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meardmish: this is a completely serious request with no snark intended because I’m genuinely curious: apparently there are people who now think that sam is actually cain and not colette or abel. I’m going to need a three page, MLA format, typed, 12pt font, single spaced paper of you explaining this theory. please include at least five sources and none of them can be wikipedia or superwiki. due in my ask before the next episode. Challenge. Accepted. I actually was thinking about this, honestly. Mostly because, And I think this is the main reason people are considering this, it’s SAM that’s threatening/offering to kill Crowley in the preview for next week and in Cain’s prophesy, the first one that supposed to die is Crowley. But I want to go back to something else Cain said: Abel wasn’t talking to God. He was talking to Lucifer. Lucifer was gonna make my brother into his pet. I couldn’t bear to watch him be corrupted, so I offered a deal – Abel’s soul in heaven for my soul in hell. Lucifer accepted… As long as I was the one who sent Abel to heaven. So, I killed him. Became a soldier of Hell – a knight. Okay, so when this first aired we were all thinking it made sense because Sam had been in the Sam position - not as a pet but as a vessel. I personally thought Lucifer had been trying to get Abel as his vessel. BUT, think about who the new Lucifer is now, the one who has been whispering in Dean’s ear for so long now, who tried to turn Dean into her personal pet/dog/hell hound: Crowley. Dean has been the one being corrupted by the devil. And we heard from Sam last night that the couldn’t bear to watch that happen again… So Sam is going to be the one to offer a deal. Rowena asked about the terms, and she’s queen mum of the cross roads, another devil they know. Just like Cain’s deal with Lucifer which had biblical consequences Cain was willing to ignore, so to might Sam’s work with Rowena - since we know using the book of the damned created serious dark karma. And Sam brushed all that off. I was theorizing the other day that the Mark might get off Dean and end up on Sam or Rowena; and maybe the curse/prophesy will do that as well. Sam will be the one to kill Crowley. And the final blow will be him sending his brother to heaven… Could be fun!

This is a line of speculation that I’ve been talking about for a long time, so I am more than willing to accept the challenge.



Supernatural’s spin on the biblical tale tells us that Cain intervened to save his brother’s soul from Hell, from Lucifer’s grasp. Abel was the one Chosen by Lucifer. Abel was intended to be Lucifer’s pet, yes. He was meant to be controlled, to have his will to live stripped from him, to surrender to the merciless bloodlust that defines a fallen man bereft of his soul - Abel would have become a demon. Abel was the one who was supposed to raise Lucifer’s armies, to create the Knights of Hell. With that in mind, take a look back at Sam’s prophecy - the Cupids’ orders for the union of John Winchester and Mary Campbell, Azazel, the demon blood, the Boy King and the one true vessel of Lucifer, himself. Sam was following the same exact path to Hell as Abel.



But then their brothers intervened. Cain intervened, chose to be cursed by the Mark, and chose to become Lucifer’s pet to save his brother’s soul. The only way that Cain could save his brother’s soul was to kill him. Cain killed his brother to save him.

Dean intervened to bring his brother back to life, went to Hell, came back as Michael’s one true vessel, refused to say yes to Michael lest he disappoint his brother and allowed Sam to make his choice about his own ending. Fast forward a few years, Dean sticks an angel in his brother’s head to keep him alive, failed his brother and his family, and then chose to take on the Mark and became a prisoner in his own body as penance and as a means to end to save his family and the world.



Killing his brother has always been the only way to save Sam, and Dean has refused. Dean has always damned himself to keep Sam alive. Cain and Dean…they never lived the same life. Their stories are vastly different.

But Sam and Abel…they were always headed in the same direction. And Sam is alive to accept his destiny as the Chosen of Hell.



So when the theory goes to Sam = Cain, Sam is living Cain’s life in reverse because Cain intervened and took on the life chosen for Abel under Lucifer command.



Sam’s prophecy is a nicely scripted revision of Abel’s. And he made choices on his own along the way to avert that destiny. But destiny cannot be averted indefinitely. And that is why Sam’s dark arc was inevitable.



Dean’s choice to bear the Mark was the final shifting cog to get the ball rolling. And now, Sam is going to do whatever it takes to save his brother’s soul, even if it means damning himself. He is now effectively living Cain’s life in reverse and stepping right back into the prophecy he so desperately fought to avert.



When it comes down to it…Sam says he can’t live this life without his brother by his side. But he just invited a new kind of devil (and by that I mean Rowena) to whisper in his ear, to help him save his brother’s soul. Who knows what Sam will do when he when he feels the magic coursing through his veins and finally feels powerful again. It’s a very nicely written revision, indeed, but one way or another, we were always going to end up here.

