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[godsspeed]

@whatisthis

This device is meant to be a means of long-distance communication. It seems remarkably impractical.

Regardless, if you leave me a 'message' I will do my best to respond.

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[jumpthegun]

Why wasn't Lucifer brought back to Heaven and disciplined, then? Or... was he, where you're from?

[He doesn't know where any of this is going, but Sherlock has told him in the past he's an excellent conductor of light and ideas. Maybe if he can find the right questions to ask, Castiel will find the answers that illuminate the truth for him.]

[godsspeed]

He was too powerful to be cowed so easily. The other Archangels would have had to dedicate all of their time to watching over him, and even then he may not have been safe.

We built a prison for him and threw him down into it, where he'll remain until the last battle. A few other angels have also been imprisoned indefinitely for their crimes, but in Heaven, where they can be watched more closely.

Imprisonment is separate from what happens to deserters, though.

[jumpthegun]

And is the last battle on some kind of schedule? Why would he be let out for that? That sort of seems like you're handing him the chance to destroy everything when you could just avert the last battle indefinitely by not letting him out.

What happens to deserters?

speaking of lost tags; OOPS

[godsspeed]

The last battle must occur in order to bring about Paradise on Earth. Subverting it means that things continue as they are, flawed and imperfect.

And Lucifer was always going to break free someday. One of Heaven's greatest advantages was always that we could decide when that happened, and release him when our forces were at their strongest. Or at least, that's how it was justified to me.

In the most severe cases, they are executed. Most disappear for a time, though, and when they resurface they don't speak of their transgressions and return to their duties peacefully.

NO WORRIES

[jumpthegun]

[What?]

Castiel, the world might not be perfect, but it wouldn't be a good place for a lot of people if it were. Because "perfect" is subjective. The only place where perfect means anything objective is mathematics. We're human. We're flawed. You'd have to wipe out the human race, practically everything living to get something perfect. And even then if that's Heaven's idea of perfect, then who's it for? Not people.

[godsspeed]

Yes. That's why I rebelled. Humanity wouldn't be destroyed under Heaven's rule, but it would be halted. Gifted with a world free of worry or strife, but also free of change.

You shine in adversity. Maybe it was selfish, but I didn't want to see that end.

[jumpthegun]

No, that's not selfish. It was the right thing to do, Castiel, even if it wasn't part of the plan. Thank you. Honestly, I know I'm not from your universe, but thank you for stopping it.

[godsspeed]

Trying to stop it. I don't know that I didn't just make it worse by crippling Heaven's forces. An unchanging world is still vastly preferable to what Lucifer would do to you.

[jumpthegun]

[John's not actually so sure about that, but he's not from Castiel's universe and the other man would probably know better than him.]

Stopping it. You need to hold onto that thought, Castiel. Hope is what gets humans through a lot of the hardest times. Might work for you, too.

[godsspeed]

Okay. Thank you. I will try to keep that in mind.