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Burning bentleyyyyy

Real ones know which pinterest picture this was inspired from

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I just realized that Aziraphale is hit with the paintball that makes it seem as if he bleeds blue. The Cambridge Dictionary states that, “A blue-blooded person has been born into a family that belongs to the highest social class.” Heaven would believe themselves to be the highest of social classes.

Aziraphale is also hit in the back which is associated with being betrayed by someone you trusted. He’s extremely worried about his coat being stained. Crowley is one who helps fix the stain. It’s also Crowley who teaches Aziraphale that the fact that he is an angel is not what makes him good. His actions are what make him “good.” He is righteous because of his choices. The archangels and the Metatron’s actions didn’t “stain” him and neither did working with Crowley.

*Crowley is shot in the heart and “bleeds” red. Of course, he’s the one shot in the heart

*This analysis is only talking about Season 1.

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Saraqael is a mystery to me

This post is dedicated to Saraqael. I find her pretty interesting as a character, because I honestly don't know what to do with her.

The fandom in general seems to view her as one of the good guys. She does not participate in the power games of Michael and Uriel, but focuses on doing her job instead. Even lesser angels like Muriel are treated friendly and with respect by her, something we have rarely seen in heaven before.

Moreover, Saraqael is witty and intelligent, and does not hesitate to let other people know it. She is the only angel who is not fooled by Crowley's disguise in heaven and seems suspicious about Aziraphale's explanation for the 25 Lazarii miracle, telling him "We will keep a very close eye on you" (for more about the ways in which Saraqael shows competence, see this post by @ao3cassandraic).

But then again, Saraqael does not seem to question the atrocities of heaven very much, either. In her eagerness to carry out her duties, she seems quick to perform even the most cruel of acts, like erasing Gabriel's memory or turning Nina and Maggie into salt. At first, I thought that she is simply amoral. Not immoral, but amoral, literally having no sense of morality. Like Muriel, who is cute and nice, but does not see what the problem with killing Job's children is.

But when I watched the series again and read some of the opinions about Saraqael (for example this post by @vroomvroomwee), I started to rethink my notions about her. If we take her amorality and her utter obedience to heaven for granted, then it becomes obvious that her behaviour in at least two scenes in the series is pretty much out of character.

The first scene is the one in which she catches Crowley in heaven. Based on what we've seen so far from her, one would imagine her to immediately sound an alert, throw him out etc. But she does nothing of this. Instead she encourages Muriel, whom she has just accused of "collaborating with the enemy", to "go on" and "show him the trial". She intentionally shares confidential information with a demon.

That's not what you would expect a loyal and obedient angel like Saraqael to do, and it's risky for her, too. Crowley would have watched the trial anyway, so even if she wanted him to see it, she could have stayed in the background and pretended that she never noticed him. But it looks almost as if she wants him to be aware of the fact that she is permitting him to know about the trial. Her reminding him of their common past points in the same direction.

And in the scene where the angels are in the elevator with Crowley, Muriel looks nervous, wedged in between their superiors and probably afraid of being punished for helping Crowley. Michael seems annoyed and Uriel has a very stern face. All of them are looking straight, avoiding eye contact with Crowley. But Saraqael's expression is very hard to decipher. Unlike the others, she is openly watching Crowley, and she does not seem upset or worried about the fact that he has just managed to get past heaven's security mechanisms. To me, she looks curious or even amused, as if she were fighting back a smile.

For some reason, Saraqael does not seem to perceive Crowley as a threat. And she is making efforts to show him that there is no need for him to perceive her as a threat, either. Her behaviour towards him gives the impression that she is trying to build trust between them.

The second scene in which Saraqael acts out of character takes place shortly after, when the Metatron enters the bookshop and chastises Michael for talking nonsense. @most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer analysed it very neatly in this post. Saraqael is the only one besides Crowley who seems to recognize the Metatron immediately, but her reaction is very odd. She looks up and fold her hands, probably silently calling to God. And yet her expression is not one of pure devoutness, but one of fear, and she gives the Metatron an anxious side-eyed look. It appears almost as if she is asking God for succour against the Metatron. And that although whenever she talks to him she shows nothing but reverence.

Taking these two scenes together and seeing how they do not quite align with the initial assumption of Saraqael being a completely submissive angel, I conclude that Saraqael has much more of an own agenda than one would assume at first glance. That would also be more fitting for someone of her intelligence. Her opinion of Crowley is most likely different from heaven's official standpoint, and so is her opinion of the Metatron.

That's why I'm wondering whether Saraqael's obedience is in fact just a strategy to survive in a corrupt system. An user in this Reddit thread on her brought up the idea that she isn't on board with heaven's plans, but is "more politically saavy [sic!] than Crowley" and "knows when to keep her mouth shut". Maybe her tactic is to gain and maintain a position in the celestial hierarchy that allows her to have some important influence. Because since she is so conscientious, she gets assigned many tasks. And we do not know whether she actually carries them out in the way heaven wants. We don't know whether she would have truly wiped out Gabriel's memory and turned Nina and Maggie into salt, or whether she would have just pretended to do it like Crowley pretended to kill Job's goats. But that's just a theory. I'm very curious what Saraqael's actual character arc in the finale will look like.

What are your opinions on this peculiar angel? Let me know in the comments!

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It's insane how even after so many rewatches and rereads I still discover new things in Good Omens.

When Satan appears, he calls Adam his "rebellious son".

Rebellious. Son.

What if the omniscient, omnipotent god who had been calmly watching events unfold the entire time, did the whole thing to give Satan a taste of his own medicine? Once, HE was HER "rebellious son", who refused to listen and rejected his maker. And now Adam was doing the very same thing. And I can absolutely see god sipping her ineffable ambrosia or whatever with a delighted "See how that feels, lad?"

Petty af. And VERY in character (especially when you remember her in Uz).

it's also funny how in the end it proves that nurture doesn't beat nature - Adam follows in his father's footsteps in rebelling against his parent.

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Little art dump!

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“You can’t leave this bookshop.”

“Oh Crowley,”

“… Nothing lasts forever.”

Happy (late) GO2 Anniversary ‼️😄

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Happy EVERY anniversary to EVERYbody in the Good Omens fandom!

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oh my god how did I miss this parallel

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if ……. if a demon wore heelies on consecrated ground, would it still burn them

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lil screenshot redraw I did a week or so ago, watercolour, some watercolour pencils and gouache

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Everything is Them.

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someone help him.

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good omens !

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