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CHARACTER INFO
Character: Anthony J. Crowley
Canon: Between S1 and S2. Post-pandemic depression nap
Age: Older than time (but also chronically middle-aged)
Background Information:
Wiki
Personality:
The first impression one might get of Crowley is that he has a cavalier, devil-may-care (but probably doesn't) demeanor. He struts - one might even say swaggers - around, dressed like an aging rockstar, wearing dark glasses indoors (and even at night), and keeping (relatively) up-to-date with trends. Of course, five minutes talking to him would paint a very different picture than the too-cool-for-school facade he has going.
Crowley is… eccentric and kind of annoying. He has a vibrant personality, is very vocal, 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's a bit, as Muriel said, grumpy.
What's going on a little deeper under the hood, however, is a lot more complicated. His mind is a squirrelly mess of various neuroses, anxieties, and paranoias (though is it really the latter two when They really are out to get you…?) all caught up with a whole host of barely-unpacked emotions he really hasn't found the time to deal with.
The thing is, Crowley is a demon. He's good at it too - he's been on Earth from pretty much the word go, back when it had that fresh, new-planet smell, and has been kicking around humanity for the last few millennia, so he's picked up on all the minutiae of what makes people tick - and better yet - sin.
Not that he particularly likes doing his actual job. He certainly has no deep-rooted resentment towards humans that leaves him inclined to trick them into the spiritual equivalent of shooting themselves in the foot. It's nothing personal.
He just needs to keep Downstairs happy enough that they don't try out the Spanish Inquisitions' Greatest Hits on him. (And it's not like he needs to do much anyway - humans practically do his job for him. He just needs to be in the right place at the right time and take all the credit.)
Because the crux of the matter is, Crowley actually likes humanity. He likes being on Earth. He likes driving fast cars. He likes going to theaters and restaurants and concerts and art galleries and museums. And most of all, he likes sharing those things with his best and dearest friend Aziraphale. One might go so far as using another word that begins with 'l' and ends with 'e', but that sort of thing gets a demon in terrible trouble with HR.
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 is also quite clever. His capacity for imagination far surpasses what many other angels (barring Aziraphale) and demons have; in many cases, it is comparable to what the above-average human is capable of. Which is a bit of a big deal because demons and angels aren't exactly what anyone would consider inventive as they were created to obey and not think for themselves.
Which means Crowley has developed strong sense of his own morality and compassion that has little to do with Heaven or Hell. He'll happily go against either when he thinks he can get away with it, and, sometimes, even when he knows he can't, often leading to potentially dire consequences.
As much as he is quite kind (for a demon), Crowley is not without his personal failings. For starters, he tends to slough off any personal responsibility for his actions (though, in fairness, the retribution for even his most innocent fuck-ups has been, historically, disproportionate to say the least). Whatever the reasons for this, however, Crowley still struggles with responsibility, and often the fruits of his labours wind up blowing up (literally) in his face, all while he's asking without an ounce of self-awareness, why me.
Among other things, he really doesn't deal with stress well. He becomes antsy, irritable, and has a very short temper. This is, however, something he does have some degree of self-awareness about, preferring to remove himself before things can escalate and he can go cool his head. He has outlets for these things like organizing his albums into alphabetical order, or terrorizing his plants - but even with those in place, he can still be snappish and even quite cruel.
He's also not the best at communication. He tends to keep important information to himself, only to be blindsided when he and Aziraphale are not always on the same page. I'm not entirely sure how aware he is of doing this - I think it's more a mixed bag of memory issues, 6000+ years-old habit of talking in Plausible Deniability so his Arrangement with Aziraphale doesn't get rumbled, and just making assumptions and taking things for given, rather than any malicious intent on his part. But the issue remains, and while he'll rarely lie, he does omit key facts.
Abilities & Inventory:
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. He also accidentally shrinks down to the size of a mouse and then grows into a gargantuan giant when he's high out of his mind on laudanum in the 1827 minisode.
Sin sense! Can generally sense emotions tied to sins and use that to give people what they want to tempt them into doing evil (for example changing the paintball guns into real firearms)
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 demonic Disney princess)
Crowley has some control of the weather. In S2 when he is extremely angry, he creates a huge bolt of lightning. Later in the series, he summons a brief downpour to try and get Maggie and Nina to shelter under an awning.
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.
Demonic miracles: don't have any hard and fast mechanics or consistency to them so this is just sort of an overview;
While Crowley looks, at first glance, for all intents and purposes, human, there's some weird shit going on with his corporeal body.
As nerfs go, anything that involves getting into other people's heads, including possession, would obviously require player permission. Ditto for his time-stopping ability. I'd say have his miracles be kept to small, day-to-day conveniences, and have any more major miracles be limited in scope and with a higher potential for backfiring on him. Maybe also have him need to eat/sleep to recharge. I'd like to keep all his weaknesses to holy water/sacred objects/consecrated ground etc. fully intact.
Inventory would be whatever he had on him at the time; his wallet, car keys, shades, pen (it can write underwater), some pocket change, his stupid silver neck-tie thing.
