#die metatron die

[phoen1xr0se]

Nothing Lasts Forever - META

It's just really struck me how utterly bizarre the line "nothing lasts forever" is, considering that it comes out of THIS GUY'S mouth:

Don't get me wrong, this line has never sat right with me, it felt oddly placed and off - almost everything else he says and does in that scene could potentially be keeping in character with who he is, his arc, his trauma... but not this.

Why?

I mean, we're talking about Aziraphale here!

The one who literally collects ancient first editions and preserves them...

The one who wears old, worn clothes because they're comfortable and he likes them...

The one who almost killed a little kid because he wanted the Earth to carry on just a little bit longer...

The one who has desperately fought to keep his demon alive and away from the threat of Hell by any means necessary.

These are not the actions of someone who believes nothing lasts. He has spent his existence protecting the things he wants to last, often going to extraordinary measures, even going against his own moral code, consistently showing that he does, in fact, want it all to last forever.

So why say it?

The only explanation that makes sense to me is Aziraphale is trying to wave a warning flag in front of Crowley's face. Hes saying: "You know me, I know you do, you know me better than anyone and you know I would never say this."

The old "if you ever hear me say these words, you know I'm in mortal peril" bit.

The only problem with this, of course, is that Crowley has just confessed - all the things Aziraphale never ever thought he would hear him say, at least not yet, and not so openly... and it's the wrong timing, the worst timing ever, because Crowley is too wrapped up in his own emotion that he can't see what Aziraphale is too scared to say overtly (lots of sideways glances to Metatron just outside the window).

Aziraphale is waving great big "I am not okay help me!!" signs at him, saying all the things he would never say - "you're the bad guys" and "you can be my second in command" and "just like the old times"... and the big one, "I forgive you" instead of the "I love you" they both know it should have been.

The worst part is that Aziraphale expects Crowley to pick up on his signals, and is so hurt and frustrated when he doesn't... not just because it means he is putting his life at risk but because maybe Crowley doesn't know him after all. Maybe they aren't what he thought they were.

But can I leave this on a happy(ish) note?

With this in mind, I'd like to bring you back to the final scene with 'A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square' - most people believe that either Crowley queued it up to take Aziraphale to the Ritz, or the Bentley did it...

But if all the above is true, and Aziraphale has been desperately trying to get Crowley to see his coded messages, I humbly submit the theory that it was actually Aziraphale who set up the song to play.

One last attempt to show Crowley what he couldn't risk saying out loud.

Let's hope he got the message.

#good omens meta #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #neil gaiman #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #david tennant #good omens fandom #michael sheen #fuck the metatron #go meta #die metatron die #no nightingales #nothing lasts forever #aziraphale defense squad #aziraphale defender

[aoshimasss]

alan rickman verse(?)

i just wanted to draw some his characters together, they're all so weird and such kittens.

maybe I'll make more drawings with their interaction

films:

harry potter, die hard, closed land, dogma, january man

#artists on tumblr #art #my art #severus snape #digital art #metatron #die hard #hans gruber #dogma #alan rickman

[craftymiddlehorses]

YES I AM VERY MUCH ASKING FOR YOURS RIGHT ABOUT NOW, IF YOU'D BE SO KIND AS TO OBLIGE!!!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #gos2 #gos2 spoilers #the audacity of this bitch #go die in a ditch #metatron

[wrengrif]

As a Fandom...

Can we just normalize the fact that all of Hell and Heaven's denizens have some kind of mental/physical/both trauma?

Heaven has got brainwashing cult on lockdown and Hell is just the scene from some serial killers basement in every horror movie ever.

Both are horrible in their own way. Both have left scars on angels and demons. Both angels and demons have reacted to that trauma in very different ways.

So when I say this - and I say this with all due sincerity - can we please, please, stop wanting Crowley and Aziraphale to suffer worse than that for whatever their sins at the end of Season 2? Because either way you slice this melon of abusive behaviors, it's rotten all the way through. I don't want that for Crowley and I don't want that for Aziraphale.

I want them to get away from their equally shitty employers, and I don't want them to Hurt Anymore. I want their bad days to be like - they argued about whose turn it is to do the dishes. Or, one of them is sad because they're having a bad memory day but the other one is there to comfort them. I want Crowley and Aziraphale to get the chance to heal.

And frankly, I want that for everyone else in Heaven and Hell too.

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Except Hastur. And Sandalphon. OH and the Metatron. Fuck those guys.

