Anthony J. Crowley (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
inlovewithmycar) wrote2023-06-11 01:00 pm
inlovewithmycar) wrote2023-06-11 01:00 pm
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MOD NOTE: Regarding Crowley's nerfing, we'd like to suggest a little more in terms of the day-to-day. He will experience exhaustion and hunger at some point, and find that he might need to start breathing if he's exerting himself. If he were to try possessing someone (with player consent), it wouldn't last for very long, and if he changes anything about his physical appearance (such as taking his serpentine form or using his wings) it could either be difficult to change back without rest to regain strength, or again, only last for a short period of time. We'll let you make the call on these yourself, and we're definitely fans of the Rule of Funny.
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Canon update to the end of s2 e5
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OOC INFORMATION.
NAME: Green Rivers
CONTACT:GreenRivers or GreenRivers#4204 on discord
AGE: over 35
OTHER CHARACTERS:Also apping Luo Binghe
IC INFORMATION.
BASICS
CHARACTER NAME: Crowley, Anthony J.
CANON: Good Omens (TV)
CANON POINT: The end of season 1
AGE: 6000+
BACKGROUND
HISTORY: Wiki Link
PERSONALITY: Answer three of the following questions. Limit this section to 500-1,000 words in total, or 150-300 words per question.What impression does your character give when meeting someone for the first time? How does the first impression differ from your character’s true nature? The initial impression anyone would get of Crowley is… eccentric and kind of annoying. He has a vibrant personality, is very vocal about his opinions, and can be charming if he puts his mind to it, but for most people, he just tends to come across as opinionated, condescending or often just being contrarian for the sake of it. He really is just kind of rude and his predilection for wearing sunglasses in doors and at night provokes a great deal of exasperation.
Which is fine! Crowley has rather found his niche as being a demon of minor inconveniences, and getting on other's nerves only furthers that agenda. He's not the beacon of malice most demons are, but he is still a demon and enjoys the occasional nefarious hijnk or two. There is nothing more satisfying to him than a bad job well done.
But under that all is a shockingly compassionate individual; Crowley cares a lot more than his outward persona lets on. He has very little stomach for violence or torture (he had to get drunk for a week just to cope with what he saw going on in the Spanish Inquisition, and he's visibly upset when he finds out God intends to drown all the Mesopotamian people in The Flood).How does your character handle stress? What do they do in an emergency? Crowley is nearly always stressed about something. He has a constant nervous energy about him and a sort of ingrained paranoia. Understandable, of course, given where he's employed. The more stressed he becomes, the more snappish he gets, and sometimes he just has his noisy little outbursts.
His main outlet for his baseline stress is gardening. This involves terrorizing his plants into being lush, green, and perfect; likely a reflection of how he felt during his days as an angel before his Fall.
As for emergencies, Crowley is a pro at 'fake-it-until-you-make-it', and he can put on quite the bravado. This is where his knack for creativity, theatrics and running his mouth really shines; he can buy time, and he's willing to take risks that other angels and demons might see as completely mad (for example, his store of holy water, and his little trick of trapping Hastur in his answering machine).What are your character’s fears? How do they hinder or challenge your character? There's a lot of things for a demon to fear: consecrated ground (he hasn't been back to Italy since the Renaissance, the place has been an absolute minefield since the Vatican moved in) holy water (complete annihilation is an embuggerance), and the occasional Hellish audit.
He takes these things in stride, however, and stays out of churches (for the most part), avoids possessing any young girls and making their heads do a 180 (kind of gauche anyway), and keeps up with schemes that permeate a persistent stream of low-grade evil into the world to make sure he's filling his quota.
But one of Crowley's greatest fears are losing the life he's built on Earth. He likes humanity, he likes driving fast cars, he likes going to theaters and restaurants and concerts. And most of all, he likes sharing those things with his best and dearest friend Aziraphale.
Because his friendship with the angel is really the highlight of his life - and what a highlight it is! They share each other's burdens, enjoy each other's company, while both uplifting each other and challenging their views.
Crowley tends to be a bit disparaging at times, but he never once downplays the importance of this friendship.
And when he thinks Aziraphale is lost? He goes to pieces, on all fours in the middle of their burning sanctuary, screaming his anguish to the world at large, and then later drowning it in liquor while he waits for the world (and himself) to end.
To Crowley, there is no torture that Heaven or Hell could concoct that is worse than losing Aziraphale.
POWERS
SKILLS/ABILITIES:Physics are Optional. A deleted scene shows Crowley sleeping on the walls and ceiling of his flat, and another part shows that angels and demons can shrink down to be smaller than electrons when Crowley escapes into the phone lines to trap Hastur in his answering machine. Sin sense! Can generally sense emotions tied to sins and use that to give people what they want (for example real guns instead of the kind that just shoot paintballs) Talks to vermin (in the deleted scene to show how he knocked down the mobile networks in London, he's shown to have conspired with a large colony of rats and talks to them amicably like some sort of Disney princess) Demonic miracles: don't have any hard and fast mechanics or consistency to them so this is just sort of an overview.
