Angels can sense love (and other virtues), while demons can sense lust (and other vices).
Early on, Crowley can sense Aziraphale's little spikes of lust towards him, and he maybe thinks a time or two about tempting the angel into a serious sin, maybe even something worth falling over...? But he also genuinely likes Aziraphale, more and more each time they meet, and so he holds back. Gets him to try some human food and think a little independently from Heaven's company line. Calls it a win just to have someone to talk to, to have someone who understands even a little, and even more a win when he gets Aziraphale to relax and enjoy himself once in a while.
And then, of course, that sense of lustful, covetous desire coming from the angel wanes and eventually vanishes altogether. Oh, he still senses it occasionally, especially when it comes to acquiring a particularly rare manuscript. But it's never directed towards Crowley anymore, hasn't been for decades, maybe even centuries if he thinks about it.
It's not disappointing. Not really. He wouldn't want to tempt Aziraphale into anything that could actually be harmful to him, after all. Hasn't wanted to do that since sometime back in the Old Testament times, to be honest. It was just... nice? (Ugh.) To know he was wanted, at least in that way. And now that's gone, apparently, Aziraphale's physical desire for him having cooled as they've become friends over the millennia.
(He's still got it, though, if his success inspiring lust and envy in humans when a job requires it is anything to go by. Just can't inspire it anymore in the one being he'd be particularly interested in exploring it with...)
What a shock it is, then, when Aziraphale asks quite desperately one day, after they're finished with Heaven and Hell and their attempts to wipe the Earth from existence, if he can make love to Crowley -- but then also rushes to assure Crowley that it's alright if the answer is no! That what they have now is absolutely perfect! It's only that Crowley is so beautiful, and Aziraphale feels he's half gone out of his mind at times through the long centuries trying to ignore how distractingly much he simply wants to touch him, hold him, caress him... And now that they're here, together, and trying to be honest with each other, trying for open communication, Aziraphale doesn't want to keep this to himself any longer, wants it all out in the open and to know Crowley's thoughts on the matter so that he shall know how to act going forward. It's an excited, blundering, mess of a confession, ending on a stiff-upper-lip determination that most people think is so very English but don't know that Aziraphale actually invented it and that the Brits have just been following his lead all this time.
And Crowley has no idea how to respond, questions getting caught in his throat, tangled around his forked tongue. Because, what? What?!
He watches his angel's face start to crumble as he struggles, and finally his protests take shape: He could sense when Aziraphale stopped wanting him like that! It's been years and years and years! Without a single whiff off lust coming off Aziraphale when he looks at Crowley!
Which, Aziraphale replies, is simply not possible. Because, honestly, he's only come to desire Crowley more over the years: sensually and sexually, yes, but also as a friend and confidante, also romantically. Tenderly. He quite desires Crowley in every way it is possible to do, he thinks.
And really, Aziraphale goes on, feathers a little ruffled now, Crowley needn't pretend or make excuses -- if he doesn't want to be with Aziraphale in that way, he will absolutely respect that. There's no reason to pretend he can't sense how Aziraphale feels, just as Aziraphale has been able to feel Crowley's love for him growing, starting with those bits of affection and interest all the way back in Eden, through to the very purest, most all-encompassing love he's been able to sense from him these last few years, after everything.
But demons can't sense love, Crowley has to remind him a bit tetchily, only vices! Things that lead to sin and degradation and unhappiness! So it's not actually the same at all!
And then he watches Aziraphale make a pretty perfect Shocked Pikachu Face, not that the angel would understand the reference if he told him.
But Aziraphale starts to smile after a moment, even if his eyes are shining with tears at the same time, and the angel breathes that it's not a vice to wish to be close to someone whom you love, and whom you know loves you in return.
The penny drops.
Aziraphale never stopped wanting him -- he just also started loving Crowley at some point.
