This Is So Interesting, I Was Still Thinking About Him Being The Archangel Raphael But This Would Be

this is so interesting, I was still thinking about him being the archangel Raphael but this would be so much crazier i love it

it's zero comfort but at least we can be reasonably sure crowley was formerly the archangel Lucifer, with all the references to "morningstars singing" (Lucifer Morningstar), the "we already had one fallen prince of heaven" line, him knowing the Metatron, him saying "let there be light" (Lucifer is the "light bringer") , his high level clearance access in heaven, his reference to being part of the "design " process with god, the weird respect the archangels give him in heaven, the miracle so powerful only an archangel could perform, the Heavy visual implication in the first scene that his questions specifically caused the fall, his suggestion to Shax that he could have done the archangel miracle, in the first scene when he literally says he's gonna tell god she's doing a shit job, his insistence to other demons that he doesnt remember them from the War (I doubt anyone is happy with Lucifer, I think he hides his former identity) and most importantly why he's So Fucking Different from literally every other angel and demon.

thinking about this moment. for just a split second, aziraphale grabs him and gives in, before pulling away. you can see it in both their faces that they've both secretly wanted this for so long, but neither of them wanted it to happen this way. to be under these circumstances, but it happened and there's a joy in that mixed in with the overwhelming despair that they've been pulled apart and they may never get it ever again. sobbing.

i think there's such an important distinction that aziraphale didn't choose heaven over crowley. he chose heaven for crowley. yes it was misguided and wrong, but he was doing it all with crowley in his mind.

**spoilers for last episode of Good Omens 2**

I was getting so worried as episode 6 went on that the whole season would pass without Crowley and Aziraphale ever having an explicit romance and like. I'm all for subtle romance but it felt dangerously close to queerbaiting in my opinion, especially since Crowley kept saying "it's not like that, we're not like that". BUT THEN the confession and the kiss scene happened and even though it ripped my heart out I'm glad they actually addressed it explicitly, it felt validating that it wasn't just a ship the fandom had come up with and would never become canon.

the sheer pain i felt on crowley's behalf watching gabriel and beelzebub go off to alpha centauri together, just like Crowley always wanted. it broke me. they could have it, why can't crowley and aziraphale have it.

that brief moment in the Eden scene in Good Omens is everything to me. Crowley and Aziraphale have just met, and they are supposed to be enemies, but when the first rain comes they are there together. Crowley has wings of his own, he could have covered himself just fine. Aziraphale does not move to cover himself at all. It is so perfect, so natural and automatic, for Crowley to shuffle closer, and for Aziraphale to lift a wing to shelter him. The quiet understanding, of watching the world when it is still new and full of so many possibilities. They were made for each other.