#anthony janthony crowley eheheh i love him

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Angel Crowley

ok so I think I might have figured out Crowley's angelic status (i'm sure it's been done before but haven't seen anything much on it)

so when Muriel is showing him the document on Gabriel, they say you had be a Throne, a Dominion, or higher to open them, which of course Crowley could do. a Dominion is the highest rank of human-shaped angel before they get to eldritch-being-shaped, Thrones just above, and are like rings of eyes type ones. Crowley being so high ranking as to be in charge of literally starting the universe with no one overseeing that moment makes sense if he is one of the higher ranks, and also partially explains why he just got Aziraphale to hold the scroll for him - Aziraphale is a principality, the highest rank of angels that look after earth (which explains his position on earth, and his role in designing people) but still three levels below Dominion.

Dominions are also in charge of 'delivering justice in unjust situations and showing mercy to human beings, and they try to balance love and truth', which Crowley continues to do as a demon. They also guide lower ranking angels and help people learn from their mistakes. Crowley fits this pretty well - he saves Job's kids because they're innocent, sees the injustice of Elsbeth's life, is constantly on the balancing point of love and truth with Aziraphale, not to mention guiding him into seeing injustice, and trying (if slightly in vain) to get him to see his mistakes. and probably more examples i can't think of right now.

and, we know that he Fell because he was asking questions - questioning if it was really fair to end the world and everyone on it just because - he wanted mercy for the people. he was appalled that god was killing everyone in the flood, because he thought they were innocent. he tries over and over again to get Aziraphale to see the nuance in situations and show him that what he is doing is not always just and right just because heaven is doing it - Jobs kids being the prime example, and of course Armageddon, and let's not forget 'when heaven ends life on earth it will be just as dead as is hell ended it'. these fit the characteristics of a Dominion.

I saw another post theorising that he was a Virtue, who are in charge of the natural world (stars, making *sudden rainstorms* etc), but those are below Dominion so he wouldn't have been able to open the file, but that post did have a good point of, maybe the miracle he and Aziraphale did together was not only powerful because they did it together, but also because as an occult (or ethereal) being, Crowley is just quite powerful. he literally drove his Bentley flaming with hellfire for few hundred miles with the sheer force of his imagination.

that's my take on it anyways. i'm still not over how happy he looked creating the stars ahhhhhh it's going to be so tragic when we see his fall, especially if they show it through the lens of Aziraphale finding out about it.