" He can't go back to being unfallen, he has this free will stuff to lug around. He's got Earth under his skin, in his speech, etc." YES. In Blakean terms, it's like the impossibility of regaining perfect innocence - which isn't really something anyone should fight for anyway. Omg I need to sleep AGAIN but, yeah, when he goes home, 'home' itself has changed, and omfg 'he's got Earth under his skin, in his speech', EXAAAACTLY.
So he's got a hybrid identity, and maybe home is also in the places in-between.
I had some thoughts about transnational identity and nationalism and mobility/access - a lot of first gen migrants in various contexts didn't have the option of going back, and their sense of 'home' DID often rest on a sense of the irrecoverable, the lost home they couldn't really ever go back to.
Which brings us to 5.04!Cas, Cas who holds on to the lost home with his too-solid arms, his 'better club'; at his most human he still has this resistive, combative identity, he's not going to be assimilated, it's... THIS was the unhappy version of his story, no?
For Cas, post-5.22, I want to take into account the question of mobility, because access to one's different home-places probably inflects this relationship? As an archangel he has both more mobility and more reason to 'keep returning'... And like people in airports and planes across the world, for Cas 'home' can also encompass events, processes, like the back-and-forth of travel.
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YES. In Blakean terms, it's like the impossibility of regaining perfect innocence - which isn't really something anyone should fight for anyway. Omg I need to sleep AGAIN but, yeah, when he goes home, 'home' itself has changed, and omfg 'he's got Earth under his skin, in his speech', EXAAAACTLY.
So he's got a hybrid identity, and maybe home is also in the places in-between.
I had some thoughts about transnational identity and nationalism and mobility/access - a lot of first gen migrants in various contexts didn't have the option of going back, and their sense of 'home' DID often rest on a sense of the irrecoverable, the lost home they couldn't really ever go back to.
Which brings us to 5.04!Cas, Cas who holds on to the lost home with his too-solid arms, his 'better club'; at his most human he still has this resistive, combative identity, he's not going to be assimilated, it's... THIS was the unhappy version of his story, no?
For Cas, post-5.22, I want to take into account the question of mobility, because access to one's different home-places probably inflects this relationship? As an archangel he has both more mobility and more reason to 'keep returning'... And like people in airports and planes across the world, for Cas 'home' can also encompass events, processes, like the back-and-forth of travel.