They cannot work in these conditions, not only are humans doing all the self destruction themselves without help, when they do manage to make a deal with someone mildly influential it often turns out they where cheated and the human had no soul to hand over to begin with.
Demon 1: “They just keep torturing each other. I don’t even have to tempt!”
Demon 2: “I tried to put lust in a barrister’s heart using this nancy fancy thing called the internet. That thing laughed at me. Laughed! Not even Our Prince has a soul so black! I could not find the heart!”
i’m going to plug my ears and hum “all the good bits of good omens come from Sir Terry” to myself for a minute and then think about Aziraphale and Crowley for a bit
I probably won’t read another book from gaiman, but there is so much from Pratchett in Good Omens that I will never renounce it. (And Pratchett himself said he wrote two third of it)
Pretty sure some demons have an existential crisis watching the current world situation…
They cannot work in these conditions, not only are humans doing all the self destruction themselves without help, when they do manage to make a deal with someone mildly influential it often turns out they where cheated and the human had no soul to hand over to begin with.
But where did the Ghoul factory come from? Did they lose their soul or was it never there?
Demon 1: “I’m so fuckin bored… I have nothing to do.”
Demon 2: " I hear ya, man. My humans keep saying YOLO and doing coke. I asked for reassignment back to Hell."
Demon 1: “They just keep torturing each other. I don’t even have to tempt!”
Demon 2: “I tried to put lust in a barrister’s heart using this nancy fancy thing called the internet. That thing laughed at me. Laughed! Not even Our Prince has a soul so black! I could not find the heart!”
i’m going to plug my ears and hum “all the good bits of good omens come from Sir Terry” to myself for a minute and then think about Aziraphale and Crowley for a bit
I probably won’t read another book from gaiman, but there is so much from Pratchett in Good Omens that I will never renounce it. (And Pratchett himself said he wrote two third of it)
suddenly the angel and devil bickering feeling so real in that book, uh, oh gods. sir terry you were too good for this world.