Here’s the work I made for the art contest organised by The Ineffable Con.
The theme I chose is ‘Falling’’ (because I’m a ray of sunshine) and this is my contribution. Thank you so much to all the gentle peeps who voted for it! 💙
Prints and other stuff on my Society6 and RedBubble
Okay, I already said that I believe someone has been erased by the Book of Life.
But I don't think they just left a big plot gap where the mirror of the Resurrectionists minisode should be, I think they left smaller gaps, too -- like the clock in the bookshop jumping ahead, because someone is supposed to have spoken, but there was no one there to do it.
It's God, isn't it? The person who's been zapped by the Book of Life.
How do you stop Jesus from coming? Get rid of God. Then there's no Jesus, and no second coming.
But if you get rid of God, if God will never have existed, won't the world disappear?
Well, what if you take one of God's failed worlds, and build it up to the best of your ability to be as much like God's world as you can, and lead the person who was supposed to have been Jesus along with some other folks into this new world? It would help if your best friend had maybe created a nebula or two, and knew how to do such things? Perhaps, if they held on to their crank and book that started that first nebula they made, you could make a little pocket world?
Then you try it. You borrow the Book of Life (Thanks, Saraquel!) and you erase God. Only out of this new world, not the previous one. Because you are now in charge of this world, God can vanish out of it, and with Her, Jesus, both versions.
But now you have no narrator to tell whose POV is being followed. You have no Jesus to make grave markers from -- Gabriel will have to do, I suppose.
And without God, without Jesus, you have these weird gaps in time where one or both of them was supposed to be there and now isn't. Out of order, as it were.
This is all late-night bedtime speculation, and I don't know if I'm onto anything or just full of nonsense, but this is cooking.
The Book of Life has been used. Someone is missing. They've left gaps, but other than looking where that person isn't, no one would ever know. Maybe it's God, maybe it's Jesus, maybe I'm dead wrong. But someone is not where there is supposed to be a someone.
I'm still here, just disillusioned and sad. But also still a little crazy.
The Book of Life being used as a threat to eliminate someone's very existence -- through all of history and the future -- is the proverbial gun above the mantel piece. It had damn well better go off before the final act.
But if it was used on someone, how would we know? They would never have been there at all.
When I was looking at the chiastic structure of the second season, I noticed that the flash back to Edinburgh didn't have an echo where it should have. The echo of Wee Morag getting shot is Crowley yelling at the invading demons that they are out of order. Or, as I read it, that they are arriving not in their correct time.
I think someone had the Book of Life used on them, in the space where the chiastic echo of Edinburgh is supposed to be, but because that meant they would never have existed, we neither see them -- EVER -- nor the moment they get erased. Because how can you erase someone who never existed? That moment would disappear from the timeline.
But it left a hole. No echo of events where an echo should be.
I'm betting a closer look at the Edinburgh flashback would reveal clues about who has been removed from all of history, by whom, and maybe even why.
I am copying/pasting/editing some of a past post of mine here since I know you've mentioned you don't fully get the game stuff I talk about, so I'll focus on this story aspect.
This story is a bit sad, and it is going to be a kinda fanfic and a kinda meta, moreso than you will often find in my speculation. I will be listing my guesses in a more committed way to make it more like a story.
The Bible, Genesis Chapter 6 in particular, has a curious verse about the "sons of God" with explanations for things that led to the flood. One speculative guess at who the "sons of God" were is that they were demons or fallen angels. That would then include Crowley.
If you take this verse and the idea that demons can have offspring, indicated through another verse, this potential story forms: Crowley was Muriel's dad; Muriel was Crowley's daughter.
Back in 3004 BC, Crowley could more freely wander the Earth as a snake-eyed demon who did not need to cover his eyes. Humans had longer lifespans that reached up to hundred of years. Crowley could, and did, have sex with at least one human ("the birds and the bees"). This human looked like Nina.
