#he’s giving dean a nice afterlife :) dean is not allowed to leave or be unhappy. he’s just not.

[quietwingsinthesky]

most of those are jokes but not the one about dean going slowly insane in heaven as he realizes no one he’s talking to is real and his pseudo-son he once tried to lock in a box to keep everyone safe has now locked him in a slightly nicer box where he can talk to his Fake Mom and Fake Dad and Fake Brother all he wants, and jack even lets him think he’s escaped sometimes and made it to different universes just for fun. i want to say none of this is malicious on jack’s part, and i’m sure he believes that and that he’s being a good and kind god who doesn’t even let dean feel pain and erases his memories whenever he gets too stressed in his tiny heaven enclosure, but also. it’s a little cruel, pulling wings off of flies and all, but not evil, only the sudden overwhelming realization that he can control everything all the time in the hands of a three year old who learned all of his morality from the man he’s inadvertently torturing with paradise.

[ltleflrt]

Wild Speculation Time!

I’ve been following the gnostic stuff from some meta folks, and while I think their ideas are compelling and interesting, I’m only barely able to grasp the esoterica of it all.  So they may look at my speculations and go Yup That’s It! Or I may be completely out in left field (and not unhappy to be wrong lol).  But I have thoughts.

So Rowena is now Queen of Hell.  She seems to be really enjoying herself down there, with the demons fawning over her, and the parties, and all that jazz.  Basically eternal punishment is now kissing her toes lol

What does this mean for Heaven though?  I’ve seen a lot of hypothesizing that Jack or Castiel will end up ruling there, but I just can’t see it for them. 

Jack is a child who needs to be allowed to live a full life.  He’s been trying to save the world since he was born, but just like Sam and Dean, he shouldn’t have to do that.  He should be allowed to be normal.

Castiel flubbed his one attempt at ruling Heaven so badly that he’s been running from the responsibility ever since.  Hannah talked him into it again, and it went better that time, but it was still a sense of duty that put him there.  And when he found out Heaven was failing, he turned to Gabriel to see if he would take up the mantle, and obviously that can’t happen now. 

I think it’s going to be Michael and Adam, together.  Now that Michael has Adam with him, he’s different.  Softer, calmer, and so dang fond of Adam.  I think their partnership could mean a better Heaven.  One where the angels are there to care for it and its inhabitants, but with Adam giving insight on what humans would actually want out of their afterlife experience.  Unlock the doors, knock down some walls to create more shared spaces, etc.  Why can only soulmates share a heaven?  Why not families and friends too?  Why can’t they pop in and visit each other whenever they want?  Or even better, what if they’re allowed to make new memories together instead of reliving old ones?  (I stopped going to church at 13, but the religion I grew up in presented Heaven as one big happy picnic where we could all just hang out and love each other while enjoying luxuries that no one had to work for, and I think that would be cool for the SPN universe.)

Having Midam ruling Heaven would be a nice parallel to Rowena in Hell.  Friends/Family/Allies who would let Sam and Dean come and go as they pleased.

Side note, while I would not like to see it, I can imagine Castiel becoming ruler of the empty.  Although what I’d really like is to have the sleeping angels sent to heaven, the sleeping demons sent to hell (and Rowena giving them the opportunity to earn their way into heaven), and the Empty being allowed to go back to sleep for eternity after it re-absorbs Chuckmara. 

I have no idea what they’ll do with Purgatory.  I’d like to see it dissolved completely, but we’ll see if they have time to address it again.

That leaves Death, and I’m side-eying everyone in TFW 2.0 for that job right now.  Although I’d like it to be Dean.  He’s got experience with it.  As Death he could visit all the realms.  I saw a still of him and Sam eating some kind of desert, and I remember how the first Death loved crappy junk food so much.  He was sort of a cosmic mentor to Dean in some ways, and it would be neat to see Dean take up his mantle and flit around all of existence trying all the burgers and pies.  But I can also see Castiel having to take that job now.

I dunno.  We’ll see!  TWO MORE EPISODES!  I am excited!