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"There must be something I can do for you."
OK so I have been trying for the longest time to make sense of why the fuck they KEPT GOING WITH THE MAGIC ACT when they realized they couldn't do miracles. And I think I've got it.
Once again, it boils down to misunderstanding and miscommunication (surprise surprise):
I fully believe Aziraphale thought he was doing Crowley a favor by offering to do his magic act. Crowley’s in trouble with the theater, the alcohol he was going to sell is ruined because of Aziraphale’s shenanigans at the church. To take some of the pressure off Crowley, he offers to perform.
Here's the thing, though. Aziraphale DOESN'T think he's a very good magician. Just look at how nervous he is! He has zero confidence. Even the coin trick he does for Crowley, he's shocked and delighted when it actually works because he doesn't think it's going to. He's pretending for Crowley's sake because he's trying to get Crowley out of the hot seat with the theater.
That's also why he chooses such a dramatic and dangerous trick for the stage: he has to make it good for Crowley.
Meanwhile.
MEANWHILE.
Crowley sees Aziraphale's offer to do the magic act purely as another one of Aziraphale’s whimsies. Which of course he is going to indulge, because he's a lovesick fool. He goes into FULL SUPPORTIVE HUSBAND mode, builds up Aziraphale's confidence, agrees to do the highly dangerous trick because Aziraphale wants to, because he thinks Aziraphale thinks he's good at magic, because he thinks Aziraphale really wants to get up on stage and perform, and he just doesn't want to see Aziraphale embarrassed... (Sound familiar???)
So. We get to the stage. Aziraphale doesn’t actually want to be there, but he's doing it for Crowley; Crowley doesn't actually want to be there, but he's doing it for Aziraphale. BOTH of them are complete idiots, because they're so enamored with each other and so fucking COMMITTED that neither of them wants to back down when they find out they can't do miracles. They just really want to make their husband happy--so badly that they're willing to risk discorporation for it.
In conclusion: they are idiots and I love them but THEY NEED TO COMMUNICATE JESUS CHRIST
It's no wonder the season ended like it did...
#Does this make sense to anyone else??.#Because I was just so confused as to why they kept going with it#Also the miracle blocker like#This is an UNDERUSED item in the feud between Heaven and Hell#SEVERELY UNDERUSED#But that's for a different post I guess#Good omens#Good omens 2#Good omens meta#My meta#Ineffable husbands#aziracrow
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ok but the fact that "aziraphale is softening. they haven't spoken in a hundred years: he's realizing they're still friends" and "there's no need to thank me that's what...friends...are for" was in the same night is making me go INSANE
#we NEED to talk more abt the 1941 ep im so serious im not normal about it like i had such high expectations and it suppressed them all.#am i disappointed there wasn't a rejection scene like i predicted?? yes ofc but also aziraphale said he did the apology dance that year so#i wonder what else could've fucking happened#but anyway. let's focus on what DID happen: aziraphale literally GLOWING with love in the car. crowley telling him to shut up cause of a#compliment. aziraphale helping crowley out and crowley looking at him like 'you'd do that for me?'. crowley not only letting aziraphale#practice magic with him but ACTIVELY playing a character to help him and i mean that scene was literally just crowley flirting with him#crowley indulging aziraphale by going to the magic shop with him and agreeing to participate in his show despite the fact that he NEVER EVEN#SHOT A GUN BEFORE. him just leafing thru the guidebook till he realizes there's a miracle blocker than starting to frantically flip thru it#her hands SHAKING on the gun and them being so afraid of hurting az. 'no paperwork :))' sure my guy that's what u r so happy about ofc#'but do u really think it went well' 'absolutely' with such sincerity. the book description saying smth abt ifa demon were to happen across#aziraphale they should report it immediately to the demon crowley. 'you could've just walked away' 'well you said 'trust me'' 'and you did'#its just. its one of my favorite eps it's so nice#good omens#azicrow#good omens s2#aziracrow#go s2 spoilers#go s2#good omens script book#good omens s2 spoilers#aziraphale x crowley
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On Crowley, memory, and identity.
So full disclosure first, I am not someone who is particularly interested in having Crowley's angel name on screen - personally I rather like the idea of never having an answer to this question - but I also do think it's interesting and fun to speculate and we got quite a few hints at this throughout this season soooo
Obviously part of this is that we meet him. The angel that would become Crowley is the first person on screen this season. We confirm a lot about him here. He confirm that he is powerful enough to start the engine of the universe. We confirm that he can control gravity and time and space and light. We confirm that he is the being that says let there be light before the beginning. We also confirm that he consulted with the concept designer of the universe and that he's very comfortable with the idea of questioning authority. We are also given Aziraphale's anxiety as a contrast to this and as proof that that is not a universal trait for early angels.
Now, we have always had evidence that Crowley is powerful. He's done some things that seem impossibly big. He stops time very casually and seemingly without effort - even at the end of season 1 it doesn't even seem to give us the same strain on him that holding the Bentley together does. This is a thing that we only ever see Crowley do and notably a thing that you would think other beings would mess with to their advantage if it was possible. Which means they either literally can't or that it never occurred to them that they could. Or as is becoming increasingly clear: perhaps it's a bit of both.
But that's not the only implication of power we get in season 1 either. We get Crowley seemingly in tune with the universe in a way many angels and demons aren't. Which, makes some sense if he helped make it. This manifests in all sorts of ways. He's constantly aware of Aziraphale's presence. He can smell when the world state changes like when Adam names Dog. He holds the Bentley together through utter destruction. He notices that there are different books in the bookshop - something I always assumed was meant to convey he was familiar with the shop's contents but after learning he didn't even know Jane Austen was a writer I wonder if it's actually more to do with him being in tune with reality. He also can apparently quite literally feel when there are eyes on them.
We're given even more of all these things this season in some really interesting ways. Crowley literally tests the air to check if a miracle has happened - another thing that we don't see anyone else do despite Heaven literally assigning someone to Aziraphale to check for a specific miracle. This particular beat is also something we are shown twice this season. Both here and in 1941, when Furfur uses the miracle blocker on Aziraphale. Here Crowley tests his miracles and despite getting nothing of the sort when Aziraphale tries a miracle literally the beat before this, we are given both a visual and an auditory effect. It ripples out with a watery sound effect from Crowley's finger. It's like he's prodding at reality.
There's also several instances involving the recognition or lack thereof of angels and demons. Crowley feels that the demon army is arriving before it does. Neither side seems to be able to track Gabriel - one of the most powerful beings in existence - at all once he leaves Heaven. We also see countless angels fail to notice Crowley himself both as Bildad the Shuhite performing literal miracles right in front of them. And this happens again as he prances about Heaven after Muriel. Aziraphale can't tell Shax is a demon despite Crowley recognizing she's manifested behind him nearly as soon as he answers the phone. Aziraphale can't even recognize that he himself is still an angel at the end of the Job story.
