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tfw you realize Aziraphale isn’t the one with a thing for bad boys, Crowley is.
Listen hear me out but Crowley loves Aziraphale because, not so far below the surface, he’s the rebellious conscientious objector with a genuine interest in other peoples’ well-being that Crowley once thought Lucifer was (second major disappointment of his existence).
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Moments I adore in Good Omens (TV series)
Sometimes I just randomly think of a moment from 'A Companion to Owls' and then my brain hops to another, then another, and I love how rich and wonderful (and silly!) that single episode of television is. It's its own little story and often exists quite on its own in my mind but I'm going to start with the closing shot - this moment, the understanding, the weight and significance of it as Aziraphale and Crowley sit side by side, together yet quite alone, is one of the most beautiful and palpable to me and I adore it.
(I plan to start posting these little moments from episodes as often as they pop into my head - they're in no particular order!)
Book!Crowley is Cool, but he’s also so so afraid and so stressed and so nervous all the time, and that’s actually what makes him so Cool.
I keep coming back to glibly describing the Ineffable Husbands’ arcs in the book as something along the lines of“Aziraphale gave up on an Eternal Heaven for interesting books and fine wine, Crowley faced Hell’s Wrath for good food and long naps”. The exact Earthly Delights aren’t important, there’s plenty of intersection anyways, but their relation to their respective sides is.
Book Aziraphale’s arc is about disconnecting himself from Heaven ideologically. He was already somewhat jaded about Heaven and aware that they’re Not So Different from Hell in some areas (“You'll be amazed at the kind of things they can do to you, down there.” ”I imagine they're very similar to the sort of things they can do to one up there.”) and disobeying his side obviously cannot be easy or safe for him - but the thing that's most important to his arc is that he did still keep insisting Heaven is fundamentally Good on some level, that Heaven’s victory in the Final Battle is assured and it’ll bring about a better world.
But for the sake of his individual hedonistic pleasures, he started working against this abstract ideas of a 'better world' and Heaven's ideas of 'goodness'. Because what's the point of an ideal world if it has no sushi restaurants or CDs? Gradually also getting more rebellious and morally disillusioned with his 'Side' and doing more 'unheavenly' and morally-gray things, until he was disparaging Heaven openly through the mouth of a preacher and passive-aggressively challenging the Metatron's authority at the Airfield.
And Crowley... well, the difference here was clear from the Beginning.
Aziraphale's worries about doing 'the wrong thing' seem to be mostly about... how he wants to make the right decisions because the right decisions are good. I'm sure he's got more practical worries about disobeying orders, but the focus is on the internal conflict between Heaven's orders and his personal sense of morality. Crowley however... doesn't want to have done the 'right thing', because it can get him into troubles.
Crowley always knew he’s working for ‘the Bad Guys’. He’s not totally ideologically disconnected from Hell either (‘“But it nearly worked," snapped Crowley, feeling he should stick up for the old firm.’) but he’s fully aware of what it means to be a Demon working for Hell tempting people into Evil deeds so that their Souls can be sent to Eternal Damnation. And he's got layers upon layers of rationalization and justifications for it, and he has found genuine passion and pride in his unique modernized form of sin-spreading that feels more mischievous than outright harmful, but underneath it all, Crowley just knows he's gotta keep pleasing Hell, or else.
His cool, confident, laid-back attitude is not exactly a façade, but it serves for a good counterbalance to what happens whenever he has to interact with his higher-ups (lower-ups?). Where even if he tries to still play it up like he's Cool Guy Crowley and he's totally chill and smug with higher-raking Demons, like Hastur and Ligur, the moment they break away from the area he feels is 'safe' (his MO as a tempter, in which he already proven himself to the Management) and shift to the End of Days, he clamps up and becomes nervous and 'haunted'. The narration, when describing his POV, sometimes tries to underplay it as just annoyance or frustration, the way that it tries to underplay his guilt in meddling in the affairs of Humans before the M25 and Adam plop that guilt right in front of his face, the way it tries to underplay his relationship with Aziraphale as a reluctant Arrangement of convenience despite all evidence to the contrary, but…
But Crowley’s fears about Hell are the most overt, probably because, well, his entire part of the plot is about being forced to accomplish a Very Important Task for his bosses (unlike Aziraphale, who until his ‘summons’ to the Final Battle, was perusing a personal side-quest no one in Heaven gave a shit about), and so they’re pretty much always breathing down his neck.
