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While rewatching Good Omens season 1 & 2 I counted how many times Crowley calls Aziraphale by his name and the nicknames he has for him.
Here are the results:
Angel: 21
Aziraphale: 14
Best Friend: 4
Idiot: 4
Clever: 1
Bastard: 1
The fact that Crowley calls him “angel” more than “Aziraphale”, is so romantic, cute and sweet.
Remember in season 1, when people were debating over Aziraphale & Crowley’s relationship. Despite Neil Gaiman, Michael Sheen and David Tennant confirming ineffable husbands being in love, there were still some that believed and argued they were just platonic best friends.
And then season 2 came and hit all of us like a truck.
We don’t know much about Crowley when he was angel. He didn’t mean to fall he just “sauntered vaguely downwards”. He hung around with the wrong people, “with Lucifer and the guys” and asked too many questions.
I’m gonna be focusing on him hanging around with the wrong people, specifically with Lucifer.
What if, when Crowley was an angel, he fell in love with Lucifer.
When I say “fell in love” I don’t mean actually falling in love with him, not the true love he felt for Aziraphale. Crowley might’ve had a teenager-like crush on Lucifer.
We don’t know how Lucifer canonically looks in the show, he might’ve been one of the most beautiful, handsome creatures ever.
Lucifer could’ve tricked Crowley to become a devil. Lucifer might’ve seduced him in a way. Lucifer could’ve said “You’re an Angel, I’m a Demon, this won’t work. But if you also become a demon we could be together.”
Crowley refused it at first. He wanted to be with Lucifer but he wasn’t ready to give up being an Angel.
It started off with small things. For example Lucifer could’ve made Crowley to believe the duties heaven gave him was boring and he could just lie about it. He might’ve told him he could lie all the time in hell, not having to do boring tasks.
But small things snowball into big things.
Overtime Crowley spending more time Lucifer and Lucifer messing with his mind, making him questioning everything about heaven causing him to fall, sorry I mean “sauntering vaguely downwards”.
We don’t know if Crowley hated becoming a demon but if he did have an adolescent crush on Lucifer, even though he didn’t mean to fall he might’ve been relieved to become a demon. He would’ve thought he had a chance with Lucifer. But when he went to Lucifer, Lucifer just told him “I just tricked you into becoming one of us, I never loved you.” breaking Crowley’s heart.
Kinda like a good girl falling in love with the bad boy but when she becomes a bad girl the bad boy leaves her. (In this scenario Crowley is the good girl and Lucifer is the bad boy.)
When he first met Aziraphale, he might’ve even thought about tricking him to become a demon like he once was. But when Aziraphale put his wing over him that made him change his mind.
Because when they first met it was time for the first rain. They didn’t know it if would rain holy water and the first rain was probably the holiest, it might’ve rained holy water. So Aziraphale covering Crowley with his wing, from Crowley’s POV would be Aziraphale protecting him.
He might’ve thought “This random Angel that I just met decided to protect me, I should leave him as an Angel.”
And/Or he might’ve become friends with Aziraphale to protect him from Lucifer. To make sure no more innocent angels like he once was fall because of getting tricked by a demon.
Credit to this beautiful animatic (that made me cry) for the idea:
"The worst he could say is no."
Aziraphale: "I forgive you."
As a fan of fictional characters whom I fancy,
I shall be gifting this quote to…
…Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
You can also gift this quote to your fictional crush!
Felt like writing. Actually writing it felt like the only fitting poetic fix.
I am distraught, I am in ruins, I am a shell of a man.
The main reason Crowley didn’t want Gabriel around was because the last time he saw him, Gabriel had tried to kill Aziraphale. Crowley was trying to protect Aziraphale.
We love (protective) Crowley protecting his angel.
I LOVED the movie.
I love how different and real this felt compared to most hero movies. There was no scene where Sir Nicholas Winton delivered an emotional heroic speech to a crowd to get help and donations (given the time period and place they were in, that would’ve been incredibly unrealistic as freedom of speech was limited). “Show, not tell” was achieved beautifully in this film. Instead of everything working out in a night, they showed Nicky, Doreen and Trevor working long hours, racing time day and night.
Instead of Sir Winton saying he loved and cared about kids, they showed it by him photographing kids and doing everything within his power to find foster homes for them. I also loved the scene where he gives kids small pieces of chocolate and how happy the kids look during that scene. It also makes the viewers realise how small things most take for granted, such as chocolate, can be a privilege to some and how fortunate we are to have it.
I also loved how they showed Sir Winton grieving the loss of the children they couldn’t save. The producers didn’t change it to a perfect happy ending where everyone lives. Instead, they mentioned what happened to those who weren’t as fortunate, but the 669 lives they rescued are worth celebrating.
I also appreciate at the end of the movie, they told us what happened to Nicky’s friends. They weren’t just forgotten; instead, they were mentioned without too much screen time, as this movie is about Sir Nicholas Winton and the children he saved.