Xander ,'Empty Places'
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I wish ... cafe de labeill had an easier name to spell. And I love it when she does stuff like that, because it's naughty. And fun.
That photo is incredible. It's clearly Jensen and Jared to me, not Sam and Dean. The lighting is really gorgeous.
She misses out on a key component of the pairing. Size kink.
Even Sam can't slouch that much. His head still needs to be way above Gabriel's. Lovely work, though.
His head still needs to be way above Gabriel's
And his legs should be going on forever.
However, his feet are massive. That's kinda weird.
Still, I should be so lucky to have that be my biggest problem.
Aargh! Why can't I remember everything in one go:
A: Yes. Because bringing him back twice is cruel even for the God we've come to know and love. Also, it's easier to think of a slumped over vessel in cold storage than Jimmy waking up every time Castiel goes topside and trying to make his way either on his own or back to Amelia.
I would love, though, a fic where Cas leaves Jimmy behind with Sam and Dean every time he unvessels, and Jimmy understands it's stupid to try going back to Pontiac. Bonus points if Dean and Cas are in a relationship, for all the awkwardness that would incur. Maybe it's a chaste relationship, because of vessel rape issues.
It seems to me that if Jimmy hadn't been killed for good at the end of Season 4, we'd have seen some reference to his continued presence either in "The End" or toward the end of Season 5 when Castiel had fallen so far as to be mostly human.
My interpretation is that Castiel was granted an Anna-like dispensation along with his first resurrection, allowing him to manifest a familiar physical form without the need for a living vessel to squeeze himself into. So there wouldn't be an empty body lying around anywhere when he's on other planes of existence; he just creates it around himself as needed when appearing on earth.
we'd have seen some reference to his continued presence either in "The End" or toward the end of Season 5 when Castiel had fallen so far as to be mostly human
So the vessel craving in MBV doesn't count? Personally, I'm willing to chalk it up to muscle memory equivalent, but I've seen people cite it as evidence.
I'm willing to chalk it up to muscle memory equivalent
That's sort of what I thought. Also, I think his resurrection in Stull was a hard reset. If there was anything left of Jimmy before that, I don't think there is now.
I'm unsure what to think about the vessel when he's not using it, though.
Castiel didn't seem to be talking about the meat craving as an aspect of a still-present personality other than his own. If Jimmy were still rattling around in there I'd have thought he would make some reference to his failing powers resulting in less-than-total control of the shared body if that were the case.
I think the quote is "my host's cravings for red meat." So you can read that as body or Jimmy--based on that line alone, I can see thinking he's still around, but the two deaths swings me in the opposite direction.
I feel somewhat badly for not weighing in on the moster/purgatory/soul discussion, but, honestly, it's so murky and vague that I just can't bring the energy to figuring out the intent with the evidence and the potential and the plotholes. Just looking at vesseldom, it just strikes as a whole lot of extremely vague "let's not paint ourselves into a corner" and it feels like wasted effort on my part to try and anticipate what they'll decide is true, and what is left up in the air for all eternity (let's introduce Cas' vessel, and make it really fucking poignant, and never touch it again!) /jimmy burnout
honestly, it's so murky and vague
I don't get that. But I'm suffering a lot from thinking my point of view is terribly obvious, and I should stop.
I see unanswered questions, and I think they did a bad-ish execution of Soulless Sam--not that I didn't really enjoy him, but I think he had too many emotions for what I thought they were trying to posit. He just didn't have the "good" emotions, which is cherrypicking the psyche.
That part of the soul thing I think was messy. I do like that Cas and Sam and Dean all disagree about what it means, though, and I'm almost okay with the text not coming down on any of their sides. It's totally Dean to unblame Sam at this point, and totally Sam to accept all the blame. An angel leaving a soul in hell, though, less clear. Especially since he's the one that hauled Dean's out.
Then again, he does canonically play favourites.
BTW, if you're worried about being spoilt, stay away from anything and anyone show-related on IMDB. Apparently details are being put in for the finale.
Which could all be wrong, but why risk it?
I know Amy said she got spoilt for Gen in The French Mistake by looking at her IMDB entry, so heads up iffen you don't want to know, you know, stuff.
Thinking again of The Rapture, it's cool that Misha has gotten to play such different characters, plus End!Cas. I mean, "Misha," Cas and Jimmy are nicely non-contiguous. That's more diversity than either of the Js has gotten, really. Even Meg!Sam had to act like Sam for a while.