He also. Quite literally. Brings someone back from the dead???? Like waves a hand casually on the street and reconstitutes Mr. Brown like he'd never been dead at all. Mr. Brown returns with no memory of what happened to him holding a newspaper that seems to have literal bite chunks coming out of it. It's not framed as a huge miracle or anything strenuous either - just a casual snap.
And that's not even getting into the parallels with Gabriel. First of all. We get the color purple. It's purple when Aziraphale and angel that would become Crowley start the engine of the quadrants of the universe and it's purple when they miracle to hide Gabriel. This color is associated with power and, historically in the language of this show, with Gabriel himself. Them using it together twice speaks a lot to the power they have together.
But that's not the only symbolism historically tied to Gabriel that has found its way to Crowley this season either. Most flashy of all is the lightning. This is how we see Gabriel arrive on earth at the end of season one and it is something Crowley apparently just Does when he gets too mad to contain himself.
This alone wouldn't catch my attention except. Except the way Crowley reacts to Gabriel's memory problems is... interesting to say the least. He's angry and understandably so. Part of this is him being mad and protective of Aziraphale - he says as much himself to Jim directly. And yet, weirdly, it's the kind of mad that reminded me of something else.
This is the mad he tends to gets at his plants. Do it properly. Think hard. You can do better than that. Grow better. It's the kind of angry that's steeped in projection. It's he kind of angry that is undercut with the occasional weird undercurrent of understanding. And so much of his dialogue with Jim around this is framed like he does actually understand. Jim says it hurts and he says he knows. Jim starts talking about it feeling like being an empty house that still remembers where the furniture is and Crowley immediately latches onto this and understands ah it's looking at where the furniture isn't.
And there's a few other conversations that center around this issue that I find really interesting from a projection perspective. There's the conversation that happens when Crowley goes to have an alcohol fueled chat with Jim. He says "You're Jim now. Got everything just the way you wanted?" This doesn't make a whole lot of sense for him to be addressing Gabriel with. As far as he knows all Gabriel would want was the end of the world.
And then there's the particular way he asks Jim to eliminate himself in this scene. Climb out the window. In other words, have a fall. Something he pretty immediately retracts and clearly feels guilty about no matter how much he hates Gabriel.
And then there's the first conversation he gets to have after learning about Gabriel. Crowley opens this conversation, thinking out loud. He's staring out, not talking to Az yet and the very first thing out of his mouth is, of all things: "He's going to be okay." A weird start for a statement about Gabriel in itself but then Crowley goes and adds what at it's core is his own trauma narrative to the end with, "We can just take him somewhere and leave him there."
Now the real fun bit: Crowley also has memory issues that are out very prominently on display even as far back as season 1.
He has inconsistent memories of his Fall. The answers he gives us to why he Fell change slightly - even when he's alone with himself. He doesn't seem to understand why exactly he Fell even though he clearly has some vague idea of the pieces in play. I always thought to some degree that this was just a trauma response, but season 2 drew even more attention to this and now that we know that memory alteration is how Heaven handles powerful angels I can't help but to wonder if there's more in play here.
Crowley can't remember Furfur - who he apparently literally fought next to during the war in Heaven. Crowley can't remember building a nebula with Saraqael. Crowley doesn't remember why they decided gravity was a good idea.
But he does remember bits and pieces here and there. He remembers doing some of the starmaking. He remembers how to access clearance locked files. He's missing pieces and also seems to have an understanding that Gabriel's memories ARE in there. Almost like he's done this work on himself before.
This narrative itself is also far more concerned with the angel Crowley was this time around. It teases his rank a few different times. Most notably is him having access the files only available to Dominions and above.
Now angel hierarchy is a bit of a messy area depending on what sources you're using but given Good Omens tendencies in the past we can assume that this leaves us five ranks. Dominion, Throne, Cherub, Seraph, and Archangel.
I might break down why I think Dominion, Throne, and Cherub feel kind of odd to me later if there's interest - now available here - in that but given the current length of this meta I just want to focus on that last one for now.
Crowley was an Archangel is far from a new theory and I've honestly historically had some fairly mixed feelings about it. But the parallels between Jim and Crowley lend some interesting connective tissue to a lot of those theories. And. There's also some interesting camera work and script writing tied to Crowley and that term outside of the scenes about Gabriel's memories specifically.
Firstly, during Crowley's chat with Beelzebub he says it's a big universe with plenty of places for an archangel to hide. Like Alpha Centauri perhaps?
Then we get Aziraphale and Crowley both presenting Hell and Heaven respectively the idea that it could have been them that did the archangel class miracle. Aziraphale gets scoffed at and yet. Shax is the one who says the miracle was archangel level and Crowley's response is "how do you know I didn't do it?"
Then later as she's prowling about the shop we get this interesting shot of Crowley in the doorframe and Jim in the background. Crowley grins and offers to let Shax look in and see if she can see any archangels in there while he's framed dead center and Jim himself is blurry in the back of the frame.
And most fascinating in my opinion is this shot that happens when Crowley and Muriel are accessing the classified files. Nearly every shot in this sequence is group shots or shots of Gabriel. The camera is focused in the plot and the way the archangels function as a group and on Gabriel himself. But we get one single shot in this entire sequence of Crowley by himself and it is immediately following Gabriel saying "I am the only first order archangel in the room - or, well, the universe."
And then in the end. We get the Metatron who goes out of his way to avoid using Crowley's name. He calls him demon (and insists correctly that Crowley would recognize him even when Michael doesn't) or refers to him as Aziraphale's friend. He only ever uses that name when trying to use him as a bribe for Aziraphale. That combined with the dark look he gives Crowley implies a familiarity that only the Metatron has with him.
So who is he then? There's plenty of old meta out there about why certain archangels fit or don't and I won't reiterate them here. They're interesting and definitely worth poking around at and very fun to read! Personally I'm not as interested in naming the someone he used to be as I am in examining the places that ghost of this angel has started to poke through the narrative so I'll end this here. It's spiralled into something far longer than I ever meant it to be anyway.
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HEAR ME OUT : DETECTIVE/BURGLAR AU
Well, not really an AU but, i’d like to see an episode like this, y’know, Lupin the 3rd/Magic Kaito style
(basically, the year is 1946, and Azi’s trying to take back art pieces that fell to the hands of nazis during WWII. Aziraphale thinks he’s super clever, and super incognito, Crowley of course recognizes him immediately, and just go along to play tag with his bf. Hell is using miracle blockers on the art works, so Azi can’t use his miracles.)
I also like the idea that Aziraphale really manages to hide his identity, and Crowley has some doubts but is not sure ?? And Azi is putting strategies up, Conan Edogawa/Magic Kaito style, to clear Crowley’s doubts.)
Azi’s burglar name would be… idk, The Winged Thief ? The Tartan Burglar ? lmao anyway, i really have to come up with a detective and/or burglar AU everytime i fall in love with a media
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The puns are never ending : Aziraphale's miraculous "visable" bullet.
Aside from this closeup diagram of how to perform the bullet catch being objectively hilarious, it's also got a pretty fascinating *spelling mistake*.
