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name. aziraphale
username(s). \@hello
nickname(s). angel of the eastern gate, guardian of eden, the principality aziraphale, angel.
age. >6000
birthday. n/a
pronouns. he/him
species. angel
height. 5' 10"/178cm
build. chubby. (or thicc, if you're crowley)
hair. white blond in the shape of cumulus clouds.
eyes. varies from brown to blue to green.
other features. large white wings he usually keeps in hammerspace.
voice/accent. fancypants .
housing.
occupation. book handler
nationality. heavenly (but mistaken for english)
marital status. it's complicated
username(s). \@hello
nickname(s). angel of the eastern gate, guardian of eden, the principality aziraphale, angel.
age. >6000
birthday. n/a
pronouns. he/him
species. angel
height. 5' 10"/178cm
build. chubby. (or thicc, if you're crowley)
hair. white blond in the shape of cumulus clouds.
eyes. varies from brown to blue to green.
other features. large white wings he usually keeps in hammerspace.
voice/accent. fancypants .
housing.
occupation. book handler
nationality. heavenly (but mistaken for english)
marital status. it's complicated
personality
❝
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
❞
Aziraphale does have a history of protecting humans, and by nature is kind and altruistic. He is first shown on-screen having given away his weapon to Adam and Eve after they had been cast out from Eden, and lies to God to cover it up. He later argues with the angels that the humans can be saved if they just do something about the Antichrist, and is disappointed and disturbed when he discovers that the other angels are completely impassive to the humans' fate.
Though he seems altogether unassuming and "soft" as he puts it, he is also capable of doing scary things when pushed; we see glimpses of this when he banishes the guard keeping them from entering the airbase, and when wielding Shadwell's gun as Madam Tracy. Occasionally he gives in to doing something a little bratty, like setting a parking ticket on fire, but he is usually aware of the magnitude of his powers. And although he is a pacifist, he easily slips into a fighting stance when given his sword, and is high enough ranking to be a commanding officer. He does prefer less conflict and to appeal to characters' reason rather than to fight them outright. And when he is feeling bold, he is commanding: arguing with the Metatron to put God on the line, and interrupting Gabriel to say his piece.
Aziraphale is not the biggest fan of change, and although it seems as if he had caught up with the fashions and times until the late 1800s, he appears to sometimes be stuck in the Victorian era with his manner of dress and home furnishings. He still uses a rotary dial and on one occasion refers to a bicycle as a velocipede, doesn't listen to popular music written after the 1950s, and has not changed his hairstyle in 6,000 years. But he is cultured in most things old, being a lover of the written word and classical music.
Often petty and sometimes sassy, Aziraphale is not mean-spirited and has a pretty even temper, but not the patience of a saint, particularly when crunched for time.
He is also intelligent, well-read and perceptive, though because of his incompetence, he is often underestimated by his superiors and seen as sort of bumbling, harmless, and too caught up in his own navel-gazing to be much of a threat. It is possibly because of this that the Upstairs doesn't suspect any foul play when he and Crowley switch places - they don't think him capable of hatching such a plan!
Aziraphale undergoes a lot of character growth throughout the mini-series of Good Omens that stems from him starting to lose his faith in God refusing to take his call and the angels wishing for Armageddon at the cost of the Earth. But even though he has improved, he is still a repressive character, often eschewing his own feelings when the matter of what he thinks is right doesn't coincide with what Heaven wants. This manifests in a chaotic, wildly fluctuating energy as he goes back and forth deciding who to trust with what information.
He is almost overly-obsessed with appearance in this regard, tending to find it easier to accept Crowley's amoral plans when they correspond to being able to pass off positive outcomes to the Upstairs. But he is also a being of creature comforts, keeping his clothes in working condition for centuries, having a very particular haircut for his entire existence, being well-manicured, etc. He once dressed up in aristocratic clothes during the Reign of Terror and was scheduled to be executed; his excuse was that he "has standards."
