So, the season is over, and I am more or less satisfied with the finale (though there was one moment of "That's kind of neat! Except...no.") and the bunnies are biting hard, seeing as how I won't get Jossed or Kripked in the next four months. I might actually get something finished before the sixth season starts.
Thus, bunnies, all nice and outlined...
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schmevil said what *I* want is a story where Castiel is Gabriel and Anna's fledge, and they're raising their awkward teen-angel on earth... yeah, you can imagine how my brain ran with it...
Angels and Ostriches-- working title
Anna tries flees Heaven, and is interrupted by Castiel, a nearly-fledged hatchling of her Garrison who tries to stop her. In the process of running away, she and Castiel crash to Earth, and draw the notice of Gabriel. He finds them, clucks over Anna's poor planning, and just plain clucks over Castiel, because he's a hatchling, and Gabriel is chief of the Cherubim – who protect and raise hatchlings.
John Winchester and sons rent a house/duplex for a few months to lay low/lay up after a particularly bad case. The next door neighbors are weird. Son Cas is a space cadet, mom Anna is twitchyy and frowny, and dad Gabriel is a complete goofball and probably a stoner.
John investigates because something is just Not Right with the neighbors. Dean investigates because no civilian could be as weird as that family is. Sam makes a friend by commiserating over how strange his family and Cas' family are. Gabriel mindfucks with everyone, while also clucking over Cas and Sam and any other kid who comes in reach. Anna learns that the pleasures of the flesh are really pleasurable.
John and Gabriel's feud gets embarrassing. Dean wonders if this is really what he wants out of life – suspicion and overreacting to goofy civilans. Sam and Cas bond over mathletics and their respective ridiculous families. The Parent-Teacher Night is a disaster in several directions.
Azazel shows up – things get hairy! He's delighted to nab Sam for a little mindfuckery. Also, Cas is revealed to be a baby angel – he only has down on his wings, not flight feathers! Sam is intrigued! Azasel gloats and has Sam and Cas at his mercy.
The parents (John and Dean, Gabriel and Anna) compare notes and find Sam and Cas missing, after a bit of recrimination. Then they track down Azazel, who has made a major miscalculation, which leads to Gabriel taking off the side of a building (to rip off the Enochian angel-proofing, natch), and a glorious curbstomping ensues.
John forces himself to apologize for his behavior. Gabriel apologizes for his, after a smack upside the head from Anna. John suggests a better hiding place – the Roadhouse.
Ellen and Bill are dubious, but Anna is willing to waitress/bounce, and Gabriel knows a surprising amount about mixing drinks. Cas just wants to do math, learn computer programming, and possibly coo over toddler!Jo. The Winchesters ride off into the sunset with promises to write and visit.
The other bunny is mutated from my plans for a sequel to We Sat Down and Wept, because if the show made Gabriel into Loki, I am damn well going to run with it!
The Apotheosis of Sam Winchester -- working title
Sam in Hell – Gabriel whispers through the bars of the Cage, convinces he can slip through the cracks, because he's "tiny, like a mouse". Gabriel is there, but not intact – "I think I shattered" – he's less than he was, and kind of random, floaty light for a while.
Escape from Hell – ducking demons, vaporizing the occasionally persistent one, hiding in the Wood of the Suicides. Finding the Lethe, tracing it to the Kokytos, and getting Sam to force it into being the Van (the river that leads to Niflheim), because since Sam is a physical being in a metaphysical realm, he's can change metaphysical things if he concentrates hard enough.
Fording the river – Gabriel falls in at least once (so that his memory is for shit, for plot reasons) and crossing over to the Gjallarbrú bridge and bribing the gatekeeper Móðguð the Jotun maid with a kiss from Sam. Hel is not at all surprised to greet them at the Mist Hall and has food ready – including a MRE/Lunchable and cans of soda for Sam since he's understandably suspicious about eating food in the underworld. It comes out that Odin will not be leaving, not if all the world weeps for him – Gabriel, slipping more into his memories as Loki, is conflicted. Sam takes it as read that Gabriel and Odin has 'a thing', though Gabriel is refusing to answer. Kali is there (check the Hindu symbolism for her), and it is apparent that she and Hel have been scheming, which makes Gabriel worried when he's lucid enough to notice. Hel offers them Nalgfar with a crew drowned sailors; Kali comes with, because Gabriel is getting progressively worse – the Destroyer has plans to heal him, but she can't do it in the underworld.