That’s what this whole ‘a Demon can’t have Free Will’ thing is really about. It’s less about him being Ontologically Evil, and more about, well, the Cold War Spy metaphor, he’s forever stuck in a shitty morally-compromising job, that despite all of the perks that allow him to live his affluent and effortlessly cool life, he could not leave, escape, disobey or fail at without suffering horrible horrible consequences.
But when faced with the prospect of losing Earth, and all of the experiences that come from living on it, even the most basic ones like a long sleep after a heavy meal, he tries anyway. He knows the consequences, he feels helpless and terrified, but he still risks Hell’s Wrath for food and naps.
...Well, his first plan is one that he convinced himself is relatively ‘safe’. An underhanded, cowardly trick worthy of one of Hell’s best tempters, but also informed by his very Earthly understanding of how the world works. If he performs his job as the Antichrist’s ‘Godfather’ as exemplary as he’s expected to, but places Aziraphale in to ‘thwart’ him then Armageddon could fail without Hell being able to place the blame on him. Probably. Hopefully.
And when it all falls apart and Hell does start coming for him. Well, first of all, it’s important that it’s in the same sequence that introduces us to Crowley’s idea of indoor gardening, which within the context of the book is absolutely him venting what he feels about the way Hell treats him…
And Crowley keeping that thermos of Holy Water in his flat shows that he’s been clearly paranoid of something like that happening for a while now. It’s a fear that’s been growing for longer than just the eleven years of the plot. And now it’s coming true. And Crowley has no choice but to face it. And he succeeds. Like, that’s part of what’s important about...
Crowley was outnumbered against two more powerful Demons. He was scared and he was underpowered and he faced one of his constant nightmare scenarios and he won. He outsmarted these two technically-more-powerful Demons with a little bit of foresight and a goofy pop-culture reference and a clever use of his natural Demonic abilities but mostly his natural (and very Human) cunning and knowledge of then-modern technology and his ability to play it cool even when he is scared and then he WON.
And from here on out, his road to Tadfield, to trying to stop the Apocalypse openly and directly, is basically him doing increasingly brazen and brave things, increasingly facing even more of his fears now that he's already got Hell pissed and after him. First trying to find Aziraphale at the burning Bookshop (clearly not as dangerous to him as it would be to a normal Human, but I won't say there was no risk of Discoporation), and then resigning himself to sacrificing the Bentley, and then crossing through the M25...
Like, the reason why this famous quote is so important...
Is because Crowley's optimism is truly 'underneath it all'. It's absolutely not self-evident. His inner monologue is always full of anxiety and fears and worst-case scenarios leaking through, thinking about how he can do nothing to stop Armageddon, thinking about how screwed he'd be if Hell finds out he fucked up Armageddon, thinking about how screwed up he is now that Hell found out that he fucked up Armageddon. One of the lines proceeding this one is literally "All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel-or if there was, it was an oncoming train." For the most part he might seem like a total pessimist, but he just... keeps going. He's cynical (that's his job!) and he's terrified and he just keeps going!
It's, y'know, layers. On the surface Crowley is this confident, laid-back and cool Demon that loves excitement and is costing through life not worried about anything, traffic cops chasing him around for speeding is just good fun so he can dunk on them. Below that, he's stressed out and scared, fretting about what will happen to him if he falls out of relative favor in Hell. But below even that, he is an optimist. A confident and utterly cool optimist.
And then he makes it to the Airfield, in the coolest way he possibly could, and... like, there are so many little character moments during the Airfield Climax. His insistence, with 'fatalistic gloom' that Adam stopping Armageddon wouldn't make a difference, but then his glee when he realizes that Aziraphale had found an out and joining him, even though it's clear how afraid he is of Beelzebub and that he is pissed with him... And then Satan comes.