Often pulling frivolous miracles -- to have enough coin to buy snacks during a show, or to set fire to a parking ticket -- he was reprimanded for doing just that, because he is heavily reliant on reality bending itself on his account.
He is an incredibly stubborn individual, and sometimes is either so self-important or otherwise focused that he ignores others around him. He is used to things going his way, or being able to manipulate a situation otherwise, and often gets upset when he's forced out of his comfort zone. That's part of the reason why he usually never leaves it, preferring instead an unchanging, slow life.
Aziraphale is also not the greatest liar, possibly in part because he already has a nervous, conflicted energy, and in part because he always wears his emotions on his face. He also shoulders guilt very easily even though he is a rulebreaker, and it compounds his stresses.
Though he seems altogether unassuming and "soft" as he puts it, he is also capable of doing scary things when pushed; we see glimpses of this when he banishes the guard keeping them from entering the airbase, and when wielding Shadwell's gun as Madam Tracy. Occasionally he gives in to doing something a little bratty, like setting a parking ticket on fire, but he is usually aware of the magnitude of his powers. And although he is a pacifist, he easily slips into a fighting stance when given his sword, and is high enough ranking to be a commanding officer. He does prefer less conflict and to appeal to characters' reason rather than to fight them outright. And when he is feeling bold, he is commanding: arguing with the Metatron to put God on the line, and interrupting Gabriel to say his piece.
Aziraphale is not the biggest fan of change, and although it seems as if he had caught up with the fashions and times until the late 1800s, he appears to sometimes be stuck in the Victorian era with his manner of dress and home furnishings. He still uses a rotary dial and on one occasion refers to a bicycle as a velocipede, doesn't listen to popular music written after the 1950s, and has not changed his hairstyle in 6,000 years. But he is cultured in most things old, being a lover of the written word and classical music.
Often petty and sometimes sassy, Aziraphale is not mean-spirited and has a pretty even temper, but not the patience of a saint, particularly when crunched for time.
He is also intelligent, well-read and perceptive, though because of his incompetence, he is often underestimated by his superiors and seen as sort of bumbling, harmless, and too caught up in his own navel-gazing to be much of a threat. It is possibly because of this that the Upstairs doesn't suspect any foul play when he and Crowley switch places - they don't think him capable of hatching such a plan!
Aziraphale undergoes a lot of character growth throughout the mini-series of Good Omens that stems from him starting to lose his faith in God refusing to take his call and the angels wishing for Armageddon at the cost of the Earth. But even though he has improved, he is still a repressive character, often eschewing his own feelings when the matter of what he thinks is right doesn't coincide with what Heaven wants. This manifests in a chaotic, wildly fluctuating energy as he goes back and forth deciding who to trust with what information.
He is almost overly-obsessed with appearance in this regard, tending to find it easier to accept Crowley's amoral plans when they correspond to being able to pass off positive outcomes to the Upstairs. But he is also a being of creature comforts, keeping his clothes in working condition for centuries, having a very particular haircut for his entire existence, being well-manicured, etc. He once dressed up in aristocratic clothes during the Reign of Terror and was scheduled to be executed; his excuse was that he "has standards."
Often pulling frivolous miracles -- to have enough coin to buy snacks during a show, or to set fire to a parking ticket -- he was reprimanded for doing just that, because he is heavily reliant on reality bending itself on his account.
He is an incredibly stubborn individual, and sometimes is either so self-important or otherwise focused that he ignores others around him. He is used to things going his way, or being able to manipulate a situation otherwise, and often gets upset when he's forced out of his comfort zone. That's part of the reason why he usually never leaves it, preferring instead an unchanging, slow life.
Aziraphale is also not the greatest liar, possibly in part because he already has a nervous, conflicted energy, and in part because he always wears his emotions on his face. He also shoulders guilt very easily even though he is a rulebreaker, and it compounds his stresses.
history
V
Very little is known about Aziraphale from before the Earth was created, except that he is an Angel who led armies in the initial war between Heaven and Hell, and was issued a flaming sword. His story begins when he is assigned to guard the eastern gate of Garden of Eden, though he does a terrible job and lets in the serpent who tempts Eve into the original sin. After Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden, Aziraphale leads them through the gate and gives them his sword for protection, fearing that they might be in danger from the wild animals.
