Crowley - what exactly is he?

[amberdreams]

I know Mark Sheppard is continually winding fans up by pointing out that Crowley has never shown any evidence of being a Crossroads demon - or any other kind of demon that we know of for that matter - because the show has never let us see his eyes change to black, red, yellow or white.

Then in the finale, I noticed that Crowley was making things happen by clicking his fingers.  And we all know who was the last person we saw doing that, don't we?  Yup, Gabriel aka the Trickster.  I can't recall without checking whether Crowley has done this before, or whether it was something new, but that has got me thinking about what Crowley could be, if he isn't a demon...and what that might mean for Dean in Purgatory, or Sam fighting the left over Leviathans.

More fun speculation, eh?

Comments

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the finger snapping is a Trickster thing rather than an angel thing -- I think Tricksters still existed in Spnverse, didn't they, even if the one we encountered turned out to be Gabriel in disguise? And Gabriel could have taken on their mannerisms as well as their modus operandi. It would be interesting if Crowley ended up connected outside the heaven/hell axis, and I sort of like the idea that his very lawyerly habits might be a form of trickiness.

And I want to keep the wing sound in Family Matters as Cas in my headcanon, because it would make me happy to think the writers were giving that clue in such a subtle way.

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about the Trickster thing too, as I think it is only Gabriel we've seen doing the finger click - I don't recall any other angel using that gesture.

Whatever, I really love the potential for Crowley to be more than he appears - it's another thing they've left us with that makes the potential for Season 8 that much more exciting...