#also listen the reaper/demon dynamic is part of what had me giving it all another shot - Mod Hawkeye šŸ¦…
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11 and 24 for the fandom ask thingy (ā äŗŗā Ā ā ā€¢Ķˆā į“—ā ā€¢Ķˆā )
11. Most unique merch you have for a fandom?
It would probably have to be my tiny ideals journals (normal sized Kunikida journal for size reference)! šŸ“ššŸ“—
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- Mod Hawkeye šŸ¦…
24. Funniest fandom-related story?
Okay, so weā€™ve had Mod Hawkeyeā€™s funny story about getting me into animeā€¦
Now, itā€™s time for my funny story about giving Mod Hawkeye Black Butler brainrot šŸ˜Œ
Black Butler was one of the first animes I got into after falling down the rabbit hole with Ace Attorney, so OBVIOUSLY I tried to get Mod Hawkeye into it by showing them the Jack the Ripper (Red Butler) arc. This first attempt failed, and Mod Hawkeye did not bite šŸ„²
Fast forward quite a few years to 2023 when Crunchyroll announced the unexpected return of Black Butler for the Public School Arc. Mod Hawkeye, in their folly, agreed to indulge me and watch the Book of Circus arc (I had spent years by this point saying this was the BEST animated arc as it finally, finally followed the manga).
So, we watched half of it.
Mod Hawkeyeā€™s interest was piqued this time.
A short while later we watched the second half.
BUT it still wasnā€™t full on brainrot.
So, I told Mod Hawkeye that I had never seen Book of Murder or Book of Atlantic because, for some reason, Crunchyroll does NOT want to provide access to these in our country šŸ˜’
However, we were eventually able to find and watch both. Book of Murder we didnā€™t love šŸ˜…šŸ˜¶ but Book of Atlantic we adored šŸ˜
And that, as they say, was that.
Book of Atlantic was the tipping point for Mod Hawkeyeā€™s brainrot šŸ˜Œ mostly because it fully introduces Ronald Knox, leading us to ship the rarest of rarepairs: Sebastian x Ronald
Now, Mod Hawkeye has seen Book of Atlantic countless times (more than me!) and has even scavenged and scrounged for Black Butler MUSICAL clips just for more content šŸ‘€
Mod Hawkeye now owns a Sebastian plushie and the manga for the Book of Atlantic arc so the indoctrination is complete šŸ˜Œ
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- Mod Mustang šŸ”„
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sortasirius Ā· 4 years ago
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ā€œUnityā€ and the Broken Boys
BOY Yā€™ALL BETTER SIT DOWN BECAUSE THIS IS AS LONG AS CAN BE AND I TOOK OFF WORK TOMORROW SO Iā€™VE GOT TIME
This is....one of the best episodes in the show.Ā  Yeah, in all 325 of them, this is hands down one of the best.
First of all, stan Amara for clear skin.
That silent treatment babey, right out the gate with the Angst.Ā  Tbh Dean deserves it.
ā€œLike I said, killing Amara, Jack dying...thatā€™s the only way.ā€
ā€œThe only way.Ā  Our one shot.Ā  Our Last chance.Ā  You ever get tired of saying stuff like that?ā€
ā€œWe donā€™t have to like it, alright?Ā  But you and me, we gotta get it done.ā€
Amara is such a welcome energy in this whole episode.Ā  Sheā€™s warm and understanding, whip-smart and probably more powerful than Chuck.Ā  I love her.
Sam is a wonderful, understanding, loving dad.Ā  I love him eternally.Ā  He loves Jack so much, heā€™s trying so desperately to do whatā€™s right for Jack but also whatā€™s right for the world.Ā  Jack made this choice, but he canā€™t live with it.Ā  How do you support your child when their life is at stake?
ā€œCome on man.Ā  Blindly following orders, lying to Amara, sending her to her death. Does any of this feel right to you??ā€
ā€œIt doesnā€™t matter how we feel!Ā  You know what?Ā  Stay.Ā  Stay.Ā  Someone has to be the grown up here.ā€
ā€œYeah well someone has to keep fighting for Jack!ā€
ā€œHe knows what he signed up for!ā€
ā€œLast I checked, we donā€™t give up on family.ā€
ā€œJackā€™s not family.ā€
Yā€™all should have heard the noise I made.Ā  What a fucking line.
ā€œI know how you feel about the kid, I care for him too, I do, but heā€™s not like you.Ā  Heā€™s not like Cas.Ā  Heā€™s just not.ā€
ā€œIā€™m- Iā€™m ready.ā€
You can see the regret, the heartbreak in Deanā€™s eyes.Ā  You can see how he wants to take those words back the moment he said them, and for Jack to hear them?Ā  Itā€™s unthinkable.