Afterward, he meets with the serpent named Crawly, who has taken a humanoid form, and Aziraphale confesses that he'd given the sword away.
Implied to be his punishment, Aziraphale is demoted to be a Principality and sent to be on Earth permanently to perform miracles and promote peace for humans. He meets with Crawly (who had changed his name to Crowley) numerous times, and discovers that Crowley was sent to serve the opposite role on Hell's behalf. They witness Noah's Ark being built together, and also the Crucifixion of Christ. Around the year 500, he finds Crowley on the opposite side of a battlefield, and they both realize that they've been putting in a lot of work only to undo the other's, and that they are both doing so much for so little payoff; Crowley suggests that they should team up instead to falsify reports and do only the bare minimum to achieve the same result. Aziraphale is immensely offended by this, but eventually acquiesces to this arrangement, which would later simply known and referred to as The Arrangement. Over the years, he would perform temptations for Crowley, and Crowley would perform miracles for Aziraphale in exchange. It cuts down on their workload, and frees up their time to pursue personal projects. In fact, Aziraphale is the owner of an antiquarian and book shop in London, and before that offered his services in translation as he is fluent in many old and dead languages.
During this time, Aziraphale and Crowley also develop a friendship, usually manifesting in them getting lunch or particularly in Crowley saving Aziraphale from getting discorporated*. In 1862, Crowley meets with Aziraphale to ask for holy water as "insurance," which Aziraphale mistakes as him asking for a suicide pill, as holy water will kill a demon and their soul instantly. Upset over the potential prospect of losing his friend, he refuses Crowley on the spot and storms off. It's only 105 years later, when Aziraphale discovers that Crowley is plotting to pull of a heist in order to steal holy water from a church, that he decides instead to give him a very well-sealed thermos full of "the holiest of" holy water.
In 2008, Crowley delivers a newborn Antichrist to the nuns at The Chattering Order of St. Beryl, where they are presiding over two births - one of an American diplomat, and one of a middle-class local family. Crowley believes that the baby is given to the diplomat, but in an accidental switch, the child is actually placed with the family in Tadfield, just about 2 hours' drive from London.
During this time, Aziraphale is visited by the Archangel Gabriel, who vaguely tells him that the world is ending and that Crowley is involved**. Crowley chases after Aziraphale to try and get him to stop Armageddon, since Aziraphale is very much enamored with the Earth and many Earthly things. He refuses Crowley, but they go out to lunch and then go back to the shop to get piss drunk and chat about how awful it's going to be having to destroy the Earth and return to Heaven and Hell, respectively. Crowley manages to convince Aziraphale that it would be good for him to thwart evil by preventing the Apocalypse, and the two hatch a plan to influence the Antichrist so that he won't be good nor, more importantly, evil.
Aziraphale poses as the Gardener and Crowley as the Nanny for the American diplomat for five years. Later, in the book, they come back as tutors, but it's unclear in the show if they stay on for the full eleven years as Nanny and Gardener, or leave at some point. On the boy's eleventh birthday, a Hellhound is supposed to be released, and the naming of the Hellhound will start the unfolding of the events of Armageddon. Crowley poses as a waiter and Aziraphale as a magician for the party, though at 3 o'clock, the Hellhound doesn't show, because they have adopted the wrong boy as Godson. The pair of them return to the nunnery in Tadfield, but the records of the births were lost in a fire on the night that Crowley delivered the Antichrist.
At some point during his life in London, Aziraphale has employed a network of humans to give him information about goings-on, and one of these such individuals is Shadwell, a Witch Finder who is swindling him. Unaware to him, Crowley is also working with Shadwell, and both of them plan to recruit him into finding the Antichrist that they have misplaced. On the way back from Tadfield, Crowley hits a bike-rider with his car, and Aziraphale goes out to help the disoriented girl, whose name is Anathema Device and who is also coincidentally in town to try and prevent Armageddon.
