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Crowley's Info (WIP)

STATISTICS

Anthony J. Crowley

FULL NAME

6000 years, give or take

AGE

Demonic Tempter (retired)

JOB

Angel cake and coffee

FAVOURITE FOOD

The Golden Girls

FAVOURITE PROGRAM

Gardening

HOBBIES

Answer

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PERSONALITY

Crowley is a demon. In the biblical sense. A fallen angel, enemy of God *, servant of Satan and a cog in the machine that encapsulates all the unholy forces of Hell. One might even describe him as the worst possible demon you could meet.

Because he's very, very good at his job.

This is because Crowley, unlike many demons (and most angels for that matter) has an imagination. He understands all the little idiosyncrasies that make people tick. He knows exactly how to get the kind of reaction (usually negative) out of people that he needs without having to resort to planting one of the seven deadly sins directly in their head.

Crowley understands that people are practically chomping at the bit to shoot themselves in the foot, which makes his job tempting them to do so almost absurdly easy.

This is most evident in his methods. He doesn't go big (planting lust in a priest or greed in a politician), but broad. For example, he cut the London mobile phone lines and bam. A whole afternoon of hundreds of thousands of people taking their terrible moods out on each other. He also designed the M-25 to be built in the shape of Odegra so that traffic would work like water on a prayer wheel, dispensing a lot of low-grade evil into the atmosphere.**

And this leads into one particularly peculiar quality Crowley possesses - an abiding sense of fairness. This is odd because Crowley knows exactly how absurd this is. He knows there's no such thing as 'fair'. Life's not fair, the universe is not fair, God certainly isn't fair.

But Crowley? Crowley is fair.

As far as he's concerned, there should always be a choice. A CEO doesn't have to take it out on his secretary just because he's been mildly inconvenienced by something out of everyone's hands - but if he does? Well, he has no one to blame but himself for the fresh coat of evil tarnish his soul gets for it.

You see, Crowley never got that; a choice.

As he tells it, he only ever asked questions and hung out with a bad crowd - and then the next thing he knew, he was plummeting head-first into a fiery pit of boiling sulfur. And this doesn't seem like a case of an unreliable narrator either - Crowley seems genuinely hurt and bewildered about his fall. He's mystified by God casting Adam and Eve out of the garden over a piece of fruit, calling it an 'overreaction'. He's outright indignant when Aziraphale tells him that God plans to wipe the locals in a great flood. (And more book canon than show canon, he was definitely not a fan of what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah).

So when it comes to making choices, he likes to give the humans more than a fair shake. After all, actual evil doesn't come from making desperate choices when you're caught between a rock and a hard place, but the banality of day-to-day life. It's the little things.

Contrary to his work, Crowley is not actually a bad person. Annoying? Yes. Absolutely a trickster overfond of juvenile pranks. Mercurial, certainly. He has a sort of frenetic energy that can be very hard to deal with and he questions absolutely everything (perhaps the double-edged sword of having an imagination. On one hand, he can devise elaborate schemes - on the other, he tends to overthink situations that might have perfectly simple solutions). He can be genuinely charming if he wants, even gallant at times - he does seem to delight in getting to play the role of dashing hero

He also lacks a certain sadistic malice most demons possess. He just doesn't have the stomach for it. Truly evil acts tend to throw him for a loop; he's shown to vehemently object to (He still took credit for the whole debacle though - he is nothing if not an opportunist - especially if it means less actual work for himself).

One might call this repulsion to horrors (divine, infernal, or just plain human) 'compassion'. One might also be thoroughly rebuked with a lot of furious stammering and other incomprehensible protests. He's just got a bit of a soft spot for the mortals. Been on Earth and around humans for far too long - he's practically gone native. And he quite likes it that way. He likes humanity and all their clever machines, the countless inane ways to waste time, their art, their films, and especially their music.

doesn't have a strong affiliation with Hell - can't relate to other demons, but also is far from God or Heaven's biggest fan either. Sees Lucifer more as a case of 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' rather than the revolutionary upheaval to the status quo. The demons, for all their talk of 'the glorious revolution', are still sticklers for mindless bureaucracy and unquestioning devotion to a lord and master while Crowley is just kind of over it all. Hell is just darker and damper than Heaven with the occasional dance party for 'morale'. If Crowley learned one big thing from his fall, it was to pay adequate lipservice to a cause he has long since stopped caring about (if he ever was part of the 'cause' to begin with) and play along enough to keep existing in relative comfort. But he's not devoted to the cause - has much more in common with the angel Aziraphale (his heavenly counterpart as agent on earth) - something something the arrangement

*[ Broadly speaking. Crowley's feelings on Her are a little more complicated.]

