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I wonder if, in superhero universes, the villains ever get contacted by those “Make a Wish Foundation” and similar people.

I mean, the heroes do, of course they do, kids who want to meet Spiderman or Superman or get to be carried by the Flash as he runs through Central City for just thirty seconds.

But surely there are also the kids, who - because they are kids and sometimes kids are just weird - decide that what they really, really want is to meet a supervillain. Because he’s scary or she’s awesome or that freeze ray is just really, really cool, you know?

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Some more art for @cloud-chaser-2224 fic that I love and have read about six times

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+ bonus:

#compliment accomplished

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And I do remember, oh, very clearly, the look on your face, Archangel Gabriel. When you told my only friend to shut his stupid mouth and die. Well, obviously you said no to Hell, you're the bad guys. But Heaven… Well, it's the side of truth, of light, of good.

Crowley reacting to his own trial vs Aziraphale's

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I’m calling it now -

In Season 1, we had Crowley believe that Aziraphale was dead.

In Season 3, we are going to see Aziraphale believe Crowley is dead.

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CROWLEY an angel who did not so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards

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GOOD OMENS 2019 - present

You idiot. We could have been... us.

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he's so good with words

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Crowley + Astronomy

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That's not what I want it for. Just insurance. I'm not an idiot, Crowley.

Bonus:

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→ Michael "acting choices" Sheen in Good Omens 2

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#The way they probably erased Crowley's memory of heaven. Also the way Crowley offered a hot chocolate to Gabriel just after even though he still hated him because he knew how it feels to remember nothing (insp from this post by @perpetualcontrolleddrowning)

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Because you and Mr. Fell don't ever talk to each other. We talk all the time. We've been talking for millions of years. Bla-bla-bla-bla-bla-bla-bla-bla-bla. I say something brilliant, and he says something unintentionally funny back. It's great. You never say what you're really thinking.

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Aziraphale's favorite color is yellow #confirmed

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He's just an Angel... I know.

Good Omens (2019-)

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Crowley’s hairstyles/looks - down through the ages ...now including Good Omens Season Two

The original Season One post [ x ]

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I can't stop thinking about this post from a few years ago that really just makes everything click together about Crowley better than I think anyone actually realizes...

Crowley was The Serpent. He introduced free will into humanity, not by tempting Eve with fruit, but by helping her understand that she could CHOOSE whether she wanted to follow orders or not. Crowley gave her the Gift of Knowledge, not the fruit.

Crowley has all the empathy for the Universe, because he was its Architect. In the Great War of Heaven against Hell, picking a side was arbitrarty, because as he saw it, it wasn't a real choice that mattered. It was just a contest between two sides over who to gets privilege of destroying it all. Either way, the Universe loses. Only Crowley could see the bigger picture; only he dared to ask the question: Why?

Ultimately, the only lesson he took out of his damnation was that Heaven could not be trusted to understand the difference between what is Good and what is Right any more so than Hell. It was out of empathy, when he told Eve that she shouldn't need to listen to God, and in doing so, he gave the Universe the chance to make its own choice, to do more than just follow orders. Following God's orders may be seen as being Good, but if those orders are unjust, then how Good can they really be?

But Crowley is the only one who can see this, because as the serpent, he IS the free will that gave to the Universe. After witnessing the death and destruction of nearly the entire world's population to the Great Flood, he refused to remain complicit to any injustice that God wrought onto humanity. He refused to follow orders given to him in Uz to kill innocent children and livestock just because God took a dare to make one particular man's life suck for no other reason. When Crowley meet Jesus of Nazareth, he decided to show and educate the young messiah all about the rest of the entire world and all its beauty. He taught others to think critically when it came to blindly following orders. All because a universe where an individual's choices don't matter, where every decision is preordained by cosmic forces until the end of time, is unfair. And Crowley learned firsthand just how unfair that is, to not have a choice in one's own destiny. This was the gift of knowledge he hoped to pass along to humanity: to ask questions, to address injustice, to be able to choose between doing good and doing right.

The serpent told Eve that we should always have a choice.