#I WASNT EXPECTING A DW REFERENCE

[professeurm]

um... doctor?! and rose?!??

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a brown hair man in a brown pinstripe suit, loosen yellow tie, and blue coat. a blond hair woman stood behind him, wearing pink and purple

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

(early) torchwood and facism

[starofhisheart]

Just had an angsty ineffable husbands au idea (dw ends happily)

Cw: pregnancy/mpreg (kinda. For the purpose of the story I will be referring to both Zira and Crowley as "he/him")

What if after Aziraphale gets up to heaven the metatron turns to him and is like "well now, lets begin" and Zira is magically impregnated w Gods child. He is kept a close eye on so deals with the whole pregnancy mostly alone, save for certain lesser angel attendants attempting to take care of him (but they have no real clue about pregnancy so Zira gets very little actual help).

Zira is struggling, still emotionally devastated by the breakup, but one day he overhears Gods plan for his child and starts thinking up an escape plan. By the time everythings in place (Muriel helps?) Zira is very far along (the pregnancy is faster than a regular human one) but by some miracle the angels who were meant to be guarding him have become lax in their duties and its now or never.

He's thought a lot about where he could go, where he would be safe, but the thought he keeps coming back to is Crowley. But oh surely he is still angry with him! Surely he would take one look at Zira and his extended belly and shut the door on him forever. No apology dance could fix the mess he'd made.

And so he finds himself in his bookshop, intending to not bother his love with the problems he'd brought on himself. He expects the bookshop to be a mess. Muriel was a kind angel but he did not expect much from them in the way of book keeping. But he finds the place just as he'd left it, almost uncannily so, and is gently running his fingers over a bookshelf when he hears a noise.

Not just any noise: Crowley. He'd know his footfalls anywhere. The way he staggers about, stumbling into corners, softly cursing when he stubs his toe on a bookend. When he rounds the corner its clear he's been drinking. If the bottle clutched in his arms was any indication so too would be the way he's practically falling over with every step, gulping down the bottle with the occasional burp or hiccup.

Aziraphale is frozen, shocked by the sudden appearance of the one person he wanted to avoid-and the one person he most longed to see. Crowley hasn't seen him yet. He could miracle himself away and disappear as if he'd never been there. But some mysterious force has him rooted to the spot, drinking in the sight of his beloved.

And then its too late.

"A-angel?"

"Hello, my dear."

The demon rubs his eyes as he staggers backwards into a shelf, scattering a pile of Jane Austen's works, Persuasion landing at Zira's feet.

Fitting.

"S'just another dream." Crowley mumbles, sounding oh so very tired. "S'no way he'd come back. Up there with them fancy white coats. All light and good and-everythin m'not."

"Oh, Crowley..."

"No!! G-get away from me!" He throws his arms up in the air as if he can clear away the apparition if he waves them frantically enough. "Not real..."

Zira makes a choice then. He could leave, find somewhere else to hide from God and the angels and try to weather it out alone. Or, he could stay and try to fix things.

Moving slowly, arms outstretched, Zira calls to his beloved:

"I'm home."

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Crowley is a sobbing mess. Once he was sober enough to believe his angel was real he got angry. Flinging curses in every direction. Zira was hurt but took them gently, knowing he deserved it. Then the tears came. Until finally he passed out in Zira's arms, clutching the angel like a lifeline.

When morning comes Zira hadnt slept. He'd wanted to start putting the wards up but everytime he tried to move out of Crowley's arms the demon would make a pitiful noise and hold him tighter. It would all be very cute if his back wasnt killing him.

Crowley woke with a start at exactly 6:02AM and simply stared at Zira with an unreadable expression. He did not speak for several minutes. Simply stared. Then the first thing out of his mouth was:

"Gee, angel, you've gotten fat."

Aziraphale went red, immediately annoyed and anxious at the same time.

"Excuse me? How is that the first thing you say to me?"

But Crowley was staring intently at his belly not at all listening to Zira's offended screeching.

"Angel..." He cut in softly and at those words Aziraphale crumbled and it all came out at once.

About Gods child. The pregnancy. The plans they had for his baby. His escape plan. Everything.

Crowley listened quietly, expression the most unreadable Zira had ever seen it. Which of course only made his anxiety worse.

"-and I know I couldn't possibly expect you to help me, not after what happened, but-"

"Aziraphale."

Zira continued babbling, his voice getting higher and more shrill as he went on.

"Aziraphale!"

Zira shut up at that, wincing at the anger in Crowley's voice.

"I'm sorry."

Crowley's eyes softened but Zira was looking anywhere but at him, not able to bear what could only be hatred in his eyes.

"Hey, look at me."

