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Player Name: Komix
Age: 29
E-mail: komikbookgeek (at) gmail (dot) com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: none!
[Character information]
Name: Raphael
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: Flashback in 6.20 - The Man Who Would Be King
Age: Older than 10 trillion, younger than Death/God/Leviathans/Eve/Michael/Lucifer
Appearance: Angels need vessels to interact with humanity. Raphael has taken the vessel of Donnie Finnerman, a member of his vessel line. A mechanic from Maine, Donnie is just over six foot, with very close cut black hair and brown eyes. He has a scar under his chin, which is fairly noticeable, and only slightly built - he's on the thinner side for someone with muscle mass coming from working a physical job, not working out, and his hands are calloused with an odd small scar here and there. Raphael has dressed Donnie in a nice, dark colored three piece suit and tie after leaving Maine with him.
Inventory: His archangel blade, the tie-tack he's wearing.
Abilities:
History: On Screen History
Raphael was the third archangel Created. Michael stated he raised his brothers, and Raphael is no exception to this. There was a span of time where it was just Father-God, Michael, Lucifer, and Raphael before Gabriel was Created. There was also a time when it was just the Four and God before the other angels were Created. Lucifer states Gabriel learned all his tricks from Lucifer - raising their siblings included teaching them, loving them. In the beginning the archangels, at least, experienced joy, laughter, love, jealousy, anger, hurt, betrayal - a full range of emotion.
As the Earth was Created and life brought forth, growing in number and evolving, the angels would occasionally visit. They were warned, and in turn warned the younger ones, to be careful of the life there so as to not harm the growing life.
Eventually humans were made. God stated they were His most perfect Creation and that the angels were to love them about Him. While Lucifer Rebelled, Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel (along with most of the Host) honored what was asked of him.
Over time, both God and Gabriel left, leaving Michael and Raphael to run Heaven and the universe alone. As time passed, Michael and Raphael stop giving out orders to the angels left to watch over Earth and the people. And Raphael himself started to change. From his view point of history, Lucifer's pride and jealousy caused him to fall, Gabriel's hurt over the infighting caused him to leave. He began to see emotion as the problem and started to lock down his own - and expecting it of the other angels, as Castiel and Anna both explain to Dean.
Eventually between being left in Heaven with Michael and starting the Apocalypse, Raphael hardened himself to the brainwashing forced on the lower angels - that is, a being who once had emotions, now frozen into nothing but obedience. By the time he makes an appearance, Castiel describes him as "Fierce. Absolute. Archangels are Heaven's more terrifying Weapons." And Raphael has become that, when faced with Lilith being near Chuck his reaction is to smite, when Castiel interferes with the Breaking of the last Seal, he smites him. When he's faced with Dean and Castiel in 'Free to be You and Me' he threatens to take Dean to Michael and obtain consent under torture - a radical spin from the archangel who God had ordered to love humans.
However Michael and Raphael are not utterly dependent on orders as the younger angels are - they do make choices, although they are nascent and misguided ones. They worked to bring forth the Apocalypse which meant engineering John and Mary's marriage and the births of the boys, they allow Seals to fall, and perhaps most importantly, allow Dean to be taken, dragged to Hell despite his being Michael's True Vessel. When Raphael first speaks, he states, "We're tired." This weariness has eclipsed the whole of his experience, swallowed the sum of who he is, save perhaps duty and loneliness. Most of what he now knows is isolation, stillness, conviction and the type of soul-crushing, numbing exhaustion de vivre that would crush the pagan gods from being and drive other beings to their knees, desperate for relief. When Raphael says he is tired, he means it, completely. And that is what the Apocalypse was - a way to end it.
Personality: Raphael is described as a 'traditionally minded angel' by Castiel – which is both true and not.
Traditionally minded angels are those who serve Heaven – mostly, in the course of Supernatural, this means backing the Apocalypse and pressuring Dean and Sam to act as Michael's and Lucifer’s Vessels. They do not believe in (or understand) free will and are often cold or flat emotionally.
However "traditionally minded angel" would point to Raphael serving God.
And he doesn't.