**[ Despite these being some of his crowning moments of ingenuity, both also managed to bite him in the ass to varying degrees of severity. It's probably safe to say that these are far from the only times Crowley has been hoist by his own petard. ]

APPEARANCE

Tall, dark and allegedly handsome with good cheekbones.

Crowley looks to be around his mid-to-late forties, although he is much, much older than that.

He keeps up with the trends of the times, usually favouring black attire, or very dark colours/earth-tones. Tends towards presenting himself as whatever passes for a rogue-ish rake of the time period.

He's never without a pair of sunglasses to hide his eyes - they can go a bit odd if he forgets himself. He was once a snake, still kind of does the tongue thing, but definitely seems to like his human form (the book describes it as his 'favourite' form). Walks like the aging rockstar he wishes he was.

ABILITIES & SKILLS

DEMONIC MIRACLES

Largely used for day-to-day convenience
Do not actually have to be malicious in nature - as per his Arrangement with Aziraphale, Crowley often takes on both blessings and temptations (and visa versa)
example
example
example

Potentially enhance by having an imagination such as briefly stopping time, driving the burning bentley from london to tadfield ETCETC

AGELESS

Crowley is effectively immortal - his physical form can be destroyed fairly conventionally (barring a few exceptions, if it would kill a human, it will discorporate him.) The well-placed demonic miracle may make things a bit tricky - but mostly "death" is just really, really annoying inconvenience to him. That being said, he is shown to be vulnerable to consecrated ground and will be killed completely dead by holy water. One could probably extrapolate from this that he's vulnerable to anti-evil measures from other denominations.

SKILL TITLE

Crowley can put people into a temporary trance where they tell him the truth. Unfortunately, telling him the truth doesn't necessarily mean telling him anything useful.
Crowley can sense desires tied to sin - envy, lust, avarice, pride, wrath, sloth, gluttony - and will alter a situation to give people exactly what they want.
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.

HISTORY

**Bolded** text falls into the realms of headcanon and conjecture.

In the Beginning...

It's not entirely clear who he was back during his brief stint as an angel, but it doesn't seem like he was anyone of particular note.

The Fall

Unfortunately, Crowley was not a particular good judge of character, and with a head full of questions and a mouth with zero filter, he fell in with Lucifer and his posse. With God not being one to like Her loyal servants asking "why" all the time, it's pretty clear to the casual observer what was going to happen next. Crowley was not a casual observer, however, and getting jettisoned into a pool of boiling sulfur took him rather by surprise.

The Garden

Once all the kerfuffle of Creation and Celestial Civil Wars had settled, Crowley (known then as Crawly) drew the short straw and was shunted off to Earth to make as much trouble for the shiny new humans as he could. This suited him just fine, because Crowley fit in with other demons about as well as he'd fit in with the angels. You probably know how the rest of the story goes - snake talks the first woman into eating the fruit of knowledge, and God gets rather tetchy about the whole thing. What happened after is... less well-known. Crowley struck up a conversation with Aziraphale, the angel of the eastern gate, who was in quite a state since he'd just given his flaming sword away to Adam and Eve out of concern for their well-being and thus an unlikely friendship was born.

Early Years (The Flood -> Death of Christ)

Crowley spent the next couple of millennia on Earth puttering around and making trouble (but mostly just slacking off and taking credit for all the trouble the humans made themselves). He'd always liked a bit of mischief, but his heart was never in the whole 'evil for evil's sake' agenda Hell was pushing. About a thousand years after Eden, Crowley met up with Aziraphale again in Mesopotamia. Not as pleasant as their first encounter as God was just about to drown everyone in the area, including children which Crowley found to be somewhat objectionable.

