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[whynot]

1. Is 2010 like the year of the earthquake? There was another one in western China's Qinghai province this morning, seven on the richter and so far at least 600 dead. The Huffington Post has links to how you can help. Fandom, are we gonna have ourselves a help_china?

2. How about the AU where Cas and Anna are hunters together, and the Winchesters are angels. Uriel is the Bobby. What the hell would their last names be? The emotional/plot notes can't be the same as SPN. Anna is the older sister who wants out of this life, running away not to go to college, but to a simple life working some simple job. Younger bro Cas tracks her down when... something happens. Or maybe it's something else that compels her to go back to the life, because Anna in canon is never forced into anything. Canonically, she chose to fall, then she chose to be an angel again. So maybe something happens to Cas, and Anna is the one who pursues him. They reconnect, sort of. That is the pilot episode.

Mostly I just want to write about Cas and Anna on a road trip, patching each other up, fighting about their dad, Cas resenting Anna's aloofness, and Anna pitying his frustration. Recounting memories of their childhood and how much things have changed, but sometimes when Anna is the last one to fall asleep, she stares at the ceiling and listens to her brother's breathing in the next bed and it feels like being fourteen again, shacked up in another shitty motel room and waiting for Dad to come home. It's like that with Cas, she finds: being with her brother sometimes feels like time standing still.

I have no idea what the plot is, since Cas and Anna are emotionally so different from Dean and Sam. Anna is not so blindly self-sacrificing, and she probably has to end up pulling Cas back from a lot of stupid decisions. She always tell her little brother he has to think, man, think for yourself. "I'm not always going to be around to boss you around," Anna says, and she's smiling this crooked smile, and it feels like a little too much foreshadowing for Cas.

Mostly I want to rewrite 4.01 where Cas is all, "WHO ARE YOU," and Dean is like, "Dude, I'm the one who pulled you out of the fucking pit. Some thanks I get." Mostly I wanna rewrite 4.02 where Dean gets all in Cas's face in the end, all like, "Look, pal," etc. And omg, 4.16? 4.22? 5.04? jflksjdl.

But would this AU even naturally lead to canon S4? I don't know if Cas would summon a crossroad demon to bring Anna back from the dead. Maybe he'd do it for his dad, though. Maybe Cas goes to hell to get his dad back and Anna says DON'T DO THAT ARE YOU CRAZY, but yes, sometimes Cas is crazy, and something goes wrong and he gets stuck downstairs. Anna staunchly goes through every lore she knows trying to trick hell into giving her her brother back. Nothing works. Dean pulls Cas out of hell, but WHY? (Plus, Cas probably got all, "You should've saved my dad, not me," at Dean.)

And where does Sam come in? Maybe Sam is the Anna, and when he chose to fall, Dean spent years secretly looking for him on earth.

Aaaand that's all I got. I dunno, anyone wanna ramble it out with me in comments? Everyone should have a hunter AU. Mulder and Scully should be hunters. Gaga and Beyonce should be hunters. Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse should be hunters.

3. Meme time! Similar to the concept of firstlines1000, give me the first line and I'll reply with it as the first line of a ficlet/drabble thingie. Fandoms: Supernatural, Supernatural RPF, Fight Club, The Office, Parks & Recreation, classic Disney/WB cartoons, X-Files, Boondock Saints, Leverage, random anthropomorphism.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Mostly what I think of Croatverse Sam is, ain't no such animal. Because if Lucifer's current vessel were immune to the Croatoan virus, he'd have released the virus already. But he hasn't, so he's waiting on that until he has a vessel that's immune, which is to say, Sam. (Be damned cool to see Croatverse Sam if someone could figure out how to make it plausible, though.)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I'd think that Nick would be immune to the croatoan virus just because Lucifer's possessing him. Y'know, the way Jimmy is immune to stabs and gunshots because Castiel is in there. And sure, Nick is falling apart already because the body can't withstand Lucifer, so that would be Lucifer's primary concern with Nick, I think, not the virus. Lucifer has to move fast because Nick has an expiration date.