David Tennant, who plays Crowley, and Nina Sosanya, who plays Nina, were both in a comedy drama serial called Casanova. It was written by Russel T. Davies. In Casanova, the character Nina Sosanya plays, Bellino, mothers a child of Casanova, who is the character David Tennant plays. Casanova meets the child when they are a grown adult. That child's name is Leonilda. The actress who plays Leonilda is Naomi…Bentley.
That's a convenient coincidence.
We have a point of reference for how another story imagines a child between David Tennant and Nina Sosanya would look like. We can compare Naomi Bentley as Leonilda to Quelin Sepulveda as Muriel.
In the above image, Leonilda is in the left two slots, and Muriel is in the right two slots.
Now back to Crowley in Good Omens 2. This child with a human sometime before 3004 BC was the person who would later become Muriel after death.
This chapter includes a verse about the "daughters of men," but that seems to be more a reference to the mother who looked like Nina. The word "daughter" is nonetheless the word you are supposed to associate with Muriel due to so much of what I find in the games.
You can find Muriel in blurred motion of S1E3 here:
In 3004 BC, when Crowley says to Aziraphale, "Not the kids. You can't kill kids," he is thinking of his own actual kid (Muriel).
That's a big contributing factor to why he's so appalled. His own child is fated to die in the flood because, in this general vicinity, every mortal being is going to die who is not on the ark. He does not have the power to save Muriel from what is going to happen.
After Muriel died, Muriel did not go to Hell. Muriel was a blameless child with a supernatural parent.
Something happened, such as a deal with Gabriel. Wipe her memory of me. Wipe my memory of her. Erase her from the Book of Life. You protect the erased form of her for me, at the lowest rank of the angels, the closest to Hell, and I will owe you something big one day. Gabriel called in this big thing in a scene we never saw for season 2.
The erasure, like so many things in Good Omens, is not so simple and total. There is memory residue, leftover eraser crumbs, remnants, things like that, at least for the method used here. In programming terms, there can be "memory leak." That's a fitting term with the flood theme for the human version of Muriel's death.
Muriel eventually grew into the form we see them as in season 2 instead of being stuck in the body form they had upon death.
This death of Muriel is why the flood is brought up early on in the S2E2 minisode. Crowley acts more coldly towards Aziraphale. He's not as friendly as the last two times he approached Aziraphale. Crowley could not save Muriel back then, but this time, he's going to try and save these goats and these children, all of these kids, even if he has to do it alone through trickery.
Aziraphale does not know Muriel is Crowley's daughter in 2500 BC. He figures it out during S2E2 present day because it's something Crowley wants him to know but isn't exactly easy to say or explain. Aziraphale did not know Crawley as well at the time, so these pieces did not fit the way they do during these memories being recalled thousands of years later.
Aziraphale meets Muriel as who he turns to for verification on the scroll back then.
Even though Muriel does not consciously remember dying in the flood, they do subconsciously know what happened. This factor is why Muriel lists the various animals as what Satan's diabolical ministers are allowed to destroy. That's a reference to the flood. It's also why "goat" is given in singular form. Muriel was Crowley's "kid." Part of what makes this story so sad is that when Muriel says, "Oh, nothing important, no," that's Muriel thinking of their own human life as nothing important because Muriel's human life was expendable in the flood, just like all the animals that didn't make it on the ark. Muriel was erased. Muriel's human life never existed.
That's the end of my main copy/paste/edit.
You can fill in more blanks from there, or I can even give you more, but that's the basic idea.
Months later, I posted something else that I will also edit a bit to share.
Despite all that drama, we are given...
And now here is Crowley with the ultimate dad joke of all dad jokes.
Secret Daughter Muriel's name means "bright, shining sea".
With the bright, shiny angel disguise and first letter of his name, Crowley is now also a "bright, shining C".
Okay, I see where you're going with this, and I'm going to disagree (at least for now). I think Muriel's importance is going to be as a paralegal, when Aziraphale reveals that he and Crowley have the records showing the Hell was never authorized to be created. I think she'll be instrumental in proving that Heaven screwed up.
