#losing the antichrist
theniceandaccurategoodomensblog:
hastur and ligur get mad at crowley for losing the antichrist like they would’ve succeeded. but in reality they are also idiots.
As I’ve pointed out before, Crowley didn’t lose the Antichrist. The nuns did. Crowley could’ve stuck around and made sure after handing him off, but that wasn’t specifically part of his assignment. Not that any of this would’ve mattered to Satan or the Dark Council when they were looking for people to blame, of course - it was his assignment, therefore anything that went wrong at any point was his fault. But the reality is it would’ve happened to any other demon who’d been tasked with it. Especially Hastur. I get a feeling he can barely even tell humans apart. They don’t have specific patterns of boils on their faces or frogs on their heads, how are you supposed to remember faces?
Also- we need to take seriously the possibility that Adam’s natural defence thingie sensed Crowley’s dislike of the whole mission and the fact that he was considering solving the problem by disposing of Adam and kicked in– manipulating the world in order to hide Adam from Crowley. That is, Adam may well have lost himself. For his own protection.
As@krakensdottir points out, it’s the nuns to lose the Antichrist, and, on top of that, the automatic defense thingy canonically keeps Adam’s presence hidden from occult beings. That’s what Crowley tells Aziraphale. We don’t know if Adam could’ve lost himself, but we do know that the defense thingy is a sort of invisibility to demons (potentially also to angels). Crowley seems very sure that he (and Aziraphale) won’t be able to sense Adam, that’s how they end up with the whole plan of enlisting human help to track him down. If we take this to the logical conclusion, the Antichrist doesn’t have an noticeable presence to a demon - meaning that if you showed any demon the three babies, they’d have no way to tell which of them is the Antichrist.
That means the only way for Crowley to make sure to keep track of Adam would’ve been to do the swap himself, or at least watch it the entire time. But the plan doesn’t include Crowley’s presence. The nunnery was installed entirely for the purpose of placing the baby. You get the idea that behind the scenes, Hell planned exactly how everything was going to happen, and for some reason the plan was for the nuns to do the swap. (Could’ve made demons do it. For some reason they didn’t.)
Their main mistake was that they didn’t account for random events, like the Young’s presence, which was the factor that even made the mistake possible. But demons, like angels, don’t believe in random pot luck. Demons believe in the Plan.
Even a low level, unimportant demon like Crowley knows about the defense invisibility thing. So it’s probably common knowledge that a demon cannot sense the Antichrist or tell him apart from other humans. Given that, they totally should have watched every step of the way to be sure, but, they don’t account for errors/random influences. Can Hastur and Ligur even imagine random influences/ something not being strictly anyone’s fault?
By natural defence thingies I meant more than Adam’s invisibility to demon’s senses. Sorry, I should have been clearer. I mean, Adam even as a child bends reality around himself without doing it deliberately. I suspect that if you threw a 2 year old Adam off a cliff he’d miraculously survive and reality would shift to make it so. What if, on some level, some aspect of Adam’s nature manipulated events to keep him hidden and hence safe?
Noone in Hell would have thought that the demon delivering the Antichrist would have thoughts of murdering him on the way. Noone would have thought that a demon would try to contact an angel, with the intent to conspire, with the Antichrist in the car.
What if, on some level, a natural defence system of Adam’s was activated, and reality shifted to keep Adam from Crowley? And this shifting is what triggered the whole glorious cock up?
Just a thought.
