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Just a sort of meta, musing, rambling-fangirly-theorising type thing on SPN Heaven, and how it got into the state it did. Mostly just an explanation of where my head's at when writing angel!fic, ie my head-fanon. *grins*
Supernatural: The Fall of Heaven.
Right. Some preface, here. As a fanfic writer, one of the things I most enjoy is ... well, basically treating it as a grand join-the-dots puzzle, with canon events as the dots, and fanfic as the lines. *grins sheepishly* I get a sense of satisfaction from going 'the characters went from this to this, and this is one way this might have happened'. (I should like to point out at this juncture that yes, I am a giant nerd). Supernatural is being a lovely fandom to me in that regard, in large part because its canon references multiple other canons, and a great deal of fun can be had connecting up, for example, the original myths with their SPN manifestation.
Again, to reiterate, I'm a giant geek. Moving on.
The upshot of this is that I end up making theories and writing a lot of fanfic detailing, for example, how the gods as portrayed by their original myths managed to end up the gods portrayed in 5x19, which is a source of unending frustration and fascination to me. In part because I don't like outright denying that canon events happened, which makes explaining things in terms that make sense with my internal picture of characters occasionally ... problematic -_-; To say the very least.
To get back on point, though. People may have noticed that the characters I tend to write most about would be the angels of SPN. Which, of course, in no way has anything to do with the fact that I fangirl Cas and Gabe like crazy. No. Not at all. *grins* Okay, so it mostly has to do with my two favourite characters being angels. But it also has to do with the grand, gorgeous poisoned flower that is SPN Heaven, and the exploration of how it got into the state it's in. And that ... oh, that's where I have a lot of fun.
Okay. So the logic of me-writing-fanfic goes something on the lines of "Character starts at canon event (a), goes through canon events (b) through (e), and ends up a twisted emotional wreck at canon event (f): Discuss." Very often we don't get to see some of those canon events, they're only mentioned in backstory (such as most Heaven events in SPN), so we just get (a) and (f), hints to (b) through (d), and (e) is a fill-in-the-blanks episode. *grins* Which makes it fun.
The thing about Heaven in SPN is that its 'canon event (a)' is actually in a different canon, ie Biblical Heaven. In fact, 'canon event (a)' is in multiple canons, if we take into account Jewish, Christian and Muslim scripture & mythology (lots of stuff about angels and the Fall, in particular, seem to be more from Medieval Christian myth than actual scripture, as far as I know. Also Revelations, which is wonderful for that kind of thing. And my apologies if I'm being disrespectful, or, indeed, wrong). Same thing with the other Mythologies SPN references/uses, which is fun in that direction too.
With the angels, though ... The basic, fascinating question is, how did we get from the vast, glorious Heavens described in the original sources, to the corrupt, ridiculously screwed up version we get in SPN. Leaving aside questions of the authors' respective views on religion. Purely from a canon basis, how did we get from one to the other?
And the other question: What did the process of going from one to the other do to the characters involved? (Cas, Gabe, I love and adore you. Just thought I'd mention that again).
So I go off into happy theory-building land, and have a lot of fun. I should point out at this point that my theories are perhaps more hypotheses, and shaky, and the results of my own fevered imagination, and change with new info or simply my having a more interesting idea (to me), and therefore should under no circumstances be taken seriously. *smiles* Keep this in mind as I lay the current ones out, yes?
First I line up traumatic canon events (a) through (f), as suggested/hinted/stated in SPN. First, there was the Fall, after Adam and Eve were created, before they were cast out of the Garden (this is complicated a bit, since I think the Fall is parts tacked on from Revelations, and a Medieval idea - I don't think Genesis actually mentions it, so timelines get a bit wonky). Involving civil war in Heaven, brother killing brother, dividing along ideological grounds, and finishing with the cutting out and estrangement of whole swathes of Heaven, cast into Hell and destined to continue the war thereafter.
Um. First? Ouch. Very ouch. As traumatic events go, pretty definitive, and definitely has longterm personal effects on some characters more than others (archangels, looking at you). Some interesting questions out of it, mind, for SPN canon. Such as, where did all the other fallen angels go? We have a whole apocalypse, and Lucifer is the only one who shows his face. (I have Theories, but you've got to pace yourself with these things - also, I haven't seen S6, so if we got some answers, feel free to fill them in).
But while the Fall was the first crack in Heaven's walls, it obviously wasn't the only one. If scriptures are right, Heaven still kept going relatively happily for a long time after the Fall. Archangels kept functioning, the infighting wasn't too bad. So there were other steps on the path.
