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sparkofgoodness) wrote1980-06-24 09:49 am
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Player Information
Name: Jack
Age: 18+++
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Other Characters: None
Character Information
Name: Anthony J Crowley
Canon: Good Omens TV (Though filling in some bits from other adaptions!)
Canon Point: Post-series
Age: Good Question? Crowley has existed since long before Garden of Eden. Since long before Earth was a thing! Potentially millions of years old.
History:
Wiki for the TV series
Wiki for the book
Fan wiki for the TV show
Fan wiki for Crowley
Personality:
Crowley is an exercise in contradictions, in a conflict between who he presents himself as and who he is underneath. He's slick, polished, confident, uncaring of the fate of people he's subjecting to every day suffering on the one hand. He's an agent of Hell who deliberately sabotages telephone networks and creates misery just to score points for them. He shrugs off Aziraphale's verbal rejections of their friendship and takes credit for things he didn't do (including the Spanish inquisition). He's clever, yes, but also manipulative enough to make things go his way (including talking Aziraphale into a mutually beneficial deal so they both have to do less work). He's lazy. He's selfish enough to care more about his own skin than possible collateral humans in the area.
At the same time, Crowley admits he didn't mean to fall. He didn't want to betray heaven. He likes humanity, and he doesn't want the Earth to be destroyed. He's anxious, afraid any moment that Hell will find out about his friendship with Aziraphale. He's hurt when Aziraphale snaps at him, and he desperately makes attempts to suggest they run away together. Aziraphale may be, on paper, the enemy but he's also a friend who Crowley is hopelessly protective of and devoted to. There's a whole cold opening sequence depicting Crowley turning up to bail him out several times over the years. He's emotional enough about losing Aziraphale that he nearly gives up on everything. He doesn't, but he does at least go to get drunk until Aziraphale finds him again.
So who is Crowley?
Crowley has changed his name several times in canon, because he even he struggled with this. He doesn't fit in with the other demons in Hell, a place he never intended to be. They don't understand his jokes, his clever plans, nor his interest in humanity.
We never know what his true name was as an angel, only that he helped make the stars. When we first met him, he was Crawley -- the snake from Eden. That didn't fit. So he changes the name, something nobody else is ever depicted as doing, while trying to work out this whole new demon identity. He becomes Crowley, instead. Then, later on, takes the name Anthony J. Crowley. He emulates humanity a little because he finds them so fascinating, because he's curious about all their little inventions and how they stubbornly carry on in the face of everything.
Crowley is more creative than any other angel or demon is shown to be. His imagination is strong enough to hold a burning car together through sheer power of belief. He comes up with complex plans that mean nothing to other demons who don't even understand technology, because he's resourceful enough to keep up to date with humans and use what he learns. He persists, as stubborn as the humans around him, struggling to get recognition from Hell even though most of them don't understand him. Struggling to get Aziraphale to work with him. Struggling, and failing, to get Aziraphale to leave earth behind and run away with him.
He'd love to think himself cool, a rebel against the uncaring rule of Heaven and Hell. A questioning mind, careful enough to try and plan for other eventualities (like being turned on by hell, for example). However Crowley is also a melodramatic fool who loves a good shouting match, who tells long winding stories to make a point, who suffers terrible second-hand embarrassment and who loves a good stupid prank like gluing coins to a pavement. He's sarcastic, playful and teasing with Aziraphale, but also resilient and affectionate. He tolerates Aziraphale pushing him back aggressively while the angel is still navigating his own fears, brings chocolates and flowers to his book shop opening (a scene from the script book), and apologises to him regularly when he goes too over the line with reflexive demonic behaviour (like sinking a duck).
Even though he firmly insists he isn't nice (that he can't be, he isn't supposed to be) Crowley is capable of both acts of good and acts of evil, just like a regular human being. Whether or not he truly has free will, whether or not everything he does was or is part of a great plan Crowley is still a fiercely devoted character who fights his own flaws in order to try and protect the things (and people) he cares about most.
