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What do you guys think of the conversation between Gabrielle and Ares in Seeds of Faith when he tries to seduce Gabrielle into joining him as a Goddess? I never really gave it much thought, because Canon-Gabrielle would never fall for Ares' mind games. But hypothetically speaking, this could be so good... I'm thinking of a 3 - 5 episodes story arc of Gabrielle being a Goddess under Ares' wing, trying to make the world a better place by waging war on allegedly evil people (which in truth would be the followers of Eli or other innocent folks).
Xena would be totally devastated and trying to get through to Gabrielle while Gab explains her that she's finally where she always wante to be. Lots of tension and lots of angst, with some G/A action to top it off.

Not sure if it would destroy her character. Granted, she's supposed to be the light to bring Xena out of the dark, and I guess having her slay the innocent would have an impact on that. But dialectically speaking, it could also add to her character if we assume that her light is only as bright because she has a pretty strong dark side. The question is, would she become to much of a 2nd Xena? But like you said, Xena turned towards light so it would have been a perfect opportunity to allow Gabrielle to go into the other direction for a while.

My interpretation is that he is offering her godhood when he says:
"Imagine-- how it could be-- if you had the power to save him. Let me show you-- what it feels like. That is how I feel-- every moment-- of every day. It is the power of the gods. And with it-- you can change the world."
(whoosh.org)

Anyway, the goddess thing is what really does it for me...hehe. I just like the idea of Gabrielle having so much power. But after sleeping a night over it, I have to say that Jolly was right about Gabrielle's character being destroyed if she'd take it too far. She'd become the exact same thing as Xena and would no longer be able to be Xena's antithesis (or however you would describe her role).

What I think could work, is something like this: Ares makes Gabrielle a goddess because a) he is very fond of her () and b) he knows that Xena will be lost without her, and thus won't be able to bring forth the Twilight. Not knowing about any of this, Gabrielle examines her new power. In her quest for doing good she tries to help people. But the power given to her is evil, so for every good deed she does, something bad happens in return. She plots for what she thinks is the ultimate good thing to bring peace to Earth, but unbeknownst to her she's working on the annihilation of human kind. Or at least the extinction of the followers of Eli. Either way, the Twilight would never happen, which was Ares' intention all along.
Xena knows all about this and tries desperately to get through to Gabrielle, who doesn't understand how doing good can be bad (kinda like in Devi). I definitely could give myself a few episodes of just going back and forth on this. And at the end of the story, when all seems lost, we get one of those infamous last-five-minutes plot twists with Ares having a change of heart and confessing his intentions to Gabrielle because he loves her too much to destroy her soul for the sake of the Gods.

The downside to this is, that it would probably end G&A's relationship permanently. But Jeebus, while it lasts we would get a lot of G/A action. Perhaps even some R n' R in the horizontal department, though I'm not sure how likely that would be to happen (we've discussed the reasons before).