[Alucard isn't wrong. Being a jokester and an irritant were central to Gabriel's personality. He's just underestimating the degree to which he was willing to commit to the bit.

Michael's own expression remains neutral. It wasn't the strangest thing he'd ever done.]

It might well have been both. My brother was always at his happiest when he could shock others with his most authentic self. I can assure you he was serious about the carpet, if nothing else. I was the one who had to rip it up.

[Among undoing many other questionable decorating decisions.]

Is cooking a hobby of yours?

[It's not always clear at a glance why people add what they do to their domains. For some it's places they miss, for others it's room to do what they can't out in the real world.]