APPLICATIONPlayer Name/Handle: Throck
Plurk Handle: Preferred pronouns (optional): Ey/em/eir
Player Status: Current Player
Other characters: Little Cato, Kon-El
Invited by: Character Name: Anthony J. Crowley
Fandom: Good Omens (tv series)
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hellbentleyOU, AU, CRAU, Canon OC, or OC? OU
Canon point: End of the series
Age: Older than time, been in his body about 6000 years but looks like he's in his 40s/early 50s
PB: David Tennant
SETTING BACKGROUND Crowley is a fallen angel from a universe filled with angels and demons and a God who has quite the poker face, never willing to give up any details of Her ineffable plan. Heaven and hell are handled like overly complicated bureaucracies with both sides not really caring about humanity.
Crowley is best friends with Aziraphale, an angel. The two of them were constantly paired off against each other throughout history and effectively canceled out each other's work. Because of this they developed a friendship that was initially based around mutual skiving off, where they had an Arrangement to occasionally take the other's place for their respective tasks or to have one of them go to a place and do all the blessings and temptations in one go to cover both sides. Over time, this mutually beneficial relationship developed into a very deep friendship - and something beyond it.
Eventually when the end of the world rolled around, the two were the only otherwordly beings that tried to help humanity. They tried to stop Armageddon by influencing the Anti-Christ to be neither good nor evil as he grew up, but due to a mix up, they spent years focusing on the wrong child. They had to race against time to find the real Anti-Christ and prevent the end of the world. They actually mostly failed at this but at least made it there in time to psych both the angels and demons into stepping down their armies, and supported a scared young Adam in rejecting his infernal father.
OC/AU/CRAU REQUIREMENTS N/A
PERSONALITY Cunning: Crowley is extremely cunning and crafty. When not stealing credit for humanity's own more serious evils, his own actual schemes are often complicated, multi-part one-man con jobs. However, the outcomes of these are usually just minor annoyances to humanity like downing all the cell towers in an area, or creating the M25 (which was designed to be a giant evil prayer wheel that could grind out a fog of low-grade evil around London). He does take some pride and pleasure in his clever methodology but all of his larger plans involve temptations towards evil that are potentially easily ignored by humanity. They seem impressive to hell without causing much actually unfixable harm.
Secretly compassionate: Crowley has a lot of hidden compassion for humanity, expressing it during events in Biblical history where humanity was punished by God. For instance: when finding out God planned to drown an area of the world in a great flood, he was scandalized over God being willing to kill the kids.
Crowley has also talked in admiring ways about humanity and their creations over the years, as well as lamented to God directly that She shouldn't test them to destruction. After thwarting heaven and hell, Crowley remarks that it'll be "all of them against all of us," referring to heaven and hell as "them" and himself and Aziraphale as being on the same side as humanity.
Mischievous/Rebellious: Crowley is a frequently sarcastic rebel and has talked about his own fall from heaven as if it wasn't from a place of malice but rather asking the wrong questions, or keeping the wrong company. As a demon, he constantly chafes against the control of hell, lying about his evil doings or finding clever ways around causing real harm. He also fraternizes with the enemy and has his arrangement with Aziraphale - something that effectively cancels out his own "evil" efforts.
He's also ultimately the one to bring news of Armageddon to Aziraphale and to hatch their plan to secretly rebel and avert the apocalypse. When their plan fails, he's the one that suggests they just flip off their respective sides to run off together, rather than fighting heaven like he's supposed to like a good little demon.
Dramatic: Crowley is an absolute drama queen, doing many things with exaggerated stylish cool or a showy flourish. He has expensive and flashy tastes, knows how to make a dramatic entrance and exit, and tends to be dramatic in the face of...honestly most things. But he's the most dramatic when actually emotionally hurt, like when Aziraphale refused to leave with him and rejected him.
Willful/Imaginative: Crowley is said to have imagination when other demons don't - something obvious by his MO of convoluted schemes. Due to demons and angels being able to influence reality, this extends beyond simple creativity and into having the creativity to believe reality is something other than it is, exerting his will on reality. At one point when driving his flaming Bentley to the site of Armageddon, his car doesn't burn up because he imagines that it won't until he gets there.
