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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Crowley.
Canon: Supernatural.
Original or Alternate Universe: Original.
Canon Point: 7x22: The Survival of the Fittest.
Number: 001.
Setting: Here is the Supernatural website!
History: Crowley began as a young man by the name of Fergus McLeod. He was born in Scotland, in 1661, with a young son by the name of Gavin. When Crowley died, his soul was twisted, and instead of truly passing on to the next realm, he became a demon, a human soul that is twisted by the circumstances of their lives. However, Crowley was not the same as a lot of the mindless power-hungry demons that crossed the line into Lucifer’s domain. He was smart. And he quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the most powerful demons in Hell.
The first mention of Crowley is through the grapevine -- he is the right hand man of the most powerful demon of Hell, Lilith, and he is in the possession of Samuel Colt’s all-powerful gun, which has the ability to kill demons. The Winchesters decide that the gun is one of their only hopes of stopping Lucifer from jump-starting the Apocalypse so, with the help of the Harvelles and Castiel, they work to track the mysterious Crowley down. Castiel finds Crowley at a crossroads, making a deal with a banker who has run into some economic hard times. At the price of his soul and ten years of his life, Crowley gives the man the millions he needs to stop his bank from foreclosing -- and promptly vanishes from sight. Castiel follows, but cannot follow Crowley into his home. The demon warded his house against angels entering it with powerful Enochian sigils -- so Castiel is, effectively, SOL.
When the Winchesters, with the help of Jo Harvelle, break into the mysterious demon’s home, they encounter Crowley... who hands over the gun after shooting two of his own demon followers in the head, with very strict instructions: Kill Lucifer. Stop the Apocalypse. His motives for doing so seem pretty simple: Lucifer, according to Crowley, cares little to nothing about the demons he created and with Lucifer gone, Crowley can live on in relative peace making his deals and buying more houses along the Coast. The way Crowley sees it, the Winchesters can solve his problem for him and, without much more instruction, Crowley vanishes from sight.
Crowley, from this point on, is on the run from, as he puts it, “every bloody demon on Hell and Earth”. Unfortunately for Crowley, the Colt did not work against Lucifer, leaving the Devil alive and the Devil knowing that Crowley betrayed him. Fortunately for Crowley, there was still another plan -- opening the gates of Hell and casting Lucifer back into the Pit by utilizing the four rings of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Through utilizing his connections and his knowledge of the various demons in charge of taking care of the Horsemen, he manages to lead the Winchesters to the Horsemen of Pestilience, along with giving them the location of the Horsemen of Death. With this information, the Winchesters have the tools to lock Lucifer back into the pit -- though Crowley doesn’t stick around to watch it happen.
As soon as Lucifer is locked into the pit, Crowley becomes the King of Hell, and effectively takes over the place as the new head honcho, in order to make Hell something of a better place. He did away with the hellfire and brimstone and constant torture, in favor of a more ‘modern’ form of torture -- he remodeled it into something of a modern office space, where Crowley forces the condemned souls to wait in a line that goes on forever, because, as Crowley states it, “No one likes waiting in line.” Sometime after his reformation of Hell, Crowley approaches Castiel for a deal to open Purgatory and to release the souls inside of it to use for power. He manipulates the angel into agreeing, saying that Raphael cannot be allowed to restart the Apocalypse. Castiel agrees, after Crowley gives him an insurance policy -- 50,000 condemned souls from Hell itself in order to give Castiel the power boost he needed to challenge Raphael for the kingdom of Heaven. This starts a civil war in Heaven, Castiel versus Raphael, which Crowley mostly ignores save for whenever he needs to speak to Castiel regarding how to crack open Purgatory.
Castiel and Crowley’s partnership is unknown to the rest of the cast -- Castiel even assists Crowley in faking his own death in order to keep the deal a secret. It works out, for the most part, until Dean, Sam, and Bobby catch Castiel eavesdropping on them while invisible. They trap the angel in holy fire in order to get the truth out of him, but when demons attack the house, the three flee the scene and leave Castiel trapped in the holy fire, unable to escape. Crowley arrives shortly after to release the angel from the fire, which only sets Castiel’s resolve to open Purgatory even more, which works out marvelously in Crowley’s favor.
The only problem, to Crowley, was that the Winchesters were hellbent on stopping Castiel from opening Purgatory. Crowley demanded that Castiel just kill the annoyances and be done with it, but the angel refused, and threatened Crowley's life instead. Trapped and without many options, Crowley agreed to not kill the Winchesters -- but, instead, kidnapped Dean's girlfriend and her son, Lisa and Ben, in order to send them on a wild goosechase while Crowley continued to work towards his goal of opening Purgatory. He even goes so far as to have a demon possess Lisa as an insurance policy. The entire situation ends horribly for Dean in particular -- not that Crowley really gives a damn. Unfortunately for the demon, it winds up being one of the last straws for Castiel working amicably with him, and his grand plan to secure his position in Hell quickly falls apart.
