So Crowley's shadow is just gonna be. Raw, I think. Angry and scared and resentful of Heaven, Hell, and Aziraphale's past inaction. The way I hc a lot of the demons are, they've ket the trauma and their anger turn them ugly.

*let, even. Crowley's afraid of his feelings and caring too much, and letting both those things get poisonous.

that's gonna hurt, but I feel it's also something he's got to confront

And of course his first response to Aziraphale especially is gonna be 'get as far away from ANYthing that looks like me as possible,' thinking the shadow is going to intentionally corrupt/infect what's around it. Thoughts that it or he should be pitied will...not go well.

Kids scared of their own shadows, though, he will instinctively protect and give support he'd never accept himself. Because he gotta.

Huh I did not see your response until just now but yeah, they've gotta work through it at least a little

Aziraphale will fight him on the whole "get far away" business. he's done treating parts of Crowley as evil or something that could make him fall

plurks been hiding stuff I think. it did it to doom on one of my plurks too

I'm a sap and I'd hoped so also just makes sense really. 'Lol no. We are not doing THIS again.'

things are solved with LOVE, Crowley. we have learned this

Yeah definitely just made your latest message appear after the fact

I'm blaming the clinic. I was here the last time it did this

He has trouble accepting that love on certain levels, even if he trusts it's unconditional he's far too used to it being a dangerous dirty little secret. His for Aziraphale, too.

I think they're going to have to work on being open with their feelings, especially with each other directly. so far is been good baby steps, but mostly just words

Definitely, they have... not had the chance to practice. But they know they want to, at least, that's a start.

(Thought: Crowley may or may not try and uhm trick his shadow into his dorm room and barricade himself in with it.)

Aaa and shoot I completely forgot part 2 where there's like. A literal stairway to heaven and a missing friend he considers an honorary demon. Because Crowley would go after her I think. Or at least I certainly want him to.

It's gonna be a group battle later!

Fantastic

(EXCUSE YOU, CROWLEY, YOU COME OUT OF THERE RIGHT NOW)

And ooo a battle! Rescue our favorite menace

God we really need to have another thread of these two idiots just hanging out

I'm gonna stalk it when you do. Please link

if Crowley does try barricade himself in with the shadow, Aziraphale might come over hoping to escape his own and want to lock/barricade shadow Az OUT

We so, so do. Disaster gadflies who cannot sit in chairs.

And oh man yes pls. They evade their way into a two-front attack.

Confront your baggage, dumbasses.

no, he was hoping the baggage would get lost in the terminal

Yotsuyu understands that. God does she

why couldn't that have stayed dead.

lets just all take out baggage out, murder it, and bury it in a garden to serve as fertilizer for Crowley and Pallidus' plants