Okay but like can we talk about how Gabriel acted this season is Gabriel's default. It's how he would act without Heavan's fear mongering and threats. It's how he acts without his thousands of years of reinforced stoicism and cynicism. Without the memories of all that he's just as sweet and curious as Aziraphale was when he first started truly loving and understanding humanity. He dusts the bookshop, he waves happily and introduces himself to everyone he sets eyes on, and he loves hot chocolate.
And don't even get me started on how he's still so changed from last seasons Gabriel when he gets his memories back. Mr. "Shut your stupid mouth and die" would NEVER put his hands over his heart and positively melt at the sight of Beelzebub. He wouldn't say no to a heavenly plan. He wouldn't be so nonchalant in the face of falling. He wouldn't memorize a Buddy Holly song or drink human beer. He, over the course of three years with Beelzebub (as platonic work friends to lovers), unlearned all of that brainwashing that Gabriel has had drilled into his head for 6000 years. He realized "wherever Beelzebub is is my heaven".
Someone help me I'm having emotions
I've seen some people saying that Muriel is annoying, shallow, one-dimensional, etc because of their sunshiney attitude. But those people are missing the point that Muriel isn't happy and sparkly because of a lack of depth as a character - it's actually evidence of how deeply abused and traumatized they are.
Look at the barely concealed sadness on their face when they refer to themself as "no one." Heaven treats them horribly, but they have to just smile and pretend it's fine. Because they're an angel, so what other choice do they have? They've been talked down to and told that they're unimportant for thousands of years. That they're beneath literally all of the other angels, just a 37th order scrivener, a nobody.
And so in order to cope with the horrific way that they're treated, they hide all of their emotions and trauma behind a cheerful mask. But if you look at how they act around the Archangels - how terrified they are to even approach Michael and Uriel, you can see how truly abused they are, and the pain and fear that they're hiding.
The other reason for their over-the-top cheerfulness is that they're so incredibly lonely. They've probably never had a friend - every couple hundred years someone comes and asks them a question, and that's it.
The poor thing has basically been kept in solitary confinement for thousands of years, of course they're going to be thrilled to speak to anyone at all, much less actually get to leave their desk and go to earth. Their sheer delight at everything on earth isn't just them being ditzy - it's the first time they've ever experienced anything other than the cold emptiness of heaven. The first time they've been allowed a tiny break from the horrible way that they're treated by the other angels.
Poor Muriel is so desperate for connection and validation that they're so excited to be needed, even after being called "the dim one" to their face. They hardly even reacted, it definitely wasn't their first time being called something like that.
All in all, Muriel is just like every single one of us who smiles through pain and loneliness and abuse, because we have no other choice. It doesn't mean that they're shallow and airheaded, or that they're any less traumatized than Crowley and Aziraphale. It means that they've learned that smiling is the only way to survive, because they're trapped in a heaven that feels like hell.
day 30 overseers on a mission
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you know what? I don’t care (almost) what kind of response there will be. this is a crossover. Rain World and LfL, how do you like this? I don’t know how to draw, but I love making clay figures and writing, so I’ll try to explain everything with that. I really hope that at least someone will be interested.
I won’t go into details, one of the types of animals that inhabit the Rain World is slugcats. Slugcats are playable characters. These wonderful creatures look like this:
I made Willy-slugcat. that's it.
All slugcats have something like a name, for example, the purple one is called Spearmaster, and the green one is called Saint. The big chubby one's name is Gourmand.
Willy would be called Pretender. His peculiarity is wearing masks that can be obtained from dangerous predators. These masks can be used to scare away other predators. Another property of the Pretender is that he can imitate the sounds of predators larger and more dangerous than the slugcat (for example, the hissing and bubbling of lizards).
It seemed to me that this mechanic was very suitable when we are talking about Willy Mack. . .
It is how slugcat with mask looks like!
I'll move on to Willy. this cutie silly boi:
admit that you fell for this cute, harmless face. . . but this is still the same Willy, who can only be satisfied with meat. he is agile, resistant to falls from great heights, fast, dexterous, and very resourceful. he has a torn ear, the tip of his tail is missing (someone bit it off), he is always covered in scratches and scars. lives on the Sky Islands - a region densely populated with a wide variety of living creatures. One of his weaknesses is that he is a poor swimmer, he quickly gets tired of swimming, but he doesn’t need to swim where he lives.
BTW he's VERY associative slugcat, so he does not squeak and meow like them, he didn't have a chance to learn. His only interactions are hisses and short “barks.” just watch how cats sometimes bark and you will understand what I mean.
Most likely neither LfL fans nor RW fans will watch this. well. . . In any case, I wanted to share my work.
This shelter? To hold...
ME?!?
It's Slugsyphus Prime!
something something about v1 being able to play music like how the terminals can whenever it needs to or wants to
songs in order: were you foolin, katamari
are you ready to see some shit
bet you weren't fucjkign readty