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[aziraphlail]

PLAYER

Name: Jackie
Age: Still old
Contact: Nadat on Plurk
Other Characters: Anders, Thor
Interests: I've wanted to play someone who has a lot of faith and places a lot of importance in it for a while, and originally thought I'd make a Chantry sister OC but I also like that I could potentially have someone who doesn't want to fight anyone. It would be delightful, and also very strange.

CHARACTER

Name: Aziraphale
Canon/OC: Good Omens
Canon Point: The end of the movie, just after he's spoken with Crowley about their body swap
Journal: Aziraphlail
Age: older than 6,022 years

Canon World

The world Aziraphale comes from is our world, but there's a book of accurate prophecies (nice and accurate, to be precise) and the Apocalypse has come... and been averted. By the antichrist, his three friends, four adult humans, an angel (Aziraphale) and a demon. This is a world where evil and good are very much present, with some of their agents poking their fingers into all sorts of things like highway construction and temptation.

Angels and demons are able to produce various miracles (though the angels are supposed to not do them too often or they get warnings,) they have wings (though they tend to keep them hidden,) and sometimes they have flaming weaponry (that they may have perhaps misplaced.) Aziraphale is far more involved in the modern world than most angels are, though, choosing to live among them and even run a shop while enjoying the food and drink our world has to offer. He's gone a little native. Most other angels instead concern themselves with remaining separate, doing what is expressly expected of them, and preparing for the Apocalypse with zeal. They want the War to End All Wars so they can confront and defeat their enemies, the host of Hell.

History

-Ssometime after October 21st, 4004 BC, 9:13am: Crowley tempts Eve who tempts Adam. Aziraphale is placed outside the Garden of Eden to guard it with a flaming sword.

-Shortly thereafter: Aziraphale 'misplaces' said flaming sword; Adam and Even mysteriously are armed.

-Middle-ages: Sometime between King Arthur and Shakespeare, Aziraphale and Crowley reach an arrangement - as no one is watching them and their efforts cancel each other out, when they're given an assignment only one goes and takes care of both sides' orders.

-Circa 2008: Antichrist comes to Earth; Crowley successfully tempts Aziraphale to try to thwart Armageddon.

-Circa 2019: Aziraphale and Crowley discover they've got the wrong boy.

-While looking for the Antichrist, Crowley hits Anathema with his car. She leaves The Nice and Accurate Prophecies by Agnes Nutter in Crowley's car; Aziraphale takes it.

-Aziraphale locates the Antichrist in Tadfield thanks to the Prophecies. He almost tells the forces of Heaven about the mixup but reconsiders, instead choosing to send Witchfinder Shadwell to Tadfield.

-Turns down Crowley's proposal to run off together when the end of the world seems inevitable and gives Gabriel another chance.

-Turns down Crowley's second proposal to run off together and walks into a group of angels who accost him, deciding to try to speak to God and see if a higher Authority can change matters. Unfortunately, the Metatron is not inclined to stop the war.

-Calls Crowley to try to inform him of what's going on. He's caught by the suspicious Shadwell. Backed into the circle used to talk to the Metatron, Aziraphale gets discorporated.

-When he arrives in Heaven he's given a uniform, told to form up to fight. Instead Aziraphale returns to Earth.

-Short conversation with Crowley while bodyless in which he says to meet him at Tadfield Airbase for Armageddon.

-Aziraphale possesses a receptive Madame Tracey and recruits Shadwell to save the world.

-They arrive at Tadfield Airbase shortly before Crowley in time to see four kids ride past on bicycles.

-Aziraphale takes a gun and points it at the Antichrist, fires, and misses thanks to Madame Tracey.

-The Antichrist gives Aziraphale his body back.

-Pepper defeats War, Brian defeats Pollution, and Wensleydale defeats Famine, all with the sword that was formerly Aziraphale's. The Antichrist sends Death away, and Aziraphale thinks it's settled.

-Crowley returns the book to Anathema and Aziraphale catches a prophecy that falls from it.

-Gabriel and Beelzebub show up, upset that Armageddon hasn't started, and Aziraphale points out that Armageddon is a Great Plan, but perhaps not the Ineffable Plan.

-Satan, angry, comes to visit, and Crowley takes Aziraphale and Adam-the-Antichrist out of time for a planning and encouragement session.

-Aziraphale bravely wields his flaming sword as Adam tells off the Devil and ends Armageddon.

-Angel and demon trade bodies according to prophecy. When they're captured and sentenced by their respective peoples, they survive the otherwise-fatal punishments inflicted on them. They swap back and go on a fancy lunch date.


https://goodomens.fandom.com/wiki/Aziraphale

Personality

Aziraphale is a being of love. He's an angel, a messenger of the Divine, and he takes the message of love seriously to the point that he shows love to everyone, even those on the opposite side. In his own words, he's soft. He's gentle. When given a flaming sword and told to guard a gate, he gives the sword to a human to fight off predators. When cornered by three angels and confronted about his relationship with Crowley and even punched by one of them, Aziraphale keeps trying to talk them into having mercy on the humans. He's grown fond and attached, and that's only in part self-indulgent because he likes the comforts of the human world. Most of it is that he genuinely cares.

That being said, Aziraphale isn't exactly an innocent. When his would-be executioner winds up in his shoes, about to be executed instead, Aziraphale simply lets it happen. He's more than willing to fire a gun at the Antichrist in order to try to save the world. There's a fierce protectiveness to him that comes out when something important to him is threatened, and that includes humanity. And also his ability to listen to good music and drink good wine. He's a little selfish... but it took a lot of persuasion from a certain demon to get him to be selfish about the end of the world instead of simply accepting it as part of the Ineffable Plan.

