No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

waifines

The demonic name curled into what vaguely looked like the letter J.

“What does the J stand for?” Aziraphale had once asked, surrounded by Nazis.

“It’s just a J,” Crowley had muttered back. Perhaps. Perhaps not. The name on the package sputtered and a quiet crack sounded as an ember flew from it and skipped harmlessly across the marble tabletop. Aziraphale had never asked again. It didn’t really seem important. He had always vaguely assumed that Crowley somehow botched his Human Name Registration form, and the J stood for something embarrassing. Now when he looked at the red, blistering mark before him though… Aziraphale could not help wondering if it was another link in the invisible chain over which Crowley always labored. Like his garden. Demons weren’t supposed to understand the concept of penance. And yet…

Chapter One: It’s Just a J

from: Witness the Fall

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lys-sander

broke: crowley is jealous about the lovers that aziraphale might have had throughout history
woke: crowley isn’t jealous at all - he’s insanely intrigued and every time they get drunk he begs aziraphale to tell the story of how he got each of them into bed and will sometimes interrupt him mid-sentence by saying “i knew that guy!!” followed by a huge grin

thegoodomensdumpster

Just for the record that’s how I picture it as well. I don’t see how any of them could get jealous when they are both insanely curious AND perfectly know that the bond they share is beyond anything they could have with anyone else.

kittyknowsthings

Aziraphale would just go, straight-up, chinhands, Aaaaw, they must have been special if they were special to you, tell me EVERYTHING

Crowley will gently tease Aziraphale about it all day long, but quietly approves of each and every one of them, and then goes on finding an excuse to make, say, their literature more famous again, or hunts down some souvenir for his Angel and massively downplays how hard it was to get it.

thegoodomensdumpster

* POINTS LOUDLY AT THE POST ABOVE IN FIERCEFUL APPROVAL *

starsreblogs

Yes, I approve of inmmoratls’ relationship being different than our mortal attachments

thegoodomensdumpster

I mean, it’s not just that.

If they were humans, they could totally be headcanoned as being able to be in poly or open relationships ( I personnally wouldn’t, but I don’t like imagining them as humans in the first place anyway, which isn’t to say that actual real life healthy open relationships and polyamourous relationships don’t exist even if they aren’t the majority of how people work ).

But if we’re striclty talking about them as immortal characters, there is also that aspect to take into account, and whether or not they might naturally have poly or open relationship tendencies has to be reinforced by the fact that they just can’t have “normal” relationships with humans, because they just… they just die too fast for them. They don’t work at the same rythm, they probably don’t grieve the same way. Even the ones they really like and care for, they will leave way too soon. I cant help but feel like humans can’t be more than pets for them ( granted very interesting pets, and in some cases pets that they will mourn in the same way we would mourn our old dog that shared 17 years of our life and was part of the family… But who was still a dog. )

So, yeah, with them being immortals, their relationships with both humans and with each other have to be widly different from what we experience, but I wanted to phrase this out because the last post made it feel like being poly or in an open relationship was an absolutely not normal or healthy thing for humans to be into. Which is. Not true.

( I’m not saying that’s what you meant OP, this isn’t a personnal attack at all, it’s just the vibe I got from your answer and I thought it granted a bit more precisions. )

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.