Raphael, at least for most of his appearances, is as someone who wants to follow The Plan. He comes off as very 'by the book' - that is, follow The Plan, the devout get into Heaven regardless of what else they do (his defense of Ken Lay's admittance to Heaven), etc. The Rules are The Rules. However several lines:
Point to something a little more complicated than Castiel’s basic read. Raphael puts himself as equal to God and Heaven - that's extremely close to Blasphemy. He also echoes what Gabriel says "No one makes us do anything" with "It's what I want". Given what he says about the angels - they were built to follow, not for freedom - it does hint that the Archangels are different, at least a little. Until Castiel, Balthazar says, they had either The Plan or Falling. Uriel - Rebelled and sided with Lucifer. Anna removed her Grace and Fell. Others stayed loyal. That was all the angels could do, Rebel, Fall, or Serve. However, Lucifer Rebelled in a way none had before. Gabriel left. Michael and Raphael chose to serve The Plan. And Raphael does serve The Plan, even when it is derailed by Team Free Will.
It's one of the largest differences between Michael and Raphael. Michael serves God, serves Father. Raphael serves The Plan and follows Michael. Raphael has very little faith in God, at this point. He believes God is dead, and states to Dean and Castiel "We're tired. We just want it to be over. We just want...paradise." That is not the attitude of someone with faith - it's quite the opposite. Raphael has no faith God will return, and looking over the world, how things have run, despairs at how it is continuing, at how his Father could allow it to continue. He can't reconcile a loving Father who protected his Children with a God who allows such suffering - and so concludes God must be dead. And while he has been away, he left the Archangels to run Heaven, run Creation, without the knowledge or orders to know how to (indeed, as Raphael would find out later – there where important things they did not know). If God is dead, then it is time for the End. And he welcomes that End, courts it even. Because he is tired, he's worn out, and the End means rest, means a return to Paradise, as God is clearly not returning.
And then The End comes, and Michael is pulled into the Cage by Sam, along with Lucifer, Raphael has a couple weeks before Castiel returns. Castiel has pulled Sam out of the Cage – and not only left an innocent, righteous man in there (Adam), but utterly ignored the suffering of his own brothers over that of his pet human’s – who even Castiel admits is “an abomination”. And Castiel was able to do this because God raised him from Lucifer’s smitting. God raised Castiel - the disloyal to Heaven, not Michael who was the most loyal to God. And something Raphael just cracked. Raphael’s reign of Heaven is not really about God – it’s blasphemy and rebellion being covered by regulation and order. And Raphael is very aware of what he is doing. But this is what he sees as needing to happen, to protect the Host and save those who are left.
Which isn’t to say that he has good intentions. What Raphael says to Dean and Castiel – “You are living in a Godless universe” – there’s something broken to that. Because the angels were Created to serve God. They have utterly no purpose without Him and without Him, the universe will decay, there will be nothing but suffering. Yes, The End will likely kill all the angels as well as humanity – but it saves them from pain. It’s mercy not malice that has Raphael backing the Apocalypse.
And he is angry, certainly, at God. "Who ran off and disappeared. Who left no instructions and a world to run." This left a great hardship on the remaining archangels who ran Heaven and lead their garrisons of their younger brothers and sisters. They carry the burden of having been the only angels who have met God, have seen their Father, and they are the only ones who know He is gone. Eventually Joshua and Zachariah are also informed of God's absence but it isn't until after the Apocalypse that God's absence becomes known to the general population of the Host. And yet to be angry at God is Rebellion, which is a line that Raphael wasn't willing to cross, for a long time. He found the line, and if he stepped over it, but he’s not admitting to himself how angry he actually is. In some ways he’s like that child, glowering, stony faced, fists clenched, in a corner waiting for a parent to notice but too afraid to speak up.
Yet, for all his blasphemy, he still has some loyalty, some respect for his Father. When Dean is flippant, he warns him to be mindful. Raphael won't accept a human - and likely not a younger angel - being disrespectful to or about his Father. He still serves Heaven and the world his Father created, as best he sees how, which also includes taking care of his family – even that means enforcing a rigid and seemingly unforgiving regime.
Caring for his family also extends to loyalty towards his siblings, even if it’s a twisted loyalty at this point. He does not want a civil war in Heaven, because that would rip the Host apart, resulting in many brothers and sisters dying. He’s been through that once, he does not want that again.
