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⏵ player information
name and pronouns: Molly, she/her
age: thirties
contact: sonopants⏵ character information
name: Muriel
canon: Good Omens, season 2 (with a side of CRAU from The City)
age: at least 6000+ years old
canon point: episode 5, after Crowley tricks Muriel into 'arresting' him
history: Muriel technically has a post on the Good Omens wiki, but it's like... two sentences long, so! Quick summary time!

Muriel is a junior angel at the absolute rock bottom of Heaven's angelic hierarchy. As a 37th Order Scrivener, they have spent most of their existence alone in an empty office, filing and sorting records. Every few centuries, if they were lucky, another angel might drop by the office to ask Muriel to look something up or to requisition a file, but that was the extent of their life until the day they discovered a corporeal human matchbox lying in one of Heaven's hallways. The matchbox was evidence that the missing Archangel Gabriel had recently visited Earth, and since this discovery lined up with a suspiciously large miracle coming from Earth, Muriel was sent down to London to spy on the resident traitor, Aziraphale. (In reality, Archangel Gabriel had turned up naked on poor Aziraphale's doorstep with no memory of who he was or where he'd come from, and when Aziraphale and Crowley used their powers to try and hide him, they failed their stealth checks so badly that they set off alarm bells in Heaven. Good job, guys!)

Unfortunately, most angels in Good Omens are not very familiar with modern-day humans, and Muriel was no exception. Muriel showed up in London disguised as a 'regular human police officer' in a blindingly white olde-timey police bobby costume, and approached their spying assignment with all the guile and stealth of a friendly golden retriever. They actually got along pretty well with Aziraphale and Crowley, who saw right through Muriel's paper-thin disguise and were easily able to misdirect them. Once things started popping off in episode 5, Crowley tricked Muriel into 'arresting' him so that he could sneak into Heaven and search through their files in order to figure out what had actually happened to Archangel Gabriel.

As far as CRAU history goes, Muriel ended up in The City shortly after this point. With their powers severely limited, Muriel experienced weird physical limitations like 'hunger' and 'exhaustion' for the very first time, tentatively experimented with eating food, and managed to make a few friends. They were even starting to get comfortable with the idea of not trying to pass as a human. Towards the end of their stay, everyone discovered that The City was a virtual simulation and that nobody knew where their real, physical bodies were, so Muriel is going to be very freaked out when they wake up in another weird city!


abilities: Angels in Good Omens are basically reality warpers. When they perform miracles, they can change the world around them to suit their needs. Muriel is not very powerful, due to their low ranking, so their miracles are pretty small and low-key. Think stuff like making their notebook and pencil appear out of thin air, changing their appearance on the fly, replaying songs on a jukebox from across the room, healing very minor injuries, etc.

There's also some baseline stuff that comes with the angelic territory:

- They can sense strong positive emotions, as well as other supernatural beings. Nothing specific, just general 'oh, you do not feel like a human being, you are Something Else' vibes
- They have wings... somewhere! Probably in another plane of existence, don't worry about it. They can come out for special occasions.
- They don't need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, and they don't age. Anything that could kill a regular human would destroy Muriel's body, but instead of dying, their soul would return to Heaven, and they'd have to fill out a lot of awkward paperwork in order to get a new earthly corporation.

Also, Muriel is the heavenly equivalent of a junior paralegal. They spend most of Good Omens wildly out of their depth on Earth, but they are actually very good at their job! Give Muriel some contracts to look through or files to sort, and they'll go absolutely ham.


personality:
Muriel is basically a golden retriever in an old-fashioned police helmet. They are an absolute sweetheart, all guileless enthusiasm and big cheerful grins, and they are thrilled to be out of their office and experiencing Earth for the first time. They are fascinated by mundane human things like 'books', 'geese' and 'cups of tea', and practically radiate earnest enthusiasm whenever they get to indulge their curiousity. On the other hand, Muriel is laughably bad a passing for a human, since most of their knowledge about humanity is secondhand, and they are equally terrible at things like lying and sarcasm, largely because they haven't had much practice. The Metatron somewhat unkindly calls Muriel 'the dim one', but they aren't stupid, just sort of gullible and very inexperienced when it comes to life outside of Heaven.

Deep down, Muriel is much lonelier than they'd like to admit. They've been alone in an empty office for most of their life, and whenever anyone is friendly to them or shows them a tiny bit of positive attention, they light up like a Christmas tree. They also have some big self-worth issues, and have internalized the idea that because of their low station in Heaven, they are a nobody.

Muriel is also just... low-key anxious, all the time. Heaven in Good Omens operates like a dysfunctional corporate office, and Muriel has spent their entire existence believing that Heaven is Righteous and Good, and therefore Justified in All Things (including capital letters). Questioning anything is enough to get an angel in deep, deep trouble. This is a problem, because Muriel has really been loving their time on Earth, and can't shake the feeling that they shouldn't be enjoying their assignment this much. Earth is colourful, chaotic, and messy, everything that their bosses in Heaven disapprove of, and whenever they catch themself being amazed by some new earthly thing, or being too friendly with the people they're meant to be spying on (it doesn't help that Aziraphale, a traitor, and Crowley, a demon, are much kinder to them than anyone in Heaven has ever been), they guiltily try to backtrack. It's hinted that without Heaven's influence, and with enough time to really grow into their independence, Muriel could turn out rebellious like Aziraphale and Crowley.

samples:

Muriel at the Etraya TDM
Muriel finally telling Jo what they are, from The City