The Arrangement

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The End

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PLAYER INFO

Player: Green Rivers
Age: 38+
Invited by: Mods
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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;

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.

While Crowley looks, at first glance, for all intents and purposes, human, there's some weird shit going on with his corporeal body.

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.

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NAME: Green Rivers

CONTACT: GreenRivers or GreenRivers#4204 on discord

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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.

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Aziraphale
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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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Name: Anthony J. Crowley
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Age: 6000+
Appearance: Tall, slim, ginger haired, with yellow snake eyes (usually covered) and a 50/50 chance of being daydrunk and Emotional.

Canon: Good Omens (TV)
Canon Point: Post-series

History: Fan Wiki

Abilities:

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)

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.

Weaknesses:

Crowley may not be subject to the entire range of ills that can befall the average mortal, but being a demon does come with a number of downsides.

Consecrated ground and holy artifacts won't kill him but they will burn like hell.
Holy water will utterly destroy him. Completely. No more Crowley, corporeal or otherwise.

Questionnaire:

1. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?

Crowley is a demon who's lived on Earth for the majority of his long lifespan and this is what has shaped him most as a person. He likes living on Earth - it offers all sorts of fun trouble to get into, and a sense of freedom he didn't have in either Heaven or Hell. It's also the home of the one consistent friend he's had since Adam and Eve got kicked out of Eden; the angel Aziraphale.

Crowley, much to his own chagrin, cares a lot about Aziraphale, well past the confines of their professional Arrangement, and is the one person Crowley would put his neck on the line for. And they both share a deep, abiding affection for the world they've been stationed on, despite the attitudes of their respective superiors. Especially because there are so many things to like; good wine, fast cars, daytime telly, excellent music, interesting people -- when you compare it to the dullness of Heaven and the suffering in Hell, it's little wonder he and Aziraphale risk everything to save the world they call home.

This isn't to say Crowley hates being a demon; his faith in God and Heaven are well and truly gone, and his assignments to cause mayhem allow him to flex his creative muscles which he truly does enjoy. He takes a lot of pride in a bad job well done, though his demonic activities are rarely violent in nature. Even when he swaps the paintball guns for real guns, he makes sure everyone involved has a miraculous escape and no one actually dies. It's more than enough for him that the intent to kill was there and people knowingly tried to act on it. He doesn't really have the stomach for what the aftermath would look like if they'd succeeded, which tends to make Crowley more of a force of chaos than actual malice.

2. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take: best, worst, most likely?

The best case scenario for Crowley is also the most likely - he's known for a long time the kind of person he is, and the kind of person he isn't. He's thrown his lot in with humanity, for better or worse and is largely happy with who he is. He has a lot of unresolved trauma and anger issues with how he got there, though he's mostly at peace with the fact he'll probably never get closure on those matters.

That being said, it isn't impossible for him to go down a darker path and act like the demon he is; he is not a particularly selfless person and the list of people he wouldn't throw under the bus to save his own skin is a very short one indeed.

3. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?

Crowley is very comfortable in most social situations; he's good at being charming when the situation calls for it and will happily ingratiate himself to strangers, though he won't volunteer much more than superficial information about himself. A more friendly scenario would see Crowley open up quite a bit; he has a fondness for theatrics and he likes to socialize, though it takes him a bit longer to form deeper connections than most (both given his wariness of revealing his demonic nature, and how he perceives a 'long' and 'short' period of time), so most friendships are closer to shallow acquaintances.

He can be a pretty good team player in smaller groups, or with just one other person, but he can also be infuriating in larger crowds given he does tend towards passive-aggressive rebellion if he feels maligned, or if unquestioning obedience is expected of him. He is not a leader by any stretch of the imagination; he tends to walk a fine line of not necessarily being immediately important, but also not being expendable.

4. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?

