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krakensdottir:
ineffable-endearments:
Tbh it’s kind of sweet that Crowley even told Aziraphale that he gave all the humans in the gunfight miraculous escapes. He could have easily just kept it a secret. Could have given them all escapes to make himself feel better, but left Aziraphale all shaken because he was trying to teach the angel a lesson about “moral weight.”
But he didn’t. All Aziraphale had to do was disapprove hard enough and Crowley admitted his limits out loud. God, I love him. I love them.
He is Soft and Aziraphale brings it out of him like nothing else.
Yes. It would’ve been so easy to go with the badass edgy demon but no, he is a softie and when Aziraphale looks at him he just melts and I’m-
Like, OP is right, he has absolutely no reason to tell Aziraphale but then Aziraphale would be upset. And Crowley doesn’t want to admit out loud that he spared the humans instead of sending them into a murder spree, but he also doesn’t want Aziraphale to be upset so really, what’s a demon gotta do?

This is even more meaningful because I think Crowley only does it because of Aziraphale’s “moral argument” comment in the first place. To me, this isn’t Crowley doing “demon stuff”, this is Crowley being ticked off with Aziraphale’s parroting of dumb Heaven propaganda so he makes an example, let’s Aziraphale see how bad Heaven’s opinion is in real life. He doesn’t only demonstrate it, he even explains the morality (“Everyone got free will, including the right to murder!”).

But he’s not cruel enough to allow anyone to get killed, and he can’t keep up the façade once Aziraphale looks upset about it. I think he actually meant for it to at least sting (he’s flippant when he mockingly says the moral argument thing back to Aziraphale while he kicks in that door), but then Aziraphale looks troubled, and Crowley caves. It doesn’t even need a full on pout at this time.