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Character Information Name:Aziraphale Ezra Fell Canon Origin/Series: Good Omens Teaching Position and why it suits them: Librarian. In canon, Aziraphale has a fascination with books (misprinted Bibles, books of prophecy, and Oscar Wilde first editions in particular, though his collection is clearly extensive on top of these specializations). He primarily stores this collection in a book “shop” in Soho which he guards fiercely. Suitability: I think he’s quite suitable. Canon shows Aziraphale as being willing to be around kids, even though it usually turns out pretty embarrassing and awkward (mostly because he’s so old-fashioned and kind of an immense nerd) Gender: Male Age: A gentleman is discreet about such matters (38) Out of school living location: Soho, London, England. His family home is on the South Downs and he splits his time between the two locations. Blood status: Pureblood
Personality: Well now, I can’t very well start off this section without referencing what might be the most famous line in the book, can I?
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
As the book goes on to state, 2 of those 3 things are inaccurate. Aziraphale can’t be English as he is an angel, specifically a Principality. He isn’t gay for the same reason; angels are completely sexless unless they “really want to make an effort”, and Aziraphale comes across as being especially unconcerned about making such an effort.
So let’s start with the one common conception about Aziraphale that is true. He is quite intelligent… but it’s a somewhat specialized intelligence. Aziraphale is very book smart (which tends to happen when one spends a millennium or two collecting or otherwise being somewhat slavishly devoted to books) and knowledgeable within very particular parameters. When it comes to things he finds unnecessary or distasteful, he can be surprisingly naïve, dismissive, or begrudging of it.
This comes from the fact that Aziraphale is pretty bad at fitting in with modern times. The book states that when his mind does find itself in the 20th century, it invariably hovers around the 1950’s. He’s very old-fashioned and somewhat resistant to change in general, and this manifests in everything from his speech (rather genteel and prone to addressing others as ‘dear’) to his choice in clothing (“Tartan is fashionable.”). As an example, though he does own a computer, it is incredibly slow, old, and is only used to keep track of his accounts. This makes him a very interesting foil to Crowley, who eagerly embraces new technology and modern amenities which Aziraphale tends to view with skepticism or patronization.
As stated, his old-fashioned tendencies make him somewhat resistant to change, and a good example of this is how he reacts to the approaching Apocalypse. Whereas Crowley is eager to do something – anything – to prevent the Apocalypse, Aziraphale is considerably more hesitant. As befits an angel, Aziraphale is considerably fatalistic and a bit nervous about questioning his superiors (God and higher angels). When questioned about… pretty much anything God and Heaven does, his answer almost always hinges on ‘ineffability’ and how it isn’t right to question these things. That said, it is rather clear that he is not 100% confident in these matters and, in fact, hasn’t been since the fall of mankind at the very least judging from some of his dialogue with Crowley at the very start of the novel. Aziraphale’s hesitation to question authority makes sense; although he is friends with Crowley and likely has a general idea what Falling (or at least sauntering vaguely downwards) entails, that doesn’t mean he should or is eager to find out personally. It takes a drunken argument with Crowley (who aims right for Aziraphale’s soft spots) to convince him to try sabotaging the Apocalypse at all.
And what, exactly, is Crowley’s ammunition to convince Aziraphale to participate in what could be argued as treason against Heaven? He strikes at Aziraphale’s interests and hobbies, which dominate his existence more than distant superiors up in Heaven. Aziraphale’s primary fascination is with books; the novel goes so far as to say that Aziraphale “worships” them, which is technically though perhaps not literally true (the fact that he ultimately is swayed to help Crowley keep the Earth from ending because it offers him far more things that interest him than Heaven ever could speaks volumes). Listing the rest of Aziraphale’s hobbies and interests would start to get exhaustive, but most of them are quaint if not a bit esoteric and decidedly out-of-fashion (sushi being the notable exception).
In short, Aziraphale is a polite, somewhat gentlemanly fellow-shaped-spiritual-entity who tries very hard to embody the traits of a good angel. It’s just that he has spent so much time on Earth and has come to love so much of what it and its people have to offer that his priorities and allegiances have gone a little hazy. He truly does mean well and worries about actively rebelling against his superiors, but gets a little wrapped up in his little vices and fussy behaviors. In a way, he and his counterpart Crowley no longer fully identify with their ‘bosses’ and identify more with each other and human beings than they do their sides in the vast cosmic game that is the animosity between Heaven and Hell. As Crowley notes towards the end of the book, Aziraphale is “just enough of a bastard to be worth liking.”
