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retro_eidas) wrote2009-09-10 11:55 pm
retro_eidas) wrote2009-09-10 11:55 pm
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I'm going to call it now, but I do not think Dean is actually Michael's "vessel", but he actually IS Michael somehow. Akin to Anna being a (fallen) angel minus her grace and becoming human, but not quite like Anna either.
I think God, possibly in collusion with Michael and other heavenly heavy hitters, is majorly playing Zachariah and the other dbag (apparently most of them?) angels. Giving them enough leeway to potentially redeem themselves and come back to the light, while everyone else gets enough rope to hang themselves.
I also think there is an "enema" headed for the universe, but it ain't for Earth, it's for Heaven and possibly Hell too. This is God's main gameplan. Of which Lucifer is going to play a chief role, otherwise he wouldn't have been let out of the pokey at all.
I think Dean's - not a vessel or exactly like Anna - a chunk of Michael's grace made human. While the majority of angel!Michael is simultaneously doing whatever it is he's currently doing up in Heaven. Basically, Michael is in two places at once, as human Dean but also as his angel self up in Heaven. Methinks one of the most powerful angels around just disappearing, like Anna did, would be noticed by other angels and that would have been mentioned had it been the case, so Michael is obviously around up there and couldn't leave. I could believe Michael's grace is so effing massive, no one is going to notice him breaking a chunk of it off, transforming it into a human and planting it on Earth (conveniently, right beside demon-blooded Sammy, apparently the only one who could have fulfilled the role of Lucifer Releaser). This way, Dean is Michael yet not Michael, but also not condemned to a destiny where he's rendered mute and powerless (as he would be if he were just a vessel). I think it's going to be more like a merger between human!Dean (Michael's human counterpart) and angel!Michael. And, oh hey kids, that pretty much seals the deal on Dean being Jesus Version 2.0, aka, the Second Coming (if that weren't painfully obvious already with all the anvilly Alpha and Omega out of Revelation business attached to his character. The one who started it: the Alpha, is the only one who can finish it: the Omega). Like Jesus, made up EQUALLY of both human and divine, one does not subvert the other. Essentially like when Anna got her grace back, she was still Anna, but she was also an angel and all those angel memories came back with it. So not Dean the Angel Condom, but more like Dean+benefits.
Dean literally being a part of Michael might also explain some things. Why he's never been possessed. Why Castiel has become so attached to Dean and so strongly (though he doesn't have conscious awareness of it, he recognizes his powerful brother in Dean somewhere deep down. This could also be because of Castiel's loyalty to God, so maybe he's *allowed* to see what/who Dean really is on an unconscious level). That goes vice versa too in Dean's attachment to Castiel (Dean can also sense a deeper bond there, but has no conscious awareness of it or his angelic self). Also ties back to the major element of family in this show and Cas could turn out to be, literally, family (at least for Dean, but being family to Dean means being family to Sam too even if not in a literal sense). Why Dean seems to be lucky enough to snap possessed people out of their possession, even if only temporarily (Dean's hacking into the inner-angel? Apart from the possessees just being *that* bad ass, could be Dean's pleas or proximity helped out John in "Devil's Trap" and Bobby in tonight's eppy). Why and how Dean almost seems to sense Castiel's presence before he sees him with his own eyes. All that and I think it would generally be just sort of lame Dean getting framed around Michael so strongly, but turns out he's nothing but a tool for the Big M. L.a.m.e. Frankly, if they're going to go there with Dean, I'd rather they go all the way with it... but still without losing DEAN, because you can't have a final battle without Dean there. Especially considering all this prophecy business is supposed to be about *him*, not his body or his blood, but HIM (body and blood alone do not dramatic poignancy make). The merger theory over Dean The Angel Condom would accomplish that.
I realize the whole Angel!Dean possibility ruffles some feathers because of beliefs it undermines the whole core Humans Are Special / It's All About Humanity message in SPN. If this merger stuff happens, I'd probably guess that it would be the human element is played as the Missing Ingredient in the ultimate defeat of Lucifer and the redemption of Heaven / cleansing of Hell. Full-blooded Archangel Michael couldn't kill Lucifer the first time around and obviously things seem to have gone far off the rails in Heaven as well (a bunch of dickish angels apparently not giving .02 about God's "works of art" or God's Will and are ready to commit near genocide because they feel like it), but maybe things will be different this second time around and all because of the human element? We may already have a hint of this in Castiel's arc. Interesting he seems to have unleashed his inner BAMF with a fury this season and took out two *angels* all by himself, when last season he couldn't even take out Alastair (while human Sam, demon-blooded as he was, could) or Uriel and had his ass handed to him by both. This season, Cas has become a BAMF while coincidentally being closer to humanity than he's ever been, having rebelled in just the ep previously against his superiors.