Canon: Between S1 and S2. Post-pandemic depression nap
Age: Older than time (but also chronically middle-aged)
Background Information:
Wiki
Personality:
The first impression one might get of Crowley is that he has a cavalier, devil-may-care (but probably doesn't) demeanor. He struts - one might even say swaggers - around, dressed like an aging rockstar, wearing dark glasses indoors (and even at night), and keeping (relatively) up-to-date with trends. Of course, five minutes talking to him would paint a very different picture than the too-cool-for-school facade he has going.
Crowley is… eccentric and kind of annoying. He has a vibrant personality, is very vocal, 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's a bit, as Muriel said, grumpy.
What's going on a little deeper under the hood, however, is a lot more complicated. His mind is a squirrelly mess of various neuroses, anxieties, and paranoias (though is it really the latter two when They really are out to get you…?) all caught up with a whole host of barely-unpacked emotions he really hasn't found the time to deal with.
The thing is, Crowley is a demon. He's good at it too - he's been on Earth from pretty much the word go, back when it had that fresh, new-planet smell, and has been kicking around humanity for the last few millennia, so he's picked up on all the minutiae of what makes people tick - and better yet - sin.
Not that he particularly likes doing his actual job. He certainly has no deep-rooted resentment towards humans that leaves him inclined to trick them into the spiritual equivalent of shooting themselves in the foot. It's nothing personal.
He just needs to keep Downstairs happy enough that they don't try out the Spanish Inquisitions' Greatest Hits on him. (And it's not like he needs to do much anyway - humans practically do his job for him. He just needs to be in the right place at the right time and take all the credit.)
Because the crux of the matter is, Crowley actually likes humanity. He likes being on Earth. He likes driving fast cars. He likes going to theaters and restaurants and concerts and art galleries and museums. And most of all, he likes sharing those things with his best and dearest friend Aziraphale. One might go so far as using another word that begins with 'l' and ends with 'e', but that sort of thing gets a demon in terrible trouble with HR.
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 is also quite clever. His capacity for imagination far surpasses what many other angels (barring Aziraphale) and demons have; in many cases, it is comparable to what the above-average human is capable of. Which is a bit of a big deal because demons and angels aren't exactly what anyone would consider inventive as they were created to obey and not think for themselves.
Which means Crowley has developed strong sense of his own morality and compassion that has little to do with Heaven or Hell. He'll happily go against either when he thinks he can get away with it, and, sometimes, even when he knows he can't, often leading to potentially dire consequences.
As much as he is quite kind (for a demon), Crowley is not without his personal failings. For starters, he tends to slough off any personal responsibility for his actions (though, in fairness, the retribution for even his most innocent fuck-ups has been, historically, disproportionate to say the least). Whatever the reasons for this, however, Crowley still struggles with responsibility, and often the fruits of his labours wind up blowing up (literally) in his face, all while he's asking without an ounce of self-awareness, why me.
Among other things, he really doesn't deal with stress well. He becomes antsy, irritable, and has a very short temper. This is, however, something he does have some degree of self-awareness about, preferring to remove himself before things can escalate and he can go cool his head. He has outlets for these things like organizing his albums into alphabetical order, or terrorizing his plants - but even with those in place, he can still be snappish and even quite cruel.
He's also not the best at communication. He tends to keep important information to himself, only to be blindsided when he and Aziraphale are not always on the same page. I'm not entirely sure how aware he is of doing this - I think it's more a mixed bag of memory issues, 6000+ years-old habit of talking in Plausible Deniability so his Arrangement with Aziraphale doesn't get rumbled, and just making assumptions and taking things for given, rather than any malicious intent on his part. But the issue remains, and while he'll rarely lie, he does omit key facts.
Abilities & Inventory:
- 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 a 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.
- There is also the matter of that, when Aziraphale and Crowley perform (what they describe as) "a fraction of a miracle" together to hide the amnesiac Gabriel/Jim from Heaven, it works a little too well. No one can recognize him even when he's right in front of people who have known him for eons. There's also the matter that the small fraction of their combined efforts was enough raise the dead nearly 25 times over.
- 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 a really, really annoying inconvenience to him.
- His corporation is 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.
As nerfs go, anything that involves getting into other people's heads, including possession, would obviously require player permission. Ditto for his time-stopping ability. I'd say have his miracles be kept to small, day-to-day conveniences, and have any more major miracles be limited in scope and with a higher potential for backfiring on him. Maybe also have him need to eat/sleep to recharge. I'd like to keep all his weaknesses to holy water/sacred objects/consecrated ground etc. fully intact.
Inventory would be whatever he had on him at the time; his wallet, car keys, shades, pen (it can write underwater), some pocket change, his stupid silver neck-tie thing.
ARMADA SELECTION
Corsairs, naturally. Crowley Fell from Heaven for asking questions, and ditched Hell the first moment he could. He has always walked his own path, so of course he'd fall in with those who value personal freedom and causing a ruckus.
SAMPLE
Test Drive Sample:
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Aziraphale
Reepicheep
Sherlock Holmes
Questions: Any questions you might have.
Top Level
Aziraphale
Reepicheep
Sherlock Holmes
Questions: Any questions you might have.