Crowley desperately wants and needs acceptance. Not unconditional acceptance (he knows too well how absurd that is), but at least with the understanding that he is the person he will, for the most part, always be. He may improve on some levels, but he isn't looking to be redeemed of his demonic nature. He doesn't want someone befriending him with the intention of leading him down the path of some grand salvation even if such a thing were available to him.

Beyond that, he likes some assurance of permanence. It isn't unheard of for Crowley to befriend mortals, but he tries not to get too attached; a few decades may seem like a long friendship to us, but for him it's a flash in the pan. He will generally seek out others who are immortal or at least long-lived like himself and forge stronger connections there.

He tends to show his affection with acts of service; little gifts, remembering important dates, outings to nice places - Crowley likes making the people in his life feel happy. It's a rare treat and a small act of rebellion for him, given he is expected to only make people miserable.

5. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?

A core component to Crowley is that, on a broader level, he doesn't understand. He is constantly questioning the why and how of things, trying to new things out. It's what got him into so much trouble to begin with, and what continues to get him in trouble.

This has led to a rather contradictory worldview; he is both deeply cynical and an optimist. He knows all too well the lows humans will reach (in the book having an inner monologue that demons could take a few pointers from them) and will not hesitate to point out the ugly underbelly of just about anything. And at the same time, he has an innate sense that it will all be okay, that things will get better, everything will, eventually, work itself out. This has largely been his mantra for the last 6000+ years, and as the master of the way of 'fake it till you make it', it's gotten him this far.

6. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions?

Crowley is very emotionally intelligent. He's sociable and good at having his finger on the pulse of various trends, and can quickly read a room. He's also creative - a profoundly rare trait in both angels and demons. His capacity to imagine things that aren't is kind of a big deal and the core to the person he is.

His intelligence is… broad. And eclectic. He may be very knowledgeable on some matters, and several centuries behind on others. Let's say if one were to summon Crowley to acquire secret occult knowledge (as one does), he'd happily regale you with fun and accurate facts about weird space stuff, but if you needed help on your biology paper, be prepared to receive a mix of the contents of medieval bestiaries and whatever he remembers from nature documentaries made in the early 1990s.

Crowley's spirituality is …complicated in the way a disowned child's relationship to their estranged parents is complicated. He remembers Love, in a sense, but it was conditional to his blind obedience (something he is physically incapable of being). He considers the Fall cruel; a disproportionate retribution for the small infraction of curiosity, but also, ultimately, freeing. He still prays (re: yells at) God on occasion; he doesn't hate Her, but he's repeatedly appalled by the lengths She goes to mete out Holy Retribution on those who have offended Her.

Ironically enough, he acts out the circumstances of his Fall with his plants, sending those that don't live up to his high standards down the garbage disposal.

It's about as close to therapy as he's going to get.

7. What is something others might find intolerable about them?

If they're able to look past the whole demon thing, Crowley is still A Lot to handle. He's very melodramatic, can come across as condescending or often just being contrarian for the sake of it, and even though he's not as malicious as other demons, he still delights in trickery, taking a certain professional pride in a bad job well done. There's also a degree of superficiality to him - he's very good at pretending to be human, but he still gets things wrong and can come across as a bit Patrick Bateman levels of uncanny to others if they don't know that he's a timeless occult entity that's just picked up a lot of human habits like a roller brush picks up lint.

Samples:

Anders

Nicky

The Doctor

Why are you interested in this game?

I've been itching to toss Crowley into a fantasy-based rp with emphasis on character development for a while and this one really piqued my interest.

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Name: (Anthony J.) Crowley
Canon: Good Omens TV
Canon Point: Post Series
Age: 6000+
Appearance: Tall, dark, dubiously handsome with good cheekbones and a head full of red hair. At first glance, he looks like your average man in his mid-late forties, albeit a rather stylish one who, at some point, got an elaborate tattoo of a snake on the side of his face. Upon closer inspection, Crowley is a bit... uncanny. There is something almost reptilian about his mannerisms, those snakeskin boots he wears seem almost fused to his skin, he never takes off his sunglasses, and he can do really weird things with his tongue.

Not to mention his tendency to hiss a bit.

Outfit | Without shades

Abilities:

STRENGTHS.