One I like to add in, before the others, would be the Fall of the Gregori mentioned in Enoch, but that's very possibly because I love Gabriel, and Enoch is a wonderfully scarring step to add into the developement of a largely pacivist character. But it is also interesting re Azazel, and potentially what happened to the other Fallen. (How a fallen angel in scripture became a human demon in SPN canon = pet theory of mine).
Then we have what I, personally, think was probably the event that broke the back, as it were. At some point, God went from the very, very active figure of scripture to someone only four angels still saw, to someone who was absent altogether.
This one ... is harder to pin down, timeline-wise, and I'm probably putting a lot of unnecessary weight on certain hints in canon. But it has to have been after most of the big events in Scripture, so after 0 AD, and probably after Mohamed in the 8th century, though that depends on how much He was working through intermediaries. He may have started retreating before that, and 'only 4 angels' starts kicking in. I think we have to assume, given scripture, that it was more 'only four angels kept seeing Him/hearing from Him' than 'only four angels have ever seen Him', because the Old Testament in particular doesn't make sense with that. That's also complicated by the degree to which angels higher up the ranks (like Zach or the archangels) may have been lying to angels lower down (like Castiel). He may have disappeared outright all at once, and the 'four angels' are the ones who decided to cover it up by nominating themselves imaginary intermediaries to an already absent God ...
And then, by the time we make it up to the current SPN timeline, it seems largely obvious that most angels are just following the old, fundamental orders like 'fight evil, defend Heaven, destroy the Fallen' as best they can, and new orders are fairly obviously coming from people like Zach and Michael who have their own agendas by this point.
Feel free to correct me if I've got something wrong, by the way. *smiles* I run ahead of myself a lot when thinking about this stuff.
Anyway, the reason my personal headcanon puts this as the defining crack that brought it all down is because of what angels are. Angels were created to serve. In Islamic lore, I think, angels are the one category of beings that don't have free will. They exist, on a fundamental level, to serve God. So ... what do they do if there's no God to serve?
Angels are creatures designed for certainty, to know they serve a just cause because the one who made them decrees it so. If that certainty, that grounding figure, is suddenly taken away, what do they do? What are they supposed to do? How are they supposed to know? How are they supposed to hold everything together, when suddenly there's no-one to tell them what needs to be done, no-one to reassure them that their purpose is right, no-one to base the fundament of their universe around?
And in SPN, I think we get a lot of the angels showing us how badly they can take this.
There's Uriel, the zealot who lost the fundament of his faith, and turned instead to the one other figure in his history who had offered certainty, even if in opposition to what he had once served. Perhaps because it was in opposition to what he once served, because the betrayal of God's leaving hurt him that much that he embraced Lucifer to spite it.
There's Anna and Gabriel, who gave up altogether and skipped out, tried to live their lives for themselves now that they had no-one to serve, nothing to be certain off. Those two, I think, tried to embrace the idea that, in the absence of orders, they might have free will, and the right to choose for themselves. Which, obviously, went down a treat with the likes of Zachariah.
There's Zach himself, who is awesome in many ways for apparently deciding that if there was no-one else to make the rules for him, he'd damn well make them himself. Utterly horrible, of course, and a sadist, and an abuser who tortured, lied to and used those beneath him, but you have to admire the guy who, when he's drowning in a Heaven bereft of certainty, bereft of leadership, decides to go and make some. If there must be rules, if no-one else is going to step up to the plate, then I'll make them. And you'll follow them, because at this point you've no other options, and I'm the most stable thing going, and you need stability. All of you. You need someone to give you orders, and make the rules, and tell you what to do, and by golly, I can do that. I can do that for you, and I can make you happy I'm doing it for you, and the least you could do is show some damn appreciation!
*grins* I'm fond of Zachariah. He's irredeemably evil, and utterly fabulous to write.