Abilities & Skills:
Crowley is a demon, originally an angel. Thus, he has the same intrinsic miracle-abilities as all angels. He can adjust reality around himself to suit his needs: his car never needs petrol, his phone doesn't run out of battery, paintball guns become real guns under his influence and people fall into blank compliance at a snap of his fingers. If they bother him too much, he can teleport them away out of his presence. If he prefers, they just ignore him like he isn't there. Miracles work under the power of Belief, and Imagination -- something Crowley has a lot of compared to most demons and angels! He can believe strongly that his car is Absolutely Fine and keep it going even when it's on fire. This means if something is completely outside his normal world expectations, he probably can't make it happen. He's the biggest limit! He can't come up with something he'd never think of!
That said, although this is a lot of power at his fingertips it's also... low ranking. He can't change the entire world at a snap of his fingers, and more powerful creatures can rebuff his ability to sense supernatural activity (or vices!).
From a physiological perspective, Crowley's demonic trait is that his eyes are snake eyes! He's also shown to be able to shapeshift into and out of a snake -- both partially to scare someone and fully to slither around. He normally travels about in a 'body', a sort of human vessel he inflicts his shapeshifting on. It appears he might be ethereal without it. He also has wings he can manifest. They're black, mostly because he thinks that's cool.
Very unfortunately, as Crowley is a demon he has a rather fatal allergy to Holy Water. If he comes into contact with him it wouldn't just injure him, it would destroy him irrecoverably. Demons and angels are normally someone immortal -- the body can be damaged but they just inhabit a new one later. Holy Water does the job permanently, destroying them completely!
He also does a very bad disco dance.
Inventory/Companions:
- His clothes!
- His very expensive sunglasses!
- His phone. A shame reception here is so bad!
Choice: Witch
Reason: It'd be cliche to make a demon a monster, Crowley would almost expect it! In expecting it, he'd probably lean into it. In increasing over-dramatic and annoying ways. So let's flip that. Besides, aren't witches allegedly satanic anyway? Depends on who you ask.
Sample:
In which Crowley discovers being human means being cold.
In which Crowley is upset about gnomes and The Time He Nearly Died
Name: Jack
Age: 18+++
Contact: PM or
Other Characters: None
Character Information
Name: Anthony J Crowley
Canon: Good Omens TV (Though filling in some bits from other adaptions!)
Canon Point: Post-series
Age: Good Question? Crowley has existed since long before Garden of Eden. Since long before Earth was a thing! Potentially millions of years old.
History:
Wiki for the TV series
Wiki for the book
Fan wiki for the TV show
Fan wiki for Crowley
Personality:
Crowley is an exercise in contradictions, in a conflict between who he presents himself as and who he is underneath. He's slick, polished, confident, uncaring of the fate of people he's subjecting to every day suffering on the one hand. He's an agent of Hell who deliberately sabotages telephone networks and creates misery just to score points for them. He shrugs off Aziraphale's verbal rejections of their friendship and takes credit for things he didn't do (including the Spanish inquisition). He's clever, yes, but also manipulative enough to make things go his way (including talking Aziraphale into a mutually beneficial deal so they both have to do less work). He's lazy. He's selfish enough to care more about his own skin than possible collateral humans in the area.
HASTUR
And what exactly has that done to secure souls for our master?
CROWLEY
Oh come on! Think about it! Fifteen million pissed-off people? Who take it out on each other? Who take it out on everyone else? Ruined days. Ruined nights. The knock-on effects are incalculable . . .
LIGUR
It's not exactly . . . craftsmanship.
CROWLEY
Head office don't seem to mind. They love me down there.
At the same time, Crowley admits he didn't mean to fall. He didn't want to betray heaven. He likes humanity, and he doesn't want the Earth to be destroyed. He's anxious, afraid any moment that Hell will find out about his friendship with Aziraphale. He's hurt when Aziraphale snaps at him, and he desperately makes attempts to suggest they run away together. Aziraphale may be, on paper, the enemy but he's also a friend who Crowley is hopelessly protective of and devoted to. There's a whole cold opening sequence depicting Crowley turning up to bail him out several times over the years. He's emotional enough about losing Aziraphale that he nearly gives up on everything. He doesn't, but he does at least go to get drunk until Aziraphale finds him again.
In the street, Crowley grabs Aziraphale. Crowley thinks about something for a moment. Comes to a decision.
CROWLEY
I'm sorry. Apologise. Whatever I said. I didn't mean it. Work with me, I'm apologising here. Yes. Good. Get in the car.
AZIRAPHALE
What? No!
CROWLEY
Forces of Hell. They've figured out that it was my fault. We can run away, together. Alpha Centauri. Spare planets up there. Nobody will notice us.
