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Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom Application
Player Information
Name: Sharon
Age: old enough to know better, but still too young to not be able to tell the world to sod off
Preferred Method of contact: plurk
Contact Info: handsoplenty
Number of Characters in the Kingdom: (list characters currently played in SMK)
Timezone: (GMT)

Character Information
Character Name: Aziraphale, (A.Z. Fell)
Age: 6,000 + the time before time existed. Looks late 40s
Canon: Good Omens
Canon Point: Episode 2, just after getting whacked (with a paintball)
Gender: Ethereal, but currently male presenting

Character History
Character History:

Aziraphale has existed before time was a thing, but his first appearance is the Guardian of the Eastern Gate in the Garden of Eden. Presumably he spent most of the time guarding, though not quite as effectively as she should as Eve ate of the fruit she wasn't supposed to while he was on Apple Tree duty. Before the first humans were cast out of the Garden, he gave them his flaming sword out of sympathy and worry for their plight and told them not to let the sun set on them there. A bit later on, he sort of met Crowley and sheltered him from the oncoming rain.

The next time they met it was in Mesopotamia around the time of the Great Flood wherein they had another conversation about good and evil and Aziraphale tried very hard not to have an existential crises over the fact that the flood would kill kids. He tried to take comfort in the rain bow, but to be honest, it wasn't very comforting.

33 AD found them watching Jesus being crucified, quite painfully, and there was nothing more he could really do but watch and answer Crowley's questions about the matter. He wasn't entirely pleased but also fairly helpless to do anything about it.

He met Crowley again in Rome in 38 and tempted him with some oysters, but the most significant time after then that was when he was a member of King Arthur's Round Table to set about fomenting peace. Meeting Crowley once again, they both realized that basically all they were doing was cancelling each other out. Crowley proposed The Arrangement where they would work together to do not much of anything and send memos to the head office stating otherwise but Aziraphale quite firmly refused.

Though at 1601 he presumably said yes as he was deep in it when Crowley met him during a horrible production of Hamlet and flipped him for who would go to Edinburgh. He also puppy-eyed Crowley into bringing more people into watch Hamlet and it worked because of course it did.

In 1793, he was rescued by Crowley from getting inconveniently discorporated by a guillotine because when one craves crepes, one must indulge in the craving. He also has a hand in sending his (nasty) would-be executioner to a somewhat ironic death that had nothing to do with black flies in chardonnays.

About seventy years later, he refused Crowley's request for Holy Water, thinking it was a suicide pill and not about to bring something that would destroy him. Furthermore he didn't need him thank you very much. Also sometime around the 1860s he opened his bookshop in Soho, as well as joined a discreet gentleman's club, learning the Gavotte. Significant because Angles do not dance.

In 1941, when attempting to get some Nazis in hot water by pretending to be somewhat on their side (at least by giving them books of prophecy), he was betrayed by a double agent and then saved by Crowley who hot footed it into the church to help him. Though Aziraphale used a miracle to save them from the bomb Crowley had procured to save them (because they are a couple of idiots) He realized he'd totally forgotten to save his precious books-- only Crowley had saved them for him and Aziraphale realized his feelings for Crowley were far less adversarial than they should be.


In 1967 he finally gave Crowley the Holy Water he'd asked for, though highly reluctantly. He didn't want to do it, but did it ultimately because it was something Crowley wanted. And even though, at this time, Crowley seemed to want a little more, Aziraphale wasn't quite yet ready to move anywhere close to the demon's speed.


Eleven years pre-canon he hears about the anti-Christ via Crowley and everything goes a bit pear shaped from there. At first he was sort of kind of okay with Armageddon since that was what the head office was okay with and was meant to keep an eye on the Satan child-- However Crowley soon convinced him that he didn't want to spend an eternity listening to Celestial Harmonies or the Sound of Music over and over and over and over and so reluctantly agreed to help-- mainly by raising the child normal, not good or evil. And so for a while went about being a gardener to the wrong child, in conjunction with Crowley, in order to make the kid neutral.

After a disastrous birthday party in which a magic act went terribly awry, they realized they had raised the wrong boy and soon set about trying to find the right boy and do something about it to avert the apocalypse. They went to the hospital where the boy was born but Aziraphale was hit in the back by a paint ball requiescat in pace and so we begin.

Canon Example: ye olde wikie

Personality:

Aziraphale is a hedonist. He loves the pleasures of life. Good food, good drink, soft and comfortable places and craftsmanship. He loves the beauty of things and the age of things and will keep and collect and preserve whatever he can get his hands on. This goes for his camel coat which he kept in spotless condition for eighty years, his worn waistcoat, and the books he collects and has a bookshop to store them in and show them off, but never to buy. But quality is the name of the game with him. Quality and rarity. Many of his books are first editions, many are signed, and he takes very good and precise care of them to preserve them throughout time. He also has a collector's heart, wanting every book on prophesy he can get his hands on, as well as quite a lot of heretical Bibles.

Most of his hedonism though, or at least much of his active hedonism, revolves around food and drink. He takes great pleasure in eating and sampling all the delicious food of the world and wants quality food too. No second hand crepes are good enough for him. He will even get himself into trouble (inadvertently, true) for some quality food. As a consequence, he's a little on the portly side in comparison to his angelic cohorts.

