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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Crowley
Canon: Good Omens (Novel)
Canon Point: Post Novel and includes the New Year's Resolutions and his time in Mayfield

In-Game Tattoo Placement:
Over his heart, a watercolor-style tattoo of red deer antlers and the blooms and sprigs of the following plants: Globe Amaranth (immortal love), Cypress (death, mourning, despair, sorrow), Eglantine Rose (a wound to heal), Fern (magic, enchantment, confidence, sincerity, shelter), Foxglove (insecurity), Love Lies Bleeding (hopelessness), Red Poppy (pleasure, sacrifice, remembrance), Dried White Rose (sorrow), Rue (regret, sorrow, repentance), and Wormwood (absence, bitter sorrow).
Current Health/Status: Crowley is in mostly healthy, however his left wing had been crudely amputated with a sword six months ago and while the injury has healed
Age: He's older than the Earth, which has been around for over 6,000 years. But physically he's 24, so we're just going to stick with that.
Species: Demon (a fallen angel).

Content Warnings: Talk of death, cannibalism, dismemberment, mind control.

History:
Good Omens Plot Summary
Crowley's History

CRAU History and Impact:
Crowley was at Mayfield for a year and a half experiencing the horrors and mind games firsthand that the controllers of that town would throw at it's hapless victims. While before being in Mayfield he would work to tarnish the patina of human souls en masse while keeping anyone but Aziraphale at arms length, after arriving in Mayfield he began to work closely with people and allow them into his worldview. Certainly before he cared about humanity and it's fate enough to avert the apocalypse, but never really cultivated relationships and worked to directly help people. He made many friends: Loki, Rupert Giles, Integra Helsing, BLU Sniper, Death, Grimsley, Jormungandr, and many others. He cared very deeply for his allies (read: friends) and would go to great lengths to keep them safe from the town and, sometimes, himself.

Eventually Mayfield brought Aziraphale to the town and he was able to reconnect with his oldest and dearest friend. With the aide of a Valentine's Day event, and the mood/mind controlling flowers it brought, Crowley and Aziraphale started a new chapter in their relationship, admitting their love for one another and sharing intimacy, something he would never have been able to do on his own. Three months later saw Aziraphale's disappearance. Or, well, droning. Aziraphale's body had been left behind, but like some unholy combination of black and white Pleasantville and Stepford Wives, he sounded and behaved like a quintessential 1950's white American family man.For Crowley, it was worse than if he'd simply vanished. He would check every morning on his friend and partner to see if he was still a drone and felt a piece of himself shatter every time. But two months after Aziraphale was first droned he was back! Well, kind of. He had no memories of their time here in Mayfield. It was crushing, but they were quickly able to work through it and gently kindle their feelings for one another again. Of course, when Aziraphale was droned for a second time, Crowley was absolutely crushed, far more than he had been the first time around. He lost all hope and his willingness to fight back against the towns madness waned.

While at Mayfield he was stripped of everything that made him a demon: his powers, his supernatural resistances, his body, his belongings. It horrified and disturbed him to no end to be inhabiting a human body instead of his own demonic corporation (the human green eyes instead of his typical yellow serpentine ones set him on edge in particular and caused a vain creature such as himself to avoid looking at his own reflection). And slowly, as some kind of perverse reward for going through what the town put him through, he regained some of his many abilities along with certain belongings. Some were welcome "gifts", such as his eyes and his car, but others were much more of a burden, like his wings.

And his wings caused their own share of problems. Not just because they are cumbersome appendages he isn't as used to having corporeal (at least not all the time like Mayfield seemed to insist on), but because they are delicate and sensitive. The second time there was a zombie outbreak in Mayfield he (once again) was protecting a young demon he'd grown rather fond of from the zombies and was bitten on his left wing. He begged his friend, Integra, to remove his wing so he wouldn't become a zombie, unlike during the previous zombie outbreak where he'd ended up succumbing to the hunger and ate his best friend Loki. Integra obliged, chopping the limb off with her sword. He did not turn, but remained thereafter with the single wing and a barely healed over stump of a wing.

He suffered through many horrors, he loved and lost, and through everything he had hope that they would escape, that he would return home, that everything would be alright. But every time something awful happened, every time a friend was droned seemingly for good, every time he realized he was powerless to actually affect meaningful change chipped away at his hope. The final blow for him was Aziraphale's second droning. It sapped him of his hope and a dreary malaise fell over him. If but he could sleep until he was no more.

Personality:
Crowley is, for all intents and purposes, a demon. He is clever, cunning, greedy, selfish, and mean spirited. On the surface. But scratch below the surface and one would see there's much more to the demon than the front he puts up. And while fundamentally he argues for the side of Evil, he has been known to do good to affect a balance between good and evil. He's very well aware that Good and Evil are just the names for two sides of the same coin. He is a mischief maker when bored, doing things such as gluing valuable coins to pavement, moving around letters on wayside pulpits, and (while at Mayfield) trying to get drones blind drunk while charging his friend's drinks to their tabs.

