#early fics often borrow what I think is directly from Aziraphale's characterization for Cas and it's a big reason why a lot of it doesn't

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Funny that SPN rips off the entire plot of good omens, plucks Crowley straight out as well as (low key) Adam Young and just pointedly leaves Aziraphale on the floor.

On one hand - good. GO was already annoying with "he can get called a faggot by a child, but god forbid he would be gay" and I really would not want to see the spn writers handle Aziraphale's particular brand of everything but it is also good because it's fun to compare him to Cas.

Like I do love that Cas is thoroughly uncultured, and his general demeanor is flat and off-putting (complementary) and he is like? Humanity agnostic? Like he doesn't hate humans like some of the other angels but he also doesn't think that humans are the cleverest and best things in all creation. He has never seen a Sondheim musical. He likes humanity but he also likes that random rock he saw on the ground (Dean derangements aside, now). Really good wine tastes the same to him as really bad wine (molecules). He knows more about cat dicks and social insects that he knows about classic works of literature. Human-neutral, but still stopped the apocalypse.