Although if Dean should decide to accept merging with the rest of himself, it could still have that tragic element since he might not be able to *unmerge* once it's happened. Then again, if there is anything to this crackspec at all (there isn't, hence the "crack"), he accomplished breaking himself apart once, he could probably do it again. Of course, would he want to? If all the dicks are weeded out of Heaven and Lucifer & Hell are dealt with, maybe Dean might feel more obligated to stay an archangel? Accept that responsibility and "save people, hunt things" on a cosmic scale? Also maybe helps instigate a total restructuring of boring Stepford Heaven and make it the Paradise it was meant to be... or a Paradise right up Dean's (SPN's) alley? Angels who can feel freely and can make their own choices? Angels who can visit Earth anytime they want? Casting out the old rules of humans not allowed to become angels and recruiting suitable humans to angel status, refilling the emptied ranks with these new angels? Creating a Paradise more befitting of the future Winchester Gospels?
I think God, possibly in collusion with Michael and other heavenly heavy hitters, is majorly playing Zachariah and the other dbag (apparently most of them?) angels. Giving them enough leeway to potentially redeem themselves and come back to the light, while everyone else gets enough rope to hang themselves.
I also think there is an "enema" headed for the universe, but it ain't for Earth, it's for Heaven and possibly Hell too. This is God's main gameplan. Of which Lucifer is going to play a chief role, otherwise he wouldn't have been let out of the pokey at all.
I think Dean's - not a vessel or exactly like Anna - a chunk of Michael's grace made human. While the majority of angel!Michael is simultaneously doing whatever it is he's currently doing up in Heaven. Basically, Michael is in two places at once, as human Dean but also as his angel self up in Heaven. Methinks one of the most powerful angels around just disappearing, like Anna did, would be noticed by other angels and that would have been mentioned had it been the case, so Michael is obviously around up there and couldn't leave. I could believe Michael's grace is so effing massive, no one is going to notice him breaking a chunk of it off, transforming it into a human and planting it on Earth (conveniently, right beside demon-blooded Sammy, apparently the only one who could have fulfilled the role of Lucifer Releaser). This way, Dean is Michael yet not Michael, but also not condemned to a destiny where he's rendered mute and powerless (as he would be if he were just a vessel). I think it's going to be more like a merger between human!Dean (Michael's human counterpart) and angel!Michael. And, oh hey kids, that pretty much seals the deal on Dean being Jesus Version 2.0, aka, the Second Coming (if that weren't painfully obvious already with all the anvilly Alpha and Omega out of Revelation business attached to his character. The one who started it: the Alpha, is the only one who can finish it: the Omega). Like Jesus, made up EQUALLY of both human and divine, one does not subvert the other. Essentially like when Anna got her grace back, she was still Anna, but she was also an angel and all those angel memories came back with it. So not Dean the Angel Condom, but more like Dean+benefits.
Dean literally being a part of Michael might also explain some things. Why he's never been possessed. Why Castiel has become so attached to Dean and so strongly (though he doesn't have conscious awareness of it, he recognizes his powerful brother in Dean somewhere deep down. This could also be because of Castiel's loyalty to God, so maybe he's *allowed* to see what/who Dean really is on an unconscious level). That goes vice versa too in Dean's attachment to Castiel (Dean can also sense a deeper bond there, but has no conscious awareness of it or his angelic self). Also ties back to the major element of family in this show and Cas could turn out to be, literally, family (at least for Dean, but being family to Dean means being family to Sam too even if not in a literal sense). Why Dean seems to be lucky enough to snap possessed people out of their possession, even if only temporarily (Dean's hacking into the inner-angel? Apart from the possessees just being *that* bad ass, could be Dean's pleas or proximity helped out John in "Devil's Trap" and Bobby in tonight's eppy). Why and how Dean almost seems to sense Castiel's presence before he sees him with his own eyes. All that and I think it would generally be just sort of lame Dean getting framed around Michael so strongly, but turns out he's nothing but a tool for the Big M. L.a.m.e. Frankly, if they're going to go there with Dean, I'd rather they go all the way with it... but still without losing DEAN, because you can't have a final battle without Dean there. Especially considering all this prophecy business is supposed to be about *him*, not his body or his blood, but HIM (body and blood alone do not dramatic poignancy make). The merger theory over Dean The Angel Condom would accomplish that.