If you look closely at the part of the pamphlet in red, you'll see that the bullet should be hidden in the mouth where it won't be visable. Not "not visible". Not visable. Seems innocuous enough right? But of course, the layers are never ending.
"Visable" is actually a Middle English word, *not* a modern English one. The last time it was used was before the printing press was invented, so pretty old. Here's a little background :
What's really fascinating though, is that just like the expression "dark horse", the word has two meanings : one is "Capable of good judgement, prudent" the other is "Tractable and docile".
There are also only two examples of the word in context that I can find, and they really should be sending you into orbit :
The first one is actually from Henry Lovelich's translation of the French epic poem "The Romance of Merlin" also known as the first English treatment of the Arthurian legends. It's modernized as "He was a worthy knight, valiant and visable in every fight." Which uses the "good judgment" meaning and sounds... a lot like Aziraphale in his role of guardian and protector.
Why do we care? They are standing literally in front of Excalibur, Arthur's sword.
The other one is from "Ipomadon", another middle English epic poem about a hidden identity romance between a beautiful but proud heiress, and her dark knight in disguise. "She was... visable and virtuous, meak and mild, and marvellous." Which clearly uses the "tractable and docile" meaning, but also... kinda sounds like Aziraphale in his damsel in his distress mode, which:
Ahahahah fuck off.
But wait, there's more!
I originally twigged to this error because if you, like me, also happen to speak the language of la plume de ma tante, you know there's a reason why the uses happen in epic poems that originated in France: it's a loan word from old French, and still exists today in modern French, but it doesn't mean tractable and docile...
For the non-french speaking among you, it's a derivation of the verb "viser" :
Verb 1 To aim
1.To aim, to carefully direct one's gaze or a weapon towards a goal to throw something at it.
And so, if you happen to be, oh I don't know, a demon and have been alive for thousands of years and can definitely speak all the languages on earth and happen to have participated in the Arthurian age in England, when you read that pamphlet really carefully because someone is making you do a crazy stunt and there's a miracle blocker on, you could *conceivably* have read the instructions as:
"IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT YOU LOVE, DO NOT SHOOT AZIRAPHALE IN THE FACE."
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Thanks to @thebluestgreen and @embracing-the-ineffable as always.
#good omens meta#good omens 2#art director talks good omens#go season 2#go meta#good omens season two#wordplay#crowley x aziraphale#good omens 1941#good omens season 2#good omens#good omens analysis
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It was a fucking miracle that Eddie survived the upside down. He stopped breathing a couple of times, had lost more blood than Steve even thought was in a whole person.
Hawkins was a fucking shambles and the hospital wasn't any better, so a lot of protocols had gone straight out of the window. When they asked Steve, still covered in blood and upside down, what his name was, he'd told them. The Beta nurse had scribbled Steve's name down as Eddie's next of kin and in the thick of it all, absolutely no one questions it.
Been nearly two weeks on life support, covered in wires and machines and a tube down his throat to breath for him. Two surgeries, stealing skin off his thighs and ass to keep his guts in.
But Eddie is alive. And it still says Steve's name at the top of Eddie's notes, even if Wayne has told them he's Eddie's uncle and he's been trading off with Steve to keep watch over Eddie.
Which is why when a doctor pulls Steve aside to talk about Mr. Munson, Steve's kind of used to it and Wayne let's it slide since he can't be there as much as Steve, anyway.
"I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, Mr. Harrington," and Steve starts to panic, but tries not to since he saw Eddie two minutes ago and knows he's doing pretty well, all things considered, "because of all the damage, it's very unlikely your Omega will ever carry a pup to term."
Steve sits. He sits hard.
"We haven't informed him as yet, he's still quite delicate. I wasn't sure if you felt the news may be better coming from you?"
Eddie's an Omega.
The newbie doctor standing in front of Steve thinks that Eddie is his Omega.
Eddie probably won't ever be able to have pups.
Steve drifts back to Eddie's room without really answering. He sits and watches Dustin and Eddie play cards. They look at him, now and then, because Steve has no clue what he must scent like but...fuck.
Eddie. Eddie who Steve left alone in the upside down is an Omega. Eddie who's managed to hide his designation this whole time. Eddie, who must be coated in hospital standard blockers right now...which makes sense. The scent of a distressed Omega in pain would fuck up every Alpha on this floor of the hospital, so standard practice with blockers makes sense; helping to hide Eddie's secret.
And now Eddie probably can't ever have pups. And that's probably Steve's fault.
"Hey, Steve, man, what's...what's up?". Dustin. Standing right in front of Steve and Steve has no fucking idea what to do except he knows he needs to face up to this.
"Can I get some time with Eddie? Just us?"
Dustin looks like he's about to argue and give them both shit, but there must be a look on Steve's face or something in his voice or something in his scent, so Dustin doesn't. Packs up his shit and very carefully hugs Eddie goodbye.
And Steve's got no fucking idea what to do or say once they're alone, so he finds himself perching on the edge of Eddie's bed, holding his hand. And sure, Eddie lets him, but he's also looking at their joined hands and then looking at Steve like he's lost his damn mind.
"The, the ah, doctor, they still think I'm next of kin, your, uhm, your Alpha."
Eddie, slowly and carefully, pulls his hand out of Steve's, watching with wide eyes, frozen, like he doesn't know what to expect. Like this could go any way. Like people who know Eddie's secondary gender haven't reacted too well in the past.
Steve swallows thickly, "they don't think you'll be able to have pups, Eddie."
Eddie plays with his own fingers in lieu of his absent rings. "Oh," he says, and then starts to cry. Covers his face for a moment and sobs a broken noise, but just as Steve reaches out for him, tries to offer comfort, Eddie pulls his hands away and straightens up. He wipes his face abruptly, "doesn't matter, probably never have any anyway. Never going find a mate," Eddie shrugs, "doesn't matter."
"Why?"
Eddie scoffs, still crying and wiping at his leaking nose, "come on Steve, if there's a diametric opposite to a good Omega, it's me."
"Well...maybe no Alpha even gets a chance to change your mind if they don't even know you're an Omega, Eddie."
Eddie just scoffs again.
"This is my fault -"
"Don't," Eddie snaps at him, "everything I do I choose to do, this is not your fault."
"Yeah, but-"
"What? If you'd known I was an Omega you wouldn't have let me go? Don't you fucking dare! I chose! It's up to me what I do, and maybe shit like this is the exact reason I hide!"
Steve holds his hands up in defeat, at least Eddie is angry enough to have stopped crying. His lashes are still damp though, and the anger has brought the first colour to Eddie's skin that Steve's seen for weeks. Steve always thought Eddie was pretty; at least now maybe he knows why.
Now is not the moment to say that to Eddie though, but maybe, maybe later. Maybe now it's all over. Maybe once Eddie's back on his feet.
"Stop fucking staring at me, Okay! I'm still just Eddie! This doesn't mean anything, nothing has changed."