In her hurry, she leaves her ancestor's book of prophecies in the backseat: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter. This is important, because it is the only such book in existence, the only one with accurate prophecies, and Aziraphale has been searching for it since it was written. Upon realizing what he has, he quickly says goodbye to Crowley and rushes home to read it. In the meantime, the Hellhound has been named Dog by the real Antichrist in Tadfield, and Armageddon has begun. Within the book, Aziraphale finds that he has the key to locating the boy, and he quickly notifies his colleagues in Heaven. The other angels, upon hearing this, question Aziraphale, since they all want a war - and he withholds the information from them that he has located the boy.
He meets with Crowley at a designated meet-up point, but also doesn't disclose that he has located the boy. They get into a moral argument over whether or not and who might have to kill the Antichrist, and Crowley announces his plans to run away from Earth and offers that they should run away together. Aziraphale rejects him and tells Crowley that they aren't friends, and the two part. Later that day, the demons have discovered that Crowley sent them to the wrong boy, and are threatening to come after him. He drives to the bookshop and pleads with Aziraphale to come with him, but Aziraphale rejects him and says that he will talk it over with upstairs. He tries to tell Crowley to confess that he knows where the Antichrist is, but Crowley is in the middle of fighting off the two demons who have come for him using the holy water he had from Aziraphale. Leaving to go tell Crowley in person, he is confronted by angels who have discovered The Arrangement, though in the middle of physically intimidating Aziraphale, are called away to the War. He goes back to talk with God, but finds that only Metatron will receive his call, and is interrupted by Shadwell believing him to be a demon. In an attempt to make sure Shadwell doesn't step into the summoning circle used to call God, Aziraphale steps into it accidentally himself, and beams himself up to Heaven. Because he has done so erroneously, he is discorporated.
Crowley meanwhile has gone to Aziraphale's shop to warn him that Hastur knows of their relationship and other demons might come to get him, but he is too late as Shadwell has knocked over a candle and the entire thing is in flames. Perhaps believing that they are infernal flames (which will kill angels the same way that holy water will kill demons), or perhaps that Aziraphale has been discorporated but that Heaven won't grant him another body, Crowley's entire plans for both averting Doomsday and also for escaping to Alpha Centauri are waylaid as he goes to a nearby pub and mourns his friend. Meanwhile in Heaven, Aziraphale realizes that to return to Earth, he could perhaps possess a body the way that demons do, because they are of the same original stock. He returns to Earth as a ghostly apparition, and tells Crowley that he's still alive but needs to find a body to inhabit, and that they both need to get to Tadfield air base ASAP.
Aziraphale then inhabits Madam Tracy's body while she is performing a seance. She happens to be Shadwell's landlady, and the three of them go off on a moped towards Tadfield. Once there, they have an argument with the American guard who refuses to let them in, and Aziraphale is still reluctant to perform a miracle causing the man any grievous harm. However, Crowley has had to drive through a ring of flames to get to Tadfield, and now his beloved Bentley is on fire, and he refuses to cooperate, so Aziraphale banishes the guard somewhere unknown.
All of them go to meet up with Adam and his friends, who anticlimactically stop the Four Horsemen. Angered, Satan surfaces and Aziraphale threatens Crowley to come up with a plan or he'll never talk to him again. So Crowley freezes time to bring him, Aziraphale and Adam (Young, the Antichrist) into a pocket dimension in frozen time, and encourage him to rewrite reality as he has been doing, since those are the powers of the Antichrist. They return and Adam wills away Satan to instead be scolded by his real father, who is his adoptive father. Satan turns into Mr. Young and disappears from the narrative.
However, Gabriel and Beezlebub (Crowley's boss) come to try and convince Adam to start the Apocalypse because it is written, and Aziraphale reminds the both of them that God's plan is ineffable, so they cannot know it, and if they know it, it cannot be ineffable. Therefore, logically it could be that God's entire plan all along was to avert the war, and to suggest that it isn't would be going against the plan.
