Aziraphale's Defence Attorney

GO3

There are many reasons I hate GO3 for, chief among them, how Aziraphale was treated and Crowley characterised -because who is this and what have they done to the real Crowley? (If GO3 was a fic I'd be closing it so fast.) And Aziraphale is not treated badly just by everyone in the show, but by the story too. What is this narrative that does not lead to their happiness and healing? Where did this come from? And why? Why does everyone die? Where I expected we find Crowley remembering about the Second Coming and deciding to help Aziraphale who said he wants to make Heaven better (and keep them safe); GO3 Crowley was given depression instead and decided that drinking and gambling is the better option because nothing can change.

And not only does everyone berate and insult Aziraphale, Aziraphale is also never thanked for trying to change Heaven and not letting the Second Coming proceed as planned. Which would have meant eternity of boredom for him and eternity of torture for Crowley. And he stopped that from happening. For years. Alone.

Why couldn't Aziraphale change Heaven? Well because Crowley had to be right. Apparently. If the main character says things can't change, even if it directly goes against the book and the other seasons where he changes himself and the world and its fate, that's it. Universe and 8 billion people and millions of angels and demons are not worth bringing back.

That's what free will gives you. The opportunity to act like an asshole. What the Ineffables needed was therapy and safety. Not an opportunity to die and for God to laugh and make a new toy to toss out into the void. Aziraphale is wonderful and deserved better. A bunch of my GO3 fix-its are here. Bonus meta that is wonderful and true.

BEFORE GO3:

My Tumblr metas used to be (surprisingly enough) defending Aziraphale or looking at GO (and F15) and his actions from his POV. Sometimes some general thoughts.

Browse them using #kaypost tag if you prefer. Or have a look through the below list and pick any to read if they strike your fancy.

Aziraphale and his relationship with Heaven

How the Ineffables DID stop the Armageddon

Aziraphale and Manipulation

"Shut Your Stupid Mouth And Die Already."

"I don't even like you!" "You dooo!"

Aziraphale, misogyny and the female character treatment

Religious Trauma and the GO Universe

Aziraphale, Joy and Tough Times

Help

Newspaper Man

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

Aziraphale loves Crowley but…

On How Aziraphale Protects and Loves Crowley

Sword

"You go too fast for me"

Break-Up(s)

Look. I'm glad you've never been in an abusive relationship but…

To Protect

Bandstand and Final 15

Crowley Knows Aziraphale

Crowley's Rank

Aziraphale vs Shostakovich

Gentle Dom Aziraphale

My AO3

is short fics that are (often) loosely connected. Most always existed in post S3 world where Aziraphale and Crowley are free (and that's not gonna change now), live in the South Downs and are helping Heaven and Hell transform into something new and helping each other heal.

I try to put them into series:

GO3 fix-its

Post S2

Through the Ages

Dom/sub (A/c) themes

Soft and Fluffy

Human and other AUs

And my ongoing (100 word) drabble series that I write at work lunchbreaks. They are not following onto each other but are generally in the same (post S3) universe.

I also made these edits about: Aziraphale and Aziraphale

Is because I don't think Crowley should be in the alley in the first place.

No amount of - oh I believe you never had your heart broken before, have you - comments will get me to agree that that's a valid response to what happened in F15. Not least because Crowley is not stupid and he must have known running away would lead nowhere.

The Crowley I know from the book and S1 would spend a day or two at most disilusioned that they are separated again. Not even blaming Aziraphale. Just - upset and angry at their shitty circumstances. And then he would find a way to contact Aziraphale and ask how he can help.

The Crowley Aziraphale found in the gutter is not his Crowley. He didn't love him or understand him. He didn't even like him!

Aziraphale, surrounded by his bullies for years, managed somehow to delay the Second Coming that would mean an awful, terrifying eternity for Crowley and very questionable results for humans. And all he gets back for it is scorn, because he didn't do a good enough job.

"You clearly can't do this on your own" - Yes! Aziraphale said he needed help?

The restaurant scene, however adorable and however David and Michael tried, still feels forced to me - see what you were missing? Yes, yes, he does. He knows Crowley. No need to pile it on.

The baby pelican (teenager now I guess) wouldn't turn to look at me so this is best I have.

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RESULTS

Random things that disappointed me in the finale.

🐬 Crowley didn't speak to the rat

🐬 Why was there suddenly a fourth button in the lift

Yeah, I bet GO3 wasn't aiming to talk about probably the most common diseases right now and treat the subject with contempt but here we are.

Because if we see Crowley was given depression that starts in S2 (what's the point of anything) and ends with him sleeping in an alley, not caring that his partner is trying to save them from a horrible eternity-

Then Aziraphale's resignation at the end is sign of his own metal health struggles. Because the angel that could not bring himself to kill one child to save 8 billion humans... When he was determined to avoid one death for the future of all and refused to run away with his beloved either but was adamant to try and speak to his horrible boss, god even - that they clearly didn't know, this angel would want to keep fighting, bring the old universe back and try again. And again. As we see him do over the seasons.

But he didn't. They broke him.

S3 starts with Aziraphale putting on a smile and turn to the Archangels who clearly despise him and try to keep going, as best as he can, with his endless checklists and simulations and whatever else he was trying to do to change their minds, change the plan, change the fate of everything.

When Jesus mentions Crowley this façade crumbles but only we see it. This is an angel who is so tired and lonely and broken, who tried so hard. And when everything and everyone is gone and his partner who did nothing but berate him all day and refused to listen suggests they leave their universe dead because nothing can change, nothing here is fixable and they die with it, asking for a new one, without occult and ethereal forces... without them, he cries and agrees.

I know there are people who don't see this message. And I know the people who worked on it didn't want this to be the message. But that does not stop it from me and many others (I think) from seeing that way. And being appalled. And hurt.

Aziraphale and Crowley's universe didn't seem any worse or better than our one is. It was our universe. Good Omens was story about how we should fight for our world, our lives, however imperfect, like a bunch of kids in a small English village decided to. Regardless of any life or fate that comes after. And angels and demons were meant to find and see the same message. Like their adorable and sometimes daft Earth delegates did. That life is not for living for some future that comes later. It's for now. We should fight for now. There does not need to be a war to decide who is best and who gets eternity. Angels and demons were meant to find out that they too are free to want for themselves. Not for some cruel God who laughs at them.