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wrengrif · 5 days

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You know what we haven't done for awhile?

That's right. It's WHAT IF time.

Okay, but let me preface this What If with saying, I don't believe in the coffee theory. That it was poisoned or held some mystical juice or whatever. I believe Aziraphale went to Heaven because one, he really didn't have a choice and two, he thinks there is some way to really turn Heaven around. To make it an actual Good Place.

However ... I have read some compelling theories lately about not taking the Final Fifteen at face value and I got to say, it's gotten me to wondering.

I keep coming back to Neil and the other Good Omen creators saying, nothing in the story is accidental. Which got me thinking about themes. Themes that interwoven all throughout Season 2, emphasized in the background. One of the main themes was, in fact, subterfuge.

Hiding Gabriel from Heaven and Hell.

Saving Job's children.

The bullet catch, the photograph, the 'magical words' caught being lipped through a shop window.

Even Edinburgh, where they pulled a couple of flim-flams on the surgeon and on Elspeth. If Season One was about the power of them coming together, Season Two was about their ability to out-smart both Heaven and Hell on multiple occasions. Not always perfectly, as seen by Crowley getting dragged back down to Hell, or in fact the entire Armageddon plan.

The point is though, that Crowley and Aziraphale are old hands at subterfuge. They were able to carry on a friendship, for over 6000 years, without getting caught by Heaven or Hell (note, I don't think they pulled a fast one on God. I'm pretty sure She knows and she's all for it. Number one shipper, Her.) They trust each other, implicitly.

So, when the Final Fifteen happened ... how are we to know that they weren't already communicating on an entirely different level? What they said, I have no real proof. However, I do think that Crowley and Aziraphale perhaps knew, from the get-go, that they were saying good-bye to one another. That Aziraphale was going to try and fix the problem from the inside, not Heaven itself per say, but the issue of them finally being free of Heaven and Hell so they could be together.

The whole fight was Crowley not arguing with Aziraphale about 'taking a new job', but instead about Aziraphale going alone. Begging Aziraphale not to go into the lion's den, that they could figure out a different way together, there, on Earth. Escape the Metatron, regroup, make up a plan. Aziraphale knew, though, that they were being watched and there was no way for them to get out of the Bookshop without both being destroyed. They went through the motions of fighting about one thing, while fighting about something else entirely.

They nearly made it through the whole fight within a fight, until Crowley cracked. He was scared he'd never see Aziraphale again and he had to let his angel know how he felt. Thus, The Kiss. The desperate, 'I love you, don't do this, don't leave me' kiss. Aziraphale kissed back, half-apology, half-confession, 'I love you too, I have to, they'll kill you'. When he pulls back he's mouthing, 'do it again', and he nearly says 'I love you', but says 'I forgive you'. Perhaps, I forgive you for making this even harder for me.

Crowley's mad, to be sure, but he plays it to the hilt. 'Don't bother'. 'No nightingales', perhaps code letting Aziraphale know not to to contact him until they knew it was safe, really safe. He walks out the door and then stands by The Bentley. Another message letting Aziraphale know he'll be there, on Earth, waiting. Aziraphale pausing, perhaps mouthing, 'Trust me', before disappearing into the elevator with the Metatron.

Honestly, this is all conjecture, but What If? What if they're already playing Nefertiti and the three shell game? Look here, at Aziraphale, but don't look over here, to see what Crowley is doing. Magic! Smoke and mirrors!

Aim for my mouth, but shoot past my ear.

What if?

(Note, NO ONE SHARE THIS WITH NEIL GAIMAN. This is just brain thoughts. Leave the man to his creative process and don't fuck with him.)

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #good omens fandom #meta #good omens meta #moar sugar-induced theories

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ritz-writes · 6 months

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@asleepyy so sorry for tagging u twice in one day and i hope im not bothering u with my brain rot 😅

but yes, i did actually dissect the lyrics. yes, i am actually insane. and yes, i love this au quite a lot.

here are my notes and what i think each song represents, tho its mainly just the vibes i get. i made notes as i listened to them (note: i see songs almost always in animatic form. idk if that will effect how i imagine what each song means, but i thought it might be worth mentioning)

join me as i lose my mind over the course of an hour and a half

say what you think: def making me think of them both in heaven and jophiel wanting to ask questions.

running up that hill: AHH this one hurt. very obvious as well. jophiel seeing that azazel shouldnt be a demon. "And if I only could I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get Him to swap our places." i am sobbingggg

what difference does it make?: at first i was going to say its jophiel wanting to figure out what went wrong but azazel makes them promise not to, but i think its better suited for azazel understanding hes a demon, but he cant help but still have faith in the almighty

please please please let me get what i want: fuckkk is this about azazel being a demon but still wanting to do good 😭 short but still painful

ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't've): my first reaction to the title alone was like the second image of the kambucha girl meme. anyway i think this one is about them becoming friends (or more?? 👀) but knowing its seen as wrong. "And if I start a commotion, I run the risk of losing you and that's worse" makes me also think of jophiel talking to the metatron and realizing he shouldnt ask about azazel lest he risk the poor thing being smited.

nothing critical: ohhhh this one gives hella vibes of jophiel not trusting heaven and knowing "something isnt right here" in regards to the fall-- HOLD UP "I know, someone had to go, If not him it'd be me instead" HELLO??? aziraphale asking for jophiel??? is this like after he finds out what azazels name used to be??

flowers never bend with the rainfall: hmm... i feel like this is a plot point song. not sure why. but "And I hide behind the shield of my illusion" makes me think it pertains to azazel

bird in space: oh this ones a bit tricky. i think ive reached the songs that no longer fit the lore we've been given thus far. so the only thing i can think rn is jophiel enjoying earthly pleasures? not rlly sure

angel, won't you call me?: oh fuckkk is this about a fight they have? "I fled at the face of my rival. When I felt his breath at the back of my neck. Angel, won't you call?" theres no way that isnt about azazel saying smth and then leaving, only to be scared he severed his tie to the only person thats been nice to him.

the stranger: first of this is a bop and im loving it. very groovy. the first thing that comes to mind is the "choose your faces wisely" prophecy. ooo is this about jophiel trying to convince azazel hes still meant to be an angel? that he wasnt meant to fall? also, the last verse is sticking out to me... not sure why

all i think about now: fuckkkkk this is giving me the vibes of jophiel finding out azazel Fell cuz of him and feeling guilty about it. "If I'm late, can I thank you now?" FUCKING OW?? oh yeah for sure this is about jophiel finding out and being sucker punched with guilt

ill be your mirror: oh goddd this song. i know crowley listens to this song but i cant remember what its about so lets see. AH SHIT YEAH THATS RIGHT. okay so jophiel reminds azazel that he is inherently good, regardless of if hes a demon. thats what im getting from this (also just tihnking of that ask i sent about the reflective sunglasses bthwjegkrw)

me and my husband: okay all im getting from this is "they r down bad". they r very very very much in love. getting vibes of this being after they stop the apocolypse. or maybe their feelings developing thru the centuries

time in a bottle: oh man this song always gets me. okay so, this and the last song r giving the oh-shit-i-might-be-in-love vibes. but this one is with jophiel's pov, while me and my husband is azazel's

ritz note: the last couple songs have been cute and lovey and i am now terrified of what the next ones r gonna be. cuz i know this fandom. and i am not ready for the pain. i am afraidddd

lonesome town: i fucking called it i knew the happy wouldnt last 😭😭 they had a fight didnt they. yeahhh they had a fight. FUCK why is this so sad but so pretty

across the universe: is this one sad too??? hang on theres a bit thats not in english, what does that mean... "Hail to the Heavenly Teacher." okay so i assume this is an azazel song. this is just making me think of the bookshop fire, but its azazel thinking jophiel died 😭 ....i am staring at the lyircs. i am glaring at the lyrics. this song MEANS something. i just dont know what. but its important. im squinting at it very hard (note: i came back to this song and am STILL glaring at it. its like. its like im seeing it covered in sand but i know theres gold underneath. i cant SEE the gold, but i know its there. this is driving me nuts /pos)

no wonder i: hm.. im not rlly sure with this one. OH?? is this azazel finding out heaven isnt that good?? "Suddenly I'm not so sure. That intentions can be pure." hmmmmmmm

what do they know?: holy shit okay this is a completely different kind of song than the others. im.... glaring at these lyrics too. feels like a plot point but cant tell what it is. i think its about jophiel? maybe heaven too?? idk im grasping at straws with this one

sea of love: oh yay a happy song again 😌 okay this is just short and sweet. gives me forgiveness and/or confession vibes.

who are you, really?: this one sounds important and i am glaring!! makes me think of "we dont need heaven we dont need hell" and also "a demon/angel that goes along with hell/heaven as far as he can". also just makes me think of jophiel speaking.

the moon will sing: i fucking love this song but i dont think ive ever looked at the lyrics so lets goooo. right away i see "I could have been anyone, anyone else. Before you made the choice for me" and think of aziraphale asking and falling for jophiel, and in a way making the choice of jophiel staying an angel. "Instead, I made a bed with apathy" jophiel trying not to care about a random demon. "I shine only with the light you gave me" jophiel giving azazel ideas on how to do "good" while being "bad". also with that line, thinking of azazel saying that to god and being sad about having fallen AUGHH i have a whole animatic in my head with this song and im losing my mind

matephor: hnnnn another important sounding song. jophiel vibes. fight song perhaps?? "Don't look too hard 'cause you won't like the scars he left in me" azazel vibes??? this one is elusive to me but i love it. okay im slowly getting more azazel vibes. like azazel trying to convince jophiel that he is a demon and fell for a reason

providence: right away getting "heaven and hell r bad" vibes. OHH okay okay this is giving me hella jophiel vibes, but specificly snarky and sassy jophiel vibes. of being like "oh yes heaven is oh so great, we kill children! but its for the greater good, of course. gotta beat hell and all that, even at the cost of innocents. all for the almighty and her ineffable plan." (this song is a bop omg)

earth angel: oh i know this one but only with crowley and aziraphale, so im excited to listen to it with an oopsie omens mind set. omg wait why does it hit HARDER. love sick azazel is such a cute image 🥺🥰

what more can i do: hmm.. them being in love but knowing its "forbidden"? cant tell who i imagine with it more

starman: this is just them. classic good omens song, regardless of the au. love to see it 💖

a pearl: AH FUCK ANOTHER SAD ONE. mitski whyy. hm.. azazel song? jophiel?? i think jophiel... tho my mind might be turning to mush at this point so im not sure. one of them is sad

duvet: oh def azazel vibes. oh maybe some jophiel vibes too?? i can see it swaping povs. i think it fits azazel more tho.

ritz note: OKAY the next song is in a different language and for a split second i legit thought i was having a stroke when i pulled up the lyrics ngl bgkewrrkjq

différent de toi: no idea what this song is about but its pretty 😊

oh thats all of them! i think the first half is more coherent observations, while the second half is just... rambling a bit lmao. idk if any of this makes sense. i might also be looking for things that arent there with these songs, but oh well. this was fun!

and now, after looking back at them all, i really does just slowly derail near the end lmao

#kinda hesitant to post this #but i think i put too much work into it not to so #here we go <3 #good omens #good omens au #ritz rambles #long post

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lvgoona · 9 months

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☕️ good omens 2 : the coffee theory summarised as best as i can

warning: this contains MAJOR good omens 2 spoilers!

i'd like to start by saying that i am a firm believer in the coffee theory, although a lot of the theories that i have heard of are also so real. i haven't heard many theories, so if anybody that sees this has another idea, please let me know!

also note, i will be using he/him pronouns for crowley and az throughout the majority of this, i'm very much a genderqueer angel and demon truther, but i'll be using one set because it's usually a lot easier for people to understand (including myself).

okay, so let's just get to it.

the coffee theory, thus far:

if you didn't already know, the coffee theory is that the coffee that metatron gave aziraphale was spiked- most likely miracled, explaining his actions afterwards, because like we all know azi wouldn't leave crow for anything.

so, the best place to start is, of course, metatron giving azi the coffee. we have seen, all throughout the show, how both heaven and hell frown upon traitors- it's pretty much a major subplot(?) throughout both season 1 and season 2, especially as heaven and hell decided to literally kill both az and crowley for betraying their given sides. so why's metatron here giving aziraphale a coffee and asking him to be the high archangel? like??? (SMALL NOTE, REALLY OFF TOPIC: god stopped narrating at some point like there's gotta be a really important reason for that) during my second rewatch, i noticed an incredibly faint miracle noise at 35:48 - 35:50, further feeding into the theory!

time to backtrack a little to metatron's arrival. it isn't something that i immediately took note of, but peek how metatron's clothes are dark, whereas all angels that have been shown so far wear light clothes, even the ones on earth eg. muriel and aziraphale (gabriel wasn't wearing light clothes during his time as jim because he was just jim). so seems a bit sketchy, right? the only immortal beings shown that wear dark clothes are demons.

right before the walk, there's a zoom in on metatron's face alongside a suspenseful rise in music- the music in the show has been very important, a very key element (applause to the musicians that worked on good omens, huge respect!!).

now to move onto the actual walk- well we do't actually see the walk, but we do see the return. when they return, azi is seemingly.. off. he rambles and looks overall stressed, like things are just not normal.

after the walk, we see metatron entrusting the bookshop to muriel, although there was no guarantee that az would even go to heaven with metatron. the scenes following the walk are absolutely heartbreaking, and i think that because of this, the beginning of season three will be equally (if not more) heartbreaking. but, notice aziraphale's body language- he looks so distressed, could be a stretch but it's as if he's pleading and trying to reach out to crowley.

now for the motive, because there very much has to be one. the metatron mentioned something about the second coming. he would need someone that knows humans to get it over with, as we have seen he was very much not opposed to the end of the world, as shown in season 1. metatron needs aziraphale, which is why he couldn't risk azi denying the invitation- explaining the miracle coffee.

it's a far stretch, but az isn't going to be the high archangel, he'll be the duke of hell.

spiked coffee or not, i'm 100% sure that neil has something absolutely amazing in store for us, and i'd like to remind everybody not to hate on neil, the ending of season 2 was heartbreaking but i think that really shows neil's absolute genius

thank you neil gaiman you absolutely amazing man

#good omens #good omens season 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #go 2 speculation #ineffable husbands #go2e6 #good omens coffee theory #coffee theory

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thesherrinfordfacility · 8 months

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I was debating whether or not the Omelas theory and Crowley knowing Jesus would be relevant to S3. And then they released that set of pictures with not just Aziraphale as Mary, but Crowley as crucified Jesus: Arguably the ULTIMATE scapegoat. Thus tying my two questions together. Hmmm...

yours is the second ask ive gotten about those photos, anon (and other anon, i promise i will answer you!!!) and frankly i still don't fully know what to make of this!!!✨

i do think omelas is at the very least has or is going to have some general narrative influence or inspiration on GO, even if it's not even directly related to metatron's coffee order... in any case, im glad that it may feature because i remember loving it when i read it years ago! couple of favourite (and potentially relevant?) quotes, because why not:

"Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it."

