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Name: Al
Age: 28
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Other Characters: Somnus Lucis Caelum (FFXV)
Character Information
Name: Aziraphale
Canon: Good Omens (the show)
Canon Point: End of the show, as they toast to the world
Age: 6000, give it or take, hard to keep track when millennia are involved
History: Here but let me know if you need more.
Personality:
Aziraphale is an Angel.
That fact has, honestly, defined who he is for most if not all of his life. The first time we see him he’s already a neurotic, worried mess afraid of having done the wrong thing, afraid of making a mistake by trying to follow the almighty’s ineffable plan in his own way. His entire existence is about doing the right thing, and while most angels in the Good Omens universe seem to just walk around happily assuming they are right simply because of who they are, Aziraphale has a tendency to doubt himself on a daily basis.
Don’t get him wrong: he would never doubt the Almighty herself, not really. Even when he hesitates, even as he watched Eve and Adam get kicked out of heaven when Eve was expecting or when he wanted nothing more than to help the kids that were going to drown because they didn’t get a passage into Noah’s ark, he still forced himself to see it through to the end because he knew there had to be a reason behind it. He believes in the great plan above it all, he believes there’s a reason for everything and that it will all work out in the end.
But that doesn’t mean he has to stand still as things go to hell around him, though- in the end, even as he tries his best to follow the plan She has laid out he still does what he thinks is the right thing. Like giving Adam his flaming sword, or agreeing to stop the Apocalypse even when it is (/was) part of the great plan.
What he wants is to do whatever he feels is the morally right thing to do, and it is so hard to know what that is sometimes, even for an Angel. Crowley tells him that as an Angel he can do no wrong and you can see the weight of the world lifted from Aziraphale’s shoulders at the idea, even if it doesn’t last long. Eventually, he learns that there’s a difference between being good and nice. Heaven was all about the later, but he cares more about the former.
The “problem”, according to angels like Gabriel is that Aziraphale loves humans and humanity so much, has so much empathy for them that he can’t stand to see them suffer… and sometimes ends up ruining things even further by trying to help. His first act helping humanity was giving them his flaming sword, and that ended up going to the personification of War herself. He does the wrong thing, sometimes, but he always does them for the right reasons and with his best intentions at heart. And at the end of the show (and thus his canon point), he’s slowly but surely accepted that things aren’t as black as white as he’s always believed. There is no absolute right or absolute wrong, Angels aren’t perfect and not all Demons are to be hated and shunned. But it has been a long, long (I’m talking 6000-years-long) way to get there.
Don’t mistake his empathy for complete selflessness, though. At the end of the day he’s still an angel, and even though he loves humanity (he’s supposed to be a being of love, after all) there’s certain things he loves more and he’s not above being a little (or very) selfish. He’s a bit of a hedonist, he knows what he enjoys and he can be quite stubborn when it comes to getting it. He almost got himself killed trying to get some crepes in France, and he did get a man (presumably) killed to save his own angelic ass. But he’ll justify himself (the man was going to kill him, after all, and he seemed to enjoy using the guillotine far too much!) and find a hundred reasons to keep on getting whatever it is he wants.
Even though he’s willing to go very, very far for whatever it is he’s craving he’s also a man of simple pleasures. He likes food and books and he'll do anything to get them. He owns a bookshop but his opening hours are, quite frankly, bananas and just him playing calvinball so he can avoid actually selling any books, he’s just a bit of a hoarder with a bookshop as an excuse. And I’ve already mentioned the lengths he’s willing to go to get crepes if he’s craving them. He’s as stubborn and determined as he is neurotic, but only when the situation requires it.
I mentioned he’s a being of love, as an angel. What I mean by this is that he’s expected to love all of God’s creation, all of it, and he does so with gusto. Other angels see humanity as something disgusting that will, eventually, be canon fodder in a war against Hell (their true purpose). I wouldn’t go as far as saying they hate humans, but they do like handling things from as far away as possible. Aziraphale is the only one who’s not only been willing to stay on Earth for as long as he has, but actually enjoys it. He finds humans funny, endearing, he is absolutely delighted by their capacity to love. He was sent to spread peace, but it’s humanity itself that he falls in love with.
But it’s not big acts of love, it’s not the big things humanity has achieved, he didn’t fall in love with humanity because they stepped on the moon. No, what he loves about humanity are actually the simple things in life: books, wine, food, and dancing the Gavotte. Crowley eventually convinces him to help him stop the Apocalypse not with talks of good and wrong, of morality and what doing the right thing really means… but by reminding him there won’t be any sushi restaurants if Heaven wins.
The horror.
Aziraphale is also quite intelligent, it is mentioned in all of the iterations and shown, for example, in the way he’s quickly able to understand and make sense of Agnes’ riddle-like premonitions… but he’s also very, very naive to the point of truly believing Witchfinder Major Milkbottle exist (really...) and even feeling bad when Shadwell tells him he’s passed away, which makes him seem a little dumber than he is at times. Crowley himself puts it very succinctly: “How can someone so clever be so stupid?”
