[GO2 SPOILERS]
No bc I’ve been On That GO2 Brainrot, and I don’t know if all of you are comprehending the importance of that kiss. Like???? We know that angels and demons have an initial distaste for human things—they do stuff their own way, and anything that’s viewed as superfluous isn’t done (such as eating). We know that Aziraphale takes time to learn to enjoy human things, but he ends up loving them So Much (as seen when he eats that? Boar?? idk).
Before the kiss, I always assumed that, while Aziraphale and Crowley evidently loved each other deeply, they were just not the type of people to engage in physical affection most of the time, as they aren’t human. But when I think back to all the moments where Aziraphale and Crowley are seen falling in love with human things, it actually makes so much sense that Crowley would kiss Azira. Because that kiss is a goodbye, an expression of anger on their part, but it is also a desperate request—it is a symbol of everything that puts distance between aziracrow and Heaven and Hell, the humanness they have gained and their love for the world. Crowley engages in something so superfluous, so human, and it feels so right to me that they do. Azira is swept away by it, and I think at first he is resistant to it—as he was at first to all things human—but I think he also learned to like it, because why wouldn’t he? why wouldn’t he love such a human expression of love? I think Azira followed the Metatron DESPITE the fact that he loved that kiss.
That kiss is a symbol of everything Azira and Crowley are, of what they could be—of levels of humanness they haven’t reached yet. I only hope Azira realises that he values that sweet possibility, of being with Crowley in every conceivable way, enough to give up on Heaven. Because as important as that kiss was, Aziraphale still left Crowley. We’ll see.