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Las ([personal profile] whynot) wrote2010-04-14 05:11 pm

i brake for thesis

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.

4x18 coda

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-04-29 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Castiel is tracing symbols in the dust of the earth when he feels the shift, space bending around one of his brethren. He learned these runes from Anna herself, back when they were still soldiers together, and these same runes call her to him now. She breathes into existence before him, and it still throws him to see her in this mortal body. Castiel remembers the barn, the way his sister's true form had bled out of Anna Milton's body, and that is the image seared into his mind. That is the Annael he recognizes, the one he fought beside, the one he loved and loves still.

Cas, Anna says by way of greeting.

He says, The last time we met, I told you I was considering disobedience.

I remember. Well?

Well what?

Are you disobedient?

Castiel hesitates, because he isn't sure.

He tells her what happened: the Prophet's visions, Sam and Lilith, Dean praying. He prayed, Castiel repeats in wonderment. He prayed, and I helped him. I don't think I was disobedient.

Anna smiles with one side of her mouth, and says, You're adorable, Cas.

He frowns.

She says, Everyone should be so lucky, getting their prayers answered just like that. But where would the world be if everyone got what they want, huh? And then she asks, What do you want, Cas?

What I want is irrelevant.

Do you want to be disobedient?

I... (What a question, he thinks.) I want to do the right thing.

She smiles with her whole face now, and says, Now you're getting it. Then, to Castiel's bewilderment, Anna does the most inexplicable thing: she pinches his cheek, and giggles, My little brother's growing up.

Castiel shakes his head to shake off her hand, and Anna laughs.

Re: 4x18 coda

[identity profile] vikki.livejournal.com 2010-04-29 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, this? Is amazing. The problem is I'm having a hard time adding more to that statement, because it's all brilliant and I'd have to quote the whole ficlet back at you to tell you my favorite part. XD;; Anna's slight condescension combined with genuine pleasure in seeing Castiel slowly learn to think for himself, and Castiel's genuine confusion and discomfiture with her physicality in two respects: her human body and her pinching his cheek. I love it when Castiel is just bowled over by her question about disobedience.

Thank you thank you thank you!

Re: 4x18 coda

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks again, bb! I think to a certain extent Cas and Anna kinda pity each other because they don't understand each other as well anymore, though I'm inclined to say Anna undestands Cas a little better than he understands her.

<3 <3