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I've seen multiple people who don't actually know what a precision puzzle platformer is cite the 2D Sonic the Hedgehog games as examples of the type, and now I'm trying to imagine a true precision puzzle platformer with Sonic the Hedgehog's fuckass aerial physics. The mental image is... stark.

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カワラヒワ（Oriental Greenfinch）

I mean, one thing I brought up before when talking specifically about Book Crowley, is that Fandoms sometimes kinda struggle with characters who have two (or more) seemingly-contradictory sides to their personalities (in Book Crowley's case, his coolness and his anxiety/fears). Either they get flattened into just the surface-level part of just one aspect of their personality, or this part is treated as nothing more than an unimportant 'facade' to their TRUE personality, when it's usually much more productive to see both sides of the character as 'real' and important.

So all of this to say, I do think that it's important to remember Book Aziraphale decides to kill Adam all on his own, it was his idea and his idea alone, and to accomplish that goal he tried to enlist Heaven and then lied and lied-by-omission to a pair of Humans to do his dirty work for him. This is obviously super thematically important to this story about moral ambiguity and an Angel and a Demon who became not quite Good and not quite Evil due to their contact with Humanity. It's a very important moment for Aziraphale's character in the Book and I fully understand the complaints when Adaptations reduce Aziraphale's agency in that decision for a maybe-more-standard 'Demon suggests something Morally Ambiguous, Angel doesn't want to" conflict.

But it's also important to remember that this doesn't make Book Aziraphale some sort of totally cold hardass pragmatist. The fact that it's the dorky Angel who gets a little too overeager to heal Bicycles who also resolved to kill the Antichrist while the Demon was still in "Step One: Get to Tadfield, Step Two: ?????????, Step Three: Profit" mode is pretty funny, but that doesn't mean that decision was easy or comfortable for Aziraphale. While most of his dithering and moral conflict is focused instead on his conflicting loyalties between Crowley and Heaven, he is also trying to convince himself Heaven could do the Child Murder in a way that's more… humane…

And he's also uncomfortable with actually Saving the Quiet Part At Loud in front of Heaven.

And then, of course, when it came down to it, he couldn't bring himself to do it. He might've been able to make peace with this worldwide Trolley Problem in the abstract, but it's quite a different story when you're seeing the kid in front of you and even your hitman is having second thoughts.

Which is also a very important moment to the Book's themes. Humanity has the potential to be more wicked than any Demon and kinder than any Angel. We have already heard a lot about how Human Evil can horrify Crowley, and here we have an example of Humans being the ones to inspire the Angel to be Good. And like, I know a lot of GO Fans have Problems with Shadwell and I certainly get it, but it is at least also thematically important that the Human that got Aziraphale to do the right thing was pretty unscrupulous not straightforwardly 'good' type. That's another one of Humanity's (and Free Will's) important qualities in Good Omens, people have a mixture of good and bad qualities, the same person can perform amazingly good and amazingly bad deeds.

Aziraphale can be hard, and he can be cold, but that little touch from Humanity got him to be Soft at just the right time to prevent them from killing a child totally unnecessarily and basically dooming the world.

Aziraphale's Arc in the Book is both about embracing moral grayness, but also about relearning his own Moral Center from the folks from whom true goodness and evilness really comes from, the Humans. That's why it culminates with him resolving to do something as selfless and seemingly as straightforwardly 'good' as a Heroic Sacrifice. Another showcase of how Aziraphale is good at making the Hard Decisions… Which he again, didn't actually need to make, but as I always say, it's the thought that counts.

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THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

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You have just lost use of this random kitchen item/ implement how screwed are you in terms of cooking?

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The wheel is completed but if you the mod want to change it at all feel free and I couldn't figure out how to get the link to work properly even un-anoned.

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You have just lost use of this random kitchen item/implement!

how screwed are you in terms of cooking?

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I'M SO SCREWED. SO SCREWED.

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ember island players' the boy in the iceberg is satirical anti war agitprop produced under the fire nation's most intense era of media censorship

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the ember island players will be vindicated by history

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needed to draw Armand on that motorcycle because those glasses are everything

Actually the idea of ranking Aziraphales on a scale of how much they can accept the concept of Child Murder for the Greater Good felt pretty solid to me at first but maybe it's more accurate to just say there are two Flavors of Aziraphale:

Initially opposed to Child Murder when Crowley present the idea, but ends up being the one closest to actually killing Adam (Show plays it slightly more toned-down, the Musical tones it up),

Came up with Child Murder for the Greater Good all on his own but when the time came to actually do it, and he saw this is even a moral line in the sand for friggin' Shadwell, that's when he hesitates (Book, Radio).

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Aziraphales Ranked By How Initially Willing They Are to Murder an Eleven-Year Old

Musical Aziraphale

Basically the only Aziraphale that tries to have an uncompromising moral position of 'Child Murder is Always Wrong'. He doesn't want Crowley to do it for him, he doesn't want the Witchfinder Army to it for them. He actually calls Shadwell after Crowley orders the 'Army' to go to Tadfield to tells them not to go to try and save the Kid Antichrist's life. He was apparently under the impression that if he contacts Heaven, there is a non-Child-Murder solution they can use to resolve the Armageddon Problem, even it will condemn him to being stuck Upstairs.

Although then again, he does end up being the one to suggest using that weird-ass 'Triple Displacement' rule to Retcon Adam out of exitance (with him and Crowley as necessary collateral damage). It's kinda presented as the more humane alternative to Shadwell just shooting Adam in the face, but also like… Jeez, Musical Aziraphale, are you only able to process the idea of killing this kid for the Greater Good if you're taking yourself (and Crowley) down with him? Maybe we do need a serious talk about that Martyr Complex of yours...

Show Aziraphale

Obviously kinda morally horrified at the idea of killing that kid from the get-go, and is very uncomfortable with killing in general, but he very quickly concedes to the idea that killing the Antichrist is necessary to save the world, he just doesn't want to feel personally responsible for this death. That's basically the whole conflict with him and Crowley, they both think someone should kill this kid but neither wants to do it. When he did resolve to tell Heaven about it (after a lot of hesitation), he did seem to be fully aware that what he wants Heaven to do to 'stop Armageddon' is kill Adam Young.

And then of course, he is the one who actually managed to pull the trigger…

Radio Aziraphale

Although he does apparently initially thinks (hopes?) he and Crowley are tracking down the Antichrist in hopes they can still influence him not to end the world….

While the Musical and the Show both had some variation of a plot beat where Crowley is the first to suggest killing the Antichrist and Aziraphale initially objects, here when Aziraphale does decide to have the Antichrist killed, it is pretty much 100% of his own volition. And he doesn't even seem to have a lot of internal drama about that decision. Although when it comes down to it, after Aziraphale sees Shadwell can't bring himself to do it, that's when he hesitates.

Book Aziraphale

Basically in the same category as Radio Aziraphale (or more accurately, Radio Aziraphale adapts that aspect of Book Aziraphale's storyline very closely to the source), but with maybe a few more hints of internal hesitation about the Concept of Child Murder…