Hell&#39;s Half Acre

If you were given the opportunity to walk through a magic portal and insert yourself into the SPN-universe (with no guarantee you'd ever meet the boys), would you go?

I would. I think I'd make a decent hunter - and someone's gotta see about taking care of the salt'n'burns while the "real" hunters are dealing with demons.

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Hmmm...interesting question.

I'm not sure I would. Realistically speaking - I have a fear of spiders, not much upper body strength, and bad knees. I'm not sure I would be THAT much help. I do like crossbows though, and I'm very good at hiding....

I like my safety though. I like knowing who my predators are when I'm walking about in the woods.

So yeah, I would probably go ahead and say no, I wouldn't walk through the portal. I also like being an atheist ;-)

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I'm enough of an adrenalin junkie that I'd have a helluva time (no pun intended) doing s&b's. And I wouldn't have a problem with getting knocked around by a ghost; I'm enough of a klutz that I've long ago learned how to fall properly (something the boys don't seem to understand). I have no real fears or phobias - I don't like some things, but I'm not actively scared of them. Besides, when my dad was teaching me to shoot, he said I was 'scary-good' (I was ten and bulls-eyed all six rounds from the revolver at 45 feet) and I can shovel with the best of them (gotta love a farmkid upbringing).

But, to each their own, I suppose.

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I'm also a pretty good shot! That's an appeal to going for sure...but yeah, I don't have much stamina. I'm sure all that would change with regular s&bs...but it'd be really rough going at first.

I actually like getting injured - always had a small injury kink. Not sure if that would be a good or bad thing. I was thinking of this yesterday when the downhill skiers kept crashing in the Olympics and the commentators were wondering if the hill was too hard...and I thought "man, whenever we went down hills as kids, if half of us didn't end up injured, we complained that the hill was too easy."

But yeah, being able to shoot things would definitely be a draw. There's not much call for crossbows (or rifles - the only gun I've ever shot) in my day to day life at the moment.

The other appeal would be living out of my car and being able to survive off of credit card fraud without being caught...but if I don't know how to do that now...well, I'm probably better off here. :-P

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I've always sorta assumed that one of the differences between the SPN-verse and our world is that hacking and credit-card fraud is easier to do on their side of the mirror.

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In that case, I would totally go. I'd much prefer to live off credit card fraud and drive aimlessly around the country than what I'm doing now.

Plus, now that I think about we don't know who is looking after Canada in the Supernatural universe...maybe I wouldn't be that good in the field, but I could organize others! I could be the Bobby of Canada! Ok, I'm all jazzed now.

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Besides, we'd be going with eyes wide open - I don't know about you, but I've had the exorcism they do on Show memorized for going on two years now.

And we could always take our DVDs and companion books with us for more intel - we wouldn't even need a journal!

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Haha, ok! You've sold me. :-)

Bad knees be damned...I'll just be so good that I'll never have to run. ;-)

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Bwuhahahaha.

Now that I've sold you on the concept, would you believe I've been working on writing this monstrosity into existence? Writing myself into their universe, I mean. I started working on it back during the multitude of breaks in S3, so by now it's way-way-AU and I don't want to start posting until I've gotten it finished. It's sitting at 105,274 words and I'm only about a sixth of the way through my planned tale.

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Oh man! Good luck with that!

You have to be careful when you are writing yourself into something, that you don't turn yourself into a Mary Sue. I'd never attempt it - it's too alluring to write yourself without faults. :-P

Good luck though...that's longer than my HP/SPN epic!

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I hate Mary Sues. I wrote myself as true to my own personality as possible - yeah, it was harder than fuckall, but I think I did good - and only changed a few minor details (I couldn't help but write myself as living the life I wish I'd had when I started the fic and I changed my last name to keep the stalking to a minimum). I kept my short hair (though it's bright pink in real life, I kept it to my natural light blonde in the story), my general level of klutziness, and the fact that I'm really not all that beautiful (I mean, I'm not horribly disfigured or anything, just not likely to ever turn heads without the aid of Hot Topic). I kept in as many of my faults as I could - like how I've still got scars from my cutting days in college (though I moved where they are - IRL, they're on my legs, in the story, I put them on my arms) and how I can out-cuss a sailor when the mood strikes. I also stayed as true to my general level of stubbornness as I could...

Yeah, all that makes it rather heavy on the me!bits of the tale to start out with, but when I finally get it done, everyone reading it will already know the boys - they don't know me.

I hope I manage to finish it before the end of this summer, but the more I work on it, the more ideas surface... Sigh. Maybe I should just finish out the first arc of my story and post it, then do a sequel? Hmm...the thought has merit...but that would mean I'd have to find some other title for now (I'd finally settled on 'White Rabbit', and have been using the song lyrics as chapter titles - the story itself is very much a retelling of 'Through the Looking Glass')...

Any ideas?

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Cool, yeah, I didn't figure you to be the type to write yourself as a Mary Sue - I just mentioned it as the danger (and why I don't do it...I have too high an opinion of myself, bad knees and fear of spiders aside).

Anyway, as for your story...I think it might be better to publish it in segments. I think people are more likely to read a 30 chapter fic than a 60 chapter one...let alone a 90+ chapter one. If there IS a good place to break it up anyway...