Aziraphale catches one last prophecy by Agnes Nutter, saying that they should "choose their faces wisely" since they will be "playing with fire." That night, Crowley offers Aziraphale a place to stay since his shop burned down, and supposedly this is where Aziraphale explained his interpretation of Agnes' last prophecy. The two of them hatch a plan to switch faces, and are caught the next day getting ice cream. Crowley-as-Aziraphale is burned in eternal flame, and Aziraphale-as-Crowley is made to bathe in a tub full of holy water. The two of them frighten their respective tormentors by threatening them with the very element meant to kill them, and make them believe that they are so far gone into the other side that they can survive the only normal means of destruction; Heaven and Hell agree to leave them alone. It is suggested that because angels and demons lack imagination that they don't suspect Aziraphale and Crowley as having been able to swap places.
*Angels and Demons are sometimes issued bodies, so when they die on Earth they lose their bodies but don't really "die." It's an awful lot of paperwork to get a new one. (back)
**Actually, Aziraphale compliments Gabriel on his suit, and Gabriel replies that he enjoys human clothes but that it's "too bad there won't be any very much longer." Thankfully, Crowley mentions Armageddon before Aziraphale can ask what in the world he's trying to pull. (back)
Afterward, he meets with the serpent named Crawly, who has taken a humanoid form, and Aziraphale confesses that he'd given the sword away.
Implied to be his punishment, Aziraphale is demoted to be a Principality and sent to be on Earth permanently to perform miracles and promote peace for humans. He meets with Crawly (who had changed his name to Crowley) numerous times, and discovers that Crowley was sent to serve the opposite role on Hell's behalf. They witness Noah's Ark being built together, and also the Crucifixion of Christ. Around the year 500, he finds Crowley on the opposite side of a battlefield, and they both realize that they've been putting in a lot of work only to undo the other's, and that they are both doing so much for so little payoff; Crowley suggests that they should team up instead to falsify reports and do only the bare minimum to achieve the same result. Aziraphale is immensely offended by this, but eventually acquiesces to this arrangement, which would later simply known and referred to as The Arrangement. Over the years, he would perform temptations for Crowley, and Crowley would perform miracles for Aziraphale in exchange. It cuts down on their workload, and frees up their time to pursue personal projects. In fact, Aziraphale is the owner of an antiquarian and book shop in London, and before that offered his services in translation as he is fluent in many old and dead languages.
During this time, Aziraphale and Crowley also develop a friendship, usually manifesting in them getting lunch or particularly in Crowley saving Aziraphale from getting discorporated*. In 1862, Crowley meets with Aziraphale to ask for holy water as "insurance," which Aziraphale mistakes as him asking for a suicide pill, as holy water will kill a demon and their soul instantly. Upset over the potential prospect of losing his friend, he refuses Crowley on the spot and storms off. It's only 105 years later, when Aziraphale discovers that Crowley is plotting to pull of a heist in order to steal holy water from a church, that he decides instead to give him a very well-sealed thermos full of "the holiest of" holy water.
In 2008, Crowley delivers a newborn Antichrist to the nuns at The Chattering Order of St. Beryl, where they are presiding over two births - one of an American diplomat, and one of a middle-class local family. Crowley believes that the baby is given to the diplomat, but in an accidental switch, the child is actually placed with the family in Tadfield, just about 2 hours' drive from London.
During this time, Aziraphale is visited by the Archangel Gabriel, who vaguely tells him that the world is ending and that Crowley is involved**. Crowley chases after Aziraphale to try and get him to stop Armageddon, since Aziraphale is very much enamored with the Earth and many Earthly things. He refuses Crowley, but they go out to lunch and then go back to the shop to get piss drunk and chat about how awful it's going to be having to destroy the Earth and return to Heaven and Hell, respectively. Crowley manages to convince Aziraphale that it would be good for him to thwart evil by preventing the Apocalypse, and the two hatch a plan to influence the Antichrist so that he won't be good nor, more importantly, evil.
