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sarahthecoat: on-stardust-wings: sarahthecoat: kitcat-italica: on-stardust-wings: krakensdottir: cheeseanonioncrisps:I know I’ve gone over this before, but I love the way that Crowley genuinely doesn’t seem to see this as a weird thing for him to do. Like “obviously I’m here to look out for you angel— why else would I be in a church???” Aziraphale has spent the last 100 years in a crisis, convinced that he’s finally gone too far and that now Crowley will, quite naturally, never want to speak to him again.Crowley has spent the past 100 years (when he wasn’t napping) in a huff, and that’s about it. He was offended, and they were definitely fighting, but I really don’t get the sense that he at any point considered it something that they wouldn’t be able to resolve, or even something serious enough that Aziraphale would question him showing up in the church.The fact that what Crowley is doing here is so significant for Aziraphale in terms of their relationship, and yet he doesn’t even realise what he’s doing because it’s just so natural for him. Crowley has that thing! That- what was it called, I was reading a post about it just the other day, where you don’t lose any connection just because you haven’t talked to someone in a while, and you’ll come back and jump in like you just spoke to them yesterday? That thing that’s so often tied to ADHD apparently? He has that. He doesn’t see this as weird because it isn’t weird to him. This is just how he works. Poor Aziraphale was out here thinking they were probably over, because he hadn’t seen Crowley in so long, and here comes Crowley like ‘fuck’s sake angel I can’t leave you alone for five- ….oh. I guess it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Whatever, here’s your books.’ You mean that isn’t the norm? Because that’s always been one of the signifiers of friendship to me? That you can be apart for a long time, but you don’t lose that connection? Um. Anyway. Given their long lives, it would make sense to assume they have frequently gone decades without contact. Earth is big; it’s quite possible one of them will get assigned to work on a temptation in China while the other is told to influence the Vikings towards Good. For the longest time, human/Earthly methods of communication were very limited, especially long distance, too. Spending some time apart, especially after a fight (and that might have been one of their worst rows, but it can’t have been the only one) could very well have precedent, so Crowley goes off to sulk and nap, but he knows when they’ll meet again they’ll still be friends, because them being friends is something Crowley accepted a long time ago, and yes, to Crowley friends are naturally able to just return to each other’s lives.And poor Aziraphale thinks he really overstepped this time around with his instant refusal, and what if Crowley went and got hold of the suicide pill some other way. Aziraphale struggles to admit they are friends, even to himself in his own head, but when Crowley brings up the Holy Water, he has to imagine a world without Crowley in it, and then Crowley disappears after their fight, and it’s a bit of a free trial run of a world without Crowley, and it’s much better Crowley is still mad at him and they aren’t friends anymore than Crowley being gone, and then Crowley is neither gone nor mad, no, he acts like nothing happened, and Aziraphale, being that anxious, constantly worrying angel he is, has no idea how to deal with none of the bad things he surely saw in his head being true. Heaven doesn’t forgive. Never. Heaven kicks offenders out, through the void between dimensions into a sulphur pool. Aziraphale’s culture doesn’t know forgiveness. They say “may you be forgiven”, but it’s empty words; the whole Heavenly culture is unforgiving. It’s all talk and no action, and this is where Aziraphale grows up and continues living. And even in his chosen culture, among humans, forgiveness is often tied to repenting somehow. Crowley’s forgiveness, Crowley’s friendship, is unconditional. Nothing else Aziraphale knows is. How is he supposed to not be utterly surprised by it? Ok but an angel learning what true forgiveness and unconditional love feels like from a demon is just *chef’s kiss*I mean, how much more found-family-ish can you get??? These two characters, man. They make me so happy. yes!also i love in this scene how the Nasty Villains, doing their Very Serious Business, carrying out their Clever Plan to Take Over The World, are utterly upstaged and ignored by these two characters just bickering, like this is simply a minor irritation to be disposed of as quickly and completely as possible. Yeah, that too! It illustrates rather well that these two dorks are actually supernatural beings with unimaginable power at their fingertips; they don’t actually have to worry about being outnumbered and at gunpoint. Their actions here call both of them out on being well aware Aziraphale isn’t in any real danger; he could at any point just do a miracle and be safe. Even if it was just a tiny miracle, like making the bullets disappear or just making them not hit him. He’s in this situation for playing human, and it got him into trouble, but he doesn’t need Crowley to save him. Likewise, Crowley doesn’t need to go to the trouble of burning his feet, but he does, because he wants to save Aziraphale (I tend to think he doesn’t trust Aziraphale to save himself instead of being a good angel and not doing a frivolous miracle?). But this whole scene is basically the two of them playing. I don’t think you can discorporate an angel or demon with a bullet they know about. A shot from a hidden position, when they don’t expect it, yes. Something they see coming? Nah. true! -- source link
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