So who is Crowley?
Crowley has changed his name several times in canon, because he even he struggled with this. He doesn't fit in with the other demons in Hell, a place he never intended to be. They don't understand his jokes, his clever plans, nor his interest in humanity.
We never know what his true name was as an angel, only that he helped make the stars. When we first met him, he was Crawley -- the snake from Eden. That didn't fit. So he changes the name, something nobody else is ever depicted as doing, while trying to work out this whole new demon identity. He becomes Crowley, instead. Then, later on, takes the name Anthony J. Crowley. He emulates humanity a little because he finds them so fascinating, because he's curious about all their little inventions and how they stubbornly carry on in the face of everything.
Crowley is more creative than any other angel or demon is shown to be. His imagination is strong enough to hold a burning car together through sheer power of belief. He comes up with complex plans that mean nothing to other demons who don't even understand technology, because he's resourceful enough to keep up to date with humans and use what he learns. He persists, as stubborn as the humans around him, struggling to get recognition from Hell even though most of them don't understand him. Struggling to get Aziraphale to work with him. Struggling, and failing, to get Aziraphale to leave earth behind and run away with him.
He'd love to think himself cool, a rebel against the uncaring rule of Heaven and Hell. A questioning mind, careful enough to try and plan for other eventualities (like being turned on by hell, for example). However Crowley is also a melodramatic fool who loves a good shouting match, who tells long winding stories to make a point, who suffers terrible second-hand embarrassment and who loves a good stupid prank like gluing coins to a pavement. He's sarcastic, playful and teasing with Aziraphale, but also resilient and affectionate. He tolerates Aziraphale pushing him back aggressively while the angel is still navigating his own fears, brings chocolates and flowers to his book shop opening (a scene from the script book), and apologises to him regularly when he goes too over the line with reflexive demonic behaviour (like sinking a duck).
Even though he firmly insists he isn't nice (that he can't be, he isn't supposed to be) Crowley is capable of both acts of good and acts of evil, just like a regular human being. Whether or not he truly has free will, whether or not everything he does was or is part of a great plan Crowley is still a fiercely devoted character who fights his own flaws in order to try and protect the things (and people) he cares about most.
Abilities & Skills:
Crowley is a demon, originally an angel. Thus, he has the same intrinsic miracle-abilities as all angels. He can adjust reality around himself to suit his needs: his car never needs petrol, his phone doesn't run out of battery, paintball guns become real guns under his influence and people fall into blank compliance at a snap of his fingers. If they bother him too much, he can teleport them away out of his presence. If he prefers, they just ignore him like he isn't there. Miracles work under the power of Belief, and Imagination -- something Crowley has a lot of compared to most demons and angels! He can believe strongly that his car is Absolutely Fine and keep it going even when it's on fire. This means if something is completely outside his normal world expectations, he probably can't make it happen. He's the biggest limit! He can't come up with something he'd never think of!
That said, although this is a lot of power at his fingertips it's also... low ranking. He can't change the entire world at a snap of his fingers, and more powerful creatures can rebuff his ability to sense supernatural activity (or vices!).
From a physiological perspective, Crowley's demonic trait is that his eyes are snake eyes! He's also shown to be able to shapeshift into and out of a snake -- both partially to scare someone and fully to slither around. He normally travels about in a 'body', a sort of human vessel he inflicts his shapeshifting on. It appears he might be ethereal without it. He also has wings he can manifest. They're black, mostly because he thinks that's cool.
Very unfortunately, as Crowley is a demon he has a rather fatal allergy to Holy Water. If he comes into contact with him it wouldn't just injure him, it would destroy him irrecoverably. Demons and angels are normally someone immortal -- the body can be damaged but they just inhabit a new one later. Holy Water does the job permanently, destroying them completely!
He also does a very bad disco dance.
Inventory/Companions:
- His clothes!
- His very expensive sunglasses!
- His phone. A shame reception here is so bad!
Choice: Witch
Reason: It'd be cliche to make a demon a monster, Crowley would almost expect it! In expecting it, he'd probably lean into it. In increasing over-dramatic and annoying ways. So let's flip that. Besides, aren't witches allegedly satanic anyway? Depends on who you ask.
Sample:
In which Crowley discovers being human means being cold.
In which Crowley is upset about gnomes and The Time He Nearly Died