What If Anathema's Aura Seeing Ability Was Also A Really Good Gaydar

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Good Omens heacannons: GIFTS EDITION

Crowley likes to give Aziraphale things from nature, mainly flowers and occasionally one of his houseplants (he claims that the bookshop had more sun for the plants, or that the flowers were given to him by his neighbour and he was going to throw them out) (Aziraphale knows the truth, though)

Aziraphale tends to lean towards more man-made gifts, especially sweet treats that he buys or even makes himself - after all, it was Crowley who first introduced him to food, so isn't it fitting that Aziraphale gives him something similar)

both of them love music, and will often dig up records and CDs of songs that they think the other will enjoy

they don't really announce those type of gifts, but Crowley will place a record (not bebop) in Aziraphale's gramophone/record player thingy, and Aziraphale will pop a new CD into the Bentley stereo

it makes them both so happy, doing these little things for each other, and they both blush adorably when receiving the same love and attention back <3

I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

when the thousand year old stone tablets write better fics than you T_T

just found fanfic written on clay tablets in cuneiform and then the pictures were uploaded to ao3 the good omens fandom is insane

GUYS I can't listen to ANY songs without Aziracrow breaking my heart T_T

And if I can't listen to music without crying anymore, NEITHER CAN YALL

Anyway I now present: Stick Season by Noah Kahan is so good omens coded (season 2 especially)

As you promised that I more than all the miles combined, you must of had yourself a change of heart back halfway through the drive, 'cause you voice trailed off exactly as you passed my exit sign, kept on driving straight and left our future to right.

Now I am stuck between my anger, in the blame that I can't face...and I'm terrified of weather, 'cause I see you when it rains.

Now I am no longer funny, 'cause I miss the way you laugh, you once called me forever, now you still can't call me back.

Ad I'll dream each night of some version of you that I might have but I did not lose, now your tired tracks and one pair of shoes, and I'm spilt in half, but that'll have to do, oh that'll have to do, my other half was you, I hope this pain just passing through, but I doubt it.

no but like this gives me an idea™

Me, feral and foaming at the mouth as security hauls me off the Doctor Who set: "YOU LEECHES!!! YOU CAN'T KEEP THE WARDROBE ROOM FROM US FOREVER COWARDS!!!! SHOW US THE COMPANION ROOMS! WE WANT TO SEE BELINDA'S ROOM, RUBY'S ROOM, EVEN THAT ONE ROOM THAT'S JUST A VOID WITH A CHAIR IN IT! YOU CAN'T KEEP THE TARDIS'S OTHER ROOMS FROM US FOREVER! WE HAVE RIGHTS!!!" (bites a guard and vanishes in a puff of chronon particles)

headcannon timeeeee:

Anathema Device was the fastest human/angel/demon to figure out that Aziraphale and Crowley were in love with each other

this queen took one look at these chaos gays and thought 'there is no possible heterosexual explanation for this' and we love her for it

coming in dead last, as the slowest people to figure it out, are Aziraphale and Crowley themselves

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OKAY headcannon time:

Once in the 17th century Crowley and Aziraphale got into a fight about the best type of wine (Crowley likes red, Aziraphale likes white) and for the next decade or so, two of the best red and white wineries in England got a seemingly out-of-the-blue 'sponsor' who paid them outrageous amounts of money to grow the best grapes and buy the fanciest brewing equipment. The two wineries formed a dramatic feud that lasted for years, passively aggressively trying to drive each other out of business and sabotaging wine tasting competitions all over the country to try and one-up the other winery.

Until one day, two young ladies from each winery fell in love Romeo & Juliet style and ran off together to live out their dreams of lesbian beer brewing in Ireland. Moved, the mysterious sponsors tried the other's wine for the first time and had to admit they liked the other's better (although they would never tell each other that)

They mutually coincided to calling the great-wine-off a tie, and the legend of the feuding families is still present in some parts of the English countryside that Aziraphale and Crowley are still to sheepish to visit to this very day

david tennant in a ginger wig