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Anthony J. Crowley ([personal profile] serpentinthegarden) wrote in [personal profile] kaisoumods 2022-08-20 03:35 am (UTC)

Anthony J. Crowley | Good Omens | Paranormal AU

Player Name: Cocorose
Contact: [plurk.com profile] coco_rose
Invited by: Soap
Other Characters: N/A

Character Name: Anthony J. Crowley
Canon: Good Omens - CRAU (Tramitem) - CRAU (Avalon)
Canon History: Wiki Link

CRAU (Tramitem) - In Tramitem characters were born into and lived very human lives until strange memories and powers began to manifest. Anthony was born into a Catholic family and raised in Hexham in Northumberland. While his father died when he was very young his mother encouraged and supported him, he had siblings to look after and torment him, and he was very close to his cousin, Alec. When his memories of being a demon began to return it placed a strain on his family relations, broke apart an engagement and the life he was 'supposed' to live, and sent him off on the quest to win Mr. Fell's (Aziraphale's) attentions while they attempted to navigate their strange and perhaps murderous past. You see Aziraphale had recognized Crowley from their very first meeting as the man who had suggested he kill a child. With no context this gave the pair a great deal to sort through. Anthony earned no powers but his own and would only be regaining the occasional memory from this time.

CRAU (Avalon) - In Avalon he finally recalled very clearly who and what he was but his powers had been replaced entirely by the powers of his new familiar, a Pooka. He was reunited with both Alec and Aziraphale both of whom recalled their lives in Tramitem. The quests this world sent them on tested their bonds as Aziraphale and Crowley tried to sort through those friendship or romantic feelings that had developed in their previous lives while Alec and Crowley tried to decide if they were really family and what to do with each other now that they knew they weren't. Again, I'm not interested in regaining powers or items from this game but the occasional memory would be nice.
In both games Crowley was either very much himself or slowly became himself as his demonic traits and memories returned so there shouldn't be too much worry about his being a vastly different character.

Canon Personality:
Crowley is a fast living overall non-threatening demon who is actually quite morally decent. He objects to the killing of innocent animals and people while working to save the world from the coming Apocalypse... not for entirely altruistic reasons. He enjoys the life he has created for himself on Earth and wishes to spend more time with his best friend and angelic rival, Aziraphale, who he regularly goes out of his way to save despite their being on opposite sides. He doesn't take his job as a demon too seriously often finding ways to slither his way out of doing work as he thinks humans are better at tormenting themselves than Hell is anyway. Though he does find enjoyment in a wicked deed as long as it goes correctly and doesn't backfire on him which happens fairly frequently. Crowley sees himself as a 'big picture' sort of demon but he doesn't actually look ahead to what the consequences of his actions might be. In his mind he is very evil and diabolically clever but in reality he is more of a minor inconvenience and occasional source of inspiration for humanity. He has a flair for the dramatic which he expresses with flashy clothes and the intermittent tantrum when things are not going his way. He is sarcastic but generally not mean spirited and rarely uses his powers to kill. He is also a bit of a dork who does things like adding bullet hole decals to his otherwise mint condition and lovingly looked after Bentley because they were a James Bond promotion at a petrol station and he was a fan of the spy's movies.

AU History:
Anthony. J. Crowley is the first born son to a Scottish mother (Lorna) and an English father (Richard Crowley), but only by a little bit. Alec (Hardy) is his ever so slightly younger twin brother who was born a few minutes after him. Attempts to build a stable and happy family would ultimately fail as Richard's dalliances on the side were discovered. During the divorce assets were split and so were the children. Anthony went to live with his father in London after the divorce while Alec went to live with his mom and later his grandparents in Scotland when Lorna ended up disappearing. This happened when the kids were very young and neither Anthony or Alec have heard anything from her since childhood. Whether she is alive or dead remains a mystery. Perhaps her disappearance had something to do with Spirit Realm.

Richard's revolving door of girlfriends didn't prevent Anthony from having a fulfilling life in London. He learned the art of manipulation and guilt tripping to get tributes from his dad's girlfriends, his dad's home was situated near Victoria Park so he had all that green space to play, and London had a vast public transportation system that allowed Anthony to explore museums, dockyards, cafes, and the vast wonders of the massive city. During summers and certain special events he would be reunited with Alec, sometimes spending time at the grandparents Scottish seaside village and sometimes at summer camp. It was during one of these long summer camp adventures when a mysterious fire broke out in the kids cabin. All of the children but Anthony himself were pulled out of the fire by the actions of a brave counselor. She would die in the fire however miraculously Anthony would be found unharmed without even the smallest of burns. This the was first indication Anthony had that he was unlike other people. His fire immunity has been with him since though rarely used for anything more impressive than taking hot things out of the oven or rescuing dropped items from campfires.

Anthony was not a dumb kid but he did not do too well in school. Reading all those books was boring and he found his mind drifting to other things. The only thing that saved him was that he had a strong curiosity and was always asking questions. He was one of those kids who rarely did their homework but always managed to pass the tests anyway and that was how he got by.

After earning a mostly useless college degree, solely due to his father's insistence rather than any desire on his part to do more than party and drift, he found himself in Kaisou and in need of a job. He stumbled his way into his first childcare profession simply by being in the right place at the right time. While sitting at a bench feeding some ducks at one of Kaisou's residential parks Anthony happened to see a mother with too many children and not enough hands to wrangle them all. He didn't think too much of it until he later heard the mother screaming a missing child's name and happened to look into the pond to see the boy laying facedown in the water. In part due to his traumatic experience at camp and also in part due to his twin's fear of water Anthony had taken CPR as an elective. Once he fished the boy out of the water he was able to save his life and get him breathing again. This family ended up being his first employers as the mom clearly needed the help to look after so many kids and he, despite his unconventionally un-nanny-like attitude and appearance was good with kids. He stayed with this family until they moved across country and carried on in the profession ever since, even working with Yoosung's family until he was old enough to manage on his own.

AU Personality Differences:
He has a strong sense of protectiveness towards an angelic friend of his, Aziraphale. In Kaisou Anthony would not initially remember him and this sense of protectiveness would be applied to Alec and Yoosung / any child he has been hired to look after.

Element: Fire
Purchased Powers: Three points spent on Temporary fire immunity (10 minutes)



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