Capricious Children
AUMichael mirror of Lucifer, Amara and the Empty (14x10 spoiler)
Good afternoon! This is my second meta from Nihilism 14x10.
If you want to read the first is here and the third part is the Destiel meta I will post it soon too.
I know this parallels had been discussed all over the fandom, but I just wanted to talk about them, because I saw an image from "Nihilism" that caught my attention too, it was focused two time during the episode...
... I will return to this at the end of this meta.
Looking for Chuck's attention
When I first heard Michael saying he will destroy every universe bc he wanted Chuck to appear in front of him... I said... Not that line again!
Because...
Ok.. Deja Vu with Amara destroying everything that breathe, and torturing Lucifer (Chuck's fav son) like... 😥
Not just that, remember Lucifer in season 12 when he was possesing Vince Vincente?
Gif credit @morningstarendeavors
He decided to "have fun" destroying and killing people bc "he could" and bc God had abandoned him again.
So AUMichael and Lucifer with their Dad issues, carrying with the absent father trauma and Amara trying to caught his brother attention, are all in the same bag.
But talking about absent father, this is directly related to Dean and Sam with John Winchester, their ISSUES with him, and it has to do with CAS too... That's why Dean could emphatically understand Cas...
Manipulating minds
Lucifer was always the big manipulator in the show, he uses facts and re order them to fulfill his desires...
Gif credit @heavnofhell
But the blantant parallel between Lucifer and AUMichael, was that time when both of them wanted to win Jack's confidence, and win a powerful ally.
Gif credit @kingofthecrxssroads
This is from 13x23 👆
And this is from 14x09 👇
Gif credit @kingofthecrxssroads
Everybody wants the nougat boy but he is already taken by his three beloved dad's. So... Thank you, but not thank you. You can take your offer and put it in the body part where the sun never shines.
AUMichael and the Empty likes to use facts that aren't really totally true to manipulate and break "bonds", in this case ROMANTIC BONDS and FAMILY BONDS, bc doing that, makes the person weak and manageable.
Mocking the weaknesses
I saw a lot of gif set making this funny parallel from our villains mocking our heroes in love.
Lucifer and Michael are so alike in their way to mocking, but the worst of all of them was the Empty.
Gif set credit @godshipsit
Bc The Empty knew exactly what was going on there between Castiel and his feelings for Dean, so he tried to use FACTS to manipulate him.
Lucifer is aware of it too when he took possession of Castiel, and he used it too just for fun and mocking, bc that's how Lucifer character profile is.
But AUMichael, AUMichael is frustrated with that information, bc he can't understand the depth of it, bc Dean has it very hidden and repressed. Then AUMichael knows something is there between Castiel and Dean, but can't reach it.
So he mocks what he can't totally understand.
Pics credit @hhoneycas
The Empty and AUMichael are the same for Castiel and Dean, they reflect their dark side, they confront them with themselves, their true feelings, repressed feelings, and this is why Castiel and Dean fight back both of them. To release them from their own emotional prisons.
Now... Is time for speculate...
Let's come back to the pic I put first in this meta...
You know about pool, isn't? Ok... But in this table that was shown two times in the episode, there's something interesting... Pay attention to the location of each ball, their colors and the team...
There's three balls in the same line, the two from the lef are from the same team, one green (HELAING!DEAN) and one blue (Castiel) they work together for the same team. But there's one in the right in color red (TOXIC!DEAN) he is from the other team. And they are facing one black, the black is the ball that defines the play, and it could be any villain here... The Empty? AUMichael?, Then divided by the pool cue there's a white one. The white is the ball that hit the others in the game. So I could say this could be God? Jack in a future? Could be Jack the new God?
But this also makes me think about a foreshadow for what is about to come... And what was written in that book that Billie delivered to Dean.
Ok, listen up, this are just speculations, but...
We know those books talks about Dean's death, so... Dean doing a big sacrifice to save the world again, shouldn't be a surprise, But what kind of sacrifice?
If they go with the Infinity War parallel, should be something that Dean was protecting with his life, bc is powerful... Could be Jack? Maybe Dean must kill Jack for some reason related to the AUs. IDK.
Second spec... What if the big sacrifice is the follow ...
Dean is the cage, isn't? Like the cage locked on Hell with our Michael... What if the big sacrifice is "carry with that time bomb inside of him and jump into the AU from where Michael came and let the bomb explode" yes, just him, Dean saying goodbye to his family and to Castiel and jump alone with Michael (helped by AUKaia, the dream walker) and letting Michael there with him. But... That ball blue with the green one and the red one (Profound Bond) facing Michael/Empty make me think, are they two going together to the AU? Maybe Castiel wouldn't let him alone? Maybe? Or are they two going into the Empty together and fight him? And God there too... Are God/Jack the answer? Are one of them save the day? We hope so!
I'm kinda f dizzy right now... But you get the idea... I think?
Thanks for reading!! Please share your opinions!
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Buenos Aires January 20th 2018 1:52PM