Ok, hear me out: Good Omens Human AU: WWE professional wrestling.
Has anyone done this yet? Ok, here is my stream of consciousness:
I imagine Crowley to be the high flying, heartbreaking, stunt type character. Like a Jeff or Matt Hardy, or a Shaun Michaels. He’d be the young newcomer breaking out into the business, gaining massive popularity, adored by the fans and potentially the new face of the business.
Aziraphale would be a more established, professional, and experienced performer. He’d been old school, like a pure striker, but also maybe slightly flamboyant like a Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes. He’d be initially skeptical of Crowley’s character and disapprove of the suggested changes to the business. He doesn’t want to move with the times and stuck in his golden era ways.
Plot points:
Enemy to lovers - Aziraphale would be annoyed with the idea of Crowley being “the new guy” not playing by the rules, but over time comes to appreciate what he can bring to the business and also admire his immense talent. Crowley would be annoyed with an “old” fuddy duddy unwilling to move with the times or diversify for the sake of the business, but comes to appreciate Aziraphale’s experience and encouragement and what he can learn from him.
Road to Wrestlemania - obviously they’d have to face off in the main event as their characters would continue to be sworn enemies.
Secret relationship - this would develop and deepen over time, and they would be terrified of it being revealed and breaking kayfabe. How could they possibly overcome the media and scrutiny. Possible themes of homophobia could be explored.
Alliances - Crowley would probably be part of some sort of team dynamic involving Beelzebub and maybe Shax and Dagon. Some kind of demonic themed characters.
Overcoming injury - Crowley might suffer a possible career ending injury, either sustained through interference from another jealous wrestler (Gabriel or Hastur?), or protecting Aziraphale from a dangerous move, or from Aziraphale failing to perform a choreographed stunt correctly. Each possibility would lead the subtext of the story in three different directions so not sure which would be best?
Bittersweet ending? - I imagine that either they would get to maintain their relationship but one or both their careers would end. Or they would keep their careers in tact but the relationship would end.
Thank you for reading my ramblings. Am I insane? (Probably)
(Was inspired because Wrestlemania was on the weekend and I apparently cannot separate Good Omens from any other aspect of my life now 🤣)
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sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.
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Right, from your last blog, tell me how It's Raining Tacos is AziraCrow coded 😏
Firstly, I’m going to have to say thank you for completing destroying my algorithms, considering I had to Google this song to know what the hell it was (the internet is weird and scary place sometimes). 😝
Secondly here’s my best guess:
Aziraphale sat at his desk calmly calculating his stocktake from the last month, whilst Crowley lounged in his usual place on the settee, mindlessly scrolling through his phone.
Then for the fourteenth time that day Crowley started humming an incessant tune that Aziraphale could finally no longer ignore. Slamming down his fountain pen Aziraphale turned to Crowley, “Really dearest, I must insist if you can’t find yourself another ear worm, could you at least go for a walk!”
Crowley growled as he stood up, “Fine! I’ll go see if the ducks want my company!” Grabbing his sunglasses with an overdramatic flourish, he strode across the bookshop floor and slammed the door on his way out. Although he wouldn’t admit it, Crowley was also frustrated with the unrelenting tune and made a point to hurl his phone into the lake when he stalked through St James Park.
Peace at last, Aziraphale returned to his accounts, when a sudden thought struck him, “I’ve never eaten a taco”. If he hurried perhaps he could catch up with Crowley and convince him to join him at that new Mexican bistro up the road.
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