep infection (like strep throat). While anyone might be infected, it was particularly deadly to the very old and very young. In an outbreak, a family might lose all of their children in days or weeks. It was super super common in kids. Like almost expected sometimes, and it wasn't always fatal, though it was very feared and for good reasons. Symptoms are fever, a red rash of tiny bumps, throat inflammation, and other flu-like symptoms (ashiness, fatigue, etc). Here's a great link for historical context.
Small Pox
Like cholera and scarlet fever, small pox occurred in endemics and pandemics (outbreaks). Thanks to the work of Jenner and his vaccine (which he left unpainted to keep it accessible), smallpox wasn't really a common cause of death by the end of 19th century in London. It continued to affect rural immigrants and communities in the United States, but I believe there was actually legislature mandating a vaccine in the 1870s or something. Some poor people did not receive the help they needed / could not afford it, but thanks to principles similar to the herd immunity we rely on today, it was not a big a monster as others of they day.
RPers Only
Clayderman: Love Song in Winter = Courtship, Clayderman: Lady Di = First Date, Clayderman: Feelings = Love Theme, Torrent: Glimmer of Hope = You're an Angel + Exhilarating First Flight, Onofreiciuc: Beyond the Stars = Guided Tour of the Pantheon/Stars, Phoenix: Starfall ~ Tranquility + Calamity of Hell, Torrent: Before I Leave This World = about to leave,
- Red's possession by Maddy was undescribed because Abby gets subjected to the same later. Red made a deal with Maddy: he would ruin Gabe/make him go to Maddy and Maddy would do likewise for Abby (via typhoid vaccine hoarding/sabotaging—she’ll do anything for her patients, even go to Red).
Red thought that magic didn't exist + Gabe's just some dirty Mesmerist whereas Maddy recognized Gabe's true ID, but thought his presence on Earth meant he was neutered, so to speak. How wrong they both (find they) are, during the appointment and the Big Reveal...
Furious that she lost to Gabe, Maddy makes a Faustian pact with a demon (in Whitechapel?) to gain the power necessary to fight Gabe and kill Abby—at this point, her relationship with Red becomes nonconsensual; she’s in control. (Perhaps after the pact has taken place, "This has gone too far!" > "You can't stop me now, human!") Maddy!Red begins sabotaging typhoid by stealing the supply and/or by using her new demon powers to remove or reverse the vaccine’s effects in order to ruin Abby and get her away from Gabe (and perhaps back to Red). If both, only the administered vaccines (that Maddy knows about) can be subjected to effect reversal—the hoarded vaccines are safe.
Following the appointment but before Abby goes to Whitechapel (too many times) to treat her typhoid vaccine patients, Gabe tells Abby that something is very off about Red (he’s alarmed by the unexpected amount of resistance to his memory erasure and possibly to his healing too) and asks to keep an eye on her. If she refuses (“I can take care of myself!” = original defensiveness + now she’s really falling for Gabe), he’ll do it anyway.
Angry that her typhoid vaccine isn’t working (a cover for her [irrational?] guilt that her refusal to help Red ruin Gabe is causing more typhoid), Abby goes alone to Whitechapel to treat them. (Unbeknownst to her, Gabe follows her.) There, she is attacked by a super-violent/murderous Red (aka Maddy). Gabe shows up just in the nick of time to exorcise Red (again causing Maddy’s ejection and causing Red to fall unconscious—he hasn’t had control of his body in a little while), but doing so causes him to reveal himself as an angel to Abby. Gabe checks up on Red first since he was knocked unconscious after being evicted of such a powerful spirit (“He’s unconscious, but breathing; thank goodness.”) and then turns to Abby (“You alright?”)… conveniently forgetting that he’s winged and hovering over the ground. Cue "WTF ARE YOU". All of a sudden, Gabe’s strange quirks make sense to Abby—his affinity for birds, his religiousness, any strange words he remembers him saying, the aerial-view art of the secret Thames, how badly he was affected by healing the TB patient (and that he was able to heal them at all)… Since Abby befriended/began falling for him without knowing his power, she won’t ever love him for that alone—his doing something so dramatic to protect her makes her wonder if he cares for her in return, since he’s been careful about not reciprocating any feelings for her (perhaps this was something even HE didn’t know about)
Stuff, probably including more dates and more spiritual/romantic/backstory-related talks. After detailing the first (or second?) or a specific type of date (ie cafe, film, show, Burlesque/Vaudeville, train ride to country, flight to mountains/lake/country alongside birds and such), we don’t have to detail them, though we should at least plan them out prior to execution: "Hey, I think this is a good time for a date; what sort of date should it be" or "Maybe they should talk about such-and-such over Date X; what would Gabe and Abby learn about each other?" This interim would be a really good time for the last three unsorted bullets to happen—maybe Abby could start reading the Bible after he mentions it a number of times in order to try and see if there's a way around his whole "I can't allow myself to be more than friends with you because of how I got here in the first place" beef. (He may be more cryptic about it than that, hence the "I am but an agent of the Lord" line.)
