#please dabb

[gaylittleeddie]

[halfofmysoull]

Something I can’t stop thinking about with Cas is that after all this time, 12 years of growing, rebelling, and changing, he still sees himself as a soldier. In 15x18 he doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice himself for the greater good, as a soldier to the Winchesters. If Cas returns, I would love to see him be human, so he can really value his life and himself on a new level. It is heartbreaking to follow someone’s story for 12 years, only for them so fall right back into place, sacrificing themself for the cause. I know this is the moral of the show, but there is a real value to his life that I don’t think he knows. This extends to all of them. What are the odds we get a happily ever after?

[so-tur-no]

watch me re write the entire season 15 if they fuck up the last episode, not even kidding 

[orionsangel86]

It’s okay about late response . I have this feeling like Something is going to happened to Sam this season idk why

Well, in keeping with the pattern:

Season 1 - Dean almost died

Season 2 - Sam died, Dean sold soul, demons unleashed

Season 3 - Dean died

Season 4 - Lucifer was released

Season 5 - Sam died

Season 6 - Cas became God

Season 7 - Dean and Cas got zapped to Purgatory

Season 8 - Sam nearly died - Cas became human - angels unleashed on earth

Season 9 - Dean died, became a demon

Season 10 - Darkness unleashed!

Season 11 - Everyone survived! Mary returned

Season 12 - Cas died, Jack born

Season 13 - Dean got possessed by Michael

Basically Sam hasn’t had something “happen” to him for a long time. He has mainly been a reactive role a lot of the time and since both Dean and Cas have both faced death/possession recently, it stands to reason that Sam is probably due to have something bad happen. Though I would prefer if Dabb twisted this instead and made it something different.

I think it will be a Sam heavy season. He has finally come out of his shell and has the respect and authority as “chief” for a lot of people now, and it seems word travels fast. Demon’s are now scared of HIM. I wonder if perhaps the responsibility of managing the hunter network would drive him to experimenting with magic more? I am HERE for Witch!Sam all day and all night!

[sweetd1417]

Michael!Dean and the aftermath

Please Dabb. Please.

So I have been thinking about Michael!Dean (as one does). We know that somehow, someway, Dean will eventually be freed of the possession.

There has been talk among the fans speculating (and in my case HOPING) that Michael!Dean sticks around for more than just a couple episodes. I do hope that the writers let the arc go a bit longer than Demon!Dean lasted back in Season 10.

BUT what I REALLY need is

For the writers to remember that it has been established way back in Season 5 that an archangel leaves its vessel nearly destroyed. Remember in Free to Be You and Me when we saw Raphael’s vessel in really bad shape, catatonic in a hospital, and Castiel tells Dean it would be much worse for Dean as Michael is much more powerful? Now there may be some wiggle room in just how powerful AU Michael is. But not much, right?

There has to be a reason established for Dean being able to recover more quickly or to not be affected so disastrously once Michael is given the boot. (Or i suppose the third option is they just make Dean be catatonic, but no thanks!). I really really really hope they do not forget this and just gloss over it and Dean is just fine afterwards.

Also, I VERY much want to see Jensen playing Michael AND the post possession Dean. Because, let’s face it, Jensen would crush it.

BONUS : Castiel Team Free Will helping pick up the pieces aiding in his recovery.

Please Andrew Dabb. Please don’t let us down!

[amwritingmeta]

Imagine if Dean - instead of saying “Where the hell have you been?” like he's always had to before - in S13 gets to say to Cas “Where the hell are you going?”

[supernaturalnardog]

Prayer circle for a Sam and Dean hug on Supernatural tomorrow 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[amwritingmeta]

Why I believe Cas still has his Free Will

I’m opening this post by paraphrasing Misha and quoting myself here, but this is truly the gist of his statement during his Asylum18 Sunday panel in Blackpool:

Cas is now feeling an almost cult-like devotion to the baby and Castiel powered up is very focused and soldier-y, but, no, this doesn’t necessarily mean that his humanity is compromised or that it would make him into an unfeeling robot of some kind.

I’m not going to lie: I have been racking my brain all week (mostly racking it at and with @tinkdw), trying to make sense of exactly why it could be true that the nephilim is influencing Cas into a “cult-like devotion” without affecting Cas’ free will. Like, seriously, WTF is that all about?

