I always find it funny when I see a homophobic WoF fan. How do you even do the mental gymnastics to be in a fandom where there are not only so many canon queer characters, but an infinite supply of headcanons and queer ships. Buddy, you're in the Gay Dragons fandom, how do you still "not agree" with their existence?
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Like it is PROBABLY a suit like you said but for some reason if I imagine Gabriel's skin as not looking like his suit it feels wrong??? But that's on me tbh. Also I've seen too much fanart where it's his skin U_U
gonna smack in a screeny of the tags on the other post for context
thing is I personally also see it as skin because it is simply funnier to me to imagine that this guy is running around in basicly full plate arms and thigh high boots combined with a battle skirt and that sad excuse of troso protection.
The thing with me hoping that it would be a body suit is really just a "if this guy is anything like humans I'd hope he'd be smart enough to wear one" type thing because, as a human, that would not fly at all but personally I like to believe that as an angel it doesn't really matter as much (I like to headcanon that angels can change their appearence to be more palatable to the beholder. Like that's just an angel headcanon I have for all angels in every franchise unless it is specifically stated to not be the case. In gabes case I think he just chose to look like that for the street cred and the fashion bc he's a dramatic bitch <- affectionately)
Blank metal on skin is a recepie for disaster and additionally his chest plate cuts off at such a weird spot that if he were to bow down just a little he'd kinda stab himself in the tummy with it (I'm looking at his official renders rn). Like it ends in a point at the bottom, considering that he's allready having his waistline all out and about it would have (from a a real life armor logic standpoint) at that point just been smarter to make it have an upwards curve at the bottom that kinda follows the line of the ribcage to allow for more articulation. Also I just noticed that, on his sides, almost all his ribs are exposed and the thing that goes under his armpits is not straps keeeping two plates together but SOLID METAL??? Gabriel baby girl what are you THINKING??? Just get one of these chainmail bikins in gild and silver by that point holy shit that is just asking to be stabbed and don't even get me started on the under arm chafing and the constant metal screeching of his upper arm plate rubbing against that torso piece.
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So, Moses is a cleric, Solomon is a wizard, Joshua is a paladin, David is a bard, Jesus is a sorcerer, his apostles and Paul are warlocks, Elisha is a druid, Elijah is a monk, Samson is a barbarian, Tahkemonite along with Eleazar and Dodo are fighters, John the Baptist is a ranger, Jacob is a rogue
I'm really cautious about using DnD terms to describe nuanced historical metaphysics like this. DnD's cosmology is a mess. I don't know how it works because the writers don't know how it works. It's very easy for readers to come away with the wrong impression, and tbh it often comes off with this corny-ass "hello fellow kids did you know the Buddha was literally a hecking druid" type energy.
I wanna stress: This is fun to think about, but please don't treat this as meaningful analysis of real-world religions. I wanna demonstrate how quickly these terms break down when you're looking at actual historical metaphysics.
If we wanted to analyze biblical characters with DnD terms, every Charismatic Jewish Holy Man would be classified as a warlock. Moses is not a nebulous intermediary between gods and mortals. The man famously had a covenant. The whole covenant thing is a pretty important part of Judaism. But then again, that brings up problems for what the destruction of the first temple would mean for the classification of Judaism. Does the development of the rabbinical system suddenly turn everyone from warlocks into clerics? Within Judaism, the word of God is the law under-girding the whole of the world, including nature. Does that make every Rabbi a druid?
Jesus certainly wouldn't be a sorcerer, hes just a God. His power isn't hereditary, he is literally God. Calling Christ a sorcerer would be heresy.
Solomon is a wizard. The DnD wizard archetype is quite literally based on the biblical character of Solomon.
Samson is kinda a paladin? I'm not entirely sure what he would be classified as.
The Apostles are tricky, because their classification would probably change as the doctrine developed. Initially they would probably be classified as warlocks who "inherited" the laws and works of the new covenant with God, which is warlock metaphysics. But, several of them were kinda in charge of writing the new laws of the covenant, which I guess would be cleric metaphysics. Several of them also have priestly vows, which is paladin metaphysics.
John the Baptist is the only one on this list who could be considered a DnD Druid. Baptism as a rite probably has non-jewish pre-christian roots. I guess its the closest thing Christian metaphysics has to "nature magic." But my even suggesting that the power of baptism stems from a source other than God would be heresy.
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