You made me think of Raphael!Crowley so it's only fair to dump some feels in your ask box also top 5 ish? Can I get the top 5 times Demons were like ?!?!? at something that Raphael!Crowley did? Or maybe top 5 things they are like ?!?! because anyone else would've been punished but the dark council was like eh that's Crowley and moved on. Alternatively top 5 times an Angel saw him and was like ?!?! because does he understand what being a demon is?
Yay feels!!
Hmmm... which one to choose, which one... how about all of them mashed together? Yes, that works!
Crowley isn’t supposed to heal demons. It’s not the habit of demons to heal each other, if one of them is hurt--well--tough shit. But Crowley was a Healer and he still is. So he heals them. The demons in question are pleased, obviously, but also really fucking wary because What If He Expects Us To Do Something Now We Owe Him. It turns out to be an effective method of collecting favours and Crowley uses them as and when required.
Crowley once saved an entire bus of children in the 1970s from being exploded by a really shitty engine repair and very flammable paint on said bus. The council wasn’t pleased but when they called him in to explain his actions--something no other demon would have received the chance of before getting punished--his defence of “well, they’re kids, some of them might grow up to be the next dictator of wherever” was hilariously vague and lame and Everyone Knew It but they accepted it and he was let off. He wasn’t exactly wrong either, one of the kids became a quasi-dictator; ruining pharmaceutical companies exploiting poor regions of the world and not taking no for an answer.
Crowley comes across an angel that isn’t Aziraphale one day in the 14th century. It is one of the reasons he hates the 14th century in fact. Anyway, he comes across this angel who is performing a High Key miracle that Aziraphale can’t because he’s Busy Right Now, Sorry. The angel in question isn’t one Crowley recognises but they recognise him and are all ready to send him to hell or extinct him when a cart with a heavy load of grain and stuff overturns and traps a child. Before the angel can even blink, Crowley is off. He snaps and freezes time around the space long enough for him to pull the kid out from under the cart just before it’s fully trapped the kid and heals the injuries splintered wood has given her. It’s put down to a miraculous escape by the kid and the angel is too shocked and all What The Fuck to stop Crowley from high-tailing it out of there.
In general, because Crowley is a Fallen Archangel he technically outranks the Dark Council. So, even though he lets himself get dragged in front of them all the time, he legit could show his wings and be all “right, fuck off” and leave them all cowering and in shock. He doesn’t. Because he honestly doesn’t want the Hassle of them thinking him a Second In Command to Luci.
Aziraphale, upon reporting directly to heaven one time in the 17th century, overheard a group of angels clustered around a holy water cooler discussing demons and how Demons Are Meant To Behave. One of the angels recounts their own encounter with a demon in the 14th century and Aziraphale considers it quite novel. It doesn’t sound very demonic and, although he knows Crowley, it’s not quite Crowley behaviour either so he dismisses it and doesn’t even think to ask the demon when next he sees him. The irony is, of course, it actually was about Crowley and it actually is entirely typical of Crowley to do That Sort Of Thing.
Top 5 things?