Castiel betrays him and insists on taking all of the souls instead of the agreed half of the deal, threatening to kill the demon if he does not agree. When this occurs, Crowley goes to the only individual who could even hope to beat Castiel -- the Archangel Raphael. Together, Raphael and Crowley plan to beat Castiel to the punch and open Purgatory first, but Castiel dupes them both and opens the realm before the archangel and the demon can. Upon absorbing all of the souls, Castiel loses his mind, and becomes an entirely different creature. As soon as Crowley realizes that Castiel ruined his ritual and absorbed all of the souls, he promptly leaves Raphael’s side, choosing to evacuate rather than stand a fight.
Crowley, for the next six months, is on the run yet again -- but this time, it's from his former friend Castiel, who believes he is the new God due to his new power boost. When Castiel finds Crowley, he is in hiding -- and Castiel takes Hell away from Crowley, using him as a figurehead to manage things in Castiel's absence. Crowley decides to say 'screw off, kitten' and works with the Winchesters to help bind Death in order to kill Castiel -- and once he gives the Winchesters the binding spell to do so, he vanishes from sight, not to be heard or seen from by the hunters until months later. This time, Crowley is self-assured, in charge, and has a beard. The beard is important. It's a life-changing character alteration.
ANYWAY. Crowley informs the Winchesters that they are to continue hunting beasts called the Leviathan -- the creatures Castiel accidentally let out when he absorbed Purgatory. Crowley attempted to make friends with their leader, Dick Roman, but Dick Roman was... well, a giant dick and told Crowley he was going to wipe demons off the face of the Earth. You would think bad guys in Supernatural would learn by now before telling Crowley the demons are all going to die, because the last guy is currently in a hellcage roasting away for eternity... but whatever. As such, Crowley works to defeat Dick Roman in his own unique way -- by letting the Winchesters take the fall.
In the end, Dick Roman dies -- because Crowley gave the Winchesters and a newly found Castiel the key to killing him -- and as a result, Dean and Castiel are sent to Purgatory, leaving Sam all alone. Crowley could care less, because he hates Sam more than he hates used clothing, and he leaves to revel in the fact that he is now the most powerful being on the planet in the possession of one [1] Kevin Tran, Prophet of the Lord that he stole rightfully from the remains of Dick's laboratory.
Personality: Crowley, on the surface, is the most swag short British man you will ever meet. He is eloquent, well-spoken, with a taste for the finer things in life. He wears only the best clothes, drinks only the best scotch, and lives in a mansion fit for a king. Few would expect, when you meet Crowley, that he is the most powerful demon of Hell, the ruler of the underworld, and one of the most manipulative and savvy creatures to grace the Winchesters with his extraordinarily amazing presence. Scratch that exterior, however, and you come across a much more complicated individual.
Crowley began as the right-hand man to the most powerful demon in Hell and the Crossroads Demon when she fell from power due to her death. He clawed and scratched his way to the top through his own determination and cunning to become the self-appointed King of Hell, after Lucifer was locked into the pit. No one gave him that position -- Crowley took it for his own, on his own merit. While it isn’t exactly a high achievement in terms of moral integrity, Crowley is a determined, self-established, cunning individual who takes everything on his own terms, and no one else’s. He is his own boss. No one, angel or demon, will tell him what to do or how to rule his realm. He even goes so far as to plot against Lucifer -- his ‘father’ of sorts -- in order to have him killed to further his own goals for reforming Hell into the place it rightfully should be. His allegiance is to his own goals and no one person in particular. He is a lone agent, which makes him a particularly powerful ally (or enemy) to have.
Being the King of Hell is a difficult position -- and Crowley takes this position seriously. He will do anything and everything to keep his position his own, including work with the angels (or, rather, Castiel) and the Winchesters in order to get what he wants. He is manipulative and is frequently shown manipulating those around him, especially Castiel, in order to get new allies and further his goals. He’s not exactly the nicest guy in town. However, when Crowley makes a deal, he sticks to the deal. That doesn’t mean he won’t take advantage of every possible loophole imaginable -- after all, Crowley held Bobby Singer’s soul over his head simply because he could -- but he will not go back on his word should he make a contract. After all, what good is being the King of Hell if your word and reputation aren’t trustworthy? One must make a good impression if you’re going to capture a large amount of clientele and Crowley takes this very seriously. In later seasons, Crowley publicly executes a demon for breaking deals before they're due, simply because he was ruining Hell's sense of integrity. They were demons, they weren't mindless idiots, and Crowley has worked very hard to turn Hell from a chaotic drooling nightmare into a functioning business, complete with benefits if you do your job properly.