"Right," Steve says, "no, of course. I won't tell anyone." That seems to appease Eddie, at least.
Enough that when Steve reaches his hand across the bed again, Eddie starts playing with Steve's fingers other than his own.
#eddie munson#stranger things#steve harrington#sort of steddie#steddie#sort of mentions of m/preg#infirtility#alpha steve harrington#omega eddie because he's so pretty#omega eddie munson
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EVERY Miracle Chime Supercut
This is every miracle chime (and some related clips) I caught in Good Omens Season 2. May this fuel your needs to confirm or disprove whatever theories your beautiful minds may create. Enjoy!
Disclaimers, tags, and my rambles thoughts under the cut.
The disclaimer is that this contains mostly miracles, but I also included what I believe to be relevant moments of magic casting or character(s) dis/appearing. There are many moments such as beings casting lightning (with their own sounds to boot!) that have not been included due to time constraints, video size constraints, or relevancy to the point of the video.
If you'd like to know what interested me in making this, check out this other post of mine.
If there's anything I missed, please let me know and I'll update this video. Due note that this will only be expanded to miracle sounds in season 2. If enough people bug me about non-miracle sounds, I might make another supercut if the reason is interesting enough. I may even be convinced to make a S1 miracle chime supercut to compare the two seasons.
Tagging the interested, but please tag away in the notes and reblogs: @noneorother, @indigovigilance, @embracing-the-ineffable, @on-till-morning
Lastly, my thoughts: I really don't want to plant my theory seeds in anyone's head, but here what I've noticed:
1) Crowley's miracle sounds are very different at distinct points and I've had fun thinking about the why.
2) You want proof that Az enchanted all humans in his little ball? Listen to that chandelier.
3) In my last post, many people pointed out that the last angelic chime could be the metaturd calling the elevator, but to my ears, it sound similar to when Az's tiny miracle gets blocked in his magic act. I mean... it could just be Metatron's very specific miracle chime, sure, but then what does that mean for the miracle blocker? Portable Metatron powers in a simple punch-out card? Wait, actually... that'd be kinda fun.
4) I could be wrong about all of this and none of this matters. Something, something, pickled red herrings... but that's what makes this so fun. :)
Anyway, I've got a bag of popcorn in the microwave now. I can't wait to see what you all find or come up with.
#aziraphale ain't the only detective here#every miracle chime#miracle chimes#good omens miracle chimes#ineffable mystery#good omens#good omens 2#good omens season 2#good omens meta#good omens clues#good omens analysis#good omens sound effects#good omens clips#good omens audio cues#good omens audio clues#marias good omens thoughts#marias good omens clips
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Who or what is Maggie?
Maggie the Mirror
Maggie is a mirror for both Aziraphale and Crowley. Firstly, we associate her with Aziraphale. She owns a record shop instead of a bookshop, she’s sunshiney and strait-laced, even her appearance reminds us of Aziraphale. Plus, of course, she’s in love with the grumpy one. So far so good. But then we realise that Nina is a mirror for Aziraphale too— her abusive relationship is a lot like Aziraphale’s relationship with Heaven and Maggie, like Crowley, yearns and waits.
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This alone—a switcharoo in the mirroring—is interesting and unusual (in a good way!) But it isn’t left in that place. After making the switch, after setting us up to think that Maggie = Crowley and Nina = Aziraphale we have a final and strong gesture towards Maggie being a mirror for Aziraphale after all—Nina calls Maggie “angel” right in front of Crowley himself.
What the hell?! How blatant can you get? Why do this now after the switcharoo?
Maggie is a mirror. But which character is she being held in front of: Aziraphale or Crowley?
It reminds me of this line from one of Crowley’s favourite songs:
“If I could make the world as pure
And strange as what I see
I'd put you in the mirror
I put in front of me.”
Is she somehow a mirror for both? Is that the point?
Maggie might not be human
And then we have the suggestions that Maggie is not entirely human. There are two key pieces of evidence for Maggie being something other than human.
Firstly, there’s her spelling error in the note to Aziraphale. She spells urgent as “ugrent” which later becomes significant when we find out that demons can’t spell. This suggests that Maggie is a demon.
It has been suggested that the spelling error might be explained as a Freudian slip as it puts the word “rent” into the word urgent. But this is not a good explanation. Freudian slips involve an unconscious preoccupation not a conscious one and secondly they don’t involve making a whole other unrelated mistake first in order to make the slip, ie Maggie had to write the “g” in the wrong place before she could slip in the “rent”.
More importantly, this is a work of fiction. What is the narrative purpose of including a Freudian slip? It is to tell the audience what is happening in the character’s unconscious. There’s no need to include a Freudian slip here because Maggie herself tells us about the rent directly. It is not a slip.
It has also been suggested that it could be part of the mirroring. But Neil has confirmed that Crowley can spell. So that doesn’t make sense either. Mirroring should point at Crowley directly not reference a demonic characteristic that he himself does not have.
The only plausible narrative purpose for including the spelling error is to make us wonder if Maggie might be a demon. Now that doesn’t mean that she definitely is a demon. It could well be a red herring! But it was deliberately and intentionally included and there’s just no other reason to have included it. We are meant to wonder if Maggie is a demon.
The second piece of evidence that Maggie is not human is the fact that two of Aziraphale’s miracles fail on her. When the demons storm the Bookshop, Aziraphale tries to use miracles to get Maggie to flee and to do whatever Crowley says. But she just blinks and asks if Aziraphale is trying to hypnotise her. Aziraphale’s miracles don’t fail (unless there is a miracle blocker around) so this is significant. Again, it isn’t proof. But it was included intentionally. We are meant to wonder why Aziraphale’s miracles fail on Maggie.
So, is Maggie a demon?
Possibly. But then we need to consider what that means for her conduct around the Bookshop. I don’t think the fact that she can step over the threshold and into the shop is a problem. She was invited, after all. But she does invite the demons outside into the shop and this works—once she says that they can enter. It could be the case that this is just how it works, that anyone invited into the Bookshop has the power to invite new people in. Or it could be that she herself had that power because it is a Heavenly embassy.
Wait? What? Is Maggie an angel then?
Maybe. It would explain why her invitation to the demons to enter the Bookshop gave them the ability to do so. It would also fit with Nina calling her an angel later on.
Angel? Demon? What else is there?
Angel and demon are not the only two possibilities. It has also been suggested that she could be a fictional character invented by the Metatron. We also know that witches exist in Good Omens (and we don’t entirely know what witches are or the limits of their powers). So she could be a witch. She could also be a human possessed by a demon.
What about her backstory?
We know that Maggie her family have had a long association with Aziraphale and his bookshop. If she is a demon or an angel this means that either she’s been in place as a spy for someone (the Metatron? God?) keeping an eye on Aziraphale for many years undetected by Aziraphale or Crowley or she’s been installed recently with the Book of Life or something else used to retrofit her backstory in. I do find the idea of an angel or a demon secretly having such a long association with Aziraphale without Crowley getting wise to it a bit odd. He’s pretty damn good at protecting his angel. But we also know that the body swap worked for Aziraphale and Crowley and that Crowley snuck into Heaven undetected. So, it is potentially in line with that. Especially if she was sent by the Metatron or God under their orders and protection. So maybe.