I also don't think that Crowley's angel identity is as big a deal as people are thinking. I think he was probably somewhat important, but much like Satan once being Lucifer, Crowley's previous identity was wiped out when he Fell. We will likely never know it for sure.
I'm wondering if it's not Nina's previous identity as Jesus? Like Satan WAS Lucifer, but when he rebelled and Fell, the identity of Lucifer was erased so that he never existed. Perhaps Nina was Jesus, but A&C used the Book of Life on her so that her identity as Jesus never existed, and she's always been only Nina.
I don't know if I'm right, this is an unfinished thought, but it's a direction I'm going.
That's fine. didn't fully believe it when I first found the answer myself.
It's been an eventful past 3-4 months on my blog with playing the games in Good Omens 2. Just since I last made that post to you, I received a very interesting and further confirmation to this theory.
So, I'm as convinced as I am going to be by this point.
I have been decoding poetry from the hidden games for nearly two years now. These past few months, I had significant help. I finished what I think is supposed to be the last of this poetry just yesterday (the confirmation noted above). I will share further if you are interested.
I know most of us GO crazies know about how the FF repeats the bullet catch trick from 1941, but did you notice that both repeat the reappearing children trick from Job?
In all three, Aziraphale arrives from stage right, looking nervous. In all three, A&C must perform a trick for high stakes in front of enemies. In all three, there is an intimate ending to the feat -- an embrace, a bullet caught, and a kiss. In all three, Aziraphale must then perform another trick on his own -- lying to Gabriel, switching out the photo for the flier, and keeping the fly Crowley has slipped him secreted in his mouth.
I wanted to include a bunch of stills or GIFs here to illustrate mah point, but there are hardly any of the Job minisode to be found, and I don't know how to make them.
I'm still here, just disillusioned and sad. But also still a little crazy.
The Book of Life being used as a threat to eliminate someone's very existence -- through all of history and the future -- is the proverbial gun above the mantel piece. It had damn well better go off before the final act.
But if it was used on someone, how would we know? They would never have been there at all.
When I was looking at the chiastic structure of the second season, I noticed that the flash back to Edinburgh didn't have an echo where it should have. The echo of Wee Morag getting shot is Crowley yelling at the invading demons that they are out of order. Or, as I read it, that they are arriving not in their correct time.
I think someone had the Book of Life used on them, in the space where the chiastic echo of Edinburgh is supposed to be, but because that meant they would never have existed, we neither see them -- EVER -- nor the moment they get erased. Because how can you erase someone who never existed? That moment would disappear from the timeline.
But it left a hole. No echo of events where an echo should be.
I'm betting a closer look at the Edinburgh flashback would reveal clues about who has been removed from all of history, by whom, and maybe even why.
I think Nina was supposed to have been the second coming of Jesus. BUT.
When someone asked He Who Shall Not Be Named if Lucifer existed in Good Omens, he said Lucifer had never existed in the Good Omens universe. Oh, much like the Book of Life is supposed to do to someone in the GO universe? So when Lucifer Fell, he became only Satan, and Lucifer never existed.
What if A&C figured that out, got their hands on the Book of Life -- with Saraqael's help, thank you, previous meta of mine -- and used it on Jesus, who then reverted to Her human-only form, and Jesus 2.0 never existed. Thus saving the world.
I don't know if I'm right, but this has enough oomph to deserve looking into.
I'm still here, just disillusioned and sad. But also still a little crazy.
The Book of Life being used as a threat to eliminate someone's very existence -- through all of history and the future -- is the proverbial gun above the mantel piece. It had damn well better go off before the final act.
But if it was used on someone, how would we know? They would never have been there at all.
When I was looking at the chiastic structure of the second season, I noticed that the flash back to Edinburgh didn't have an echo where it should have. The echo of Wee Morag getting shot is Crowley yelling at the invading demons that they are out of order. Or, as I read it, that they are arriving not in their correct time.