Then there's the remaining archangels. Michael, who seems to have gone on purely on the basis of the old orders, following his supposed destiny to kill his brother because ... well, I think for many of the same reasons Dean goes on. Because doing this is painful, and therefore it's the right thing to do. Because I have orders, and even if the one who gave them is gone, I will follow them, because the orders are all I have left. Michael, who I think largely wanted the apocalypse because then at least it would be over. Whatever happened after he killed his brother, or was killed, at least he wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
And Raphael, who appears to have gone mildly insane, decided that the only way God would leave them is if He's dead, so it doesn't matter what anyone does anymore, and he might as well kill people as not. I like to add in the bit of Myth that says Raphael was once the Healer archangel to that, and follow the idea that in the absence of God, with Heaven falling apart around him and no healing in sight, no way to fix it ... He decided that there was only one duty a Healer had left to his doomed charges, and that was to end their suffering. Because a Healer does not become a vast glowy cloud of impending death by accident -_-;
And then there are the poor, Joe Soap angels like Cas, who for the longest time appear to have simply done their best to trust in their orders, believe that the people above them knew what the hell they were doing, and follow them as best they could. They followed orders because they'd always followed orders, and then because disobeying orders now came with re-education courtesy of the likes of Zachariah, and all in all the only thing they could think to do was keep working, keep fighting, and hope the higher-ups knew where the hell it was going. Hopefully not literally.
Interesting, too, that of the three who figured out that Heaven had gone to hell around them, and that said higher-ups may not, in fact, have their best interests at heart, of Cas, Uriel and Anna ... Anna was just about the only one who didn't immediately latch onto someone else to give them certainty. Uriel chose Lucifer, Cas chose Dean. And then season 5 happened, and Castiel lost hope and certainty in everything, as the people around him kept failing him, and it was heartbreaking ...
Anyway. Where was I. Right. I think God leaving, or fading into inactivity, or whatever He did, was probably the straw that broke the camel's back, the thing that made all the other cracks, the effects of the Fall, the Grigori, all of it, come to the surface again. And this would have to be ... after scripture so, probably after 1000 AD. Incidentally, I tend to use that as a yardstick for when Gabriel left, too. Or possibly I use Gabriel leaving as a yardstick for when God left, allowing for some time lag for the depression to set in, and keeping Gabriel's appearences in the various canons in mind -_-; Timeline-wise, that one gets complicated, and largely depending on my theory-du-jour. But usually the two are related in my head.
This is where Heaven falls. This is where Heaven starts the slow slide into the corrupt institution dominated by people like Zach, peopled by broken archangels and normal angels just trying to do the job they're given. This is where the ideas of Apocalypse start.
Because they're broken. Because there's no certainty anymore. Because for the first time they have to make decisions for themselves, and when you have people that powerful having to make their first choices, things are automatically going to go wrong, even with the best will in the world, and not all those wills were good. Because suddenly there wasn't a definite future, a grand overarching Plan, and all the cracks and flaws are suddenly problems now. There's no safety net. They have to do something. And the old enmities, the old pains, the old fears, are starting to come back to the surface. The civil war starts creeping back, and suddenly they can't be sure if they're on the right side anymore. After all, God left them. If that's not a sign of disapproval ... what else could it be?
So they need it to be over. They need it to be solved, or the creeping doubts are going to destroy them without Lucifer ever having to lift a finger. They need a quick, decisive victory, on Earth and in Hell, to stop the crumbling back home. Michael needs to have this destiny done. Zach needs the war over so he can settle into power properly. Raphael (in my head) needs to end the suffering around him. With them making the pertinent decisions, all of Heaven is along for the ride, whether it wants to be or not. The war's happening. The only thing left is to decide what side you're going to be on.
And the angels who figure that out, those angels that didn't already run the hell away to avoid it, have to make that choice.
The other interesting line of thought following the Fall of SPN Heaven is ... what the hell was God thinking about it? What was He doing? And that ... well, for me, that depends on the mood I'm in and how generous I'm feeling, but ideas ... Did He decide to give angels free will suddenly? Did they have it all along, and He wanted them to realise it, to 'grow up', essentially, and make their own choices? (Why he couldn't just tell them, I'm not sure, though quite possibly it wouldn't have done much good, as 'go and make choices' isn't exactly a helpful statement). Deadbeat dad, or Trickster Mentor with a fondness for sink-or-swim teaching? Not sure. Though Gabriel, what he chooses to do, to become, is interesting in that light. Gabriel, who was the Messenger, and might have had an idea that Dad kicked out a lot earlier than most ...
Anyway! *grins* This is my theory on the Fall of Heaven in SPN. The main one, anyway. There are lots of little theories tacked in around it, as you can see. Part of the fun. And, naturally, it changes with every new bit of info I learn, or even simply when something just looks shinier in a different light. Heh. But in the main, that's what's floating around my head when I write angel!fic. Or, to put it another way, when I write SPN fic. Yes, I am obsessed.
Note: this does change a bit when I'm doing Good Omens crossovers, because I have to factor in GO canon events too, which alters some things. Mostly timelines.