What is she doing then?
We know that Maggie: (1) set Aziraphale down a path of trying to get Nina to fall in love with her (which of course also prompted him to try to further his own relationship with Crowley), (2) invited the demons into the Bookshop bringing a safe enough situation to a dramatic head before Crowley could return, and (3) had the little chat with Crowley that primed him to confess his love to Aziraphale and respond as he did to Aziraphale sharing the Metatron’s offer.
I think we should take seriously two possibilities. One is that that she is in league with the Metatron, working under his orders. The other is the exact opposite: that she is trying to help Aziraphale and Crowley, to bring them together, perhaps at the bidding of God herself.
I don’t think it is possible to say exactly who or what Maggie is from season two alone. I don’t think we are meant to work it out yet, just to ask the questions. But I do think we will find out in season three.
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...I feel like if we were wild over this scene the first time around in S2, we might be even more so when S3 gives us The Blitz, Part 3... where we have for elements in play a pissed off Furfur and his miracle blockers and at least three guns (Greta's, Aziraphale's Derringer in the bookshop, The Bullet Catch)... what if Our Heroes stopped The Zombie Nazis but Crowley got shot in the chest in the process? Furfur already explained that being shot in the head could have killed Aziraphale. I'd imagine a bullet near the heart could have nearly done the same thing to Crowley, right? Good thing Aziraphale had "nerves of steel and hands as steady as the Rock of Gibraltar" (thanks for the foreshadowing, Poor Magic Shop Owner Guy) because he had to get the bullet out and keep Crowley alive until the miracle blocker ran out and he could hover his hand over his heart to heal the damage and save him...
...maybe Aziraphale got Crowley over to The Dirty Donkey next door to escape a miracle blocker or something and that's why it's there that we get the chest stroke in S2? The Blitz, Part 3 also has to be the origins of why their song is "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and Ineffable Bureaucracy got their song of "Everyday" from it playing while they were in a pub together. What if "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" was the record on in The Dirty Donkey when Crowley was dying and Aziraphale broke all the rules to save him?
Plus, there's the whole the-paintball-gun-is-The Bullet-Catch/1941 thing...
....Crowley clutching his heart/left side of his chest in S1, even though the paint actually hit him lower and dead center in the chest. Kinda like he was so dramatic about it in S1 in part because he's actually been shot like that before, just with an actual bullet. (Also, he's just dramatic lol.)
If we learn in S3 that Crowley was all but shot in the heart in 1941, the 2023 pub scene in S2 would then be saying that, as a result of what happened that night, Aziraphale sometimes now just hovers his hand over Crowley's chest and pets along his lonely G.I.'s once-near-fatal bullet wound spot, supernaturally sending him some waves of love... fkdkslsldmfkdodldlmf
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woah hang on a second, pause one moment. we are all fairly agreed, right, that the pre-fall scene and the minisodes are all slightly off, that they don't quite ring true, and certainly indicate the work of an unreliable narrator... but why are we assuming that it's aziraphale?
the openings
opening title cards read like movie epics, compared to the neat little white placards in s1, and also all open with crowley as the first character in screen, with the exception of the resurrectionists - which has neither*.
now god knows that my film knowledge is probably rather limited, but if nothing else, i definitely got space odyssey-type glee from the pre-fall scene opening, and maltese falcon definitely sprang to mind for 1941 (and godzilla, weirdly). this... seems like the little bit of pizaz that crowley would employ in telling his own flashbacks.
this, to me, is even more apparent when compared with the white placards in s1, which feel more like aziraphale - orderly, and neatly filed. now, arguably you could say it's god's narration, and that certainly may be true, but the kicker for me is that the majority of the hard times flashbacks, and the eden scene, begin with aziraphale on screen.
in fact, iirc i think only 1862 and 1967 open on crowley, but with 1862, aziraphale is walking towards him in the opening shot anyway, and 1967... well, it doesnt surprise me that we don't get a shot of aziraphale before crowley is in the donkey. these are pivotal scenes for the both of them, but in some respects more so for crowley. it makes sense that the perspective would shift slightly here.
hero role
but back to s2; we then have the fact that crowley is portrayed, arguably, as the hero in each of these minisodes. he does have a tendency, i think it's fair to say, to assume the role of the hero especially in response to aziraphale placing himself, thinking that it's what makes crowley happy, into the part of the damsel-in-distress. but it goes beyond this; it's his scheme that saves the children/job's plight, he prevents elspeth from suicide, and then, yeah, he overcomes the miracle blocker and manages in a feat of well-timed skill to miss shooting aziraphale in the face.
he then is also the one to teach aziraphale certain lessons, especially around the nuance of faith and morality, and whilst it makes sense for this to be told from aziraphale's perspective, it's equally viable from crowley's; that he is the mentor in these minisodes, helping aziraphale to develop his own sense of right and wrong - particularly in the job and resurrectionist minisodes.
the 1941 minisode is different, because it feels more personal; crowley starts trying to teach aziraphale conviction in himself. but it all goes awry when he withholds the truth about having shot a gun, and when he is unable to save himself in the dressing room. crowley has a tendency to monkey-paw himself, and this is never more evident that in this minisode. his hero narrative unravels, aziraphale saves the day, and crowley plays it off smoothly and suavely back at the bookshop, without a word of thanks (if anything, he doubles down on insulting aziraphale - a contrast to his attitude at the beginning of the minisode - and the very trick that saved his hide).
but why does all this suddenly read to me like crowley's perspective? tbh, i can't quite put my finger on it; it's not like crowley doesn't deserve a positive light in the story, because he absolutely does, and in many ways is an incredibly good influence on aziraphale, but these minisodes... feel like crowley is trying to prove something. to himself, aziraphale, the audience, all three - idk.
this is compounded for me, however, in the pre-fall scene. no doubt, aziraphale did in fact develop an instant crush on this genius and brilliant angel, and again this would ring true if this scene is in fact being told from aziraphale's perspective. but in a way, to me, i think it is more sensical from crowley's; he's a bright and likeable angel, building stars, has another angel fawning over his brilliance, and - the kicker - it's of course set up to suggest to the audience that he fell 'just for asking a few questions", when we're equally led to believe from s1 that this is, perhaps, not the whole truth.
dramatics
this is another where i can't quite put my finger on it exactly, but - the minisodes feel... different. there was a brilliant meta on the job minisode, that i will find and link back, where the op remarked on the stark costume difference between the relatively simple costuming for crowley in mesopotamia and golgotha, and even that for aziraphale, compared to the biblical glitz and glamour of uz.
and if we look at the job minisode especially with his perspective in mind, he even takes stabs at gabriel (the lord farquaad haircut and arguably dumber-than-usual that i don't-quite-believe-he-was-this-dumb demeanour), that he doesn't seem to extend to michael - to the point that it feels like a vendetta against him... which tracks, given his less than favourable disposition towards gabriel/jim throughout s2.
in the resurrectionist episode, he doesn't have such an outlet or target, but some of his lines feel almost needlessly funny/over-exerted - "might have slightly overdone it on the hole" is one that springs to mind. im not even going to go into the specifics of the whole laudanum-induced state of ridiculousness, that ultimately feels way more amped-up than it maybe ought to have been, but in a way, it almost feels like crowley has started telling this bit of the story to a child. the immediately sober way in which he remarks on the "stunning view", contrasted to him growling down at elspeth and aziraphale, feels like this was a catch-moment of 'present-crowley' remembering on just how nice it actually was.
