OH MY GOD YOU GUYS LISTEN
What if… Crowley’s temptation of Eve was his Fall?
In the Bible, the “serpent” of the Garden is never actually called a demon; it’s referred to as if it’s just one of the many animals God created. It’s described as cunning and crafty, but not evil. It asks questions of Eve, getting her (and then Adam) to eat the fruit, but its motivation is never actually dissected.
It’s after the temptation is carried out that God curses the serpent to “crawl on its belly and eat dust.”
We know that Crowley was, at least partially, motivated in his temptation by orders from Hell (“they just said, get up there and make some trouble”), but we also know that he was already running with that crowd before he became a demon. “Lucifer and the guys,” and all that. In fact it was precisely because he hung around with them, with the “wrong people,” that he Fell, according to his own words. So what if he was in contact with Lucifer and other rebels and they told him, if he wanted to help them, to go see what trouble he could make in the Garden. And because rebellion, for Crowley, was about asking questions and seeking knowledge, he induced Eve to eat an apple from the Tree of Knowledge.
And when God found him out, She damned him, right there and then, in front of those humans??
What if, when Crowley scaled the wall, he was fresh from Falling? What if “well that went down like a lead balloon,” and “bit of an overreaction,” were Crowley’s desperate attempts to make light of his own barely-processed shock and grief at having just been cast out of Heaven? What if he hesitated before saying “Crawly” because it was the name he’d just been given? What if Aziraphale’s jab - “well obviously, you’re a demon, that’s what you do” - was the first time Crowley had actually heard himself referred to that way?
Dear lord, I just made my brain explode, I need to go lie down.
Why does this fandom keep insisting on hurting me this way
That is a shockingly interesting idea. Ooooffff. My heart.
I needed to lie down too this is so good. My god.
