The Bentley~

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It’s crazy to think I started this before I came to college and now I’m heading home for break…anyway here’s the final piece!

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

good omens the book, 1990: see, queen is so ubiquitous in london these days that if you leave a tape in a car for too long, it'll inevitably morph into a best of queen tape. which is why their megahits are playing in crowley's bentley all the time! isn't that a funny and topical joke?

good omens the show, 2019-2023: yeah crowley's car has a hands-free call system and also only plays cassette tapes. yeah it's whatever don't think about it. what's an incredibly earnest and passionate queen love song we can play during this scene where crowley tries urgently to reach aziraphale

1929 Bentley

I didn't realize how soft Aziraphale had made Crowley until i saw A YELLOW SPOT on the plant. What have you done to my demon?!?!

Aziraphale: So, I thought I might pop up there myself and investigate!

Crowley: Fair enough. What time's your train?

Aziraphale: Actually I rather thought I might take the car.

Crowley: What car?

Aziraphale: Our car.

Crowley: We don't have a car.

Aziraphale: Of course we do. Isn't she a beauty?

Aziraphale getting his driver’s license but never a car in 90 years and instead letting Crowley drive him to places will always be funny to me

Then one day, out of the blue, he goes

“oUr CaR”

“That was fun goodbye!”

@fuckyeahgoodomens

So, I made a silly little post a while ago about how cute it was that Aziraphale suddenly wanted to take the Bentley after waiting 90 years to drive here. But since I wrote it, I watched the episode again, and suddenly a few things started to fall into place.

Aziraphale being so desperate to take the Bentley always struck me as kind of strange. Like, he's spent 90 years of Crowley driving around and has never asked to drive before. Why right now? Crowley seems as surprised by the request... he's not taking the train? He loves trains!

And then... it hit me. He's going to Edinburgh.

The last time he went to Edinburgh, his worst nightmare came true. Crowley got pulled down to Hell to face punishment for his acts of kindness.

And now, Aziraphale is going back there. The circumstances are completely different, of course, but I'm certain that he remembers vividly losing Crowley. He would want to make sure that Crowley is safe and out of Hell's reach while he's gone.

But with him out of London, how can he make sure that his demon is safe? The Bentley is now not only Crowley's car, but also where he's living now that he got kicked out of his apartment, so most of his time is spent there. Aziraphale is probably aware of this, but he also knows that the demons can get to Crowley in the car. Beelzebub entered the Bentley without permission, as did Hastur in season 1.

But the bookshop is safe. Only Aziraphale can give permission to enter the shop (Crowley seems to have permanent permission because he can now come at will). So, he takes the Bentley, and asks Crowley to watch over Jimbriel in the bookshop, in the one place that he will be completely safe.

Now all Crowley has to deal with is an amnesiac archangel! What could possibly go wrong?

1938 Bentley Rapide

Coach work by Frank Eeley

60° V12, 4.5 L, OHC, 180 hp, 5500 rpm

Lagonda G10 4-speed manual

0-60 mph 4.7 secs 110 mph top speed (116 Le Mans)

Participated in Le Mans 1938, 3rd place overall

What do you think Aziraphale was doing in this scene?

Was he hiding as he waited for Crowley? Or was he talking to the Bentley?

I like to think he was asking the Bentley if it was okay to drive her to Edinburgh. Only if the Bentley was okay with Aziraphale driving her, only then he'd tell Crowley he planned on taking "our car".

Thoughts?

The Bentley in yellow was such a cutie ;0;

Hot take: A/Cs biggest incompatibility is actually that Crowley thinks driving at 90mph is tame and has an aversion to watching the road while he's behind the wheel, whereas Aziraphale has quite possibly memorised the entire Highway Code word for word and probably secretly checks the Bentley's engine oil level every single week without fail

As a proud owner of a 2CV I'm sad that Crowley didn't get to drive one, but maybe Nanny drives this beauty? (Crowley in diguise and so is the car)

I FOUND MY NEW HEADCANON FOR S3 OF GOOD OMENS

“He did say he liked yellow.”

I need The Bentley to turn into “OUR CAR”. I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN. JUST IMAGINE THE BENTLEY DOING THIS OUT OF SHEER SPITE. THE BEIGE INTERIOR AND BEIGE WHEELS. THE YELLOW DOORS. THE GOLDEN YELLOW HOOD ORNAMENT. I NEED THIS SO BADLY.

-Constantly drives him back to Whickber Street and Azi’s bookshop

-Objects Azi owns unexplainably start turning up randomly in the car (even better if they are from other time periods)

-Bentley stops taking orders from Crowley

-only plays songs about love that are scarily accurate to Azi and Crowley’s dynamic

THIS CAR WILL NOT LET HIM FORGET AZIRAPHALE. IT IS GOING TO ACT LIKE A STUBBORN CHILD. I NEED THIS BENTLEY TO ACT LIKE A TODDLER.

“Demon Dad is mad at Angel Dad, but Demon Dad loves him still. Guess he needs to be reminded of him then.”

I NEED A FANFIC THAT BRINGS IN THE ELEMENT OF THE BENTLEY HEARING THEIR EVERY CONVO IN THAT CAR WHILE DRIVING, and it is going to use it on Crowley.

Almost like it is trying to shake him and telling him not to forget. BECAUSE IT FEELS THEIR LOVE STILL.

I NEED FANFICTION. OH MY GOD. 😫😭

(If someone writes a fic about my headcanon, PLEASE TAG ME. I’D LOVE TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE COME UP WITH! WHETHER IT IS FANART, A FANFIC, OR WHATEVER ELSE YOUR HEART DESIRES, I WILL PERSONALLY LOVE EACH OF THEM.🫶🏼😊)

it's been three months and I still haven't processed the Bentley playing Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy at Crowley (when I'm not with you, think of you always) as he drove (I miss you) back (just take me back to yours, that will be fine) to Aziraphale (love you) with a really sincere apology in mind (say the word, your wish is my command). barely a few seconds of normal driving in central London, squeezed in a plot point of "oh shit, extreme sanctions" and their meetup. easy to overlook. unless? it's literally top 5 of Their Queen Love Songs. in any context other than the sheer panic Crowley was experiencing I would take this scene to my grave as peak romanticism, because we know Bentley is an extension of Crowley's mind, and it feels like it tries to comfort him in that moment? (everything's all right, just hold on tight) Recognizing the crushing, overwhelming, all-encompassing love that Crowley is feeling, and boiling it down to simply being suave and charming, casual, like he so often pretends to be (I learned my passion in the good old-fashioned school of loverboys).

it's just the stuff of fanfics, but given to you in the typical Neil Gaiman fashion of subverting expectations, while also allowing for, well, gently playing on your heartstrings. I love it, I love that we got that, bless