Aziraphale can also be a bit of a bastard. When thugs come in, low-key threatening to burn down if he doesn't sell, they're never heard from again. When he is saved from a far too eager executioner, he switches clothes with him and doesn't even bat an eye as the man goes to his death. He also does and can manipulate Crowley in little ways, just because he's able to, like getting the demon to clean his coat for one thing and is pleased by it.

He also considers himself above humanity and especially demons. Being holier-than-thou is part of his job description. As well as setting a good example, and doing the Right Thing. He is a bit of an expert of doing the Right Thing and so, by very definition, is better.

He also can be a bit of a selfish thing and a lazy thing, given to his comforts and not perhaps as concerned as he should be about saving the world until he realizes he's going to lose a lot of the things he loves in it.

All that being said, he makes a kind of terrible Angel. But he's a loyal one. And the interesting thing is, the loyalty is not necessarily to his own kind, even though he follows orders, but to the Almighty. He tries very hard not to question or judge what the Almighty has chosen to do, even when it runs counter to what seems to be right and wrong. Drowning everyone must be right because the Almighty said so, knowing the difference between right and wrong must be wrong because the Almighty said so. This is because, deep down, he believes that God works for the greater good. He was even convinced, if he talked to God, she would stop Armageddon from happening. Because they'd fixed everything so of course she would.

In this way he also cares for people, even in a distant way. He mends broken bones and helps where he can, as well as having the sense that people are generally good. He is kind and polite to those who are kind and polite and even those who aren't he does his best to be at least polite to them. He cares for them enough to bend the rules, such as giving Adam and Eve his sword-- which could have even lead to him being fallen. When he does do good,he tries to do the right good, even when he isn't sure what that is.

And it's a constant struggle to know what the right good is. But he's gotten very good at Justifying, both to excuse the Almighty and himself. It's very difficult sometimes to see Her plan and that's why he takes great comfort in knowing that it is ineffable and perhaps no one can understand it.

At the end of the day, while he's not a good Angel, he does try to be a good angel, while indulging every now and again to er...enjoy God's bounty in a way that would go criminally underappreciated if he didn't. And part of this Good Angel business is keeping Crowley at arms' length and struggling with his own feelings for him. An Angel and a Demon are enemies, but he loves Crowley. He's an angel, he's supposed to. But more than that, he considers him a friend and his greatest struggle is trying to find a way to justify it and be content with it when it is dead against everything he's ever stood for.



Canon Strength/Weaknesses:

Strengths

belief Aziraphale has a strong spiritual core. He believes with the strength of a thousand suns, even sometimes when things seem to contradict this belief. And what he believes is in, generally speaking, the force of Good. That it Will Triumph Over Evil and that is ineffably inevitable. That is the one thing he can cling to and he will cling as hard as he can. But he also believes in the Greater Good and that it's Important and at the end, more than the love of stuff, he was willing to sacrifice a lot in order to save the planet-- passing the chance to escape twice with Crowley in order to do the right thing for the benefit of everyone. He believes in the Greater Good and suffers for it.


confidence He believes in himself and his abilities and considers himself a nifty being. He whole heartedly engages in what he loves, be that dancing at a gentleman's club, dressing like it's still the late 1800s or preforming magic to seriously unimpressed 11 year olds. It doesn't take much to shake his confidence (and when it does it's mostly in the realm of if he's being a Good Enough Angel)

care Aziraphale is very good at caring for things. Not...always people, but things he's good at. He is a preserver. An almost historian. He knows how to keep things lasting for a long time and takes a lot of care with his possessions. He is also good at caring for people, though generally best through short encounters because his patience is not particularly finite and he'd rather prefer to be doing his own thing.

weaknesses

slow Aziraphale is relatively unchanging and unchanged for 6,000 years. He's not completely unchanged of course, but he is not fond of change and it takes him a while to move on from things and move into the modern world. It also takes him some time to make decisions or change his mind about something unless a certain snake is very good with words, which he usually is.

distant Because of conditioning and various other factors, Aziraphale tends to keep people at arm's length. As said he can bear with them for a certain length of time but much more than that and he would rather do his own thing. There are exceptions to this. Well one. But he won't admit to it because the one exception is the most dangerous one and he is too afraid of falling to give into that. Well...perhaps a little wouldn't hurt...

warrior thy name is... someone else. Despite being (somewhat dubiously) gifted with a flaming sword, Aziraphale is not a fighter. He would really prefer not to do avenging if he can get away with it and didn't want to even be the 'bad one' and snap the soldier human to somewhere else. He's also not particularly skilled and less particularly interested in learning.



Apprentice Sorcerer Application
Class: Aziraphale is a prince class. After all he is a princeipality. Aha. But more to the point, even if he doesn't inspire anyone else, he inspires Crowley. And man, he inspires Crowley a lot. Such as at the end of the show where he begs Crowley to do something (to help them save/survive the day) or he'll never talk to him again-- and Crowely not only stops time but takes them to a little...liminal space to inspire Adam further. He also inspires Crowley to do the right thing, even if on the basis of their Agreement, it's always a little more than that. I feel like, if nothing else, he gives Crowley hope that the future isn't just going to be, but that it's going to be a good one.


Prince/Princess: What is their healing style?: The laying on of hands on or above the affected area depending on gore level and saying something to the equivalent of there there and it's alright.

Sample Section

First Person Sample: D_P

Third Person Sample: meet'n'greet