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Part 12 of Aziraphale hurt/comfort
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2021-01-31
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[Art collection] Chronica Picta

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Summary:

Chronica Picta, or an illustrated chronicle of Aziraphale and Crowley, mostly in pencil. There are quite a few entries for the Good Omens angst bingo, with the themes of angst and hurt/comfort, but other pictures also include topics like humor or fluff, and there are a few crafts as well.

Chapter 1: Thumbnails view

Notes:

Click on the picture to go to the corresponding chapter in the work and see it in bigger size.
I'm also posting my art on deviantart and tumblr.

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Angst bingo:

The only one left - part 1 The only one left - part 2 Time loop Trapped Adversaries Sleeping angel I've got you now Losing faith Still there Aziraphale and Oscar Wilde - part 1 Aziraphale and Oscar Wilde - part 2 Demon mode on

Good Omens bingo:

Demons in college Hell's Kitchen Sherbet lemon

Non-bingo story illustrations:

On Snow Like Broken Glass Between the mirrors

Other pictures:

Looking up at the sky St. Nicholas, angel and demon An angel, a demon and a batwinged hourglass

Crafts:

Jokes:

Chapter 2: The only one left

Summary:

Two sketches for the angst bingo prompt "How does it feel? To know you're the only one left, I mean."

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Chapter 3: Mercy kill

Summary:

For the prompt "Mercy kill", I drew an illustration of my story Knocking on Heaven's Door, featuring not-Crowley-Raphael and Gabriel, who will get a new corporation with minimum waiting time and paperwork.

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At the same time, on Earth, Gabriel raised his hand as if to protect himself from a blow. "Please…" he rasped through the blood in his mouth, "let's be reasonable!"

Raphael approached him with a frown. 

"Mercy, Azi… Raphael? What the…? He…he attacked me!" 

The healer's expression was so cold it could have been chiseled from ice, without a hint of compassion.

"You used my knowledge to hurt someone."

"W-What?" Gabriel stammered, trying to shift away. "But he hurt me ! See? I'm hurt! He's crazy! He attacked me! I had to defend myself!"

"You used hellfire on an angel."

"I had to! I had no other option!

Raphael nodded. "Me neither," he said and summoned his staff. 

Gabriel's eyes widened with fear, "You can't…"

"Can't heal you corporation. I'm too drained. Easier to get a new one."

"What? No! No no no…"

"We will talk later," Raphael said with just a little hint of grim satisfaction as his staff hit Gabriel in the temple.

The precision of the blow was clearly derived from a long study of essences, physical bodies and their connection. 

 

Chapter 4: Time loop

Summary:

Sketch and a short story for the prompt "curse: time loop".

 

Time is a weapon in the great heavenly war. It's still new and unstable and the commanders use it to their advantage. They create time loops in strategic moments, assuring that the fight repeats until their desired result. And Aziraphale is caught in one.

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Aziraphale looks into the eyes of his enemy. He knows every line in the face of the rebelling angel. It's a cherub, and a strand of their honey-brown hair got loose from their braid and is falling over their eye. Now they will push it back behind their ear and raise their sword.

They push it back behind their ear and raise their sword.

"Please," Aziraphale says, desperately. "Do we have to do this? Can't we talk?"

The angel doesn't listen. They swing their sword and Aziraphale blocks it with ease. 

"We don’t need to…"

Thrust. Block.

"I don't want to kill you!"

Feign to the left and attack from above. Aziraphale blocks, expecting it.

"No no no, just stop for a moment, please!" he cries out, panicked. He's at the end of the script. 

The swords clash. The enemy's blade uses the momentum and twists to the other side. It hits him in the temple. 

Pain floods his senses. He can taste blood. Then everything fades.

Aziraphale looks into the eyes of his enemy. He knows every line in the face of the rebelling angel. It's a cherub, and a strand of their honey-brown hair got loose from their braid and is falling over their eye. Now they will push it back behind their ear and raise their sword.

They push it back behind their ear and raise their sword.

Here they go again. 

Time is a weapon in the great heavenly war. It's still new and unstable and the commanders use it to their advantage. They create time loops in strategic moments, assuring that the fight repeats until their desired result. 

And Aziraphale is caught in one. He knows the desired result. But he doesn't desire it. 

Swing. Block.

"Please, listen to me…"

Thrust. Block.

"I don't want to kill you!"

Feign left, attack. Block.

"We're in a…"

Clash, twist. Block.

"...a time loop! If you just…"

Stab.

Aziraphale falls, clutching his stomach. Blood soaks his white uniform.

Many loops later:

Aziraphale looks into the eyes of his enemy. He knows every line in the face of the rebelling angel. It's a cherub, and a strand of their honey-brown hair got loose from their braid and is falling over their eye. Now they will push it back behind their ear and raise their sword.

They push it back behind their ear and raise their sword.