Impulsive/Shrewd/Daring: Crowley is extremely impulsive, shrewd, and daring, possibly a result of always having to be quick on his feet to survive the forces of hell itself. He is, at all times, essentially surrounded by sharks, and has to be able to improvise at a moment's notice to stay out of trouble. He's very quick with a lie, though how believable it is is very ymmv. Fortunately, the denizens of hell are kind of stupid.
Loyal/Loving: Though it's only directed at the single being he actually trusts and has let into his life, Crowley is extremely loving and loyal in his own prickly stray cat sort of way towards Aziraphale. While he dances around it verbally, he often shows his care for Aziraphale, doing so all throughout history with an ongoing series of rescues and kind gestures, with the latter getting kinder and more thoughtful as time went on. Eventually, as Armageddon comes to a head, he even give up all pretense of he and Aziraphale being enemies, somewhat romantically proposing for Aziraphale to run away with him to Alpha Centauri. Later, when he thought Aziraphale had died or at least been discorporated, he got emotional while drunk about Aziraphale being his best friend. His loyalty to the angel outweighs all else.
While this currently extends to only Aziraphale, interacting with other people in a space where mortals aren't just magically made oblivious to his existence will cause this to eventually extend to others, especially anyone willing to treat him with kindness and respect despite his being a demon. He may act like an aloof stray cat but he'll look out for them.
Front: Crowley puts up a lot of "look at how big and bad I am" front. Aziraphale has long since learned to look past it (mostly with amusement) to the point Crowley almost doesn't bother with it around his best friend anymore, only meaning it half-sarcastically. But that mask will be up with others. Being thrown away as something rotten by essentially his parent and creator has taken its toll, and he's used to having his guard up and keeping others at arm's length, especially other demons. But his actual actions usually tell a different story, and he'll act kinder and gentler than he verbally claims he is.
CANON POWERS Crowley has largely freeform magical powers to alter reality. The limits of this power aren't really shown, and there is a range of things it can do, from briefly controlling minds to magicking everyone out of the way as he drives at basically 100 mph an hour.
POWER SELECTION POWER TYPE Magic
FREEBIE POWERSImmortality, though he can be killed through violence just like a human. I'm going to have him more human than canon, where he can also come to harm through illness, and has to eat, drink, and sleep.
GAME POWERS Magic: NecromancerHellfire: Crowley can cast out enough hellfire to hit one enemy. If he commands it the hellfire can linger and continue burning a target or be temporarily cast over a small area. It can linger up to five minutes before automatically going out.
Hellfire is particularly damaging to holy enemies or good, spiritually powerful beings like Elves, but does cause harm in general to all beings, including ethereal beings like the Nazgul, even if it doesn't always kill (if they're powerful).
It does 0 damage against genuinely demonic beings like himself, but they have to be true demons, either evil spirits or fallen angels from a variation on hell.
He can cast the spell up to 4 times a day.
Possession: Crowley can possess one individual for 5 minutes and puppet them around to do a task. Some beings are immune and some have a strong enough will to resist his efforts until he bounces out. If they're successfully possessed they don't remember it happening. People that fight it do.
He can do this up to 3 times a day.
Snek: Crowley can turn into a small snake about the size of a rattlesnake. His fangs are venomous but only cause a mild survivable poisoning that knocks someone out. Other than that, he has no abilities beyond that of a normal snake that size. He can do this up to three times a day for 10 minutes at a time. He is forced to stay in the snake form for the full 10 minutes before he can turn humanoid again.
The negative Necromancer effect from pushing his powers too much is that he starts to become more visibly snake-like, with scales that go over his skin, fangs, and a forked tongue. He has to stop using his spells for a while for it to fade. He won't be super bothered but it will make it easier for npcs to target him as a demon, which will occasionally cause problems.
ABILITIES Crowley doesn't have a huge amount of non-magic related talents, but he has a few.
He's a stylish, charming person, good at mingling with different groups of people and integrating himself in, especially with high society. He's very clever when it comes to convoluted schemes and would probably be able to plan a very solid heist. Unlike Aziraphale, who has next to no grasp on modern technology, he mostly stays on top of new trends, and even has mentioned using hacking for his schemes. Even if he used magic he would've had to understand what he was doing to use it for his scheme.
He'll have less of a green thumb because he can't demonically terrify plants anymore but he still knows enough to successfully garden.
