Modern AU Cassie and Uncle Crowley, what definitely happened
Cassie, playing in Crowley's office answers his phone: Uncle Crowley's office, hello?
Cassie:
Cassie, offended: You sound like a little girl yourself!
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Crowley, holding Cassie in his arms because, after a strange type at a diplomatic conference wanted to hug her in greeting, she bit the guy's hand: No, no, senator, we are BOTH offended at you and we are both leaving!
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Cassie, greeting Crowley after he left her in the office for a minute: You had your books very ugly, but you've got it nice now, Uncle, you're welcome.
Crowley:
Crowley, slowly looking at the new arrangement of his bookshelf: And will you please tell me by what criterion you arranged it?
Cassie: The coolness of the cover, duh!
Crowley:
Crowley: Thank you
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Duncan, looking in on Crowley's study with the papers and finding them both at his desk, both drinking juice from little carton boxes: Okay...
Duncan: And what wins now?
Crowley: Strawberry and cherry are the best so far
Cassie: Your lack of taste is worrying, Uncle
Crowley, slurping his juice through the straw with all of his dignity:
Duncan:
Duncan: Apple's way better
Cassie: SEE?
Crowley, not caring for their opinion anymore: You both don't know a thing about juice
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Crowley, stamping the documents with his Ranger Corps Commandant's stamp, next to him puts a potato stamp with the title 'The Bestest Uncle' cut out: And this is just for very special documents, please leave my potato stamp at peace and don't laugh or you won't deserve it ever in your life, understood?
One: It is indeed empty space. Even our selves are mostly empty space, no? Or at least so far as we understand the concept. So in a way, Amara feeling the emptiness is...true.
Two: Amara is precocious, and I love that. She's been getting a steady diet of fascism (videos of Hitler speeches, Nazism), but when her appetite grows bigger, Crowley pivots to trying to get her to read softer things. He know he's been playing with fire, and the fire's getting too hot.
He tries to give her Uncle Hoppity (Cute, because he's Uncle Crowley, ha!) But she prefers the other, more complicated book: Dante's Inferno.
She's like Jack in this way, really precocious, tapping into unseen energies, even reading Dante's Inferno, "in the original Italian."
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There's also something so interesting about Amara immediately resisting Crowley's cartoonishly villainous worldview in this episode. This foreshadow her rejecting him early and nearly completely.
In response to his lecture on how he sees their future, she immediate pushes back against his evil plan with a quirk or an eyebrow and a wry: Would you? You'd really be happy if everyone... was evil?
And there's something so interesting about characters like Crowley, like Lucifer, like Dumah who want to kidnap primordial powers and mold their arguably untamable natures.
But Amara instantly overpowers him not just in power but in intellect. She's smarter than him, and she knows it.
Young Amara: How when God created mankind, he really screwed it up. Every time I take in a soul, I feel how much emptiness there is.
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Young Amara: God made a world where people have to suffer, and then they die.
Crowley: Unfortunately.
Young Amara: But frankly, why would they want to live in such a world?
Crowley: I salute your insight, cupcake. Yes, God's plan is hideously flawed. But you and I together? Well, we can shape things to our own world view. A place where, like the dinosaur, virtue is extinct, where the very air that we breathe is pure evil. Would you like that?
Young Amara (nonplussed): Would you? You'd really be happy if everyone was evil?
Crowley: Well...Actually, now I come to think of it, if everyone was dark and damned, wouldn't be much of a challenge. Watching a human reject the light and embrace depravity... Yes, well, that's where the gratification really is. Never gets old. This bemuses you?
Young Amara: Good, evil, heaven, hell, people… It all seems so unimportant.
Crowley: Well, I don't know that I'd say that.
Young Amara: I don't think you're seeing the big picture.
Crowley: Meaning what exactly?
Young Amara (angry): Guess what, Uncle Crowley? I'm hungry.
11x03
Lastly, here's an interesting shot of Amara at the end of the episode. Make me think a little bit of 10x17 where Rowena is preparing a spell.
There's something about the cunning power of them...it won't be controlled.
I just realized, Aziraphale has been renting out that space for Maggie’s family since the 1920’s so he literally watched Maggie grow up
I can just imagine her getting so excited every time he would show up to buy some records and just running over to Aziraphale then Aziraphale would pick her up and baby-talk her to death because he’s happy to see her too
I really really reallllly hope we get more Crowley and Muriel interactions in season 3. And possibly a friendship between the two of them. Muriel seems to like both Crowley and Aziraphale even though they aren’t supposed to.
How wonderful would it be if they could expand their social circle to others who don’t quite fit in line with heaven or hell?
I love how sweet he is here! And look how happy Muriel is to be acknowledged!
Yep he does!! He is the person Juno usually asks about stuff on twisted wonderland (also homework help because some of the subjects are something juno never learned like history of this land for example)
Duncan, very slowly and with great care: I have this strange feeling that I'm starting to include Horace in the family
Halt, who coincidentally adopted himself one child and incidentally got the whole flock as a bonus: That's how it always starts
Duncan: Huh?
Halt: Run while you can
Duncan:
Duncan: But he's a nice kid
Halt, dramatically: Too late
Cassandra, who had asked Crowley to ask Halt to talk to her father properly, to drag Horace home from Nihon Ja and is now hiding behind the door listening to the conversation:
Cassandra: Oh he's subtle, there's no question
Crowley, who went with her for the drama alone: Well, he’s trying