Aziraphale doesn't try to reason anymore. He fights mechanically, with practiced moves. Over and over, always one more move added to the script. He's tired of fighting, tired of pain, tired of dying.

He has tried to not defend himself a few times. He died in agony and was thrown into a new loop. Now he tries to prolong it as much as he can.

Time is stretching before him like an eternal tangle, returning to the same place over and over and over and over and over and over…

Until he breaks it.

He doesn't want to.

He doesn't want to.

Over and over and over and...

He stares at the bloody sword in his hand. 

His opponent is dead. He killed them. 

No! No! No!

He desperately wishes for the time loop to repeat, to undo what he did.

It doesn’t repeat.

Chapter 5: Trapped

Summary:

For the prompt "trapped in an object" (but no longer)

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Chapter 6: On Snow Like Broken Glass

Summary:

I had a dream about Aziraphale being injured and Crowley carrying him barefoot in the snow.
LTRisBACK wrote a story for it, titled On Snow Like Broken Glass
This is an illustration for the dream and the story, and also a DTIYS if you want, because I love this scenario and would really like to see more variations on it, no matter if painted or written.

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Chapter 7: Adversaries

Summary:

Good Omens angst bingo prompt "soul-enemies, not soul-mates", but I'd like to leave it free to interpretation.

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And here's a version without the thread of fate, because I couldn't decide:

The pose is from the 15th century fencing manustcripts Gladiatoria. Unlike what movies show you, fencing with a sword in full armour was mostly about using the sword as a lever for getting to opponent on the ground so that you could find an opening in the armour.

Chapter 8: Sleeping angel

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For the angst bingo prompt "I forgot. I forgot you."
This is an illustration for Ch. 22 of my story Back to the Roots, and Aziraphale has been through a lot and doesn't remember Crowley in this scene, but you can imagine whatever you like with the picture. Maybe he just fell asleep in their cottage and Crowley is weeping from happiness that the angel is his now :)

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Aziraphale smiles. Feeling safe and whole again, he falls asleep.

Snakes do not usually weep. This one does.

Chapter 9: I've got you now

Summary:

Good Omens angst bingo prompt "physical hurt/comfort".

Notes:

I originally intended this as an illustration for Back to the Roots as well (the prompt does fit the story), but half-way into the picture I decided I wanted to draw them in their typical clothes while their captors left them naked in the story.

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Chapter 10: Between the mirrors

Summary:

Illustration for Ch. 7 of Back to the Roots

Notes:

This week's angst bingo call is not on my card, so I'm posting an older picture instead. It's the one I wanted to redraw from a different perspective last week, but then decided to give them clothes :)

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Chapter 11: Losing faith

Summary:

- The point is not to avoid the war. The point is to win it.
- Ah.

 

Good Omens angst bingo prompt "Crisis of faith; doubt"
(Pencil + digital)

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Chapter 12: Looking up at the sky

Summary:

I'll leave the interpretation of this one up to you - are they chasing each other in the sky? Or is Aziraphale falling and Crowley desperately trying to catch him?

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Chapter 13: Still there

Summary:

Aziraphale, still standing in the bandstand hours after Crowley has left.
For the angst bingo prompt "Rejection", based on this observation.

Notes:

MovesLikeBucky wrote an accompanying story for the picture, in case it's not heartbreaking enough: the darkness has not overcome it.

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Chapter 14: St. Nicholas, angel and demon

Summary:

December 6th is the day of St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus). In Czech republic and Slovakia, St. Nicholas is accompanied by an angel and a demon (čert), rewarding good kids and punishing bad ones. Of course I had to incorporate Aziraphale and Crowley into that and base it on a picture (Mikuláš, anděl a čert, 1948) of a Czech painter Josef Lada, famous for his winter scenes that are often used on Christmas postcards now. Some liberties were taken with perspective to make the figures more prominent. (Painted last year)

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Chapter 15: An angel, a demon and a batwinged hourglass

Summary:

Inspired by this picture of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

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Chapter 16: Demons in college

Summary:

A fill for Good Omens bingo prompt "College AU".
Maybe not so much of an AU because it's inspired the story I wrote with HotCrossPigeon, A Special Place in Hell, where Aziraphale becomes a king of Hell and sends a bunch of Disposable Demons to study things like sociology and management to act as advisors in making Hell a nicer place :)

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Chapter 17: Hell's Kitchen

Summary:

Good Omens Bingo prompt fill "Aziraphale Eats All". That's the goal at least, because this is another picture inspired by A Special Place in Hell, where Aziraphale became a king of Hell and changes started to happen:

One of the changes that happened in Hell was without Aziraphale's knowledge. Crowley was involved as a consultant in it, because it was a surprise for the angel. It was Hell's Kitchen. They actually brought Gordon Ramsay Down There to teach them. It led to some discorporations, but now the demons working there could rival the best chefs.