Sam and Cas Iā€™m just so fucking emo dude.
ā€œSam, you stayed behind to find another way huh?Ā  I woulda done the same.ā€
AMARA
First of all, LOVE this structure.
Amara and Chuck have such a fascinating dynamic.Ā  Rob and Emily do a great job (as they have all along) by clearly being siblings but...heightened.Ā  You can just tell they both exude power, and the other is the only one they consider an equal.
ā€œYou and Dean had that whole weird...thing.ā€
ā€œThat wasnā€™t you writing?ā€
ā€œUgh, not that part.Ā  Gross.ā€
What I took away from this is what Iā€™ve suspected all along.Ā  They HAVE free will, just not total free will.Ā  Dean and Amaraā€™s connection wasnā€™t Chuck, there are parts of the story he didnā€™t write.Ā  Obviously, this comes into play later.Ā 
I also have a hunch that Chuck doesnā€™t write romance.Ā  I also think that in particular will come into play.
ā€œBalance.Ā  Something weā€™ve never tried before.Ā  Creation and destruction, light and dark, brother and sister united again, but on behalf of one world, this world.Ā  True balance.Ā  The way it was always meant to be.Ā  But you canā€™t.Ā  You only care about your pleasure, your story.Ā  Well, I guess that makes you the villain.ā€
ā€œVillains get all the best lines.ā€
We see again and again this season, Chuck is irredeemable. Ā He doesnā€™t care about the angels, he doesnā€™t care about the world, he doesnā€™t care about anything. Ā He is a petulant toddler who has broken his toys. And when he realizes heā€™s trapped, he gets angry, he shouts and screams, completely at odds with Amaraā€™s peace.
ā€œYou canā€™t hold me here forever.ā€
ā€œI can hold you long enough.ā€
DEAN
Pain is the name of the game in this section homies. Ā Because not only are we dealing with Deanā€™s pain, weā€™re also dealing with Jackā€™s. Ā Jack says he understands why Cas and Sam mean more to Dean, but Dean clearly doesnā€™t, he, once again, wants to say more, but is stopped, still stopped by his fear: his fear of not beating Chuck.
Alright guys, gals, and non-binary pals.Ā  Letā€™s talk about Adam and Seraphina.
Adam.Ā  The first man.Ā  And Seraphina.Ā  The angel.
ā€œMy old lady.Ā  Sheā€™s the only one who could put up with me all these years.ā€
Yeah okay.Ā  Volume at 100 I get it lmao.
But also: Adam wants God dead not because he and Eve were kicked out of the Garden, but because he went after their sons.Ā  The theme of protecting the children strikes again.
ā€œKilling God is your plan?ā€
ā€œYeah, Billieā€™s been giving us a hand but Sera and me, this is our baby.ā€
This juxtaposed directly with Deanā€™s own pain at what he has to do to kill Chuck, to gain his free will: the cost of his child.
Adamā€™s rib.
And who else might get his ribs hurt, only to be likely healed by an angel?
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Itā€™s fine, thatā€™s fine.Ā  Iā€™m fine with that.
ā€œJack, I donā€™t know how to explain it but, when I found out about Chuck, itā€™s like I wasnā€™t alive.Ā  Not really.Ā  You know like my whole life Iā€™ve never been free, but like really free.Ā  But now?Ā  Now me and Sam, we got a shot at living a life, without all this crap on our backs.Ā  And thatā€™s, thatā€™s because of you.Ā  So, I want to say, I need to say...thank you, Jack.Ā  Thank you.ā€
Iā€™m gonna have to do a separate post about just Dean in this episode, because there is so fucking much to talk about, but there are a couple of things that I think are important:Ā  Dean realizes how wrong he was, to say what he said.Ā  He knows that itā€™s not true, this is the way heā€™s always coped with loss, by pushing the person to be lost away, but for Jack to hear it?Ā  He canā€™t stand for that.
And:
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Dean has finally pushed through the barrier.Ā  He wonā€™t be quiet in the face of his doubts anymore.Ā  This is a breakthrough for him, and, of course, there are more to come.
SAM
Sam and Cas, my chaos duo.
The box, the inscription, the door.
Deathā€™s library, filled with dead reapers.
And there it is.Ā  The Empty.
It tells Sam the plan, the plan for Billie to take Godā€™s place.Ā  For everything to go back to the way itā€™sĀ ā€œsupposed to be.ā€
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This has always been the game, since season 13.Ā  This is the longest of long games.
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Sam fuckin Winchester, lying his way out of a confrontation with the Empty like the legend that he is.