As hinted above with the public execution, Crowley also has something of a hair-trigger temper, when he is pushed to the brink. He tends to go from his standard soft-spoken condescending tone to screaming within two point four seconds, depending on what you say to him. Should you provoke his wrath, Crowley will make you pay for it. He has little to no qualms about killing or murder (he’s the King of Hell, for heaven’s sake) and is shown killing an entire building of demons in order to get to one who has a bit of information that would prove useful to him. He tortures his own kind for information regularly, but it seems to be something of a last resort for Crowley. He dislikes getting his hands dirty -- his suits are woefully hard to find replicas of and blood is impossible to get out without a fight. However, Crowley is also shown to be remarkably fair, when it comes to it. When taking over Hell, he removed torture entirely, replacing the racks of Hell with a permanently long line. He ceased demon production in order to try and reform demons from monsters into functioning intelligent beings -- and though he often remarks that he sees Lucifer's point in wanting to shoot them all, Crowley rewards his demons for good work, just as he punishes them for bad. Their job isn't difficult, Crowley just expects them to do it. The demons that are shown to be close to Crowley aren't necessarily afraid of him unless they screw up, because they know that what's coming is a swift and heavy hand to show them that they've done wrong.
Despite all of these obvious and hideous flaws, Crowley is shown to have a few small moments of legitimate kindness -- well, in his own unique way. He returns Bobby the ability to walk as an “extra” piece of their deal together, though he didn’t have to do such a thing. He seems to genuinely be interested in why Castiel is upset numerous times, though he is often callous and abrupt with the angel whenever asking. While there is almost always something in it for him, he frequently assists the Winchesters in accomplishing their goals, though it puts him at great personal risk, and he never spells out his true motivations completely. When he kidnaps Kevin Tran, the prophet of the Lord, he does not torture Kevin or treat him poorly -- instead, he buys him new clothes and feeds him and treats him very nicely, in order to get what he wants. He isn't a savage, by any means -- and he can be kind when he feels like it.
So, to make a long story short, Crowley is far from a good person (in fact, he’s actually kind of a terrible individual), but Crowley has his odd moments of humanity that make him one of the most complicated and complex individuals in the series. He is the only demon we have been shown who seems to have a sense of integrity, a moral code that makes sense to no one but him. He has a sense of right, a sense of wrong, and a sense of where to toe the line -- and though Crowley will happily throw you underneath a bus in order to save himself, he will make damn sure you deserve it first. He is determined, self-sufficient, cunning, witty, and completely able to get himself out of any situation he puts himself in, without anyone's help. After all, trusting other people gets you killed, and Crowley is far from interested in doing that just yet.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Host; Demons are seriously tough SOBs. Shooting them, stabbing them, cutting them, breaking their bones have no effect on the demon in question -- and higher power demons seem to have the ability to use their power to heal their hosts, as they aren’t shown with their injuries when we meet them again later on. So far, canonly, there are only three ways to properly kill the demon inside the human host (which will be discussed below) -- but actual injuries to their bodies, much like the angels, do nothing to them.
Teleportation; Crowley has, in his own world, the ability to teleport from place to place. He is shown to appear in the backseat of the Winchesters’ Impala, through closed doors, and even into warded buildings without much fuss.
Weaknesses; Crowley, as stated, is a demon. This means he has a weakness to holy water, can be exorcised, and can be trapped in a devil’s trapped if he is tricked into walking into one. The only way to truly kill Crowley -- that is, the demon possessing the body he is inhabiting -- would be to utilize Samuel Colt’s demon killing gun, Ruby’s demon killing knife, or to burn the bones of his original human self.
Contracts; Crowley is the King of Hell -- the King of the Crossroads -- and an extraordinarily powerful demon. A demon’s main power, if you are a powerful enough one, is the ability to forge contracts. These contracts are usually in exchange for the person’s soul -- and Crowley has the ability to grant most anything of what the person wants. Power, money, sex -- Crowley has access to it all, and the ability to manifest it instantly. The catch is that these contracts are iron-clad and should you try to back out of it, Crowley can rescind whatever he gave you and usually kill you for trying to break the deal. Manifesting anything is something that's more than a little god-modey, so if a contract does occur that's something massive and game-breaking, I could contact the mods or just have it not work.
Possession; Crowley is made out of two different parts -- the human body he is possessing and the actual demon that is inside him. He could, if he so chooses, leave the body he is currently inhabiting and possess someone else. Crowley leaving his host looks like a giant pillar of red smoke bursting out of someone's mouth and going into someone else's mouth. It's not very attractive. Also, should Crowley choose to, he can show his true eyes -- which are a bright blood red. Anyway, the whole possession thing is extremely unlikely unless Crowley had absolutely no other choice. He rather likes his body, thank you very much. But if this is necessary, it would obviously be planned out OOCly and receive full permission.
