[ video - WHAT IS TO COME ]

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

[ You know those videos that start in media res? This is one of those videos. It's also a little fuzzy, because apparently getting video from the future is difficult, but it's easy enough to tell what's going on. What you can see is a wide lab, tiled walls and stainless steel surfaces and everything, and slumped near one of those steel tables with wheels is Cas. And - well, he doesn't look good. Understatement. He looks terrible. His face and trenchcoat are stained with blood, and does his skin look like it's melting a little? That would be a yes. As a bonus, for the psychics among you who can pick this stuff up over video feed, there's a Marina trench worth's of power coming right out of his non-existent angelic gills, and not the good kind. Think "every eldritch abomination you have ever seen in your nightmares" and you'll be just about there. ]

If there was time - if I was strong enough - I'd - I'd fix him now. I just wanted to make amends before I die.

[ Remember that guy from the video with the action figure? He's back. ] Okay.

Is it working?

Does it make you feel better?

[ Cas shakes his head slowly. ] No. ... You?

[ There's a pause. ] Not a bit.

[ Castiel shuts his eyes, turning his head away--

--and the scene shifts, jaggedly like it's having trouble with the whole time business. Same room, maybe only a few minutes later, except things have shifted. There's a distinctive, serious-business-looking sigil painted on the wall in what can only be blood, and Cas is standing - well, more like swaying precariously - in front of it, Ominous Latin Chanting coming from somewhere behind him. Suddenly, Castiel drops like a stone - and Dean rushes forward to catch him, hauling him back onto his feet to wobble as the chanting reaches its zenith. Cas turns for a brief moment-- ]

I'm sorry, Dean.

[ --and then the chanting stops, a giant gaping wound of a hole opens in the wall where the sigil's painted, and a flood of bright white light rushes out of Castiel to fill it. It goes on for a long moment, but when it's finally over -

Castiel collapses out of sight of the camera.

The video ends. ]

Comments

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

If I were to speculate, I'd say that with a large enough quantity of souls, the power provided would be enough to allow the being in question to carry out actions that would be considered... godlike. But the long-term effects of containing so much power from the amount of souls it would take to effect that change would be - almost tantamount to suicide.

[ oh lord ]

[longaevus]

God-like? [ There's some disbelief and then worry ] How long would it be before those effects took hold?

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

Again, I suppose it would depend on the quantity ingested. They could take anything from a few hours to a few weeks to manifest themselves.

Of course, this is all speculation, so... I can't be certain of anything I'm saying.

[longaevus]

But you do know a little more than another may. [ One not from his world, anyway ]

And, theoretically, their abilities?

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

That is true, I suppose.

If the amount was large enough, it would be in short, spatial and temporal manipulation. Godlike power, essentially. [ this is... making him so uncomfortable, sob... ]

[longaevus]

And rather disastrous. [ She'd seen temporal manipulation, at least in terms of going back in time ]

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

In the wrong hands. Or maybe in anyone's hands. I don't know.

[longaevus]

In anyone's hands, certainly. There is no reason for doing so.