If you know me, you know I’m in love with Crowley’s 2010s look. I like to think this is an illustration of a stolen moment, perhaps right after reporting to Heaven and Hell respectively. They get off the No. 19 bus, each at a different stop so as not to arouse suspicion, Crowley first then Aziraphale. Crowley saunters down the street, hands in his pockets, and pretends to be looking at all the window displays of this seasons’ fashions. Aziraphale walks briskly to catch him, and tells himself that is not why he is walking briskly. They meet again in front of Harrods. “When do you have to go back to the Dowlings?”
“Six tonight, Warlock needs his supper.”
“Not much time then.”
There’s isn’t much time, not for them or for anyone else. The world is ending in a scant few years, after all. But Crowley follows Aziraphale to the bookshop all the same, lets him take his sunglasses in one trembling hand, leans into him with a desperation that is too dangerous to be put into words…
Bank teller Aziraphale had a lovely first date with a man he met at a flower shop a few days earlier. Why, he was practically walking on air. But everything came crashing back to earth when four criminals arrived at the bank the next day with heavy ammunition. Crowley knew he should have asked Aziraphale what he did for a living…
Um anyways! How about lots of cliche Gabriel as a cop, Beelzebub running the operation, Aziraphale having to negotiate, Crowley turning informant. I want it all.
Voice of God: Demons are not “morning people”. Even coffee is sometimes not enough to rouse a demon from their state of rest. “Booping their snoot” however does appear to have that waking capability. (Adam Young discovered this fact by booping the snoot of his beloved hell hound and passed the information on to Aziraphale.)
Imagine spending thousands upon thousands of years being a demon, being the outcast, being the fallen, being the ‘bad guy’, being the one that everyone hates, and you still come around to unshackle an angel when he’s tied down, because even though you’ve fallen, you’ve also fallen in love, and you know that the angel would do the same for you, not even out of love, but because that’s what the angels do, that’s why they exist, they’re supposed to be the ones unshackling the damned and setting people free, and instead, after all of those millennia of being told that your very existence is wrong, you get a glimpse of the other side, and the first thing they do…is shackle the damned.
Everyone who talks about Crowley’s anger in this scene talks about it from the context that he loves Aziraphale and hated the fact that they would have put the angel through this, and I think that’s definitely the case, but I can also just imagine how apoplectic he must feel, knowing that he’s spent millennia wondering what would have happened if he hadn’t fallen, lamenting over the fact that he didn’t mean to fall, always addressing God as if She might be apt to give him another chance, only to have the curtain pulled back, revealing that the side of the angels isthe antithesis of his values…but in all the wrong ways.
No wonder he looks ready to reduce heaven to ash and brimstone.
This is a very valid point. He’s taking the realization that he’s more righteous than Heaven better than expected…
(Don’t let him tempt you to take the tree topper…)
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Close-ups of Crowley, that wily old serpent
I was going to put shades and a tie on him, but they looked silly. The Roman laurels turned into our tree garland when that also looked silly.
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I also made some GO themed ornaments in addition to the character ornamentshubby and I made a week ago.
Crowley’s nebula and plants, Aziraphale’s sushi and tartan (or as close as I could get), an apple and lion for Eden and the ark. I was gonna add a unicorn, but couldn’t find fabric that wasn’t bright pink.
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All in all, it was a fun project. Thanks to @neil-gaiman, Sir Terry Pratchett, and the amazing actors and crew who brought this world to life and inspired one of my favorite Christmas trees we’ve done :)
Part of our Good Omens Christmas tree this year. Dave drew and I colored some shrinky dink ornaments using sharpies and the (very) limited color pencils we have. Sorry for the pics. Every camera we own sucks.
I originally tried using our daughter’s markers, but the colors didn’t come out as good as with the pencils.
I’m making more ornaments (and hopefully a plush Crowley snake) to put on the tree. I’ll post pics when I’m done :)
crawley tells zira he’s picked out a new name for himself. aziraphale tries to guess what it is. one of his suggestions are names for the princes of hell the other one is Mephistopheles from faust. now, leaving aside the fact aziraphale picks the name of one of the princes of hell for his friends new name, only one of which we see in the story (beelzebub) do you know exactly what name is???
FREAKING ASMODEUS. THE DEMON OF LUST.
JFC YOU TWO ARE JUST NOT SUBTLE AT ALL.
its been 4000 years at this point MAYBE you could just admit you like each other already.
i do really wana talk about how aziraphales first thought was “ plasterer of lies “ or “sex god.”
also does this mean Crowley was someone important in heaven if he could be a prince of hell? i do kinda subscribe to the crowley as raphael fan theory and i guess this could feed into that bUT ALSO i guess he could have been Raguel the archangel of love. who knows. but its still fun to speculate
Have you seen this boi walk?
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
And considering what Crowley does when presented with a giant stripper pole pin, I’d say Aziraphale had a good guess.
We were talking about the implication in the book where Crowley does not wear shoes and his snakeskin shoes are his feet…and then I said, what if his scales are like those reversible sequin pillows and one side is a shoe and the other side is feet
OKAY I NEED OP TO KNOW I JUST SPENT THREE MINUTES CRY LAUGHING AT ZIRAS FUCKING EYES IN THE LAST PIC
Same!
Same, but then I was all “are his clothes the same way?” and that led me to picturing what would happen if someone brushed past him the wrong way and now I can’t stop laughing HELP
i’m in good company as hubby was already a fan of both
he bought me the show so i may make gifs idk
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Have you read the Good Omens book?
No, I haven’t. I haven’t had the desire to read an actual book since my daughter was born 5 years ago. However, I read a lot of fanfiction. Maybe I’ll pick it up when I get more than half an hour at a time to myself.
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Nice and Accurate GO bitmojis
Our dumb Crowley and Aziraphale bitmojis from Snapchat
