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THIS FAAAAAACE
😭 I actually sobbed.
One way to interpret Crowley not having any negative reaction to being touched by Jesus while other demons can't even say his name or hear it without reality scratching noise is to see his fallen status as somewhat changed.
But an interpretation endlessly more in line with everything established about angels and demons, and heaven and hell, especially their bureaucratic character, and most importantly funnier is that all the demons in hell COULD in fact be naming Jesus alright, they just THINK they don't and the noise comes from an occult Alexa programmed to play a very slowed down Stravinsky in response.
Not a former demon
We say Azi belongs to Heaven, yet he doesn’t even notice how tightly Crowley clings to his side. Crowley likes to refuse his belongness to hell. And as we know, he lies.
He still calls Bz LORD Beelzebub.
He teaches Shax the demonic stuff on Earth.
He doesn't search for a place to live (I think he could do it easily, couldn't he?), he wants to live in old one, which belongs to Hell.
He is NOT NICE. Never. Nice is a 4-letter word, you-
We suppose he did much more than just asking questions, and I think that deep in his soul he doesn't regret anything. He was always going in his own way. Of course Crowley doesn't work for Hell anymore, and he is not like other demons. But he has fallen with others. He was chilling in the same Hell where Hastur, Ligur, Dagon were. He IS the part of Hell, and I think proud to be one.
No matter how much we consider Crowley as a sweet bun, he is a bad guy. And I also think he misses being one ofthem. In contrast to Bz he is attached to Hell. I like to imagine he had demon fellows until becoming a traitor and we could see a Prince of Hell Crowley just to mirror Aziraphale.
P.S. Bz tempted Crowley with the title of the Duke of Hell. I bet that dukes of hell has right to get along with angels :D
Heaven vs Hell
Which is worse? Can horrible be measured?
Should Aziraphale have Fallen to be with Crowley? Is he selfish for not choosing to Fall like Gabriel when Gabriel tried to be with Beez?
Would they have had a better chance to be together in Hell than being on 'opposite sides' on Earth?
I doubt it.
Even if Crowley earned some brownie points and maybe a dukedom for dragging an angel to Hell, how free would they actually be to be together? I bet that kind of behaviour would be frowned upon and deeply disliked by all other demons and we saw that many are happy to climb up however they can. Especially over others. their relationship would definitely be a liability. Besides, Crowley never wanted power in Hell and definitely didn't want to spend time there if he didn't have to.
So, was Crowley simply considerate to Aziraphale's attachment to being an angel when he decided not to take him to Hell after Aziraphale lied to Gabriel about Job's kids? Did he not take him Down just cos the angel 'wouldn't like it'?
"No more world. Just endless Heaven or, depending who won, endless Hell. Crowley didn't know which was worse. Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition."
I feel like when I see people saying Crowley is respecting Aziraphale's desire to be an angel and avoiding/being scared of Falling; which (they assume/insinuate) would make it easier for them to be together, that they don't really respect Aziraphale's decision the same way as Crowley does (if it even is one), but blame Aziraphale for being selfish and choosing God and his angel status over his love for Crowley. Blame Aziraphale for being patronising, thinking he's better than Crowley, thinking he's too 'good' to Fall. But at the same time Aziraphale also apparently thinks that Crowley shouldn't be in Hell and should be an angel again as his Falling was unfair. I see many takes that this is what Aziraphale thinks, but where do we see that? We only see Crowley musing and laments about his Fall. We don't see Aziraphale's, right?
We don't know why Crowley Fell.
We have only his vague words for it. Saying he didn't really mean to. We don't know if anyone Fell ever again after the War. It was very likely a threat used over the angels though. It didn't work for Gabriel. It must have been what he expected would happen. And that Beez would help him out. Other demons too scared of them to say anything. However, he was going to have his memory wiped instead. For basically a treason. Metatron, whether he truly suspected what was going on or not, outwitted him.
After Eden, Aziraphale MUST have expected punishment for giving away of his weapon. If not outright Falling.
How long did he spend in anxiety over this? Over what will happen to him?
And ok he's worried about Hell but how BAD is Heaven exactly? Is Aziraphale blind to how bad it is? Is he staying with them because he's loyal? Because he believes they are the light? The truth?
How long has it been since Aziraphale knew Heaven was not Good?