- Effectively angels and demons can cause minor warps in reality. These seem limited to being within a localized area around them or one has to be intimately aware of the area they're miracling if doing it remotely. Miracles are largely convenient in nature; Crowley and Aziraphale's favourite table in their favourite restaurant is always available when they want it. A stain or mess can be blown away with just a thought. A satchel of books survives a church bombing unscathed during the blitz. A traffic warden's notebook goes up in sparks to avoid a ticket (Aziraphale does this in the book, Crowley does it in the show). A recently deceased dove can be revived by breathing life into it (Crowley does this in the book, Aziraphale does it in the show).
Trickier things like passing through a wall of flames unscathed, and driving a burning car for 45 minutes without it falling apart takes a lot out of Crowley physically and requires a good imagination to maintain certain degree of denial for that long. So for miracles to be performed, the mindset of the one performing them is integral. For example, Crowley has an unplugged fridge stocked full of gourmet food that never goes off because (while we know that's not how any of that actually works) Crowley assumes that putting food in a fridge will keep it fresh indefinitely and so reality warps around that assumption.- Demonic miracles are not necessarily used for evil. Angels and Demons are functionally similar so Crowley can use his reality bending powers to do blessings as well as temptations.
- Stopping Time (Temporarily): Not necessarily sure if this is a miracle or something unique to Crowley. It's definitely something that only happens in the TV series. It could just be a little Dr. Who reference. He does it twice, and one time it takes them to a completely different place, and I have no idea how it works.
- Angels and demons can perform some degree of mind manipulation. Crowley is shown to put Sister Mary in a brief trance where she can tell him only the truth (though the truth isn't always the same as 'useful information') and Aziraphale makes it so that she awakens from it having dreamed of 'whatever she likes best'. Hastur and Ligur are able to plant temptations directly into the minds of mortals. It is possible to extrapolate that this is just a general thing demons can do since they seem to expect the same methods from Crowley. That being said, Crowley is never shown to use this ability so either he can't or won't.
Weird biology:Ageless (or just perpetually middle-aged), Crowley is effectively immortal - his physical form can be destroyed fairly conventionally. If it would kill a human, it will discorporate him (barring a few exceptions like fire and disease.) Mostly "death" is just really, really annoying inconvenience to him. His corporation is effectively a meatsuit with organs being optional (and so too are food, water, sleep, and air). He's pretty fireproof (kind of? Good Omens is a bit inconsistent about this, given Crowley resists the Hellfire no problem but Hastur discorperates in the wall of flames around the M-25 while Crowley needs to be in deep denial to resist it). He can also possess a receptive host (we never see Crowley possess a human, but it's shown he can leave his body when Aziraphale and Crowley switch before their execution and Aziraphale also mentions to the Heavenly Quartermaster that demons can possess people) He has some serpentine traits he can't just glamour away and his other corporeal form is a giant red and black snake. All we know about his "true", demonic form is that it's reptilian and has a lot of teeth, and is so terrible to behold that it makes normal humans pass out. Angels and Demons got big ol' feathery wings. Like everything Crowley has, they're sleek and black. They can flap. Presumably he can also use them to fly. Fanon is that they occupy the same plane of existence as his true occult form and only manifest at his choosing.
NERFING:
Beyond the fact that Crowley kind of nerfs himself (this is a demon whose escape plan was to zip to the other end of the galaxy, when confronted with a 30 mile drive turns it into a whole Ordeal) by kind of just forgetting he has the powers of a demigod and doing things the human way?
I would say the best way to nerf Crowley's abilities is to amp up his terrible luck (is that a push door? Well, now that Crowley is trying to open it, it's a pull door), and to have his demonic powers work only sporadically and mostly on the Rule of Funny, if they don't just backfire completely. Basically make anything more potent than lightly warping reality to be slightly more convenient become a massive crapshoot and extremely unreliable.
WEAKNESSES: It's hard for him to walk on consecrated ground (described as being on a beach in bare feet) and holy water will kill him very dead.
SAMPLES.
Aziraphale
Nie Huaisang
Tyler
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MOD NOTE: Regarding Crowley's nerfing, we'd like to suggest a little more in terms of the day-to-day. He will experience exhaustion and hunger at some point, and find that he might need to start breathing if he's exerting himself. If he were to try possessing someone (with player consent), it wouldn't last for very long, and if he changes anything about his physical appearance (such as taking his serpentine form or using his wings) it could either be difficult to change back without rest to regain strength, or again, only last for a short period of time. We'll let you make the call on these yourself, and we're definitely fans of the Rule of Funny.
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Canon update to the end of s2 e5
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Questionaire
»Ouroborosed
2. Select your default language
»English
3. What is your occupation?
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DemonFreelancer4. What is the reason for your visit?
»Sightseeing...?
5. What keeps you awake at night?
»The nightlife, if it's interesting enough.
6. Can you remember being in love? How did it make you feel? How old were you?
»Age is kind of tricky when you existed before time, but sure, I'll bite. The Earth had that new planet smell, and an angel had just done something wildly impulsive. You'd have been head over heels too, if you'd been there.
7. You're on a farm. You get into the pen to feed the pigs. In their excitement, the animals knock you down into the mud. Using a butcher knife, you slit the throat of the nearest sow. You're covered in blood as you stumble to your feet.
»Hastur if this is you, please just lose my number. Weirdo.