#metatron stuff

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have you done john meeting metatron? would be surprised if you havent even mentioned it

oh my god. hold this thought my mind is blown

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Terrifying thought: Balthazar meeting Metatron.

Two Cas fans.

One, his loyal kohai/subordinate hero worshipper, the other, a recalcitrant tsundere who pretends he's not a fan.

I think Balthazar would make it his personal business to prove Metatron "doth protect too much" when it comes to Cas.

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No one wants my body swap cas-and-metatron episode

but i know in my heart it wouldn't been soooo fun for the actors

and the gag about cas being hot in whatever body... and metatron being not in whatever body would've been SO funny to me personally

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Omg. Uriel denigrating Chuck. Crowley. Lucifer. Probably Raphael too. Probably metatron too. Sry but he wud find Cas's vulnerability towards Metatron's bs extremelyyyyy funny. And it might even snap Cas out of it sooner. Fuckkkk he should have been alive 😭😭😭😭

I have a VERY clear vision of how it would go with Metatron.

Uriel'd be like "METATRON GOT THE DROP ON YOU, CASTIEL????? I KNEW YOU'D BECOME WEAK, BUT STUPID, TOO??????"

And he'd be relentless about this.

(That part is very important)

Because at some point later in the season, Metatron gets the drop on Uriel and kidnaps him. And Castiel IS coming to the rescue, but mostly so he can gloat about it.

He'd have this neutral face as he asks if Uriel is okay, and he wouldn't say a single unkind WORD, but Uriel does NOT buy those soft eyes for ONE SECOND, CASTIEL.

EDIT: Eventually, Cas oh-so-innocently asks how Uriel got captured, and it's VERY important that Uriel did in fact get captured in the stupidest, most looney tunes kinda way. THE SHAME.

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Thinking about how Metatron, like most angels, conceptualizes humans as emotional, and yet... what have we seen on our actual screens?

METATRON Frankly, I never got used to them. I lived among them for centuries. I had to isolate myself to keep sane. GADREEL-IN-SAM Humans do seem chaotic, Metatron. METATRON Which makes them fascinating, but... All that emotion. Geez. And the wasted energy. It's just... exhausting. 9x09

Metatron was in fact -INTENSELY- emotional this season (and last season). Despite his haughty quips and faux-academic spew, he was moving with rage and hurt, engineering things and hurting people and killing people in order to get revenge.

His rage and emotions were fever-pitch when he cast the angels out and lethally wounded Naomi with her own brain-ware drill. (“You ran me from my home. Did you really think you could do all of that to me and there'd be no payback?”)

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To say nothing of Gadreel, who has thus far been emotionally moved to helping Dean and Sam (quite genuinely, at first, searching for redemption).

It's these VERY emotions that make Gadreel easy prey to Metatron. He talks a good bit about how “Sam is a mess in here," which is SO pot-kettle. Like, dude. DUDE. You are spinning out in every direction from your own failure, your trauma, your pain.

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Angels themselves are volatile, chaotic, emotional, but they point to humans like, “WOW. Humans are -just- so mysterious and un-understandable. Not like US angels."

Angels don't conceptualize their motivations as emotional. Because a lot of reasons, probably, but also because it lets them off the hook.

The flagrant misanthropy has so much in common with garden-variety misogyny. Hierarchy works that way, of course: “My emotions and mistakes don't count.” They're not messy, like you lesser beings.

So interesting that the mechanisms of hierarchy and power can go both ways. Sometimes the “lesser" power is stripped of emotion, assumed dumb and beastly. And other times the “lesser" power's emotions are exaggerated, despised and assumed “hard to understand,” when really, they're not.

It's just interesting to me that even Metatron, supreme narrative-coded angel Geek, carries these views.

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And also!

Even here, Metatron lets slips how -LONELY- he found Heaven, even after he got his revenge. That's because what's left AFTER the mission, AFTER the symbols of your pain and failures are gone?

Just you. And your failures.

METATRON: No, and you know, at first, I thought I would love it. But it's a big place. My solitude is getting tedious. 9x09

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It reminds me a bit of what Amara said to Chuck:

AMARA: You're trapped, diminished, abandoned. So I guess you got what you've always wanted. You're on your own. 15x02

Amara became the (false?) symbol of Chuck's independence.

Like Sam, Chuck tended to work in extremes, that niggling, age-old thing everyone succumbs to (even Dean, but especially Mary): all-or-nothing mentality. All in or all out.

I feel like sometimes we see view mirrored in fandom. It's with relish that certain viewers salivated over and pathologize Dean's expressed desire for balance and family inter-communication. (SEE 1x16: “Yes, that, but it’s more than that, man. You and me and Dad—I mean, I want us….I want us to be together again. I want us to be a family again.“)

Dean has expressly talked about what that means: it means talking, picking up the phone, seeing one another instead of living in perpetual banishment. But it's funny . Sometimes I think this gets pathologized, while Chuck-Sam one, “[I won't call, but we are family.] You have to let me go my own way,” until of course, I need your help, gets held up as the healthy way.

Many of this inspired by @jasmineintheforest re: power hierarchies

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Top tier Gadreel:

I GAVE YOU A SECOND

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IT'S NOT *THAT* IS IT

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GADREEL PLEASE

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He's the GOAT.

No, no. Not Cas.

METATRON.

He saw a pain point, and he pushed it.

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"It always does:"

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"Protect your family:"

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The enemy is too powerful. They'll kill all of your loved ones... and they'll try their darnedest to use you to do it.

(There is something extra, extra scary about the loss of will in this respect.)

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Even if Cas can't be caught... if he can't be brainwashed into submission? Those soft targets he cares about?

CAN.

And WILL BE.

Like Kara the chipper waitress, a symbolic red heart, the one with double Cupid arrows through her pin:

*Cas and Ion, both looking down in shame*

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9x22

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