#Aziraphale's tartan

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[i-only-ever-asked-questions]

In the last poster the Bentley's bumper first looked like a it had a bent but is actually a reflection

After stretching it, it looks like there is a body of water (a lake or maybe the ocean), with cliffs on the right and faraway mountains on the left. Where were they?

Then we have the sequence from the trailer where they are driving away, with tartan mountains on the right. Maybe they are on their way to said body of water? (what if this is the last shot of the season, just like the Ritz toast was shown in the trailer for S1?)

Those tartan mountains were also teased on the opening titles. Maybe they are on their way to to have their picnic!

And the tartan pattern of the mountains is the pattern in Gabriel's toga blanket, which also happens to match Aziraphale's 1820's color scheme!

What does it mean!? Did Aziraphale used those colors before and switch to the pattern we saw in S1 later? Is it just a running gag? What is it! I know we'll find out soon enough, but it is fun to speculate

[ineffable-xenanigans]

Golden

My shiny contribution to week 10 of the Ineffable Prompt-A-Thon by @ineffablyruined is an Aziraphaleception: a tiny Aziraphale on Aziraphale's fob medallion on Aziraphale's tartan (one of them, anyways).

It was my first time doing a Riso-style piece, and I love it! Look at that yummy texture...

Color-wise, I limited myself to official Riso ink colors. For the medallion, I used Metallic Gold and Brown. For the tartan background, I used Metallic Gold, Mahogany, Gray, Mist, and Raisin.

I love watching the different layers come together!

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Reference images

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[catastrfy]

confirmation from peter anderson studio that the tartan behind aziraphale and crowley when they're perched on a soho rooftop is aziraphale's tartan! only took me til this past week for my brain to suddenly go "wait a minute...."

[dastardly-ethereal-love]

Wrapped in a tartan blanket 🥰🥰

🐍💤

[doomedlemur]

So we all know that Crowley isn't really gay or bi or anything because he's really just Aziraphalesexual, right?

Which means... this is his pride flag.

He would be mortified.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[catastrfy]

i realised that OBVIOUSLY aziraphale couldn't use his own muted tartan whilst dressed up as wolverine...

that must mean that he (much as i just did) used the colour palette of his and crowley's costumes to make a bit of fabric infused with protection and love.

each of the broad red stripes moving lower left to upper right is bordered by yellow and vice versa.

between them are the secondary colours, wolverine's blue and deadpool's black.

a medium grey representing logan's claws and wade's guns completes the palette

(aziraphale and crowley are dressed as deadpool & wolverine for halloween, as in my icon. in their universe, marvel is fictional, just as in the marvel universe, good omens is fictional)

[azeutreciathewicked]

Researchy goodness on tartans and the Heaven's Dress tartan that Aziraphale wears.

A Discourse on Tartan

For those who don’t know, the various patterns of tartan actually hold special significance to Europeans. Different styles of tartan are used to indicate a person’s allegiance to a certain clan, family, or order. It is even illegal in some places to wear specific brands of tartan without permission from the person in charge of the group to which the pattern belongs.

This being said, Aziraphale wears a very specific style of tartan. It’s called “Heaven’s Dress Tartan,” and it was designed specifically for Michael Sheen to wear in the show.

The naming of this tartan, along with the fact that it is the only tartan we see him wear, would indicate that this pattern is actually the official tartan of heaven. But as we see when Aziraphale is handed his military uniform and told to go assume command of his platoon, (they wouldn’t be waiting for him unless he was their Sargent - fight me,) Heaven has its own official Tartan, and it’s not the one Aziraphale is wearing.

Furthermore, when Aziraphale is discorporated and winds up in Heaven, the Heaven’s Dress Tartan on his bow-tie is gone.

This leads me to conclude that, since Aziraphale is wearing a unique tartan that does not match heaven’s, our dear Principality made his own tartan. He didn’t see that pattern somewhere and think it was nice, and he doesn’t wear it to show his allegiance to Heaven. This is A.Z. Fell’s clan tartan. He designed it for himself to wear, as his symbol. If he had a family, it would be their family tartan. 

Now, a thing about clan tartans is you’re only really supposed to wear it if you’re a member of the clan; i.e., a member of the family. Which brings up an interesting point:

Twice in the show, Aziraphale gives Crowley the Heaven’s Dress Tartan. The first is when he gives him the holy water. (Isn’t it sweet, the vessel he uses is decorated to represent himself?) This could perhaps be dismissed under the theory that it was simply what Aziraphale had on hand - it could easily have been any other securely-shut cup. 

