#zira has to work to have a healthier relationship wih crowley

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

i think were all giving aziraphale a little too much credit for whats motivating him to make his choice at the very end

yes hes a nice guy, yes he likes to take selfless ACTIONS, and yes he probably thinks this action is selfish but...

...the angel is fundamentally pretty selfish, a lof of the time. he is thinking "oh heaven will be good if runs MY way. crowley will be happier as an angel in MY heaven". his view is very self centered- all of heavens problems are just that all the angels in charged were toxic, its not heaven itself.

its not just that he doesnt get that its an institutional issue, he probably does, he just thinks HE can override it. HIS heaven is as good as just as he always believed it to be.

and hes also taking crowley's devotion for granted. its made clear that he knows how much crowley cares for him (the bit where he acknowledges crowley likes to rescue him...and even if you think back to season 1, where he threatens crowley into action where saying hed stop talking to him lol), but isnt quite doing his part to reciprocate. he assumes crowley will just...keep doing what hes always done. he doesnt need to think about it from crowley's side in his pov

because aziraphale has always been the one set in his ways, the bookshop, his fashion sense, while crowley goes with the flow of time and his angel.

and aziraphale refuses to look deeper into that. to see that crowley needs to be accommodated for as well

his big flaw here is selfishness qnd self centered-ness, and that's what hes going to need to work on and applogize for in season 3

#YES he has trauma from heaven and YES it colored his actions too #but the whole conceit being a demon who is too nice and an angel who is a bit of a bastard #implies rhat good old azira has some shitty traits #and think the world metaphorically revolves around him has always seemed to me what his biggest flaw is #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale (good omens) #and also the parallels from ninas abusive relationship too #zira has to work to have a healthier relationship wih crowley