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #trauma #healing from trauma #except hastur and sandalphon and the metatron #they can die in a fire

[alex-iltempo]

Oh yeah, it was this legend's birthday yesterday

#alan rickman #professor snape #severus snape #hp #marvin #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #love actually #metatron #dogma #sense and sensibility #galaxy quest #sheriff of nottingham #robin hood prince of thieves #hans gruber #die hard #british actors #mensource #dailymen

[i-only-ever-asked-questions]

Like many others, I have a lot of thoughts about different things in Season 2. So many things that I want to write about that I end up not writing anything at all. So if I am ever going to get things out I should start now. Maybe I am crazy, maybe I am not, but I read the conversation between Aziraphale and the Metatron a little differently.

The first thing we see is the end of that conversation: M: You don't have to answer immediately. Take all the time you need A: I- I don't know what to say M: Well then, go and tell your friend the good news I don’t think this is about taking his time to decide whether he is taking the job or not, Aziraphale already said yes.

That is why the Metatron ends with a confident “Well, then go and tell your friend the good news”. When Aziraphale turns around and walks towards the bookshop, his face is like that of a student going to defend their thesis in front of their committee or an accused going to their trial. It is scary but you can’t turn back.

The “Take all the time you need” is about breaking it to Crowley that Aziraphale is going to Heaven and that “Crowley can become an angel again.” Take your time to have this conversation. Aziraphale doesn’t know it is a goodbye yet; Metatron does. That’s why he comes in immediately after Crowley leaves and innocently asks “How did he take it?” meaning “how did he take the news that you are leaving?” He didn’t ask “Is he coming?” or “did he accept?” or anything of the sort. He knew Crowley wouldn’t come from the very start.

“I don't know what to say” may then be a “thank you, I am so very grateful for your generosity.”

Aziraphale said yes without discussing it with Crowley first, which is a very Aziraphalean thing to do. Remember how he lied to Crowley about Adam’s whereabouts? Crowley and him were not having an argument about it then, they weren’t fighting, in fact Crowley was sure they were on the same page, in the same team. Aziraphale unilaterally decided he was going to tell Heaven because Heaven were the good guys and they would stop the apocalypse if only they knew where Adam was.

At the bench Crowley offers his place and Aziraphale responds “I don’t think my side would like that" He hasn’t forsaken Heaven yet, he still has hope, he still believes Heaven can correct course and become what Heaven is supposed to be because underneath, the core of Heaven is inherently good. He went rogue because he didn’t trust Heaven’s current management, but he didn’t lose faith in the Heaven-that-should-be.

In the first episode of Season 2, at the coffee shop, he sheepishly says "It’s nice to tell someone about the good things you’ve done now that I’m not reporting to Heaven". He misses Heaven, he misses his job, his purpose. He is unmoored and Crowley is not being the supportive friend Aziraphale needs right now. Aziraphale is going through a crisis that Crowley went through and moved on from a long long time ago. Crowley forsook Heaven after they kicked him out and metaphorically forsook Hell very early on ("I'm on my side" in Job’s times already). He's peachy! And he can't understand that Aziraphale cannot just walk away.

Metatron exploited Aziraphale’s doubts, validated and encouraged them. "But Heaven. Well, it’s the side of truth, of light, of good" is a line that Aziraphale would never have uttered if not for the encouragement that the Metatron gave him. “Like the old times. Only even nicer” is Aziraphale’s imagination running wild, after the beautiful picture Metatron painted. The Heaven-that-should-be is the Heaven-that-was before the rebellion, the Heaven that Aziraphale can make happen again. How can Crowley not see that?!

“But… obviously you said “No” to Hell, you’re the bad guys” is also Metatron’s fueling Aziraphale’s doubts. “you’re” instead of “they are”. If Heaven is inherently the side of good, then Hell is inherently the side of evil. Angels are inherently good and demons are inherently bad. Crowley is at heart a little bit of a good person, Aziraphale has 6000 years of proof. His Fall must have been a mistake or something. How can Crowley not jump at the opportunity to go back? To right that wrong!?

Metatron is not stupid, “The name of your establishment Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death. I assume they always ask for coffee [...] so predictable”. He doesn’t say it outright, but in urging Aziraphale to take the post, he is also implying that the alternative is “death”, it’s a threat, bad things would happen to Earth, to humans, to Crowley. See how Gabriel messed up, he was a bad Supreme Archangel, he led Heaven astray, he didn't work out. if you don’t step in, everybody will suffer, you are the angel for the job, only you can bring Heaven back to the light, to what it should be. For Aziraphale it is a bit of a no-brainer. Now he only needs to convince Crowley.

