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“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.

I’ve been doing this for years

It’s all on a google doc of mine (x)

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Why I headcanon Aziraphale as being good at sword fighting:

1) He holds the flaming sword correctly, with the dominant hand at the top, making sure not to “choke the thumb” in the grip (I’m using a gladius sword as reference here).

Image credit: AZTimT on BladeForums.

2) He seems perfectly comfortable holding it, despite it being on fire. He’s just walking around with it.

3) In the book, we have this line:

He’s referring to lighting the sword on fire, be he could also be referring to the knowledge of how to use the sword. 

4) Unlike War, Aziraphale does not do fancy tricks while holding the sword. There’s a certain level of discipline and respect he gives it. He sees it as a weapon, not a toy.

This is the most dramatic movement he does with it. Also, notice his stance: He places his feet shoulder-length apart. In a fighting stance.

Aziraphale doesn’t want to use a sword. He doesn’t want to fight in a war. But that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know how to use a sword. How to hold it. How to stand while holding it. And the respect a weapon should be given.

Aziraphale can fight, and I bet he can fight well.

He just really doesn’t want to.

That’s why he’s so upset when Gabriel accuses him of changing, asks what he’s become. He had a place in the universe. He had something he knew how to do, something that felt necessary, and he did it well. He gave it his attention, his sincerity, his heart. He’s found something better to love, something that engages all of him, and it is changing him, softening him, but even if it hurt him and scared him he did love his place as an angel first. That’s why he fights the ways he’s changing for so long. He stands to lose everything.

Ooh, this really aligns with my Az-chooses-Crowley interpretation of the moment he says “Or I’ll never talk to you again”.

He has his sword back. He has been able to deny his softness and his involvement with the world and Crowley all this time, but now that it’s back in his hand he has to stop toeing the line and choose–does he belong to heaven, or does he belong with Crowley?

At the end of the day, angels are soldiers. Guardians is a secondary role. And I don’t think Aziraphale has any particular desire to be a soldier.