Telekinesis; Crowley has the ability of telekinesis because ... well, all demons do. His is very powerful, though -- he can snap his fingers and throw someone across a room without any effort at all on his part. Chalk it up to being a super powerful demon king or something. Maybe he lifted mental weights as a child. PR DOESN'T KNOW.
Pyrokinesis; He can also set crap on fire by snapping his fingers because he's too legit to quit. (You can tell this app is getting too long because I stopped taking it seriously about three paragraphs ago.)
Inventory:
Items; Crowley cannot survive without his favorite scotch which is entirely too expensive for any one person to afford. There is one [1] bottle of that in his locker, along with a few monogrammed handkerchiefs, a set of leather gloves, and a rolled contract that he signed with Dick Roman.
Growley; He has a Hellhound. Her name is Growley. She is very large, very invisible (unless you're damned), and very dedicated to her master. She has the ability to tear out souls, teleport, and is a pretty fearsome beastie, but won't hurt or harm anything or anyone without Crowley's strict instruction.
Appearance: Crowley, like listed above, is made out of two parts. His vessel is a 5'10'' literary agent out of New York. He dresses in all black, in very fine tailored clothing, and he is played by the glorious Mark Sheppard. Who is glorious. As for Crowley himself, he's a wispy red smoke monster that possesses people.
Age: Due to Helltime being bizarre, Crowley the demon, despite his human self dying only 400 something years ago, is actually 42,000 years old. In comparison to the other demons, he's pretty young, though.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
“You are joking.”
It was not often that Crowley began his negotiations with such incredulity, but as he stood in the snowy underpass of some hick town in Alabama, he couldn’t help it. Before him was a relatively pretty middle-aged woman, who wore way too much make-up and wore clothes that were meant for a woman half her age. Crowley didn’t comment on her Wal-Mart haute couture, though — he was far too fixated on her bizarre request, the very reason he was brought here.
Truthfully, another crossroads demon had taken the job, but they had passed on the job to Crowley because the demon couldn’t stop laughing. Ordinarily, the King would kill an inept moron that couldn’t even seal a deal, but once he had heard what the deal was for, Crowley had to see it for himself.
“‘course I’m serious,” the woman snapped, her Southern twang permeating the stunned silence as Crowley stared at her, still weirdly lost for words. “I need them for the upcomin’ pageant.”
“So you want — forgive me, I normally don’t ask questions when it comes to people bartering their souls, but I have to have some shred of hope that no one can be this eternally stupid — you want to sell me your soul for a pagaent?” Crowley asked, arching his eyebrows at the woman, almost daring her to disagree. “Will you at least be on Toddlers & Tiaras in compensation, because this seems to be something of a steep price for Manolo Blahniks.”
“I want her to be the shining star of the ball — Ultimate Grand Supreme and everything.” The way the woman spoke, it was as if Crowley was about to make her the President of the United States. “Right down to the shoes.”
“You are going to go to Hell for your six year old to win a dress-up competition,” Crowley responded flatly.
The woman stared at him as if he were stupid.
Crowley, in turn, raised a hand, a soft puff of air escaping from his lips as he laughed to himself, shaking his head slightly as he glanced around.
“Well, at least business will always be good. There is no recession when it comes to morons selling their souls — fine, as you wish, your little Susie May or whatever the hell you named your spawn will win your pagaent and get her shoes and you will go back to… whatever it is you do for a living. Something to do with farm animals, I’m sure. Just — sign on the dotted line.”
And Crowley unfurled the scroll from his jacket, his lips twitching into a smirk.
“I’ll forgo the kissing formality for you.”
Comms Sample:
[Crowley's communication device is levitating in mid-air to show a man dressed in multiple layers, all black, carefully brushing invisible dust off of his sleeves. Despite his arrival in a bunch of gooey shit that is disgusting, Crowley looks like he's arrived via limousine, not a tube.
To those that can see the hounds of Hell, something is just outside of the comm's view -- something large and black and distinctly gooey. There's a large gooey mess on the floor, which Crowley is steadfastedly ignoring, because if he thinks about it any more, he might actually snap.
When the demon king speaks, his voice is soft, accented (not quite British, if anyone cares to pay attention), and very obviously unhappy, to those that know Crowley.]
I don't recall installing this particular level of Hell during the remodel, but I have to admit, this is very much my style of torture.
[Crowley glances toward his dog, who whines at him plaintively -- and in a roll of his eyes, he refocuses his attention on his comm, irate.]
How do you get this shit out of fur?