The demons in the picture are also characters from the story, from left to right: Adrammelech, supervisor of Satan's (now Aziraphale's) wardrobe; Grg; (Gordon Ramsay); owl demon Stolas and Ob, Smasher of Kneecaps.

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Chapter 18: Sherbet lemon

Summary:

A fill for Good Omens bingo prompt "Adam".

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Chapter 19: Aziraphale and Oscar Wilde

Summary:

GO angst bingo prompt fill "The realization that in the end, even after all you've done, nothing has changed".

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Chapter 20: Demon mode on

Summary:

Crowley's form for scaring paintball players deserves some love too.
Fill for Good Omens angst bingo prompt *Crowley forgets being a "good" demon*

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Chapter 21: Ophiuchus and Serpens

Summary:

Aziraphale and Crowley as the constellation Ophiuchus ("serpent-bearer") and Serpens. Drawn for the Do It With Style Good Omens Reverse Bang where it inspired Janara to write the story A Stair of Swords.

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Chapter 22: M25

Summary:

A fill for Good Omens bingo prompt "The M25".

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Chapter 23: Facing Satan

Summary:

Aziraphale in front of Satan's throne - the first illustration going with Fuuma_san's story On the Battlefield of Hell created for the Do It With Style Good Omens Reverse Bang.

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Chapter 24: Monstruous forms

Summary:

The other two illustrations going with Fuuma_san's story On the Battlefield of Hell created for the Do It With Style Good Omens Reverse Bang: Aziraphale fighting in Hell taking on a monstruous form to have a better chance against his opponents... and Crowley, taking on a monstruous form to protect Aziraphale after the fight.

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Chapter 25: Old wounds

Summary:

Aziraphale has some old wounds from the War. (Fill for Good Omens angst bingo prompt "Bad chronic pain day".)

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Chapter 26: The Little Principality

Notes:

Drawn for GO Events Book Fest

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Chapter 27: Angels cry holy water

Summary:

Aziraphale and a tartan thermos. Fill for Good Omens angst bingo prompt "Angels cry holy water".

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Chapter 28: A tight fit

Summary:

There is a reason why angels usually don't posess humans. For the Good Omens angst bingo prompt "True form injury", inspired by charliebrown1234's story Ex Infirmitas, Sinceritas.

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Chapter 29: Parenting 101

Summary:

A humorous take on the Good Omens angst bingo prompt "They deserve better than me."

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Chapter 30: I have plenty of others to fraternize with

Summary:

(angst bingo prompt)

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Chapter 31: Revenge

Summary:

Good Omens angst bingo prompt "Revenge for the death/loss of the other" (warning: Gabriel doesn't walk out of this picture alive )

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Chapter 32: Halloween gone wrong

Summary:

Good Omens angst bingo prompt: "Accidental injury"
(Based on this picture from an insurance ad)

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Chapter 33: So close

Summary:

Good Omens angst bingo prompt: “Curse: cannot touch/feel“

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Chapter 34: Summoning angels

Summary:

Good Omens angst bingo prompt “Capture by enemies”.

This is a companion piece to a similar picture with Crowley that I drew for the dark omens zine and the last call of the angst bingo (and I finally got a bingo too! :))

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Chapter 35: Summoning demons

Summary:

This is a companion piece to Summening angels (in the previous chapter), drawn for the dark omens zine.

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Chapter 36: Good Omilienci

Summary:

Painted for the "Our Omens" zine depicting Aziraphale and Crowley in different cultures. These folk costumes are traditional for the village Važec in Slovakia (each village used to have its own discernible clothing and patterns). The tradition of jumping over fire on the day of St. John is rather widespread, but in Važec, this was connected with a Whitsun tradition “Omilienci”, where a procession of singing girls moved through the village and later in the evening, fires could be lit on the nearby hills.

Notes:

The Omilienci procession can be seen here (in a choreographed stage version) or in the first few minutes of this video in a more realistic version.

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Chapter 37: Feathers

Summary:

An angel and a demons in cut feathers

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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Notes:

I posted this on tumblr and deviantart but forgot to add it here.

Chapter 38: Angelic embrace

Summary:

I got this kitchy statuette of two angels as a wedding gift from some friend of my parents whom I didn't really know (and she didn't know me, obviously). I kept that gift though, because I saw the potential right away, just didn't know what to paint on it. After seeing Good Omens, this was just inevitable, and this being a wedding gift makes it even more special. So thank you, random person who thought I would enjoy having little plaster angels in my home!

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Chapter 39: Ineffable socks

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Chapter 40: Angel and demon in polymer clay

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Chapter 41: Tatted tattoo

Summary:

Crowley's snake tattoo in needle tatting.

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Chapter 42: Usher bath bomb

Summary:

A polymer clay figure used to make the mould and a bath bomb with soap coating.

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Chapter 43: Jokes

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