And the answer is, mostly because he hopes. He’s not stupid, but he hopes against hope that good will win, that things will work out in the end, and that if you are good, good will follow. And, considering how things ended up back home he’d say it proved him right in the end.
Until he’ll be sucked into this place, anyway.
Abilities & Skills:
Once more, with feeling: Aziraphale is an angel. Which means that the powers that we see are, probably, just a few in a long line of angelic powers, but I’m still going to limit myself to the powers that we actually see in the show. So, we’ve got:
- Shape-shifting: Aziraphale has been given a ‘corporeal body’ to contain his true form. He can change clothes at will and he is able to hide his wings so he can avoid worrying humans needlessly with them.
- Performing miracles: This one is incredibly vague, since it seems to mean he can miracle anything that needs to be... miracled. He can get whatever he needs with a movement of the hand: he is seen reviving an animal that was recently dead, sobering up instantly by miracling the wine back in the bottle, effectively teleporting himself away to whenever he needed to be, miracling himself an empty table at the Ritz… the list is pretty much endless. He is told, at one point, to avoid frivolous miracles because he performed too many so there’s obviously a limit on how many he can perform, but it seems to be mostly up to Heaven’s discretion and not a hard limit.
- Immortality: His body is subject to harm like a human body would, but other than that if he’s careful he’s literally immortal. Gabriel’s disgust at Aziraphale eating seems to imply angels don’t need to, and he doesn’t seem to particularly enjoy sleeping either so needing to do both in this place will be interesting. His body can be damaged if he’s caught unawares or unable to perform a miracle, but it’s implied that if he were to die (in his world, that is) there would be a lot of paperwork because he damaged his body but he’d eventually be given a new one. At least when he was still in good terms with Heaven, anyway.
- Capacity to feel love (or other virtues): This one isn’t really explained in detail, but he does mention being able to feel how a place is loved.
Inventory/Companions: Just his clothes!No books, which will break his little heart
Choice: Witch.
Reason: The idea of him being something that has traditionally been related to the other side in his religion so it will be quite interesting to see him come to terms with not only not being an angel, technically, but being quite the opposite. Plus learning spells will feel like performing little miracles, which will make him feel at home. He’s studious and a fast learner, so he’s going to apply himself into learning as much as possible about being a witch.
Sample:
here
and here
Name: Al
Age: 28
Contact:
Other Characters: Somnus Lucis Caelum (FFXV)
Character Information
Name: Aziraphale
Canon: Good Omens (the show)
Canon Point: End of the show, as they toast to the world
Age: 6000, give it or take, hard to keep track when millennia are involved
History: Here but let me know if you need more.
Personality:
Aziraphale is an Angel.
That fact has, honestly, defined who he is for most if not all of his life. The first time we see him he’s already a neurotic, worried mess afraid of having done the wrong thing, afraid of making a mistake by trying to follow the almighty’s ineffable plan in his own way. His entire existence is about doing the right thing, and while most angels in the Good Omens universe seem to just walk around happily assuming they are right simply because of who they are, Aziraphale has a tendency to doubt himself on a daily basis.
Don’t get him wrong: he would never doubt the Almighty herself, not really. Even when he hesitates, even as he watched Eve and Adam get kicked out of heaven when Eve was expecting or when he wanted nothing more than to help the kids that were going to drown because they didn’t get a passage into Noah’s ark, he still forced himself to see it through to the end because he knew there had to be a reason behind it. He believes in the great plan above it all, he believes there’s a reason for everything and that it will all work out in the end.
But that doesn’t mean he has to stand still as things go to hell around him, though- in the end, even as he tries his best to follow the plan She has laid out he still does what he thinks is the right thing. Like giving Adam his flaming sword, or agreeing to stop the Apocalypse even when it is (/was) part of the great plan.
What he wants is to do whatever he feels is the morally right thing to do, and it is so hard to know what that is sometimes, even for an Angel. Crowley tells him that as an Angel he can do no wrong and you can see the weight of the world lifted from Aziraphale’s shoulders at the idea, even if it doesn’t last long. Eventually, he learns that there’s a difference between being good and nice. Heaven was all about the later, but he cares more about the former.
The “problem”, according to angels like Gabriel is that Aziraphale loves humans and humanity so much, has so much empathy for them that he can’t stand to see them suffer… and sometimes ends up ruining things even further by trying to help. His first act helping humanity was giving them his flaming sword, and that ended up going to the personification of War herself. He does the wrong thing, sometimes, but he always does them for the right reasons and with his best intentions at heart. And at the end of the show (and thus his canon point), he’s slowly but surely accepted that things aren’t as black as white as he’s always believed. There is no absolute right or absolute wrong, Angels aren’t perfect and not all Demons are to be hated and shunned. But it has been a long, long (I’m talking 6000-years-long) way to get there.