Sam, Gabriel and Kali arrive at the Walrus Tongue headland, along the Iron Wood of Jotunheim, and find the Hall of Iárnvidia, the she-wolf king. Fenrir is there, since Kali rescued him from his imprisonment at Hel's request. Kali enlists Sam and Fenrir's aid to heal Gabriel by taking him apart and recreating him; she needs their help to hold Gabriel against his will as well as to share their memories and knowledge of him in an aid to recreating him. She uses mead, eitr (supplied by Jormungandr), and blood from a horse sacrifice. Afterward, Sam discovers he's being kept there as a security blanket for Gabriel, much to his annoyance.
A long stopover in the Iron Wood – Sam's figuring out he's not exactly human anymore (possibly a demigod or an apotheosized hero) – grief, anger, bargaining, yelling at Gabriel, destructive behavior. Possibly picks a fight with giants at a local thing. Definitely a verbal fight with Gabriel and possibly Kali, with them all refraining from a physical fight because they can each smack the other around badly, and no one wants Fenrir to step in because they're causing trouble.
Sam heals and comes to terms with what happened to him. Sam gets adopted by the Wolves of Ironwood, and fortunately 'Sam' is a Norse name, so he doesn't have to change it, though they tag him with a byname (because they like him, poor boy.)
Back on Naglfar, to return to the real world. Gabriel admits he can still bend time – he's not sure he's exactly an archangel anymore, but he was an Aesir and a Jotun in his turn, so he'll figure out what he is eventually. Sam winds up outside the house as in the finale, looking in at Dean. Sam has to decide – do I try going back to live my old life, or begin to live my new?
Thus, bunnies, all nice and outlined...
schmevil said what *I* want is a story where Castiel is Gabriel and Anna's fledge, and they're raising their awkward teen-angel on earth... yeah, you can imagine how my brain ran with it...Angels and Ostriches-- working title
Anna tries flees Heaven, and is interrupted by Castiel, a nearly-fledged hatchling of her Garrison who tries to stop her. In the process of running away, she and Castiel crash to Earth, and draw the notice of Gabriel. He finds them, clucks over Anna's poor planning, and just plain clucks over Castiel, because he's a hatchling, and Gabriel is chief of the Cherubim – who protect and raise hatchlings.
John Winchester and sons rent a house/duplex for a few months to lay low/lay up after a particularly bad case. The next door neighbors are weird. Son Cas is a space cadet, mom Anna is twitchyy and frowny, and dad Gabriel is a complete goofball and probably a stoner.
John investigates because something is just Not Right with the neighbors. Dean investigates because no civilian could be as weird as that family is. Sam makes a friend by commiserating over how strange his family and Cas' family are. Gabriel mindfucks with everyone, while also clucking over Cas and Sam and any other kid who comes in reach. Anna learns that the pleasures of the flesh are really pleasurable.
John and Gabriel's feud gets embarrassing. Dean wonders if this is really what he wants out of life – suspicion and overreacting to goofy civilans. Sam and Cas bond over mathletics and their respective ridiculous families. The Parent-Teacher Night is a disaster in several directions.
Azazel shows up – things get hairy! He's delighted to nab Sam for a little mindfuckery. Also, Cas is revealed to be a baby angel – he only has down on his wings, not flight feathers! Sam is intrigued! Azasel gloats and has Sam and Cas at his mercy.
The parents (John and Dean, Gabriel and Anna) compare notes and find Sam and Cas missing, after a bit of recrimination. Then they track down Azazel, who has made a major miscalculation, which leads to Gabriel taking off the side of a building (to rip off the Enochian angel-proofing, natch), and a glorious curbstomping ensues.
John forces himself to apologize for his behavior. Gabriel apologizes for his, after a smack upside the head from Anna. John suggests a better hiding place – the Roadhouse.
