Everyone keeps talking about Crowley’s proposal to Aziraphale (”We’ll go off together!”) but nobody’s talking about Aziraphale’s more-subtle-but-still-there proposal to Crowley (which Crowley rejects):
“You were an angel, once,” Aziraphale says.
“You can be an angel, again,” Aziraphale implies.
Crowley immediately dismisses the idea with his own rebuff: “That was a long time ago”, completely rejecting the fact that he could ever be an angel, again.
And just look at Aziraphale’s face afterwards:
That’swhen he gets truly upset. That’s when he starts arguing with Crowley, when he snaps at him, when he sounds ready to cry.
“I’m sorry, I apologize, whatever I said…” - Crowley, later
Crowley doesn’t realize how much the rejection of his angelic side hurt Aziraphale. He’s so focused on getting them off of the planet, going “off together”, that he doesn’t realize that Aziraphale has his own plan to survive together. At this point, he still has complete faith in heaven, in the Almighty, in the Ineffable Plan. He thinks that heaven, that being heard by heaven, that being inheaven, that being an angel, will be what ultimately saves him. So, I really think that, at this point, he’s offering that chance to Crowley. “You were an angel, once. Come be an angel, again. Be an angel with me. Be an angel, believing in the powers of the Almighty. She’ll care about us both, because we’re angels. She’ll protect us both. We can survive, as angels, together.”
Crowley wanted to save them by escaping—running away together.
Aziraphale wanted to save them by returning—going home together.
I love these two and the one brain cell they share. They’re so caught up in their individual beliefs that they’re not listening to the other person and completely miss each other until the very end. I stan two (2) completely oblivious dumbasses xD
