Ignore The Fact I've Like Gone Through A Shit Ton Of Your Stuff And Liked It But I Just Really Wanted

Ignore the fact I've like gone through a shit ton of your stuff and liked it but I just really wanted to share the thought I had while reading this,

V1's got his leg frozen in the ice so he can't really get to gabe so he just pulls a coin so Gabriel mid sob just

Dink

A coin right to the side of the head and he looks up to see that lil Blue gopro

So...uh...angst ahead, what would happen if fallen Gabriel believed V1 to be dead?, example: while fighting a boss Gabriel is knocked out, while he is unconscious V1 kills the enemy but one of its wings is torn off, it thinks that it has enough time to leave in search for parts and fix the wing before Gabriel wakes up, and so it leaves, but while its gone he wakes up and only sees the torn wing on the floor and assumes the worst, would Gabriel loose his sanity until he sees that V1 is (mostly) fine?, or when he sees it he believes it to be an hallucination until it touches him?

MAKING GABRIEL SAD PART 2...first, i love how easily i can see this example happening with the way i characterize v1 lol like gabe gets knocked out, v1 finishes up the fight, probably goes to check on gabe and, when it can't wake him up but sees that he's still breathing, it just...immediately prioritizes fixing its wing with little thought. the area is secure, gabe will probably get up soon enough since he usually does, and v1 knows it can't fight nearly as well with a broken wing so!!! he'll be fine!! and v1 will be back soon enough to take care of any leftover roaming filth that couldn't do much to gabe besides. but of course things are never as simple as v1 thinks they should be.

when i talked the other day about v1 dying of old age, the slow nature of it gives gabriel time to emotionally adjust how he reacts initially. they've discussed solutions, gabriel has thought of his own ideas he couldn't yet voice, and v1's deterioration lets him know, in no uncertain terms, the end is coming sooner rather than later. so i picture him very quiet one day when v1 doesn't wake up, not exactly numb but not able to interpret all the grief he's already felt coming down on him. when a couple days go by and nothing changes, he holds it gently, speaking just a few quiet words, and he doesn't allow his emotions to consume him because he has work to do (the volatile grief will find its outlet later, when heaven tries to stop him)

HOWEVER this is very different because this loss is sudden, unexpected, and, most importantly, appears irreversible. gabriel is deeply passionate by nature and i think his emotions, under extreme duress, tend to get the better of him - if he could think clearly, he'd likely put together that if he's still alive, v1 probably is as well and he knows how distracted it can get...but he can't do that. grief would immediately overwhelm him, grief that he has a cruelly infinite capacity for as an angel of treachery. it would be all he could do to make his way to that wing, body freezing up and eyes glazed with ice, to hold it locked in hands that quickly lose their ability to move. and everything around him would begin to do the same, ice spreading out from his rigid body to encase and hold prisoner anything it touches. he can do nothing. without a body, without its computer, v1 cannot be revived in any capacity no matter what he might be willing to do. i think in that moment, frozen as he is, gabriel would try to pray - defaulting to god out of habit but quickly discarding him, too dead and not willing to hear an outcast angel's prayer besides. instead, he asks hell for a favor, at least let him find the pieces, give him back the body and let him save v1, not for his sake of course but just for its own entertainment if nothing else. because otherwise...he's unsure if he'll ever move again.

so v1 has a scene to come back to, likely rushing there because i imagine gabriel has some pretty significant, hell shaking sobs that it instantly recognizes. it skids over the ice, so cold it threatens to freeze v1 in place just the same way, weapon at the ready before it reaches gabriel and can't detect a single threat. getting his attention proves difficult, but by making enough emphatic chirps and taking hold of him, gabriel's sobbing finally quiets. and slowly, a bit of the ice melts as v1 moves its hands down to touch his and he responds in what incremental ways he can. for a moment he does think it must be a cruel joke (whether by his own mind or by hell, he doesn't know), but v1 generates as much heat as it can to help thaw his hands so he can feel it, know that it really is here with him. even then it doesn't fully register until v1 shows him its broken wing joint but when it does, gabriel throws an absolute FIT for putting him through all that!!!! and it left!!!! while he was passed out!!!!!! little hunk of junk!!!!! it does make v1 realize it needs to be more diligent weighing gabriel's emotional needs in its priorities (and perhaps...not leaving if he's out cold lol), but it also lets both of them know that gabriel is given to overpowering grief as a fallen angel now, which he'll need to be careful about. after all, even if this situation had been as dire as he thought, freezing in place is hardly the way to handle it