I realize the whole Angel!Dean possibility ruffles some feathers because of beliefs it undermines the whole core Humans Are Special / It's All About Humanity message in SPN. If this merger stuff happens, I'd probably guess that it would be the human element is played as the Missing Ingredient in the ultimate defeat of Lucifer and the redemption of Heaven / cleansing of Hell. Full-blooded Archangel Michael couldn't kill Lucifer the first time around and obviously things seem to have gone far off the rails in Heaven as well (a bunch of dickish angels apparently not giving .02 about God's "works of art" or God's Will and are ready to commit near genocide because they feel like it), but maybe things will be different this second time around and all because of the human element? We may already have a hint of this in Castiel's arc. Interesting he seems to have unleashed his inner BAMF with a fury this season and took out two *angels* all by himself, when last season he couldn't even take out Alastair (while human Sam, demon-blooded as he was, could) or Uriel and had his ass handed to him by both. This season, Cas has become a BAMF while coincidentally being closer to humanity than he's ever been, having rebelled in just the ep previously against his superiors.
Although if Dean should decide to accept merging with the rest of himself, it could still have that tragic element since he might not be able to *unmerge* once it's happened. Then again, if there is anything to this crackspec at all (there isn't, hence the "crack"), he accomplished breaking himself apart once, he could probably do it again. Of course, would he want to? If all the dicks are weeded out of Heaven and Lucifer & Hell are dealt with, maybe Dean might feel more obligated to stay an archangel? Accept that responsibility and "save people, hunt things" on a cosmic scale? Also maybe helps instigate a total restructuring of boring Stepford Heaven and make it the Paradise it was meant to be... or a Paradise right up Dean's (SPN's) alley? Angels who can feel freely and can make their own choices? Angels who can visit Earth anytime they want? Casting out the old rules of humans not allowed to become angels and recruiting suitable humans to angel status, refilling the emptied ranks with these new angels? Creating a Paradise more befitting of the future Winchester Gospels?
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LOL, Jesus!Dean, now that would be awesome. I'd crack up if at some point in the show, Dean turned water into beer. XD
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If Dean did it and from what the show gives us, that would have to mean Dean is most likely already angelic on some level. He's either a fallen angel just like Anna or he's got angelic power some other way that we have yet to learn of (like I eluded above, my spec sort of stems more from mythology). However, I have a problem with Dean being fallen!Michael because the impression I get from Zach and other angels is they believe Michael is still in Heaven. If Dean=Michael, then there would have to be some hoax up in Heaven making the other angels think he's still around when he isn't OR Michael is still indeed in Heaven, but, unbeknownst to the other angels, he's not *all* there. Part of him is on Earth as Dean Winchester? Hence making Dean sort of like a daemon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A6mon_%28His_Dark_Materials%29) (from His Dark Materials) or familiar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar_spirit) for Michael, as opposed to a "vessel" (which has virtually no power of it's own as far as we've been told and no agency at all once it's possessed) or a full-blown fallen angel.
This would be sort of hilarious since Zachariah obviously doesn't have a clue what Dean really is (if there's anything to this). When/if he finally convinces (or forces) Dean to accept being Michael's "vessel" and they try to do some elaborate ritual to summon Michael to take his "vessel", only for nothing at all to happen. LOL Or perhaps nothing seems to happen, because Dean is still acting like Dean and still very human. A very pissed off Zachariah, thinking he's been duped by Dean or his friends, tries to kill Sam, Bobby and/or Cas, then Dean reacts reflexively (again) to protect them... and blasts away Zachariah with some terrifying angelic wrath. Running off any other dbag angels (running back off to Heaven to report to the other angels) and leaving everyone involved stunned stupid with not a clue what just happened.
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I love how no one really knows what's going on with Dean. I hope your scenario happens, that would be so funny! And also very awesome.
Tho on a humourous note, now I'm thinking this: PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWAH - itty bitty living space. XD