Heh. And that's enough rambling for one evening, yes? Shutting up now.
Right. Some preface, here. As a fanfic writer, one of the things I most enjoy is ... well, basically treating it as a grand join-the-dots puzzle, with canon events as the dots, and fanfic as the lines. *grins sheepishly* I get a sense of satisfaction from going 'the characters went from this to this, and this is one way this might have happened'. (I should like to point out at this juncture that yes, I am a giant nerd). Supernatural is being a lovely fandom to me in that regard, in large part because its canon references multiple other canons, and a great deal of fun can be had connecting up, for example, the original myths with their SPN manifestation.
Again, to reiterate, I'm a giant geek. Moving on.
The upshot of this is that I end up making theories and writing a lot of fanfic detailing, for example, how the gods as portrayed by their original myths managed to end up the gods portrayed in 5x19, which is a source of unending frustration and fascination to me. In part because I don't like outright denying that canon events happened, which makes explaining things in terms that make sense with my internal picture of characters occasionally ... problematic -_-; To say the very least.
To get back on point, though. People may have noticed that the characters I tend to write most about would be the angels of SPN. Which, of course, in no way has anything to do with the fact that I fangirl Cas and Gabe like crazy. No. Not at all. *grins* Okay, so it mostly has to do with my two favourite characters being angels. But it also has to do with the grand, gorgeous poisoned flower that is SPN Heaven, and the exploration of how it got into the state it's in. And that ... oh, that's where I have a lot of fun.
Okay. So the logic of me-writing-fanfic goes something on the lines of "Character starts at canon event (a), goes through canon events (b) through (e), and ends up a twisted emotional wreck at canon event (f): Discuss." Very often we don't get to see some of those canon events, they're only mentioned in backstory (such as most Heaven events in SPN), so we just get (a) and (f), hints to (b) through (d), and (e) is a fill-in-the-blanks episode. *grins* Which makes it fun.
The thing about Heaven in SPN is that its 'canon event (a)' is actually in a different canon, ie Biblical Heaven. In fact, 'canon event (a)' is in multiple canons, if we take into account Jewish, Christian and Muslim scripture & mythology (lots of stuff about angels and the Fall, in particular, seem to be more from Medieval Christian myth than actual scripture, as far as I know. Also Revelations, which is wonderful for that kind of thing. And my apologies if I'm being disrespectful, or, indeed, wrong). Same thing with the other Mythologies SPN references/uses, which is fun in that direction too.
With the angels, though ... The basic, fascinating question is, how did we get from the vast, glorious Heavens described in the original sources, to the corrupt, ridiculously screwed up version we get in SPN. Leaving aside questions of the authors' respective views on religion. Purely from a canon basis, how did we get from one to the other?
And the other question: What did the process of going from one to the other do to the characters involved? (Cas, Gabe, I love and adore you. Just thought I'd mention that again).
So I go off into happy theory-building land, and have a lot of fun. I should point out at this point that my theories are perhaps more hypotheses, and shaky, and the results of my own fevered imagination, and change with new info or simply my having a more interesting idea (to me), and therefore should under no circumstances be taken seriously. *smiles* Keep this in mind as I lay the current ones out, yes?
First I line up traumatic canon events (a) through (f), as suggested/hinted/stated in SPN. First, there was the Fall, after Adam and Eve were created, before they were cast out of the Garden (this is complicated a bit, since I think the Fall is parts tacked on from Revelations, and a Medieval idea - I don't think Genesis actually mentions it, so timelines get a bit wonky). Involving civil war in Heaven, brother killing brother, dividing along ideological grounds, and finishing with the cutting out and estrangement of whole swathes of Heaven, cast into Hell and destined to continue the war thereafter.
Um. First? Ouch. Very ouch. As traumatic events go, pretty definitive, and definitely has longterm personal effects on some characters more than others (archangels, looking at you). Some interesting questions out of it, mind, for SPN canon. Such as, where did all the other fallen angels go? We have a whole apocalypse, and Lucifer is the only one who shows his face. (I have Theories, but you've got to pace yourself with these things - also, I haven't seen S6, so if we got some answers, feel free to fill them in).
But while the Fall was the first crack in Heaven's walls, it obviously wasn't the only one. If scriptures are right, Heaven still kept going relatively happily for a long time after the Fall. Archangels kept functioning, the infighting wasn't too bad. So there were other steps on the path.