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tablesC H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Crowley.
Canon: Supernatural.
Original or Alternate Universe: Original.
Canon Point: 7x22: The Survival of the Fittest.
Number: 001.
Setting: Here is the Supernatural website!
History: Crowley began as a young man by the name of Fergus McLeod. He was born in Scotland, in 1661, with a young son by the name of Gavin. When Crowley died, his soul was twisted, and instead of truly passing on to the next realm, he became a demon, a human soul that is twisted by the circumstances of their lives. However, Crowley was not the same as a lot of the mindless power-hungry demons that crossed the line into Lucifer’s domain. He was smart. And he quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the most powerful demons in Hell.
The first mention of Crowley is through the grapevine -- he is the right hand man of the most powerful demon of Hell, Lilith, and he is in the possession of Samuel Colt’s all-powerful gun, which has the ability to kill demons. The Winchesters decide that the gun is one of their only hopes of stopping Lucifer from jump-starting the Apocalypse so, with the help of the Harvelles and Castiel, they work to track the mysterious Crowley down. Castiel finds Crowley at a crossroads, making a deal with a banker who has run into some economic hard times. At the price of his soul and ten years of his life, Crowley gives the man the millions he needs to stop his bank from foreclosing -- and promptly vanishes from sight. Castiel follows, but cannot follow Crowley into his home. The demon warded his house against angels entering it with powerful Enochian sigils -- so Castiel is, effectively, SOL.
When the Winchesters, with the help of Jo Harvelle, break into the mysterious demon’s home, they encounter Crowley... who hands over the gun after shooting two of his own demon followers in the head, with very strict instructions: Kill Lucifer. Stop the Apocalypse. His motives for doing so seem pretty simple: Lucifer, according to Crowley, cares little to nothing about the demons he created and with Lucifer gone, Crowley can live on in relative peace making his deals and buying more houses along the Coast. The way Crowley sees it, the Winchesters can solve his problem for him and, without much more instruction, Crowley vanishes from sight.
Crowley, from this point on, is on the run from, as he puts it, “every bloody demon on Hell and Earth”. Unfortunately for Crowley, the Colt did not work against Lucifer, leaving the Devil alive and the Devil knowing that Crowley betrayed him. Fortunately for Crowley, there was still another plan -- opening the gates of Hell and casting Lucifer back into the Pit by utilizing the four rings of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Through utilizing his connections and his knowledge of the various demons in charge of taking care of the Horsemen, he manages to lead the Winchesters to the Horsemen of Pestilience, along with giving them the location of the Horsemen of Death. With this information, the Winchesters have the tools to lock Lucifer back into the pit -- though Crowley doesn’t stick around to watch it happen.
As soon as Lucifer is locked into the pit, Crowley becomes the King of Hell, and effectively takes over the place as the new head honcho, in order to make Hell something of a better place. He did away with the hellfire and brimstone and constant torture, in favor of a more ‘modern’ form of torture -- he remodeled it into something of a modern office space, where Crowley forces the condemned souls to wait in a line that goes on forever, because, as Crowley states it, “No one likes waiting in line.” Sometime after his reformation of Hell, Crowley approaches Castiel for a deal to open Purgatory and to release the souls inside of it to use for power. He manipulates the angel into agreeing, saying that Raphael cannot be allowed to restart the Apocalypse. Castiel agrees, after Crowley gives him an insurance policy -- 50,000 condemned souls from Hell itself in order to give Castiel the power boost he needed to challenge Raphael for the kingdom of Heaven. This starts a civil war in Heaven, Castiel versus Raphael, which Crowley mostly ignores save for whenever he needs to speak to Castiel regarding how to crack open Purgatory.
Castiel and Crowley’s partnership is unknown to the rest of the cast -- Castiel even assists Crowley in faking his own death in order to keep the deal a secret. It works out, for the most part, until Dean, Sam, and Bobby catch Castiel eavesdropping on them while invisible. They trap the angel in holy fire in order to get the truth out of him, but when demons attack the house, the three flee the scene and leave Castiel trapped in the holy fire, unable to escape. Crowley arrives shortly after to release the angel from the fire, which only sets Castiel’s resolve to open Purgatory even more, which works out marvelously in Crowley’s favor.
The only problem, to Crowley, was that the Winchesters were hellbent on stopping Castiel from opening Purgatory. Crowley demanded that Castiel just kill the annoyances and be done with it, but the angel refused, and threatened Crowley's life instead. Trapped and without many options, Crowley agreed to not kill the Winchesters -- but, instead, kidnapped Dean's girlfriend and her son, Lisa and Ben, in order to send them on a wild goosechase while Crowley continued to work towards his goal of opening Purgatory. He even goes so far as to have a demon possess Lisa as an insurance policy. The entire situation ends horribly for Dean in particular -- not that Crowley really gives a damn. Unfortunately for the demon, it winds up being one of the last straws for Castiel working amicably with him, and his grand plan to secure his position in Hell quickly falls apart.
