Not to be sad on main but…
consider this: Heaven is not happy about the whole Angel And A Demon deal, so they pull some “A Thousand Words” shit where if Aziraphale sees or tries to communicate in any way with Crowley he loses one of his feathers until he Falls, hoping that’ll keep them apart
Litcherally
bold of you to assume Falling is anywhere near painless
he just takes an aspirin and keeps drinking
goddamit alex in trying to be edgy over here
Crowley, an angel who didn’t so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards.
Aziraphale, an angel who dived headfirst out of Heaven while flipping Everyone off on the way down.
I can’t find any sign someone said it first so it looks like I’ll have to do everything here:
The way I read this: every time Aziraphale sees Crowley (I’m assuming outside of ‘absolute necessity’, for work), he loses a feather. It happens a few times, and he takes the loss.
And then when Crowley gets too concerned, Aziraphale just…never leaves his side. Always in the same house, building. The last time he sees Crowley is the last time they keep parting ways. It’s not like they wanted to KEEP walking away from each other anyway
My take was: filibuster.