One I like to add in, before the others, would be the Fall of the Gregori mentioned in Enoch, but that's very possibly because I love Gabriel, and Enoch is a wonderfully scarring step to add into the developement of a largely pacivist character. But it is also interesting re Azazel, and potentially what happened to the other Fallen. (How a fallen angel in scripture became a human demon in SPN canon = pet theory of mine).
Then we have what I, personally, think was probably the event that broke the back, as it were. At some point, God went from the very, very active figure of scripture to someone only four angels still saw, to someone who was absent altogether.
This one ... is harder to pin down, timeline-wise, and I'm probably putting a lot of unnecessary weight on certain hints in canon. But it has to have been after most of the big events in Scripture, so after 0 AD, and probably after Mohamed in the 8th century, though that depends on how much He was working through intermediaries. He may have started retreating before that, and 'only 4 angels' starts kicking in. I think we have to assume, given scripture, that it was more 'only four angels kept seeing Him/hearing from Him' than 'only four angels have ever seen Him', because the Old Testament in particular doesn't make sense with that. That's also complicated by the degree to which angels higher up the ranks (like Zach or the archangels) may have been lying to angels lower down (like Castiel). He may have disappeared outright all at once, and the 'four angels' are the ones who decided to cover it up by nominating themselves imaginary intermediaries to an already absent God ...
And then, by the time we make it up to the current SPN timeline, it seems largely obvious that most angels are just following the old, fundamental orders like 'fight evil, defend Heaven, destroy the Fallen' as best they can, and new orders are fairly obviously coming from people like Zach and Michael who have their own agendas by this point.
Feel free to correct me if I've got something wrong, by the way. *smiles* I run ahead of myself a lot when thinking about this stuff.
Anyway, the reason my personal headcanon puts this as the defining crack that brought it all down is because of what angels are. Angels were created to serve. In Islamic lore, I think, angels are the one category of beings that don't have free will. They exist, on a fundamental level, to serve God. So ... what do they do if there's no God to serve?
Angels are creatures designed for certainty, to know they serve a just cause because the one who made them decrees it so. If that certainty, that grounding figure, is suddenly taken away, what do they do? What are they supposed to do? How are they supposed to know? How are they supposed to hold everything together, when suddenly there's no-one to tell them what needs to be done, no-one to reassure them that their purpose is right, no-one to base the fundament of their universe around?
And in SPN, I think we get a lot of the angels showing us how badly they can take this.
There's Uriel, the zealot who lost the fundament of his faith, and turned instead to the one other figure in his history who had offered certainty, even if in opposition to what he had once served. Perhaps because it was in opposition to what he once served, because the betrayal of God's leaving hurt him that much that he embraced Lucifer to spite it.
There's Anna and Gabriel, who gave up altogether and skipped out, tried to live their lives for themselves now that they had no-one to serve, nothing to be certain off. Those two, I think, tried to embrace the idea that, in the absence of orders, they might have free will, and the right to choose for themselves. Which, obviously, went down a treat with the likes of Zachariah.
There's Zach himself, who is awesome in many ways for apparently deciding that if there was no-one else to make the rules for him, he'd damn well make them himself. Utterly horrible, of course, and a sadist, and an abuser who tortured, lied to and used those beneath him, but you have to admire the guy who, when he's drowning in a Heaven bereft of certainty, bereft of leadership, decides to go and make some. If there must be rules, if no-one else is going to step up to the plate, then I'll make them. And you'll follow them, because at this point you've no other options, and I'm the most stable thing going, and you need stability. All of you. You need someone to give you orders, and make the rules, and tell you what to do, and by golly, I can do that. I can do that for you, and I can make you happy I'm doing it for you, and the least you could do is show some damn appreciation!
*grins* I'm fond of Zachariah. He's irredeemably evil, and utterly fabulous to write.
Then there's the remaining archangels. Michael, who seems to have gone on purely on the basis of the old orders, following his supposed destiny to kill his brother because ... well, I think for many of the same reasons Dean goes on. Because doing this is painful, and therefore it's the right thing to do. Because I have orders, and even if the one who gave them is gone, I will follow them, because the orders are all I have left. Michael, who I think largely wanted the apocalypse because then at least it would be over. Whatever happened after he killed his brother, or was killed, at least he wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
And Raphael, who appears to have gone mildly insane, decided that the only way God would leave them is if He's dead, so it doesn't matter what anyone does anymore, and he might as well kill people as not. I like to add in the bit of Myth that says Raphael was once the Healer archangel to that, and follow the idea that in the absence of God, with Heaven falling apart around him and no healing in sight, no way to fix it ... He decided that there was only one duty a Healer had left to his doomed charges, and that was to end their suffering. Because a Healer does not become a vast glowy cloud of impending death by accident -_-;
And then there are the poor, Joe Soap angels like Cas, who for the longest time appear to have simply done their best to trust in their orders, believe that the people above them knew what the hell they were doing, and follow them as best they could. They followed orders because they'd always followed orders, and then because disobeying orders now came with re-education courtesy of the likes of Zachariah, and all in all the only thing they could think to do was keep working, keep fighting, and hope the higher-ups knew where the hell it was going. Hopefully not literally.
