The Characters and Story
Once upon a time there was a little angel named Gabriel. She's my character in the world famous PBEM
Angels Never Came Down
and has been since time began. What my artquest is all about is collecting more art for her in her various nine thousand incarnations and collecting art for her much neglected paramour Duriel. You know you want to draw him. Well, maybe you don't. Poor Duriel. No one ever wants to draw him. Maybe it's the goatee.
ANYWAY. As I was saying before I rudely interrupted myself: This artquest is about the two of them, both as single subjects and together. They have a really long and complicated story that I am not going to bore you with now -- except, wait. Yes I will. That's what this post is for, isn't it?
THE FOUR SECOND GABRIEL AND DURIEL as told by Gabi
Gabriel: I am too young, your former mentor's kid, and also your apprentice!
Duriel: You are.
Gabriel: We fall and love and get married anyway and I have a baby except bad things happen because there's a war and you get fed up and turn evil and I get depressed and then our girl mixes up Kevorkian orange juice for me and I bite it!
Duriel: Indeed.
~Some time passes~
Gabriel: Now I am a maid! You see familiar!
Duriel: Now I am the pope. You seem familiar.
Gabriel: I think you might be evil. I'm going to try and kill you for the betterment of the world.
Duriel: I'll kill you first. Damn. You were Gabriel.
~Some more time passes~
Gabriel: Hi, now I'm rich and always out doing good! I am a schoolgirl who plays lacrosse and am still too young!
Duriel: You are.
Gabriel: And you're all evil but we end up stalking each other anyway and a lot of angsty tragic stuff happens until I get fed up with you not letting me stay over so I get my friends together, we go and wake up a primodial evil, and then we kill it. You become good again!
Duriel: 'Good' is not exactly how I'd put it.
Gabriel: We get married! Yay! I am still too young.
Duriel: You are.
AND THEN THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER UNTIL THEY DIED. AND THEN THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER AS SECRET AGENTS, GANGSTERS, AND SCHOOL DENIZENS, POSSIBLY IN THAT ORDER
THE FOUR SECOND GABRIEL AND DURIEL as told by Ali
Gabriel: I love everyone and everything please love me back!
Duriel: CAREBEARS ALSO NEED REST.
Gabriel: Well, icy-hearted professors also need scarves. And bandages. And love.
Duriel: ... let us stalk each other for four or five years, then get married.
Gabriel: Okay!
Not!Gabriel: I loved everyone too much and now I have no soul.
Duriel: THEN I WILL HAVE NO SOUL EITHER. BLARGH I HATE EVERYTHING.
Gabriel: ;_;
Zomiel: It is okay, Gabriel.
Gabriel: ;_;
Jibreel: It is okay, mom. Here, drink this.
Gabriel: ;_; x_x
Duriel: NOW I AM EVIL. I STILL HATE EVERYTHING.
Gabriel: ;_;
Duriel: I AM EVIL SO I DO NOT CARE IF YOU CRY except that I do.
Gabriel: Perhaps you could ... not be evil?
Duriel: No.
Gabriel: ;_; I guess I will have to fix it then.
Duriel: WTF WOMAN ARE YOU INSANE?
Gabriel: Did it work?
Duriel: YES BUT YOU ARE STILL INSANE. YOU STILL NEED REST.
Gabriel: You still need love.
Duriel: Let us...
Gabriel: Okay.
Duriel: Now we are married.
Gabriel: I like crab traps! Let us go and look at them!
Duriel: Okay.
ACTUAL CHARACTER NOTES
The lady in her various incarnations:
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Gabriel
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Reccommended Reading -
The Balance of Need -
How To Deal With Snappers -
Full Profile
You could consider this the master copy that all the other Gabriels are stamped from. This is her master physical description:
Three second rundown - Gabriel has blue eyes and wavy brown hair that you can draw at variable length all the way down to her ankles. It is at least always down to her butt. She is very short, only 5'0 and built like a doll. She never looks older than sixteen. She has tiny little wings behind her ears, and two sets of winglets on her back called wingspurs. She usually goes barefoot.
Some Extra Notes to Keep In Mind:
Gabriel is only five feet tall, so that means she's very tiny, especially in comparison to Duriel, who is 5'11". Her affiliated animal is the deer, and in her cherubic form she has deer ears instead of human ears, and two sets of back wings, the first gold shaded and the second feathered with green peacock feathers. As a seraph she has three sets of wings, on set on her head and two on her back. In this form, the top set of wings is again gold, and the secondary set is shaded pale green, but is feathered with normal feathers. Her affiliated flower is the red rose, so drawing her with roses in any way is appropriate, as is drawing her with red sharon tulips, as she is the Rose of Sharon. She is perky, friendly, full of fun, and infinitely nice. If she has anything left at all to give away, then she will do so. She is princess loving kindness. If you don't want to draw her in any of the costumes presented, anything flowy and green will suffice
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Eyes: Like all fairy tale princesses, Gabriel has mood eyes that color and shift with the light. They are something in between blue, green, and gray, depending on the light and the angle you see them from, although they have a tendency toward being a deep, easy blue. Watch out, because some times she does manage to be a green-eyed lady and a gray-eyed Ophelia, so be forewarned. Her eyes are large and wide and given to looking very innocent even when she is being patently not. Her lashes are short but very thick and dark, giving her the perennial doe eye.
Face and Skin: Very fair with rosy pink undertones, Gabriel is pale while at the same time having a healthy color to her. She sees a lot of the sun but manages to not turn berry brown except in summer when she first crisps to a bright burnt red and then peels away into a respectable farmer's tan. This fades quickly as soon as the summer goes, however, and by harvest ball she's as pink as a pearl again. As far as her facial structure goes, it's delicate with high cheekbones and a slight chin set into a heart shaped face. Her nose is narrow and barely upturned and her lips are just slightly full and naturally a softened raspberry red in color. Her ears are small and rounded with attached lobes, and the spurs that flare behind them are just a touch larger than the standard of seraphic head spurs, a soft white shaded in pale green.