Aziraphale poses as the Gardener and Crowley as the Nanny for the American diplomat for five years. Later, in the book, they come back as tutors, but it's unclear in the show if they stay on for the full eleven years as Nanny and Gardener, or leave at some point. On the boy's eleventh birthday, a Hellhound is supposed to be released, and the naming of the Hellhound will start the unfolding of the events of Armageddon. Crowley poses as a waiter and Aziraphale as a magician for the party, though at 3 o'clock, the Hellhound doesn't show, because they have adopted the wrong boy as Godson. The pair of them return to the nunnery in Tadfield, but the records of the births were lost in a fire on the night that Crowley delivered the Antichrist.
At some point during his life in London, Aziraphale has employed a network of humans to give him information about goings-on, and one of these such individuals is Shadwell, a Witch Finder who is swindling him. Unaware to him, Crowley is also working with Shadwell, and both of them plan to recruit him into finding the Antichrist that they have misplaced. On the way back from Tadfield, Crowley hits a bike-rider with his car, and Aziraphale goes out to help the disoriented girl, whose name is Anathema Device and who is also coincidentally in town to try and prevent Armageddon.
In her hurry, she leaves her ancestor's book of prophecies in the backseat: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter. This is important, because it is the only such book in existence, the only one with accurate prophecies, and Aziraphale has been searching for it since it was written. Upon realizing what he has, he quickly says goodbye to Crowley and rushes home to read it. In the meantime, the Hellhound has been named Dog by the real Antichrist in Tadfield, and Armageddon has begun. Within the book, Aziraphale finds that he has the key to locating the boy, and he quickly notifies his colleagues in Heaven. The other angels, upon hearing this, question Aziraphale, since they all want a war - and he withholds the information from them that he has located the boy.
He meets with Crowley at a designated meet-up point, but also doesn't disclose that he has located the boy. They get into a moral argument over whether or not and who might have to kill the Antichrist, and Crowley announces his plans to run away from Earth and offers that they should run away together. Aziraphale rejects him and tells Crowley that they aren't friends, and the two part. Later that day, the demons have discovered that Crowley sent them to the wrong boy, and are threatening to come after him. He drives to the bookshop and pleads with Aziraphale to come with him, but Aziraphale rejects him and says that he will talk it over with upstairs. He tries to tell Crowley to confess that he knows where the Antichrist is, but Crowley is in the middle of fighting off the two demons who have come for him using the holy water he had from Aziraphale. Leaving to go tell Crowley in person, he is confronted by angels who have discovered The Arrangement, though in the middle of physically intimidating Aziraphale, are called away to the War. He goes back to talk with God, but finds that only Metatron will receive his call, and is interrupted by Shadwell believing him to be a demon. In an attempt to make sure Shadwell doesn't step into the summoning circle used to call God, Aziraphale steps into it accidentally himself, and beams himself up to Heaven. Because he has done so erroneously, he is discorporated.
Crowley meanwhile has gone to Aziraphale's shop to warn him that Hastur knows of their relationship and other demons might come to get him, but he is too late as Shadwell has knocked over a candle and the entire thing is in flames. Perhaps believing that they are infernal flames (which will kill angels the same way that holy water will kill demons), or perhaps that Aziraphale has been discorporated but that Heaven won't grant him another body, Crowley's entire plans for both averting Doomsday and also for escaping to Alpha Centauri are waylaid as he goes to a nearby pub and mourns his friend. Meanwhile in Heaven, Aziraphale realizes that to return to Earth, he could perhaps possess a body the way that demons do, because they are of the same original stock. He returns to Earth as a ghostly apparition, and tells Crowley that he's still alive but needs to find a body to inhabit, and that they both need to get to Tadfield air base ASAP.