He's also a giant nerd. He's had a used bookshop for hundreds of years, collected books of prophecies, will stupidly go to a war zone for a crepe, attends plays by failing playwrights, learned one single dance in a private club, and adores a good cup of cocoa. He's also kept at least one particular suit jacket nice for over a hundred years and has at least one sushi chef familiar with his favorites. He even tells Adam that he's pure human - something that's better than being pure good or pure evil. After 6,000 years of living on Earth among humans, Aziraphale has become a humaboo.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Aziraphale excels at compassion, faith, and learning. He can help find the good in people and he can try to help people work out conflicts among themselves. His power is the power of miracles - it can be used for everything from making vehicles faster to manifesting a bath towel, swapping bodies to making a flop play a success. It can be used to make a suit completely clean when it was stained by paint, he can pull at least one human out of time long enough for a pep talk, or he can open up a table reservation. If it would take a miracle, he's got it handled.

He's immortal. His body can be destroyed, but he can continue on in spirit form until he can somehow get another one. He also has giant white wings that he can hide.

On the other hand, he's not physically very strong. He's a little pudgy, doesn't work out much, and gets tired out from a short run. He's gullible because he's ready to trust. He wants to not just do good, but be seen as good, so he can be manipulated there as well. Aziraphale has a weakness for nicer things and self-indulgence.

Suggested Nerfs

As he's being humanized, the wings will unfortunately have to go, which means he won't be flying around anywhere.

I'd suggest a limitation of one miracle per mission/week so that it's available but he'll actually have to think about when he wants to use it rather than him using it willy-nilly for frivolous things like introducing Thedas to excellent sushi.

Regarding his immortality, I have no idea what to do with that. It could be taken away entirely, or there could be some sort of dead golem or mannequin or something he can possess for a while if he gets killed until his miracle is off cooldown and he gets his body back? We do now have a talking skull. That would be more fun for me, that he can possess things, but I'm not married to him keeping it.


Arrival Inventory

1 very nice suit with a tartan collar, tartan bowtie, and tartan boxer-briefs.
1 signed copy of Les Prophéties by Nostradamus
1 bunch of bananas
1 flaming sword

'Human'ization

Aziraphale can look entirely human, so he'll be coming in human.

Fit

Like I mentioned up above, it'll be nice to have a character who just genuinely loves and isn't looking to fight about things. He'll be heartbroken by how callous the Maker is and thanks to the TDM I'm already pretty certain that he'll decide his mission and calling is to make up for the Maker by showing God's love to all these poor souls. He'll be a religious sort that hopefully people can actually like and accept, who can like and accept people in return.

He'll also be alternately fascinated and horrified by all Thedas has to offer; it'll be fun to have a complete outsider running around. And then the final reason why I chose him - MJ tempted me and the thought got stuck in my head so I tried him on the TDM and he turned out to be a lot of fun.

SAMPLES

https://allthisshitisweird.dreamwidth.org/32562.html?thread=11668786#cmt11668786

Comments

Ability notes

[aziraphlail]

↠ Aziraphale won’t be immortal; he’ll be effectively human, tied to his physical form, and required to eat, sleep, etc., as with other immortal/ageless rifters. He can be immune to common illnesses but will still be affected by the Blight and any effects in plots we specify ignore immunity. If he’s killed, he’ll be really dead!

↠ His ability to affect reality in any way will have the same general line-of-sight and range requirements as native magic, as well as approximately the same potential area of effect. So he can clean a suit he’s looking at, but he can’t clean a suit in Antiva unless he goes there personally, and he can’t clean the entire fortress.

↠ He won’t be able to conjure or create life or living/functional bodies. Any healing of himself or others will have the same limitations as native healing magic.

↠ He won’t be able to step outside of or otherwise manipulate time, and he won’t be able to directly influence anyone else’s thoughts or actions. E.g., he can’t miracle someone into forgetting something, tripping for no reason, or confessing during an interrogation. But he can miracle up a distraction to encourage forgetfulness, or a banana peel to slip on.

↠ He won’t be able to summon or conjure any electronic/powered objects—he can try, but they’ll come out wrong and completely nonfunctional attempts at approximating the idea, like trying to summon a television actually summoning a glass box full of paintings, or trying to summon a jackhammer summoning a hammer that’s labeled JACK—and anything he does conjure out of thin air will only last as long as he’s devoting attention and energy to keeping it around.

↠ Miracles (or “miracles,” in Thedas) that have clear native equivalents will in general be much easier to accomplish: if it would be a miracle for a fire to start and cause a distraction, that will be easy for him to do, since native magic includes fire creation. Doing anything that doesn’t have a native equivalent will require significant energy and be taxing/draining, to the extent that he should only be doing it once per plot/event at most.

↠ Sometimes things just won’t work! You can roll for whether or not things work in your personal threads if you want to, but mostly this will matter in mod plots (and other players’ plots) where he would otherwise potentially be able to single-handedly fix everything or make other people’s efforts redundant; in those cases, we might just say he won’t be able to do something.

↠ In general, we don’t want to impose too many restrictions because we understand that most of what he does is just sort of fun and small in scope, instead of solving major problems. But given the vagueness of his power set and the absence of the canon pressure to not perform miracles because he might get into trouble, he has the potential to be very overpowered. So if you do want to do something that’s substantially different in type or scale from the examples you’ve already provided, and the spirit of things in general—and especially if you want to do something that would potentially have a large impact on the plot (“it would be a miracle for this adversary to just go away,” as an extreme example)—please check in with us first. Given how undefined his abilities are, we may need to impose other limits or boundaries for things that you and we haven’t thought of yet.