Well-versed in human nature.
Sweet-talking/temptation
Shapeshifting
Imaginative
Weird biology
- Ageless (or just perpetually middle-aged), Crowley is effectively immortal - his physical form can be destroyed fairly conventionally (barring a few exceptions like fire and disease, if it would kill a human, it will discorporate him.) The well-placed demonic miracle may make things a bit tricky - but 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, both to the Hellish kind and your garden variety bonfire. He can also possess a receptive host (this is shown when Aziraphale shares a body with Madame Tracy after getting discorporated, and when he and Crowley switch bodies before their execution)
- 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.
- 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.
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, please just nerf it completely.
- 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.
WEAKNESSES.
Non-confrontational/Cowardly
Anxious
Bad At Biology - does not understand how mammals work and word of god says he also had no idea why Noah needed two of every animal.
Bad with animals in general. Can't ride horses to save his life.
Gone native: seems to forget he has the reality-warping abilities of a demigod at weird times and generally just prefers to do things The Human Way anyway. He's also gotten used to things like food, sleep, and breathing so while he doesn't need to do those things, he may feel compelled to. Also doesn't really like shapeshifting - he's scared he might not be able to turn back.
Doesn't think things through. As good as he is at harebrained schemes in broad strokes, he tend to miss the details of how his plans may affect him, often winding up hoist by his own petard.
Not very powerful as demons go. Crowley can't exert his will on reality very far.
Holy things weaken or hurt him. A fairly skilled exorcist could easily trap or banish him. Denominations can vary for this, anyone of any faith should have the opportunity to make Crowley's life inconvenient.
Blessings would really hurt him
Holy water kills him dead, no questions asked.

(Optional) Personality:
Note: Provided it either supports or doesn't explicitly contradict show canon, I use stuff from the book to fill in any gaps since we don't really get to see Crowley's inner thoughts in the show.

One of Crowley's most defining characteristics is his curiosity. It was the catalyst that got him booted out of Heaven to begin with. He's always been inquisitive, always tried to puzzle out the workings of higher powers whether or not one might consider it a safe course of action. His very first temptation, The Big One as we'd think of it, was convincing Eve to take a bite of the fruit from the tree of knowledge, and throughout the series he's shown to admire human innovation and creativity.

This isn't to say Crowley is a wide-eyed idealist. He is certainly more optimistic than pessimistic, but it's all tempered with a degree of cynicism. Crowley is quick to pick up on the seedier aspects of things. He's all too aware of the many failings of human nature, or how Heaven will hide its atrocities behind a veneer of self-righteousness. As he sees it, he's a demon, he's (technically) supposed to be horrible, and at least Hell is honest in their intentions to control and dominate.

Not that he's a big fan of Hell either. Lucifer's rebellion didn't go so great, and his grand vision just seems to be a version of the Heavenly bureaucracy with a dark coat of paint and a lot lower standards for hygiene.

But Crowley is good at being a demon. Oh, he's not so good at things like spinning heads, creepy voices and disembodied hoofbeats in the halls, but he's good at tempting people. And he's astonishingly efficient. You see, Crowley is a big-picture sort of thinker. He focuses more on tarnishing souls rather than outright corrupting them. After all, someone losing their temper once? Down the line, they're likely to do it again, and again, and again. Cut a few phone lines and he has half of London bloody furious. Move a few construction markers, and now the M-25 makes traffic literal Hell. And there isn't even any need for that vomiting pea soup mess. Though while good at concocting such widespread schemes, the devil's in the details, which is why so often his cunning schemes turn around and bite him in the ass. He never really thinks things through.

By the time Crowley had become a demon, he'd learned how to survive. He knows when to obey and when to present the face of obedience. He projects an image of a cool, calm, and disaffected individual who's caught up on modern trends and is invaluable for his insights into the human condition. He struts around brazenly, he dresses in trendy styles, and he owns a cool, modern flat, dark as a tomb and just as minimalist, just like the kind of rich and callous human he's trying to ape would. There's not a lot one could glean about Crowley's actual personality from the outside.

Because in all actuality, Crowley's kind of a mess.

