That was definitely weird, ita. I think for me it's more that, in terms of 5.22, I saw God as ... GOD. Playing Chuck while hiding on earth. Not that God himself was actually some vaguely nerdy, twitchy guy .

I may have residual Sunday school training left or something.

Show did leave that kind of messy, but I don't think the fic did. In the fic, that was God. Not Chuck. And he don't marry Becky. That weird.

I share issues with ita and Amy. In fact, as I was telling someone this morning, I am overinvested in show and the characters. It takes me a while to process canon. I'm not averse to the funny, but OOC is not my friend. If you can write crackfic and stay true to the characters, fine. If not, then to me that's original fiction and not something I'm invested in reading.

But that's just me, with the no-humor issues.

If you keep the OOC short and punchy (I know Sam would never like like Gabriel, not before he was on Team Free Will, but the fics where Gabriel wears him down with cuteness like this one amuse the shit out of me) I can take it. Long crack, NSM. That needs justifimacations and stuff.

I bet this car would save any number of Lucifer-possessed Sams.

So I'm reading this fic and I realize that maybe there's a halfway decent idea in it.

Wait! Don't run away because I linked crackfic that sucked yet still makes me laugh maniacally! I blame insomnia (it wasn't as funny at 4 pm as it was at 3am, although Dean's "oh god" and Chuck's "exactly!" still made me laugh).

It's not quite all there, but halfway: Sam's body & soul and Lucifer go into the cage. Maybe on the point of entry into the cage equalled death for Sam's body, and therefore his soul went to regular ole Hell or Heaven. --Or some other plane where Tessa or another Reaper is trying to coax him to let go or else eventually become an angry spirit.

So, basically, Sam and Adam's physical bodies are rotting in the ground in Stull, but their souls bounced off the walls of the cage and went their respective ways, while Michael and Lucifer, being archangels/angels, are still in the cage.

So what's outside Lisa's house? Sam's soul that needs to go back into his shell? For some reason I really want him to be corporeal. Unpossessed, and solid. Perhaps other, perhaps a bit tainted, but huggable.

That's what confuses me. Sustaining a storyline where one of them is a ghost would be pretty tough. For them, explaining how Sam got his body back intact is less so. He's other a demon, has Lucifer riding shotgun, or has been given some sort of second chance, I think.

I'd buy Sam as a ghost with a short arc to make him corporeal again (relatively quickly).

I could see that it was Sam choosing to risk becoming an angry poltergeist outside Lisa's house, and then, yeah, him becoming corporeal again somehow, at some point. I could also see that all already having happened. But the latter seems too easy. And I can see why Sam would hold back on seeing Dean if it was the former.