Man, after reading another one of Ginx's posts regarding Crowley not really being dead, an idea came to me---what if Castiel is an archangel now? We know that there's a void in the angelic rankings after what happened last season. We had Michael who was the most powerful archangel who ended up in the cage with Lucifer. We had Gabriel/the Trickster, another archangel, who was killed by Lucifer. Then we also had Zachariah, who was a very high ranking angel regarding what he said about his true form having a lion's head. I wouldn't really count Lucifer since he was the enemy & was stuck in the cage & was only out of it for about a year before being trapped in again. So that's a loss of 2 definite archangels and 1 other high ranking angel.
Meanwhile, Castiel has really risen in power. At the start of the season we saw him as being in a lot of trouble and needing those Biblical items/weapons to have a chance against Raphael's side. Now, he seems to be far more confident & evenly matched with Raphael's side. Balthazar is taking orders from him and Castiel is definitely like a general in Heaven fighting a war. I'm pretty much convinced that Castiel was promoted or promoted himself to archangel status and forcefully took power from Heaven to do it. It seemed like he was headed in that direction as soon as he was resurrected yet again in Swan Song and came back with his grace/mojo fully intact and started cleaning up the mess left behind. I also don't think Castiel would have lasted this long against his enemies had he not become an archangel.
Now back to what Ginx said that gave me my idea. She said what if Crowley didn't die but that the fire Cas used was fake. This would definitely be possible if Castiel had become an archangel between Swan Song and Crowley's "death", which in terms of Supernatural has been over a year. What I began to think when I read Ginx's post was that if Castiel is now an archangel, he has powers to warp reality to make the Winchesters & Bobby think that he was burning Crowley's bones. Or rather it could mean that as an archangel, he has the powers to make a duplicate Crowley much like Gabriel/the Trickster made a duplicate version of himself back when he first appeared & made the Winchesters think he died and when he did it again just before Lucifer killed him.
I can totally see something like this happening and the Winchesters being pissed about it. They would be pissed simply on the basis that he became an archangel but never told them about it. And they would certainly be pissed about him protecting Crowley and not telling them about it, or even being involved in Samuel's resurrection, which I'm convinced he was.
Castiel's behavior lately has gotten a bit more dick-ish, which is a characteristic of the archangels on this show. So that's one sign. Another is how Castiel in this episode said that he has to have as many friends as possible in the war, I believe when he was talking to the Fate who appeared in this episode. That's because he's still outnumbered by his enemy in the war. And if me & the others are right about Castiel & Crowley working as partners in the quest to locate Purgatory so Cas would have access to monsters' souls for use in the war in Heaven, then you could bet that he would protect Crowley and make the Winchesters think he died when he's still alive. Crowley's death did seem a bit premature too.
But one thing I'm very confident about is Castiel's current status as an archangel. Something tells me that it will be one of several things he is keeping from the Winchesters that will be revealed in the next few episodes.
Meanwhile, Castiel has really risen in power. At the start of the season we saw him as being in a lot of trouble and needing those Biblical items/weapons to have a chance against Raphael's side. Now, he seems to be far more confident & evenly matched with Raphael's side. Balthazar is taking orders from him and Castiel is definitely like a general in Heaven fighting a war. I'm pretty much convinced that Castiel was promoted or promoted himself to archangel status and forcefully took power from Heaven to do it. It seemed like he was headed in that direction as soon as he was resurrected yet again in Swan Song and came back with his grace/mojo fully intact and started cleaning up the mess left behind. I also don't think Castiel would have lasted this long against his enemies had he not become an archangel.
Now back to what Ginx said that gave me my idea. She said what if Crowley didn't die but that the fire Cas used was fake. This would definitely be possible if Castiel had become an archangel between Swan Song and Crowley's "death", which in terms of Supernatural has been over a year. What I began to think when I read Ginx's post was that if Castiel is now an archangel, he has powers to warp reality to make the Winchesters & Bobby think that he was burning Crowley's bones. Or rather it could mean that as an archangel, he has the powers to make a duplicate Crowley much like Gabriel/the Trickster made a duplicate version of himself back when he first appeared & made the Winchesters think he died and when he did it again just before Lucifer killed him.
I can totally see something like this happening and the Winchesters being pissed about it. They would be pissed simply on the basis that he became an archangel but never told them about it. And they would certainly be pissed about him protecting Crowley and not telling them about it, or even being involved in Samuel's resurrection, which I'm convinced he was.
Castiel's behavior lately has gotten a bit more dick-ish, which is a characteristic of the archangels on this show. So that's one sign. Another is how Castiel in this episode said that he has to have as many friends as possible in the war, I believe when he was talking to the Fate who appeared in this episode. That's because he's still outnumbered by his enemy in the war. And if me & the others are right about Castiel & Crowley working as partners in the quest to locate Purgatory so Cas would have access to monsters' souls for use in the war in Heaven, then you could bet that he would protect Crowley and make the Winchesters think he died when he's still alive. Crowley's death did seem a bit premature too.
But one thing I'm very confident about is Castiel's current status as an archangel. Something tells me that it will be one of several things he is keeping from the Winchesters that will be revealed in the next few episodes.
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