Haha, oh wow. I would just like to say that I am so glad you brought up Balthamos and Baruch. I haven't even thought about them in forever, but that parallel is way too cute. Damn, now I wanna read The Amber Spyglass again.
Also, as for Sam having to look for his grace. I'm... not entirely sure why he'd have to since we aren't looking at the Lucifer/Michael plotline. Maybe Cas and Anna found Sam the way that Dean and Sam found Anna... in a mental institution for hearing voices. And they knew about the existence of angels, but didn't really CONNECT it with this kid until they were already investigating. And then maybe Dean showed up and they had that WONDERFUL moment that you described above and Dean insists that Sam needs to find his grace. ...Because Sam Winchester must die. Blarrgh, I'm talking myself in circles now. Hope that bit helped anyway.
And hell, I wish I could have shipped Sam/Anna in canon. I'd have preferred that to her stint with Dean. ...But then again, Sam was with Ruby at the time and I may be the only person ever but up until the BIG REVEAL I loved Ruby and I loved her and Sam's relationship. It was cute in an extremely dysfunctional way, but maybe I'm just weird like that. And Sam popping up in the backseat while Cas and Anna are driving is WIN.
Also. I prefer the parallel to the angel creation story. It would make loads more sense. I mean, can you just imagine baby!Cas and little!Anna running around the roadhouse? It would be cute as puppies.
...And I'm still having little luck as to why their dad was in hell. I almost wanna go grab a bible or something, cause I just know there's something in there that you could base it off of. And is Jesus even acknowledged in Supernatural? Like ever? I suppose Kripke could be basing the whole God plotline off the Old Testament, but it's thrown me off that there's never been anything said about it. The idea of God being a human (their dad!) in this plotline is totally confusing me. Cause I can't say I've ever really thought about what God as a human would do for his kids. I mean, do you think he'd sell his soul so Cas/Anna could live? In my head he's similar to John, but I dunno. I think the entire time Cas would be in that coma, about to die, Anna would completely blame him. But the question is, would he really strike up the deal in the basement? And you know that if he DID Cas would feel guilty and that would segue into Cas trying to pull him out and instead getting yanked out by Dean instead.
That might work? But again, God = human is confusing. Maybe I'll just treat him like John in my head and it'll be easier.
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Also, as for Sam having to look for his grace. I'm... not entirely sure why he'd have to since we aren't looking at the Lucifer/Michael plotline. Maybe Cas and Anna found Sam the way that Dean and Sam found Anna... in a mental institution for hearing voices. And they knew about the existence of angels, but didn't really CONNECT it with this kid until they were already investigating. And then maybe Dean showed up and they had that WONDERFUL moment that you described above and Dean insists that Sam needs to find his grace. ...Because Sam Winchester must die. Blarrgh, I'm talking myself in circles now. Hope that bit helped anyway.
And hell, I wish I could have shipped Sam/Anna in canon. I'd have preferred that to her stint with Dean. ...But then again, Sam was with Ruby at the time and I may be the only person ever but up until the BIG REVEAL I loved Ruby and I loved her and Sam's relationship. It was cute in an extremely dysfunctional way, but maybe I'm just weird like that. And Sam popping up in the backseat while Cas and Anna are driving is WIN.
Also. I prefer the parallel to the angel creation story. It would make loads more sense. I mean, can you just imagine baby!Cas and little!Anna running around the roadhouse? It would be cute as puppies.
...And I'm still having little luck as to why their dad was in hell. I almost wanna go grab a bible or something, cause I just know there's something in there that you could base it off of. And is Jesus even acknowledged in Supernatural? Like ever? I suppose Kripke could be basing the whole God plotline off the Old Testament, but it's thrown me off that there's never been anything said about it. The idea of God being a human (their dad!) in this plotline is totally confusing me. Cause I can't say I've ever really thought about what God as a human would do for his kids. I mean, do you think he'd sell his soul so Cas/Anna could live? In my head he's similar to John, but I dunno. I think the entire time Cas would be in that coma, about to die, Anna would completely blame him. But the question is, would he really strike up the deal in the basement? And you know that if he DID Cas would feel guilty and that would segue into Cas trying to pull him out and instead getting yanked out by Dean instead.
That might work? But again, God = human is confusing. Maybe I'll just treat him like John in my head and it'll be easier.