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Bonus Round 2
Talk to me, talk to me, like lovers do...
Bonus Round 2 is now open! This time, the theme is speech only. Entries should consist entirely of speech, although this can include script format.
If you have an idea for something you’d like to see, please leave a situation, the characters involved and any other details as a PROMPT below. Then read through everyone else’s prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in – if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we’ll be able to tell.
You should place PROMPT/FILL, your team name and a brief summary in the comment title. NSFW prompts and fills should mention this in the summary or at the top of the post. Please note that NSFW includes any level of sexual content.
You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first two prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.
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Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds. Please note that only two prompts will receive points this round, although you can leave more if you wish to.
Edit: This round is now closed. No further points will be awarded.
FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
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“You know, if you keep drinking all those slushies you’re going to end up reaping yourself. Even Death can get diabetes, right? Man, how would that even work? How would you even reap yourself?”
“And if you keep drinking all that whiskey I’ll be able to reap you long before that happens.”
“I created alcohol just so I could have a coping mechanism. Being a god is hard.”
“So hard that it apparently necessitated your leave of absence for several millennia.”
“I was around. Doing stuff.”
“You were playing at being human.”
“They are my greatest creations.”
“Which you almost allowed to be destroyed a half dozen times over. The apocalypse, power-hungry angels, Leviathan.”
“I wasn’t the only one! What about that whole ‘making Dean Winchester take over my responsibilities for 24 hours’ deal?”
“Castiel.”
“That’s different.”
“Dean’s time in the role of death was to teach him a lesson. Castiel’s time as god was unnecessary and served to undermine the natural order of the world you’d established. Unless you’d always intended to release the Leviathans out of Purgatory.”
“God works in mysterious—“
“We’ve been… friends… for too long for that explanation to suffice.”
“My characters took over the plot?”
“An understatement. Your ‘plot’ has veered off course in recent years.”
“It’s not really jumping the shark if you never come back down.”
“You have spent too much time in the guise of a human.”
“Says the horseman of the apocalypse who gorges himself on chili cheese fries.”
“I can appreciate the pleasures that humans have concocted to fill their short lives.”
“And in that, you’re more like Dean Winchester than you think.”
“Hm.”
“You are a much less messy eater, though.”
“Joy, I have bested Dean Winchester at table manners. My existence is complete.”
“You’re fond of him; don’t deny it.”
“As are you. That doesn’t make him any less aggravating.”
“He’s human.”
“That’s what I said.”
“Another slurpee?”
“Blue raspberry this time. And a cheeseburger. It’s good to see you putting your infinite powers to use.”
“I made a lot of mistakes early on. Didn’t do things the way I should have. I was overconfident. I wasn’t going through the editing process, thinking my first efforts were flawless as soon as I slapped them out. I’m fixing that now.”
“The angels.”
“They’re learning. Slowly. Free will isn’t something they were ever designed for, but it should have been. I was young and arrogant and foolish. I shouldn’t have kept that from them. They need it, though, need to learn to live without me. They’re figuring out how to make their own decisions, rule their own lives.”
“And if they tear heaven and earth apart in the process?”
“It won’t come to that.”
“Won’t it? Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer, Raphael—your generals are gone. The angels that rose to take their place have Fallen or are failing. Give them free will, and they start a civil war.”
“They’ll figure it out. I have faith in them.”
“A god having faith in his creations. How novel. I suppose you have faith in humans as well.”
“If I didn’t I’d be drinking a lot more of this whiskey.”
“Hmph.”
“Aw, come on! It’s just…”
“They do make excellent hot dogs.”
“Well, yeah. But that’s not it. I created them. I’ve watched them from the day they arrived on the planet—“
“You’re quoting Lion King.”
“But the point still stands.”
“And now you’re channeling the Doctor.”
“Just… they’re mine. I’ve watched them grow. But I’m not going to be around forever. I’m not the first god you’ll reap and I won’t be the last. And you’ll be reaping them before and after you reap me, sure, but they’ll outlast me. The angels, the humans, all of them—they’ll be here long after I’m gone.
“And they’re going to have to survive without me. And at the same time I know they can do it, it scares me that they’ll have to. So I’ve been making trial runs. Giving the angels tough love. Kicking them out of the house and making them grow up. Maybe they weren’t ready, but at least this way I can still step in and fix it if things go balls-up.”
“You haven’t left them alone though. You’ve stepped in, disrupted the natural order.”
“Alright, so maybe it’s harder to talk about letting go than it is to actually do it. And sometimes they can just be so stupid.”
“We can agree on that at least.”
“Hey, don’t pretend that you’re completely innocent in all this either. Pulling a soul out of hell? That’s got ‘against the natural order of things’ written all over it.”
“Without your interference he never would have ended up there in the first place, at least not the way he did. And there’s nothing natural about a soulless human. Arguably I was restoring order.”
“Arguably. But that wasn’t your only reason for doing it.”
“I’m Death. By my very nature I’m something that can’t ever be truly understood. My Reapers aren’t just being catty when they won’t answer questions; even if they were to explain, humans just aren’t capable of understanding.”
“You don’t give them enough credit.”
“And you give them far too much.”
“What did you do on your vacation, huh? Eat and drink and be… as merry as Death gets? Yeah, you’re not gonna answer that, are you? Well, I didn’t. I spent time with humans, as a human. I know what they’re capable of, the good and the bad. I didn’t even know I was a god.”
“You still managed to throw yourself in the middle of things by making yourself a prophet.”
“I’m still getting this non-interference stuff down! And I had to have failsafe mechanisms in place and it wasn’t like it was a walk in the park I had to deal with editors and parking tickets and taxes and… but that’s not the point. The point is I know them, better than I ever did even when I made them. And they’re petty and horrible but they’re caring and wonderful too.”
“I suppose they have their moments.”
“Besides food trucks and greasy spoons?”
“Don’t push it.”
Re: FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
Re: FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
Re: FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
Re: FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
Re: FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
Also, the idea that God will die and be replaced, while his creations survive, is a really unique idea. (And after the "channeling the Doctor" comment, I kind of like the idea of God "dying" as just being a type of regeneration. God has no start and no end, neither does Death or the Multiverse as a whole either, but everything in existence is actually a never ending cycle of beginnings and ending.)
Re: FILL: Death&God, old friends (Team Gabriel/Lucifer/Michael)
Also, that tumblr comment about God and Lucifer is heart-breaking :(