Don’t mistake his empathy for complete selflessness, though. At the end of the day he’s still an angel, and even though he loves humanity (he’s supposed to be a being of love, after all) there’s certain things he loves more and he’s not above being a little (or very) selfish. He’s a bit of a hedonist, he knows what he enjoys and he can be quite stubborn when it comes to getting it. He almost got himself killed trying to get some crepes in France, and he did get a man (presumably) killed to save his own angelic ass. But he’ll justify himself (the man was going to kill him, after all, and he seemed to enjoy using the guillotine far too much!) and find a hundred reasons to keep on getting whatever it is he wants.
Even though he’s willing to go very, very far for whatever it is he’s craving he’s also a man of simple pleasures. He likes food and books and he'll do anything to get them. He owns a bookshop but his opening hours are, quite frankly, bananas and just him playing calvinball so he can avoid actually selling any books, he’s just a bit of a hoarder with a bookshop as an excuse. And I’ve already mentioned the lengths he’s willing to go to get crepes if he’s craving them. He’s as stubborn and determined as he is neurotic, but only when the situation requires it.
I mentioned he’s a being of love, as an angel. What I mean by this is that he’s expected to love all of God’s creation, all of it, and he does so with gusto. Other angels see humanity as something disgusting that will, eventually, be canon fodder in a war against Hell (their true purpose). I wouldn’t go as far as saying they hate humans, but they do like handling things from as far away as possible. Aziraphale is the only one who’s not only been willing to stay on Earth for as long as he has, but actually enjoys it. He finds humans funny, endearing, he is absolutely delighted by their capacity to love. He was sent to spread peace, but it’s humanity itself that he falls in love with.
But it’s not big acts of love, it’s not the big things humanity has achieved, he didn’t fall in love with humanity because they stepped on the moon. No, what he loves about humanity are actually the simple things in life: books, wine, food, and dancing the Gavotte. Crowley eventually convinces him to help him stop the Apocalypse not with talks of good and wrong, of morality and what doing the right thing really means… but by reminding him there won’t be any sushi restaurants if Heaven wins.
The horror.
Aziraphale is also quite intelligent, it is mentioned in all of the iterations and shown, for example, in the way he’s quickly able to understand and make sense of Agnes’ riddle-like premonitions… but he’s also very, very naive to the point of truly believing Witchfinder Major Milkbottle exist (really...) and even feeling bad when Shadwell tells him he’s passed away, which makes him seem a little dumber than he is at times. Crowley himself puts it very succinctly: “How can someone so clever be so stupid?”
And the answer is, mostly because he hopes. He’s not stupid, but he hopes against hope that good will win, that things will work out in the end, and that if you are good, good will follow. And, considering how things ended up back home he’d say it proved him right in the end.
Until he’ll be sucked into this place, anyway.
Abilities & Skills:
Once more, with feeling: Aziraphale is an angel. Which means that the powers that we see are, probably, just a few in a long line of angelic powers, but I’m still going to limit myself to the powers that we actually see in the show. So, we’ve got:
- Shape-shifting: Aziraphale has been given a ‘corporeal body’ to contain his true form. He can change clothes at will and he is able to hide his wings so he can avoid worrying humans needlessly with them.
- Performing miracles: This one is incredibly vague, since it seems to mean he can miracle anything that needs to be... miracled. He can get whatever he needs with a movement of the hand: he is seen reviving an animal that was recently dead, sobering up instantly by miracling the wine back in the bottle, effectively teleporting himself away to whenever he needed to be, miracling himself an empty table at the Ritz… the list is pretty much endless. He is told, at one point, to avoid frivolous miracles because he performed too many so there’s obviously a limit on how many he can perform, but it seems to be mostly up to Heaven’s discretion and not a hard limit.
- Immortality: His body is subject to harm like a human body would, but other than that if he’s careful he’s literally immortal. Gabriel’s disgust at Aziraphale eating seems to imply angels don’t need to, and he doesn’t seem to particularly enjoy sleeping either so needing to do both in this place will be interesting. His body can be damaged if he’s caught unawares or unable to perform a miracle, but it’s implied that if he were to die (in his world, that is) there would be a lot of paperwork because he damaged his body but he’d eventually be given a new one. At least when he was still in good terms with Heaven, anyway.
- Capacity to feel love (or other virtues): This one isn’t really explained in detail, but he does mention being able to feel how a place is loved.
Inventory/Companions: Just his clothes!
Choice: Witch.
Reason: The idea of him being something that has traditionally been related to the other side in his religion so it will be quite interesting to see him come to terms with not only not being an angel, technically, but being quite the opposite. Plus learning spells will feel like performing little miracles, which will make him feel at home. He’s studious and a fast learner, so he’s going to apply himself into learning as much as possible about being a witch.
Sample:
here
and here