He's genuinely hurt, confused and betrayed by his Fall; he doesn't actually understand what's so terrible about asking questions, about wanting to know things, or why God (whose Love is supposed to be unconditional) would hurt him for being how She made him. He's also quite terrified that Hell will discover he's not all that malicious of an individual. Oh yes, he can be a selfish coward and an opportunist; he'll run before fighting any day, and he'll gladly take commendations for human atrocities that he had no hand in (and is actually repulsed by). About the only other person's well-being he puts above his own is Aziraphale's. He is less caring about individual humans. Oh, he has nothing personal against humanity as a whole; he actually quite likes them in a general sense, and doesn't want to enact more than a bit of mischief at their expense. 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). He also high-strung and has a rather short fuse when under pressure - he's prone to being snappish, ornery, and ill-tempered.

Despite his many failings and flash bastard facade, he can also be genuinely kind, compassionate, and, even when scared out of his mind, put on an air of bravado and seem quite gallant. Crowley is a pro at 'fake it until you make it' after all. He does genuinely care about Aziraphale, and enough about Earth to actually go against the forces of Heaven and Hell to try and save it (eventually). He also has a strong sense of fair play; even when tempting the mortals, he always makes sure they have a choice in the matter and aren't put between a rock and a hard place, or have the temptation planted directly in their brains (which is how Hastur and Ligur operate).

History:

As a demon (at the time known as Crawly), he'd generally learned his lesson about openly questioning authority and got sent up to make some trouble from the newly minted humans while Earth still had that new planet smell. Tempting Eve to eat the apple succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, and as the humans were tossed out the garden, he stopped to make conversation with the Angel of the Eastern Gate, a Principality named Aziraphale.

The rest is, quite literally, history.

That is to say, Crowley has been puttering around through the last 6000 years as Hell's operative on Earth and taking credit for the bigger human atrocities, all while instead wining and dining with his Heavenly counterpart, sworn enemy and dearest friend Aziraphale.

Around 1020 A.D. they struck up an Arrangement to generally just help each other out. For example, if one was in the area, he would simply cover the blessing or temptation that needed to be carried out there. And they generally stayed out the others way, letting each other work in relative peace, occasionally meeting up to get a bite to eat and compare notes.

As it stands, Crowley and Aziraphale had more in common with each other than their respective sides, and so a friendship began to grow between them (quite grudgingly at first on Aziraphale's end). Their visits became more social than business, and there were times where they would even help each other out when it was completely unrelated to work.

Fast forward to the mid aughts of the 21st century. The Antichrist was born, and the end of the world was just eleven years off. Both Crowley and Aziraphale are quite fond of Earth and all its pleasures, and don't really want to see it go so soon. And so they devise a plan - to act as Godfathers of sorts and help raise the child to not be either angelic or demonic, but human, and hope that he chooses Earth over Heaven or Hell.

Of course the whole thing falls apart when they find out there was a mix-up with the babies at the convent and they'd been helping to raise the wrong child for six years. Fortunately, Crowley's suggestion about raising the Antichrist as human was on the money - Adam was raised by two loving parents, had a normal childhood, and decided that the world ought to keep spinning after all.

Of course, Crowley and Aziraphale were in a great deal of trouble with Heaven and Hell, but luckily for them, a mad prophetess witch from the 17th century was looking out for them, and they managed to survive their executions via Holy Water/Hellfire by swapping bodies beforehand.

Sample(s):

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Pestering another immortal even more goth than he is

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6000+ / Male-ish (usually)

Interests: Gardening, modern decor, The Golden Girls marathons, wine and bourbon aficionado, traveling, fine dining, classic rock, antique car
Occupation: Demon (retired)

No point in beating around the bush - I'm a demon/fallen angel, the Serpent of Eden (yes, that one) and have been on Earth for roughly the last six thousand years and making things marginally more difficult for humans (only marginally, you lot are way better at doing my job for me). So I guess AMA on world history indefinitely open...? I mean if I was there at the time, and actually remember. 6000 years is a lot to keep track of.