Aziraphale's decision to stay and fight Satan is about his ideological disillusionment arc. Sure, fighting Satan might technically seem Angelic, but he makes it clear that he does it to 'make up' for all the troubles he caused Humanity as a representative of Heaven, explictly putting his 'Job' and Crowley's 'Job' as equally problematic, with no attempt to make himself morally superior. But for Crowley, when Aziraphale asks him to stay and help him fight, Crowley realizes that with all of his greatest fears already realized, all of his worst-case-scenarios having already come true, with nothing more to lose (well, I suppose he's still got Aziraphale to lose, but since the Angel already made up his mind to try and fight the Adversary, it's not like Crowley can do anything to stop that)... He is actually 'free' now.
Crowley realizes that deep down, he can and he wants to do such a brave and selfless thing.
Well, at the end, he doesn’t actually need to, but, like, it’s the thought that counts, right?
I think there’s a tendency in Fandom to treat characters with a seemingly self-contradictory nature as either just one side of their character or the other. Either flattened to their surface-level characterization or people do notice their hidden depths, but treat everything around it as a false facade and not another essential element of their character (this happens to poor Book Aziraphale as well). Book Crowley isn’t just the laid-back, confident demon he seems on the surface, or just a terrified nervous wreck pretending to be cool and confident, he is both. His ‘Cool’ attitude helps him cope with his fears and he is so utterly, utterly Cool not despite of, but because he’s so afraid.
Michael once again reminds us what an incredible actor he's always been. This single shot holds all the pain and horror of war.
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A lot of the lore questions can be answered with, "yes, Spike is just a fucking freak."
Like, yeah vampires don't get much out of eating, won't risk going out during the day, wouldn't have the inner compass to seek out a soul, wouldn't stand by a mad Drusilla for centuries, would avoid slayers at all cost, and wouldn't aid a slayer once neutered for funsies.
Spike is just a fucking freak. A weirdo. Darla and Angel couldn't stand him in part due to the fact that something just is sideways in that man's head. No wonder him and Drusilla got on like a house on fire, they both have something deeply wrong with them.
And yeah, there's that whole demon taking the human as a template theory, and Spike being hedonism personified, and I'm well aware.
But like, I think using Spike as any kind of metric is a mistake because he is simply like that.
Spike is a kinked up, adrenaline junkie, loser, who sees common sense and sprints the other way with nothing but a blanket for holes for cover. It's just him, his purple shampoo, and his boredom zooming through the undead existence.
I have many thoughts about how much of the BtVS vampire lore as stated by the Council and Angel is either just wrong or twisted or misinterpreted, but simultaneously I can't deny that also Spike is just a fucking freak.
There’s so much to unpack here:
Pack of Beakers
Goth Beaker
The Beaker snitching and pointing out the photographer
The Beaker that’s about to unload on the photographer
The terminator strut before the ass whooping and you know he’s moving at speed because of the blur
The ominous feeling that you know this is 3 in the morning
Gods I fucking love this post. So hard. Fuck.
And who forgot again that it's Thursday? 't's meeee. But I have a weird one for you today. I hope you'll like it; it's more a fic than it is a game. This was written before s3 was out, so it's not compliant with s3.
⛓️ Slay the Principality 🗡️
Interactive Fanfic/Game 🎮 Canon Divergent 🐦⬛ Angst & Happy Ending
“You’re on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Principality. You’re here to slay him. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world.” ~ ~ ~ Crowley doesn't remember how he got here or who this Principality is, but he has a funny feeling that they've met before - 6000 years ago, again and again and again. The question is: Will he save the world or will he save the love of his life? Or will he find a way to save both? It's up to you. (An interactive fanfic.)
This is not a fanfic. This is not a videogame (yet). It's something in between. It's my first Choose Your Own Adventure fic, it has only one path and one ending - so it's more of a regular fanfic with gamified elements. (You CAN get lost and "lose", but I made it in a way that it doesn't give you an unhappy ending. Can't say more because spoilers!)
The premise is that you play Crowley and decide what he does when faced with the Almighty ordering him to slay a principality.
