There is a cult of monster souls who believe that through prayer, contemplation, and ritual self-mutilation, they can purify themselves and regain God's favor and a place in Heaven. Castiel knows that's not how it works, but he plays along anyway.
(Bonus: Every few decades, a cultist believed to be purged of imperfections and worthy to ascend to Heaven dives into the caldera of a sacred volcano and is never seen again.)
Purgatory is Limbo. Or very similar. Basically anything with that as its inspiration. How does Dean cope? Does he go a little crazy? A lot crazy? Is Cas immune? How does one escape from a place like that?
Dean gets out of Purgatory and he can see the gaps in the real world where the pieces don't fit together. Things are peeking through the gap--eyestalks and squirmy tentacles and bits of fingers, long scaled bodies slithering by, etc. And it's hard to explain how 'the walls don't fit the ceiling, Sam.' So he doesn't say anything and goes about his business. But he knows he's seeing Purgatory, and worries that eventually something's going to reach through a gap and drag him back.
OKAY SO, I should have been in bed hours ago and this kind of just spilled out on the paper sans any actual plot, so I may go back and have actual things happen in it later, but FOR NOW, have a little atmospheric thingy:
Filled: Where the Sidewalk Ends, Gen, PG-13, (1/1)
It's not so much the flashes of dark and movement and teeth that get to him. Dean can handle those. Hell, he can handle anything this or the next world throws at him, he's proven that over and over, time and time and time again. So, no, it doesn't bother him when the world curls back in his peripheral vision, like it's nothing more than old wallpaper flaking away with every passing breeze. It's okay that he sometimes recognizes the shapes on the other side, the particular cant of a werewolf soul's snout, the flex and snap of the tentacled thing that haunts bogs and swamps, sending out will-o-the-wisp lures. (Sam thinks they're fireflies. When he was small, he used to chase them, and Dean doesn't have the heart to tell him how close he's come to falling off the edge
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For whatever reason, Castiel doesn’t return, and with only monsters chasing him in Purgatory/no one to converse with on a human level, Dean is affected similarly to someone in solitary confinement. I’d love to see some of the aftermath of this, maybe some h/c.
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I'll get this party started: In Purgatory, Dean and Castiel are chased by giant flamingos. Giant demonic flamingos.
This is totally not inspired by the conversation I had with reapertownusa, oh no it isn't.
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There is a cult of monster souls who believe that through prayer, contemplation, and ritual self-mutilation, they can purify themselves and regain God's favor and a place in Heaven. Castiel knows that's not how it works, but he plays along anyway.
(Bonus: Every few decades, a cultist believed to be purged of imperfections and worthy to ascend to Heaven dives into the caldera of a sacred volcano and is never seen again.)
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Purgatory is Limbo. Or very similar. Basically anything with that as its inspiration. How does Dean cope? Does he go a little crazy? A lot crazy? Is Cas immune? How does one escape from a place like that?
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Dean gets out of Purgatory and he can see the gaps in the real world where the pieces don't fit together. Things are peeking through the gap--eyestalks and squirmy tentacles and bits of fingers, long scaled bodies slithering by, etc. And it's hard to explain how 'the walls don't fit the ceiling, Sam.' So he doesn't say anything and goes about his business. But he knows he's seeing Purgatory, and worries that eventually something's going to reach through a gap and drag him back.
Gen please.
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Filled: Where the Sidewalk Ends, Gen, PG-13, (1/1)
It's not so much the flashes of dark and movement and teeth that get to him. Dean can handle those. Hell, he can handle anything this or the next world throws at him, he's proven that over and over, time and time and time again. So, no, it doesn't bother him when the world curls back in his peripheral vision, like it's nothing more than old wallpaper flaking away with every passing breeze. It's okay that he sometimes recognizes the shapes on the other side, the particular cant of a werewolf soul's snout, the flex and snap of the tentacled thing that haunts bogs and swamps, sending out will-o-the-wisp lures. (Sam thinks they're fireflies. When he was small, he used to chase them, and Dean doesn't have the heart to tell him how close he's come to falling off the edge ( ... )
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For whatever reason, Castiel doesn’t return, and with only monsters chasing him in Purgatory/no one to converse with on a human level, Dean is affected similarly to someone in solitary confinement. I’d love to see some of the aftermath of this, maybe some h/c.
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