Ellen and Bill are dubious, but Anna is willing to waitress/bounce, and Gabriel knows a surprising amount about mixing drinks. Cas just wants to do math, learn computer programming, and possibly coo over toddler!Jo. The Winchesters ride off into the sunset with promises to write and visit.
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The other bunny is mutated from my plans for a sequel to We Sat Down and Wept, because if the show made Gabriel into Loki, I am damn well going to run with it!
The Apotheosis of Sam Winchester -- working title
Sam in Hell – Gabriel whispers through the bars of the Cage, convinces he can slip through the cracks, because he's "tiny, like a mouse". Gabriel is there, but not intact – "I think I shattered" – he's less than he was, and kind of random, floaty light for a while.
Escape from Hell – ducking demons, vaporizing the occasionally persistent one, hiding in the Wood of the Suicides. Finding the Lethe, tracing it to the Kokytos, and getting Sam to force it into being the Van (the river that leads to Niflheim), because since Sam is a physical being in a metaphysical realm, he's can change metaphysical things if he concentrates hard enough.
Fording the river – Gabriel falls in at least once (so that his memory is for shit, for plot reasons) and crossing over to the Gjallarbrú bridge and bribing the gatekeeper Móðguð the Jotun maid with a kiss from Sam. Hel is not at all surprised to greet them at the Mist Hall and has food ready – including a MRE/Lunchable and cans of soda for Sam since he's understandably suspicious about eating food in the underworld. It comes out that Odin will not be leaving, not if all the world weeps for him – Gabriel, slipping more into his memories as Loki, is conflicted. Sam takes it as read that Gabriel and Odin has 'a thing', though Gabriel is refusing to answer. Kali is there (check the Hindu symbolism for her), and it is apparent that she and Hel have been scheming, which makes Gabriel worried when he's lucid enough to notice. Hel offers them Nalgfar with a crew drowned sailors; Kali comes with, because Gabriel is getting progressively worse – the Destroyer has plans to heal him, but she can't do it in the underworld.
Sam, Gabriel and Kali arrive at the Walrus Tongue headland, along the Iron Wood of Jotunheim, and find the Hall of Iárnvidia, the she-wolf king. Fenrir is there, since Kali rescued him from his imprisonment at Hel's request. Kali enlists Sam and Fenrir's aid to heal Gabriel by taking him apart and recreating him; she needs their help to hold Gabriel against his will as well as to share their memories and knowledge of him in an aid to recreating him. She uses mead, eitr (supplied by Jormungandr), and blood from a horse sacrifice. Afterward, Sam discovers he's being kept there as a security blanket for Gabriel, much to his annoyance.
A long stopover in the Iron Wood – Sam's figuring out he's not exactly human anymore (possibly a demigod or an apotheosized hero) – grief, anger, bargaining, yelling at Gabriel, destructive behavior. Possibly picks a fight with giants at a local thing. Definitely a verbal fight with Gabriel and possibly Kali, with them all refraining from a physical fight because they can each smack the other around badly, and no one wants Fenrir to step in because they're causing trouble.
Sam heals and comes to terms with what happened to him. Sam gets adopted by the Wolves of Ironwood, and fortunately 'Sam' is a Norse name, so he doesn't have to change it, though they tag him with a byname (because they like him, poor boy.)
Back on Naglfar, to return to the real world. Gabriel admits he can still bend time – he's not sure he's exactly an archangel anymore, but he was an Aesir and a Jotun in his turn, so he'll figure out what he is eventually. Sam winds up outside the house as in the finale, looking in at Dean. Sam has to decide – do I try going back to live my old life, or begin to live my new?
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I take it you like Norse mythology?
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Because seriously, Gabriel trying to recreate his happy family with the Aesir and the Jotuns is a wonderful plot-generating idea, and also *ouch*, that poor stupid archangel...
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As for white male Tricksters, I can think of Reynard the Fox, Jack of the Jack Tales (which would have been my choice, because a lot of those stories are strongly American), and the Ash Lad.
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I've heard of Reynard, now you mention him. Not the other two.