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Ya know I’m sat here thinking and remember when Aziraphale was tempted by Crowley to eat the Ox rib and he took it very gently and looked disgusted then realized he actually very much enjoyed it and just dove right in? He got one taste of human food and now CRAVES it constantly.
This is important because-
It’s been confirmed the look of “disgust” on his face after the kiss was because he wanted it to happen again, he CRAVED for it to happen again. “do it again please do it again.” He was disgusted by his “lust” and longing for Crowley.
Now you might be wondering where I’m going with this and just think about it-
Aziraphale is a glutton. Aziraphale gets one simple taste and then can’t “live” without it.
Food. Wine. Music.
Now he’s tasted Crowley…
We all saw what he did to that Ox rib which was his first temptation, just imagine what that glutton of an angel is going to do to next he sees his demon.
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Yeah, I do actually plan on eventually doing a lengthy comparison post (if not multiple posts, let's be honest) between the Trigun manga, the 90s Trigun anime and Trigun Stampede, but I feel like this could serve as a simpler version/funnier take:
OG!Wolfwood would have flirted with and bent Stampede!Vash over the nearest table the first second he got.
Stampede!Wolfwood would have fucking combusted on the spot and hissed like a feral cat if OG!Vash told him he looked cute.
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ZenaidaMacrouras1 Fic Masterlist
Links to ao3 (all my works on ao3)
Stucky Fics!
Plastered - (59k words - E) (moodboard)
Kidfic, catching feelings, Architect Steve and Engineer Bucky
Tension and Tonic (79k words - E) (moodboard)
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Monoclonius (62k words - E) (moodboard)
Kidfic, Sweet, sappy, wholesome lusting, Lobbyist Steve and Paleontologist Bucky
A Climb of Passion (32k words - E) (moodboard)
Sweet, sappy, wholesome lusting, Climbing Gym Coach Steve and Recovering Bucky
Take Me Anywhere (3k words - E) (moodboard)
Ballet Dancer Bucky and Graphic Designer Steve, Catching feelings, wholesome smut
Cruel Summer (2k words - E) (moodboard)
Bucky has a summer job selling ice cream and Steve likes...ice cream
Pursued by Bear (20k words - E) (moodboard) (podfic!)
Shakespearean Scholar Steve and Bodybuilder Bucky meet cute + lots of sonnets
Leaving Notes (200 words - E) (moodboard)
200 word ficlet where Sergeant Barnes and Doctor Rogers find a nice quiet on call room.
Backhoe (123,456 words- E) (moodboard)
Artist Steve and Appalachian Prince Bucky. Come for the direct action chained to a backhoe meet-cute, stay for the sprawling southern gothic kidfic.
Lucky Screwdriver (6k words - E) (moodboard)
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Unpredictable Synchronicity (115k words - M) (moodboard)
Slowburn romantic comedy shrunkyclunks with civil rights attorney Bucky Barnes working on gender affirming healthcare and a mostly happy and well adjusted Steve Rogers as Captain America.
Chooser of the Punched (7k words - Gen) (moodboard)
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The Charming Man (65k - Explicit) (moodboard)
Come for the mundane workplace banality, stay for the action, adventure, romance, cozy mornings doing the crossword puzzle in bed and long-suffering best friends.
Masquerade (5k - Explicit) (moodboard)
Bucky just wants to hang out with the cheeseplate but he has a sexy hookup instead. Woops.
History of American Capitalism (85k- Explicit) (moodboard) Cute little college AU in which Steve is a small history major and Bucky is the ・✧∘* ✧・STAR QUARTERBACK・✧*∘✧・
RarePair:
Punched! (7500 words - E) (moodboard)
The prompt was Steve and Valkyrie punch some Nazis: Modern Political AU. Prequel to Monoclonius.
Meta Stuff!
Writing Modern Steve Roger's Health Issues: A Compendium
Deep thoughts on how Steve Rogers' MCU canon illnesses hold up in a modern setting.
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