#more powerful than any demon

[mintconditiondean]

Dear fanfic authors:

If I read one more fic where Dean calls Castiel "Cas" because he somehow thinks that "Castiel" is too long and complicated to pronounce, I'm going to scream

"Castiel" is not hard to pronounce. You know this; we all know this. Dean is not a buffoon. He can easily pronounce Cas's full name. He calls him "Cas" because he's a cutie pie who likes giving people nicknames, not because he thinks "Castiel" is too hard to say

Please take this to heart and think about what you've done

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Never underestimate the healing power of a good meal!

(For @nibbelraz!)

[s0fter-sin]

sometimes i think about how much of a waste it was to just have cas ignoring sam’s prayers in s6 instead of him actually not being able to hear him bc he was soulless and his prayers didn’t work

[lucaanis]

I made a similar post before a long ass time ago for the other three da protags but now it's time for rook, this time in poll format <3

as always feel free to ramble about your ocs in the tags!! 👀

[smolstarthief]

Hmm... I kinda want to mention/discuss how Husk and Alastor have more in common than the fandom thinks and can even be interesting foils to each other but idk if you all ready for that tea yet... 👀

[revvethasmythh]

Still turning over the fact that Relvin didn't know anything about Liliana's powers until a couple of years after Imogen was born. Like, he knew she dreamed of somewhere bigger than Gelvaan (and spent time imagining going there with her), but can you imagine thinking you know someone, thinking you're building this life (on trust, on honestly, on partnership) with someone, and then they drop this bomb on you, the things they see in their dreams and what they can do with their mind and how afraid they are that your child will inherit the same gift curse? Relvin has no idea when her powers started. They may have been there from the day they met, for all he knows. And then, after telling him this, after sharing her fears for herself and for Imogen, she leaves. And he doesn't understand anything of what this means, he is confused and in the dark and now alone. All he can do is hope Imogen won't go through the same thing, while trying to swallow all the resentment and anger he holds toward Liliana for her sake. Absolutely impossible situation to be in, tbh

[vroomian]

masa in kr as a charismatic sky sounds like a riot, either his guardians really really like him against their better judgment or entirely furious that they like him so much — either way, it’s funny

masa, delighted: this fire gives me the ability to manipulate the hearts of others through magic charisma?

masa: i am going to cause so many problems on purpose <3

literally everyone who's met masa knows that he's Bad News, even for a mafia person. But that damn charisma is overwhelming tbh. a lot of people owe him favors or do him favors just because. i honestly don't see him actually being able form a guardian bond except for whoever The Favorite is in this au. he can and does lead people on though.

[suranastair]

Wren Lavellan ⚖️

🟩 Age || 29/30 (Inquisition) - 40/41 (Veilguard) 🟩 Lineage || Elf 🟩 Pronouns || She/Her 🟩 Identity || Pansexual 🟩 Class || Mage 🟩 Specialization(s) || Knight Enchanter 🟩 Romance || Cullen 🟩 Besties || Dorian, Varric, Solas, & Josephine 🟩 Frenemies || Vivienne

[bisaster-energy]

Merlin but Merlin loses it when Arthur dies and instinctively starts a time loop and every time Arthur dies it automatically resets...for angst purposes it could stay tragic..no matter what he does to change the past kilgharra was right. no one can change their destiny nor can they escape it. or by starting this time loop at all he's doing is preventing the rise of the once and future king so by staving off Arthur's death he's actually preventing anyone from ever really living again. a never ending story with one character aware of the narrative but powerless to change it. a puppet with a brain but no autonomy to put it to use. A tragedy of his own making instead the one prophesized

[bearfeathers]

listen i just want to say that gabriel's "no one's ever given me anything before" fucking pushed me down, kicked me in the face and stole my lunch money.

[mechahero]

//Everything's fine for demons that run amuck looking to take over Earth until they bump into the guy that would gladly tear them apart with his teeth and hands.

[kraviolis]

with the rising fascism in the world, im not gonna trust any new medias with stories that make the villain an agent of chaos & terror while the hero/es fight to preserve the status quo.

