Featuring Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens)

[u/doctorgecko]

"I'd just like to say, if we don't get out of this, that. . . I'll have known, deep down inside, that there was a spark of goodness in you."

"Here's to next time. And Aziraphale? Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth liking."

Aziraphaleand Crowley

Earth is the battleground for the fight between the forces of heaven and hell, and fight between good and evil. But as the fight raged for 6000 years, two combatants on either side found they had a lot more in common with each other than they did with any of the higher ups.

Azirapahle (a principality) and Crowley (a former angel who did not so much fall as saunter vaguely downward) met in the Garden of Eden, and formed an odd friendship over the millennia. They even had an Arrangement where they would not interfere in each other's works. But when Crowley was tasked with delivering the Antichrist, so that the Apocalypse might commence in 11 years time, the two realized that they didn't really want the world to end. Thus they tried to teach the Antichrist about both good and evil... and when it turned out a mix-up at the hospital meant they had the wrong child, and no one knew the location of the actual Antichrist, the two scrambled to try to find him before anyone with more apocalyptic goals could.

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Shared Feats

It's worth noting that within the setting angels and demons are of the same stock

Shape Shifting

• For demons (and presumably angels who are the same stock) abandoning their physical body is quite easily. The only issue for the question of how many angels can dance on the head of pin (apart from most angels not dancing) is the large gaps between the electrons making dancing hard

• The two take on the appearance of various tutors and caretakers for Warlock to try to teach him about good and evil

• Their true forms are humanoid figures with large wings

Immortality

• They cannot be killed, just inconveniently discorporated

• Have been around since the beginning of the universe, which was in 4004 BC

  • The two have a conversation over several years back in the 1000s, with them having known each other for about 6000 years
  • Remember France's Reign of Terror, though he can't quite recall who was responsible for it

Misc

• The two have an Arrangement where they won't directly interfere in each other's work. While under the Arrangement the two will also occasionally perform the task the other was supposed to perform if they happen to be in the area

• The two convince Heaven and Hell to stop the Apocalypse

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Aziraphale

An angel who always tries to do good, though can find himself being a bit selfish at times.

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Miracles

• Manifests lights and de-manifests them, cures a girl's broken bones with a statement and fixes her bike, and modifies Crowley's Bentley to have a bicycle rack, getting a bit carried away with the repairs/modifications

• Turns a high powered handgun into water pistols, and then converts the guns of nearly every guard into water pistols, though he does miss at least one.

• Causes a traffic warden's notebook to burst into flames

• Teleports away an American soldier in a British airbase, with the soldier finding himself back in his hometown in America

• Makes a scooter fly from London to Tadfield, and prevents the two people riding it from being harm by the M25, which is currently both 700 degrees and -140 degrees Celsius and would destroy even a helicopter if it tried to fly overhead

• [Limit] Claims too many miracles will be noticed by the forces Up There, so he tries to limit his usage

Misc

• Used to have a flaming sword, but gave it up to Adam and Eve

  • Picks up another sword and ignites it, stating that once you've learned how to do it you never forget

• After losing his physical body, possesses various people around the world, eventually ending up in the body of a woman in England with whom he can hold conversations

• Turns a gun into a water pistol after someone had already pulled the trigger

• Senses large amounts of Love around the town of Tadfield, where the Antichrist resides, detecting that the entire area is cherished

• Able to decipher the works of Agnes Nutter (something that had taken her decendants centuries), performing calculations no computer could do to in less than a day track down the Anti-Christ in Lower Tadfield

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Crowley

A demon who always tries to do bad, but has unfortunately grown a fondness for humanity, and feels they're far better at evil (and far more creative with it) than Hell ever was.

Reality Warping

• Waving a hand over a paintball gun causes all of the paintball guns being used to turn into real guns, though he also arranges things so that no one actually gets shot

• Arranges matter so that he doesn't hit anything while driving recklessly

• Breathes life back into a dead dove

• Causes a wheel clamp to vanish

• His Bentley bursts into flames after passing through the Sigil of Odegra and keeps driving, with Crowley having to mentally hold the car together all the way to Tadfield, the car ultimately making it despite even the tires burning away (though the effort is draining on him and it ceases working as soon as he arrives at his destination)

Shape Shifting

• Enters and travel through a phone line at a good fraction of the speed of light

• Was the serpent that tempted Adam and Eve

• Takes the form of a horrific monster involving maggots in order to make a man pass out, with the person who saw him losing memory of the encounter.

Misc

• Puts a woman into a trance so that she'll answer all of his questions with a snap of his fingers

• No one notices him driving ninety miles an hour down Oxford street since everyone knows that's impossible

• Passes through the Sigil of Odegra, causing the car to immediately burst into flames, which is both 700 degrees and -140 degrees Celsius simultaneously and is shown to generally be fine sitting in the burning vehichle, and touching metal hot enough to fry eggs

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Using Aziraphale and Crowley on WWW

They're both immortal local reality warpers with out a clear hard limit on their abilities. So... I'm honestly not sure on this one. There's probably some characters in fiction that could give them a decent match, but I'm not sure who they are.

[u/doctorgecko]

Note that this thread is in no way an endorsement of Neil Gaiman. I like to pretend this book was just written by Terry Pratchett.

And if this is how you're learning about the recent new involving Neil Gaiman... sorry you had to find out this way.

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Always important to remember

Also fantastic job Doc!

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[u/CoolandAverageGuy]

great feature