#oh no there's a spanner in your works zachie

[shallowseeker]

A Crash Course in Free Will / Sympathy for God / Beyond the End / O, Spanner / The Book of Zachariah

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Ah, Endverse.

Zachariah is the de facto god of this reality. It's an abbreviated universe, meticulously crafted to culminate in a neat, episodic conclusion. "A moral of the story," if you will, with the deaths of Dean and Cas serving as the stop signs, signaling the end of the narrative.

Still, it feels like a bit of a waste, and Zachariah, ever the perfectionist, wants to take one more look at it.

But when he returns to admire his creation, to his horror, Junkie Cas—who was supposed to die without grace—ambushes him. In a desperate, vicious move, Cas slits Zachariah's throat, drinking just enough grace to escape and use it to revive Dean Winchester.

This act of rebellion shatters Zachariah’s design, forcing him to confront a glitch: that even in a universe he created, he cannot control the chaos of free will. The unpredictable spark of life renders his omnipotence impotent.

The universe he thought had no reason to continue beyond its set parameters? It has other plans.