An odd meme, I guess?

[hells_half_acre]

I'm having a sucky week. Can't seem to get my head together for work - can't seem to get my head together for writing. My sister is on reading/Olympics break and, as much as I love her, I miss having the house to myself at least 3 days of the week. (She's out today though, which is nice.)

It's ridiculously sunny here, I just want to jump in my car and drive someplace - but, because I haven't been able to get my head together for work, I owe them like 40 billion hours.

Now, that all being said...I feel like communicating with people in written form. So, here's your challenge (if you've read this far):

Leave me a prompt or question about Supernatural in the comments - you can ask my thoughts on a particular character/event/issue, ask me to explain away a particular plot-hole, or prompt me with something ridiculous like "what do you think would happen if Sam was turned into a kitten?" (Except, don't ask me that, because my only response would be: "CUDDLES!")

Or alternatively, you could ask me something about myself.

This will hopefully cheer me up and satisfy my craving for contact with the outside world.

...though, now I'm really craving cuddles with kitten!Sammy. Ah kitten!Sammy, are there any ills of the world you can't solve? (please note: kitten!Dean can also solve the world's ills, but be careful, he bites!)

PS: You can ask me questions about Harry Potter, but don't prompt Harry Potter/Supernatural crossover stuff. I'm busy working on another installment for my demented!verse, and I want to use this post as a little break from that.

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

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.

[dairygirl.livejournal.com]

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?

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

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.

[dairygirl.livejournal.com]

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?

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

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.

[dairygirl.livejournal.com]

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?

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

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.