Castiel betrays him and insists on taking all of the souls instead of the agreed half of the deal, threatening to kill the demon if he does not agree. When this occurs, Crowley goes to the only individual who could even hope to beat Castiel -- the Archangel Raphael. Together, Raphael and Crowley plan to beat Castiel to the punch and open Purgatory first, but Castiel dupes them both and opens the realm before the archangel and the demon can. Upon absorbing all of the souls, Castiel loses his mind, and becomes an entirely different creature. As soon as Crowley realizes that Castiel ruined his ritual and absorbed all of the souls, he promptly leaves Raphael’s side, choosing to evacuate rather than stand a fight.
Crowley, for the next six months, is on the run yet again -- but this time, it's from his former friend Castiel, who believes he is the new God due to his new power boost. When Castiel finds Crowley, he is in hiding -- and Castiel takes Hell away from Crowley, using him as a figurehead to manage things in Castiel's absence. Crowley decides to say 'screw off, kitten' and works with the Winchesters to help bind Death in order to kill Castiel -- and once he gives the Winchesters the binding spell to do so, he vanishes from sight, not to be heard or seen from by the hunters until months later. This time, Crowley is self-assured, in charge, and has a beard. The beard is important. It's a life-changing character alteration.
ANYWAY. Crowley informs the Winchesters that they are to continue hunting beasts called the Leviathan -- the creatures Castiel accidentally let out when he absorbed Purgatory. Crowley attempted to make friends with their leader, Dick Roman, but Dick Roman was... well, a giant dick and told Crowley he was going to wipe demons off the face of the Earth. You would think bad guys in Supernatural would learn by now before telling Crowley the demons are all going to die, because the last guy is currently in a hellcage roasting away for eternity... but whatever. As such, Crowley works to defeat Dick Roman in his own unique way -- by letting the Winchesters take the fall.
In the end, Dick Roman dies -- because Crowley gave the Winchesters and a newly found Castiel the key to killing him -- and as a result, Dean and Castiel are sent to Purgatory, leaving Sam all alone. Crowley could care less, because he hates Sam more than he hates used clothing, and he leaves to revel in the fact that he is now the most powerful being on the planet in the possession of one [1] Kevin Tran, Prophet of the Lord that he stole rightfully from the remains of Dick's laboratory.
Personality: Crowley, on the surface, is the most swag short British man you will ever meet. He is eloquent, well-spoken, with a taste for the finer things in life. He wears only the best clothes, drinks only the best scotch, and lives in a mansion fit for a king. Few would expect, when you meet Crowley, that he is the most powerful demon of Hell, the ruler of the underworld, and one of the most manipulative and savvy creatures to grace the Winchesters with his extraordinarily amazing presence. Scratch that exterior, however, and you come across a much more complicated individual.
Crowley began as the right-hand man to the most powerful demon in Hell and the Crossroads Demon when she fell from power due to her death. He clawed and scratched his way to the top through his own determination and cunning to become the self-appointed King of Hell, after Lucifer was locked into the pit. No one gave him that position -- Crowley took it for his own, on his own merit. While it isn’t exactly a high achievement in terms of moral integrity, Crowley is a determined, self-established, cunning individual who takes everything on his own terms, and no one else’s. He is his own boss. No one, angel or demon, will tell him what to do or how to rule his realm. He even goes so far as to plot against Lucifer -- his ‘father’ of sorts -- in order to have him killed to further his own goals for reforming Hell into the place it rightfully should be. His allegiance is to his own goals and no one person in particular. He is a lone agent, which makes him a particularly powerful ally (or enemy) to have.
Being the King of Hell is a difficult position -- and Crowley takes this position seriously. He will do anything and everything to keep his position his own, including work with the angels (or, rather, Castiel) and the Winchesters in order to get what he wants. He is manipulative and is frequently shown manipulating those around him, especially Castiel, in order to get new allies and further his goals. He’s not exactly the nicest guy in town. However, when Crowley makes a deal, he sticks to the deal. That doesn’t mean he won’t take advantage of every possible loophole imaginable -- after all, Crowley held Bobby Singer’s soul over his head simply because he could -- but he will not go back on his word should he make a contract. After all, what good is being the King of Hell if your word and reputation aren’t trustworthy? One must make a good impression if you’re going to capture a large amount of clientele and Crowley takes this very seriously. In later seasons, Crowley publicly executes a demon for breaking deals before they're due, simply because he was ruining Hell's sense of integrity. They were demons, they weren't mindless idiots, and Crowley has worked very hard to turn Hell from a chaotic drooling nightmare into a functioning business, complete with benefits if you do your job properly.