Interesting, too, that of the three who figured out that Heaven had gone to hell around them, and that said higher-ups may not, in fact, have their best interests at heart, of Cas, Uriel and Anna ... Anna was just about the only one who didn't immediately latch onto someone else to give them certainty. Uriel chose Lucifer, Cas chose Dean. And then season 5 happened, and Castiel lost hope and certainty in everything, as the people around him kept failing him, and it was heartbreaking ...
Anyway. Where was I. Right. I think God leaving, or fading into inactivity, or whatever He did, was probably the straw that broke the camel's back, the thing that made all the other cracks, the effects of the Fall, the Grigori, all of it, come to the surface again. And this would have to be ... after scripture so, probably after 1000 AD. Incidentally, I tend to use that as a yardstick for when Gabriel left, too. Or possibly I use Gabriel leaving as a yardstick for when God left, allowing for some time lag for the depression to set in, and keeping Gabriel's appearences in the various canons in mind -_-; Timeline-wise, that one gets complicated, and largely depending on my theory-du-jour. But usually the two are related in my head.
This is where Heaven falls. This is where Heaven starts the slow slide into the corrupt institution dominated by people like Zach, peopled by broken archangels and normal angels just trying to do the job they're given. This is where the ideas of Apocalypse start.
Because they're broken. Because there's no certainty anymore. Because for the first time they have to make decisions for themselves, and when you have people that powerful having to make their first choices, things are automatically going to go wrong, even with the best will in the world, and not all those wills were good. Because suddenly there wasn't a definite future, a grand overarching Plan, and all the cracks and flaws are suddenly problems now. There's no safety net. They have to do something. And the old enmities, the old pains, the old fears, are starting to come back to the surface. The civil war starts creeping back, and suddenly they can't be sure if they're on the right side anymore. After all, God left them. If that's not a sign of disapproval ... what else could it be?
So they need it to be over. They need it to be solved, or the creeping doubts are going to destroy them without Lucifer ever having to lift a finger. They need a quick, decisive victory, on Earth and in Hell, to stop the crumbling back home. Michael needs to have this destiny done. Zach needs the war over so he can settle into power properly. Raphael (in my head) needs to end the suffering around him. With them making the pertinent decisions, all of Heaven is along for the ride, whether it wants to be or not. The war's happening. The only thing left is to decide what side you're going to be on.
And the angels who figure that out, those angels that didn't already run the hell away to avoid it, have to make that choice.
The other interesting line of thought following the Fall of SPN Heaven is ... what the hell was God thinking about it? What was He doing? And that ... well, for me, that depends on the mood I'm in and how generous I'm feeling, but ideas ... Did He decide to give angels free will suddenly? Did they have it all along, and He wanted them to realise it, to 'grow up', essentially, and make their own choices? (Why he couldn't just tell them, I'm not sure, though quite possibly it wouldn't have done much good, as 'go and make choices' isn't exactly a helpful statement). Deadbeat dad, or Trickster Mentor with a fondness for sink-or-swim teaching? Not sure. Though Gabriel, what he chooses to do, to become, is interesting in that light. Gabriel, who was the Messenger, and might have had an idea that Dad kicked out a lot earlier than most ...
Anyway! *grins* This is my theory on the Fall of Heaven in SPN. The main one, anyway. There are lots of little theories tacked in around it, as you can see. Part of the fun. And, naturally, it changes with every new bit of info I learn, or even simply when something just looks shinier in a different light. Heh. But in the main, that's what's floating around my head when I write angel!fic. Or, to put it another way, when I write SPN fic. Yes, I am obsessed.
Note: this does change a bit when I'm doing Good Omens crossovers, because I have to factor in GO canon events too, which alters some things. Mostly timelines.
Heh. And that's enough rambling for one evening, yes? Shutting up now.
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