Aziraphale then inhabits Madam Tracy's body while she is performing a seance. She happens to be Shadwell's landlady, and the three of them go off on a moped towards Tadfield. Once there, they have an argument with the American guard who refuses to let them in, and Aziraphale is still reluctant to perform a miracle causing the man any grievous harm. However, Crowley has had to drive through a ring of flames to get to Tadfield, and now his beloved Bentley is on fire, and he refuses to cooperate, so Aziraphale banishes the guard somewhere unknown.
All of them go to meet up with Adam and his friends, who anticlimactically stop the Four Horsemen. Angered, Satan surfaces and Aziraphale threatens Crowley to come up with a plan or he'll never talk to him again. So Crowley freezes time to bring him, Aziraphale and Adam (Young, the Antichrist) into a pocket dimension in frozen time, and encourage him to rewrite reality as he has been doing, since those are the powers of the Antichrist. They return and Adam wills away Satan to instead be scolded by his real father, who is his adoptive father. Satan turns into Mr. Young and disappears from the narrative.
However, Gabriel and Beezlebub (Crowley's boss) come to try and convince Adam to start the Apocalypse because it is written, and Aziraphale reminds the both of them that God's plan is ineffable, so they cannot know it, and if they know it, it cannot be ineffable. Therefore, logically it could be that God's entire plan all along was to avert the war, and to suggest that it isn't would be going against the plan.
Aziraphale catches one last prophecy by Agnes Nutter, saying that they should "choose their faces wisely" since they will be "playing with fire." That night, Crowley offers Aziraphale a place to stay since his shop burned down, and supposedly this is where Aziraphale explained his interpretation of Agnes' last prophecy. The two of them hatch a plan to switch faces, and are caught the next day getting ice cream. Crowley-as-Aziraphale is burned in eternal flame, and Aziraphale-as-Crowley is made to bathe in a tub full of holy water. The two of them frighten their respective tormentors by threatening them with the very element meant to kill them, and make them believe that they are so far gone into the other side that they can survive the only normal means of destruction; Heaven and Hell agree to leave them alone. It is suggested that because angels and demons lack imagination that they don't suspect Aziraphale and Crowley as having been able to swap places.
*Angels and Demons are sometimes issued bodies, so when they die on Earth they lose their bodies but don't really "die." It's an awful lot of paperwork to get a new one. (back)
**Actually, Aziraphale compliments Gabriel on his suit, and Gabriel replies that he enjoys human clothes but that it's "too bad there won't be any very much longer." Thankfully, Crowley mentions Armageddon before Aziraphale can ask what in the world he's trying to pull. (back)
miracles.
Aziraphale liberally performs miracles, which cover anything from healing to mending to prestidigitation. He snaps to pull power from above.
blessings.
His blessings are for positive outcomes, and he can make the holiest of holy water.
flight.
With big white swan wings, Aziraphale can take to the skies. Honestly though? He prefers to take the bus.
empathy.
He can feel love, and he has plenty of it to give.
Aziraphale liberally performs miracles, which cover anything from healing to mending to prestidigitation. He snaps to pull power from above.
blessings.
His blessings are for positive outcomes, and he can make the holiest of holy water.
flight.
With big white swan wings, Aziraphale can take to the skies. Honestly though? He prefers to take the bus.
empathy.
He can feel love, and he has plenty of it to give.
strength.
unknown level of strength, but easily picks up ~200lbs.
languages.
Having been around for 6000 years, he speaks many Earth languages, most of them dead.
dancing.
He is quite fond of the gavotte, although he has new years' resolutions to learn the galloping major, gay gordons, mashed potato and the twist.
magic.
If you need a magician for your party, look no further! Described as absolute rubbish, you might want a food fight as a backup plan for entertainment.
unknown level of strength, but easily picks up ~200lbs.
languages.
Having been around for 6000 years, he speaks many Earth languages, most of them dead.
dancing.
He is quite fond of the gavotte, although he has new years' resolutions to learn the galloping major, gay gordons, mashed potato and the twist.
magic.
If you need a magician for your party, look no further! Described as absolute rubbish, you might want a food fight as a backup plan for entertainment.
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