#michael good omens

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Bubbling Love

Me and @isiaiowin entry for week 4 of the GOAD Poetry Pillow Fight: Bubble Bath!!

Michael introduces Dagon to a bubble bath. Will they dive in?

Excerpt:

Un deep pond without fish, bubbles rise up and break, but no ocean scent left to trace — it's strange. --- Relax. Take a deep breath, and for once don’t question; the warm water is rather nice, you see?

Read it on Ao3! 💛

[metamatronic]

“I didn’t mean to fall. I just hung around the wrong people.”

stills under the cut:

[missfitmarvel0-0]

There's a billboard by my house that says "Archangel Michael, please let Trump win" and I think I'm so skewed by Good Omens that I said out loud "That cunty queen won't help him"

Also, please make sure, my US peeps that are eligible, please make sure you're registered!

[vidavalor]

Uriel

Uriel refusing to kill Maggie and Nina is such a huge twist.

These angels are supposed to see humans as beneath them and be living for Armageddon. They've been anticipating for millennia the deaths of everyone on Earth and only the righteous being judged fit for eternal life in The Second Coming. Uriel doesn't know Maggie and Nina from, well, Adam (ha)-- they're just two humans to her. Their deaths should mean nothing to her... if she is listening to what The Metatron says.

Her refusal to kill them is just one of the things that says she's started not to do so...

Uriel is expected to help kill everyone on Earth in a matter of days when Armageddon begins. 2.06 reveals that she is actually horrified at the thought of killing a single human. She silently refuses to do it.

In the S2 finale, we're basically watching Uriel begin to rebel against Heaven in earnest in real time... and this isn't even the only time that she does.

Some like recognizing like here, as well, as Crowley sees and understands Uriel's hesitation and jumps in to save Maggie and Nina, most importantly, but also to distract in an effort to help Uriel. He respects her decision to not want to kill.

Shades of Sitis about to curse God and be punished by the angels and Crowley rushing in to cause a distraction to save her and help with the kids.

While all the other representatives of Heaven and Hell are arguing over who gets to punish Gabriel and Beez, only two people argue in favor of Gabriel and Beez being free and choosing their own fate:

Aziraphale... and Uriel.

Watch the below moment again and note Uriel's reaction to Gabriel choosing a life of his own with Beez over Heaven... especially compared to the two angels standing beside her.

Saraqael's expression is one of contempt. Michael is rolling her eyes, as Gabriel is directing that "Beez is my Heaven" comment in her direction. She doesn't seem to know what to do with this, as is generally the case with most stuff with Michael. 😂 Uriel, though?

She's looking contemplative. She's looking thoughtful. She's looking sympathetic. Uriel is looking like someone who doesn't really have a problem with an angel living a life of their own or being in love with a demon.

Uriel looks like someone who probably has thought about this before but never thought she had the power to do anything about it and is now standing in Aziraphale's bookshop with Aziraphale and his demon boyfriend and their human friends who were just here and are just like all of the rest of them and she's seeing that The Supreme Archangel of Heaven-- whom she's always liked-- is saying that they don't all have to live the way that they always have. They don't all have to hate each other.

It's Uriel who shocks once again by being the one to try to come up with a solution that doesn't involve punishing Gabriel and Beez.

Uriel's plan is really nothing more than what Gabriel and Beez already plan to do anyway. She tells them that if they were to leave, they could never come back. Gabriel confirms that the point of what he and Beez are doing is that they're leaving Heaven and Hell and choosing a life of their own. That the point is that they aren't letting themselves be defined by Heaven and Hell.

Uriel looks sad about the idea that Gabriel wants to leave. They like and trust him. They're worried about what comes of Heaven without him. Gabriel is literally a fugitive at this point in 2.06. He can't come back to Heaven without The Metatron trying to kill him and Uriel knows that. Uriel appears to believe, as most of the characters do at this point, that The Metatron is the spokesperson for God, as we can see in the scene below.

So, she believes that when Gabriel was punished at his trial that he was punished by God. That God took the job from Gabriel and tried to kill him. Yet, in 2.06, Uriel sounds awfully close to telling Gabriel that she'd back him if he wanted to fight for it. Uriel refuses to kill humans and she shows open support to Gabriel, who is on the run from Heaven. She's defying what she believes God said was the final word on it because she trusts her own moral compass and that of Gabriel's more.

Furthering this, she sees Gabriel and Aziraphale caring about and for Beez and Crowley, who are supposed to be the angels' eternal enemies, and Uriel supporting Gabriel after that shows that she doesn't agree with what's happened to angels who have rebelled.

