It is not lost on me that Charlie and Vaggie were initially not doing great against Adam and Lute...and then proved Carmilla was so fucking right.
Vaggie is absolutely FUCKED here. She's been in this position before, with Lute looming over her spitting vitriolic judgment, Vaggie's blood on the ground. Back then, she couldn't stop Lute from taking away her wings, her eye, her home, and her purpose. But now? She has more than that; she has love, because she has Charlie.
When Lute threatens Charlie, everything changes. Vaggie fucks her up immediately...and shows "mercy" knowing that being forced to live with part of herself gone (her arm was CRUSHED, no way was she getting it back), the shame of defeat, and the knowledge that someone she's been looking down on so completely is responsible for it all is a fate MUCH worse than death for Lute.
And Charlie? Charlie's insanely powerful but has no clue how to use her power to its full potential because she's never had a reason or desire to fight until now. Even when she's being strangled, when she's pissed-off and vengeful, she can't really tap into that power. But then Adam comes at her dad and is about to catch him off-guard.
He's about to hurt—possibly kill—her dad, who she's finally building a good relationship with; her dad, who just showed up to protect her despite the risk of politically turning this battle from an act of defiance by a willful princess to an act of full-on rebellion by the King of Hell himself. She reacts on instinct to protect her father and stops a hit that destroyed Alastor's shield. And she does it effortlessly.
Carmilla was right. For these ladies, at least, the need to protect someone they love, no matter what kind of love it is, is exactly what rallies them to come at enemies who were just kicking their asses and absolutely dominate.
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Hello I’m here to share some random thoughts on these two gifs specifically and what I think it reveals about Crowley’s character and the good omens universe as a whole
So here are two instances in which Crowley is being called “good” or “nice” and the biggest difference is in how Crowley reacts to it. When Mrs. Sandwich calls him nice, he doesn’t agree with it, but he sort of smiles, corrects her gently and thanks her. When Aziraphale calls him nice, Crowley vehemently denies it and physically pushes back. He is enraged, insulted, and resentful that Aziraphale would even call him such a thing. And I think this really highlights the realization Crowley has had about heaven, hell, God, humanity, and morality since he fell.
Crowley understands that when a human calls him good, that is coming from a place of kindness, admiration, and personal morality beyond whatever rules are expected to be followed. As Aziraphale says: unlike angels and demons, humans have a choice in being good or bad, so when one of them recognizes Crowley as good, he knows the humans understand that concept of morality as a choice and are recognizing the fact that Crowley has also made a conscious decision to be good. When Aziraphale or another angel/demon calls him good, he knows that is coming from a place of adherence to the rules, from a place of invariably following God’s will regardless of the consequences or objective morality of it. Being called “good” is synonymous to being called “someone who follows the will of God,” which is not something Crowley usually thinks is the right or kind thing to do. Crowley almost seems to see it as an insult, that an angel/demon thinks he is incapable of having free will or following his own morality beyond the rules set by heaven and hell. With humans, “good” is a compliment, but with angels and demons, it’s an acknowledgment of conformity.
Within the good omens universe as a whole, this represents the fundamental realization that has shaped Crowley’s character and the realization that he has never been able to get Aziraphale to grasp. Heaven is not inherently good and hell is not inherently bad; the real morality is in choice and making a voluntary decision to make the world better or worse for others. I think this is one of the fundamental messages of good omens and I think this realization will have world-altering consequences for heaven, hell, and humanity. Because having individual morality and choice invites the possibility of going against God’s will, which is pretty much the foundational structure that controls angels and demons’ entire existence.
Anyway, I think the fact that Crowley makes this distinction is very telling about his understanding of morality and the universe as a whole and I think it’s going to become one of the fundamental themes underlying the final season.
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