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #metatron #give me coffee or give me death #is a metaphore for #take over Heaven or let all these people die #good omens meta

[itsm3m00n]

yall I got a call congratulating my acceptance into the school I applied for right as I was watching the season two finale I want to cry

#good omens #I mean I’m super excited #But I was also on the verge of tears #Like metatron why #you piece of shit #Die

[beebopboom]

“does anyone every actually choose death”

i wanna see someone choose death. i wanna see someone put everything on the line - of making that choice to risk it all - all for one being

that if they have to choose between “coffee” and death - if they can’t make their own side to escape the system - they say fuck it all because the other is just too important and the system too fucked to even try anymore

most of all i wanna see that smug bastard metatron be wrong

#i should say i don’t want either of them to die #and i don’t think this will ever happen #i just want the angst #the ultimate choosing the other over everything else #let it be aziraphale #metatron fight club #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #metatron #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #don’t take this seriously

[depressed-fanperson]

OK BUT IF YOU GO TO THE FINAL EPISODE RIGHT WHEN AZIRAPHALE LOOKS BACK AT CROWLEY IN THE BENTLEY THERE’S A MIRACLE SOUND THAT POPS UP WHENEVER THEY DO MIRACLES I BET IT WAS THE METATRON IM GOING RABID HUIDBIJDBUID

#imma fucking die #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #go2 #good omens 2 #ofmd #good omens season two #our flag means death #good omens 3 #good omens headcannon #HE WAS GOING TO GO BACK TO HIM I SWEAR #BUT THAT LITTLE FUCKER METATRON

[richard-fucking-feynman]

I’m sorry, but is everyone else missing that after rewatching that scene over and over and over, their exact words are:

“I lo-I forgive you”

“Don’t bother”

Because I’m going to die.

#Good Omens #GO #aziraley #azirafell #crowley #crowly x aziraphale #I don’t care if it’s just metatron writing bad angst fic #or Crowley not needing to be forgiven for loving someone #it is good and it is proper to die for your country

[eldyra]

Us mere mortals: I wish someone would look at me the way Crowley looks at Aziraphale. Just once, and I could die a happy person.

Aziraphale after 6000 years of being loved the way most of us won't ever experience: I forgive you.

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #i'm not okay #amazon better give us s3 #aziraphale needs to do the apology dance #like every day for the the next 100 years #metatron needs to die #nobody gets to look af crowley liks this and lives

[the-metatron]

That anon was from me actually. And if you'd prefer, I don't mind coming off anon.

So I'll say it again, eat shit and die.

Yum.

#the metatron answers #the voice of god speaks #the metatron eats shit #but he doesn't die #cause jokes on you he's into that shit #literally #the nastier (mean) ya'll get the nastier (kinky) the metatron gets #do with that information what you will

[quietwingsinthesky]

DEAN SHOULD HAVE KILLED SOMEBODY WE CARE ABOUT.

#CHARLIE! CAS! SAM! CROWLEY! HELL MAN LET HIM THREATEN GARTH IDK!!!! #THE CLOSEST WE GET TO AN ESTABLISHED CHARACTER IN DANGER IS METATRON!!!! FUCKING METATRON!!!!! AND HE DOESN’T EVEN DIE!!!!!!

[charlie-rainary]

Metatron: *explaining all the shit he's done*

God: now why the fuck did I put you in charge-

#good omens #good omens 2 #god herself #she's probably tired of this bullshit #metatron #fuck metatron #someone's gonna die

[theclaravoyant]

there's a scenario in my head where aziraphale is pointing his puny human gun and the metatron has crowley in front of him like some kind of demon shield (i don't know how or why shh i'm emoting)

and we get a parallel moment of aim for my mouth shoot past my ear

the metatron can see aziraphale thinking about it, and it's kind of scary because this is Unhinged Behaviour, but it's not scary at all because this is aziraphale and he's soft and he took the coffee and he'll come crawling back.

he doesn't crawl

he's still pointing his puny human gun

(crowley is fucking BEGGING him not to do this. he might as well jump into a pit of acid himself. aziraphale doesn't stand down. he said he would protect crowley and he will)

"it's not going to kill me," the metatron reminds him. it's a puny human gun after all. "the best it will do is buy you a few seconds before i personally drag you kicking and screaming to the Fall"

aziraphale decides it's worth it, and fires

#i'm not saying miracle blockers were the real chekov's gun all along but #aziraphale #good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #aziracrow #get rekt metatron amen #gun #or OR - Crowley isn’t worried . He simply says I trust you. (and then I die)

[daisygrayce]

on Aziraphale's left

I don't know what it means, well, maybe I have a guess and I don't like it. I haven't seen anyone mention this.

From the time the Metatron starts out of the bookshop with Aziraphale, he is on the left. Crowley is relaxed in the chair dreaming of "us" time and the big headed Bastard is on Aziraphale's left. That's Crowley's place. In the street, in the elevator, the Metatron has taken Crowley's place.

#good omens season 2 #good omens season 3 #good omens #crowly x aziraphale #i'm still not okay #Metatron must die