As hinted above with the public execution, Crowley also has something of a hair-trigger temper, when he is pushed to the brink. He tends to go from his standard soft-spoken condescending tone to screaming within two point four seconds, depending on what you say to him. Should you provoke his wrath, Crowley will make you pay for it. He has little to no qualms about killing or murder (he’s the King of Hell, for heaven’s sake) and is shown killing an entire building of demons in order to get to one who has a bit of information that would prove useful to him. He tortures his own kind for information regularly, but it seems to be something of a last resort for Crowley. He dislikes getting his hands dirty -- his suits are woefully hard to find replicas of and blood is impossible to get out without a fight. However, Crowley is also shown to be remarkably fair, when it comes to it. When taking over Hell, he removed torture entirely, replacing the racks of Hell with a permanently long line. He ceased demon production in order to try and reform demons from monsters into functioning intelligent beings -- and though he often remarks that he sees Lucifer's point in wanting to shoot them all, Crowley rewards his demons for good work, just as he punishes them for bad. Their job isn't difficult, Crowley just expects them to do it. The demons that are shown to be close to Crowley aren't necessarily afraid of him unless they screw up, because they know that what's coming is a swift and heavy hand to show them that they've done wrong.
Despite all of these obvious and hideous flaws, Crowley is shown to have a few small moments of legitimate kindness -- well, in his own unique way. He returns Bobby the ability to walk as an “extra” piece of their deal together, though he didn’t have to do such a thing. He seems to genuinely be interested in why Castiel is upset numerous times, though he is often callous and abrupt with the angel whenever asking. While there is almost always something in it for him, he frequently assists the Winchesters in accomplishing their goals, though it puts him at great personal risk, and he never spells out his true motivations completely. When he kidnaps Kevin Tran, the prophet of the Lord, he does not torture Kevin or treat him poorly -- instead, he buys him new clothes and feeds him and treats him very nicely, in order to get what he wants. He isn't a savage, by any means -- and he can be kind when he feels like it.
So, to make a long story short, Crowley is far from a good person (in fact, he’s actually kind of a terrible individual), but Crowley has his odd moments of humanity that make him one of the most complicated and complex individuals in the series. He is the only demon we have been shown who seems to have a sense of integrity, a moral code that makes sense to no one but him. He has a sense of right, a sense of wrong, and a sense of where to toe the line -- and though Crowley will happily throw you underneath a bus in order to save himself, he will make damn sure you deserve it first. He is determined, self-sufficient, cunning, witty, and completely able to get himself out of any situation he puts himself in, without anyone's help. After all, trusting other people gets you killed, and Crowley is far from interested in doing that just yet.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Host; Demons are seriously tough SOBs. Shooting them, stabbing them, cutting them, breaking their bones have no effect on the demon in question -- and higher power demons seem to have the ability to use their power to heal their hosts, as they aren’t shown with their injuries when we meet them again later on. So far, canonly, there are only three ways to properly kill the demon inside the human host (which will be discussed below) -- but actual injuries to their bodies, much like the angels, do nothing to them.
Teleportation; Crowley has, in his own world, the ability to teleport from place to place. He is shown to appear in the backseat of the Winchesters’ Impala, through closed doors, and even into warded buildings without much fuss.
Weaknesses; Crowley, as stated, is a demon. This means he has a weakness to holy water, can be exorcised, and can be trapped in a devil’s trapped if he is tricked into walking into one. The only way to truly kill Crowley -- that is, the demon possessing the body he is inhabiting -- would be to utilize Samuel Colt’s demon killing gun, Ruby’s demon killing knife, or to burn the bones of his original human self.
Contracts; Crowley is the King of Hell -- the King of the Crossroads -- and an extraordinarily powerful demon. A demon’s main power, if you are a powerful enough one, is the ability to forge contracts. These contracts are usually in exchange for the person’s soul -- and Crowley has the ability to grant most anything of what the person wants. Power, money, sex -- Crowley has access to it all, and the ability to manifest it instantly. The catch is that these contracts are iron-clad and should you try to back out of it, Crowley can rescind whatever he gave you and usually kill you for trying to break the deal. Manifesting anything is something that's more than a little god-modey, so if a contract does occur that's something massive and game-breaking, I could contact the mods or just have it not work.
Possession; Crowley is made out of two different parts -- the human body he is possessing and the actual demon that is inside him. He could, if he so chooses, leave the body he is currently inhabiting and possess someone else. Crowley leaving his host looks like a giant pillar of red smoke bursting out of someone's mouth and going into someone else's mouth. It's not very attractive. Also, should Crowley choose to, he can show his true eyes -- which are a bright blood red. Anyway, the whole possession thing is extremely unlikely unless Crowley had absolutely no other choice. He rather likes his body, thank you very much. But if this is necessary, it would obviously be planned out OOCly and receive full permission.
