Anyone watch Good Omens?
I just finished watching the final episode/movie of Good Omens and was struck at the similarities between Crowley/Aziraphel and Ilya/Shane. I'm not as immersed in Good Omens story as I am with HR, but I love Crowley and Aziraphel (and David Tennant and Michael Sheen of course) and saw so many similarities with Ilya and Shane!
Crowley and Ilya are chaos gremlins, reckless, provocative, cool, sexy, and even have cool cars that they love to drive recklessly. Both fell first/ harder than their partners, whereas Aziraphel and Shane are both rule followers, restrained, disciplined, sincere, and cautious. Both couples have seemingly unsurmountable reasons why they can't be together, and it takes a while for them to try, but they can’t resist being together and understand each other in ways that the rest of the world doesn’t.
These relationships are definitely a trope, and it's kind of like grumpy/sunshine and definitely enemies to friends to lovers, but I love the parallels between the characters in these two stories.
Anyone else see the commonalities? Are there other M/M examples of chaos gremlin + calm rational (boring) partner that can’t help but be drawn to each other? It's such a good trope!