Maddy comes for Abby through some event. Once Maddy is using Abby's body, she doesn't necessarily want to eliminate her anymore (lest she lose the vehicle keeping her close to Gabe); thus, her ultimate game plan would be to seduce Gabe > announce herself as Maddy (so that she wins his love, gets him to forget about Abby and prioritize her instead) > etc. Since Maddy fell in love with Gabe for his (angelic) power, she might try physically endangering Abby (not to the point of death, though, to keep her vehicle alive?) in order to provoke him out. It wouldn't get that far because Abby would momentarily break through to ask for help (via an Animiorphs-like "vehicle with two drivers" method).
Maddy-Abby x Gabe drama ensues, perhaps begun with Maddy’s subtle teasing/seduction tactics (aided by the fact that Gabe knows nothing of Abby’s flirting tactics). Maybe Maddy tries to steer Gabe away from Mesmerism/Abby (in case she can’t crush Abby’s soul) while also putting Abby(‘s body) in danger (to draw out the powerful hero side she loves). This may be where Abby learns more about Maddy and Gabe. Maddy-Abby may try to win Gabe over so that she can stay in Abby’s body (especially if that involved trying to get him to forget about Abby/dislike her)… and then whether he resisted or it was her plan all along, she’d pounce and try to get him back for leaving her alone (to die so horribly). If Maddy is driven to sabotage Gabe, she could attempt to (break his resistance to getting too involved with another mortal) secure his banishment to Hell by making him repeat his mistake with her in Abby’s body. Alternatively, she wants Gabe for herself, rather than to sabotage him, and that requires getting rid of Abby for good (which could make Red’s assault physically as well as sexually violent).
Somehow (perhaps Maddy lets spill one of her, not Abby’s memories, OR Abby regains control of her body long enough to plead Gabe to cleanse her [of this malicious spirit]), Gabe figures out the jig and exorcises her for good. . Especially after Abby comes back, Gabe now absolutely has to explain Maddy, himself/ wtf he’s doing on Earth as a Mesmerist of all things, and (possibly depending on whether actual demons were dragged in—London could just be a relative safe zone), the whole deal with angels, demons, and Watchers. The demon business could potentially intensify post-Maddy too.
Vague endgame things: All I could ever come up was either Gabe parts ways with the girl (never fleshed out whether he'd regain his angel status by this point in time; he could very well just cart his mortal arse off to the boonies somewhere); gives up immortality to be with her; or dies for her (which could theoretically cause him to be reborn into Heaven, so he could still watch over her as her angel); or the girl could even commit suicide to join him in Heaven (this was only ever mentioned in one run of the original Fall from Grace). If relationships are what carries into Heaven, there is a possibility for a happy resolution: Gabe ties himself to Abby as her guardian angel (whether she loves him for him, him as God's proxy, or God is WAY in the future XD), and when she dies, she joins him in Heaven.
On joint medical outings, Gabe introduces himself as Dr. Angelo to avoid Abby's disdain for his Mesmerist title; but should it ever come up that she's lost more patients to him and he used a different name, she'll just be more annoyed and is likely to initially interpret that as further scheming. Any patients she loses to him, however, are more likely to be of the upper or middle class."You aren't the Madeleine I knew. My protege would never exploit others for selfish ends." Relates to demon-Maddy.“Please eat. I know you don’t need it, but it makes me feel awkward to be the only one of us eating.”“I am but an agent of the Lord, not the Lord Himself… If you must direct your affections somewhere, give them to Him.” (Probably sometime after Gabe shows himself. Perhaps the reply would be something related to Jesus's coming down to Earth? Even so, that was still purportedly God in human form; but then again, IF I can execute it right, Gabe could still play the forgiving teacher role He played.)If God is forgiving and all-loving, maybe putting Gabe on Earth was a way to teach him how to know when he should resist relations with a human, as opposed to putting him in temptation’s way. Maddy loved Gabe for his power as an angel (understandable because the first time he appeared to her, it was as an otherworldly, omnipotent being), but Abby grows to love Gabe for him (since regardless of his motivations, he has, up to the Big Reveal, only presented himself as human). Gabe doesn’t realize the former—only remembers the fiancée—and tries to keep Abby away once he realizes she loves him (thinking the same [that she too has a betrothed]—they never broach the subject of marriage until later/at some critical point).If adultery is a sin and adultery means trysts with a married person, perhaps Maddy had been seeking Gabe out in lieu of her betrothed (who broke off relations with her later due to what he perceived to be insanity on her part) precisely because she fell in love with that power she perceived in him, but Gabe misremembers it as he sought her out despite the fiancee (and, particularly, didn't resist when he finally got her) and therefore committed a sin. Maybe the fiancee broke up with Maddy sometime between Gabe's first and second appearances before her—between that timeframe, Gabe would have been trying to stay away from Maddy in order to make her forget him and not lose herself pining away for him. Not QUITE sure how he'll figure out the fiancee breakup unless Maddy tells him outright during the Maddy (through Abby) x Gabe drama—but if it happens that way, she'll probably spin her words so that the poor angel will probably first think that she loves him for him and not for his power. (Now how will he be broken of THAT belief, I wonder... Perhaps this will be Abby's job.)
