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Day 24: Most iconic Aziraphale moment

I make no secret of my love for 1793 Aziraphale. He is perfect. 100/10. No notes.

I also love the way this entire situation encapsulates who Aziraphale is. He wants to take Crowley out on a date, but he can't do that with Heaven and Hell potentially watching. So he engineers a damsel-in-distress moment where Crowley can save him, thus giving him the excuse to take him to lunch. The whole thing is utterly brilliant. Because it's all happening in the middle of a (literally) bloody revolution, there are TONS of excuses both he and Crowley can give to their respective bosses for anything that happens. He can say he was trying to influence the murderous executioner toward good. Or that he was trying to save people. Crowley can claim he was there helping get more people guillotined. It seems ridiculous at first glance to go to the hub of violent revolution and get yourself intentionally locked in a prison on the verge of execution. But Aziraphale KNOWS he's in no danger from the humans. He could miracle himself free at any time. He's picked a location full of plausible reasons for him to be there.

And then when Crowley arrives and stops time, Aziraphale gets to articulate some of his real reasons, even if it's all still spoken mostly in coded language. He gets to play dress up (he has standards!) He gets to have some of his favorite foods. He gets rescued (i.e. he gets to be cared for and Crowley gets to do something good.) They get to have a lunch date so he can say thank you without saying thank you.

In this scene, Aziraphale is prissy, bitchy, silly, cute, flirtatious, enamored with human food and clothes (and with Crowley, of course), and deviously calculating about the whole set up. It's such a great example of who he is and such a great hint at who he could be if he could get free from Heaven and Hell.

1793 Aziraphale, I love you.