Like, I always assumed that Winchester=Michael!vessel, and Campbell=Lucifer!vessel...(which I loved, because I thought it was really poetic that Campbells were/are hunters).
I always assumed that there simply was an able to carry an Archangel gene. Azazel went around dripping blood in a lot of kids mouths, so I guessed he was hitting everyone possible, just like Crowley gathered all the potential prophets together last year. I mean Lucifer told Azazel to find a special child, so Azazel had to use some parameters and Archangel vessel would be a safe bet.
Dean trusts Ezekiel because Cas told him he could be trusted. But Cas hasn't seen Ezekiel, so Ezekiel could be anyone and just using a different name. For example, I'm Lucifer and the spell sprung the Cage would not get him a good response from Dean. Substitute Michael or Gabriel or Raphael or even Zachariah and you get the same effect. So the angel picks the name of someone Cas knows and goes with it. As someone has noted Ezekiel said he was an angel injured in the fall. He didn't specify WHICH fall and Lucifer did have followers in his rebellion who may have fallen with Lucifer and who have been laying low until they could blend into a crowd of fallen angels.
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I always assumed that there simply was an able to carry an Archangel gene. Azazel went around dripping blood in a lot of kids mouths, so I guessed he was hitting everyone possible, just like Crowley gathered all the potential prophets together last year. I mean Lucifer told Azazel to find a special child, so Azazel had to use some parameters and Archangel vessel would be a safe bet.
Dean trusts Ezekiel because Cas told him he could be trusted. But Cas hasn't seen Ezekiel, so Ezekiel could be anyone and just using a different name. For example, I'm Lucifer and the spell sprung the Cage would not get him a good response from Dean. Substitute Michael or Gabriel or Raphael or even Zachariah and you get the same effect. So the angel picks the name of someone Cas knows and goes with it. As someone has noted Ezekiel said he was an angel injured in the fall. He didn't specify WHICH fall and Lucifer did have followers in his rebellion who may have fallen with Lucifer and who have been laying low until they could blend into a crowd of fallen angels.