And yet – he tells Castiel ‘It is a testament to my unending mercy that I do not smite you here and now,’ something which seems to bear out. He doesn’t harm Dean, despite being able to. This is unlikely due to Dean’s status as Michael’s Vessel – Zachariah certainly hurt him. He leaves his Vessel catatonic, although given how Raphael views the world this could be seen as mercy as well. He also offers Castiel a chance to return to Heaven and he doesn’t smite Balthazar despite chances to. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of being harsh or even worse and he’s willing to be ruthless, brutal even, to accomplish that. For example, the harsh punishments they regularly give out to disobedient angels, such as Anna and Castiel, are feared by the rest of the Host. However if pushed, say for control over Heaven, he will respond with force. He smote Castiel for interfering with his and Michael’s plan. He was willing to kill Castiel and all who stood with him to keep peace in Heaven.
And being merciful also requires patience - which is not to say Raphael can't be short tempered, he can be. But he is patient. Dean and Sam where designed to be Michael and Lucifer's Vessels and setting up those bloodlines and sending Cupids after them took forethought and planning. Mary could have been killed in a hunt, John could have been killed in the war - and yet they weren't. Michael speaks of how every "decision" made lead Dean and Sam to being Vessels, to saying yes. This is something that has been worked at for a long time - longer than the boys' lifetime, longer than parents'. To an angel, who predate the Earth this is a short period of time. But it still requires patience in planning even if there isn't patience extended to humanity. Raphael displays that himself as well as a strong stubborn streak.
Raphael is utterly committed to his plan of action. The process to get to the current plan may have been slow and long reaching, but once he's committed, he's fully irrecoverably committed. At the end of Swan Song, Chuck disappears and it's said that his writings will become a new Gospel. Both of these things point to the aversion of the Apocalypse as being "The Plan" - and yet, Raphael does not see it. At all. Despite the set backs - and they are simply set backs - he is determined to get everything back on track. To finish what was started. In some ways Raphael fits the idea of the extremist, devoted to what everyone can rationally see as a lost cause, unable to find another course.
And yet, his attention is focused on winning the war, even Castiel knows that if Raphael where to solidify power it leaves him still committed to The Plan, even if his methods have changed slightly. Because stubborn doesn't mean unable to change, it simply means he's very slow to change - even more so when dealing with someone who has existed as long as Raphael.
Like most of the other angels, Raphael reads on the surface as having very little emotion. He does emote, but it's with subtleness that is easily overlooked. It's all movements of his jaw and the muscles around his eyes. When he speaks of God being dead, he is upset. When he speaks to Castiel in Heaven, he's firm, resolved. However he is very in control, suppressing and controlling emotion so that it is not expressed, leading to a very flat appearance, even while fighting.
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First Person: First Person
Third Person: Third Person
Anything Else? Nope!
Player Name: Komix
Age: 29
E-mail: komikbookgeek (at) gmail (dot) com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: none!
[Character information]
Name: Raphael
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: Flashback in 6.20 - The Man Who Would Be King
Age: Older than 10 trillion, younger than Death/God/Leviathans/Eve/Michael/Lucifer
Appearance: Angels need vessels to interact with humanity. Raphael has taken the vessel of Donnie Finnerman, a member of his vessel line. A mechanic from Maine, Donnie is just over six foot, with very close cut black hair and brown eyes. He has a scar under his chin, which is fairly noticeable, and only slightly built - he's on the thinner side for someone with muscle mass coming from working a physical job, not working out, and his hands are calloused with an odd small scar here and there. Raphael has dressed Donnie in a nice, dark colored three piece suit and tie after leaving Maine with him.
Inventory: His archangel blade, the tie-tack he's wearing.
Abilities:
Superhuman Strength/Durability - Angels are far stronger than almost anything else supernatural (save those older in Creation than them) and are more durable - able to take harder hits without harm. As with most things with angels, the older are always stronger than the younger.
Telekinesis/terrakinesis - Angels are able to move around objects (and effect the ground/air around them).
Angelic Flight - Angels can fly - appearing in the blink of an eye, often with a sound of wings and occasionally electrical surges. They are also able to transport others with them. While lesser angels need to touch, the archangels do not.
Telepathy - Angels are able to read a person's mind/past by looking into their eyes.
Invisibility/intangibility - Angels are able to shield others from perceiving them so that they are able to observe others.
Body manipulation - Angels can heal, not only their Vessels, but others of any injury, even death. Conversely, they are able to cause harm as well. Raphael, due to being the Archangel of Healing is better at healing - and causing harm - than his brothers.
Immortality - Archangel Blades, Death himself, God, his two elder brothers, the Leviathans, Holy Fire, and likely Eve are the only things which can kill him. He does not need to eat or sleep and will not fall ill. It takes extreme quantities of drugs to affect them - it takes an entire liquor store to get an angel drunk.
