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katsidhe · 3 years

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Hello! Good morning!! I have a Michael/Adam rant!

Midam has the potential to be a wonderfully complex ship... so why is so much of the stuff I see about it, like, straightforward romance, or at most bonding only predicated on bridging the obvious gap between a college kid and a rigid archangel, and not on the batshit insanity that is building a healthy (??????????) relationship in the DOUBLE DATE environment of the Cage??

Because, for a long time, they are not alone!! Lucifer and Sam are around! This is super important! For all intents and purposes, for about two hundred years, the universe consists of exactly four people. And that’s where the magic happens. 🪄

There aren’t many hard-and-fast Cage Facts! That’s what makes the Cage so fun and insane! ! But hey besties, guess what IS an undeniable Cage Fact(tm) as per 15.08: Michael saw Sam tortured and did nothing to intervene. 😇

Adam... knows that. No matter how much he does or doesn’t see, he can’t not know. Even if Michael were to keep him 100% isolated, he isn’t stupid, he can easily surmise. It’s, like, a two-second question, with a two-second answer: “hey so uh where’s my half-brother at” “oh he’s with Lucifer” “uhhhhh is that,,,, I mean is he, um,,, okay” “lmao nope”

Chew on THAT one for a few hundred years, Adam.

He knows Michael is actively choosing not to intervene on Sam’s behalf. He knows Michael well; he’s been in his head. He knows that Michael thinks Sam’s getting what was coming to him, on some level. surely he feels SOME KIND OF WAY about this.

Mitigating feelings: Adam knows Sam chose to cast them both here. There was one person in the driver’s seat at Stull, and only one, and that person was Sam. Sam chose to be here, and the other three of them—Sam’s own kin included—did not.

And yes Adam understands Sam had his reasons, good ones, even. But from where Adam sits, he allied with Heaven. Even knowing a lot more about the machine of Heaven and Michael’s beliefs by now, Adam might find it hard to believe casting Michael down here was strictly necessary. After all, Sam and Dean gave him one hasty elevator pitch, once. Michael... promised whatever it was he promised at the end of s5, or threatened whatever it was that he threatened, and Adam said yes in very short order.

By now, Adam has a major vested interest in believing Michael’s in the right.

For one thing, Adam is deeply afraid of Lucifer. Like, dear god, why wouldn’t he be?

The corollary, of course, is that Adam is relying on Michael for protection. He better fucking hope he and Michael stay on good terms. He’s got an uncomfortably accurate idea of what the alternative looks like.

For another: Adam said yes. Why would he want to believe that that decision doomed the world? Why wouldn’t he want to believe that he was making the best choice from impossible circumstances—minimizing collateral or whatever.

And yet, I can’t see any mental gymnastics really putting a dent in Adam’s basic conviction as a normal, decent human being that no one should undergo sickening torment on the daily for decades. At least, not for awhile, anyway.

So where does that leave Michael and Adam? Does Adam try to pressure Michael to intervene? Is he afraid to push the subject too hard? Does he mostly just try to make himself not think about it too much? Does he negotiate, like, days off for Sam or anything like that? Does he manage to change Michael’s mind at all? Does Michael manage to change his mind at all?

God, the guilt. God, the blame. The powerlessness—which Michael is a party to, which Michael is enforcing. If things continue like this unchanged for too long, Adam basically HAS to start blaming or hating Sam more/agreeing with Michael more just to cope.

I think Sam sees Adam in the Cage at least a few times, and knows that Michael is treating him well, simply because he isn’t incredibly worried and preoccupied by Adam’s fate once he’s out. If Sam didn’t have some assurance that Adam was okay-ish, I think he’d have a lot more active guilt. But what’s he think of Adam hiding behind Michael? Is there resentment mixed with the guilt?

And all this is without touching the Michael-Lucifer relationship, to which Adam is also an unwilling party!! Chew on that one too, Adam!

Basically, Adam gets front row tickets to two massive dumpster fires: Michael and Lucifer, and Sam and Lucifer. And Michael and Sam is, like, at least a fiery recycling bin or something. How is ALL THAT gonna affect how he feels about Michael?

*chanting* DOUBLE! DATES! DOUBLE! DATES!

All of which is to say that I have a complex series of headcanons about what board game preferences and strategies Sam, Lucifer, Michael, and Adam have on their annual double date game night 😇

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