I think someone had the Book of Life used on them, in the space where the chiastic echo of Edinburgh is supposed to be, but because that meant they would never have existed, we neither see them -- EVER -- nor the moment they get erased. Because how can you erase someone who never existed? That moment would disappear from the timeline.
But it left a hole. No echo of events where an echo should be.
I'm betting a closer look at the Edinburgh flashback would reveal clues about who has been removed from all of history, by whom, and maybe even why.
I am copying/pasting/editing some of a past post of mine here since I know you've mentioned you don't fully get the game stuff I talk about, so I'll focus on this story aspect.
This story is a bit sad, and it is going to be a kinda fanfic and a kinda meta, moreso than you will often find in my speculation. I will be listing my guesses in a more committed way to make it more like a story.
The Bible, Genesis Chapter 6 in particular, has a curious verse about the "sons of God" with explanations for things that led to the flood. One speculative guess at who the "sons of God" were is that they were demons or fallen angels. That would then include Crowley.
If you take this verse and the idea that demons can have offspring, indicated through another verse, this potential story forms: Crowley was Muriel's dad; Muriel was Crowley's daughter.
Back in 3004 BC, Crowley could more freely wander the Earth as a snake-eyed demon who did not need to cover his eyes. Humans had longer lifespans that reached up to hundred of years. Crowley could, and did, have sex with at least one human ("the birds and the bees"). This human looked like Nina.
David Tennant, who plays Crowley, and Nina Sosanya, who plays Nina, were both in a comedy drama serial called Casanova. It was written by Russel T. Davies. In Casanova, the character Nina Sosanya plays, Bellino, mothers a child of Casanova, who is the character David Tennant plays. Casanova meets the child when they are a grown adult. That child's name is Leonilda. The actress who plays Leonilda is Naomi…Bentley.
That's a convenient coincidence.
We have a point of reference for how another story imagines a child between David Tennant and Nina Sosanya would look like. We can compare Naomi Bentley as Leonilda to Quelin Sepulveda as Muriel.
In the above image, Leonilda is in the left two slots, and Muriel is in the right two slots.
Now back to Crowley in Good Omens 2. This child with a human sometime before 3004 BC was the person who would later become Muriel after death.
This chapter includes a verse about the "daughters of men," but that seems to be more a reference to the mother who looked like Nina. The word "daughter" is nonetheless the word you are supposed to associate with Muriel due to so much of what I find in the games.
You can find Muriel in blurred motion of S1E3 here:
In 3004 BC, when Crowley says to Aziraphale, "Not the kids. You can't kill kids," he is thinking of his own actual kid (Muriel).
That's a big contributing factor to why he's so appalled. His own child is fated to die in the flood because, in this general vicinity, every mortal being is going to die who is not on the ark. He does not have the power to save Muriel from what is going to happen.
After Muriel died, Muriel did not go to Hell. Muriel was a blameless child with a supernatural parent.
Something happened, such as a deal with Gabriel. Wipe her memory of me. Wipe my memory of her. Erase her from the Book of Life. You protect the erased form of her for me, at the lowest rank of the angels, the closest to Hell, and I will owe you something big one day. Gabriel called in this big thing in a scene we never saw for season 2.
The erasure, like so many things in Good Omens, is not so simple and total. There is memory residue, leftover eraser crumbs, remnants, things like that, at least for the method used here. In programming terms, there can be "memory leak." That's a fitting term with the flood theme for the human version of Muriel's death.
Muriel eventually grew into the form we see them as in season 2 instead of being stuck in the body form they had upon death.
This death of Muriel is why the flood is brought up early on in the S2E2 minisode. Crowley acts more coldly towards Aziraphale. He's not as friendly as the last two times he approached Aziraphale. Crowley could not save Muriel back then, but this time, he's going to try and save these goats and these children, all of these kids, even if he has to do it alone through trickery.