Supernatural Perception - Angels are able to sense supernatural things, of all sorts, including things which are invisible. Eve and God are able to conceal their presence from him; it is likely Death can as well. Michael and Lucifer can also conceal their presence from those younger than them.
Dream Walking - Angels can visit people via dream and guide their dreams as a way of communicating.
"Angel Radio" - A way of communication between angels. Angels with their Grace removed can also hear it, though they cannot use it.
Memory Manipulation - Angels are able to alter, ease, or plant memories.
Chronokinesis/Parallel Worlds - Angels are able to slip forward or backward in time or into parallel times/worlds, and take a small number of people with them. It's very draining and without being connected to Heaven extremely dangerous. Raphael wouldn't do this outside his home world.
Prophet Knowledge - All the names of the prophets are seared into an angel's memory. Raphael watched over Chuck and protected him (along with Michael - they later sent Zachariah to do so 'in person').
Holy Light/True Form/Voice - An angel's true form/voice is very powerful. It can shatter glass, shake buildings, rupture things, burn out the eyes of humans (or even kill them). If an angel releases a blast of holy light it will kill anything supernatural it touches or destroy a building - humans must shield their eyes or else they will also be harmed.
Angelic Possession - Angels need to possess a human in order to interact with them. Angels have Vessels - people of a certain bloodline they can possess. They also need to obtain a person's permission. Once a person serves as a Vessel they are like a direct line to the angel - can be used to summon the angel. Archangels, due to their power, will damage a person serving as their Vessel - Raphael's Chosen Vessel is left unable to walk, talk, or care for himself after only a short period of time. Michael tells Dean he'll be gentler to John and Dean than Raphael, and leave them unharmed.
Superhuman Intelligence - Angels are vastly intelligent, due to being as old as they are and their nature. They will be able to know a person's name before they speak to them.
Electrokinesis - Raphael, like the other three archangels, has an element he has dominion over (Michael = fire, Lucifer = ice, Gabriel = water). Raphael's is electricity. His wings, when manifested, appears as arcs of lightning from his back. He also knocked out the power to the entire Eastern Seaboard.
Weather manipulation - Raphael is able to create fierce storms with heavy, strong winds, and lightning.
Power over other angels - Raphael is able to harm or destroy lessor angels or shield other beings from harm by a lesser angel.
Alteration of voice/physical presence - Angels have been shown to be able to mimic others perfectly. Archangels as well have been shown able shapeshift to appear as a different person.
Creation - Archangels have been shown as being able to create things from nothing, ranging from inanimate objects to people.
Soulchanneling - Angels can use the energy from souls to empower themselves.
Supersenses - Angels can hear all radio waves and even smell the make up of a person's body, able to tell if they have taken drugs or were ill.
History: On Screen History
Raphael was the third archangel Created. Michael stated he raised his brothers, and Raphael is no exception to this. There was a span of time where it was just Father-God, Michael, Lucifer, and Raphael before Gabriel was Created. There was also a time when it was just the Four and God before the other angels were Created. Lucifer states Gabriel learned all his tricks from Lucifer - raising their siblings included teaching them, loving them. In the beginning the archangels, at least, experienced joy, laughter, love, jealousy, anger, hurt, betrayal - a full range of emotion.
As the Earth was Created and life brought forth, growing in number and evolving, the angels would occasionally visit. They were warned, and in turn warned the younger ones, to be careful of the life there so as to not harm the growing life.
Eventually humans were made. God stated they were His most perfect Creation and that the angels were to love them about Him. While Lucifer Rebelled, Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel (along with most of the Host) honored what was asked of him.
Over time, both God and Gabriel left, leaving Michael and Raphael to run Heaven and the universe alone. As time passed, Michael and Raphael stop giving out orders to the angels left to watch over Earth and the people. And Raphael himself started to change. From his view point of history, Lucifer's pride and jealousy caused him to fall, Gabriel's hurt over the infighting caused him to leave. He began to see emotion as the problem and started to lock down his own - and expecting it of the other angels, as Castiel and Anna both explain to Dean.
Eventually between being left in Heaven with Michael and starting the Apocalypse, Raphael hardened himself to the brainwashing forced on the lower angels - that is, a being who once had emotions, now frozen into nothing but obedience. By the time he makes an appearance, Castiel describes him as "Fierce. Absolute. Archangels are Heaven's more terrifying Weapons." And Raphael has become that, when faced with Lilith being near Chuck his reaction is to smite, when Castiel interferes with the Breaking of the last Seal, he smites him. When he's faced with Dean and Castiel in 'Free to be You and Me' he threatens to take Dean to Michael and obtain consent under torture - a radical spin from the archangel who God had ordered to love humans.