"But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else."

"Happiness is based on just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive."

as for crowley's part in it; well, im not sure. we know that in GO!canon that crowley essentially replaced the devil (as described in matthew, mark, luke etc.) as the tempter of jesus, in that he showed jesus the kingdoms of the world (ie. the third temptation and representative of tempting jesus into the dereliction of god). so, we could possibly surmise that crowley also tempted him into eating and into essentially killing himself to test god's love (by preventing it).

well, we know crowley has done those first two temptations before, right? even if the context isn't the same, it is aptly mirrored in s2:

but tbh, it could be that crowley never actually tempted jesus in GO!canon with the first two temptations (ie biblical texts misreport it), or that the interactions were not temptations and instead was misconstrued niceness ("his travel opportunities were limited"), or it could be that crowley is just that indeed a knob sometimes and his recount of the third temptation is not strictly accurate in sentiment as he himself reports it (ie. unreliable narrator). personally, id like to think the second option, given the potential link* between crowley and jesus as scapegoats in different but mirroring scenarios.

either way, his depiction as jesus being crucified is intriguing. if we take the imagery that crowley narratively mirrors jesus, we could arrive at the conclusion that crowley himself was a scapegoat. ive discussed the scapegoat thing more in some other posts, and more specifically along the lines of the old testament depiction of the scapegoat origin, but fuck it, let's chat about it again.

however, i have kinda gotten stuck re: that crowley image - if we take the new testament allegory of the scapegoat (ie the crucifixion), then that would suggest to me a couple of narrative points as concerns crowley's fall:

that crowley was blasphemous (potentially true given his comment pre-fall, "if i were in charge...")

that whoever passed his sentence was (if you consider the gospel of mark re: pontius pilate) originally merciful, but bent to the will of 'the people' (👀 at god and metatron)

but may also have refused to pass the sentence directly (if you consider the gospel of matthew) and instead turned crowley over to someone else to be condemned (double 👀 at god and metatron)

crowley may have fallen for a higher purpose - ie: used as the scapegoat (as jesus died to bring humanity back to righteousness/absolve humanity of sin - and would track with omelas), but we ought to consider that other angels fell too

crowley rose again after falling (which, yeah, he did - presumably into the garden of eden - but none of the fallen, as far as we are aware, died?).

none of the above is impossible, but im not entirely convinced. the above to me would strongly suggest that this scenario would better fit lucifer's narrative anyway? or maybe a bit of both? neil has wiped the possibility of crowley having been/being lucifer (rip), and so if lucifer was indeed the first prince of heaven (as neil has confirmed) and fell first to become satan... where would crowley fit in with the above? it almost seems like it's a bit too main-character-ish in that particular part of the hypothetical narrative for this allegory to fit crowley specifically.

this is where instead i feel like the scapegoat story in old testament texts might be a better parallel. leviticus says that god commanded the israelites to once a year perform a ceremony that would symbolise jesus' own later sacrifice. this was in the form of aaron sacrificing a bull as a burnt offering to atone for his own sins, and then to cast a lot on two other goats - one goat would be sacrificed as a sin offering on behalf of the temple (tabernacle), and the other would be spared but cast into the wilderness carrying the sins of the people, never to return. these two goats together represented the sacrifice and atonement for sin, even if only one was killed.

(@everyone, i think ive read the above right, but obviously it's very summarised and therefore may miss out or misinterpret the details; please come and kindly correct me if not!!!)

so we have three potential elements to this; the bull, and the two goats. if we take the bull out of the equation though, just for a minute, we could potentially interpret that the sin-offered goat and the scapegoat are potential lucifer and crowley respectively; that would fit.

the thing for me however is the - i believe - quite widely known point that crowley and aziraphale were originally meant to be the same character in initial drafts of GO. and we know from the pre-fall scene that aziraphale's information on the fate of the stars may have goaded crowley into challenging god, despite his warnings afterwards not to do so.

so - and hear me out - what if crowley was in fact offered up as the sacrificial goat, *the one which died and rose again, and aziraphale were the scapegoat? spared the fall, but cast out of heaven instead to bear the weight of sin, of the fall, on his shoulders? wouldn't that track with his being stationed on earth - cast into the wilderness - where he just so happens to end up meeting crowley again? and wouldn't it also match the symbolism behind aziraphale's own depiction as the virgin mary; being that of purity, faith, and virtue?

this could further cycle back around to omelas, and the condemnation of the child to be kept in squalor and darkness in order to preserve the paradise of the city. this could easily be parallel to crowley - someone who fell but didn't deserve to - and in doing so, staying fallen, maintains that equilibrium in heaven, and to aziraphale being one to walk away from omelas after learning of the child:

"They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

certainly, it raises questions about metatron's suggestion to aziraphale that he could restore him to angelic status. did metatron make the offer knowing that crowley would reject it, and therefore keep them both separated? that aziraphale would return to heaven - to omelas - and continue in maintaining its illusion of paradise? bring home the scapegoat and instead wash it of the sins it had previously - and potentially unknowingly, re: memory-wipe theories - carried?

#Big Thoughts that may be utter dogshit and barely arrived at a Point but there we are #im not an expert enough on religious texts to talk about it with any authority so if you want to correct me feel free #but pls be kind about it i did my best #good omens #ask #the fall/the great war spec #pre-fall aziraphale spec #AWCW spec #scapegoat theory #omelas theory #mary/pieta spec

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The shifting narrative of God’s interventism and how it reflects on the narrative on John

This post will ignore the issue authorial intent entirely because I can, but it’s also about authorial intent in a way, but I also don’t like to talk about things as happening “accidentally” because a) a serialized story like Supernatural, especially one that got renewed for much longer than anyone could possibly expect or hope in their wildest ambitions, structurally relies on serendipity, because that’s how stories work when they’re work in progress, b) a television show is an extremely multi-authored text and the chance that something happens out of the intent of any of the multiple layers of creators is kind of... statistically negligible. So, yeah, that’s my stance on the topic. Anyway.

The shifting narrative about God is simultaneously something that hangs on fortunate storytelling clicks on an essentially programmed narrative. At first, we don’t know where the fuck God is. Cas starts looking for him with little success. Raphael says he’s dead, Cas doesn’t believe it. Dean relates to his struggle because he knows the feeling of not knowing where the fuck your father is and going looking for him with little success, not knowing if he’s even alive. Then the theory that gets assumed as the truth is that God has left. He fucked off who knows where, who knows why, leaving his creation to struggle alone. Also essentially how Dean had felt after John had died; in that case there was guilt for his demon deal and everything, but the most cruel weight on Dean’s shoulder was that John left him alone to struggle with his devastatingly horrific instructions he doesn’t understand. The angels are also left with horrific instructions they don’t understand. No wonder Cas does his own ‘demon deal’ in season 6, as he desperately tries to do what he assumes his father wants from him, but he doesn’t actually know what that is.

“God has left” is maddening, and everyone is angry about it, but it has its own dignity. God has left us without clear instructions, we are confused and in pain and evil runs amock but at least, we suppose, the evil of it is our own doing. We are alone and we do our best, our best is simply not enough. We wish he gave us guidance, but he won’t. He wants us to figure it out ourselves, possibly. We don’t actually know what he wants. But maybe that’s the point. It’s possible he doesn’t even know what’s happening, he just has left the building entirely.

But then Chuck reveals himself. We find out that he never actually left. He was there. “I like front row seats. You know, I figured I’d hide out in plain sight”. He simply chooses not to intervene. He chooses not to answer. He chooses to be hands-off. He presents himself as a laissez-faire parent, because, he says, it’s better for his children to have the responsibility they need to grow up. He’s absent, but in a different way than we thought! It’s not that he doesn’t know what’s happening or isn’t interested in knowing what’s happening. He’s here, he knows what’s happening, he just stays there and watches as you stumble and struggle and scream. It’s worse, and it pains Dean so much he isn’t even afraid to yell at God. You know we’re suffering and you just don’t give us any support, any comfort.

You’re frustrated. I get it. Believe me, I was hands-on, real hands-on, for, wow, ages. I was so sure if I kept stepping in, teaching, punishing, that these beautiful creatures that I created... would grow up. But it only stayed the same. And I saw that I needed to step away and let my baby find its way. Being overinvolved is no longer parenting. It’s enabling.

But it didn’t get better.

Well, I’ve been mulling it over. And from where I sit, I think it has.

Well, from where I sit, it feels like you left us and you’re trying to justify it.

I know you had a complicated upbringing, Dean, but don’t confuse me with your dad.

At that point of the show, the writing team almost certainly didn’t have the s14-15 twist in mind. So this was probably intended to be Chuck’s truth. Later it gets twisted (retconned?) into a lie, but about that later.

Here, Chuck is really good at manipulating the conversation. Dean has a perfectly valid point, because there IS a middle ground between being overinvolved and not being involved at all. There is a middle ground between enabling your children and abandoning them completely. But Chuck hits Dean where it hurts, plays the emotional card, basically tells him that he’s too emotional to understand, too emotional to think rationally about it, because he mixes his feelings about his father to the issue and thus cannot see it clearly. He basically tells him he’s too close to it to get it. You don’t understand parenting, Dean, because you’re too blinded by your emotions about your own little life and cannot see the big picture.

It doesn’t really matter here if he’s telling the truth or lying, it already says a lot about Chuck that he’s emotionally manipulating Dean, silencing him by hitting the painful spot.

But the thing is, 11.20 immediately presents Chuck as a liar. He makes Metatron read his autobiography and the very first line is a lie (“In the beginning, there was me. Boom – detail. And what a grabber. I mean, I’m hooked, and I was there.” “I’m hooked too, and yet... details. You weren’t alone in the beginning. Your sister was with you.”) and the stuff he talks about his experience as Chuck is not exactly truthful about anything (“That, you know, makes you seem like a really grounded, likable person.” “Yeah, what’s wrong with that?” “You are neither grounded nor a person!”). Metatron calls him out (“Okay. There are two types of memoir. One is honest... the other, not so much. Truth and fairy tale. Now, do you want to write Life by Keith Richards? Or do you want to write Wouldn’t It Be Nice by Brian Wilson?”). Chuck SAYS he chooses truth and gives Metatron a different manuscript, supposedly containing the truth, to which Metatron reacts positively. Metatron believes it, and we believe it with him.

Oh! Oh, this! This is what I was talking about. Chapter Ten “Why I Never Answer Prayers, and You Should Be Glad I Don’t”, and Chapter Eleven “The Truth About Divine Intervention and Why I Avoid It At All Costs”.

Nature? Divine. Human nature – toxic.

They do like blowing stuff up.

Yeah. And the worst part – they do it in my name. And then they come crying to me, asking me to forgive, to fix things. Never taking any responsibility.

What about your responsibility?

I took responsibility... by leaving. At a certain point, training wheels got to come off. No one likes a helicopter parent.

This is sort of what he later says to Dean, except that to Dean he talks about “beautiful creatures” “my baby”, talks about helping, none of the harsh tone he’s using here. When Metatron accuses him of hiding from Amara, he retorts “I am not hiding. I am just done watching my experiments’ failures”. What a different language, uh? Then Metatron asks him why he abandoned them, and Chuck answers “Because you disappointed me. You all disappointed me”. Then, he admits he lied about “learning” to play the guitar and so on, because he just gave himself the ability, and then appears to Dean and Sam, after Metatron’s passionate speech about humanity.

So, no matter the authorial intent at the time - the truthiness of Chuck’s words was already ambiguous. He kept lying and being called out, or silencing the conversation with some good ol’ gaslighting.

The season 14 finale introduces the big twist: it was, indeed, all a lie. The whole of it. Chuck didn’t abandon shit. It was all him, minutely controlling the narrative of the universe, putting the characters through all the pain and struggles for his own amusement.

The “absent father” narrative was a lie.

What does this tell us about John? Nothing, according to the authorial intent that shines through Dabb’s Lebanon. But we don’t give a crap about Dabb’s authorial intent about John! He’s just one dude and plenty of other authors have painted a different picture. So I’m going to read the narrative the way I want, because I can, and the narrative allows me to. It’s all there.

I’m suggesting that the fact that Chuck lied when he talked about being a hands-off/absentee father parallels how Dean and Sam prefer to think of their father as an “absent father” when that’s not exactly a reflection of the truth.

You left us. Alone. ‘Cause Dad was just a shell. [...] And I-I had to be more than just a brother. I had to be a father and I had to be a mother, to keep him safe.

Setting aside how “I had to be a father and I had to be a mother” sort of retcons and cleans up the Winchester family picture painted by ealier seasons, the fact that John didn’t really count as a functional father figure and Dean and Sam were essentually alone is not incorrect or anything. It is true that John would leave them to their own devices a lot, thus the long stays in motels, the hunger, the food-stealing, and all. But John wasn’t always absent, at all. He trained them as soldiers, he disciplined them, he was around enough for them to be intimately familiar with what happened when he drank. He drove them around.

It’s almost like it’s preferable to Dean and Sam to spin their own “absent father” narrative, putting the accent on the time they spent alone, painting their childhood as a time they had to grow up on their own, rather than acknowledge they grew up under the thumb of a controlling, looming figure they would regularly live in fear of, even when he was not physically present.

The “absent father” narrative is what Dean and Sam need to use to avoid confronting the reality of the father figure whose moods and whims they had to dance around. “I know things got dicey... you know, with Dad... the way he was. And I just... I didn’t always look out for you the way that I should have. I mean, I had my own stuff, you know. In order to keep the peace, probably looked like I took his side quite a bit.”

John shaped their lives. He shaped their identities. Even in the episodes where he abandons Dean or both children somewhere, he’s portrayed as the figure who drives the car. He symbolically drives the car, you know? John shaped Dean and Sam’s relationship with each other, both on a surface level (the conflicts) and on a deeper level (the parental dynamic).

Heck. The entire first season of the show plays on John’s disappearance as the “elephant in the room”. John is there by not being there, you know? And after he dies, his death - his absence - is again the elephant in the room for Dean, the weight on his psyche that he shatters under.

It is not wrong that Dean and Sam had to spend long periods of time without John. But John structured their lives in quite minute detail. Where they needed to be, what they needed to do, what they must not do, everything had to follow John’s instructions. A drill sergeant, the narrative called him, ordering how his sons needed to live their lives. That’s no absence, except on a level where Chuck not showing himself and pretending he’s not there can be considered absent. That’s a presence, not necessarily always physical, but semiotical and psychological.

John is an absent father as much as Chuck is a hands-off god. He even writes himself into the story around the time Cas has the “season 1” phase (let’s go look for dad/let’s go look for god), which is when John actually was alive and appeared. Then he was no longer physically there, but he was still shaping his characters’ lives, just like he’d always done.

The “absent father” narrative on John is that - a narrative. Spun by the characters themselves because it’s easier and actually kinder on John. Or, better, it allows them not to be crushed by the psychological implications of having to accept that their father was such a looming, minutely formative figure in their lives. They know, but they can wave the “absent father” idea around to avoid thinking about it.

“I had to be a father and I had to be a mother” is something easier to tell yourself. I was the one who did it all. But he wasn’t, and that’s the problem. The fact that John was their father - Dean’s and Sam’s - is the problem. But ironically, blaming himself for every failure is a better option for Dean than fully acknowledging John’s abuse. As long as he blames himself, he has control over it. The moment he acknowledges the extent of John’s influence, he loses control over the entire narrative of his own identity and the family identity, the family dynamics. That’s scarier, just like realizing that God manipulated everything is much scarier than the alternative. “God abandoned us” was indeed a better option, and “John left us alone” was a better option. But neither was true, and the characters faced the implications of the cosmic level, but never got to face the implication of the familial level, because the narrative always danced around it and then Dabb’s apologist version “won”.

But what’s been put in the show is still there. The narrative of John’s abuse is still there. Nothing can take it out of the story.

#my spn thoughts #spn meta #dean and john #dean and sam and john #dean and chuck #dean and god #spn 11x20 #spn 11x21 #spn 14x20 #spn 12x22 #et alii #spn #long post

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Sometimes I need to remind myself that not everyone watched Supernatural with an ongoing gen fic happening in their head, all about the family life of the angels before Chuck’s disappearance and the rise of humanity. And as such, not everyone was constantly compiling stray details thrown out about the angel characters, clustering them together into this rubber band ball of ideas that was just so fun to play with.

I mean, for instance, not everyone took in the way the other angel characters seemed to look down their noses at the cupid characters (who, it’s worth noting, are never once referred to by their individual names, but instead by the human pet name for their category of cherub [which in Lucifer’s case, was certainly framed as an unflattering term], despite Castiel once boasting that he knew everyone in Heaven), and reason to themselves that it was surely because the other angels were jealous. Because obviously, the cupids are given classified information from God himself about what bloodlines he wants to see continued and merged for the sake of his Plan, putting these silly, non-combatant angels on par with the archangels in terms of secret knowledge about what was to come. For the first couple billions of years of existence, while the other classes of angels were sitting around with nothing to do, they all had to watch the cupids happily zipping around the earth, cooing over blue-green algae and gradually coaxing different species into existence with their magic love arrows. And every time a significant milestone was reached, they also had to watch as the insipid little harbingers of love scooped the newborn creature up and raced over to the nearest archangel to excitedly show them their progress, like a little kid with their first art project. And the archangel in question, regardless of which one, would nod encouragingly and smile as the cupid in question babbled about the tiny, tiny lungs this fish had, or the beginnings of feet at the ends of its fins. Even Lucifer, who would also add the additional suggestion to try and give the next one more teeth.

Additionally, not everyone looked at the way that Lucifer was able to just insert himself into Sam’s head from inside the cage, and considered how Azazel needed to visit a specific geographic location to communicate with Lucifer, and even then was only just barely able to do so, and thus came to the conclusion that clearly Michael and Lucifer must have come to an agreement to pool their powers to project Luci’s image into Sam’s head. Which explains why Sam’s special link disappears right after leaving the cage, and also why Michael didn’t interfere when Lucifer was freed, even though season 15 makes it clear that Luci did not sneak quietly out the backdoor. Michael was fully aware who was responsible for the jailbreak, thus leading us to consider that perhaps Lucifer was supposed to turn around and free Michael and Adam in turn, but did not. Thus leading us to imagine Michael spending roughly a year (Earth time) tapping his foot in the cage, until . . .

“He’s not coming back for us, is he?”

And Adam, cracking open a molecule-flavored soda (manifested courtesy of Michael), snickers. “Nope. Told you not to trust him.”

“Right. . .” Michael exhales, looks around for a moment, settles on side-eyeing Adam. Then, with an air of ‘fuck it’ says, “Want to make out?”

And Adam promptly chokes on his soda.

And not everyone heard Metatron specifically say that he personally tattooed the names of every prophet of the Lord ever on the inner eyelids of every angel, and immediately had the thought, “Poor Michael” spring to mind. Because of course Michael was the first one on the proverbial chopping block, trying his best not to flinch as his little brother gradually figured out how to handle the needle. (To this day, Michael is still not sure if the prophet after Chuck Shurley is named Kevin Tran or Rovim Frun). And all the while, Michael was probably also trying his best not to worry about how things were going on Earth while he was busy getting his eyes stabbed.

After all, Lucifer was God’s second eldest son, barely younger than Michael in the grand scheme of things. He could handle watching over their younger siblings for a little while. And Raphael and Gabriel were there to help. Everything would be fine.

However, Michael isn’t aware that about five minutes after being left in charge, Lucifer yelled, “HEY EVERYONE, CHECK THIS OUT!” And then promptly threw his grace into the body of a nearby pterodactyl. Possession being a new ability that Chuck had recently invented, the surrounding angels were mystified as Lucifer piloted the prehistoric reptile through a series of dizzying loop-de-loops that saw the poor creature—not suited to containing angel grace—explode midway through, leaving Lucifer gleefully giggling in the sky.

About half of the angels looking on gaped in horror.

Gabriel whispered to Raphael, “We’re still beta testing that, right?”

The other half of the gathered angels, however, like the impressionable young followers that they are, start grinning, because Lucifer is grinning, and he’s their cool older brother, and as Lucifer—relishing the attention—makes a beeline toward the earth’s one continent, Pangea, and an unsuspecting herd of ornithopods, these younger angels eagerly follow.

Soon, Earth is full of the anguished cries of cupids, watching their hard work blown to bits again and again. Swept up in the crowd, are Castiel and Balthazar. They watch Uriel and Zachariah excitedly throw their armored dinosaur bodies against one another in the moments before both vessels combust, after which Uriel and Zachariah excitedly dart off to take on new ones.

“Are we sure this is. . .okay?”

“Well, Lucifer is in charge. We’re supposed to follow his lead. . .aren’t we?”

Meanwhile, Raphael is frantically trying to stem the carnage. Several dinosaurs are levitating in mid-air, as Raphael tries to simultaneously keep them from exploding while also ordering the angels possessing them to vacate the vessels immediately. But none of them have ever taken a vessel before, and do not know how to get out of them without tearing them apart. Raphael keeps expanding their powers to more and more creatures as their young siblings continue to follow Lucifer’s example.

“GABRIEL, DO SOMETHING!”

“RIGHT!” Gabriel looks around, locates Lucifer running amuck in an apatosaurus that he’s forcing to walk on its hind legs, and fires off a lightning bolt to startle him out.

The lightning bolt misses its target in spectacular fashion, and several trees catch on fire.

Gabriel throws another lightning bolt.

“GABRIEL, THAT IS NOT HELPING!”

“RIGHT!”

Gabriel then grabs a giant meteor from outer space and begins trying to smother the flames by whacking it against the continent, to Raphael’s horror. More cupids begin to cry. Thick clouds of dust fly up, choking out natural light on the planet’s surface—now only illuminated by flames, as well as the magma that rises up out of the cracks that form in Pangea, as Gabe unintentionally creates the first tectonic plates from the sheer force of his assault on the planet.

Trees fall over. Fire continues to spread.

Lucifer is still in the apatosaurus, but he’s fallen onto his side, laughing hysterically.

“WATER, GABRIEL! USE WATER!”

“OH! RIGHT!”

Gabriel throws the meteor into a nearby sea, creating a tsunami.

It is at this point that Raphael abandons the dinosaurs to their sad fate, forgetting their solemn oath to not reveal any secrets regarding evolution and God’s plan, to broadly yell out to any and all of their angelic siblings who are listening, “QUICKLY, SAVE THE MAMMALS!”

And it is at this point, that Michael returns. Samandriel, clutching a dozen or so rodents in his wings, is the first one to spot him. All of Michael’s eyes are red and puffy from abuse. The cupids are sobbing, the Earth is battered, flooded, and scorched. Angels are getting into fist fights with reapers as they dart back and forth, trying to ferry as many warm-blooded creatures as they can find from the site of the catastrophe to the relative safety on the other side of the mountain range Gabriel accidently made when he bashed a crater into the planet—relative, as it turns out some of those new mountains are in fact volcanoes, and it took some trial and error to figure out how far away from an active volcano could be considered “safe.”

Nearby, Castiel and Balthazar are somehow both stuck inside the same mosasaur, beached from the tsunami, and loudly panicking as they struggle to de-possess it before it explodes. There’s a snapping sound, and then suddenly all of the angels still trapped (or willfully frolicking) inside vessels are ejected, at the same time that the fire goes out and the volcanoes cease erupting.

Consequently, everyone goes very still as Michael scans the damage and his bedraggled siblings. With humans not yet existing, the art of facepalming is not yet a thing. But looking at Michael, one might just expect him to invent the practice right then and there.

When Michael gets to Lucifer, he’s greeted with, “What? Pop’s 86-ing the lizard kingdom anyway!”

Michael promptly drags Lucifer off to Heaven.

The next day, it was made an official rule, written into the very fabric of angelkind: vessels could only be taken after obtaining explicit consent.

Additionally, everyone agreed to never, ever mention the existence of the dinosaurs or how they ended ever again. And, rather than fixing the damage to the Earth’s surface, the tectonic plate situation was just sort of left to do as it would.

Many, many years later, Adam was shocked by Michael’s reaction when the cage door suddenly swung open in Hell. Adam had immediately surged to his feet in excitement, ready to leave and never come back.

Michael, however, remained stationary on the floor, squinting at the doorway, wondering what dystopian nightmare must be waiting on Earth after leaving his siblings unsupervised for a solid decade.

“Michael? You okay?”

“Adam, before we go back to Earth, I think I need to tell you a story. . .”

#himbos all of them #except raphael #raphael's doing their best but there's only one of them #the divine shurley family #is this really what i'm putting out on the midam wedding day?#yep guess so #i just didn't get any good wedding thoughts today #all i could think about was how michael was once a very exhausted older brother #today was not a romantic day for me #but it was chaotic #and i have expressed myself #and raphael deserves a raise #midam #supernatural michael #my thoughts #What did the rest of you guys even do to get through the boring seasons if you weren't imaging stuff like this?

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followedbyraven · 4 years

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A journey into God’s mind

Chuck’s motivation in obsessively writing the same end - is what has been on my mind in quite a while. So far he is a megalomaniac villain with no proper cause. And for the love of everything a villain without a motive is of not interest to me.

As a long time fanfic writer I don’t understand Chuck’s bullheaded insistence with “brother killing brother” and end-of-the-world themes. When my characters happen to say a resound “NO!” to what my sick brain is cooking, I listen to them, this is my subconscious letting me know that I’m about to make a really wrong move. And then I do my best to find a solution, which may be not necessary as dramatic, but nevertheless satisfying.

So I said to myself: “Let’s find us a motive!” and embarked on a journey.

So basically to understand my theory of Chuck’s obsession first I have to explain a bit about the particular bit of “Lucifer” TV show which gave me an idea. I doubt many people don’t know this show, but just in case, bear with me. It’s a show dealing with Biblical lore and main character is the Lucifer himself (although much less boring, than in SPN). He is funny, adorable and with a bucket full of issues. And yes, he also can be terrifying!

In episode 2x12 “Love Handles” the villain of the episode and the long arc is a professor, who, when finding himself in a burning car, saved his dissertation and not a student driving it. This act made him an outcast and he eventually proceeded to blackmail successful people, putting them in a morally black and white scenarios: their life’s foundation (face of a movie star, hands of a chirurg) versus someones life. All for the quest to prove (as much to people around as to himself) that he couldn't be blamed for what happened. That the choice he made was a right one.

And here I see a clear parallel with SPN, maybe a crazy one but in my mind it fits perfectly.

Professor saved his dissertation by sacrificing a student. So he became obsessed with proving that he did the right thing. It was the work of his life after all.

Chuck in order to create his lifework, the Universe, sacrificed his sister, The Darkness.

Professor was aiming at famous people, prominent figures, heroes we may call them to bring parallel to SPN (from star actor to renowned chirurg, whose hands saved many lives). All to prove that he was right in his choice. Chuck chose heroes, siblings, nurtured them, build them up, and then let them kill each other (I’m sure that Cain’s dilemma came directly from under Chuck’s pen). So he is obsessed to prove to himself, subconsciously most of all, that locking for the end of time, losing his sister, to save/create his masterpiece, his life work, was a right thing to do.

This is his perfect tragedy, dramatic exit - to be left alone, without his sibling, by his own hand, surrounded by what was at that moment the most important thing in his mind, his Creation. And Chuck repeats this scenario over, and over, and over again, stuck in his disability to understand that this idea comes from his own dirty deed, his own ego, his own choice. To prove to himself first and foremost that his masterpiece is more important than his family, that he was right in locking Amara.

It’s a perfect mirror of his own choices, and he bends fates of others to meet this obsessive scenario, so his brain (or whatever he uses for one) can process the enormity of his one single action, which was the point of creation, of light for the Universe, and the moment of perfect darkness for the Creator himself.

So he was left alone with his creations, and at first, the novelty of it was enough, the new voices demanding his attention were enough. As long as he could forget about the fate of his sister. And for a short time that nagging voice in his head became just a whisper.

In time he reached his ceiling as Creator by making humanity, his masterpiece, and managed to keep the insistent whisper away a bit longer.

But inevitably Chuck got bored, lost interest, cause he, as many other supernatural beings, doesn’t see humanity as equal. He couldn’t see that he truly created something amazing, not only in his image, but also in his spirit (and in madness, we’re just much better at dealing with it). There was a phrase in one of the episodes that even angels don’t really understand what human SOULS are. It always left me wondering.

So as I was saying, chuck got bored, the whisper (locked Amara, his guilty consciousness) become louder, and that is when his true madness, his obsession with idea of siblings killing each other as the perfect tragedy, the perfect end of the story began. He plays it in different ways to prove to himself that this is the only natural, true end for any great story, the perfect justification for his reasons, that it was the only way.

What interesting is, that “Lucifer’s” professor says: “Choice is an illusion” and kills himself.

Just like Chuck connects the perfect end of his “choice is an illusion” dance with the end of his creation.

He started on this road while Amara was still under lock, and I don’t think that Winchesters would be the last of heroes Chuck played with if only they followed the script. Until they freed Amara, bringing in his mind the story to its perfect end. In his twisted mind there can be only one choice: Amara or his masterpiece. And with Amara freed he started unraveling his life’s work, for there may be only one or another.

We can say that making humans in his (and Amara’s) image was the first unconscious step on the road to perfect tragedy. And I’m not talking about human bodies, I’m talking about our very souls. Human souls begin as bright as light of the creation. I’m speculating here, but as any true artist Chuck imbedded his perfect creation with the tiny bitty pieces of himself. The difference is that light can be tarnished, darkened, and remind Chuck too much or Amara, his locked sister. And thus the Hell was created, where those tarnished souls were sent, away from his sight, in order for Chuck to continue his existence in ignorance. So he banishes those souls to Hell, locks them away. Just. Like. Amara. Another mirror on a bigger scale.

Why then not a perfect mirror, why not brother and sister, why two brothers? Here I’m going even deeper into speculating. Two sisters - may be too much of Amara reminder. He has to first build them up, give them power, luck, make them into heroes. That’s a tad too much of a girl’s power for Chuck. He sees Amara as oppressive force to start with and I doubt he is willing to go down that road. Intimidation would be too much and Chuck can barely deal with two stubborn Winchesters, he doesn’t need to add psychological pressure for good measure. Brother and sister? That’s really awfully too close to home for his liking, it can't stay in subconscious anymore and would force him to take a good hard look at himself.

Another point of interest - why Dean? Why through all obviously written by Chuck situations, it’s Dean who most often comes to the point when flow of events demand from him killing Sam. Down to the point of making Dean invincible when he was marked with the Mark of Cain, so it is he who eventually was supposed to do the deed.

What I think is that Chuck identifies strongly with Dean. Not so much as them being similar, more - Chuck wants to be Dean, have that level of courage, endurance and inner strength of spirit.

That is why he wants specifically Dean to perform his, Chuck’s part of the scenario. There is a lot of admiration, which falls in line with the level of anger when Dean keeps disappointing Chuck by refusing to play by his rules, continuously steps off the script.

There is a mirror to that too in earlier seasons. Metatron vs Castiel. I’m sure it’s a kind of old news and many metas have been written about it. I just wanted to connect it one more time to the rest of my musings about Chuck.

Metatron was also strongly identifying himself with Cas for all the same reasons. And he also wanted Cas to play the villain of the story at the same time trying on Cas's trench coat and posing in front of the mirror. Metatron understands that Castiel is not a villain, but he so desperately wants Cas to be one. The fallen hero. In that aspect Gadreel played the reflection of Castiel perfectly. The difference is - Castiel doesn’t want to be either, hero or villain (he learned the price of that the hard way), he just does what he thinks is right. Gadreel wanted to be again a hero, wanted to climb back on pedestal, no matter the cost.

Same with Chuck and Dean, mirroring Chuck making himself very, very comfortable in the bunker, the Dean's true domain, his home.

Both Chuck now and Metatron then are trying to make their chosen ones follow the written by them script.

I would almost call it a foreshadowing (if then unintentional, who knows, maybe writers thought back to season which was it, 9? and thought: oh, but that would fit nicely with s15 arc), despite so many seasons between these two story lines.

This is it, the journey into God’s mind complete. Hope you N-joyed.

@verobatto-angelxhunter

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15x06: Castiel

Is there anything more beautiful than turning points for a character? I don’t think there is. Cas has had a few of them throughout his journey (of course all of TFW have) but this episode he comes across a most likely enormous one, because this episode actually manifests his self-liberation in no uncertain terms, and given how far along we’ve gotten down the line with his progression, I’m thinking it’s most likely to stick.

It’s all about identity, right? Even this turning point that I’m so mysteriously hinting at. I’ll get to that.

Let’s take a look at the lay of the land this episode and it’ll bring us to why this turning point feels like it is shaking the very foundations of Cas’ core character traits and, hopefully, bringing about that needed change in the process.

Here’s the thing. When he was cast down from Heaven and turned human by Metatron stealing his grace, Cas was lost and was killed and then he was brought home to the Bunker only to be thrown out again, and so he named himself Steve and took a job at a Gas ‘n Sip because he couldn’t drape himself in the flag of Heaven anymore.

As a human, adrift and alone, he did the only thing he could think to do: he mimicked human everyday life. Not because he wanted to, but because he had to. He could see no other choice.

Until he called Dean to tell him about a case in the town where he’d settled (using settled loosely here since Cas was basically squatting at that same Gas ‘n Sip because he didn’t have a home of his own btw) and Dean showed up and reminded Cas what is at his core: to help. And that this desire to help is there even if he’s scared of dying, because that is what gives him a sense of purpose. (which is why he threw himself into that human everyday life to begin with: in search of purpose)

After Dean drove off in 9x06, telling Cas to live his life, Cas made a decision, for himself, to get back into hunting. To insert himself back into TFW, whether Dean wanted him there or not.

This was an enormous turning point for him, because for the first time he truly considered what he wanted for himself, and he went after it without hesitation.

Which was then promptly followed by Cas seeing no other choice but to swallow Theo’s grace and get his powers back, readying himself for the war that most surely was heading their way, because how could he be of service, of help, to the brothers and to the world without his powers?

Right? Right.

Now then, in 15x06 we get Cas in a deep state of identity confusion.

This is most clearly given to us through the name he chooses for himself.

Firstly, Clarence is a beautiful callback to Meg and perhaps that’s all it’s meant to be, but it’s also tying in with those early days that lay the foundation for the identity confusion Cas is still grappling with. So it’s interesting to me that he’d use it now, when he should be moving on, know what I mean?

And yeah, that brings us to the second Clarence, which is a character name from True Romance where the character Clarence Worley is played by Christian Slater and Worley is a posturing, bi-coded renegade of a male and has a lot of Dean in him (and I’m headcanoning that Dean has initiated Cas to the wonders of True Romance and done so fairly hardcore) so for Cas to actually, literally, name himself after a Dean-esque character is delightfully poignant.

Because it serves to underline how Cas is still not acting from a place that is based in having enough perspective on himself that he’s aware of what he wants, but rather we’re given to understand, in no uncertain terms, that he left the Bunker, pondered what to do and instead of considering what he’d do, he thought: What would Dean do?

And Dean, to relax and regroup and get away, would go fishing.

So, essentially, Cas is still in mimic mode.

Only this time he wasn’t told he had to leave the Bunker and what he deep down has always thought of as home and family and safety, even if he hasn’t felt like he truly belongs there: this time he chose to go.

And, this time, yes, he goes into mimic mode because he’s at a loss of what exactly he’s supposed to do now, but when a case presents itself, he doesn’t call Dean, he goes into hunter mode and leaves the mimicking behind, leaning on his own knowledge and understanding of what hunting down a monster entails, knowledge and understanding he’s accrued over his years of inadvertent training.

Granted he’s not human and he’s not risking his life the way he would’ve been back in S9 -- which was the reason (well, one of them, if you want to read the subtext as being that he genuinely wanted to see Dean and he hoped Dean would come look him up) he called Dean -- but he’s not fully fledged, his powers are failing him, and he doesn’t know what that means or what it will mean for him in the long run.

What is evident is that he doesn’t need his powers to do his job and do it well. He correctly identifies the monster as a djinn and locates what is evidently its lair without using anything but power of persuasion and research skills.

I could - over-zealous that I get at the mere prospect - read all this as meaning that we’re getting foreshadowing for how Cas doesn’t need his powers to live his life. Actually, it feels a little more like Cas’ powers are hampering his ability to live his life this episode, as the pastime that relaxes Dean Humanity Winchester does nothing to relax Cas-Still Angelic and thus Tied to Heaven-tiel. But the powers do save him, and they do allow him to do what is at his core: help. He heals Caleb, even though it takes a lot out of him

The taking a lot might be foreshadowing that his powers are diminishing to the point of soon not being there at all, or it might be an underlining of how we should root for him being powered up again, so that the moment he is will feel truly gratifying, because we’ve witnessed the struggle.

The gunshot wounds to his chest might be a highlighter for how he still sees himself as ‘thing’ and always expects to be able to heal himself, which could be a plant for how, if he becomes human, bullets flying at his head will carry a completely different meaning because he’s always been someone who absorbs such situations without even really blinking at them (like how he didn’t even flinch when Ketch blew up that car with the grenade launcher back in S12), or it could be another underlining of Powers=Good because they allow him to do what this entire episode pushes for him to do: stand up to authority.

And so we land in the-->

Turning Point

Which is Cas standing up to authority and, if you look at the subtextual implications, in so doing, breaking away from how he’s related himself to Dean for a whole lot of their joint arc, especially during the latter half of it.

This turning point is enormous for his individual arc: letting go of his proclivity for making choices based in servitude to the greater good (manifested in God and then in Dean) (his servitude always skewed since he should be making his choices based in his own sense of morality) (not trying to do what he thinks someone else wants him to do) and starting to make choices based in his own knowledge and understanding of himself and his place in the world.

And this newfound self-insight could potentially hopefully have an enormous impact on how he relates himself to Dean moving forward.

Because instead of this -->

Leading to this -->

Ending in this -->

We’ll get Cas behaving based in this -->

And the parallels here are rich as well, btw. They’re not as violent as they look, at least not the way I see it, because not only is the possible S8 callback (it’s what I got in my head anyway) a tie-back to a moment where Cas bowing to authority brought about emotional trauma, which led to him standing up to said authority, but on top of this, Dean as authority figure isn’t working anymore.

Dean as role model, Dean as compass, Dean as charge and the reason Cas uses for why he’s even on Earth isn’t holding up anymore. It hasn’t for a long time now. And in this moment Cas not only knows it, but I would say he accepts the truth of it.

The sheriff is a toxic masculinity representative in the most classic sense and it’s beautiful how Cas uses the lines that Miriam threw at Dean in 13x01, almost to underline the parallels here, but also to tell us how little Cas is ready to bow down to this type of power.

As such, it’s not just a parallel to Dean, but to Chuck as well, which is why the turning point is so layered and carries so much weight: this moment is Cas telling a representative of what God now is in the narrative (and granted always has been) this his sense of entitlement, that his belief that he deserves his position and that he should be worshipped simply because he’s in that position, won’t convince Cas to obey.

This then morphs from a moment of empowerment to a moment of loss of control as the soldier mode takes over, yeah? The djinn needed killing, but slaughtering?

There are a myriad of possible implications here, but the sentiment of the scene itself is Cas breaking free and stating unequivocally that he sees through fake points of authority and will not follow blindly anymore. Cas sees through the bullshit now. He’s breaking free of his indoctrination once and for all.

Which is why the episode, for Cas, ends in that absolutely mind-blowing decision to contact Sam, which we’ll be privy to in the next ep, because Cas realises that staying away won’t solve anything and it’s not the way he can actually truly help either.

He felt he had to cut communication in order to make a statement, but ignoring Sam is neither smart nor does it serve his intention of making Dean understand he’s in the wrong and that he should stop being such a selfish douche.

Staying in the game, but making certain that Dean acknowledges he’s been entirely unfair and apologises, is more mature than giving everyone the silent treatment and missing out on vital information pertaining to the probable end of the world in the process.

All of this has me excited for what it means for Dean and Cas, without me expecting that it means anything! Dean shows how he’s ready to let Cas go live his life as best he sees fit, but he’s going to call Cas out for being a dumbass, yeah? Which is well-deserved. Cas is being stupidly stubborn and he really should answer Sam. Dean is letting go (while, you know, being forlorn without Cas but recognising that this forlornness is his own burden to bear) and isn’t going to tell Cas to come back.

I mean, unless Cas shows he didn’t mean move on as in remove myself forever from your presence and stays in contact with Sam, because then there’s a chance that what Cas wants and needs... is an apology. *slow eyebrow raise*

What it looks like to me is them being placed in a position to choose one another without needing the other to define their identity, or even to assist in providing perspective. They are moving into facing that final fear - their shared fear of happiness - and through facing it, beginning to believe that they deserve to be happy.

I am just way too curious now to know exactly where it’s all landing! We know Dean will give in, we know he’ll end up reaching out, but omg what will that mean overall? I mean... will Cas hear that prayer, is my foremost question, with his powers dwindling? #wewillknowafterChristmas

#spn 15x06 #spn meta #spn speculation #cas #darling cas #human!cas #what does the dwindling of his powers mean for him??#I'm dying to know!!#deancas #destiel #meredith glynn

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I noticed that strangely enough I didn’t post this here in march as I should’ve (lmao), so here it is~~ (some tw for religion behind the read more, because this obviously deals with an imaginative version of heaven and, therefore,everything that comes with it)

Abel | Elizabeth

. CAMAEL

“You did a good job today, and thus, you shall be rewarded” it said in a thousand voices, a thousand times, all at the same time “with what the Lord has reserved for you” It was calm and relaxing, like the infinite love the Lord had to give.

“Rest,” that was the special word. The word for sleep. That was their reward. “for the next time the Lord shall require you at your best”

It was one of those days - the special days. The calming voice told them to rest, which meant they did a very good job. As entities of light, they didn’t really need sleep, food or anything mundane, for that matter. But all of those who had bodies were permitted to indulge in certain activities if they had been good enough, glorious enough.

The talk on the corridors was of happiness. “Aaah we did well! Resting! Can you believe it! Thank the Lord for this wonder!!” they would say happily around “Rest, but don’t forget your duties. Next time we should work even better” was the more realist, serious version. All in all, however, they were all happy, all wanting to get to their accommodations and rest on their blessed beds.

For Camael, however, it was a different story. The angel was the calming voice, the glorious reward, the warning. Camael was all those voices at once. But that also meant being generic. Camael knew that and was always humbled by the privilege the Lord had given it. Being used as His voice and His eyes whenever needed was the greatest gift.

But lately…

Sometimes it was like Camael, too, got a moment of rest. However, the angel did not know what to do with those, as they felt empty and devoid of purpose for -unlike everyone else- there was no body to rest. And so it would stay on stand by, studying and waiting until the next moment it would be of use.

“You did an excellent job today” “God is watching” “Your prayers are heard” “Pray, child, and you shall be heard” “You did a marvelous job today” “Rest”

“You did a good job today” it would say that so many times after all good action, job well done or battle won. And after all the news and reports were said and done, there it was again. That sort of silence. The silence was that of paradise and it’s thousands upon thousands of entities. On a normal day, Camael would be able to see through their eyes and listen to their every thoughts all at once. it could still read them all right now if it so desired. But that was the catch: “desire”. Camael wasn’t being used at that very moment, and that’s where the silence came from.

It wasn’t listening to God’s voice.

It made it impassive during the first few, sparse times. Then grateful as it was being treated as all others. And then, curious.

What was the Lord planning? ************

Camael was a different type of angel. At first, it was respected and loved, as were all brothers. But then, many things happened. Lucifer had been casted out. The first humans were expelled from paradise - a task entrusted to Camael, no less! But after that, all crumbled. Soon, humans wouldn’t accept it in their scriptures, and while the Lord and all the original brothers still loved Camael, the name started to fade.

“Pray, and you shall be heard”

Before, there was no need for a body. But after another of those resting moments -that, Camael noticed, were starting to get more and more frequent with time-, the angel got itself thinking that, perhaps, the lack of a body made it all the less of a presence. There was no recognizable voice or features.

“You are not alone”

Camael was a feeling, and whatever the message was being delivered, that was Camael. It could make people feel it, sure - it was only a matter of making their brains believe so. But without a fixed image, it would be almost impossible to keep the illusion for too long. A lingering voice that you know but can’t describe. A face you saw, but can’t recall. A presence you remember clearly, but can’t point out. Camael was a shadow.

“A shadow” it would think about it and what it represented for a long time before anything happened. Days and nights would come and go as the seasons, and that would be everything in Camael’s mind aside the calming white noise provided by all the human prayers combined at once, and that it would listen constantly — another task it humbly received at it’s creation. But then the day came, when Camael structured a more complex line of thought about itself: “I am a shadow”

You see, the interesting part wasn’t that Camael recognized itself as a shadow. Oh, no. That, it had noticed a long time ago. The real problematic change was a single, apparently innocent pronoun, “I”, and everything it carried with it: A sense of self, of individualism, of free will.

“I” was the beginning of a silent revolution.

************

After the first time Camael discovered being slightly different than the others, they started observing more in an active way, and taking more notice of little details here and there. As before, they did not know what were God’s plans in making them free for a few moments, but they were grateful nonetheless. Their God could never do wrong.

Camael wanted to have some sort of experience. Any experience would suffice, be it positive or negative, as long as it was genuine and theirs. That meant Camael couldn’t read anyone’s mind nor know previously how said situation would turn out to be. It had to be completely randomic.

A difficult wish.

Heaven had a very strict set of rules when it came to it’s positions and laws and there was no exceptions to any cases. Ever. They were as perfect as God had made them. As the Lord’s eyes, Camael witnessed everyone’s behaviour and thoughts constantly and reported once a day to their brother Metatron. That way everyone was kept under a firm eye and, by consequence, kept under the rules as much as possible, and any and all defiance was recorded on a score-point type of system. All the original brothers, like Camael, had theirs added automatically as per God’s creation.

The better your points, the safer your position. The lower the points, the more you’d be put under constant surveillance, and, if the points got too low and the entity was deemed without saving, the angel was either relieved of their position -that is, eliminated- or fell from grace (God’s merciful way of sparing it’s own work while still making them hold responsibility for their actions). Whatever came faster.

So how to get a new experience and be completely neutral when you are the one entity to watch everyone? Camael found a simple answer.

On a bright day after a big fight against Lucifer’s armies, the soldiers were tested, rewarded, sent to quarantine or relieved from their positions and Camael saw himself free once more after doing all that work. The first thing that came to their mind was that the next person they saw would be the one angel they would interact with, be it good or bad.

And that was exactly what they did: waited until someone closed their eyes (to see through them the next time they were open) and as soon as he saw that one archangel, he decided it was the one. Better yet, his army had just won a fight so everyone was given a good night of rest. So bravely enough, Camael made the first move.

“What is your name, solder?”

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Makai Ouji Pillar 95 (final) Translation

Sorry for the wait. Here is the finale~~~~~!!

RAW via Michelle. Thank you.

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1 (A splendid palace once stood here) (The fact that it used to be a paradise for demons, now no one knows anymore-) ([Makai Ouji: devils and realist] at last the finale-!!)

2 (Each and every one’s path continues to tomorrow-…) (Volumes 1-14, on sale now!!) (Makai Ouji devils and realist) (Final Pillar)

3 (Finally, the emotional finale!!!!) (Utako Ukihiro) (Author: Madoka Takadono)

4 S: You are Lucifer’s child? Were you after this ring just to challenge him? What a foolish and pitiful soul This is nothing like what you want C: Are you…… going to make me a slave?

5 S: I’m just going to make you sleep Until those wounds heal Everyone is doing that Here, there is no one who will harm you (Not even Lucifer) (Power unattainable even by that Emperor) C: Even I will be able sleep here?

6 (I found relief in those pillars many times) (By his side) (That’s why I tried to create this time So that this time, I may receive him) B: O new Emperor of ours Lead this Hell

7 C: I swear to fulfil my duty

8 A: In the end, with Lord Sitri in Heaven Dantalion in Limbo The one who gained the most from this battle seems to be His Lordship Beelzebub B: Your Majesty is still young From here on, it is likely that we will be required to assist C: With the disappearance of Samael and Baalberith The West and the East are missing Kings Thus, to make sure the land of the Gauls is governed, I myself will take over the ruins B: -As you wish J: To think that even after becoming a demon, I can’t cut ties with the United Kingdom B: Though if I may, there is something that I would like to ask Your Majesty

9 Leaving the command of roles of the Four Kings at that What do you plan to do with the positions of the Four Princes? J: With a new regime do you plan to assign a ‘substitute king’ and an ‘elector’? That being said, both you and we Anyone will eventually slumber The position of the Emperor cannot be left open C: That’s true… However, let’s end the conflicts from the last generation Both illogical and unproductive I’ve painfully experienced enough with this time’s case J: …… ?

10 C: It seems like I’ve been infected by that realist J: My Imperial Majesty C: Stop with that address J: Come on now, I’ve brought some good intel Hear me out ‘til the end C: ?

11 SFX dash B: Your Majesty!? J: Would you please let him go? Because he’s lived until now for this very moment

12 M: Sorry I’ve become a demon C: It’s fine No matter what form You will always be you

13 So please don’t go anywhere else…… M: Let’s bake pizza again, the three of us and invite many guests Because I want people besides us to know too of how kind you are

14 My Imperial Majesty [-One year later] [United Kingdom King’s College of Our Lady of Stratford beside the Avon Also known as: Stradford College] (TN/ The Japanese says Stradford rather that Stratford)

15 T: Graduate representative, the dux- Mycroft Swallow! W: (nihility) T: Congratulations to our new generation of graduates!!

16 Damn it… Damn it…! SFX stomp stomp If it wasn’t for the couple’s quarrel between those annoying old men I wouldn’t have been treated as missing by the house!! (The holiday ended while he was in Hell so he was treated as a missing person) I: (That’s what William makes of arguably the greatest event in History that is Lucifer’s destruction?) W: Curse them How dare there leave a scare in my glorious future diary… I: It’s fine, isn’t it W: What!? I: You’re going for further study at Oxford, right? Yet I can’t even graduate-! [Finally Sixth Form] W: Isn’t it good that you managed to advance to the next grade?

17 (This is supposed to be a view that I’m used to, yet I wonder why I feel as if something is missing-) M: Hey, congrats W: Mathers! M: E-a-r-l!

18 From today, my teaching career ends Since I thought that I’d go travelling with them E: Congrats! B: Happy times! W: Whoa!? What’s with you M: They wanted to thank you for saving Stradford’s forests If you hadn’t bought back the land, this place would have also become a polluted town W: …It’s nothing; I just used the money he left behind appropriately [After Uncle Barton died Arthur Christian disappeared some time from the school] [According to Mathers, the role of the Four Horsemen may have ended…]

19 But the council hasn’t yet passed a law regarding smog restriction M: This you’ll have to ask the person himself I: [After the said day that the old world was destroyed ‘They’ became scarce] [I heard that Sitri became an angel (at the same level as that Metatron to boot)] [Camio ascended the throne of Hell (he’s Lucifer’s son, so to say that was expected)] [Dantalion-] [is apparently slumbering in Limbo]

20 [Injured demons sink themselves into a slumber similar to death for hundreds of years] [That’s why no longer Can he and William meet] (Ultimately, he didn’t even go to Camio’s coronation) At this rate, will he continue and become a normal human? William M: Those notes have become quite thick I: Mr Mathers I’m considering eventually compiling it into one volume as you suggested, sir

21 M: You can stop with the sir I’m no longer a teacher here The Order of the Golden Dawn remains as a secret society for now I: Are you not doing what the Freemasons did? M: Are you interested? I: Of course! I’m thinking of eventually joining the Rosicrucian Order too!! M: If that’s the case, you can use this if you like I: Really!? M: I doubt I will use the name Mathers again You can go ahead and use it as a pen name MacGregor isn’t my real name anyway

22 Isaac, you’ll be the second-generation Mathers, so to speak Alter ipse amicus. ‘A friend is another self’ I: [After that, I never met the ‘Count of Glenstrae’ again] [Perhaps, maybe once] [The one who appeared in England during that horrific world war may have been him]

23 [Regardless, I succeeded his name And went on to record all the odd events that occurred around William] (‘The Lesser Key of Solomon’) […The truth is, saying that nothing strange happened around William after that would sort of be a lie] K: Young Master~~~!!! Thank God I made it on time- W: Kevin, you’re quite late K: I applied for leave just for today But my superior piled up work

24 [After Kevin took Dantalion to Limbo Right when he was about to fall from using up all his power] [It’s hard to believe, but apparently, he was saved by Michael] [He got his wings back and was able to return to Heaven] [Apparently, his current superior is that Sitri For better or for worse, they seem to be getting along well]

25 [The aforementioned Sitri still visits the human realm from time to time Even after becoming an angel] S: Still watching Even now…

26 Sign: Go die, Freemasons!!

27 SFX grab

28 M: I’ll find him Definitely

31 I: Graduation, huh A lot has happened but Can we no longer gather together and have tea like before~ Ah- T: By the way, I forgot to mention, William There’s actually a transfer student W: What? It’s the graduation ceremony today

32 Who on earth would transfer at a time like this- …Dan talion…? D: Congrats on graduating

33 W: …Why What happened to sleeping for a hundred years!?!? D: I’m shocked myself too To think that I’d awaken so soon W: In Limbo …… never I thought we’d never be able to meet again…… D: Because I wanted to see you

34 -plus I felt like you were calling me

35 K: SFX stab Let go of those filthy hands right now! D: What the heck Jerk who nearly died! K: And who exactly is a jerk who nearly died?! (I can chuck you back into Limbo again if you want!) W: Oi… S: I made it!!! William!! I’ve come by Pegasus Express!

36 C: Hey, William W: Camio too!?!? Is it alright for the Emperor of Hell and the Representative of Heaven to be casually hanging around… (Second-generation Gabriel) (Second-generation Lucifer) S: You’re going to be in a dorm in Oxford too anyway, right? In that case, I’ll occupy the common room again C: Maybe I’ll be a student again W: You guys…

37 There’s no more Substitute King selection Neither is there Solomon’s ring S: This has nothing to do with contracts W: Wha D: I like you so I want to be by your side That’s all W: L L Like…… What are you sayin……

38 S: Choose me any time you feel lonely, William Heaven’s quite a nice place (the annoying obsessed-psycho is no longer here) D: Shut-up angel The one whom William will choose is me! C: Don’t pay attention to those two, William I would love for you to come to my wedding ceremony with Maria (Maria’s bridal state is so beautiful you could die) W: My graduation ceremony My glorious day of departure!! D: You’re at fault W: What did you say S: That’s right We’ve known each other for so long, yet we still haven’t heard that crucial thing

39 D: William Who is it that you like? W: W who…

40 All: -Choose me, William!

41 SFX snap K: Get away from the Young Master’s side!! I: An angel, a demon, and a nephilim It really is rare for a human to be proposed to by everything in this world As expected of you, William W: Listen up I’m telling you this one important thing that you guys seem to have forgotten despite our long acquaintance… Open up your ears and listen carefully!

42 In this glorious life of mine Neither angels Nor demons Nor magic is needed -I am a realist!

43 All: I know!! (Thank you for being a reader for this long time!! Utako Yukihiro’s new series starts next issue!! Please look forward to it!!)

That’s it! As always, please point out any mistakes if you spot any. Thanks for sticking around for so long~~ And for those who still want more, don’t worry, I am still working on the translation for Isaac’s Fortune-Telling Diary; I will probably translate that extra booklet regarding Heaven too.

#makai ouji: devils and realist #makai ouji #devils and realist #pillar 95 #translations #魔界王子

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Superwholock Theories

Supernatural- 3 Theories

JOHN WINCHESTER WAS POSSESSED BY MICHAEL

1. This fan theory posits that because John said “yes” to the Archangel Michael when he was younger, Michael continued possessing him later in life. Fans believe that this would explain the disparity between John’s treatment of Sam and Dean, as opposed to the vastly different relationship he shared with his other son, Adam. Perhaps John was actually preparing the boys for their futures as vessels for Michael and Lucifer.

Although this probably isn’t the case, that doesn’t mean this theory is without merit. The series has already previously established that an angel could possess a human without their knowledge, so it’s not out of the question. If John were a puppet for Michael, it would certainly lead to an identity crisis for the Winchester brothers. How could they trust anything or anyone after a revelation like that?

THE VIEWER IS GOD

2. Despite fans’ love for the prophet who turned out to be God, not everyone is sold on Chuck Shurley as the one true Almighty. One anonymous fan actually suggests that God is not any character that we have or will ever meet on Supernatural for one simple reason: God is the viewer.

At some point, archangels wrested the power from God, leaving him or her helpless to stop them. However, God remains omniscient, and so continues to see and hear every aspect of the story, although there is no way to impact anything that happens. This fan also points out that this would mean that the closest the Winchester brothers ever came to truly tracking down God was in season 6 episode “The French Mistake”, in which Sam and Dean travel to a fourth wall-breaking alternate universe.

GABRIEL IS ALIVE

3. This theory is one that has not only been fueled by fans, but by Richard Speight Jr. as well. Lucifer killed Gabriel in Season 5… or did he? Gabriel was not only ridiculously powerful, but also incredibly clever. He did appear in season 9 episode, “Meta Fiction”, although he was then revealed to be nothing but a ruse performed by Metatron.

According to Speight Jr., “One theory is that obviously Metatron is controlling the whole thing and that I’m really just a projection…but that makes you wonder why he doesn’t just appear.” The jury may be out on whether or not Gabriel will return, but the actor who played him is reasonably sure that the archangel is alive and well. Perhaps there is hope for Sabriel fans after all.

Doctor Who- 3 theories

WEEPING ANGELS ARE DEAD TIME LORD

1. No monster in New Who has gained quite as much popularity as the Weeping Angels – after initially being introduced in the Tennant-era episode Blink, the villains have been referenced multiple times by both the Doctor and other characters throughout the show.

One such reference, in The End of Time Part Two, has Time Lords covering their faces ‘like the Weeping Angels of Old’. This has led to fan speculation that Weeping Angels might be the ghosts of fallen Time Lords, whose constant exposure to the Time Vortex has left them capable of displacing people through time and feeding on the resultant lost potential.

Considering that Weeping Angels are incorporeal until the moment they’re seen, and that they’re considered one of the oldest races in the universe, this theory does hold up to a certain extent. It certainly would explain why Weeping Angels patrol graveyards and crypts so commonly in the show.

SEASON SEVEN PART ONE HAPPENS IN REVERSE

2. No fan of modern Doctor Who will forget the heartbreaking end to Amy and Rory’s time as companions to the Doctor – sentenced to death by a Weeping Angel, the pair are given the opportunity to grow old together in New York, but are unable to ever see the Doctor again. Some question why the Doctor couldn’t simply pick them up in another part of their timeline – and others wonder if that’s exactly what he does.

In A Town Called Mercy, two episodes before Rory and Amy’s departure, an offhand reference is made to Rory leaving his phone charger in King Henry the VIII’s bedroom. In the next episode, audiences see this very scene play out, suggesting that the episodes A Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three are out of order.

Some fans have taken this to suggest that the Doctor’s appearances throughout the Ponds’ final adventures are in reverse order – having lost Amy and Rory to the Weeping Angels, the Doctor is travelling backwards through their timestream to visit them at different times. This culminates with the Doctor saving their marriage from divorce before finally saying goodbye to them and moving on to live in Victorian London.

THE DALEKS ARE INCAPABLE OF KILLING THE DOCTOR

3. In any given episode of Doctor Who, it’s taken for granted that the Doctor will spout a lot of expositional dialogue, and that the villain of the week will allow him to do so unchallenged. Such is frequently the case with the Daleks, the Doctor’s greatest enemies, who, while regularly in a position to end the Doctor’s life, instead choose to let him ramble for a while before he makes his escape.

While many might see this as simply a convention of the show’s formula, others have begun speculating that there might be a reason for the Daleks’ inaction and repeated failure to kill the Doctor. Way back during the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor found himself in a position to destroy the Daleks – one which he rejected, ultimately leading to their initial creation in the first place. Some fans believe that because of this paradox, the Daleks are actually unable to kill the Doctor – they can’t do so for risk of eliminating themselves from the timeline as a result.

This theory gained more traction as a result of the most recent Season Nine of the modern Doctor Who, in which the Doctor saved the life of the child who would grow up to be Davros, creator of the Daleks. Thus the Daleks are forever desperate to kill the Doctor, but ultimately unable to do so without risking the life of their creator.

Sherlock- 3 Theories

The whole series is just Mycroft keeping Sherlock sane, and John is an actor

1.This theory is quite a convoluted one, so strap yourselves in. What if all this time, everything was just a fake-out that Sherlock's enormously powerful big brother is making up? All these crimes and villains are just there so he has something to do, and to keep him off the drugs.Whenever Sherlock's bored, he turns to drugs. But Mycroft is fully aware of this, so he sets up elaborate crimes for Sherlock to solve. And maybe to help him, he hired an actor named John Watson.

Yes, we know what you're thinking. Utter baloney. But when Sherlock first meets John, he lists of a load of facts about him, and John is astounded. But we see no actual evidence to support Sherlock's claims, aside from a brief flashback of John's time in the army. And even that is a dream sequence in which you don't actually see John himself. Is he just preparing for his next role?

We never actually meet John's supposed lesbian sister that he mentions at their first meeting, and when John does doctor-y things, he doesn't look very convincing (like checking Sherlock's pulse in his wrist rather than his neck, and falling asleep while working at a clinic).

When John first meets Mycroft at an abandoned warehouse, he offers Sherlock's new friend money to spy on him, which John turns down. Why wouldn't John recognise his new employer? Mycroft could have done it anonymously. And maybe he just wants to see how John can handle such a threatening situation.

All this would explain all the odd moments that Sherlock manages to triumph in, in particular that odd scene where he manages to easily rescue Irene Adler from a group of terrorists. But what about Moriarty? Simple, he actually was an actor called Richard Brook after all.How did Moriarty get all the money to carry out his dastardly schemes? Mycroft, of course. Sherlock's big bro needed to come up with a supervillain with seriously dangerous crimes to go along with him. This also explains how Moriarty knows so much about Sherlock.

In 'The Reichenbach Fall', Moriarty suddenly claims to be an actor named Richard, and was hired to make detective seem like he was solving crimes. While we all assume this to be a horrible and clever lie, what if it was the truth? He actually wanted to get rid of this weird acting gig. And the next time he's on screen, he's gone mad, is forced to carry on the charade, and shoots himself.

Sherlock and John are secretly dating and will CANNON!

2. there's some real logic behind it (sort of).

Followers of the 'JohnLock' conspiracy reckon that creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss will eventually turn Sherlock and John's bromance into a full blown romance by the end of the series.

And it's not silly 50 Shades-style fan fiction, but there's been a massively in-depth analysis of scenes and scripts that apparently alludes to a secret relationship.

According to the theory, some fans reckon that the duo's story features plenty of narrative and filming techniques that frame them as a proper couple, not just good friends.

One example is a reference to the ending of Casablanca in 'His Last Vow', and how there are secret hearts littered in their scenes:

Plus, John doesn't correct Irene Adler when she mentions how the two of them are attracted to Sherlock, even though they're usually interested in the opposite sex.

Sherlock used to be an MI6 agent

3.We know little about Sherlock and Mycroft's spiky relationship, but there's one theory that could help explain it a little better. Sherlock once worked for him as a secret agent.

It's easy to guess that Mycroft is the head of the British secret service, so perhaps he once hired his baby brother as one of his top agents.

There have been clues pointing towards a third Holmes brother, so maybe he was also an agent but had a rather nasty death on the job.

This terrible event could have sent Sherlock a bit doolally, forcing him to quit the gig and eventually become a private detective, causing a bit of a rift between the two remaining siblings.

This would explain just how Sherlock also has quite the skills when it comes to kicking ass and infiltrating a terrorist gang and all that.

#superwholock #doctor who #supernatural #sherlock #john barrowman #matt smith #david tennant #benidict cumberbatch #martin freeman

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Hi, so whenever I read destiel meta, or anything destiel related I always see someone mentioning "cas falling for dean"(not as in falling in love with him but like from heaven)and I'm really confused because I don't remember that happening. Do you know whats going on? Thanks!

Hi there! I can’t speak for other meta writers, but what I mean when I’m talking about that is the moment when Cas turned his back on Heaven and chose to side with Dean back in S4, and maybe that doesn’t sound like ‘Falling’, exactly, but the thing is, we don’t know what Falling is and what it means, do we? Like, what we do know is that Metatron’s spell caused the angels to Fall, and that meant 1) burning their wings off (which, as far as we know, merely means annulling their capacity to move around quickly in time and space) and 2) locking them out of the Gates of Heaven (which, ???). However, what was never clear to me is that Cas didn’t go through this process, because Metatron cut his Grace off him before going through with the spell - and yet, when Cas powered up again, his wings were shown to be broken all the same. And another point: as much as I love the wings symbolysm, it’s a bit flimsy because the most famous of the Fallen angels (both in the SPN universe and in theology) is Lucifer, and his wings work just fine. In fact, we know that he and Michael are now the only angels capable of flight.

(In our world, that is. The AU world will likely have different rules.)

Now, as far as I know, the idea of Falling, and, more specifically, of Lucifer falling (because in theology I don’t think that we know of other angels who Fell for their own reasons after him) is not so much about going down as it is about going away - being banned from God’s presence, being excluded from, and deprived of, His love - however you want to put it, that’s what Falling is. So, as you can see, the problem in the SPN universe is that Chuck never left much in terms of direct orders or instructions, and didn’t seem to care about the angels at all when he came back, so - technically - this means that either all of the angels Fell when God first left (simply because He left) and/or that they can never regain their previous status until He says they can. I know I wasn’t the only one to feel slightly, or a lot, disappointed in how Chuck’s return was handled and how much it focused on Lucifer and Dean to the detriment of everyone else -

(Because come on, Sam needed his moment with God after all those years he spent praying to the guy, and Cas - for fuck’s sake, don’t get me started on Cas, but also - all those other nameless and faceless angels, what about them? They are Chuck’s kids, same as Lucifer and the other archangels, and He created them without Free Will, completely dependent on Him, and then He buggered off and when He came back, He never even went up to visit? I’m surprised the place hasn’t turned into a den of depression and alcoholism, to be honest.)

- because the fact is, whatever Metatron’s spell was about, Falling is something that’s between God and the angels. Furthermore, we know from Hester’s words, back in S7, that Falling is maybe - a sort of process? Remember what she says to Dean and Cas? “When Castiel first laid a hand on you in hell he was lost!”, “You have fallen in every way imaginable.” - that seems to imply that there are different ways to Fall, and, okay, some of it was a big subtextual wink and basically Sera Gamble shouting, ‘Don’t go anywhere, shippers, now comes the good stuff! Or soon, anyway!’, but it also made sense textually: we know there are many ways for angels to walk away from Heaven, or be forced out, and all of those could be considered a kind of Falling if we go with the show’s definition of it and take Chuck out of the equation. So - in a way - Gabriel having sex with horses and pretending to be dead is a sort of Falling, as is Balthazar having orgies and selling goods on the black market, and also what happened to Anna, and even what Ishim did: Falling is about developing your own emotions and desires and thoughts, and thus straying from the path God has decided for you. And Cas - I think that, from the point of view of the angels, Cas Fell when he turned his back on them in the most critical moment of their history and chose to help Dean instead, and we know he never truly came back from that - that’s when he started to not be at peace with himself, after all.

(Of course, that��s not the first time Cas rebelled, but he doesn’t remember about the other times, does he? And I’m hoping being dead for good will help him there, because without those memories, I’m not sure he can ever forgive himself - or Dean.)

And if you think about it, it makes sense, because that was a huge breach of - everything. Cas owed his kind obedience and devotion and instead he sided with a human he’d known for, like, ten minutes; and as an angel, he’s supposed to respect the fundamental Virtues of Christianity, and he lost all three of them: his love for God, and his hope and faith for His plans. No wonder he’s broken, because if that isn’t Falling, I don’t know what is.

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The East Wind Brings Angels

Chapter One

Dean Winchester was not used to silence.

Sure, he’d stumbled his way through twelve years of public schooling, where the rule was generally silence, but he was always the one to break that rule, challenge the authority that bound those around him. He remembered scoffing at their obedience, their fear of being reprimanded by parents and teachers alike. There they were, dreading a bad report card or missing a party, when he was facing real danger. He fought to keep them safe. That fighting generally required loud noise, gunshots and screaming and the sound of fist hitting flesh.

Thus, Dean Winchester was not used to silence.

To be fair, it wasn’t complete silence that he sat in. Every now and then he could hear the turning of a page or a sigh from the moose- his brother, Sammy- in front of him. The hum of the bunker’s electricity was also audible, albeit annoying. Letting out a slight groan, he sat back in his chair, glancing around the library as he did so. The atmosphere was quiet and sleepy, which- for some odd reason- frustrated him to no end. He shifted, cracking his knuckles, turning his head to relieve the crick in it, and rubbed his eyes. He let out numerous sighs. He did everything but what he was supposed to be doing.

Finally, Sam had had enough. He slapped his book closed and looked up at his older brother. “Dean, for god’s sake, what?”

“I’m-” he began.

“Bored, yes, I know. You’ve said so half a dozen times already. But you being bored isn’t going to help us find this monster, and it especially isn’t going to help us find Metatron.” Sam rebuked.

“Yeah, but it sure as hell makes things interesting.” Dean retorted.

“We don’t need interesting right now, Dean. We’ve got enough of that. What we need is to figure out what kind of monster we’re hunting, for one, cause honestly, I have no idea.” The taller hunter rubbed his face wearily, looking exasperated. “We’ve got people disappearing left and right, and no idea how. Is this really the best time to take a break?”

“And we’ve gotten so far like this? C’mon, Sammy, this isn’t working and you know it. We better leave it be for a bit, attack it with fresh eyes, ya know, tomorrow. We’re no use like this.” He cajoled.

“But we-”

“But nothing, Sammy. There’s nothing for us to do. How about a beer?” Dismissing his brother and the stick up his ass, Dean got up to go to the fridge, checking his watch as he went. “Crap.”

“What?” Sam called, “Are we out?”

“No, I just- I missed something I wanted to see.” He called back, opening the refrigerator door and extracting two beers.

“What, on TV?”

“No, outside. The space station was supposed to pass overhead an hour ago.” He answered as he handed his brother the alcoholic beverage and sat.

“Oh, yeah,” Sam said, realization dawning as he twisted the cap off his bottle. “You were a real space nut when you were a kid, weren’t you?”

“Well, you’ve gotta admit, it’d be pretty damn awesome to live on a spaceship.” He replied, a little defensively, “Think, Sammy; no monsters, just lots of beer and girls, surrounded by stars… it’s perfect.”

“Okay, Kirk.” Sam laughed.

“Shut your face, you know it would be.”

“I doubt you’d be able to convince some girl to drop everything and go to space with you.” Sam scoffed, raising an eyebrow at him.

“Hey, if not, there’s always alien chicks, right?” Dean said, a slight smirk gracing his face, but he didn’t get to find out what Sam thought about that particular gem. Instead, their conversation was interrupted by a flutter of wings, accompanied by a certain angel in a trench coat.

“Cas, hey,” Dean acknowledged, nodding to him.

“Hello, Dean,” He nodded, “Sam.”

“Hey, how are you?” Sam asked, sitting up where he had previously been reclining.

“I’m well, and you?” Castiel was stiff in his niceties, as always. Either way, Dean found his presence refreshing. It was always good to see him.

“We’re alright,” Dean replied, “What’s up?”

“Well, I don’t know if it’s up, relative to the ground, of course, but I have some news on Metatron.” He replied, tilting his head slightly.

Sam and Dean instantly sat up straighter.

“He’s been spotted in Seattle. I don’t know what he was doing there, but he’s back. On the grid, as you’d put it.” He inclined his head toward Sam, “He hasn’t sent any messages over angel radio, but I’m listening.”

“But he’s not in Seattle anymore?” Sam asked.

“No. Unfortunately, by the time the information got to me, he was gone.”

“So he’s off the grid again. Fan-friggin-tastic.” Dean groaned.

“I’ll keep looking,” Cas said, by way of salutation, but Dean quickly stopped him.

“Hang on, Cas, I got a question.”

“Yes?” The angel turned at that, looking him directly in the eye in that slightly unnerving way of his. Dean was not deterred.

“Would you ever bang an alien?” Dean asked as a sly smirk curled his lips.

“Dude, no. Seriously?” Sam interjected, watching Cas flounder.

“How ‘bout you, Cas? You ever do a little cloud-seeding with an extra-terrestrial?” Dean asked him, ignoring his brother in favor of making his angel uncomfortable.

“I don’t know why you’d even insinuate-” He began, looking confused and slightly affronted.

“C’mon, Cas, ain’t you ever seen Roswell?”

“Roswell? No, I don’t know anybody of the name of Roswell.”

“No, Cas, it’s- nevermind.” He forwent the reference in favor of more questioning. “Seriously, though, you’re telling me you’d never fuck an alien? No matter how hot they were?”

“Dean, stop,” said Sam.

“No, Sammy, I’m curious. Tell me, Cas; would you bang an alien?”

“I suppose if the opportunity arose, I might-”

“Hell yeah! See, Sammy? Cas would bang an alien.” Dean pumped his fist triumphantly. His head was tilted back in a laugh, one that his brother was starting to mimic. It was these rare, light-hearted moments that kept them going.

Cas was tilting his head again, a small smile on his face as he watched Sam start to join in on the laughter. Dean knew that Cas cared about the two of them, no matter how dysfunctional their relationship could be. He knew that the angel, despite how aloof he might seem at times, wanted to see him and his brother happy. He was a great friend, Dean thought as he stood to go and get Cas a beer, Sammy pulling out a chair for the celestial being as he did so.

He truly, truly was.

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Part 1

There had been no way to settle Kali's screaming, and both Sam and Dean were left pale by the time that Kali passed out, slumped in the back seat of the Impala, her breathing shallow and her skin clammy.

They had no way of telling what had happened.

Once back in the bunker, they carried her to her room, settling her in bed before then taking it in turns to keep an eye on her, neither really wanting to discuss this sudden change and what it could possibly mean.

Her screams would occasionally break through the bunker, making both of them hurry to her room if they weren't there, holding her down so that she couldn't hurt herself and then she would settle just as suddenly, her body slumping, exhausted and soaked in sweat.

They had no one to turn to for help.

Reluctantly, they followed up leads and left her there and always hoped that she would be awake when they got back.

She never was.

It wasn't until they reappeared back in the bunker with Chuck, that they learnt the truth.

Almost as soon as Chuck had teleported them back, her screams cut through the halls.

"Dammit." Dean cursed, him and Sam quickly running to her room to hold her down, her back arched off the bed as she screamed against whatever pain was going through her.

Chuck had followed, his gaze turning sad. "A victim of unfortunate timing."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Dean growls as he holds her down.

Kali's body slumps and for a moment neither of the boys thought that she was breathing, before it started again in quick shallow breaths.

Chuck stepped forward. "She is Lucifer's."

"What?" Both of them stared at him, unbelieving of what they had just heard.

Chuck rests a hand across Kali's eyes and slowly, her breathing settles and a little colour returned to face, finally looking like she was just peacefully asleep. "She's got a strong soul, I guess that's what made the connection."

Sam and Dean just stare at Chuck confused before he gives them both a small smile, stepping back from her. "What? You guys have never heard of soul mates before?"

Sam's jaw dropped and Dean looked pissed.

"You're telling me that Kali is Lucifer's soul mate?" He snapped.

Chuck nods. "Yeah, I couldn't have picked it either. Normally angels are with other angels, but I guess there are exceptions." Still seeing their disbelieving expressions, he gives a small smile. "What? Give a guy a break, it was something that I never wrote down all the rules for."

"Rules?" Sam asked. "Chuck, Kali is human. That by every right makes this a bad idea."

"It's not like I can do anything about it." He said. "As I said, I just let some of it go on it's own course. It seemed like a good idea at the time." He looks a little sad for a moment. "Besides, when Lucifer fell, I hardly saw him ever having one. I'm just as surprised as you two are."

Dean storms from the room, cursing and Sam follows him to the kitchen, where Dean quickly grabs a beer.

"I'm not drunk enough for this." He grumbles and Sam nods in agreement.

A door closes before Chuck joins them. "Look, I've put a temporary block on her soul from his. She won't wake up, but she'll no longer be feeling his pain."

"His pain?" Dean bit out. "You're telling that Kali has been like the because, what, Amara has been torturing Lucifer?"

Chuck nods. "Their souls connected as soon as they saw each other, thus any damage to the other, damages them as well." He thinks for a moment. "Probably not what you wanted to hear."

"So how can we fix it?" Sam asked quickly, cutting over Dean who shoots him angry glare.

"You can't." Chuck said. "I already told you I can't. The only way to get her back on her feet would be to get Lucifer here."

Dean slams his beer down onto the bench and leans heavily on it, his knuckles going white. "So the only way we can save Kali, is by saving Lucifer?"

"Pretty much, yeah." Chuck confirms.

"Aren't you the bringer of happy news." Dean grumbles, grabbing his beer again. "How are we going to do that?"

"No idea." Chuck said and then gives a worried look. "But...you should probably know that if Lucifer dies, then so does she."

Dean takes a long drink after that.

It took some time, and some help from Metatron, which they hadn't expected, but while Dean distracted Amara, Sam, Metatron and Donatello, the newest prophet, found themselves staring at a very wounded Lucifer.

"Oh look, Larry, Curly and Moe." Lucifer groans. "What is this? Search and Rescue?"

"Yeah, something like that." Sam said and Metatron jumps up to where Lucifer was being held, looking over the spell work. "But not just for you."

Lucifer glares at Sam, an unrecognisable look in his eyes. "I didn't wish for this happen."

"Yeah, it kind of got explained." Sam was eyeing Metatron. "Are you getting any closer? Dean can't stall forever."

"I'm working on it." Metatron snaps, having a hand. "Just give me a minute."

Sam glares back at Lucifer. "Are you going to be able to do this? Work with your father?"

Lucifer groans again. "What happens in Heaven, stays in Heaven. Besides, you guys have unfortunate leverage over me now."

But Sam shakes his head. "No. We couldn't do that to her, plus, she'd probably kill us just for thinking it."

He chuckles before coughing. "A girl of my own heart then."

"Got it!" Metatron suddenly shouts and the shackles around Lucifer's arm let him fall free.

Sam moved and caught him, throwing his arm over his shoulder. "Alright, now zap us out here, quick!"

"No can do."

"What do you mean you can't?"

"Temporarily ground." He grumbles. "Equipment malfunction."

"Err, guys, I think she's coming." Donatello get's their attention. "Yeah, she's coming."

"Let's go!" Sam snapped and they start running from the warehouse, but Metatron stayed behind.

"Keep going." He yelled as Sam looked back. "I've got this."

The three of them shuffled to car, climbing in and taking off as Amara arrived.

"Metatron won't distract her for long enough." Lucifer grumbles.

Sure enough, Amara appears in front of the car, Sam screeching a halt and trying to reverse, the car lifting up.

They dropped suddenly, appearing in the garage of the bunker.

"Well, that was fun." Lucifer said, earning an odd look from Sam as he struggles to get out of the car.

"Where are we?" Donatello asked as they continue into the bunker.

"Home." Sam said as Chuck enters the room, holding a six pack of beer.

Chuck gives a small smile. "I do occasionally answer a prayer."

Lucifer, holding himself up along the wall, steps forward, staring at Chuck.

Chuck's smile fades a little as they stare at each other. "You've changed."

Lucifer straightens out a little, looking at Chuck and clearly thinking about what to say. "You've changed."

Chuck looks like he wants to agree. "Well, still...I'm still pretty much the same." At a flick of his finger, Lucifer begins to glow, the wounds covering him healing and Sam and Donatello shuffle back a little nervously.

He glares at Chuck for a moment before clearly being distracted, his eyes wandering to the way that Chuck had come from. "Where is she?"

"Down there." Chuck nods to the door. "She should wake up when you go to her, the spell was only temporary so as she wasn't feeling your pain." He then frowns. "Which reminds me."

Before Lucifer can move, Chuck clicks his fingers and once again, Lucifer starts to glow, but this time the glow separated into two until Lucifer was standing in his original vessel and Castiel was back alone in his.

"What did you do?" Lucifer growls.

"Well, you can hardly have her constantly seeing Castiel with you, that wouldn't be fair." Chuck takes a drink, hiding his smile as he sits down.

Lucifer's eyes narrow as he looks like he wants to say something, but again his gaze locks back down the hall.

"Third room on the left." Sam said quietly.

Lucifer sneers but doesn't make a sound as he marches off down the hall.

Castiel watches after him, clearly confused. "Did I miss something?"

Sam gives a small laugh. "Yeah, we'll catch you up."

Lucifer was resting again Kali's door, his hand frozen over the handle. He was hating every second of this, but he knew that he couldn't direct it at her, it was his own self hate that he had to deal with.

Letting out an impatient breath, he stepped quickly inside.

His insides twisted when he saw her lying there, looking almost peaceful if it wasn't for the faint cry of pain from her soul that made him want to break things. Her black hair was spilled out over the pillows and it was a shaky breath that he stepped closer.

He was meant to hate humanity, detest it with every fibre of his being, and yet her, he could not, any bad thought that crossed his mind was instantly squashed as it inflicted pieces of pain in both him and her, feeling the echoes through her.

Carefully, he scooped her tightly into his arms and sat on the bed, cradling her against him. Reaching out with his grace and closing his eyes, his head resting on hers, he healed her, calling out to her and bringing her back around.

She stirred, the echoes of pain stopping and settling, and as her eyes slowly opened, he brushed her hair back from her face.

"Lucifer?" Her voice was quiet, hoarse and she clearly whinced.

A glass of water appeared in his hand and he held it to her lips. "You need to rest."

Kali takes a grateful drink before she looked up at him, her eyes cautious. "You were hurting."

He nods and places a kiss to her forehead. "Those fool friends of yours saved me." He rolled his eyes. "And, well, then Dad healed me I guess."

She blinked, her eyes going wide. "God is here?" When he doesn't look impressed, heat flushed her cheeks. "Hey, it's a big deal."

Lucifer's thumb brushed along her cheek as his gaze moved over her face, memorising it. "No it's not."

Without warning, he pressed his lips to hers, earning a small, startled squeak before she relaxes into it, her eyes closing and kissing just as eagerly back.

It was only when she gasped and her hand clasped her head that they stopped.

"What?" He asked worriedly.

Kali's face was screwed up and it was a moment before she started to relax. "Well, at least your not just black anymore."

Lucifer looks at her confused and she gives a small, nervous smile. "Everytime I tried to see you, all I could see was blackness, my visions could go completely dark and I could only get very small pieces of information. I didn't know it was you of course, not until very recently, but it looks like whatever happened between us has made it go away."

"You can see the future?" He asked quietly, curiously.

"A little." Kali draws in a deep breath. "I usually have to be focused though."

"What do you see of us?" He didn't want to ask, but he was curious just how far this would go.

Kali glances at him, chewing her lip. "I don't know." When he frowns, she explains. "I can see us with the others, but if I try to do so alone, it doesn't work. Not even a headache, which normally happens, there's just nothing."

A mischievous smile comes to his lips then, relief flooding him. "Good."

She had every intention of asking what that meant, but then she found him kissing her again, deeper this time, and she clung to him as every fibre of her being depended on it.

He pulls away with a low growl. "You are going to be the death of me, little one, I just know it."

Kali beams up at him. "I'm sure it won't be all bad."

Lucifer doesn't look convinced though. "I'm mean to hate you all, and yet, I cannot do so with you. It hurts me to do so. You are going to make me change and I'm not entirely convinced that that is the right thing."

"You think I feel any better?" She asked carefully, although her hand reached up and cradled his cheek, which he lent into. "I think there's going to be one hell of an adjustment period for both of us."

He watches her for a moment, feeling her emotions were just as conflicted and confused as his were, and this gave him comfort. "I think that may be an understatement."

Her lips twitch in a smile. "Probably, especially with the end of the world looming and all."

Lucifer gives her a chaste kiss. "I won't let anything happen to you. I promise."

"Oh good, I was getting worried." This time, Kali pulls him in for a kiss, causing a rumble to go through his chest. He could feel it, the longer he was with her, the more his blackness left, and he had never realised how much he had ever wanted it gone.

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rotsmell · 5 years

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VALTIEL

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Real Name: Lobsel Vith and Valtiel, respectively. The former less common as it is commonly believed they are not the same entity. Aliases: 'The closest to god', the deliverer, Attendant of God, Metatron, Executioner, The Magician, the yellow angel and the yellow god, Lia-Valtiel. Age: ---- Birthday:---- Species: Angel assumingly Status: Alive Location: ----- Height: 6'8" Appearance: Valtiel's appearance overall is predominately masculine, sporting wirey muscles noticeable where skin is 'exposed'; this being his arms and neck-up. His arms have the seals of metatron upon each shoulder, and underneath that muscle tissue is exposed in almost perfectly symmetrical triangles at the biceps brachii and the extensor digitorum. His hands sport ceremonial red gloves, in which all but the thumb and pinkie are melded together. His neck, starting at the bottom of his chin and ending near where the base of his collar bone would be is inky black. This blackness spills just a bit onto the shoulders, above the seals. His head is a stitched up mess of flesh, but symmetrically so- there is a crease and buckle where his mouth should be but this is not a mouth. His mouth is rather on the left side of his head, from which a wirey black tongue can extend. Other than these features, his face lacks anything. His attire consist of a apron or smock that resembles that of a butcher or surgeon, but lacks a collar. Rather, two black straps connect around shoulders that blend into the inky neck. The back has an intricate lace pattern, which weaves continuously and rather does not have anywhere it ties or unties. Below the smock are heavy duty black boots, also seeming to weave continuously. His form is caked in rust, dirt, and blood. Gender: Genderless, but sporting male features. Moral Status: Lawful Evil Religion: Being the angel of God, he isn't religious but rather follows the deities orders and will, as it is fact to him.

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Disposition: As far as the beings of Silent Hill go, Valtiel is a being beyond the simplistic nature most the monsters share. His emotions are not limited to singular areas of pain and anger, and he is not driven by the simple animalistic will to kill and torment. His goal is to bring about the rebirth of the God and making sure she and the mother of her shall be protected. However, beyond their drive they are one who prefers to watch over act, but will act as necessary with ease. They can be seen as curious and attentive, but callous and suspicious as well. Cautious, and choice making.

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Inhuman strength, Intelligence, Reality distortion (crafting darkness, creating static, damaging technology, having aspects of the otherworld drift into the 'main world'- as examples), 'World Turning' (has some influence over bringing the otherworld, often seen turning valves while doing this but isn't required), 'Gravity'/Physics defying, Telepathy if required but rarely used, Resurrection to an extent, Healing, more to be added

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God created beings to lead people in obedience to herThere was Xuchilbara, the red godAnd

LOBSEL VITH

, the yellow god

Deities and angels, to lead the people before God's strength ran out- she slipped into the slumber of death. The people grieved, but time passed and those that remembered slipped away. New religions came about, and the beings crafted by God were set to slumber as well.

The knowledge existed, but was hushed.Silence must be broken, however.

The small sects holding Her name still alive became more active, spread out but evident- however, centralized to one singular area attention came. CRUELITY and ABOMINATIONS of praise woke the remains of the Goddess; with the horror of praise came the grotesque turn of divinity.

Torment was their awakening.

Worship drenched in ichor malformed the Metatron, Lobsel Vith, the Attendant of God, VALTIEL. Their names, his name began to change as did his manifestation, his domain of rebirth, healing, and resurrection mixing with that of death and execution.

They began to worship him as suchAn angel of execution, sect of Valtiel

How pitifully IGNORANT- his actions were caused by their sins; his manifestation a reflection of their own warped perception. And he could feel HER becoming restless; paradise shall not come to them.

So foolishly they continue.

They tried to craft their way to paradise on a blood stained trail; hear the valves creak, take a look at the hell you have achieved in your delusions, humans.

They persisted, blaming it upon the other.

They praised an apocalypse that would come, and they would not be denied it; but this was not their rapture. Paradise would not show it's green fields to the corrupt.

Simply, they needed to aid in the rebirth of God.

The womb of God was to be to specific mothers, however; simple women could not properly give life to the divine.

Thus the mother of god must be protected.

THINGS WOULD COME TO PASS

The Yellow God, The Angel, Metatron, The Agent of God, Lobsel Vith, Valtiel; their names were many, but all the same they brought nothing but protection for the reckoning that would come.

#‛[ L∨┆“HEADCANONS” ۞ ʷʳᶦᵗᵉ ᵈᵒᶜᵘᵐᵉⁿᵗˢ ᵇᵘᵗ ᴵ ʰᵒˡᵈ ⁿᵒ ᶜᵒⁿˢᵗᵃⁿᵗ #‛[ RAB┆“OOC” ❤ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵉᵉⁿ ᵃ ʰᵃʳᵉ ˢᵖᵉᵃᵏ ᵇᵃᶜᵏʷᵃʳᵈˢ #long post //#( some things will change a little bit _

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