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i’ve seen a lot of posts over the years discussing whether crowley is, in essence, good or bad. but here’s the thing: no one is fundamentally good or bad. full stop. in fact, that’s one of the major themes of good omens, and it doesn’t just apply to humans.

we are the sum of our choices, a messy amalgamation of nuance. as a person you will do good things and bad things over the course of your life, but a lot of that comes down to circumstances (think of the edinburgh minisode). we do what we can to survive in the circumstances that we’re given. it’s all so much more complex than something like intrinsic morality.

crowley’s job is to inflict evil. does that make him a bad person? he does, after all, do a lot of bad things.

he also saved the world. that’s pretty good. exceptionally good, even.

i don’t think someone “fundamentally good” would try to hit a hedgehog with his car, and i also don’t think someone “fundamentally evil” would risk his life to save the world.

crowley and aziraphale spent millennia among humans and thus no longer fit into the mold, which goes to show that the mold has always been optional. free will can be learned. angels aren’t fundamentally good and demons aren’t fundamentally evil, they’re both just doing the jobs they’ve been assigned. we are often victims to our circumstances, but if we can manage agency, we can break out of those circumstances and make different choices.

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everything crowley and azirpahale have ever done is because they love humans.

eating the apple, giving away the sword, lying to god, defying god’s plan, standing against satan himself, retiring/ostracising themselves, going back to heaven to stop the next apocalypse, every little adventure and pitfall and personal sacrifice in between. it’s been for humanity, because they love humans.

I shall jump straight to the point: people online did NOT seem pleased with Aziraphale and Crowley's last kiss. However, unlike them, i believe this was a deeply meaningful, touching and romantic moment for us to see and i thought I'd give my two cents about it too.

For starters: this was an APOLOGY kiss. That's right people, not a simple "I love you" or "I like you back" kiss but a PROPER apology kiss. Aziraphale reaches for it first, it's the first thing that comes to his mind when he realizes this might actually just be the last time they ever get to see each other. He wants to start over, do it better, and in order to do that he needs Crowley's forgiveness for everything that has happened in the past few years for things to finally be RIGHT.

He also touches his lips the same way he did when he first got kissed by Crowley at the end of season 2, except this time he does it to "give it back". It simbolizes Crowley's feelings being reciprocated, a tender act of apology for not kissing him back the first time but finally doing it right this time. He no longer thinks of that touch to his lips with sorrow or hatred or confusion, but rather as an answer, as something beautiful, as the love he's always felt but could never find the courage to openly reciprocate until now.

As for a possible additional meaning, here in Europe a kiss given by the fingertips can symbolize many things. One of them is "farewell" (and given the context of this scene i might add this kiss was the perfect choice), it's a sign of respect and profound admiration, it's a tender act to say goodbye in a polite and innocent way: it's pure, just like them.

Additionally, in my country, a kiss by the fingertips is most commonly known as a religious act, a sign of devotion and adoration done to the feet of sacred statues and holy sculptures; it symbolizes complete submission to our deepest love for the holy and to surrender to the greatness of the saint we behold, to give them our complete and undoubted faith.

it's loyal, It's devoted and faithful, It's endlessly filled with love and respect, it's playful and innocent but also clever and bold: it represents Aziraphale PERFECTLY. ❤️

i believe we were very lucky to be able to see the different ways these two characters express their love for one another, we get to see how Crowley expresses his love through a kiss and we get to see how Aziraphale does it in his own way. They both come straight from the heart, both dripping with need and affection and love, but each in their own, unique ways.

You liked him. And it looked very much like he liked you.

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

because THAT is who he is. he loves his stars and creations, he loves humanity, he loves the messiness, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, he loves watching them. he showed jesus all the kingdoms of the world to share that love with someone who he knows already felt it.

in the end, they made that choice together. it's a choice they have made before, over and over, saving humanity over themselves. no god, no angels, no demons, no thousands of years of suffering for all the millions of eternal beings.

personally, i choose to believe that god's last gift to them was integrating them into the fabric of the new universe, so they will find each other in every lifetime. but without anyone watching, without any plan behind it, without senseless suffering, without creating stars just to destroy them.

Because they always will

In every universe

In every life

Because their love was the most predictable thing.

Because it's ineffable 🤍

In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I've said this before and...

Aziraphale and Crowley's canon universe is a terrifying place. They lost it, yes. But their sacrifice was not in vain. And - I don't think they've lived only one love story in ours. I think they lived so many. And will for a long time.

Look at your loved ones... and you will see them.

There is no Book of Life in our Universe. There are just stories we create. Because we are free. Free to choose. And create. And love. And fight for the good things.

We can give them all the good endings.

But in the end, the whole story made sense. They got what they always wanted: Each other without the need to choose sides and a new chance for humanity. Remember what is has always been about, in all those minisodes. The ability to choose, to get a chance, to make a change.

They confessed their own way by deciding together and being fine with each others decision. They knew how the other would decide, they had always be a team. Maybe no US for eternity but finally an US in that moment.