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joyeee

Supernatural ficlet - "miserere"

Apr 02, 2009 19:30

Title: miserere (have mercy)
Characters: Castiel, Dean (sort of), Raphael (Archangel associated with healing)
Ratings/Warnings: PG
Word Count: 320
Summary: Castiel finishes the mission to rescue Dean Winchester from Hell.
Spoilers: If you know about Castiel, this should be fine.

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Comments 12

maxinegray April 3 2009, 05:29:27 UTC

Aw! Loved it!

Great job!

joyeee April 4 2009, 00:57:45 UTC

Thank you! ^_^

catoasapun April 3 2009, 06:08:00 UTC

Oh, this was lovely!

Poor Castiel: taking the blame for Dean's broken soul. Very powerful.

He did not hear the gentle reminder in Raphael's tone that the blame was not his to take.
This line is gorgeous. I adore it.

joyeee April 4 2009, 02:37:50 UTC

Ha, this is what I originally set out to do - thank you for your kind & wonderful comment - but then I discovered your fic. ^____^

But yes - Thank you so much~! Especially for pointing out a line that worked in particular for you! (not sure it lives up to your praise but this made me very very happy!)

darksilvercat April 3 2009, 07:16:20 UTC

I STILL LOVE IT.

And \o/ for awesome non-canon angels!

<3

joyeee April 4 2009, 02:27:49 UTC

Thank you so much~♥! :D

ran_cl April 3 2009, 13:14:44 UTC

Aw Castiel taking blame on himself . thx for posting :D

joyeee April 4 2009, 02:22:23 UTC

It's just another way I feel Castiel and Dean are alike, humongous senses of responsibility. thanks for commenting! XD

claudiapriscus April 27 2009, 02:30:36 UTC

I liked this very much.

And I'm not sure if you'd care, but here's my inner classicist coming out: Eleison is Greek; the Latin would be...miserere, IIRC. But then, there were a lot of Greek-loan words, so yeah.

joyeee April 27 2009, 03:25:45 UTC

Yikes this was just what I was afraid of. SORRY! I do care, probably more than it warrants, and I'm going to correct it - will credit you in the edit of course. Thank you so much!

(And on the chance that you found this fic through the other fic I just posted, and I botched the Latin there, I'd like to know too! *__*)

claudiapriscus April 27 2009, 05:06:39 UTC

:)I'm glad my pedantry was helpful. I am an unreformed and unrepentant classics geek, and am sometimes confounded by the fact that many people may not find the ancient world and ancient languages very interesting, because gosh darn it, they're cool. :-p (I sometimes wonder if all the Latin in supernatural has inspired some poor, young, impressionable students to give the Classics a try.) Anyway, if your other text had errors in it, they weren't something that caught my attention.

The Greek phrase is Kýrie eléison (Lord have mercy). It's a very pretty-sounding phrase. Apropos of nothing. Just in case you were curious :)
And now I will stop typing, before I'm tempted to digress into the use of Greek loan words as punchlines in the comedies of Plautus.

joyeee April 30 2009, 02:41:36 UTC

Classics and languages ARE cool! The Greek phrase was what I found first and yes, I chose it partly because of its prettiness. And I'm quite sure that SPN has inspired classics-related learning. Fan-adoration is a super-powerful thing!!! (Among other things it has gotten me to crack serious history tomes for "leisure reading"...) ^__^

Comedy in the classics has a special kick! :D