How are we all feeling about Aziraphale’s last “I forgive you”? Does it mean I forgive you for kissing me to try to get me to stay, I forgive you for choosing this moment to reveal your feelings, I forgive you for not coming with me, I forgive you for kissing me period??? What?
I keep going back and forth on it and I NEED to hear what everyone else is thinking. Lay it on me, I’m open to new interpretations because everything hurts and I’m dying.
It’s his default dance step in the same old game. Crowley challenges him: i forgive you. Note this isn’t the same as a ‘no’’ - more and more across the years it becomes coded speech. Crowley says something or does something Aziraphale secretly agrees with or Aziraphale wants, but doesn’t think he can have, and so he responds with the same words.
Fuck the plan! / i forgive you
Run away with me / i forgive you
Be mine / i forgive you.
And this last one, oh this last one HURTS because they both know the code. They both know the dance. And Crowley’s response to that last overture?
“Don’t bother.”
It’s not “don’t bother forgiving me’, Crowley is stepping out of the dance. He’s giving up. They’re done. He threw everything in and lost.
