my take on p's eye color differing from carlo's is very simple and called: he was first awakened by the blue fairy :)

A Theory on Why Crowley Was Like,,, THAT,,, in Rome

I saw a post on Crowley’s hair change over the years and it got to the point where op went “but what happened to him in Rome??” And that’s a valid question

During the wonderful time skip sequence that fed us backstory, we see crowley greet aziraphale and start up conversation every time they met, making obvious effort to get closer to the angel relationship-wise. But then we get to rome, and theres multiple things that the rest of us viewers noticed: he’d changed his hair, started wearing shades, and was a totally different mood than in previous encounters and took a bit of persistence from aziraphale to get the usually magnetically attracted crowley to open up. But what could've caused this?

CROWLEY THEORIES:

That Crowley was betrayed by God: This makes better sense if you’d read my writing on Crowley being a Seraphim based on the Gnostic creation myth, but a crucial detail you must understand here is that there is a “God”, but in the gnostic texts there is also the female aspect of god- and her name is Sophia (and god in goodomens is a woman too,) and she sent a serpent, her most trusted seraphim, into the garden of Eden. But the absolutely wonderful thing here is that this female aspect of god who also represents wisdom falls from the heavenly host herself. God questions itself. But what I want to focus on here, is the time stamps from episode 3, where Aziraphel and Crowley are at Christ’s crucifixion. Christ’s Crucifixion is significant, because (skipping over the rest of the creation myth) to Gnostics Jesus was seen as the gnostic savior, and his death (as we’ve heard in Christian belief) was so “we” could be forgiven etc. this included saving god herself, apparently, and it restores Sophia back into heaven as a bride to god so that they could be one whole again (who hitched a ride in jesus as a vessel.)

So imagine Crowley. Imagine having had fallen by “asking too many questions” and being told that you’d done the wrong thing when you’d only been following God's orders, just the wrong “aspect” of the same part of a whole of Him, and you’d spent who knows how many years (because we’ve only started counting years since we could, and there's an unknowable before,) thinking despite the fall you hadn’t done the wrong thing, because She had fallen too,

And then she gets saved.

But you don't.

And this is crowley, the one who obviously wants to be with aziraphale from the get go (whether he realizes or not) and would give to spend as much time by his side if he could. If you think about Sophia, a bigger powerful entity who had done a considerably “badder” thing than a seraph ever could, and this former seraph had been believing he had done the right thing under said bigger powerful entity, but they get saved; restored back into heaven, forgiven, welcomed back home and allowed to stay by ‘something’ that loved you,,,

I’d be bitter too 👀

and bc this is Crowley I bet he’d have hated that he’d been foolish enough to hope he’d be forgiven, and it’s why he later says “I won't be forgiven. Not ever. Part of a demon's job description. Unforgivable, that's what I am.”

there’s another theory I had from Islamic texts about Idris (who is also Enoch?) and on his travels he finds an angel who’d incurred god’s wrath with their hair and wings cut off and I thought “oh, Crowley’s Rome wardrobe change?” but after a lot of fucking around with calendars, 41 AD I’d around 3801-3802 in the Hebrew calendar, and in the Hebrew calendar Enoch was born in 622 and went to heaven (not dead) 365 years later, which isn’t nearly enough to magically think that Aziraphel or Crowley fit into this theory 😔

anways, thanks for sticking around! ;)