it never hit me how shortsighted Heaven is until i realized they put a Principality (whose entire raison dāĆŖtre is to protect places and people from harm) in charge of Earth, and then were genuinely surprised when Armageddon came and said Principality went absolutely off-the-grid feral trying to stop it
Where did I read the sentence āyou canāt give a Principality a territory and then act surprised when they become territorialā
Honestly, given how Heaven reacts to everything throughout Good Omens, Iām 99% sure that they meant for Aziraphale to be guarding against the humans, and Aziraphale just had one of his āIām going to selectively hear those ordersā moments, and the rest was history.
āAnd,ā Gabriel said with a wink, āyouāre going to be a guardian in the human realm.ā
Aziraphale nodded and winked back.
As methods of communication go, a wink is quite versatile. You can say a lot with a wink. For example, Gabrielās wink meant:
Youāre going to go down to that earthly territory and make sure those hairless monkeys donāt do anything to get in the way of the divine plan and make sure they know what it is to fear the wrath of the Almighty and behave themselves as lesser beings should.
And as far as he was concerned, Aziraphaleās answering wink meant: I shall indeed descend to the earthly plane full of gross matter and hairless monkeys and be sure to keep them in their well-deserved place, beneath our divine heel.
Whereas Aziraphale, on the other hand, thought that Gabrielās wink was more along the lines of: You lucky beggar Aziraphale, getting to go down there and look after Godās new humans and all the exciting things they have to make and discover. Now you go down there and experience all the humans have to offer and protect them with your life.
And therefore, his own wink had meant: Message received and understood. The humans will never have a more stalwart guardian. Looking forward to seeing what sushi is when it comes around.
It took quite some time for angels to learn the important of using words when dispatching pedantic principalities on human-sitting duty.
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