You should be pretty impressed with yourself for writing so much though! That's awesome. It's a fun premise too!

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Did I fail to mention that I'm only partway through chapter eleven with that word count? My chapters on this one have been averaging 25 pages or so each.

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Dude...sorry, I was measuring by MY chapter lengths. (LJ chapters)

Geez...I think even my novel chapters are only 17 pages each.

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Meh, no matter. I usually stick to chapter lengths of 7-12 pages, but this tale... It's something else entirely.

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Okay, I have a Supernatural query for you: Who really put Castiel back together after the smiting by the teenage mutant ninja angel? Bonus question: What happened to Jimmy after said smiting?

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I like to believe that it was God, like Castiel wants to believe. I don't think anyone else had anything to gain from Castiel still being around to help the Winchesters.

I differ from canon on the second question though...according to the last episode, Jimmy is still in there somewhere - so, I'm assuming he momentarily died (went to heaven) and then was resurrected along with Castiel, only to be shoved into the background of his body again.

Personally though, I'd have preferred it if Jimmy stayed in heaven, and Castiel was in that body alone...it would make more sense for eventually getting the future!Cas we saw in 5x04...Cas was "human" in that episode, but still Cas. I would think that if Cas eventually became human, he would lose the ability to repress Jimmy. So, yeah, personally, I like thinking that Jimmy didn't make it...and that he's in heaven like Castiel promised him in 4x20.

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I would like to think that God brought back Castiel as well if nothing else to reward the faith he has in his Father. I know others questioned his resurrected origins (e.g., Raphael) but it does not follow that Lucifer had anything to gain except another rebellious angel, but Castiel's faith in God seems both pure and solid. Not something I think Lucifer would want in fellow rebel angel.

Actually, I would like to think it was just Jimmy's body recreated as well because why would such a faithful man be resurrected and then usurped yet again? Still, it makes me curious about Anna's body/vessel. Does this same idea hold true if she was the one originally occupied the body as a fallen angel/human?

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Yes, my thoughts exactly.

Anna was the only one ever in that body - first as a human (an angel's graceless soul) - and then after her body was destroyed in 4x10 she was able to "call in some favours" and have her human body put back together for her angelic use.

I really want Castiel to have a similar deal - Jimmy dead, and Jimmy's body left for Castiel's use. Sort of like how Ruby got a body for her own last season. But alas, it looks like Jimmy is still in there somewhere - or maybe Jimmy's body just has a left over meat craving?

And yeah, completely agree about Castiel, neither Lucifer nor the other angels have anything to gain from Castiel still being alive - therefore, it has to be God.

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The thing I don't understand (and maybe that was mentioned somewhere and I missed it) is why if God restored Castiel, he doesn't have access to the full powers of heaven? Is it just that angels control that access and therefore, Castiel is cut off by his brothers? Then how to explain Gabriel?

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I totally have an explanation for this:

God restored Castiel, (because God is working behind the scenes to achieve some other, as of yet unknown, end), but heaven's powers are currently controlled by the other angels. And technically, Castiel rebelled, therefore Castiel is cut off.

Gabriel did NOT rebel. He just left. He is not working against the other angels like Castiel is. Gabriel isn't a fallen angel, he is just an angel on vacation in disguise.

Also, Gabriel is an archangel. Lucifer is still very powerful even though he rebelled, so there's a good chance that archangels do not need as much support from heaven as lower ranking angels. In Supernatural the archangels are the most powerful weapon in heaven, as well as being the only 4 angels to have ever been in the presence of God. So, yeah, that might just have different rules.

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Okay, I can accept different rules for archangels (and good point that Gabriel left versus sticking it to his brothers before leaving). However, if God spend all that energy putting Castiel back together, why not give him backdoor access to Heaven's power? Why make him struggle in his righteous search for God and support of the Winchesters? What makes him fallen--the view of God or the view of the angels?

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That, I have no answer for. The only thing that I can figure is with God absent, it's actually the angels that get to decide who is fallen and who isn't...and there is no backdoor to heaven's power, I guess. It's either that, or for whatever reason, God doesn't think Castiel needs heaven's full power.

Edited Date: 2010-02-20 03:14 am (UTC)

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What if Castiel tried to take Sam & Dean back in time again, but messed up? Messed up how? Instead of taking Sam & Dean back in time, he brings wee!chester Sam & Dean and season 1 Sam & Dean to the present. :) So, how would that meeting go?

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Dude! That would be CRAZY!

Let's see...wee!chesters would be SHOCKED at how huge Sam is. Wee!Sam and S1Sam would be upset that Sam was still a hunter.

And if you think Dean was freaked out by future!Dean in 5x04...man, wee!Dean AND S1Dean would be freaked out by both Dean AND Sam.

I think Dean and Sam would try to change their present - get S1Dean&Sam to do things differently... maybe they'd try with the wee!chesters too, who knows...

But yeah, that'd be insane - and I think that much time-travel would kill poor Cas :-P

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LOL, It would be super insane, and I'm pretty sure it would end up being total crack. :D

I prefer to think it would know Castiel out for a little while. (We can't miss the opportunity to see Castiel be confused by 3 sets of Sam & Dean. :D )

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