I made a flow-chart instead of an outline. It's mental. There's several paths and endings already outlined, and I will add them as soon as The Yelp Chronicles are finished.
My personal story behind this fic
One of all our favourite Good Omens fanartists, @sightkeeper, mentioned on bluesky that someone should write a Good Omens Slay the Princess AU. And... well, now that I think about it, this is not that lmao. Uuuh, it was supposed to be but I almost always fall back to canon-compliance when the opportunity arises. (Sorry!)
There's no need to know anything about Slay the Princess to read this. In fact, it won't help you at all in solving if you do.
Anyway, I was planning on playing Slay the Princess anyway, and after I did, I thought: Okay, yeah... I have ideas! Unfortunately, I was in between other writing duties. And that's why I only wrote one ending yet. But I have never forgotten, I promise! They're coming! Even though I don't think anybody still waits for them haha
I was afraid that a bad ending would depress someone, so while there is currently a way to... uh... well, fuck it up for Crowley, it's not permanent even in the context of fic. The problem is, that I may have hidden the clues to what you need to say or do a little too well, and a lot of people ran along the "bad" path at first before arriving at the happy end. Maybe I will also come back to that finished path and make it a little more obvious?
All that is to say: I am very much looking forward to writing the other paths and endings for this, to give you more choices. There are some that I'm looking forward to for *evil tehehe* reasons and others I'm looking forward to for *silly tehehe* reasons.
Each story-path is supposed to be a different genre. We'll see how well I'll manage!
The best part of it...
It's not a very popular fic. Maybe people don't like interactive fics? Maybe people are afraid they need to know Slay the Princess (it really wouldn't even help if you did know it)? Maybe I made a bad job of making people read that they need to click a choice and not "next chapter" for it to make any sense?
Or maybe it's just bad. I don't know. I hope not. I had a lot of fun writing it. And of all my fics, reading the comments to this one is by far the most entertaining.
My favourite one was one lovely person commenting on a choice early on something along the lines of: "Damn, I wish choice X wasn't blocked off..." (because I haven't written that ending yet and I don't want anyone to get stuck, so those choices are blocked off for now) "... not that I would ever done X, but it sounds fun." Then, later, you do get choice X again, and they, who would "not ever do X", wrote "Haha, I think I will do X now." One chapter later: "OH MY GOD, CROWLEY REALLY DID X! I DID NOT THINK YOU WOULD LET ME DO THAT". 😂 I think that was my favourite chain of comments I ever received.
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You can read / play Slay the Principality here, on ao3! Please read the instructions first. They are very short but important.
Maybe this is worth remembering.
Good Omens was never really a story about immortality.
It was a story about choice.
For six thousand years, an angel and a demon kept choosing kindness over cruelty, people over systems, curiosity over obedience, and each other over loneliness.
Whether one loves the ending, hates it, accepts it, or is still trying to understand it, those choices still happened.
Nothing can take them away.
The book still exists. The series still exists. The conversations still exist. The characters still exist in the memories of millions of people.
Stories do not become meaningless because they end.
In some ways, endings are what give stories meaning.
Many fans are grieving because Aziraphale and Crowley mattered to them. That grief is real. It comes from love, from years of laughter, comfort, friendship, hope, and recognition.
But perhaps the final lesson of Good Omens is not that nothing lasts…
The Earth mattered because it was fragile.
Human lives mattered because they were finite.
Moments mattered because they could be lost.
And love mattered because it was chosen, again and again, despite that knowledge.
Is the story finished?
Maybe.
Or maybe stories never truly end.
People keep reading them. Keep discussing them. Keep arguing with them. Keep finding new meanings in them.
As long as someone looks up at the night sky and thinks about an angel, a demon, a bookshop, a Bentley, a nightingale, or a cup of tea, some part of Good Omens is still alive.
Not because of miracles.
Because stories are one of the ways human beings refuse to let beautiful things disappear.
And that, I think, would have made both Aziraphale and Crowley smile.
Even if the story has ended, the love for the story does not have to end with it. 🌍🌞💫💞✨🌠🃏🥂💚
GOOD OMENS "The Finale"
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