However Michael and Raphael are not utterly dependent on orders as the younger angels are - they do make choices, although they are nascent and misguided ones. They worked to bring forth the Apocalypse which meant engineering John and Mary's marriage and the births of the boys, they allow Seals to fall, and perhaps most importantly, allow Dean to be taken, dragged to Hell despite his being Michael's True Vessel. When Raphael first speaks, he states, "We're tired." This weariness has eclipsed the whole of his experience, swallowed the sum of who he is, save perhaps duty and loneliness. Most of what he now knows is isolation, stillness, conviction and the type of soul-crushing, numbing exhaustion de vivre that would crush the pagan gods from being and drive other beings to their knees, desperate for relief. When Raphael says he is tired, he means it, completely. And that is what the Apocalypse was - a way to end it.
Personality: Raphael is described as a 'traditionally minded angel' by Castiel – which is both true and not.
Traditionally minded angels are those who serve Heaven – mostly, in the course of Supernatural, this means backing the Apocalypse and pressuring Dean and Sam to act as Michael's and Lucifer’s Vessels. They do not believe in (or understand) free will and are often cold or flat emotionally.
However "traditionally minded angel" would point to Raphael serving God.
And he doesn't.
Raphael, at least for most of his appearances, is as someone who wants to follow The Plan. He comes off as very 'by the book' - that is, follow The Plan, the devout get into Heaven regardless of what else they do (his defense of Ken Lay's admittance to Heaven), etc. The Rules are The Rules. However several lines:
Me, Castiel. Allegiance to me.
You rebelled - against God, heaven, and me.
RAPHAEL Of course it does. It's God's will.
CASTIEL How can you say that?!
RAPHAEL Because it's what I want.
Point to something a little more complicated than Castiel’s basic read. Raphael puts himself as equal to God and Heaven - that's extremely close to Blasphemy. He also echoes what Gabriel says "No one makes us do anything" with "It's what I want". Given what he says about the angels - they were built to follow, not for freedom - it does hint that the Archangels are different, at least a little. Until Castiel, Balthazar says, they had either The Plan or Falling. Uriel - Rebelled and sided with Lucifer. Anna removed her Grace and Fell. Others stayed loyal. That was all the angels could do, Rebel, Fall, or Serve. However, Lucifer Rebelled in a way none had before. Gabriel left. Michael and Raphael chose to serve The Plan. And Raphael does serve The Plan, even when it is derailed by Team Free Will.
It's one of the largest differences between Michael and Raphael. Michael serves God, serves Father. Raphael serves The Plan and follows Michael. Raphael has very little faith in God, at this point. He believes God is dead, and states to Dean and Castiel "We're tired. We just want it to be over. We just want...paradise." That is not the attitude of someone with faith - it's quite the opposite. Raphael has no faith God will return, and looking over the world, how things have run, despairs at how it is continuing, at how his Father could allow it to continue. He can't reconcile a loving Father who protected his Children with a God who allows such suffering - and so concludes God must be dead. And while he has been away, he left the Archangels to run Heaven, run Creation, without the knowledge or orders to know how to (indeed, as Raphael would find out later – there where important things they did not know). If God is dead, then it is time for the End. And he welcomes that End, courts it even. Because he is tired, he's worn out, and the End means rest, means a return to Paradise, as God is clearly not returning.
And then The End comes, and Michael is pulled into the Cage by Sam, along with Lucifer, Raphael has a couple weeks before Castiel returns. Castiel has pulled Sam out of the Cage – and not only left an innocent, righteous man in there (Adam), but utterly ignored the suffering of his own brothers over that of his pet human’s – who even Castiel admits is “an abomination”. And Castiel was able to do this because God raised him from Lucifer’s smitting. God raised Castiel - the disloyal to Heaven, not Michael who was the most loyal to God. And something Raphael just cracked. Raphael’s reign of Heaven is not really about God – it’s blasphemy and rebellion being covered by regulation and order. And Raphael is very aware of what he is doing. But this is what he sees as needing to happen, to protect the Host and save those who are left.