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ic stats canon: Good Omens (TV) canon point: post series age: 6000+ gender: male-ish (usually) species: Fallen Angel/Demon orientation: gayngel	the allegedly handsome Crowley.	In-Depth availability: shockingly vanilla and monogamous, defaults to service-top but has no real preference, a hopeless romantic and kind of a mess, not a virgin but also not particularly experienced either turn-ons: hair pulling, praise (giving and receiving), watching Aziraphale eat, shiny things turn-offs: pain, violence, unsanitary things

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✓ oral ✓ penetrative sex ✓ wing kink ★ ✓ multiple orgasms ✓ exhaustion ✓ short refractory period ✓ praise kink ★ ✓ light bondage ✓ roleplay/costumes ✓ clothed sex ✓ cross-dressing ✓ semi-public sex ✓ sex toys ✓ edging/orgasm denial ✓ non-corporeal sex ✓ intercrurial ✓ bathing/grooming ✓ kink ✓ kink with a note ★	◌ xeno/snake/demon!crowley ◌ weird genitals ★ ◌ consensual somnophilia ◌ nesting ◌ light aphrodisiacs ◌ voyeurism/exhibitionism ◌ light spanking ◌ kink with a note ★ ◌ kink	✗ rape/non-con ✗ bestiality ★ ✗ bathroom stuff ✗ underage ★ ✗ extreme gore/snuff

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PERMISSIONS

OOC

Backtagging: ✔ [ I can legit backtag forever ]

Fourthwalling: ✘ [ this is fine in memes or if the character ICly breaks the 4th wall ]

Threadhopping: ✔

Physical Contact: ✔

Mental Contact: ✔ [As per the book, an angelic or demonic mind isn't profoundly different from a human's. They aren't necessarily more intelligent, or possess eldritch depths. Their intelligence is just broader in scope, with the advantage of thousands of years of practice. So no worries about him short-circuiting any psychic minds. Though if he recognizes that someone is rummaging around in his head without permission, he will absolutely retaliate by thinking of the most annoying song on constant loop. Enjoy your earworm. ]

Fighting: ✔

Injury: ✔

Kidnapping/Imprisonment: ✔ [The average cell won't hold him, but a half-competent occultist with a piece of chalk and a passable knowledge of sigils and magic circles could keep him reasonably contained. Crowley is not a big-time demon.]

Death: ✘ [Discorporating him is fine though!]

SHIPPING

Flirting/Affection: ✔ [Crowley is all about temptation, but don't expect anything beyond flirtation/]

Hugging this Character: ✔ [He may even hug back.]

Kissing this Character: ✔ [Don't expect reciprocation unless your name is Aziraphale.]

Romances: ✔ [Not impossible, but again, highly unlikely. Crowley has been pining after one (!) angel for a few thousand years. It'd take a lot to turn his head - and even then brace yourself for the slowest of slow burns.]

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BASICS

CANON. Good Omens (TV).
CANON POINT. End of the series
AGE. 6000, give or take a few decades. Looks and acts like he's in his mid/late 40s
APPEARANCE. Outfit, Without shades

IN CHARACTER

HISTORY.

The rest is, quite literally, history.

PERSONALITY.

Note: Provided it either supports or doesn't explicitly contradict show canon, I use stuff from the book to fill in any gaps since we don't really get to see Crowley's inner thoughts in the show.

Because in all actuality, Crowley's kind of a mess.

He's genuinely hurt, confused and betrayed by his Fall; he doesn't actually understand what's so terrible about asking questions, about wanting to know things, or why God (whose Love is supposed to be unconditional) would hurt him for being how She made him. He's also quite terrified that Hell will discover he's not all that malicious of an individual. Oh yes, he can be a selfish coward and an opportunist; he'll run before fighting any day, and he'll gladly take commendations for human atrocities that he had no hand in (and is actually repulsed by). About the only other person's well-being he puts above his own is Aziraphale's; when he believes that they've failed and the world is going to end in a few short hours, Crowley does everything he can to convince the angel to abandon Earth and its people in one last desperate move. But he has nothing personal against humanity. He quite likes them in a general sense, and doesn't actually want to enact more than a bit of mischief at their expense. 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). He also more outwardly high-strung and has a rather short fuse when under pressure - he snaps quite a bit more than his book counterpart.