[crowley-the-1-true-king-of-hell]

Screaming with excitement right now

Crowley in season 8x07 was willing to knife fight Castiel. That was when he assumed Cas’ was too weak to use the full smite of his angel powers

I love it, because Crowley does not underestimate Cas in anyway. Crowley has always had a healthy appreciation for Cas’ abilities, so Crowley is more than aware of how BAMF Cas is at knife to knife fighting. Yet Crowley believed he had a chance, which shows that Crowley is pretty BAMF himself

I won’t lie, I think Cas would win in a “fight until one is knocked out” type situation. Cas is millions of years old and a soldier, it is highly unlikely Crowley would be better than him, and I just “yeah sure lol” whenever Dean is made to be more skilled than Cas? like what are the directors smoking? Dean is skilled but he doesn’t have millions of years of experience. Or if Cas only began fighting when humans were created, then thousands of years

But do I think Crowley could have put up a good enough fight, with his cunning, to stun Cas for just long enough to teleport away with Kevin and the tablet?

The answer is yes. It takes 7 milliseconds to snap your fingers. He needs to use cunning long enough to have that 7 milliseconds. Don’t get me wrong Cas would absolutely kick Crowley’s arse in any fight, even a non power fight where it’s just melee vs melee but I do think Crowley has enough skill to buy himself 7 milliseconds and that is an incredible feat, because Cas has way more experience even if he didn’t have powers, which he did

So why didn’t Crowley teleport with Kevin and the tablet while Cas was doing his light show? We know from 7x23 that Crowley doesn’t need to touch an item or people to teleport them

The answer I believe is this:

originally Crowley thought Cas didn’t have enough powers. The light show made him think okay maybe I was wrong. Originally he thought he just needed to stun Cas long enough to get him, the tablet and Kevin out and Cas wouldn’t be able to follow because he wasn’t in good shape

Cas was able to bluff well enough to make Crowley believe he was fine and if we remember from 5x10 Cas can follow Crowley’s teleportation energy like how he followed Crowley to his house, even though Crowley teleported before him 

So if you already know the angel can follow your teleportation signature, and you guess that they still have some power left in them to follow you, what would be the point? Fold your cards and try again. You can risk teleporting away, but if the angel follows you they might not give you an advantage of warning you with a light show next time

[illithilit]

Also of note? Graz will actually speak quite openly and freely about how fucked up its culture is and all the various aspects ( most of the aspects ) that need to change.

That does not, however, mean that it's going to allow you to project those things onto it, bc it personally cut ties with its own people decades ago, lives a vastly different life from everyone but the outliers ( which does, by the way, include actively working to improve the lives of humanoids and anyone else who isn't a demon ), has never been any of the things associated with traditional illithids, and quite frankly was a victim of its own society from birth anyway.

It will understand if you're cautious bc of what it is. It will share in your anger at the majority who do actively cause a great deal of harm and have for generations. But if you take the time to understand that it has species and diet in common with the rest of its kind and almost nothing else and still choose violence? It's not going to give you grace. It's going to make dinner out of you, and you're not going to get a warning first.

[abyssalpriest]

unrelated to that lmfao

i love being not (insert religions based on the kings and their people as ''demons'') but being adjacent to the communities while knowing the kings on a personal level because oh boy

[kxllerblond]

ON CAMBION -—or my weird fanon interpretation.

So I take a lot of inspo from everything from SPN to D&D to general myth to shit like fucking Teen Titans. My HCs are just a big Frankensteinian mess, needless to say. This is going to be a barely constructed word mess, so buckle up.

So to start, what is a Cambion is 'canon' terms and how do they come to be? Generally, it's going to involve a succubus and an incubus and the way in which they allegedly reproduced involved 4 beings. The typical "demon bangs a human" thing we see on this blog and in a lot of cambion-involved media is actually not possible according to the Malleus Maleficarum (which correct me if I'm wrong, but this is like the only widely known piece of media that talks about demons banging and or reproducing like in weird detail lmao). You would have a succubus yoink sperm from a human who then passed it off to an incubus to corrupt and then implant into a human with a womb and badabing badaboom. Cambion. In some other instances, there's said to be no human involvement at all and it's just a incubus and a succubus suckin' and fuckin' but I never really got that take, tbh.

