Not to be sad on main but…
consider this: Heaven is not happy about the whole Angel And A Demon deal, so they pull some “A Thousand Words” shit where if Aziraphale sees or tries to communicate in any way with Crowley he loses one of his feathers until he Falls, hoping that’ll keep them apart
Litcherally
bold of you to assume Falling is anywhere near painless
he just takes an aspirin and keeps drinking
goddamit alex in trying to be edgy over here
Crowley, an angel who didn’t so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards.
Aziraphale, an angel who dived headfirst out of Heaven while flipping Everyone off on the way down.
I can’t find any sign someone said it first so it looks like I’ll have to do everything here: