Uncertainty
for rem @suncaptor, with the prompt liminality. A tiny thing on what makes someone human, in the eyes of the oldest being in the universe.
“Would you like me to be honest?” Death said, crossing his arms.
Dean weighed his words, realizing that he was probably going to regret saying them.
“Uhm. Yes?” he asked, wincing.
“I don’t know...where you’re going to go,” Death said slowly, “When you die.”
Dean blinked. “I beg your pardon?”
Death sighed.
“When you, and your brother, inevitably ‘kick the bucket’ without standing it right back up again,” Death said, a sliver of contempt in his voice, “Where you’ll go? Is anyone’s guess.”
“I, uh, assumed the options are, uhm, Heaven or Hell,” Dean said, eyes darting back and forth, “Right?”
“Ohh, no, no, no,” Dean said, smiling condescendingly at Dean. “No. You and Sam are not quite...human enough for that to be a guarantee.”
Death toyed with the ring on his finger.
“You’ve been...altered. Changed. Possessed, unpossessed, built, rebuilt…”
He finally looked up, and stared Dean directly in the face.
The oppressive weight of the type of thing Death was, crowded around Dean's existence. The edges of his soul shrank back from the sheer perception.
“You could go to Heaven. You could go to Hell," Death said simply, his speech laced with the slow surety of the inexorable march of time, "Purgatory isn’t off the table, either. You could simply wink out of existence. I won’t know, until I have your soul...in my hands.”
Death stood up.
“We will find out together, one day, the results of this little experiment,” Death said, “But not today.”
And he was gone.
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"what's gone should stay gone"
Ok mister cheat death. Ok mister "I have died too many times to count". Ok mister "death was about to kill me but he left at the last second". Ok mister "my fatal heart injury was cured miraculously".
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Ok Death’s big intro in supernatural remains one of my fave scenes—the music, the aesthetic, the actor, it’s all genius
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you know, surprisingly few kripke-era antagonists are primarily motivated by autonomy? like, the other motives i can think of atm are
monstrous instincts or pleasures (e.g., many of the monsters of the week, the benders, alastair, meg, three of the four horsemen)
revenge (e.g., gordon, lucifer, lots of the ghosts)
trying to live up to expectations (e.g., michael, jake, zachariah, ava (kind of))
fear (e.g., the girl from 'family remains,' bela, jake again, crowley)
law & order or fate or some other abstract but rigid dictate (e.g., many of the angels, henriksen)
avoidance or tiredness (e.g., raphael, gabriel)
loyalty to a god or god-like figure (e.g., michael, uriel, lilith, ruby, azazel, meg, alastair...most of the recurring demons, really)
the only ones that seem to actively want and pursue significant, meaningful autonomy are
crowley — whose motives go beyond wanting to avoid lucifer eventually exterminating the demons and extend into wanting to actually take charge of things
bela — who is motivated to get out of her deal, but seems to have thoughts about what life might be like beyond that, which isn't the case for a lot of characters motivated by fear, or revenge, or desire to escape, or anything else
lucifer — who is also motivated by revenge, but was originally motivated by not wanting to be made subservient against his will, and who now seems to have a plan for himself and the world that could potentially extend past winning
anna — who is in soldier mode by the time she's an antagonist, but knows about autonomy, and is explicitly working toward that
death — who is so much Bigger than any of the other characters, who is shackled kind of by technicality, and who is one of few to have ever known autonomy (although death does not do anything antagonistic in the pursuit of autonomy, so this might not be a fair inclusion)
arguably gabriel, after abandoning his fatalistic escapism (although again, i'm not sure gabriel really counts as a villain while pursuing autonomy; that seems to inspire actions that are beneficial rather than antagonistic to the protagonists, for him)
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