Zira shook his head. A sigh. Then Crowley was holding Zira's face in his hands and looking at him as if he were his whole world.

"I've got you." Zira tried to duck his head but Crowley moved with him, keeping their eyes level. "Its you and me, remember?"

It would take time for Zira to truly believe his words but in that moment it was just what he needed to hear.

After a while of holding each other, Crowley broke the silence with:

"So, I guess we're going to be fathers this time around, huh."

The end

[soulmatesinc-if]

now that you mention "the parents' names" but: i am so curious about MC's parents and if they will be in the game more at all

mostly because, if i recall right, we dont get to choose too much of the MC's relationship to them? (ive been cramming a project and last i played was pre-project, and im taking a break to check my favorite i.f. blogs. so i cant remember for sure? my brain is v much lost in the trenches of this project, i apologize if i am misremembering) we get to choose how much truth the MC tells them, and we can choose "do you call them rn or do something else", and i think? thats it??

i remember it as such bc i recall it striking me as important: bc, based on premise alone, before i even started playing, i had made up my MC and my thoughts were "a MC who is a believer in soulmates and very dedicated to work, and cheery and kind, and only when people get to know her do they see that she's not this perfect person. she stress-smokes (very glad to see smoking as an option in-game) and she actually comes from divorced parents who she finds toxic and barely speaks to. she believes in soulmates as a rebellion against her upbringing, rather than having become jaded, tho she is a bit cynical in an anxiously overthinking way. i think it probably came via her favorite escapism from her homelife growing up being romance fiction in books and movies/tv?? this feels like a fun way to subvert M and Wyatt's expectations specifically of 'this soulmate stuff being easy for her to believe' when, in reality, it is a habit or a Believed Lie or spite or something that she has worked hard to polish. it is not a belief-system that came to her naturally" and then was surprised when, y'know, i sTARTED ACTUALLY PLAYING that "huh! i cant customize the parents like that? oh. okay, usually you can in games where the parents are just flavor-text. does this mean theyll have a role? thats interesting!! i like that! is this accidentally foreshadowing the parents being involved later?? huh!" since i came in with preconceived notions about how the parents-mechanic would work (also, dw, i adjusted my MC's headcanoned backstory accordingly to fit how the MC's parents actually are in-game as a result. i wasnt attached to her backstory at the time so i didnt mind changing it lol)

this isnt me complaining about the parents-mechanics btw. it is just something i noticed and almost forgot about until you confirmed the bit about giving the parents' names, thereby implying we will be seeing more of them probably(?)

id love to learn whatever youre willing to share about the parents - lore and whatever else - as a result, if you dont mind!!

(apologies if this message doesnt make sense. im really Cramming Project-brained rn, and have been for a few days and will be for a few days more, and i feel a little loopy and not fully present as a result?? it's an odd feeling to describe, but those that Get It probably understand my meaning. i hope im making sense)

With MC's parents, I wanted to create the air of somewhat clueless support, where they don't know specifically what MC does, whether because the explanations were understandably vague or because MC didn't even bother to explain, but still root for their child. They appeared (as in, you could talk to them in-scene) twice, and there have been and will be references to them in the future.

Once we have a solid grip on the inner workings of the company and move more towards exploring MC's relationships, I plan on having them actually feature as well. It will be fun to see the characters interact with the parents, as in, being witness to Romero spoiler because they know parents never take to them (and MC can make it even more difficult), or Wyatt going all "omg is that your moooom?", or Sam effortlessly sending out the vibe that all parents crave in their child's partner/friend. Framing such scenes will help me bypass the problem I outlined before (them not having default names).

[lyrqxa]

here i was assuming you didnt even think about the au anymore and youre just waiting in the wings with an evil grin and a whole ass chapter??? losing my marbles ngl ...

aster really just said call me fighter call me lover fr...cant wait for your reference of him to drop fanart

its just so insane to me i wasnt expecting that you were working on SO MANY stuff??? like wowow man sure keep up with the hard word it rocks...i feel like i didnt honor it like im being honest it ACTUALLY ROCKS!!! gotta love seeing so many creative ideas!!! puts your vessel narinder and god lamb on the blender and makes vitamin of them

i have so much written down for the ktc au theres some devastating scenes that i am SO excited to write about . smacks ktc narinder. this guy can hold so much suffering. i’m glad u like asty too !! i think if u drew fanart of tjem id explode

sorry i was so quiet about the ktc au!!! i literally just draw everything that comes to my mind and it includes memes so i have so much unfinished shit rn. i was staying silent ab the whole thing cause i wanted to have a lot of the stuff hit the first time reading it HAHA but dw . more content soon

lastly, vessel nari and god lamb would not be a good vitamin unfortunately 💔 they are full of mental illness