[Caption: six gifs of characters from Supernatural paired with paintings and poems.
-KAIA NIEVES AND DARK!KAIA as HYPNOS AND THANATOS. The gif dissolves from Kaia to dark!Kaia while both of them have their powers enhanced by Jack’s hands on their foreheads. It’s paired with an excerpt from Religio Medici by Thomas Browne (“Sleep is a death, O make me try, by sleeping, what it is to die: and as gently lay my head on my grave, as now my bed.”), and alongside John Williams Waterhouse’s painting, “Sleep and His Half-Brother Death”, sleeping next to each other.
-LINDA TRAN as ATHENA. She’s wielding Ruby’s knife, determined to kill the demon that had her imprisoned. The gif comes with an excerpt from Forceythe Willson’s Diana of the Hunt (“All can see, in the shining places, vestiges of her classic graqces; where her footsteps, fleet and stark, have beautifully embossed the dark.”), and a painting of the goddess in armor, “Pallas Athena” by Rembrandt.
-BILLIE as ANANKE, personification of inevitability and necessity. She’s talking to Rowena about how some things can’t be fixed. The gif comes with an excerpt from Tsira Gogeshvili’s Ananke (“My impatient fate approaches me, stepping zealously on the air. It approaches me quietly, without noise, it comes from the remote area. And I feel that in no time, it’ll open with its burning fingers the sacred, whitest door of mine.”), and a painting by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard, “Ananke, the personification of Necessity“.
-KEVIN TRAN as CASSANDRA. He’s smugly taunting Crowley about figuring out his tricks. The gif comes with an excerpt of Louise Bogan’s Cassandra (“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, and madness chooses out my voice again, again. I am the chosen no hand saves; the shrieking heaven lifted over men, not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves”), and a painting by Evelyn de Morgan, “Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy”, of the seer tearing out her hair in frustration.
-MAX BANES as ORPHEUS. He sets the house his mother and sister’s bodies are in on fire before leaving with Alicia’s twig doll self. The gif comes with an excerpt from A.F. Moritz’s Orpheus (“There she was, with him once more just for an instant as she vanished. And then he heard her from behind the invisible veil, absence: a shrill and batlike but lexical indictment. Why had he violated the divine command, why, when he had seized all song to himself and robbed her of power to open her own oblivion?”), and a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, “Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld”.
-GORDON WALKER as ARES. The gif is a close-up of him just turned into a vampire, with red eyes, and comes with an excerpt from Herberth Asquith’s Ares God of War (“The other gods are weaker; thou alone dost break the king and bend the emperor’s knee: lower than unto Christ they bow to thee, Lord of the slave, and guardian of the free; steel-hearted Ares, shaker of the throne. […] Death is a nothing, life an empty name: arise and lead us ere our blood be tame, o lord of thunder, arcs of the crimson mail.”), and a painting by Velázquez, “Mars”, of the god sitting and wearing only a helmet.]