He's very much gotten used to living on Earth (Hastur, a Duke of Hell, claims he's "gone native"). He keeps up with technology, fashions, and fads. He's fascinated by humanity and has been around it so long he's picked up human slang and some other human qualities such as thinking a little bit too much about the way the world works, breathing, and sleeping. He also has a deep fondness of his vintage black Bentley. Crowley doesn't like to admit to anyone, but he has a deep love for people and can't really stand to see them actually hurt. He may be a big bad demon working to make the world a worse place, but it usually didn't involve actual harm.

He can be very short-sighted, not thinking very far ahead before he acts in the heat of the moment. He's managed to get himself into a lot more trouble than he'd originally been trying to get out of in the first place. Despite this, Crowley is rather a survivor. He knows how to keep his skin intact, including using drastic measures, such as keeping holy water on hand if ever a need arose.

Though he is a demon, Crowley is not particularly fond of hell and wants to avoid going back and remain on Earth (with People and Aziraphale) so much he does what he can to avert the Apocalypse. He rarely contacts hell of his own accord aside from sending reports to keep them out of his hair and steers clear of other demons as much as possible. He does not trust anyone from Below and is actively afraid of Satan and the Prince of Hell, Beelzebub.

On the other hand, Crowley has had a long working relationship with the Angel Aziraphale, another Earth resident. Officially an Enemy, Crowley and Aziraphale have seen each other off and on throughout the last 6 millenia and turned their working relationship into, as Crowley would put it, a sort of grudging friendship with an Arrangement for work related things. Though really, Crowley would be quite upset if something ever were to truly befall the angel.

And then there's The Bentley, a vintage black Bentley with one owner from new (being himself, of course). It's his baby and heave-- hell-- whatever forbid anything should happen to it. He'd thought he lost it in the near-apocalypse and had been nearly devastated (for him). The restoration of his beloved car by Adam (the Antichrist) elated him almost more than the continuation of the world.

All this was before Mayfield happened. Mayfield did it's best to pull the one thing from Crowley that even Hell could not wrest from him: hope. He saw time and time again friends he'd come to grow true fondness for become drones, empty shells of who they were and it wore him down. As far as he was concerned, Mayfield could do what it wanted to him as long as the others were safe, but in truth the multiple deaths and mutilations weakened his resolve. He was known to describe Mayfield as worse than Hell if only because Hell wasn't nearly so inventive. Crowley, a being of vice and lethargic hedonism to begin with, ended up crawling into a bottle of scotch and wishing he could forever remain there.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:
In his canon, Crowley's powers are essentially limitless. But there are some skills that seem inherently demonic about him like not being bothered by fire and being able to see in the dark. And other talents make his job on Earth easier, like hypnotism, reading a person's desires and then tempting them, and going unnoticed when he wants to be.

He also has some abilities that are left over from when he was an angel. He is able to perform miracles and also is able to heal himself and those around him, including bringing a recently deceased dove back to life.

Crowley has been know to alter reality to his will: creating things out of nothing (like creating sunglasses out of thin air), making things (and people) disappear, changing one thing into another thing (changing paint guns into real guns), and making things a bit easier for himself (like arranging things so no one gets hurt while he speeds down busy streets at 90 mph or sobering up at will from being stone drunk).

Crowley has some known shape-shifting abilities. He has in the past appeared as a snake and as an unsightly demon that can make a person faint at the mere sight of it. He has a true form, which is much like his normal one, but with feathery wings. He's also able to do things such as travel through a phone line.

Holy Water is his biggest weakness. The stuff can kill a demon most horrifically with as much as a well-placed drop.

That said, in Mayfield he was stripped of all powers and made human. Mayfield slowly gave back hints of power (and body), but it never amounted to the full extent of his canon abilities. The powers he regained from Mayfield are:
Demon body: including snake eyes, split tongue, hisses, lack of blinking, night vision, fire invulnerability, vulnerability to Holy Water
Shapeshifting ability, though he often gets stuck in the wrong shape
Ability to go unnoticed, creating an aura around himself so that anyone looking in his direction will not be able to look directly at him
Ability to change one object into another, for example a set of pajamas into a suit
Wings (but not the ability to put them away into non-corporeality)
Ability to sense people's desires so as to tempt easier
Healing (himself and others)

Of course, Crowley's healing abilities will be warped.

Inventory:
A thermos of Holy Water
Several pairs of Ray-Bans sunglasses
An Armani suit, red dress shirt, black silk tie; all modified as appropriate to allow for his wings

Writing Samples:
Crowley on the Test Drive Meme

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Connie
Player Age: 36
Player Contact: vaguelysauntered

Other Characters In Game: n/a
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Crowley: Connie
Permissions for Character: Here!
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yeah, have at.
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: body horror, mind control, being turned into a monster and having to deal with the consequences once themself again
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: rape scenarios
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