SPN Gen Drabble: "Sights Of Wickedness And Wonder" (Missouri, PG)

[halfshellvenus]

Title: Sights Of Wickedness And Wonder
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Missouri (Gen, Drabble)
Rating: PG
Summary: Knowledge without context or power can be much more brutal than ignorance.
Author's Notes (Season 5): For samidha, who wanted more Missouri awhile ago.
Also for Day 9 of the Bleeding Cuticles Roadkill Challenge, and supernatural100 ("Revelation

Comments

[realpestilence]

I never liked Missouri. She was mean to Dean! D:

Not a useful comment, lol. Very true that visions and prophecy aren't necessary helpful, because, like Agnes Nutter, you can only see bits and pieces and you don't know where they fit. It would be so frustrating, I'd think, knowing there's something bad happening but you don't know how to stop it because you don't know ~enough.

[halfshellvenus]

I never liked Missouri. She was mean to Dean! D:
I've had some issues with her on that front-- she was mean to him at a time when he was really scared and hurting, and she had to know it. Plus, his father was being an ass, and she knew that too.

Nevertheless, I kind of got a kick out of her aside from that. ;)

It would be so frustrating, I'd think, knowing there's something bad happening but you don't know how to stop it because you don't know ~enough.
Or worse yet, if you can NEVER stop it. You might be fated to simply see the future, cursed with the knowledge of something you can't change. How awful that would be-- and how frustrated and helpless it would make you feel. :(

[halfshellvenus]

Yay! She's found her way into a couple of my stories, in a minor way, and another drabble. I wish they'd done more with her-- yes, I know the actress had another job, but still. That's what cameos and phone calls are for!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i always liked missouri. and it would kind of suck to be able to see the future in non-chuck-like fashion, without context or clue. you'd see it, but you wouldn't be able to do anything about it, because you just wouldn't have enough pertinent details.

[halfshellvenus]

you'd see it, but you wouldn't be able to do anything about it, because you just wouldn't have enough pertinent details.
Or maybe you'd simply be seeing something that would happen regardless of anything you or anyone else did. Ugh-- who would want to have that visited upon them? That's not a gift, it's a curse!

[celtic_forest]

I love Missouri so very much! I think your summary as well as the piece itself really brings home the message that she has a lot to bear, and we know from show that she does so without complaint.

[halfshellvenus]

she has a lot to bear
The ugliness of the things she must see, and the inability to do anything about them, must weigh on her so heavily.

I wrote another drabble about her ages ago along those same lines, though this one filled a specific request for "What if she HADN'T fallen off the face of the Earth after Season One?" So we see her POV on the events of S5, and how incredibly puzzling and frustrating it must be to be in her shoes.

[huntress69]

I really enjoyed this, because we don't really get anything from Missouri's POV and it is all so true. Thank you as always for sharing your fine work.

[halfshellvenus]

There's a fabulous story by elanurel that's Missouri's POV that I love, but otherwise it's true-- the show neglected her after her one appearance (even in passing, for crying out loud), and we don't see a lot of fic about her.

She offers such an interesting POV, though, especially contrasted with the Winchesters who spend their time trying to change "what is" with no presumption of fate or "already happened" that Missouri may live with every day.