The Middle Distance

Going back through lower_tadfield's back pages in the tagging project made me want to go back through my own, now that I'm nearly 7 years in the Good Omens fandom. (Like angels' feathers, my own tags are not particularly well-groomed.)

So it's time for a new Headcanon/Personal Fanon post.

Here is a response to a meme I did back in 2007 about listing personal fanon/headcanon for one's OTP. So I wrote about Aziraphale and Crowley, largely little factoids about their sexuality, their relationship, and their history.

I didn't talk about their physical appearance very much, so here are two bits of my headcanon about that:

1. They are precisely the same height, exactly 6'0". I think this because of a legend that only supernatural beings in human form can be precisely 6'0", not one millimillimeter over or under. That said, Crowley often looks a little bit taller, probably because he's leaner, wears black more often, and Aziraphale slouches.

2. Although they're the same height, Aziraphale does have a slightly larger wingspan. I think this because of A Matter of Proportion by quantum_witch, which will never NOT be funny. Let's say Aziraphale's wingspan is about 25'1" to Crowley's 24'8". I think the average wingspan of an angel is between 23 and 26 feet, and I think that because of Argentavis magnificens, the Argentinian Teratorn. (If you have any kind of bird phobia, DO NOT click those links.) Conventional wisdom used to have it that angels can fly 'cause MAGIC, of course no feathered birdlike wings could ever get a 6' tall, 200-lb creature off the ground. Ah, but Miocene megafauna solidly challenges that notion, since A.magnificens was exactly that. And did fly. With wings about that size. (here is a scientific article on the aerodynamics involved.) Now of course angels are in no way bound by this, 'cause MAGIC, but that's just what I see in my head now.