Aziraphale does not know Muriel is Crowley's daughter in 2500 BC. He figures it out during S2E2 present day because it's something Crowley wants him to know but isn't exactly easy to say or explain. Aziraphale did not know Crawley as well at the time, so these pieces did not fit the way they do during these memories being recalled thousands of years later.
Aziraphale meets Muriel as who he turns to for verification on the scroll back then.
Even though Muriel does not consciously remember dying in the flood, they do subconsciously know what happened. This factor is why Muriel lists the various animals as what Satan's diabolical ministers are allowed to destroy. That's a reference to the flood. It's also why "goat" is given in singular form. Muriel was Crowley's "kid." Part of what makes this story so sad is that when Muriel says, "Oh, nothing important, no," that's Muriel thinking of their own human life as nothing important because Muriel's human life was expendable in the flood, just like all the animals that didn't make it on the ark. Muriel was erased. Muriel's human life never existed.
That's the end of my main copy/paste/edit.
You can fill in more blanks from there, or I can even give you more, but that's the basic idea.
Months later, I posted something else that I will also edit a bit to share.
Despite all that drama, we are given...
And now here is Crowley with the ultimate dad joke of all dad jokes.
Secret Daughter Muriel's name means "bright, shining sea".
With the bright, shiny angel disguise and first letter of his name, Crowley is now also a "bright, shining C".
Okay, I see where you're going with this, and I'm going to disagree (at least for now). I think Muriel's importance is going to be as a paralegal, when Aziraphale reveals that he and Crowley have the records showing the Hell was never authorized to be created. I think she'll be instrumental in proving that Heaven screwed up.
I also don't think that Crowley's angel identity is as big a deal as people are thinking. I think he was probably somewhat important, but much like Satan once being Lucifer, Crowley's previous identity was wiped out when he Fell. We will likely never know it for sure.
I'm wondering if it's not Nina's previous identity as Jesus? Like Satan WAS Lucifer, but when he rebelled and Fell, the identity of Lucifer was erased so that he never existed. Perhaps Nina was Jesus, but A&C used the Book of Life on her so that her identity as Jesus never existed, and she's always been only Nina.
I don't know if I'm right, this is an unfinished thought, but it's a direction I'm going.
The Moment of Recognition (or, Aziraphale's Angel Alarm System)
Another Moment That Matters
For a verrrry long time, this scene bothered me. This moment. On the surface, it seems that Aziraphale is reacting to the romantic scene playing out before him. Gabe and Beez are standing up for their relationship -- "I just found something that mattered more to me than choosing sides." They take each other's hands. Maggie thinks it's really sweet. Dagon retches. Aziraphale touches Crowley's arm, and Nina considers believing in True Love. It's all lovely, right?
Plus, last night's chaos is under control, Crowley corralled all the idiocy so the idiots won't make war over The Thing with the Halo, and Jimbriel will soon be off their hands. They've got this, yes? Aren't they caught up in the romance of the moment?
But there's no soft, secret smile wafting across Aziraphale's face, no happily arched eyebrows. Instead, it's Crowley's eyebrows that are raised -- in sharp, suspicious angles, and Aziraphale looks taut and distracted. Why?
Because this is the moment that the Metatron arrived somewhere on Whickber Street, and Aziraphale's "Angel Alarm" goes off.
It's the same ability that allowed him to sense the moment the Archangels arrived in Episode 2 when Aziraphale was with Maggie. But this time, the heavenly crew is already in the bookshop. Aziraphale knows he's sensing the arrival of the Metatron.
He and Crowley were expecting the Metabastron to show up once Jimbriel landed on their doorstep. They've been on the lookout all week. (See Crowley on Patrol). They'd tried to prepare, to plan. They'd hoped they were ready for it.
Unfortunately, the Big Floating Giant Head had planned an unexpected move in his strategic attack.
