A.J. Crowley (
goodtobebad) wrote2023-12-26 07:47 pm
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★ Character Information ★
Character Name: Crowley. Occasionally goes by Anthony J. Crowley.
Character Age: Over 6000 years old.
Character Species: Demon. Physically, he looks like a human man, except that his eyes are golden and snakelike - he usually wears sunglasses to conceal this. He's also capable of manifesting big black wings, or just straight-up turning into a snake if he wants.
Current Health: In perfect physical health.
Outfit: Black. Black shirt, vest, jacket, leather pants, snakeskin boots (which may just be his feet). Has a skinny silver tie thing around his neck, and the aforementioned sunglasses.
Character Canon: Good Omens
Link to History: He didn't so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards.
Canon Point: Post 2x06 "Every Day"
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A
Character Age: Over 6000 years old.
Character Species: Demon. Physically, he looks like a human man, except that his eyes are golden and snakelike - he usually wears sunglasses to conceal this. He's also capable of manifesting big black wings, or just straight-up turning into a snake if he wants.
Current Health: In perfect physical health.
Outfit: Black. Black shirt, vest, jacket, leather pants, snakeskin boots (which may just be his feet). Has a skinny silver tie thing around his neck, and the aforementioned sunglasses.
Character Canon: Good Omens
Link to History: He didn't so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards.
Canon Point: Post 2x06 "Every Day"
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A
★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★
Skills: * Drives really fast
* Good at annoying people
* That's honestly about it, he's otherwise pretty useless.
Canon Abilities: It's tough to pin down Crowley's abilities except to say that they are vaguely reality-bending. In general, if Crowley assumes that something will be true, then it will be. For instance, he assumes that all cars have a CD player in them, so if he were to hop in a military jeep - despite the fact that military jeeps do not have CD players in them, this one immediately would. If he assumes that he can drive 90 mph in the middle of London during rush hour without hitting anyone, then he will. He can also do what he describes as "demonic miracles" which are exactly the same as angelic miracles, except that he's a demon. So he can miraculously save his best friend's priceless first editions from a bomb. He can snap his fingers and repair a cracked headlamp, or release his friend from prison.
I understand that this is very vague, but I won't have him do anything game-breaking, and I won't have him do anything to other characters without prior consent. He's not that kind of demon, anyway.
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: He's going to have some cute lil devil horns, because that will annoy the crap out of him.
Role Reasoning: Crowley's relationship to his identity is a very fraught one, and putting him in the "myth" category will only exacerbate this, quite frankly. On one hand, he knows what he is - he's one of the fallen, he's unforgiven, and unforgivable. He's unrepentant as far as that goes, with no interest in "redeeming" himself by Heaven's standards, because he understands that Heaven is messed up. On the other hand, he consistently bristles against the idea that he's just evil. He is not and does not want to be "evil" - he wants to live in the shades of gray, and he doesn't like being boxed into a role - any role, really.
★ Personality ★
Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:
Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.
OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:
Falling. Crowley's fall was particularly traumatic for him, because of the reason why he fell - he didn't do anything that most people would consider "evil". What he did was question things. He asked why things had to be the way they were, and instead of being listened to and valued, he was cast aside for not living up to expectations. This experience left him (at least outwardly) bitter, cynical, and with a chip on his shoulder toward his Creator. But it also gave him a certain amount of clarity about how morally bankrupt Heaven actually is, which has left him free to side with humanity in ways that his friend Aziraphale hasn't been able to do as much.
Crowley's relationship with Aziraphale is by far the most important in his existence. Crowley was rejected by Heaven, and Hell doesn't exactly encourage healthy relationships among its denizens - but Aziraphale has, from the Beginning (literally), been a kind, loyal, and stalwart friend to Crowley. It's through his relationship with Aziraphale that Crowley realized just how important the world and humanity are to him, and that he wants to share that with Aziraphale. It's ultimately because of Aziraphale that Crowley has been willing and able to actually fight against their respective "sides" - rather than simply running away and leaving the world to its fate. Aziraphale accepts him when everyone else rejected him, and has shown him what a life "on their own side" might look like. He is Crowley's other half.
Crowley would probably be loathe to admit it, but he actually does have a moral code, and a pretty strong one. While he's perfectly fine with annoying people, playing mean pranks on them and otherwise causing inconveniences, Crowley would never do anything genuinely evil. Time and time again, Crowley has gone out of his way to avoid killing - he even avoided killing Job's goats by turning them all into birds. And harming children is especially onerous to him. Crowley will quite literally concoct complex plans to avoid killing kids, even annoying kids. Crowley genuinely loves the world, and loves humanity, and while he sometimes messes with them for his own entertainment, the thought of actually harming or destroying them is completely anathema to him. He's actually quite compassionate under his cynical exterior.
Aziraphale really and truly is Crowley's safe space. He is never more comfortable, never more able to just be himself, than when he's with Aziraphale, hanging out in Aziraphale's bookshop. He frequently removes his sunglasses in the shop, something he almost never does otherwise - a physical manifestation of his comfort level. It'll be interesting to play out how he deals with being separated from his safe space like this, particularly because at his canon point, he genuinely believes that his relationship with Aziraphale is over for good - thus, he has lost his safe space, and lost all ability to truly be himself and feel accepted for who he is.
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