Hair: Gabriel has some hair. And then some. If it hung entirely straight, then it would surely lap the back of her Achilles tendons, but you see my friends, it does not hang straight. Gabriel's hair has what we like to call Cresting Wave Action (tm). This is a term coined by Relia to mean that it hangs in loose flowy waves that almost seem to undulate of their own will as she moves. In color it is what is best described as a warm calico brown, owing to her disputed paternity. It has both warm and cool brown streaks, although it is primarily a warm ruddy brown in color, with golden highlights. Papa Zadkiel did manage to get some deep chocolate waves in there, so the ball is really still up in the air.
Build: As one might expect from the girl next door, Gabriel is tiny. She tops out at five feet even and is built lightly. She is not whipchord thin. Time in the army serving actively has put a little flesh on her bones, but she's still very much the waif. She has a plump round little bottom and slight hips so as to better facilitate the bringing into the world of tiny Gabriels. She has a modest bust, really, not one she should really be bringing up every time papa comes to chat with her and give her her allowance XD. Her other two sets of spurs are on her back, standard issue, the magnum pair being the higher, larger set. The right spur of this set has a tendency to twitch when Gabriel is agitated or upset.
Carriage: Oh Lady Grace – you are not, no matter how hard you try. In fact, really the harder Gabriel does try to be graceful the more likely she is to eat pavement. When she's not trying she can often be very naturally beautiful, but as soon as she tries to concentrate on doing something a certain way she goes down like a ton of bricks, even if there's nothing in the way to trip on at all. Her stance is open and inviting, and she just feels comforting, while at the same time radiating energy and health and, well kittenishness. Gabriel is God's Green Ambassador and she can walk the walk . . . . when she doesn't fall down. A wiggle in the walk and a giggle in the talk makes the world go round, my friends.
Clothing: This can be subdivided into two major grounds before Gabriel gets married: A) pretty dresses and B) things tailored to drive Duriel insane. Hey, when Gabriel's cards are on the table, they're all on the table. Occasionally these groups even cross over. An example of the former would be a flowy green shift that reaches to the floor. An example of the latter would be Jabriel's dress that Gabriel wore to her first Yule Ball. She is overly fond of both of these styles. She favors ribbons and lace and petticoats when she can get them, or tunics and boots when she's going to be outside romping. Gabriel is very femmy. If it is girly, then she will wear it. Yes, I know you're so surprised XD.
Voice: Soft and warm, Gabriel's voice is a smoky alto and has been since she was about twelve, when her voice settled all at once and quite a bit lower than most people expected. It is sweet and warm and pleasant when Gabriel sings. She has a nice voice and can carry a tune and keep pitch well enough because she stays in practice for the festivals. It feels good to listen to Gabriel talk. Which is good for you, because she talks a lot. When she gets really going her voice develops a soothing, almost hypnotic effect that is very good for placating people who might be considering having a row with each other. Gabriel is ever happy to be the balance point.
Gabi, that made no sense. Give me some visual aids.
With pleasure.
http://www.geocities.com/dianellae/earthea.jpg -- By my Splendiferous Meifae.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/10290919/ -- She's the one with brown hair. Yeah, not Chibimoon XD.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/8959993/ -- Watch out, this one has breasts!
http://www.deviantart.com/view/8725059/ -- Yes, she may cause cavities.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/8661670/ -- With her weapon
http://www.deviantart.com/view/6537027/ -- Showing off her wingspurs.
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Demeter Serraffield
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Reccommended Reading -
Waiting for Apollo -
Their Remembering
She's a do-gooding schoolgirl aristocrat who loves lacrosse and charity. Most likely to be found in classy designer clothing that would break any normal person's bank to buy, or in too short school kilts and sweaters. She is sixteen.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8662139/ -- Her Lacross Uniform
http://www.deviantart.com/view/8660342/ -- Her School Uniform
http://www.deviantart.com/view/12806419/ -- Jillion Dollar Pantsuit.
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Nymphette Minx
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Reccommended Reading -
All Time High
She's a schoolgirl turned international woman of mystery. She's seventeen, but always claims to be twenty-five. She's not very convincing. Most at home in slinky green evening gowns, but only ever has one shoe.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/6538363/ -- Nymphette in her school uniform.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/7230966/ -- She fancies PPKs
http://www.deviantart.com/view/12896565/ -- He collects her shoes.
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Miss Adelaide
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Reccommended Reading -
The City That Never Sleeps
She's a burlesque dancer in the Guys and Dolls universe (which is 1930's New York). She treats every preformance as if it were a school recital. Wears cute green skirt and jacket combos when she's out and lots of lace and vinyl and ruffles when she's dancing.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6635926/ - In her undies.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6612578/ - Respectable skirtset.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/6610543/ -- Working scribble
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Gabriel of Ruatha
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Reccommended Reading -
Angelflight
She's the only hope of Pern. Poor Pern. Often to be found in dragon riding leathers -- her signature green, of course.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/9428505/ -- The death of Bingo.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/6537986/ -- Gabriel and Ramoth
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Teddy Ingram
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Reccommended Reading - Too Hot for Gaia
She's a turn of the century translator pretending to be a very unconvincing boy. She hangs in the company of Aleiseter Crowley and drinks
a lot.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/12804278/ -- I told you she was a very unconvincing boy.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9867870/ -- She's always losing her pants.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/9881097/ -- And playing all night drunken cricket.
