#oh! and muriel being a Scrivener would absolutely account for the god voiceover in season 1

[thegardenandthegrave]

Aziraphale should have Fallen after the Job debacle.

No, listen. Listen.

Aziraphale has lied before, directly to God no less. Yet, it wasn't until Job that Aziraphale himself believed that he was going to Fall.

I think the difference is that what God allowed to befall Job caused Aziraphale to question the ineffable plan for the first time.

Not only that, he lied to cover up a demon's failure to follow through on killing Job's children AND he fell for said demon's temptation to consume food.

If God is all knowing, then hiding his sins would not have done any good.

Except, God had just gotten done berating Job for questioning her.

And wasn't the wager between God and Satan that Job would remain faithful despite the misery rained down upon him?

If it were my wager, I would take Job questioning God as God technically losing the wager.

But how does this connect to Aziraphale not Falling when he should have?

Well, I'm about to put on a nice tinfoil hat so stay with me here.

Because iirc, the Job debacle is the last time we see God speaking directly to anyone.

(unless you count the season 1 voiceover, which I don't for reasons below)

After that, we've got Metatron acting as an intermediary and 'voice of God'. Metatron is the one Aziraphale reaches when he specifically calls God. And Aziraphale is both confused and surprised by this intermediary

Now, if I were the original demon who had designs on taking God's throne/power/ect I would probably include some sneaky wording in that wager over Job, somehow use winning that wager to gain access to Heaven's demotion/promotion system, and erase/demote God as far down as I could.

You know what I wouldn't do?

Let anyone ever know that God was demoted/lost memories.

I would ride it out, playing angels and demons against each other to destruction while pretending God is still in control.

And I would certainly enjoy sending an amnesiac God to live amongst their favorite creations, completely unaware of what she's lost, assigning her to run a book store without any help or support while I simultaneously broke up the (literal) power couple of all time

Yes, that's right. I'm saying that Metatron is Satan in disguise and that Muriel may very well be God.

EDIT: removed some of my own preconceived notions about religion in regards to metatron. My religious knowledge is not vast enough to make an educated point one way or another about Metatron's presence and representations in religious texts.

#good omens 2 spoilers #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #metatron #look obviously i know that this is far fetched #but the way everything slots together in my mind is satisfying #i have like three dozen theories and most of them contradict each other #but metatron is Satan/muriel is god is so far my favorite #also #gabriel absolutely should have fallen at some point too #he and Aziraphale both have way too much pride #oh! and muriel being a Scrivener would absolutely account for the god voiceover in season 1