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Name: Katie/rosenritter
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Character Information
Name:
AziraphaleEzra FellCanon Origin/Series: Good Omens
Teaching Position and why it suits them: Librarian. In canon, Aziraphale has a fascination with books (misprinted Bibles, books of prophecy, and Oscar Wilde first editions in particular, though his collection is clearly extensive on top of these specializations). He primarily stores this collection in a book “shop” in Soho which he guards fiercely.
Suitability: I think he’s quite suitable. Canon shows Aziraphale as being willing to be around kids, even though it usually turns out pretty embarrassing and awkward (mostly because he’s so old-fashioned and kind of an immense nerd)
Gender: Male
Age: A gentleman is discreet about such matters (38)
Out of school living location: Soho, London, England. His family home is on the South Downs and he splits his time between the two locations.
Blood status: Pureblood
Personality: Well now, I can’t very well start off this section without referencing what might be the most famous line in the book, can I?
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
As the book goes on to state, 2 of those 3 things are inaccurate. Aziraphale can’t be English as he is an angel, specifically a Principality. He isn’t gay for the same reason; angels are completely sexless unless they “really want to make an effort”, and Aziraphale comes across as being especially unconcerned about making such an effort.
So let’s start with the one common conception about Aziraphale that is true. He is quite intelligent… but it’s a somewhat specialized intelligence. Aziraphale is very book smart (which tends to happen when one spends a millennium or two collecting or otherwise being somewhat slavishly devoted to books) and knowledgeable within very particular parameters. When it comes to things he finds unnecessary or distasteful, he can be surprisingly naïve, dismissive, or begrudging of it.
This comes from the fact that Aziraphale is pretty bad at fitting in with modern times. The book states that when his mind does find itself in the 20th century, it invariably hovers around the 1950’s. He’s very old-fashioned and somewhat resistant to change in general, and this manifests in everything from his speech (rather genteel and prone to addressing others as ‘dear’) to his choice in clothing (“Tartan is fashionable.”). As an example, though he does own a computer, it is incredibly slow, old, and is only used to keep track of his accounts. This makes him a very interesting foil to Crowley, who eagerly embraces new technology and modern amenities which Aziraphale tends to view with skepticism or patronization.
As stated, his old-fashioned tendencies make him somewhat resistant to change, and a good example of this is how he reacts to the approaching Apocalypse. Whereas Crowley is eager to do something – anything – to prevent the Apocalypse, Aziraphale is considerably more hesitant. As befits an angel, Aziraphale is considerably fatalistic and a bit nervous about questioning his superiors (God and higher angels). When questioned about… pretty much anything God and Heaven does, his answer almost always hinges on ‘ineffability’ and how it isn’t right to question these things. That said, it is rather clear that he is not 100% confident in these matters and, in fact, hasn’t been since the fall of mankind at the very least judging from some of his dialogue with Crowley at the very start of the novel. Aziraphale’s hesitation to question authority makes sense; although he is friends with Crowley and likely has a general idea what Falling (or at least sauntering vaguely downwards) entails, that doesn’t mean he should or is eager to find out personally. It takes a drunken argument with Crowley (who aims right for Aziraphale’s soft spots) to convince him to try sabotaging the Apocalypse at all.
And what, exactly, is Crowley’s ammunition to convince Aziraphale to participate in what could be argued as treason against Heaven? He strikes at Aziraphale’s interests and hobbies, which dominate his existence more than distant superiors up in Heaven. Aziraphale’s primary fascination is with books; the novel goes so far as to say that Aziraphale “worships” them, which is technically though perhaps not literally true (the fact that he ultimately is swayed to help Crowley keep the Earth from ending because it offers him far more things that interest him than Heaven ever could speaks volumes). Listing the rest of Aziraphale’s hobbies and interests would start to get exhaustive, but most of them are quaint if not a bit esoteric and decidedly out-of-fashion (sushi being the notable exception).
In short, Aziraphale is a polite, somewhat gentlemanly fellow-shaped-spiritual-entity who tries very hard to embody the traits of a good angel. It’s just that he has spent so much time on Earth and has come to love so much of what it and its people have to offer that his priorities and allegiances have gone a little hazy. He truly does mean well and worries about actively rebelling against his superiors, but gets a little wrapped up in his little vices and fussy behaviors. In a way, he and his counterpart Crowley no longer fully identify with their ‘bosses’ and identify more with each other and human beings than they do their sides in the vast cosmic game that is the animosity between Heaven and Hell. As Crowley notes towards the end of the book, Aziraphale is “just enough of a bastard to be worth liking.”