I’ve been racking my brain not only because of my own interpretation of what the narrative has explicitly been telling me this season, and especially the push forward for Cas’ character arc that occurred during 12x19, but also because the contradiction in the setup of Cas’ situation was offered to me by the man who actually plays this character and, you know, would know if Cas under the “influence” meant that he wasn’t himself. But going on Misha’s statement, about how he perceived the nephilim Power Up, Cas is still Cas, with his humanity intact. 

How?

How can this be possible? How the hell can “cult-like devotion” not mean the same as control? And if the nephilim isn’t outright controlling Cas, as in putting actions in his head that he’s meant to perform, then this “devotion” must still be compromising Cas’ free will. Cas’ need to protect the child comes out of a feeling of “devotion” that Cas has not chosen for himself.

So am I going to have to admit defeat then and throw my hands up and discard everything that I love so dearly about the glorious details of the 12x19 narrative structure? Well? Should I? Will I? Am I?

Nope.

Today my brain finally, finally found the missing piece of this puzzle, and that piece was right in front of my nose all along, mentioned in 12x19 over and over and, more than that, being one of the most significant aspects of Cas’ character arc - and that piece, my friends and fellow fandomers, is faith.

Cas’ faith - and then loss of faith - in God and in Heaven, his continued and deep faith in doing what’s right, and, of course most importantly, his lack of faith in himself has always been part of his core character traits, and the narrative has always served to underline this, one way or another. 

Always. 

So, then - here’s what I want to believe holds true for Cas and his character growth, now that we’re about to see the results of it in the finale. The events surrounding the nephilim will enable for a further growth spurt (which will result in Cas choosing to fall from grace and become human) that has been coming on for a long time now. The need for this stage in Cas’ character growth to be addressed and set in motion came to the forefront in S11, with that underlining of Cas being “expendable”, which brought his faith in himself to a devastating new low, and it was pushed completely into the light in 12x19: the need for restored faith in himself by following his own heart, and gut, and instinct, daring to trust in his own choices again. But read more about all this in my deconstruction of 12x19 (there’s a link at the bottom of this post).

Here’s what I feel the narrative is telling me (shouting at me, actually, very, very loudly) with regards to Cas’ relationship with the nephilim:

The devotion that Cas feels for this child is not informing Cas’ decisions, because he still chooses how to protect Kelly and her unborn baby.

The devotion is only there because Cas now has true faith, a faith that is directly linked to his humanity, his Free Will. I would go so far as to say that this faith wouldn’t exist without his humanity and Free Will, because they are the reason why the nephilim chose him in the first place.

Cas now has true faith because the nephilim’s soul surged through him at the moment of the Power Up (like it did with Kelly when the nephilim brought her back to life) and Cas felt the nephilim’s Goodness, undeniable and true, in this moment.

Now for the clincher:

If Cas, at any point, starts doubting he’s right in his choice to believe in the Goodness of this child, his devotion will waver - because that is the nature, even the very essence, of having faith: choosing to believe.

Meaning: Cas has the option of questioning this devotion, and if he finds cause to doubt this devotion is the right thing, he can choose to stop protecting the nephilim. But he doesn’t question his newfound faith in 12x19, and he won’t, BECAUSE HE FEELS IN HIS HEART THAT HE IS RIGHT. 

And to me, the most important part is that the narrative is telling us that HE IS RIGHT: the nephilim is Good. 

Here’s further reading, if you’d like to know or are curious why the narrative (and Misha) is so strongly telling me all these impressions are true:

Misha Panel

12x19 Deconstruction: Cas and Kelly, and most of the Episode

Thoughts on Faith and Cas missing from that Picture on the Wall (12x20)

Of course, my core truth in all this is that I just wish and need and want good things for Cas - he is due a frigging WIN, my lovelies! And I believe Cas still having his Free Will intact and in his full ownership is crucial for Team Free Will in the finale. And I’m so ready for them to work together. Have I ever mentioned that before? ;) I know I come off as militant, I’m bad at bending to the fact that I might be wrong (I could be wrong) (but I hope I’m right) but it’s just this damned narrative, guys. The narrative is pushing this stuff on me and I have to bow down to the narrative and be it’s little bitch. There’s never been any way around it. (no judgies) (please)

So if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong, but until proven otherwise this - all this - is what I will believe in. Firmly. (possibly for just one more day) (shut up)

xx