However, in the scene where Crowley and Aziraphale meet Anathema, Aziraphale miracles a tartan bike rack onto the Bentley (which I couldn’t find a picture of). Aziraphale is willingly giving Crowley his specific tartan. Now remember what I said about clan tartans only being worn by members of the clan?

Thesis: Aziraphale considers Crowley to be his family and has since at least the 60s.

[purplewillowchicken]

Turns out Az was right

[bildadthefuckingshuite]

especially for you, my dear friend :3

here is Crowley's version, in case whoever sees this post isn't in the mood to look for it.

Also here is another version of Aziraphael's dress that I ended up discarding:

Hope you guys like it :3 ♡

(I will make some arts of this version of them thogether, btw. Just wait)

[somniarestellae]

So imagine (I know I'm cruel) just imagine.. Heaven makes him get rid of his tartan. No individuality Upstairs, after all. Aziraphale catching glimpses of himself in reflective surfaces and his heart breaks a little more each time. Every time he's reminded that they *aren't* together, that he left, that there really isn't an "us" or "our side" anymore.

And yet. And yet imagine Crowley, with all his bluster of disliking Aziraphale's tartan. Imagine him slowly beginning to incorporate it into his everyday wear. Something small, but very significant. Maybe it's a scarf, or a hankerchief, or a keychain. Whatever it is- it's *Aziraphale's*. The angel left so now, now Crowley clings to that last little bit of him. And every time he sees it, he remembers. Remembers every time Aziraphale gave it to him. He knows the significance. So every time... His heart breaks that much more.

And even though his heart is breaking, he offers the tartan to Muriel- accepting the awkward little angel into their family of misfits, accepting them as one of his own. They won't ever replace Aziraphale, no one can- but he always did love kids.

The 1827 story explains why it's the last significantly different Aziraphale look we've had to date and it's so romantic...

Aziraphale and Crowley on their 1827 graveyard date below and no tartan yet to be seen, right? And look which one of them is in a bow tie. :)

Aziraphale is still in his brown and beige tones and Crowley in his signature black and red. In this story, one of the elements of it is that Elspeth is less inclined to listen to Aziraphale than Crowley because Aziraphale is English (to the extent that him and Crowley are anything of Earth), while Crowley here has dropped his traditional English accent and adopted a Scottish persona. The English versus Scottish thing here becomes a parallel to Heaven versus Hell. Aziraphale undergoes huge change in this story and winds up on the side of Crowley and Elspeth and Mr. Dalrymple by the end of it. It's after this that he changes his outfit into what we see today and the most signature piece of it is his tartan bow tie, yes?

The first version of this is the one he has on in the 1860s scene, which is bigger and longer but the same colors. The rest (minus the hat) is what he's been wearing ever since. So we're saying that the tartan cravat look was born of 1827 and its colors (beige, blue, red) represent him and Crowley. *His damn tartan collar is fashion saying "our own side" and Aziraphale's been wearing it since after the 1827 scene*... So then they break up in the above scene in the 1860s and Aziraphale still has the tartan cravat on in the 1880s, *while he's making friends at a discreet gentleman's club*...

But by the time we see him in 1941 (and likely for awhile before that), he's settled into the look he still has into 2023 and the only difference is that he's changed the cravat to a bow tie. Like what Crowley had on during their date in 1827. Aziraphale has been out here with an "our own side" married accessory since the 1800s and these two idiots still can't get it together lol.

I don't know when the first time was that Crowley saw Aziraphale in the bow tie. I think they might have seen one another between the breakup scene and 1941, though there's some evidence that that might not be the case, but either way, the first time he saw that?! And if it was 1941 and he shows up to rescue Aziraphale, who is pretending to be all pissy about it while wearing a bowtie he designed out of love for and yearning for Crowley?! Quit teasing the poor demon, Aziraphale-- you're gonna discorporate him...

Aziraphale hasn't changed his look since the late 1800s because the tartan bow tie is a reference to his and Crowley's date in 1827 and so the look is a way of saying he loves him and not taking off the tartan bow tie is an equivalent of not taking off a wedding ring.

[crowleyholmes]

"A quiet afternoon at St. James's Park"

[mannequinswithkillappeal]

the fact that everybody spent four years drawing devastatingly stylish and sultry femme!crowley and then he turned up with THESE LOOKS is just the funniest shit imaginable.

incredible scenes.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Aziraphale from Good Omens appeared in front of me in a tartan dress. He said, “Sometimes it takes more than a snap of your fingers to perform a miracle,” refused to elaborate and walked away. 

[catastrfy]

for about 20 seconds my brain wasn't sure if i was seeing jackman with aziraphale's umbrella or what...

Hugh Jackman