Telekinesis; Crowley has the ability of telekinesis because ... well, all demons do. His is very powerful, though -- he can snap his fingers and throw someone across a room without any effort at all on his part. Chalk it up to being a super powerful demon king or something. Maybe he lifted mental weights as a child. PR DOESN'T KNOW.
Pyrokinesis; He can also set crap on fire by snapping his fingers because he's too legit to quit. (You can tell this app is getting too long because I stopped taking it seriously about three paragraphs ago.)
Inventory:
Items; Crowley cannot survive without his favorite scotch which is entirely too expensive for any one person to afford. There is one [1] bottle of that in his locker, along with a few monogrammed handkerchiefs, a set of leather gloves, and a rolled contract that he signed with Dick Roman.
Growley; He has a Hellhound. Her name is Growley. She is very large, very invisible (unless you're damned), and very dedicated to her master. She has the ability to tear out souls, teleport, and is a pretty fearsome beastie, but won't hurt or harm anything or anyone without Crowley's strict instruction.
Appearance: Crowley, like listed above, is made out of two parts. His vessel is a 5'10'' literary agent out of New York. He dresses in all black, in very fine tailored clothing, and he is played by the glorious Mark Sheppard. Who is glorious. As for Crowley himself, he's a wispy red smoke monster that possesses people.
Age: Due to Helltime being bizarre, Crowley the demon, despite his human self dying only 400 something years ago, is actually 42,000 years old. In comparison to the other demons, he's pretty young, though.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
“You are joking.”
It was not often that Crowley began his negotiations with such incredulity, but as he stood in the snowy underpass of some hick town in Alabama, he couldn’t help it. Before him was a relatively pretty middle-aged woman, who wore way too much make-up and wore clothes that were meant for a woman half her age. Crowley didn’t comment on her Wal-Mart haute couture, though — he was far too fixated on her bizarre request, the very reason he was brought here.
Truthfully, another crossroads demon had taken the job, but they had passed on the job to Crowley because the demon couldn’t stop laughing. Ordinarily, the King would kill an inept moron that couldn’t even seal a deal, but once he had heard what the deal was for, Crowley had to see it for himself.
“‘course I’m serious,” the woman snapped, her Southern twang permeating the stunned silence as Crowley stared at her, still weirdly lost for words. “I need them for the upcomin’ pageant.”
“So you want — forgive me, I normally don’t ask questions when it comes to people bartering their souls, but I have to have some shred of hope that no one can be this eternally stupid — you want to sell me your soul for a pagaent?” Crowley asked, arching his eyebrows at the woman, almost daring her to disagree. “Will you at least be on Toddlers & Tiaras in compensation, because this seems to be something of a steep price for Manolo Blahniks.”
“I want her to be the shining star of the ball — Ultimate Grand Supreme and everything.” The way the woman spoke, it was as if Crowley was about to make her the President of the United States. “Right down to the shoes.”
“You are going to go to Hell for your six year old to win a dress-up competition,” Crowley responded flatly.
The woman stared at him as if he were stupid.
Crowley, in turn, raised a hand, a soft puff of air escaping from his lips as he laughed to himself, shaking his head slightly as he glanced around.
“Well, at least business will always be good. There is no recession when it comes to morons selling their souls — fine, as you wish, your little Susie May or whatever the hell you named your spawn will win your pagaent and get her shoes and you will go back to… whatever it is you do for a living. Something to do with farm animals, I’m sure. Just — sign on the dotted line.”
And Crowley unfurled the scroll from his jacket, his lips twitching into a smirk.
“I’ll forgo the kissing formality for you.”
Comms Sample:
[Crowley's communication device is levitating in mid-air to show a man dressed in multiple layers, all black, carefully brushing invisible dust off of his sleeves. Despite his arrival in a bunch of gooey shit that is disgusting, Crowley looks like he's arrived via limousine, not a tube.
To those that can see the hounds of Hell, something is just outside of the comm's view -- something large and black and distinctly gooey. There's a large gooey mess on the floor, which Crowley is steadfastedly ignoring, because if he thinks about it any more, he might actually snap.
When the demon king speaks, his voice is soft, accented (not quite British, if anyone cares to pay attention), and very obviously unhappy, to those that know Crowley.]
I don't recall installing this particular level of Hell during the remodel, but I have to admit, this is very much my style of torture.
[Crowley glances toward his dog, who whines at him plaintively -- and in a roll of his eyes, he refocuses his attention on his comm, irate.]
How do you get this shit out of fur?