1941 again feels different, mainly because it doesn't quite follow the same narrative tone and pattern of the other minisodes, but his interactions with aziraphale in the car and bookshop, the fear at firing the rifle, and his not remembering furfur all feel that he's remembering this flashback a little more deeply - that not only is their fondness because of what the events of that night meant for him and aziraphale personally, but also it reminds him that his memory is still not wholly complete*.
memory-wipe theory*
this is relatively short and sweet, but... i think we can all agree that crowley has some issues with what he remembers of heaven and/or his fall. this feels so obvious when you - again, if we assume this perspective hypothesis is true - look at the way he portrays heaven; it feels very deliberate. god does not appear to be present in heaven, this is even somewhat confirmed within the god-job scene itself, but the Lighting Is Everything.
is this what crowley remembers of heaven of old, before he went up there on reconnaissance? did the change come as a surprise to him in 2023? the golden glow, the white and gold spangley robes? and muriel - why does aziraphale not seem to recognise muriel in 2023, if his memory is still intact and, by all accounts, accurate? does crowley actually remember muriel, and that's how he knew their rank? or did crowley just fill in the blanks, give muriel a starring role when retelling this flashback (given he was, obviously, not there)? is he telling it to muriel themself, in the context of s3? are these the clues that muriel is patching together, like the crow road?
the diary*
when we look at the following lines for the opening and closing of the resurrectionists minisode, and read it like it's aziraphale's retelling, the wording seems... odd. it implies that a month - a month - is a long time for aziraphale and crowley not to see each other.
"Dear diary,
Last month, Crowley and I both happened to be in Edinburgh. And he insisted I visit a local graveyard... at midnight. He had come upon something, he said, that 'might amuse me'..."
"...and that was the last I was to see of Crowley... for quite some time..."
of course, we can take this as aziraphale being dramatic, and goodness knows that he leans into his own brand of flair in s2... but is it completely in character? to assign a month as being a long time?
and does it really fit with the tone of the canon? because, we see at the end of 1827 that he gets sucked down into hell. and then in 1862, he's shaken and nervous and paranoid, and asking aziraphale for holy water. this seems too much like cause-and-effect. it could well be that crowley returns from hell after a month, meets aziraphale, shrugs it off etc., but then... keeps getting sucked back into hell? tortured? enough that he breaks in 1862, and asks for a weapon?
it reads to me more that, if this is from crowley's perspective, that he is essentially taking the piss out of aziraphale in the opening, painting a picture of him practically lying on his belly on his bed, legs kicking, writing his diary with a pink glittery gel pen. and aziraphale's lines at the end of 1827, about crowley getting into trouble, are delivered so... fondly, and adoringly. now, that's not to say it's impossible for aziraphale to have delivered it like that, couldn't have been seeing/feeling for crowley like that, and god knows aziraphale is mercurial, but... on reflection, i can't say that it doesn't seem like an exaggerated version of himself.
the self that (yes, theres a lot of context missing between 1827 and the below moment that would account for aziraphale 'regressing' in character, i realise that) reacted like this to getting shot, compared to crowley's reaction:
so let's read those lines back again - is it possible that the opening lines are crowley speaking with aziraphale's voice, imitating and making a caricature of him, leaning emphasis on the spooky, dramatic words (similar to how aziraphale actually does when he's a 'newspaperman') and then the 'quite some time' trailing off is, in fact, quite some time?
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It's a Friday night at 11:54pm so naturally I have begun to obsessively dissect the "I Was Wrong" dance from Good Omens.
I think I was so distracted by how funny and cute it was that I didn't realise how much of a LORE DROP this little apology ritual is for Aziraphale and Crowley.
First of all, Crowley is under the belief that Aziraphale doesn't dance. He tells him as much when Aziraphale asks him to dance at the Jane Austen inspired ball.
Aziraphale: Well perhaps you could tell me, while we dance?
Crowley: You don't dance...
And it makes sense that he believes this because as the narration of God explains in Season 1:
How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin? ...Firstly, angels don't dance. It's one of the distinguishing characteristics that marks an angel. So...none. At least, nearly none. Aziraphale had learned a dance called The Gavotte in a discreet gentleman's club in Portland Place in the late 1880's. After a while he had become fairly good at it and was quite put out when some decades later, The Gavotte went out of style for good. So, providing the dance was a Gavotte, the answer was a straightforward 'one'.
Crowley thinks angels don't dance and Aziraphale is an angel.
And yet!
He has made Aziraphale do a little apology dance on at least 3 other occassions we know of. And he thinks this is the only kind of dance Aziraphale ever does or has ever done.
Aziraphale: I did the 'I was wrong' dance in 1650, 1793, 1941...
The dates here cannot be an accident. Because we have seen flashbacks that take place on two of those dates:
1793 - Paris and the reign of Terror. Crowley saved Aziraphale after he got himself locked up in the Bastille while trying to find some crepes.
1941 - The Blitz and the Nazi spies turned Zombies. Crowley saved Aziraphale from being killed and embarassed and later from being discorporated by a magic trick and a miracle blocker.
We don't know why Aziraphale had to do the apology dance in 1793, but it might have been him admitting he was wrong to go to France during a revolution. We also don't know why he had to do it again in 1941 but it could be many things. Maybe getting duped by Nazi spies or thinking he could pull off the bullet catch.
In both situations, Aziraphale got himself in a dangerous situation and Crowley had to save him.
The only dance we have no context for is the first one that took place chronologically in 1650.
And I think its possible we might get to see it in Season 3.
I would even speculate it could be shown as a reminder that the dance exists or to foreshadow Aziraphale having to do one in the future.
If we follow the same pattern, Aziraphale will once again get himself into a bad situation that Crowley has to save him from.
Heaven, the second coming...yeah that seems like a big bad situation.
I can just imagine after it's all over, they're safe but things between them are tense and Aziraphale approaches Crowley to beg him for forgiveness.
Crowley is a blank. Then he lets out a breath and, sounding defeated, says:
"I... Angel I can't. I can't possibly forgive you..."
Aziraphale looks crushed. He knows he deserves it. But it hurts because he still hoped after all this time that the demon might still feel...
"...without the little dance."
