#Billie spn

[thursdaythen]

Day 6: New & Niche

What if we were two unknowable, female-presenting entities in the vast void haha.... unless?

[seasononesam]

Sam Winchester's the Antichrist.

[captainchilly]

"And now you'll take me?" ↳ 13.19 - FUNERALIA

[strawlessandbraless]

We know how traumatic it is for Dean to watch Cas die, and it’s happed five different times, right in front of him. The boy went to hell and had less PTSD than when his Angel dies

But what would it be like for Cas to see Dean die. I literally can’t imagine the distress, and the pure rage he’d direct at whoever was responsible

I’m thinking metatron and ‘well guess what, he’s dead too’. I’m thinking Cas killing Billie to save Dean and Sam. I’m thinking the way he ran to Dean’s side when Donatello hurt him and then commit some slight war crimes even though Dean loves to be choked within an inch of his life

Anyways. What would that do to Cas? Tell me, in detail, I can take it

[hawkland]

"So, I guess this is the part where I say, "Hello, boys." Hello, boys. What's the plan?"

Other works in this series: [Castiel] [Jack Kline] [Rowena] [Crowley] [Chuck Shurley] [Abaddon] [Lucifer] [Adam/Michael] [Mick Davies] [Gabriel] [Cain] [Mary Winchester] [Jody Mills] [Donna Hanscum] [Gadreel] [Kevin Tran] [Linda Tran] [Garth Fitzgerald IV] [Death (OG)]

[caught-a-dragonfly]

Billie study

[miiilowo]

[youre-only-gay-once]

[ananke-xiii]

More on the power of resurrection as the "apple of discord": Billie won theory.

So. Chuck vs Billie, it's all about the preservation of the natural order. Now if you ask me what "natural order" means in Supernatural I wouldn't really know how to answer. I think by that they meant a concept akin to that of metaphysical necessity, of a causality that's prior to space and time. However, Chuck has subdued the Moirai as we know from s6 and s15 and he controls life, death and space and time. Therefore, the natural order seems to be Chuck himself. Or he definitely thinks he is but he's really not 'cause, as it turns out, it doesn't really matter if Chuck exists as God, anybody who can contain God's power can become God. Just like any reaper who dies can become Death in case Death is absent. In other words, "Death" and "God" are just "roles" that virtually anybody with sufficient power and in the right circumnstances could play.

In this respect, Chuck is more powerful than Death because he can control space and time as he pleases while Billie can't. I mean, it appears on Supernatural that techinically Billie can manipulate space and time but her issue is precisely that: if you start manipulating space and time Death ultimately really means nothing since it's a concept that's intrinsically connected to these notions.

This is why, I think, resurrection is the core problem in the ultimate power struggle, i.e. God vs Death. As a concept, it defies the rules of Time. If resurrection can happen, then time is no longer irreversible and if time can be reversed then Death doesn't really need to exist. But apparently in Supernatural necessity is the ultimate force and Billie wants to protect that, she wants to protect the role of Death in the story. Surprisingly, in this view I find Chuck a litte bit more fascinating because he's not only playing around with his toys, he's actually messing with Necessity itself. And no smart God would have done that 'cause it only ends one way: a recknoning.

So following this probably unsteady logic, in the end Billie won. Because what did she want? In the words of the Shadow:

The Shadow: Become "New God." Classic narcissist, right? She's all tingly for the rules, the good-old days. [...] Everyone back to where they belong... realities, dimensions, graves. What should be dead dies, angels off Earth, demons back to Hell, and I go back to sleep.

It's always, always about "the good-old days" (insert teary gif from The Office's last episode).

She didn't get to become the "New God" because she made the same mistake as Chuck: inserted herself in the story, thought she could use Jack and focused all her attention on Dean Winchester without realizing who her real enemy was (as I've previously said, it's totally Castiel. It's always Castiel, Castiel must die die die for the story to end).

But if what mattered to her, power aside, if the reason why she wanted to become god was because she didn't want anybody to interfere with the natural order AND if it doesn't matter who Death and God are as long as they stay hands-off... then Billie totally won in the end.

And she won because Castiel died and didn't resurrect (more or less, he's somewhere in Heaven probably but we don't see him. Seeing is crucial in resurrection stories: if we don't see him he might as well be dead to us). Dean died and asked not to be resurrected (incidentally I should talk about how Billie's values align with Dean's but not today). Sam eventually dies too and Jack is... somewhere, sometime, being God all alone and in everything but without interfering with Necessity (and I should also talk about what the fuck they mean when Jack says "[people] just need to know that I'm already a part of them and to trust in that". LOL what people and what trust? And why should they care? Are these the same "people" Chuck didn't give a shit about? Chuck was already a hands-off type of God, hell, he was the absent father, right? Not just to the Winchesters and the Angels, no, he was humanity's absent father. Chuck self-inserted into the story just to play with his two toys, this has nothing to do with "people". They clearly didn't know how to end the show and tried to pull the mysticism card like they did in S11 but with worse results).

Order is indeed preserved. Time as we know it is safe. Still, there are monsters and Heaven and maybe even Hell, Purgatory and the Empty. God exists but doesn't interfere. Most importantly, Death has no obstacle and can do her job just fine. Everything in its place and a place for everything.

The universe is indeed many things. And sometimes it is poetic (justice).

[as-days-fade-and-nights-grow]

Anna Milton, Billie, Dean and Castiel :p

[seasononesam]

Game's over, Dean. No more second chances. No more extra lives. Time to say bye-bye to Luigi, Mario.

[alfalfapie]

look I know we hate billie cuz of 15x18, but billie when she first becomes death? like we find out 13x5 that she's the new Death? she eats so damn hard. like I feel bad cuz she sucks later but there is not a moment in this episode where I don't love every second she's on screen. like Dean saying "well if it's up to me [i want to go back to Sam]" and she comes back with "I didn't say it was up to you. I said it depends on you." ??? it will eat every time and no one can change my mind. it's hard to see your enemies win but she makes the episode and I have to give her credit.

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

Rowena: Then I’ll kill Sam Winchester. That’ll really frog up your natural order, won’t it?

Billie: Go ahead. I don’t think it’s a good thing. And I don’t believe any of us will like what comes next, but I don’t do blackmail so… Go ahead.

Billie and Rowena in Funeralia (13x19): Best of SPN Ladies [378 / ?]

[gayest-spn-character]

Gayest Supernatural Character, Round 5

[hawkland]

Art masterpost: Seguila Sempre, Guidarti Saprá Author: Amputation (@hobbyistauthor) Artists: sidewinder (@hawkland)

It's time for the second of my @reversefantasyspnbang collaborations, and this one was with the amazing @hobbyistauthor!

I've been on a serious pre-Raphaelite kick these past few months—which you'll see more of coming soon—but this is the first piece inspired by that school that I get to share publicly. The (very) direct inspiration for this piece was Evelyn de Morgan's aptly-titled 1880 painting The Angel of Death - and yes, I did stick really close to reproducing the original with just some color variations in the garments and of course, making it Rowena and Billie. The pose in the original art just seemed so close to the scene between them in "Funeralia" I couldn't help but wonder if they had been inspired by the art during filming as well!

Here's a close-up of Rowena and Billie taken in slightly different light to see more of the shimmer paint and details. I was using some shimmer watercolors as well as putting in a lot of detail work with pen and acrylic paint pen, especially on those wing feathers:

@hobbyistauthor wrote a beautiful story to go with the art and I couldn't be more thrilled that they chose to claim it! Please go read it and give them some love <3

[castielmacleod]

Billie is ambidextrous by the way