Which isn’t to say that he has good intentions. What Raphael says to Dean and Castiel – “You are living in a Godless universe” – there’s something broken to that. Because the angels were Created to serve God. They have utterly no purpose without Him and without Him, the universe will decay, there will be nothing but suffering. Yes, The End will likely kill all the angels as well as humanity – but it saves them from pain. It’s mercy not malice that has Raphael backing the Apocalypse.
And he is angry, certainly, at God. "Who ran off and disappeared. Who left no instructions and a world to run." This left a great hardship on the remaining archangels who ran Heaven and lead their garrisons of their younger brothers and sisters. They carry the burden of having been the only angels who have met God, have seen their Father, and they are the only ones who know He is gone. Eventually Joshua and Zachariah are also informed of God's absence but it isn't until after the Apocalypse that God's absence becomes known to the general population of the Host. And yet to be angry at God is Rebellion, which is a line that Raphael wasn't willing to cross, for a long time. He found the line, and if he stepped over it, but he’s not admitting to himself how angry he actually is. In some ways he’s like that child, glowering, stony faced, fists clenched, in a corner waiting for a parent to notice but too afraid to speak up.
Yet, for all his blasphemy, he still has some loyalty, some respect for his Father. When Dean is flippant, he warns him to be mindful. Raphael won't accept a human - and likely not a younger angel - being disrespectful to or about his Father. He still serves Heaven and the world his Father created, as best he sees how, which also includes taking care of his family – even that means enforcing a rigid and seemingly unforgiving regime.
Caring for his family also extends to loyalty towards his siblings, even if it’s a twisted loyalty at this point. He does not want a civil war in Heaven, because that would rip the Host apart, resulting in many brothers and sisters dying. He’s been through that once, he does not want that again.
And yet – he tells Castiel ‘It is a testament to my unending mercy that I do not smite you here and now,’ something which seems to bear out. He doesn’t harm Dean, despite being able to. This is unlikely due to Dean’s status as Michael’s Vessel – Zachariah certainly hurt him. He leaves his Vessel catatonic, although given how Raphael views the world this could be seen as mercy as well. He also offers Castiel a chance to return to Heaven and he doesn’t smite Balthazar despite chances to. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of being harsh or even worse and he’s willing to be ruthless, brutal even, to accomplish that. For example, the harsh punishments they regularly give out to disobedient angels, such as Anna and Castiel, are feared by the rest of the Host. However if pushed, say for control over Heaven, he will respond with force. He smote Castiel for interfering with his and Michael’s plan. He was willing to kill Castiel and all who stood with him to keep peace in Heaven.
And being merciful also requires patience - which is not to say Raphael can't be short tempered, he can be. But he is patient. Dean and Sam where designed to be Michael and Lucifer's Vessels and setting up those bloodlines and sending Cupids after them took forethought and planning. Mary could have been killed in a hunt, John could have been killed in the war - and yet they weren't. Michael speaks of how every "decision" made lead Dean and Sam to being Vessels, to saying yes. This is something that has been worked at for a long time - longer than the boys' lifetime, longer than parents'. To an angel, who predate the Earth this is a short period of time. But it still requires patience in planning even if there isn't patience extended to humanity. Raphael displays that himself as well as a strong stubborn streak.
Raphael is utterly committed to his plan of action. The process to get to the current plan may have been slow and long reaching, but once he's committed, he's fully irrecoverably committed. At the end of Swan Song, Chuck disappears and it's said that his writings will become a new Gospel. Both of these things point to the aversion of the Apocalypse as being "The Plan" - and yet, Raphael does not see it. At all. Despite the set backs - and they are simply set backs - he is determined to get everything back on track. To finish what was started. In some ways Raphael fits the idea of the extremist, devoted to what everyone can rationally see as a lost cause, unable to find another course.
And yet, his attention is focused on winning the war, even Castiel knows that if Raphael where to solidify power it leaves him still committed to The Plan, even if his methods have changed slightly. Because stubborn doesn't mean unable to change, it simply means he's very slow to change - even more so when dealing with someone who has existed as long as Raphael.
Like most of the other angels, Raphael reads on the surface as having very little emotion. He does emote, but it's with subtleness that is easily overlooked. It's all movements of his jaw and the muscles around his eyes. When he speaks of God being dead, he is upset. When he speaks to Castiel in Heaven, he's firm, resolved. However he is very in control, suppressing and controlling emotion so that it is not expressed, leading to a very flat appearance, even while fighting.
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First Person: First Person
Third Person: Third Person
Anything Else? Nope!