ABILITIES

STRENGTHS.

Well-versed in human nature.

Sweet-talking/temptation

Shapeshifting

Imaginative

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 or disease.) The well-placed demonic miracle may make things a bit tricky - but 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, both to the Hellish kind and your garden variety bonfire. He can also possess a receptive host (this is shown when Aziraphale shares a body with Madame Tracy after getting discorporated, and when he and Crowley switch bodies before their execution)
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.
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.

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)

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, please just nerf it completely.
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.

WEAKNESSES.

Non-confrontational/Cowardly

Anxious

Bad At Biology - does not understand how mammals work and word of god says he also had no idea why Noah needed two of every animal.

Bad with animals in general. Can't ride horses to save his life.

Gone native: seems to forget he has the reality-warping abilities of a demigod at weird times and generally just prefers to do things The Human Way anyway. He's also gotten used to things like food, sleep, and breathing so while he doesn't need to do those things, he may feel compelled to. Also doesn't really like shapeshifting - he's scared he might not be able to turn back.

Doesn't think things through. As good as he is at harebrained schemes in broad strokes, he tend to miss the details of how his plans may affect him, often winding up hoist by his own petard.

Not very powerful as demons go. Crowley can't exert his will on reality very far.

Holy things weaken or hurt him. A fairly skilled exorcist could easily trap or banish him. Denominations can vary for this, anyone of any faith should have the opportunity to make Crowley's life inconvenient.

Blessings would really hurt him

Holy water kills him dead, no questions asked.

OPT-IN. Yes

ITEMS

CLOTHES.

One charcoal blazer with actual pockets.

One black waistcoat.

One charcoal henley

One dangly necktie/scarf/necklace/giant shoelace thing (silver)

One pair of skinny jeans with pseudo pockets.

One belt, with a snake head for a fasten.

ITEMS / PETS.

Two pairs of Valentino sunglasses (one on his face, one spare).

One mobile phone

One wallet containing; four credit cards all sleek and black, one driver's licence (expired 1987), several hundreds of dollars in cash.

One ridiculously expensive watch (Tread 1, from DEVON Works)

One sleek matte black pen (can write underwater)

Keys to a 1926 Bentley

A small sack of rare and ancient coins

A small bottle of Gorilla Glue

A clip-on lanyard and several identification cards indicating that Crowley is some kind of technician, repairman, pest control, or plumber.

WEAPONS. N/A

SAMPLES

LOG. Sample Link 1, Sample Link 2.
NETWORK. Sample Link

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PSL for Lunchbreaks

Retirement could make one profoundly restless. This was something Aziraphale and Crowley had learned about a year after they had thwarted the apocalypse and tried to settle into a new routine. Needless to say, it hadn't worked very well.

It had been Aziraphale's idea. Crowley had gone along with it because it beat gluing quarters to sidewalks and he had nothing else on for the rest of the afternoon.

He'd have been the first to admit that it was a nice theatre. It had been a factory once in the 19th century, and a good deal of the original brickwork remained. There were even some of the old machines still on display in the lobby by the ticket booth and snack bar.

It had a certain grittiness to it that appealed to Crowley. The threadbare carpets smelled of old popcorn, and there were rickety floorboards and loose tiles, and a certain mustiness that put him in mind not of Hell, but of an old bookshop. It was, in his opinion, the right kind of mustiness.

It was also the sort of place that would be right up Aziraphale's alley. Community theatre, charity, uniting disparate groups of young and old. It was a very nice place. And the costumes were excellent.

They had auditioned for Hamlet, much to Crowley's consternation, and then landed the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Fitting, given the roles they had once occupied.

So they folded the theatre into their lives, and that creeping restlessness of retirement was held at bay as an angel and a demon discovered a mutual hobby.

"You know," said Crowley, browsing through the aisle of costumes that ranged from painstakingly accurate to something one might get at Prangsta's Costumiers. "I've still got my old duds tucked away somewhere. You know, in case doublets ever made a comeback. We could always bring those to dress rehearsals. What about you?"