Uriel feels alone up there without knowing that Gabriel's got the place and you could argue that she's jockeying for power with Michael the whole season because she-- wisely-- doesn't trust Michael with it the way she does Gabriel. The problem here is that there is, at present, no way for Gabriel to come back, even if he wanted to, because The Metatron is the issue. It also shouldn't be Gabriel's sole responsibility to carry Heaven on his shoulders.

If they want to fix it, they all need to do that together.

Of all the characters, Uriel seems to be closest to realizing that.

It also lends another layer to a scene where the motivations for its inclusion-- beyond the humor of it-- are still a bit debatable: the scene of Crowley riding the elevator down to Earth with the angels.

Funny old world, isn't it?, says Crowley, calling back to Ligur's it'd be a funny old world if angels and demons went around trusting one another... and maybe this scene is telling us which ones are trustworthy, at least in this moment.

Saraqael, in this scene, looks at Crowley with suspicion; Michael, with grumpy Michaelness; Muriel, with almost comic terror at having been caught up in this plot and now in the elevator with the archangels. All of this is predictable with what we've seen of these characters to the point of this scene. None of it is surprising. Uriel, though?

Uriel is a shock here. Uriel is having trouble looking at Aziraphale's boyfriend in the dark glasses at all and, when she does, it's with a shocking amount of guilt and regret.

Crowley made the elevator ride down something of a dark joke when he transformed his clothes in the elevator from his angel look back into his usual look while they were all "falling down" to Earth. He's mocking them-- the angels who threw him out and are now going with him to Earth. Uriel has the grace to look ashamed at how she's treated him.

That is all before the bookshop group scenes and Uriel seeing Gabriel again and learning to whom he went for help. She already was against Heaven's treatment of the angels they labeled demons.

Has she always been? Is Uriel like Gabriel and Crowley and Beez and putting on a show to survive more than she is a true believer? Has she always been an angel who goes along with Heaven as far as she can, too?

It would add an interesting layer to this scene from S1:

I finally figured out who Uriel reminded me of in the start of this moment:

Remember in S1 when Aziraphale had found Adam and was in the bookshop, testing out ways to approach Gabriel with the information? He's talking to himself, practicing different addresses, all "Oh, Most Holy Archangel Gabriel", etc., and then dismissing them because he knows Gabriel isn't going to buy it? Uriel's basically doing that for real in 2.06 with Our Villain.

What's interesting about Uriel addressing whom she believes is The Metatron in this moment in 2.06 is that she is deferential but in this sort of over-the-top way-- she's laying it on thick. That becomes apparent when we hear her question-- and, more importantly, the tone of it.

It's Uriel who asks if they've done "anything wrong." She's almost daring God via The Metatron to say she was wrong to not kill and to back Gabriel. Uriel is literally looking at who they believe to be the word of God and asking the question of whether or not what she's chosen to do was against God.

It's also of note that Uriel didn't have to say "we" but she spoke up for the other angels with her. She took charge of the situation, after a season of questioning the idea that it was within their own power to decide who was in charge. This is the difference between a leader and a manager, as was the "duty officer" debate between Michael and Uriel all season.

Throughout S2, Michael is focused on power. She believes herself best suited to takeover for Gabriel and anoints herself his successor. She is more concerned with titles and wielding authority, though, than she is with people. A manager can dole out assignments and assign resources and be concerned with maintaining order and punishment and Michael's probably not that bad a manager (not that great of one, either, mind)... but she's an awful leader. Good leadership requires setting aside ego to focus on others and serving a greater good than yourself. It means putting others first and it seems that Uriel has come to realize that this.

The conclusion to the Michael vs. Uriel for leadership plot in S2 is that Michael falls on her face by being corrupted by absolute power while Uriel, when tested, doesn't just think of herself, but defends Muriel, Saraqael, and even Michael-- the latter two of whom actually behaved terribly. Uriel protects them to offer them chances to be better. They are her people and she assumes responsibility for what has happened. She's the actual leader here, not Michael.

She's actually a lot like Gabriel in this way.

Uriel is not going to fight this Armageddon war. If she can't kill Maggie and Nina, she's not going to try to kill every being on Earth. If it comes down to choosing sides-- and it will-- she has already sided with Gabriel.

Maybe Uriel didn't understand it when it was just Aziraphale. Maybe she did but wasn't brave enough to speak out then. But when Uriel saw that Gabriel, the leader she looked up to and cared about and who had always been kind to her, thought Aziraphale was right? She realized that it was okay to have secretly believed all along that he was. She saw them all banding together and their power increasing as a result of supporting one another and realized, maybe more than the rest of them have yet, that a rebellion was beginning.