This same moment in motion helps us notice their worried expressions and downturned mouths. Aziraphale gasps, but he is NOT focused on Gabe and Beez at all. His sightline is too low for their lovestruck faces, too high for their clasped hands. He looks preoccupied and his focus has turned inward. His body suddenly holds a rigid tension as he puts his hand on Crowley's arm. Crowley raises his eyebrows at the touch, then lifts his head attentively, and for a moment both go completely still. The event they most dreaded (short of Armageddon itself) has happened.
That touch on Crowley's arm isn't affection, not this time. It's a warning notice. He's here!
Aziraphale, who is always attentive to where Crowley is and what terribly clever thing he's saying, is not even peripherally watching him. Our angel is still staring, unfocused and nearly motionless the whole time Crowley is talking and hustling the humans out of danger. His hand stays suspended, his fingers curled, his face frozen in that familiar vague mask-of-a-smile that's his resting default. He doesn't look at or nod at or say goodbye to Maggie and Nina as they walk right past him.
He doesn't come out of it until Crowley walks into Azi's line of vision and speaks directlly to him.
Daydreaming about Crowley, while his dashing beloved is right there rescuing the humans from Michael's impulsive wrath? Nah.
But if you still doubt, here's even more proof that Our Ineffables know that the MetaBoss has arrived.
I've talked about Crowley on Patrol before, how Crowley went out protectively patrolling the neighborhood for danger after Jimbriel's arrival. Our Ineffables were not so naive as to be caught completely off-guard. They knew that trouble would soon follow.
Moments after Aziraphale warns Crowley, Michael's threats against Maggie and Nina give Crowley a good excuse for a quick look around. He hurries them away from the otherworldly drama and escorts them back to the coffee shop. He's scanning the neighborhood with broad searching glances the entire time, just as he did when he was on patrol.
It's what he does throughout most of S2 when he's on the move. We see a lot of it when he's escorting Aziraphale around to invite shopkeepers to the neighborhood ball meeting. Crowley's neck is on a swivel now, always watchful, restless, alert.
Now, when we watch that scene in full, it doesn't appear that he spotted the Metatron in the line at the coffee shop. Crowley lopes along in his usual swingy way, snaps Mr. Brown back and strides away, angling back across the street. But he's angling in the wrong direction...! Shouldn't he be in a hurry to return?
He angles along so much that he's NOT heading back towards the bookshop door. Crowley doesn't pivot and retrace his steps to hurry back to his Angel, who's managing an otherworldly ruckus. Instead, Crowley ditches the humans, then continues his trajectory in the general direction of the record shop. He's moving away from the entrance pillars instead of towards them.
This casual route takes him past Nina's line of coffee customers. (Taking the long way back would make no sense, unless he's looking for someone!) Crowley intends to undertake surveillance on that coffee line and quickly check the neighborhood! Of course, he's still looking past the humans and all around with what looks like his usual distracted impatience.
** We're talking espionage-level Reconnaissance here. A demon's 007 dream! "The spy, clad in classic black, subtly locates and observes his target while masterfully maintaining a facade of dismissal and casual indifference."
The Metatron doesn't look directly towards Crowley until the retired demon is past him and well on his way. The manipulative devious scheming Metatron doesn't want to be seen. Not yet. He sets up scenarios like moving pieces on a chess board. He likes to have a strategic advantage. It's a good power play.
For now, Crowley seems to relax a bit. It's a confirmed sighting. Target located. Estimated time of arrival 3-5 minutes. That coffee line'll take a while. When we see Crowley through the bookshop window, he grins with pride as a no-longer-meek Aziraphale clangs the bell and loudly demands order!
That adorable window moment is also to draw our attention to the very important fact that Crowley had been on patrol again, looking for the MetaSneak.
Crowley walked at least all the way down to the far outer end of the shop, saw that his Angel had everything well under control, and is ambling all the way back. We track him along the length of the building through both side windows, just to make sure we noticed his route!
Would our dashing demon took a "needless stroll" while Azi was left alone with Archangels and the Demon Hierarchy? Nah.
