just some headcannons i had of the puppy dawg colonel because its juneleb!
caleb keeps a photo of you in his wallet!!!! he didn't know he could do this but after hearing his subordinates do that with their wives / gfs and seeing it once in an old movie you had put up one night, he secretly printed out multiple photos of yours. fat wallet? this man's currency is your photocards.
similar to these photos, he screenshots or snips out any article of the Association that mentions you. "hunters' group successful in clearing out area xx-yy" with your team's photo on the front page that caleb meticulously cuts/crops to include only your face. all of this is stored in a usb drive he hides in his office.
almost all divisions in the fleet are suspicious the colonel has a girlfriend. as adjutant you overheard many subordinates even put bets on how long their colonel will take to cheat on his "gf" with ...you. they're eyeing his behaviour whenever you're with him and even tried to ask the colonel himself before deciding against it for their safety.
caleb doesn't send letters. well, not exactly. he sends rare gifts that the fleet found while inside the deepspace tunnel usually along with the consistent "a rare gem like you <3" serenades. you're concerned with how many valuable materials are actually stored in your home back in skyhaven in the guise of a gift. you're scared to even touch them.
his subordinates are afraid of walking in his office. not because he's intimidating, but the paranoia of bumping into his model aircraft figures (some of which you gifted him) and breaking them scares them more than being fired(pun intended).
some caleb based mc and LIs ideas too.
you wonder how far the fleet's influence goes until one day you find some of onychinus' customers are names you've read in caleb's reports.
the association and fleet has never had explicit meetings or talks, but you're shocked to hear your partner share the fleet's internal politics that you've overheard caleb talk about on the phone.
thankfully you weren't in your hunters' uniform when a fleet's lower rank officer bumped into you at akso hospital. intrigue grows when you're later notified by your primary care physician that he'll be in up in skyhaven again for a week for some highly confidential work.
caleb agrees to your simple suggestion of enhancing the fleet's common room with some brighter and comforting decor. next time you visit, you can't help but analyze where have you seen such paint strokes on a canvas before.
So, I feel like I’m losing my mind. I keep seeing metas about how Aziraphale wants Crowley to return to Heaven and be an angel again because he wants them to be on the same side/be good/change/etc., etc., etc. but I don’t see that at all. I actually see it as the very opposite.
Aziraphale loves Crowley just as he is. But there’s something more. Something huge.
Aziraphale loves Crowley and because he is an angel who is stuck in seeing things as black and white, he constantly praises Crowley for being nice. For being good. For being kind.
Aziraphale has watched Crowley on and off for 6,000 years. He watched him thwart the plans of Heaven and Hell because it was unjust. He spared the lives of innocents. He did small things that made Aziraphale happy just because (like making Hamlet successful and saving valuable books). And because Aziraphale sees things in black and white, he sees all the things Crowley has done as nice, as good, as kind.
Crowley vehemently attests he’s not nice or good or kind.
He’s not exactly wrong nor is he lying when he says this. When Crowley spares goats during a cruel bet over a righteous man and swallowing laudanum to prevent a suicide, when he prevents Armageddon by working with Aziraphale and stopping the Anti-Christ from being the Anti-Christ, he’s not doing the nice/good/kind thing.
He’s doing the right thing.
Crowley chooses to do the right thing without hesitation. He is better than all of Heaven and Hell who have callous and dispassionate view of all existence because he questions, because he makes choices. Crowley sees the world for all its messiness and he sees himself. He sees a place where he fits in. He sees the blurred edges.
And Aziraphale sees that, even if seeing the blurred edges is hard for him.
But here’s the thing that Aziraphale can’t voice.
It’s the reason why he told Crowley about being allowed to return to Heaven and become an angel again. He doesn’t want Crowley to change. He doesn’t think Crowley is flawed. Or not enough.
It’s something that is so monumental that it cannot be put into words. Because to put it into words would be more than blasphemy. It’s down right unthinkable for anyone in Heaven, Hell, or Earth to say what Aziraphale knows deep in his soul.
God was wrong to cast out Crowley.
Aziraphale believes Crowley can/should return to Heaven because he knows that Crowley should never have fallen in the first place. He wants him to be forgiven because when Crowley fell it was unjust. Aziraphale is trying to correct a mistake. He’s trying to do the right thing.
Yes, Crowley would never accept returning to Heaven. And Aziraphale was wrong to even suggest it (although that conversation is another can of worms to unpack).
Aziraphale loves Crowley. He loves him exactly as he is. He doesn’t want him to change. Aziraphale knows that Crowley the best of all of them. He wants to change Heaven because of it. Because God was wrong and Aziraphale knows it.
Aziraphale may have difficulty seeing beyond black and white, but when it comes to Crowley he sees everything crystal clear and in vivid color.
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