Uriel is a just an angel who goes along with Heaven as far as she can and she's reached that furthest point. The Metatron should watch out because he doesn't know it yet but he's not really down one archangel-- he's down two.

In Uriel, he's lost the smart one with the best bullshit detector so, basically, it's all over for the floating head already. 😉

[vangoghschair]

I have so much to say about this.

1. Why do Michael and Uriel look like upper class lesbian mums who just came from a court hearing cos their kid got called into the principals office?!

2. Michael + Uriel = Muriel

3. These are Muriel's lesbian mums, Crowley and Aziraphale are their uncles, emancipated from the family for being too silly

4. Michael and Uriel are so fucking done with aziraphale and... I mean...the traitor and the demon's shit

[siblet-spliber]

Dagon and Michael having a clandestine meeting on Earth, as suggested by @castlechariot for the Good Omens Gotcha for Gaza

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[craziestgonzba]

Personally, I love this scene so much.

It works so well even heaven found out 😳

[cutebundrawz]

More Good Omens AU where they disguise themselves as animals instead of people!!

Michael is a secretary bird, Uriel is a peregrine falcon, Saraquel is a shrike, Sandalphon is a Eurasian griffin vulture, and Muriel is a turtledove.

Of course angels don’t know shit about biodiversity so their disguises absolutely suck in the city

[shynrinn]

they lasted 7 seconds >:))

[good-omens-memes-daily]

Day 20 of posting Good Omens memes Everyday until Season 3

Source

[actual-changeling]

i woke up this morning and now i'm like this send help

[zhuzha-flybeelzebub]

[zevampirex]

Cat omens, angel and demon, which one would you adopt??

Michael, Sandalphon, Uriel, Ligur, Hastur and Beeelzebub

[brainwormcity]

It just occurred to me that the Book of Life is basically just an angelic Death Note.

[vidavalor]

Michael

Michael's little look of revulsion at Uriel calling Aziraphale a traitor in the scene below is so interesting...

In S1, Michael is just the worst sort of hypocrite, right? They have relationships with demons but turned Aziraphale into Gabriel for being involved with Crowley. They try to screw over Gabriel, even though they know that Gabriel was protecting them from The Metatron finding out about their own "backchanneling."

They trip over themselves to look like they're The Metatron's golden child-- leading thugs to jump Aziraphale in the street and trying to kill Crowley with holy water in the process-- but we know from their relationship with Ligur that they're not really as much of a rule-follower as they seem to be. They get away with all of it because Gabriel, like he was doing for Crowley and Aziraphale, covers for them.

In S2, though? Gabriel is gone.

Michael, in their reaction to Uriel referring to Aziraphale as "the traitor," doesn't actually seem to approve of the idea of, well, literally demonizing the demons. This suggests that their relationship with Ligur wasn't just strategic on their part-- Michael actually agrees with Gabriel and Aziraphale on the demons.

In other scenes in S2, we saw suggestion that Uriel doesn't think this is right, either. It's as if Uriel and Michael not trusting one another means that they're both putting on a show of trying to look like they're following what The Metatron says is the way but they're both in disagreement with it.

Does Michael feel vulnerable there without Gabriel?

They know that he was fundamentally decent in a way that many of these other angels are not and that, without him, The Metatron and the angels that The Metatron has in his corner are that much more powerful. Michael and Uriel might both feel isolated without Gabriel and, because they don't trust one another enough to express that, not realize that they're maybe in the same boat.

It's sort of enough to wonder if maybe one of the reasons why Michael is just so awful in S2 is that they're trying to keep themselves alive to pick up the torch from Gabriel, in a way. Do they see themselves not just as successor in terms of job title but in terms of being the one that can be trying to look after the other angels in secret-- but only if they can manage to have enough power to do it by first getting their hands on Gabriel's job?

Is there more to Michael's power grab than might meet the eye?

Is she kind of like how Gabriel was in S1-- unhappy about it but willing to sacrifice Aziraphale because he was one against the many they were tasked with keeping safe-- but not really actually against Aziraphale or any of the things he stands for?

Is Michael going to wind up joining the revolution, too?

After all, in a season with a theme of recognition? The only person who even came remotely close to recognizing Gabriel?

Michael.

[toxiicstag]

Ha, ya thought! I am alive and I'll continue making it everyone else's problem, no need to thank me.

I am also back on track with drawing after a SEVERE break and a lasting lack motivation.

And I certainly didn't forget this piece, I'm working on it, first two done!

Edit: The quality's bloody low, I know :( But it's just a screenshot so that has to do until I finish the piece and post it whole.