Sure enough, by the time the Metatron walks in, Crowley is theatrically (debonairly!) draped across the armchair and away from the main activity in the room -- easy to underestimate, because he wants you to underestimate him. "Nothing to see here, just a lazy careless uninvolved runaway demon whose only expertise was white collar shenanigans and gluing pennies! Oh, but I did just miracle a mustached human safely out of Hell itself..." (I feel like he's giving bodyguard vibes here too!)
Not only does Crowley recognize Mr. Big Floating Giant Head Guy, so does Aziraphale. Oh... you bought into his act? Or rather, his overacting? Our Beloved Angel is a Master Craftsman at "How to Look Foolish to Allow Oneself to be Underestimated." Watch this first moment in the show carefully. Slow it down if you can. Silly, surprised Aziraphale first does a double-take of recognition that quickly morphs into a frown of concern. Probably wondering/worrying why the Metatron, who knows and cares SO VERY LITTLE about human life on earth, got himself a cup of coffee... (I deep-dive into analyzing Azi's facial expressions in this scene in Nothing Lasts Forever)
*****
Anyway, my point is... My point is that Aziraphale and Crowley aren't fools. My point is that they were on the lookout for the MetaThug since Jimbriel showed up. My point is that they had been preparing for this encounter for a very long time. My point is that they were planning and functioning all along as a team, a group, an Us...
They didn't get ambushed. They didn't fall apart and divorce in a mere 15 minutes. They got threatened with A Hefty Jigger of Death in that damned coffee, and were outmaneuvered in the Metatron's sinister game of chess... For now. But it's only Check...
Not Checkmate.
*****
Here are the links to the other important Chess Move moments I mentioned:
Nothing Lasts Forever, Crowley on Patrol, & A Hefty Jigger of Death
I firmly believe that the Final 15 was not quite as dire as it seemed, and certainly not an Ineffable divorce!! I hope I've managed to pass some of that well-reasoned belief on to you too! There's a lot more about it on my main page. Thanks for being here!
I'm still here, just disillusioned and sad. But also still a little crazy.
The Book of Life being used as a threat to eliminate someone's very existence -- through all of history and the future -- is the proverbial gun above the mantel piece. It had damn well better go off before the final act.
But if it was used on someone, how would we know? They would never have been there at all.
When I was looking at the chiastic structure of the second season, I noticed that the flash back to Edinburgh didn't have an echo where it should have. The echo of Wee Morag getting shot is Crowley yelling at the invading demons that they are out of order. Or, as I read it, that they are arriving not in their correct time.
I think someone had the Book of Life used on them, in the space where the chiastic echo of Edinburgh is supposed to be, but because that meant they would never have existed, we neither see them -- EVER -- nor the moment they get erased. Because how can you erase someone who never existed? That moment would disappear from the timeline.
But it left a hole. No echo of events where an echo should be.
I'm betting a closer look at the Edinburgh flashback would reveal clues about who has been removed from all of history, by whom, and maybe even why.
I'm still here, just disillusioned and sad. But also still a little crazy.
The Book of Life being used as a threat to eliminate someone's very existence -- through all of history and the future -- is the proverbial gun above the mantel piece. It had damn well better go off before the final act.
But if it was used on someone, how would we know? They would never have been there at all.
When I was looking at the chiastic structure of the second season, I noticed that the flash back to Edinburgh didn't have an echo where it should have. The echo of Wee Morag getting shot is Crowley yelling at the invading demons that they are out of order. Or, as I read it, that they are arriving not in their correct time.
I think someone had the Book of Life used on them, in the space where the chiastic echo of Edinburgh is supposed to be, but because that meant they would never have existed, we neither see them -- EVER -- nor the moment they get erased. Because how can you erase someone who never existed? That moment would disappear from the timeline.
But it left a hole. No echo of events where an echo should be.
I'm betting a closer look at the Edinburgh flashback would reveal clues about who has been removed from all of history, by whom, and maybe even why.