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Miracle Blocked
I've seen a thing floating around (this is the thing, if you're curios https://www.tumblr.com/postsforposting/734273604991221760/im-fixating-on-the-tarot-suggestion-but-a-little?source=share) that suggests that Furfur's miracle blocker contains Tarot numbers. They're contained in the serial number on the miracle blocker punch card.
Here be the Tarot numbers: 13-79 78-12-11-1
I'm fixating on the Tarot suggestion, but a little miffed because a Tarot deck typically has 78, not 79 cards. You can add an extra card to personalize your deck but it's not always done. So I'm just gonna go with it. I am drunk. The self-control has been turned off. I just like occult divination, baby! Hail Satan, and all that jazz.
In the Tarot deck, the first 22 cards, called the Major Arcana, have numbers assigned to them. The rest of the deck is not numbered. So I'm just going to ignore 78 and 79, and consider them to be the Clue that points us to the Tarot rather than direction to any specific cards.
Here are the Tarot numbers again: 13-79 78-12-11-1
13- Death
79- Unknown
78- Unknown
12- Hanged Man
11- Justice
1- The Magician
A very simple way to do a Tarot reading is to draw three cards and place them in a row. From left to right the cards reflect self, situation, and obstacles. However, since the numbers appear on a Miracle Blocker from Hell, I'm going to flip the order because Hell is subversive. (Just go with me on this--flipped cards have different meanings in Tarot, so reversing order to get a more coherent reading is not all that strange.) Here's what we get.
Self: Magician and Justice (1, 11)
Situation: The Hanged Man (12)
Obstacle: Death (13)
Now let's read those cards.
Self - The Magician and Justice: Since this Tarot reading relates to two characters, it's reasonable that there are two cards identified with "Self." I think it's pretty clear that we're meant to read Aziraphale as The Magician, meaning Crowley is Justice. Holy Shit, I love this.
The Magician is viewed as being both resourceful and mercurial. At first, I found it a little difficult to view Aziraphale as mercurial, since the angel is notoriously stuck in his ways. But, Aziraphale is also a grade-A liar and manipulator who has bluffed both to the Archangel Gabriel and to God Herself. So, yah. Clever like Hermes in a very unobtrusive way, and similarly underestimated.
Justice is the *mwah* perfect card for Crowley because he simply offers choices. Now go with me here because we're going to have to transpose the symbolism of this card, but I promise it works so well! Justice (a Libra, just like the earth!) is pictured in the Rider Waite deck as a king holding out two hands. In one hand he holds a sword, in the other weighted scales. He symbolizes justice through balance. Like Crowley, he lets you chose your own karma. Whereas other demons might try to tempt you in the wrong direction, Crowley is really all about free will. He just wants to make sure you're aware of all your options. He shows you what is available in both hands and lets you take your pick.
Visually, I find these very interesting, because they both contain elements of both characters. Aziraphale is the magician, as in literally the one on stage with the fancy hat and starry cloak. But on the card, his robe is belted with a snake, which is literally Crowley, and he's wearing a surcoat in red, which is Crowley's color. Justice is wearing a red robe (Crowley), but carries a sword, which we certainly associate with Aziraphale.
Situation - The Hanged Man: The Hanged Man stands for sacrifice and surrender. He's literally hung upside down, but his face is calm and passive. He's accepted the position in which he finds himself. It's a reminder that we might find what we're looking for when we embrace equanimity and view our situation from a new perspective.
Just visually, the Rider Waite Hanged Man has elements of both our angel and our demon. He's wearing sky blue, a color we associate with Aziraphale, and vibrant red, a color we associate with Crowley. Additionally, the character has a halo, which is religious iconography for angels, and is hanging from a tree draped in vines, which represent a garden, the place where Crowley (Crawley) and Aziraphale first met (yes, angel!Crowley met Azirpahle before the beginning but that encounter is too much to unpack at the moment.)
The bullet catch trick that Crowley and Aziraphale are about to perform in this scene is all about surrender. Aziraphale surrenders his fate to Crowley, trusting that the demon is not going to discorporate him in the process of performing the magic trick. Crowley has surrendered his will in this situation (he would very much like NOT to be pointing a rifle at his best friend) in order to allow Aziraphale to act out his fantasy of being a professional magician.
Furthermore, the whole evening has been about the two of them reassessing their relationship. It's their first meeting in 80 years--they've not seen each other since the Holy Water Incident the left them both emotionally eviscerated (Crowley slept for literal decades and Aziraphale learned the gavotte. Need I say more?) They're renegotiating the parameters of their relationship as they figure out the new dynamics for the future. This evening in 1941 is, in every way, looking at their relationship from a new perspective and figuring out how to move forward.
Obstacle - Death: Even though it looks like a scary and negative card, Death is, by far, my favorite draw in the Tarot deck. Death signifies new beginnings that can only happen once the old ways have been put to rest. Death is not only a key player in the Good Omens universe, it's also the Tarot card that symbolizes transformation and rebirth. When presented as a challenge or obstacle, we typically read this as meaning the transformation is available if you're willing to take a leap of faith.
Death as the obstacle is a challenge for the Ineffable Idiots to move beyond their previous dynamics and open themselves to what could be. We see them rise to this challenge throughout the 1941 flashback: Crowley and Aziraphale mutually saving one another in the church bombing, Crowley accepting his role in the bullet catch trick, Aziraphale admitting that their relationship is more than enemies that fraternize ("That's what friends are for.") If they accept this challenge, to put aside the old ways, their relationship is ready to transform into something different. And it does! 1941 is a huge turning point for these two.
The only visual element of this card I'm going to address is the heraldic flag that Death carries: a field of black emblazoned with the inverted White Rose of York. Time for theology and history, bitches. In Catholic dogma, the White Rose of York is a symbol for the purity of the Virgin Mary. But inverting the symbol, we subvert the meaning to make the statement that innocence has been lost. I associate this very strongly with Crowley's fall. He is not that angel anymore because he has experienced more than sheltered innocence. Crowley's fall was a kind of deflowering that Heaven deems as wicked. But even given the chance, Crowley wouldn't revert to his angelic status because that's not who is is anymore. The White Rose of York also suggests the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars fought for control of the throne of England in the 15th(?) century. The white rose symbolizes the House of York, while the red rose symbolizes the House of Lancaster. (The two roses would later be symbolically joined as the Tudor Rose.) Civil war between two houses fighting for dominion sound familiar? Sounds a lot like Heaven and Hell's idea of the perfect Armageddon.
Overall, I'm not hell-bent that these numbers have to represent a Tarot reading, but if they do, this is how I would read the cards. I personally see lots of little nods to the Tarot sprinkled throughout the 1941 flashback. I'm interested to hear other people's interpretations.
