my deep dark fear is that they showed us how good and kind and caring crowley has always been to let the heartbreak turn him evil or bad in s3 before the reconciliation with azi turns him good again
Anon, I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that this will never happen.
Not only would it be disrespectful and offensive on like ten different levels, it also goes against everything Neil (and Terry) have written so far.
Crowley is in a bad place as of now, yes, but he knows himself, he has been refining the person he wants to be and the life he wants to have ever since he fell; that progress will not be erased by Aziraphale breaking the trust he had in him.
Meanwhile Aziraphale—he is not kind to people, most of the time. Nice, sure, but he is self-centred, egoistical, incapable of accepting anyone else's opinion, and was an absolute asshole to Crowley for the majority of those six thousand years. (He was, btw. He really was, which is incredibly obvious if you actually watch the shows with both eyes open and your brain turned on.)
Aziraphale is the one who needs to change and grow, not Crowley, he's done all that morality work already. If anything, it will be the other way around, although Aziraphale needs to have that realization on his own or he will never get it.
It makes sense why you would hate it—it would go against everything we have seen, which is why I know Neil will never write it.
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the strange and perplexing duality of having throughly grown up with smartphones and knowing both that the free, unlimited, and semi-personal access to the internet they provided was, while also a curse, probably vital to your and others free positive development during otherwise hostile situations and times, and probably still is today... and also that it is a poison box of misery that you'd probably be better off without. or at least with way way less of. and then for fun, trying to imagine how you'd regulate your own kids time with it, if you were to have one
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So what's up with kris being non-existent?
I tried searching your blog a little but couldn't find anything related to it, so I thought it would be easier to ask.
I wouldn't say they're exactly non-existent in Looking Glasses, I'd say they're more... haunting the narrative.
I wanted the setup of the comic to mirror the setup for Deltarune. Kris and Noelle are in their first semester of college, and the Looking Glasses gang are waiting for them to come back home for winter break. The comic is also set up to take place over a week, much the same as the game.
One of the things I'm most interested in examining in this comic is how relationships evolve and grow when some of your friends move away for college. So when Kris left, they broke up with Ralsei, whereas Noelle and Susie stayed together. Everyone is still friends, but those friendships have become more complicated as the characters move into adulthood.
I have plans for Kris, don't worry! It's just going to be a bit before they have a significant appearance in the comic proper.
But as a preview, I've drawn them a few times, a few times in the comic even!
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Rating: M
Word count: 10206
Summary:
Aziraphale was feeling the melancholy and loneliness that came along the thought of ringing in the new year alone, as opposed to all the times he had done it with Crowley as of late. Consumed by emotions he cannot quite make sense of, nor control, he heads back down to Earth to talk to Crowley. Only to find the demon haven’t been there for months, dragged down to Hell as soon as the angel had left.
The only thing left to do was to head down there and rescue him, but first, he needed a disguise worthy of Hell. But was it truly all but an act?
Aziraphale excused himself and exited the bookshop, Muriel looked as broken as Aziraphale felt.
He couldn’t possible go back to heaven, not after learning what he had. This was just supposed to have been a quick pop down, in and out before anyone noticed his desk gaping empty as they inevitable dropped off more mindless paperwork. How could he even consider signing paper after paper, pretending as if nothing had changed even after everything had shifted after learning Crowley was stuck in Hell for God knows which terrible made up reasoning, and it was nothing short of his own damned fault.
No, he had to fix this, set things right. It was his responsibility to do so. How many times hadn’t Crowley come to his rescue? Perhaps it was about time the roles were reversed. The perfect Plan had already started to form in his mind. His lips turned assertively, imagining the surprise on Crowley’s face as he came busting down into Hell for him. That is, if he could pull it off. Although he had sat with Crowley along plenty of those unnecessarily violence filled films Crowley seemed to enjoy so much. That combined with the endless knowledge books had provided him with, in particular the classic settings of saving people in distress from hungry dragons or other monstrous creatures, he felt the most assuredly prepared for the task at hand. How hard could it be? He had a history of being exceedingly witty, when he put effort into it, after all.
(...continue reading Teardrop on the fire by horrorriz on ao3)
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I really enjoyed Witch King and think it's Good but need to announce the ludicrous brass balls involved in the title.
Because it's named after the main character, who is known by that title, we establish that right out the gate.
Fairly soon after, we establish that he, like Dorothy, is not a witch at all. Although he is on good terms with them and uses some of their techniques.
Bit after that we learn that witches don't hold with kings, or indeed with governance. Kai says eventually that they don't have enough communal norms to even rebel against if you wanted to. Fascinating.
The flashback-to-origin-story half of the narrative terminates before we reach the point where people started calling Kai the Witch King.
We never find out how that happened! We never even really see anyone using the title except when he's being introduced to one major supporting character by another in the first or second chapter! It's wild. Witch King without Witch King. Garfield without Garfield.
This is so funny to me I can forgive the letdown, because to be quite honest by the middle of the book I was counting on the origin of the title as a sort of tying-together moment for the whole narrative, linking the end of the earlier timeslice to the beginning of the later one, and was astonished that it didn't come. It makes the novel feel weirdly unfinished to me, like Wells accidentally left off the last few chapters somehow.
I have been denied catharsis about the title of the book. 🤣
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