As a joke I'd also like to play with the idea that he's got a next-level grasp of physics, because he mentions helping to build a nebula. I want to go with the idea that he needed to know the fiddly law of nature bits to put that together. Just because it'd funny for him to randomly whip that out.
SETTING/SUITABILITY Note: Most characters will not need a suitability section, such as if they're from fantasy or adventure canons or have skills that will allow them to easily thrive in the game world. For this reason, most characters will not need to fill out a suitability section.
For some characters that might need work harder to fit into the game, the mods will send an additional suitability section to be filled out, but this will be done in a revision.
SAMPLESYou only have to do 1 sample and it's your choice whether it's log or network, prose or actionspam.Both a network and log prompt are below so you have a choice but you only have to complete one (or use one of the other options in its place.)
Prose Sample You may use a test drive thread, a link to a log post from another RP (may be the main entry or mid-thread), may use the following prompt, or make up your own prompt. If using a log post or thread from a tdm or other rp, at least one post made by your character (anywhere in the thread) must meet a 200 word minimum.
For whatever reason, whether it's a strange nonhuman appearance, special powers or magic, having actual dental hygiene, or wearing a digital watch, the locals have declared your character a witch and want to burn them at the stake. Write your character reacting to the situation in whatever idiom is natural to them, whether it's with appealing to compassion, using logic, fighting their way out, terrifying them by playing death metal on their dying ipod, etc.
Crowley is not having a good day. Normally what's currently happening isn't something that happens. Normally, he can just wave his hand and everyone has their own human business that's of far more importance. They suddenly remember they've got pick up those eggs on the way home from work and so on.
Nobody cares about the eggs at the moment and he can't just snap his finger and make the problem go away.
The crowd presses in around him, pitchforks and torches and vials of - oh, that's holy water isn't it -
"Na-now now, nownownow! No need for any pointy bits or torches or -" he eyes the holy water, eyes wide behind his sunglasses. He gestures in a circle with his hand at that whole business "- any of that. Waste of perfectly good holy water, isn't it? So much anointing and baptizing and - and - vampires! Warding off those nasty vampires!"
Sorry vamps on the team! You not here in danger so under the bus you go.
He plans on warning them out of town anyway.
"All that useful, useful multi-purpose holy water
wasted if you don't put that back where it came from. In the church. Over there. I could even do it for you. I won't even set on fire."
It'd be miserable and he'd have to resist dancing around and just endure the pain in his feet but maybe it'd be enough to convince them.
"I saw his eyes when his glasses got knocked off! He's a demon!" cries out a woman.
"No, no, no you've got it all wrong! S'just an eye condition. Very rare, makes them look a bit off, causes some sensitivity - hence the glasses - nothing nefarious about it!"
"Liar! Look at the skin of his neck! He's got scales, like a serpent!"
Crowley slaps a hand to his neck and feels the scaly skin there, an affect from overdoing it with his magic today - with his mostly spent magic. That he hasn't got much left in reserve to use to get away.
His jaw drops slightly as he tries to find a good excuse, closes, then opens again.
"Psoriasis! That's all that is, it's just a skin condition. No lotion out here, I'm afraid, in these, small, backwater -" he mutters "-
apparently deeply superstitious - towns."
"Liar! Cleanse his presence from this Earth with holy water!"
"Fuuuck."
Crowley doesn't want to do this, doesn't want to risk burning anyone, doesn't even like scaring people, and doesn't want to burn the group's bridges in the town when they needed to re-supply. But he hasn't got a choice now.
He snaps his fingers, throws down a small wall of hellfire, and they all recoil back, screaming. Fortunately they stay safely back.
"Don't look at me like that!" he says through the fire, throwing up his hands in annoyance. He makes a circle around himself with his hand. "You didn't respect the bubble. Personal space bubble. You can't see it, but it's there, and you didn't respect it. I was just looking for some hair product and you had to make a whole
event out of it."
One of the mob, a burly farmer, throws his pitch fork. Crowley only just barely dodges as it hits the side of a wagon and sticks in it by the prongs.
Okay, he needs to stop talking and make a hasty exit.
"And now it's going to be a bigger bubble!" he cries out, running as fast as he can for the edge of town, towards the group's camp in the woods. They'll need to uproot and move fast for the sake of their more infernal members. "A few miles wider now! Respect. The. Bubble!"
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuuuuck!
ADDITIONAL INFO He's just going to come in with a fancy watch and his sunglasses.
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