This is spot on

younggayanddoingokay:

Been thinking a lot about the contrast between Gabriel/beelzebubs love story and Crowley/aziraphale’s love story and tbh it makes perfect sense to me.

Gabriel and Beelzebub had an idyllic and simple love story because they are fundamentally not complicated as beings. They’ve never, not once in their immortal existences, stopped for even a second to question themselves and whether they were doing the right thing. And it makes sense, because they’ve never had reason to. With the exception of the Armageddidn’t, every single thing has always worked out exactly the way they wanted to.

They were both at the very top of their power structures- other than a mostly absent g-d/satan- and so they were the ones giving the orders. They wanted something done, and it happened! Just like that. So of course when they fell in love, they went “oh okay,” saw what they wanted, and made it happen. They went for it without a single question or doubt because it’s what they’d always done, and it worked out largely because they expected it to. End of story, start of blissful eternity on alpha centauarion.

Now, az and Crowley, on the other hand, have done nothing but question themselves and their decisions and basically everything around them for 6000+ plus years. Even before humans, they were never quite as at ease within the status quo as everyone around them. And then humans came along, and they “went native”. They’re not human, no, but they’re about as close as you can get and still have wings. so of course their love story was so achingly human. I mean, what else could it be, really?

They’re on their own side, and they question and they doubt and they pine and they agonize over furtive glances and stolen touches and communication breakdowns and it’s an absolute mess.

Because their love story is so human and that’s what makes it so beautiful.

This is spot on