Apparently since before Angel!Crowley knew. We saw him being fearful over Crowley's flippant remarks in Before the Beginning.
"You'll be amazed at the kind of things they can do to you, down there," he said. "I imagine they're very similar to the sort of things they can do to one up there," said Aziraphale. "Come off it. Your lot get ineffable mercy," said Crowley sourly. "Yes? Did you ever visit Gomorrah?" "Sure," said the demon. "There was this great little tavern where you could get these terrific fermented date-palm cocktails with nutmeg and crushed lemongrass-" "I meant afterwards." "Oh."
Crowley loves his beautiful, soft, good, brave angel.
An angel who lies to his bosses when he thinks he can get away with it, who indulges in 'gross matter' even if it's frowned upon.
Crowley can't do good things openly. And we see him struggle with that.
Why would he want this for his angel who cares about strangers shooting each other in a game, saves babies in pushchairs and doves that accidentally asphyxiated in his sleeve, who waves away months of rent.
Yes, Heaven and Hell might both be awful places.
But that doesn't mean that good and bad things don't exist.
Nobody would call Muriel evil, right? Not even Jim was bad in S2. I don't know if Free Will has rubbed off on Aziraphale and Crowley or they were always different. Made different perhaps.
Although, without Free Will, how did Lucifer make his decisions against God?
But back to our Husbands.
Crowley hates Hell. He thinks it's an awful place and the demons are terrible. He's afraid of them and avoids them as much as he can.
Aziraphale is extremely uncomfortable in Heaven. He has disagreed with many things they do for literal aeons. Has warned Angel!Crowley immediately when they met and has trusted demon Crawley with his sword story as soon as he met him even thought he lies to literal God about the very same thing shortly after.
Aziraphale lies to the Supreme Archangel Gabriel and a bunch of others over Job. He's questioned them on those decisions as well. He wonders if God is really asking for what they are saying She's asking. Clearly he didn't have a way to ask Her directly back then.
And he couldn't get through to Her when the world was ending in S1 either. And he felt that couldn't be right.
Aziraphale and Crowley are pretty much nobodies in their respective jobs.
Neither angels not demons care for humans, apart from them making up their numbers of acquisitions. But our hereditary enemies are more than that from the moment they meet in Eden. And their bond only grows stronger.
The bond that brings them so much joy and so much anxiety and fear.
They stopped the Armageddon but it didn't give them the freedom they wanted, the one they deserve. They spent more time together, yes.
But. Heaven, who after all came up with the idea of Hell, found a way to separate them.
How much of this was also their personal decision and how much enforced, we won't find out until S3.
But Aziraphale didn't want Crowley to become an angel because he doesn't understand or see how bad Heaven is. He wanted him to come because he does.
And Aziraphale tried to say no to Metatron until Metatron brought Crowley into the conversation. Saying he knows about them. Their partnership. The thing Aziraphale feared more than anything else. Someone noticing just how deep their 'partnership' went.
Their love is what makes Aziraphale and Crowley powerful. The love that no one, not even Gabriel and Beelzebub can understand. And it is this love that will save them in the end. What has always saved them.
Not Aziraphale's angelhood or Crowley's demon status.
Aziraphale's home is the one he built for himself and Crowley.
It's not really a place though. It's a bookshop for a while, a moment in history, but his home is them, looking into each other's eyes forever.
Because no thing lasts forever. But they might. And they will.
Dammit…
#We were doing so nicely
#Ahh c’mon y’all
I know not to expect an answer (at least publicly)... but how many of these blogs are there? I'm presuming they're all run by the same person, but the meanwhile-in... notifications get me through my day at this point and I keep finding more! I'm aware of this, the bookshop, cottage, crowleys flat, and supreme archangel in heaven, am I missing any?
@meanwhile-in-hell is an indeependent and EVIL entitee run by DEMONS
unlyke the traytor blog @meanwhile-at-crowleys-flat
absolootlee unlyke archwankwings blog @meanwhile-in-heaven
entyrelee unlyke the book angle embassy blog @meanwhile-at-the-bookshop
defuhnutlee unlyke the coffee hyooman blog @meanwhile-at-the-coffeeshop
and is in a compleetlee alternuhtiv universe from @meanwhile-at-the-cottage
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Signs In Hell - Good Omens
Throughout the show, we see so many odd signs hung on the walls of Hell, but what do they actually say? Well, this post will tell you exactly that.
