Ouch This- This Is Better But Im Also So Glad I Have Therapy In 2 Hours

Ouch… this- this is better but I’m also so glad I have therapy in 2 hours

I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

Help, my vocal chords can’t take this.

When fandoms collide I just can’t cope

I’m probably not the first person to notice this, but I spotted Aziraphale and Crowley in the graphic novel 5 Worlds: The Amber Anthem!

I love the paintball scene in the show, it gives us so much. But I need to speak my truth and that is:

This scene is SO much funnier in book-verse. For real. If you haven't read it, this is one scene I wish they'd kept more of in the show.

These two idiots think they've legitimately been shot and that they are actively in the process of dying in a way that only beings that have never actually been discorporated would.

They spend literally several minutes ON THE GROUND, Crowley propped against a statue and Aziraphale literally falls on his ass into a Rhododendron bush.

Not until Crowley realizes their 'blood' is not the right color and tastes it(because of course that's what one does when they think they're bleeding out) does he consider there may be something else going on. And after which he still CRAWLS over to share this newly discovered information with Bushziraphale.

I’ve made a good omens playlist for crying, it consists of:

- a violin cover of Arcade

- Two by Sleeping at Last

- Can’t help falling in love by Haley reinheart

- CMWYL by Lovejoy

- Somewhere out there from Community

- Final and Good For You from Dear Evan Hansen

- the good omens opening title, because of course

- Somebody To Love, Good-old fashioned Lover-Boy, and Under Pressure by Queen

- Life on Mars? By David Bowie

- Look who’s inside again by Bo Burnham

- Lemon Boy by Cavetown

- Empty chairs at empty tables from les miserables (No I can’t spell)

- I dreamed a dream (specifically the Lucifer one with Tom Ellis)

- This House, Departures, and Beeswing by Grace Petrie

- Don’t let the sun go down on me and Sorry seems to be the hardest word from Rocketman

- Without You from RENT

- in case you don’t live forever by Ben Platt

- Why from Tick… Tick… BOOM

- A thousand years (also as a violin cover, but it doesn’t have to be)

- Scum by Lovejoy again

And finally

- Losing Face by Wilbur

IT HAS BEEN FURBISHED, IDK HOW TO MAKE IT PUBLIC JUST YET SO I'LL PUT THE LINK HERE: https://discord.gg/ys5b8sK5

I'LL WORK OUT HOW TO MAKE IT PUBLIC TOMORROW, MY BODY IS GOING LIMP AND IDK WHY

@princeloww @crowleys-dark-sunglasses @dil3mma @melted-bone-tea @jaykinarts you all said you'd like to join, so i'm @ing you just in case

We need a tota group chat where we all just talk about tota and rave about it together, I kinda wanna make one but idk if anyone would actually want to do that

Omg it’s so true… Eden Crowley is much more Richard II and pre-fall is absolutely Campbell

all those years of people imagining pre-fall crowley as richard II only for it to turn out that he was actually just campell from takin over the asylum...we were so blind....