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[FIC] SPN: Retrocausality

Oct 04, 2009 10:44

Title: Retrocausality
Pairing/ Characters: GEN; John Winchester, Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, YED
Spoilers: General for S1-S4, specific for IMToD, DT, BUaBS, ItB, and JtS.
Rating/ Warnings: R/ Language, religious themes, time travel paradoxes.
Disclaimer: Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke and others. No disrespect or infringement ( Read more... )

spn fic, rating: r, pairing: gen

Comments 19

nwhepcat October 4 2009, 16:54:29 UTC

I love how you've woven all this together. Heartbreaking, yet satisfying to have all these connections made, to have John handed the strength to endure hell by being given assurances about the future.

And John interacting with Castiel -- terrific!

extraonions October 4 2009, 23:01:01 UTC

Wheeee, thank you! I am coming to realize one of my favorite types of fics is where you can have stuff happening under the surface in the canon storyline. One of my dearest wishes for S5 is to have JDM guest star SOMEHOW so we could see some John and Castiel interaction... I suspect I shall be disappointed, but oh it would be fascinating! Thanks again and I'm glad the story worked for you!

22by7 October 4 2009, 17:46:27 UTC

This was just TIGHT. Breathtaking. I'm very impressed, because I suspect time travel stories are hard for most people to pull off. So many opportunities for giant gaping holes. I want to go back and watch IMTOD in light of this fic, now.

The tragedy, of course, is that Castiel basically manipulates John into not only saving Dean's life in IMToD, but also into damning Dean to becoming the man who sells his soul for Sam.
YES. Castiel POV sequel, we can haz? I would love to read it, really.

extraonions October 4 2009, 23:02:28 UTC

Awww, thank you! I had the hardest time with making this work, for serious, and I still feel like there are some holes big enough to drive a truck through, but the end result was pretty cool.

*flails* You know I have no Castiel voice AT ALL, right? *mumbles*

chookybakker November 8 2009, 14:00:41 UTC

**butts into conversation**
((noooo, no gaping holes!... also, *points upward in screen* I have complete faith in you to transpose awesome Cas Characterisation as displayed above into a Cas point of view sequel fic. *Has faith at you*))

extraonions November 10 2009, 18:26:02 UTC

Hahaha, I utterly FAIL at getting in Castiel's head, I don't know whyyyyyy. X_X I'll keep it in mind though. Right now I have several other projects nebulously hanging over my head ;).

innie_darling October 4 2009, 19:24:50 UTC

All the time-travel stuff on the show makes my head hurt, but this story is fantastic.

extraonions October 4 2009, 22:59:04 UTC

Thanks so much, I definitely had trouble with all the time travel shenanigans! I'm happy you enjoyed it :).

dodger_winslow October 5 2009, 06:08:40 UTC

Love the way you finessed this into a canon timeline. Excellent job on a difficult task. And I LOVE this line, in particular: "Fuuuck. Angels were shit for pep talks, weren't they? LOL. Indeed, John. Indeed.

extraonions October 19 2009, 21:06:44 UTC

Thank you so much for reading and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm coming to realize that playing behind the scenes in canon is one of my favorite things :).

keerawa October 6 2009, 13:38:48 UTC

So, angels don't lie, they just convey truthful information in a context that leads you to come to completely the wrong conclusion?

Great story, but I am SO pissed with Castiel right now.

extraonions October 19 2009, 21:09:19 UTC

Hahaha, thank you, I'm glad you liked the story! Angels being truthful yet deliberately misleading is pretty much canon, lol. Really, I couldn't find any better way to convince John about what he had to do than to use what really (already) happened.... I had a hard time getting past my inner John voice which pretty much said: "Angels aren't real, DIE." And then he blows Castiel away with the Colt. Which, yeah.