SPOILERS AND RANDOM THOUGHTS AHEAD!

Okay, so - you know how everyone was certain that Sam was actually being possessed by Lucifer, and not Ezekiel? Well, after this latest episode and the whole ‘Gadreel’ thing, I decided to do a little digging. I’m usually fairly good with remembering Angels, but I couldn’t remember a thing about Gadreel so - research time. I didn’t find as much as I had hoped to, but I did come across a few little things I thought I’d share.

Okay, so - everyone remembers how in 5:13 “The Song Remains the Same” Michael (riding John Winchester at the time) mentions to Dean that there’s a whole bloodline of vessels suitable to hold him - and that it stretches all the way back to Cain and Abel?



(For those of you who don’t know, Cain and Abel are the sons of Adam and Eve, and when both offered a sacrifice to God and God chose Abel’s lamb over Cain’s grain, Cain killed his brother in a jealous rage - or, that’s the gist of it.)

At the time I wondered why that didn’t mean that either Sam OR Dean could be used as a vessel for Michael - or Lucifer, for that matter. But what if Michael didn’t mean Cain AND Abel - he just meant it stretched back to them? I kind of forgot about this theory of mine until just now, when I found this little piece of trivia:





(of course, because a lot of religious stories get twisted and end up with completely different versions everywhere, take all this with a big ol’ grain of salt)

So that would mean that Cain and Abel are only half brothers. They had different fathers, which means their bloodlines are different! And, supposedly, (as Abel was the one whose sacrificial lamb was approved by God, leading Cain to kill him) we can assume that Abel’s Bloodline is used as vessels for Michael, and leads to Dean - while Cain’s bloodline leads to Sam. I’m not entirely sure how exactly that would work, I’m not a genealogist, but it made sense in my head, so…

So I was musing on this thought, when I found something even MORE interesting…

HOOOO-LY SHIT.

Apparently our devious wee Gadreel is (in some versions, anyway) replaced by Satan himself - and we all know who that is!

Anyway, just thought I’d share my thoughts, see what everyone else thinks! :D