He comes back with a new purpose: to stop Billieā€™s plan, and hereā€™s where we get to the heart of the episode and maybe the heart of the season.
ā€œYou hear that?Ā  Dean, brought to the edge of doubt.Ā  His sense of duty, his rage winning out in the end.Ā  And poor Sam, always gotta know everything.Ā  Canā€™t leave well enough alone.Ā  This is my ending, my real ending.ā€
The gun comes out, pointed at Sam.
Hmm...what did I say during 15x05?Ā  Oh yeah, this.
And:
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Dean would never survive killing Sam, but heā€™s willing to do anything, anything to earn his freedom.Ā  His ending, where one brother kills the other and then kill himself.
Why, you might ask, did Sam not mention that the angels would be sent back to Heaven, why does he not mention Cas?Ā  Iā€™ll tell you why, or rather, Becky will.
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Plus, Dean looks back at Cas IMMEDIATELY when Sam says that, when he mentions Eileen, and THATā€™S the first time he hesitates.Ā  He canā€™t lose Cas.Ā  But at the same time, heā€™s willing to do anything to have his freedom.
ā€œSam we donā€™t have a choice, Jackā€™s about to blow!ā€
ā€œWe always have a choice!ā€
You know me, just sitting here thinking about choice, the ability to choose, and how that translates to their free will.
And Sam...I donā€™t think there will ever be characters I love as much as these.
ā€œI donā€™t care if Billie gets what she wants!Ā  I donā€™t man, Iā€™d trade it all, Iā€™d trade em all for Chuck.Ā  In a heartbeat!ā€
ā€œWhat about me?ā€
ā€œYouā€™d trade me?ā€
ā€œChuck has to die.Ā  He has to!Ā  Otherwise heā€™ll keep us tap dancing forever, and I canā€™t live like that man, I canā€™t live like that, I wonā€™t!ā€
ā€œI know you feel like that right now, okay? I know you do, but you gotta trust me.Ā  My entire life, youā€™ve protected me.Ā  From Dad, from Lucifer, from everything.Ā  I didnā€™t always like it, you know?Ā  But itā€™s the one thing in the whole world that I could always count on.Ā  Itā€™s the only thing Iā€™ve ever known that was true.Ā  So please, put the gun away.Ā  Just put it away.Ā  Weā€™ll figure it out, Dean, weā€™ll find another way, you and me.Ā  We always do.ā€
Okay I feel like this is going to be one of those scenes that I cry watching for years to come.Ā  Because fuck.Ā  After fifteen years they finally admit that not only did Dean protect Sam from Lucifer, but he protected him from John.Ā  John.Ā  On a par with Lucifer.
Dean and Sam have, for so many years, sacrificed themselves for the other.Ā  Deanā€™s demon deal, Sam and the trials, every season they have fought to see who can die the quickest for the other.Ā  But this?Ā  This is them fighting to stop the violence, to stop from killing the big bad.Ā  This is them growing, in our eyes, in real time.Ā  Sam has always been able to get through to Dean when no one else had a prayer, but for Dean to listen, for Dean to take his words to heart, to stop the hunt for Sam, for their family, thatā€™s how you know they do have free will.
(Btw Chuckā€™s eye effect when he dusted Amara was sick as fuck but Iā€™m emo for my boys so.)
Chuck knows itā€™s a loss, he knows that his story has, once again, been thwarted by the boys making their own choices.Ā  And heā€™s pissed, but in his anger, we get a bomb dropped on us.
ā€œSpare me your contempt Castiel, the self-hating angel of Thursday.Ā  You know what every other version of you did after ā€œgripping him tight and raising him from perditionā€?Ā  They did what they were told.Ā  But not you.Ā  Not the one off the line with a crack in his chassis.ā€
Are you fucking kidding me?
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Also, just worth bringing up this one as well:
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Every Castiel pulled Dean out of Hell.Ā  Every one told him the same thing.Ā  And yet, immediately, with this Cas and this Dean, something was different.Ā  Because what has everyone seen about Cas, from the moment he met Dean?
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And thereā€™s our endgame people.Ā  Laid out on the line.
But we ainā€™t done yet, fam.
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Weā€™ve talked about the handprint, but you know:
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So there you have it, our prep into the ā€œmonumentalā€ 15x18.Ā  I have spec on that, of course, but I think a novel is long enough for this.
What to take away: Deanā€™s rage was always Chuckā€™s plan, they do have free will, their love for each other, for their family, is what will stop Chuckā€™s control, Death is about to come back with a vengeance, Casā€™ deal is at play, and, most importantly, Castiel and Dean Winchester are a blind spot for Chuck, something he has never, not once, controlled.
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