Mary the Bentley reference photos post 2. POV: You're Crowley. I got you a LOAD of angles so you can see what it's like to sit in the front seat (it's easiest to take them from the back seat), and from various angles from the driver's head position. You can see the sunroof up there better as well now. See post 1 for the rest of the reference photos, I ran out of space to add more to it.
Mary the Bentley reference images part 1. I already shared a ton a couple of years ago, but I was visiting friends and family again earlier this week, so this time I was taking requests from the good omens reference library discord, art discord, and "in love with my car" discord (where I shared all my previous reference photos of her). So this time I've got some specific request references which I didn't think to get before. Things like driver's seat POV, 90 degrees side-on, back-on, and nose-on, the boot (including tool kit and petrol filler cap in the boot), sunroof from inside and above, and of course the back seat, because I know why you all want that one. Post 2 coming shortly.
Aziraphale:”Will you teach me how to drive?”
Crowley:*Gasps*
Crowley:”I’ve been waiting for this day.I need to compose myself for a bit because we are doing this right”
I don’t want to let this get lost in the tags, ever, because this is exactly how it works:
I like the idea that Aziraphale is even more of a maniac driver than Crowley and 100% will not admit it, simply because he can’t balance the miracles, he can only alternate. So he’s always almost hitting someone and then while he’s miracling them out of the way the car is just coasting, unguided.
Finally Crowley has to give the Bentley a stern talking to about pulling its own weight, and it becomes the first automatic-miracle-transmission car in existence that keeps navigating whenever Aziraphale forgets the Make Car Go miracle.
I was just going to reblog this without comment, because it was perfect.
But then started thinking about the difference between Angel miracles and Devil miracles. Intent, yeah, but is there a qualitative difference too? Like acceptance vs questioning - aka order vs chaos?
I mean, if angels are Order, and Devils are Chaos, then Make Car Go and Make Things Get Out Of the Way is a very change way of looking at it. Maybe Aziraphale needs different miracles. Like Car Continue Moving, and Car Create A Perfect Path Between Here And There.
Aziraphale wouldn’t follow Roads. (We don’t need roads….)
I still say that Crowley learned to properly drive once, when cars first became a thing, and then hasn’t really bothered with Proper Car Anything since then, because Nope Boring Other Things to Do Angels to See.
My headcanon is that the Bentley works the way Crowley thinks it works.
So (and some of this is in my story I’m posting this weekend) since he had the ignition and brakes and things explained to him, he knows he needs to use those or It Doesn’t Work.
On the other hand, at some point he started to notice other cars performing better and just assumed the Bentley could also do that, so it could.
Like, he drives 90 in central London. Well, 90 is the top speed on the ‘33 Bentley (I know it’s ‘28 in the book), but it should only be able to reach that speed after going downhill for a bit to pick up inertia. But at some point he noticed other cars driving faster than him and was just like “nope I have the best car” and boom, the Bentley could go 90 all the time. He doesn’t know the difference between 4th and 5th gear, so 4th just does whatever the Hell Heaven he wants.
On the other hand, since he never thinks about gas (unless there’s cool James Bond window decals involved) he never needs gas, or oil changes, or battery replacements, or windshield washer fluid or…
The thought of tacky decals on a vintage car like the Bentley makes me simultaneously cringe and laugh.
