crack_van | Good Omens/Lord Peter Wimsey (PG-13)

(Hurrah for Crossover Day!)

Title/Author: "Devil Took the Soldier Boy" by Copperbadge
Pairing: Crowley, Aziraphale, Lord Peter, Bunter (no pairing)
Author on LJ:

copperbadge
Author Website: Sam the Storyteller
Why this must be read: Apart from his unfortunate use of the spelling "Aziraphael" (okay, that's 'unfortunate' only to me; I'm sure there's a perfectly good Milliways RPG related reason for using that spelling *g*),

copperbadge has a near-perfect sense of tone and voice for both Good Omens and the universe inhabited by Lord Peter Wimsey. In this story, the two worlds are brought together quite seamlessly.

One of the best things about Good Omens fanfiction is that it can be set in any historical era (the 'births' of Aziraphale and Crowley pre-dating the creation of Humanity, of course). In "Devil Took the Soldier Boy," the setting is World War I, and the Major - a "favourite" of his men - has seen more horrors than most people could do and stay sane. For Crowley and Aziraphale, Major Wimsey is a battlefield upon which they replay the test of Job. Crowley has had his turn...and now it's time for Aziraphale (with a former-Sergeant's help) to take his turn.

"Devil Took the Soldier Boy"

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Yay! for crossovers! And what an intriguing crossover fandom in this one!

I'll have to wait to read the GO stories you;ve been rec'ing, but I will get to them. I am behind on my own Crack Van recs. (It's always better to resist driving the crack van for two fandoms in one month, trust me.)

I know! I just noticed you were sort of...um...over-extending yourself. :)

Ha! Sorry for the rec spam. :D

LOL! Never apologize for giving me more to read. :)

*grins*

Sam's use of Aziraphael is entirely aesthetic and unrelated to Milliways. It's me you have to watch out for, where that's concerned.

Hee!

(whose Aziraphael came first? Yours or Sam's? *g*)

I'm not actually sure, to be honest. I know it was from an interview where - I think Pterry - said that that was how it should have been spelt but it didn't quite turn out that way.

It's entirely possible Sam pointed me at the interview, though. :D

I just did a google search, and the one and only Aziraphael reference (apart from folks referencing Milliways *g*) from Pterry is this:

Terry: Neil knows the only one I've really wanted way Brian Denehey (sp?) for Aziraphael...

And since Pratchett - typing from a cyber-cafe - mis-spells "Dennehy" and "was" along with "Aziraphale" in that one sentence, I'm going to cling to Aziraphale.

(mind you, Pterry does say elsewhere that the name was supposed to have been pronounced "Azz-ear-raf-AE-el" once upon a time, so... In any case, your angel of Milliways just wouldn't be the same guy with his name spelled any way other than "Aziraphael" *g*)

I'm nearly positive I pulled the -ael reference off the Annotated Guide to Good Omens that's up somewhere on the web -- possibly at the L-Space Web. I do know that Pterry has said that if they were spelling it with the traditional angelic spelling it would be -ael because the other angels' names it imitates are all -ael. That doesn't necessarily mean he intended it to be -ael. :D I get razzed for that all the time...

Anyway, I believe Nny and I came up with it independently but roughly at the same time.

And thank you for the lovely recc! This is possibly my favourite crossover I've ever written. :)

You're welcome. It's my favorite crossover of yours (although...the House one from the other day made me laugh *g*)

The bit you're thinking of is right at the top of the Good Omens page of the APF. But you're getting two separate things confused: the pronunciation, which should have been something other than how it turned out, and the spelling, which they intended to be 'Aziraphale' all along.

That said, "-ael" is strictly correct, because it means "of God", but I think precedents exist for "-ale" as an Anglicised form.

(I should stop being pedantic and go and read the actual story now, shouldn't I?)

No, I'm aware that -ale was intentional all along, and I do know the difference between saying and spelling *grins* There is a place, I firmly recall reading it, where Pterry has also said that -ael would be the traditional spelling method. I remember because it also said that he did not say why he didn't spell it that way, which was very frustrating. :D

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