But what aaaaare cambion in the 'canon' sense? They were apparently an interchangeable term with changelings and I guess their Latin name itself comes from a form of the word. They were these incredibly heavy infants that cried when touched and did not have a pulse or breath until they were like seven. Some texts say they never grew and were always hungry (these are often from the more changeling based interpretations that stated they replaced human babes to plague the parents etc). In some other instances, they were just said to be demons posing as babies to, again, plague god-fearing families.

So tl;dr: the cambion I use on this blog and that we see a lot in media like SPN is really just sort of taking bits and pieces of the already small 'canon' lore and going full canon-diverg with it, lol.

What are 'MY' cambions?

Like I said, I take a lot of inspo from popular media takes on them. This blog was initially very SPN-based until I started branching out on my own with my own canon, etc.

Cambions are the offspring of a demon and human. Typically, a demon will possess a sperm-carrying human and impregnate a womb-havin' human. This is the most common, but the opposite can be true as well. The parent that delivers the cambion child more often than not will die during birth (be it the human parent or the human host the demon parent is possessing). Clark's mother lived through childbirth and it's to be noted this is not a common occurrence.

TYPES.

My cambions also extend beyond just incubi/succubi. Clark is a child of an incubus and a human but I HC cambion as to be an umbrella term for any sort of demon/human child. Crossroads demons, knights of hell, archdemons, etc. While I HC there to be some shared powers amongst cambion, their demon parents do contribute to a variety of different powers and lends to two cambion being capable of having very different abilities. This HC just made sense to me, but it also lets me have my own canon while still leaving room for other cambion ocs to exist and write with me as well. :')

ON BEING HYBRIDS.

I HC most cambion to be infertile. However, like the parent not surviving the childbirth, this is not a sealed in stone fact and there are cases of cambion being able to sire their own children. This is where you start to get dilution happening. A child of a cambion is going to be weaker than their parent and their demon blood will continue to get weaker the further down the line with each human added to the family tree.

I also like the take that they are not either of their parents but something NEW, something different. Between their variety of powers and general lack of information, it's a big reason why I HC them to be potentially mega powerful. This HC is aided by a lot of media portrayals of cambion kids more or less being able to kick their demon parent's asses or just being typically mega powerful under the right circumstances (Raven from Teen Titans, Hellboy, Merlin the fucking wizard is said to have been a cambion, Jesse from SPN, etc).

AGEING.

Cambions DO age and are said to live anywhere between 300-500 years but have extremely deaccelerated ageing. The only reason Clark is at an immortal status now is because he died and came back and now more or less continues his existence in the way a typical incubus would despite still not being an actual incubus.

BEING HUNTED, ETC.

Cambions, like Nephilim, are kinda big no-no's for everyone involved. Humans don't like 'em, demons don't like 'em, angels don't like 'em. Between often being involved in Apoc-prophesies or said to be eventual high-ranking officers of Hell once they get there...everyone kind of wants them dead. It's very rare for a cambion to make it past childhood as this is when they are easiest to kill and more vulnerable. Once a cambion's powers have kicked in and they have some semblance of control over them, it's incredibly hard to take them down.

And in the realm of no-no, it's to be noted it's super taboo to make a cambion. Clark's dad was some unnamed scumbag of a demon who wanted to IDK stick it to the man or be quirky and naughty and that's literally the only reason why he exists. In Hellboy, his demon dad is stripped of his title and imprisoned for making a lil' cambion baby.

Anti-Christ, Heaven killing, World-ending stuff.

Look, not every cambion can be the one to destroy heaven and bring on the Apoc but I do HC that every single one has the potential to be world/timeline eaters. Cambions' powers are emotion-based and I've said before that certain hyperstressful circumstances like mental illness, fear, etc can bring about these extreme powers in unstable ways. I have a whole other meta post on how I see Legion as the closest example to what I personally imagine a powerful cambion created via the worst circumstances. (i.e you have someone who can bend and warp reality brought up believing he's delusional)

Also to be noted the anti-christ is always depicted as Luci's kid which would be a nephil so like errrrm. I imagine cambion to just be like little appetizers or main events that go hand in hand with the anti-christ shit. Again, not every single cambion is going to be THE ONE but every single one has the potential to be out the ass powerful.

There's other stuff like weaknesses, feeding, immunities, etc but this is already long and I have a CAMBION HC page for that dfklgdnfg.