5.22 Swan Song, Part 10
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MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Honey, I'm home.
Zidler: Send Christian away. Only you can save him.
Satine: He'll fight for me.
Zidler: Yes, unless he believes you don't love him.
Satine: What?!
Zidler: You're a great actress, Satine. Make him believe you don't love him.
Satine: NO.
Zidler: Use your talent to save him! Hurt him. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on, Satine. Today's the day when dreaming ends.
--Moulin Rouge
Lucifer saw every slight that Sam ever suffered in his young life, and Lucifer took offense on Sam's behalf. He vowed to give Sam revenge on anyone who had ever hurt him, and his memory is perfect: he brought them all. (All of the ones who were still alive, that is.) Lucifer is going to give Sam the satisfaction of seeing those people suffer and die, as a gift, to gain appreciation and the beginnings of loyalty from Sam. It's not only what Lucifer would have wanted for himself from Michael -- to have his brother stand up for him -- it also serves his interest by isolating Sam even more.
Lucifer chooses the ones that ring a bell for Brady... the ones that Azazel used to keep an eye on him his whole life... the ones who are indirectly responsible for the death of everyone Sam loves. To kill Brady did two things: it made Sam realize how angry he still was, but it also started to give him closure, and that felt good... just not a good kind of good. He's gotten so used to seeing evil everywhere. He has to start looking for good if he's going to survive.
But Lucifer didn't bargain on Sam holding to the one virtue that Lucifer has cast aside as worthless: forgiveness. Sam forgave all of these people long ago. Sam doesn't want anything from them and he doesn't hate or resent them. He would have saved them if he could.
(Waaait. Rachel the prom date? That means that Dean slept with a demon, too... or was that just the alternate universe?! I'm thinking that was true, even if the world wasn't real, in which case AHAHAHA!)
Dean: You know that guy I shot? There was a person in there.
Sam: You didn’t have a choice, Dean.
Dean: Yeah, I know, that’s not what bothers me.
Sam: Then what does?
Dean: Killing that guy, killing Meg. I didn’t hesitate, I didn’t even flinch. For you or Dad, the things I’m willing to do or kill, it’s just, uh .... it scares me sometimes.
--Devil's Trap
Inside, Sam is struggling harder than ever.
Inside, I'm all puddly at what This Dude is doing with These Scenes.
WHAT IS THIS AWESOMENESS, I DON'T EVEN. *needs a cold shower*
IN CONCLUSION, LID TALKS TOO MUCH SOME MORE AGAIN (copied from the comments):
Lucifer likes the power we have as a race. It's intrinsic, that power, and we don't realize that we have it. It's the power to choose without condemnation from authority, it's the power to feel, to love, to get angry, to give and receive forgiveness. We have the power to sustain each other and THAT is the power that Lucifer wants. He values it so highly that it exceeded his love for his own father and that's where he went wrong. Does he love us? No. He's jealous of us. He fears that power, which is why he wanted to disarm Sam's anger: the power behind Sam's righteous anger is the ONLY thing that could defeat him. He fears us, too, and like the rest of humanity, he wants to destroy the thing he fears or turn it to his own devices. But unlike most angels, Lucifer found a way to have that which he wants and get back at his father for giving it to us (and not them) at the same time. He wants humans as puppets for his brothers, to play with as they see fit, and to hell with all the rest of them. That's why it took so long: he was searching for the bloodline that could sustain his race and feed on the rest to survive: the ultimate vampire. (We eat ourselves, Wachowski.) As much as Lucifer despises humans (because of our inate power) he has to keep us around in order to sustain him forever.
WE ARE OUR OWN DOUBLE EDGED SWORD.
Lucifer was obedient to a point: until he thought that God no longer cared about him. His loss of faith in his father turned into revenge against man. He wanted to be human for the life it could provide him. He went through all of these machinations because he wanted to prove to his father that he was capable of doing what humans could do and then some. It was competitive for God's love while being dismissive of it.
Castiel was obedient to the same point: until he thought that God no longer cared about him. His loss of faith in his father resorted to faith in the faith of two men and therefore was still motivated to do the right thing. Cas slowly metamorphosed and earned through tribulation what Lucifer felt entitled to and tried to take by force - an angel supremely loved and rewarded and allowed all the freedoms of humanity with the powers of heaven.
TL;DR I think the Dungeon Master of Fate just bitch-slapped Lucifer in the face.
PART 11: Crossroad Blues
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