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Hm. OK. Theories for s3 (some are purposefully batshit, some is fan service for me, some I genuinely believe in - you decide which):
- the opening is crowley and aziraphale walking on opposite ends, but meeting in the middle
- crowley is hanging around Maggie and Nina's shops
- he's trying to act "more demonic", but it's all the simplest pathetic things like stealing dog bones from dogs and gluing a shitload of coins on the ground
- Crowley however just keeps staring longingly at the bookshop. Muriel is fully aware of this and is like "it must be a demon thing"
- reunion at the end of ep1
- it's cause aziraphale found out what the Second Coming is, which
- I think a woman has become pregnant and they have to find her
- the Them come back, all grown up
- Warlock also is here, but she's now trans and calls herself Ash because of her favorite nanny
- Muriel gets roped into it, maybe feeling like they need to repair the husband's relationship
- new character!!!! Lilith, cause I really wanna see her and I think it would fit the world. In my oc, she's a human turned demon, so she has the senses and the animal characteristics but no miracles (that she knows of)
- either way, Muriel is gonna get a friend/maybe love interest
- Gabriel and Beelzebub also get roped into it, finding a place on Alpha Centauri and they are super annoyed
- But they end up both being apologetic to the angel and demon respectively and want to help
- Also Gabriel remembers his time as Jim and tells Crowley he remembers his threat. Crowley is a little like "yeah whattup" but Gabe's like "no I mean that's pretty protective, it shows you love him"
- Maggie and Nina come back, so now you got the team. They are just REALLY trying to get Crowley to leave them alone and to stop scaring off their customers
- the very first thing that happens when Crowley and Aziraphale meet each other is aziraphale does a hurried Apology Dance to try to get to explaining what the Second Coming is
- but Crowley refuses to work with him or refuses to open himself up or something like that
- some max angst where they finally Talk in a convo to each other but it's all painful
- canon Crowley doesn't remember much of Heaven and Aziraphale remembers him Before but Crowley doesn't, and
- Aziraphale admits he feels guilty for Crowley falling
- they gotta dance. Dunno how, but they're dancing now
- they're gonna be caught under the rain. Dunno how, but they're in an awing or however it's spelled now
- Aziraphale pulls down Crowley's glasses
- he says "please forgive me" to Crowley
- and Crowley's like "I forgive you" in a reeeeally sarcastic but playful tone
- Metatron and Shax (with Furfur as second in command) are the Big Bad. Michael, Uriel and Saraqael are antags, but maybe become sympathetic near the end. Same with demons like Hastur maybe
- the Book of Life is gonna try to be used, babyyyyy
- and I think that Miracle Blocker card will come back too. Either as a plot twist used by the antags as a All Is Lost Blake Snyder beat, or Crowley or Aziraphale use it in the dramatic climax
- but yeah, you got this team now working together to stop the Second Coming
- I have nothing for this, so maybe she has the baby and raises it normally or gets an abortion lmao
- and it's gonna be something like Crowley getting kidnapped by Heaven I reckon
- we see Aziraphale be ANGRY angry, barging into Heaven demanding for his Crowley
- just as Crowleys name is being crossed out in the Book, Aziraphale finds him and saves him (with a kiss or smth lmao), and their miracles work together to create one so powerful it fixes Crowley's name in the Book of Life
- it doesn't have to be the Book - I just really want true love bringing a person back from being destroyed or something, man
- and on that note, I think Aziraphale will do One Big Sacrifice to parallel all the little ones Crowley does for him. And it's going to be for Crowley, like saving his life or something
- I think it's gonna be a big thing though, like maybe Aziraphale keeping his powers but no longer being considered an angel. OR he gives up all his powers but is still immortal. OR he just becomes human, but something big
- (but I don't think Falling big, cause it's a nice way to show that despite him no longer being for Heaven and giving it up entirely, he still has the spirit and virtue of an angel)
- and whatever Aziraphale becomes, Crowley will follow, and then off to the South Downs cottage
- also God comes in, as a human body or something. But either way, She narrates the last part of the series cause now "the story is going exactly how it should"
- a whole fucking chorus of Nightingales sing in Berkeley Square
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Least unhinged TERF fantasy.
Also, do they like... know that puberty blockers are not an anti-aging miracle drug and don't actually stop you from growing visibly older?
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A lot of the horror that's missed in 'modern' fiction is that the 'good guy' think's they can't do evil because they're the 'good guys' and I wish there was more of a focus on it.
With Good Omens, Aziraphale has been there in that spot for 200/250 years, and Maggie inherited that shop from her grandmother, could you imagine the dawning horror as Maggie finds pictures from 100/150 years ago with Mr Fell in them (as he is now). You'd write them off at first, he looks just like his grandfather! genetics are amazing aren't they.
Then seeing other pictures from Victorian times, not even posing shots outside the shop, Soho was always a bohemian hub so there's lots of area shots, just because...and Mr Fell is in a lot of them, because you can't lie to yourself now, that is Mr Fell, he still wears that waistcoat, that jacket...his mate Crowley is also in some of the shots, always wearing those dark, dark glasses.
Come to think of it, you've seen him in the coffee shop, around the bookshop, just in the area, for years and years, you've spoken to him, but you can't remember if you've ever seen his eyes...and isn't that weird...and at the next shopkeepers meeting, you sort of, bring it up, as a funny little thing...and the other shopkeepers go quiet and one by one they share their stories of...encounters with Mr Fell and his friend.
Lucky coincidences, sudden spates of extreme bad luck, conversations where they wanted to say one thing but suddenly find themselves saying something completely different and at first, they write it off, asking themselves why they said that, why they did that and there's a little mote of worry about their mental health...but it keeps happening, not all the time, but only when dealing with Mr Fell and his friend.
Then Aziraphale is himself, talking about past events like he was there, talks about truly miserable historic times like everyone was having a little row with one another and being bad sports, like the people in those times weren't real, like they were being difficult.
He asks for confirmation from Mr Crowley, who also talks like he was there, (and you can't see his eyes, you've never been able to see his eyes) and you decide to google the details and it all lines up every time and you see a Mr Fell in old, old books...or a Mr A Felle, or a Mr Afelle and that sinking feeling grows and grows...but, what can you do, who'd believe you, is it you? are you going mad? but that moment with the other shopkeepers, the little horrid club you suddenly realise you belong to fills you with a heady relief and a stomach dropping dread because what are they? what are they?
There's a few fics out there that touches on it and I've read a few of them and really enjoyed them! but they're always positive, or at least neutral about the whole situation and now with season 2 introducing the 'miracle blocker' it adds a whole other element of horror to it.
The 'miracle blocker' wasn't made specially for A&C, that's a establishment procedure, possibly to stop any demon or angel from messing in a specific area when there's a small plan in place (and we know there's small plans happening with A&C's little jobs around the world). We know that sometimes, other angels/demons go to do small/medium jobs on Earth which would make the blocker necessary...but what if A or C was casting a small emotional/mental changing miracle and they didn't notice it didn't quite work, or the blocker kicked in mid-miracle.
The person/s they did it too probably wouldn't be, at all okay for a long time, possibly forever...they start watching A&C, they start noticing things but what can they do? Who can they tell? A occasionally makes gangsters disappear (book cannon), what will they do to you!
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