One thing I've always wondered: okay, if vesseling were passed on through bloodlines, does this mean Nick is related to the Winchesters somehow?

[alexseanchai]

I figure everyone Azazel made a deal with is a potential vessel--the whole point, after all, was to produce someone capable of both killing Lilith and becoming Lucifer's vessel, and he liked Mary and Sam best of the lot because they're capable of holding stronger angels than any of the rest of them. So I figure Nick isn't necessarily related to the Winchesters or to anyone else Azazel made a deal with, except as far as everyone who's a potential vessel is probably related somehow to everyone else who's a potential vessel. (And the most recent common ancestor of all potential vessels seems to be somebody born in Europe. I'm otherwise at a loss for why all the vessels we've seen are white except for the two black guys when something like half the world's population is Asian.) But he could easily be a cousin in some degree to the Winchesters.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Ah, hmm, so Lucifer can just hop around from one special child to another until he gets Sam. Okay. Would've thought he'd want to stagger his vessels and not have them all be born in 1983. I'm not sure what the point of having them all be born in that year is.

[alexseanchai]

Mark Pellegrino was born in 1965, so we can reasonably assume that Nick is in his forties. Certainly he can't have been one of Azazel's special kids, because Azazel didn't start making deals until 1972 at the earliest, and the kids started being born ten years after that.

I actually think Azazel went looking for people to make deals with the moment he left the convent in 1972. (October, I think is what the article Sam found says, but I can't find it. May would make more sense to me, because Lucifer Rising very definitely happened in May, and the sense of urgency Ruby and Lilith both showed suggests the date was important, so an anniversary makes the most sense.) Criteria, one, capable of being a vessel, two, in ten years will be capable of bearing or fathering a child who will be capable of being a vessel, three, wants something Azazel can give them and isn't skeptical enough to stay clear of his too-good-to-be-true promise. Nick wouldn't have been quite old enough to be tapped. Looks like he found one every couple days, unless three in Lawrence and environs is unusually high. And I suspect he knew he'd hit the jackpot with Mary, so Sam's the youngest of his lot.

(I also suspect he was scooting the kids off to Cold Oak in age order, so Jake, Andy, and Lily were all a couple weeks older than Sam tops, and Ava five months older. So Sam would be the only one still twenty-three when he said they were all twenty-three, but the inaccuracy wouldn't ping Jake or Lily as invalidating the weirdness because their birthdays were only just past. And the reason Ash only found Sam, Andy, Scott, and Max as house fires involving six-month-olds born in 1983 is because he was only told to look for kids born in 1983, so there might be another few fires involving kids born in the back half of 1982. Also I suspect Lily is the daughter of whatshisface Whitshire. And Holly Beckett was what, eighteen when Andy and Ansem were born? So eight when she made her deal. In my head the negative-ten-year anniversary of her kids' birth marks the day a relatively wealthy man began his whirlwind courtship of Holly's mother, and Holly gave her kids up for adoption because she was not about to be a single teen mom like her mother was.)

Once Azazel decided he had enough potential parents on tap, I figure he found a hole to hide in till it was time to start ensuring every one of the parents was fruitful and multiplying on time. Then he was running all over everywhere ensuring conceptions and then running all over everywhere checking on the births and then running all over everywhere for the six-month checkups. And then I figure he started a new round of deals, just in case something happened to the winner of Survivor Cold Oak before Lucifer rose. So there's another batch of kids born between winter 1993 and winter 1994, a few of whom lost a parent to a fire at six months old, and another batch of kids born between summer 2005 and summer 2006, and how many fires did John say he'd seen, six? Seven? And that third batch would be Plan B Mark II, but mostly they'd be to tempt out John and Dean Winchester, because Azazel knew Dean knew where to find the Colt, which Azazel needed to get the Devil's Gate open to let Lilith out. He might have done another round of deals after those kids' six-month visits, except after IMToD he had the Colt, so he could focus on Sam's generation with no worries.