Dean the Weapon

[retro_eidas]

I had this really disturbing dream last night of Dean, raised as an orphan and tossed through the foster system most of his life, who'd become this sociopathic special forces soldier that's had a thousands of "enemy kills" and .... basically a monster, but an acceptable one since it's the "enemy" he's killing. That's what I get I suppose from watching "Skin" while only half-conscious. *cringes*

I keep wondering about the notion of Dean being a "weapon" (which was hinted by way of Anna, even back in OTHOAP). Zachariah claims Dean is "Michael's sword", but also claims it's because Dean is Michael's vessel. I have wondered if Zachariah - as angels are not perfect, they are prone to error - has gotten the "weapon" and "Michael's sword" part mistaken? Dean is not a vessel, but literally a weapon, designed specifically by Michael to save the world/his family and fulfill his duty to his Father's creations? Dean is something all new (or perhaps not unlike Jesse - or the antithesis of Jesse - being Lucifer's most valuable weapon)? Now this could easily just be me and having seen the movie "9") one too many times. However, that whole movie was about these creatures (homunculi) created (by way of Alchemy) as a means to counterbalance the end of civilization/humanity. A last ditch means to preserve life, in whatever form, and destroy the machine - created by humans, of course - that which ended (the human) civilization in the first place. However, you get a similar story in "Terminator 2" or any other story that's involved created and/or artificial life or A.I. (though also often times the source of destruction) as the source of humanity's or life's salvation or preservation. In the case of "Supernatural", it is the human world (family) that needs saving, but also based on every emo angel's sob story we've heard, the Heavenly family is in dire need of salvation too and apparently has been so for some time. Since before Creation.

Might Michael have been like the alchemist in "9"? Realizing that his angelic family was doomed, so created a countermeasure (like the alchemist, or Dean, possibly at great cost to himself) to try to prevent or preserve his angel family in whatever form he could? Lucifer as that embodiment of pure destruction (like the machine in "9" or SkyNet) that Michael couldn't stop once, either because he wasn't strong enough physically, emotionally or psychologically, but knows he has to be stopped? So created a "weapon" in Dean that can and will do what he could not? Show is already telling us that a hybrid creature - Jesse - is possibly more powerful than all the Hosts of Heaven. If a demon/human creation is that strong, what about an angel/human creation?

Nephilim, despite all the angel lore in SPN, is also something that's been rather conspicuously absent in Show canon. Despite angel/human sex already having been explored (4.10) and honestly, Anna's whole story was very much Genesis 6: 1-4 (heh, Dean functioning as the "daughters of men", which is all too fitting for any of us who've spent WAY too much time dissecting Dean's Anima side. It's prevalent, to say the least). Also touching on it (*snorts*) again in FTBYAM. Also the idea of angel/human procreation, though indirectly and very briefly, mentioned in 5.06 (even if it's by way of Castiel's negation of Jesse being Lucifer's child). So it's there in canon, yet not either. I'd probably say something Show has interestingly skirted around but never quite officially made part of canon.

Incidentally, Noah gets a mention in 5.10 (by way of Bobby and the last time the angel of Death made an appearance, "Noah was building a boat." LOL). In some versions of the Noah story, the Great Flood happened because God (by the insistence of some of the angels) felt the Nephilim were too great a threat to live, so Flooded the Earth in attempt to destroy them (though supposedly some might have survived anyway). Here we have "Supernatural's" angels, all too willing to let an Armageddon happen that will either "roast the planet alive" or, and this one is the supposed better option, destroy a huge portion of it. Seems they're aligning the world for SPN-equivalent's of a(nother) Great Flood. Why? We already have one human/supernatural hybrid we know that is an incredible threat to the Hosts. You can also bet the angels probably haven't been forthcoming about absolutely everything (in these prophecies or otherwise). What if there's also a prophecy out there signaling the angels' destruction? Possibly by direct way of humanity? In order to prevent this - like Herod killing all the young male children in his Kingdom in attempt to futilely thwart the (largely false and paranoid) interpretations of prophecy - the angels try to remove the threat (or cut it down enough) to save themselves? Realizing the madness of this, Michael - though powerful he'd still have been only one angel - possibly did something very drastic to counterbalance it? His own equivalent of fleeing to Egypt, putting Moses in a bulrush boat and floating him down the Nile or Isis taking herself and her newborn son, Horus, into hiding? Castiel does seem to be functioning as an Isis or a Bithiah protector figure for Dean and Sam.

With all the Michael business focused on Dean? It's been distracting. However, there's been a conspicuous lack of mention of "Jesus Christ" or the "Second Coming", despite the major role the figure plays in Revelation. However, the only one who even comes close to fulfilling that role in the story so far is Dean ("The righteous man who started it, is the only one who can finish it." The Alpha and the Omega, in other words). Maybe Jesse, but he's already been labeled as the antichrist. So yeah, I'm thinking Dean is probably not a vessel or Michael, but SPN's equivalent of the Second Coming (though perhaps created by Michael to try to save his family, both the celestial and the chthonic).

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[sailorhathor.livejournal.com]

Dean probably won't die, but he could wind up a vegetable by the end of the season. The first ep of S6 would be about bringing him back. I could see all that happening.