hi there! im watching the finale, and already on half of it. idk if its early to ask, or i should just finish the episode. but i was thinking, how would they fight amara with the souls (coz they're full of light, energy) when in reality, amara does indeed eat souls..... right?
Hey lovely!
I suppose by now you probably finished the episode a second or third time around. Sorry for it taking so long for me to get back to you. That said, there really wasn’t an answer as to if it would have worked. My working theory here is that Amara really only seems to have consumed souls in large amounts while she was growing and even then very decidedly consumed them.
In hindsight I am also wondering too if maybe the consumption of souls was partially also the reason why she in the end was able to relate to humanity and saw something in it that she had never seen in any of God’s creations before. Arguably Dean was the one who she experienced humanity by most in depth while he also always served as a stand in for her brother. What I mean is, when she consumed the souls she was kind of horrified by how much emptiness there is inside people, but I suppose maybe some other souls also let her see other things that influenced her in growing fond of humanity beyond Dean.
So I guess one could headcanon that the only reason light and souls could be harmful to her may be because it would be too many in one go. We saw before that when she consumed angelic grace it left her affected, so I suppose one could imagine 100.000 souls would have a similar effect on her. This is all just my “at the top of my head” explanation. :)
