hadriel | 009 [text]

[Part of Chris thinks he should've made this post awhile ago, and part of him still doesn't want to. But it's a compromise to do it now, and it's probably the best time for it anyway; the last event is over, and new people haven't arrived yet. It's the calm before the whatever, storm or otherwise.

But he's going with text because even though it's been a little while, he doesn't want to try to say the first part of this post in anything other than text.]

Hey everyone. So I guess I'll start off with the bad news: anyone who were friends with Ashley or Josh should know they aren't here anymore. Also, I'm going to add that if Josh owed you money or favors or whatever else, you're totally out of luck because I'm not honoring them no matter what he might've told you.

[Jokes make this not heartbreaking, right? Definitely.]

Though I guess this is also a good time to mention that if you're working on anything important or even just keeping general notes or something, you might want to consider sending them to a friend every so often. If whatever it is is just on your phone when you disappear, it's pretty much as gone as you are.

So yeah. Back up your data and all that. Even if you don't want to send an electronic copy to someone, at least keep paper notes or something.

[Semi-relatedly...]

If anyone needs help with how to send files or whatever, just let me know. And I'm finishing a program for something else right now, but then I guess I'm taking requests? If there's something you'd like a program on your phone for, I can see if I can figure out how to do it. It's not like I have a whole lot else better to be doing, so feel free and ask even though I can't totally promise I'll be able to do it.

[But still, please ask. Please give him something to do other than miss his friends.]

And okay, last thing I swear, and it's the good part. For everyone who's new here and doesn't know, we have pretty awesome coffee at the bar thanks to Delight. Usually either Emily or I are there to make it, but if we're not just send one of us a message; it's part of the deal with Delight about the coffee to make it, so you're not bothering us or whatever.

So yeah, you might be stuck in a shitty cave, but at least there's coffee. That's something, right?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I'm uh, guessing that with you being an angel and all you mean apocalypse totally literally.

[Because sure, why not at this point?]

Yes. It was quite literal. There were Horsemen and everything.

Huh. Well, I'm glad you stopped it.

[And also, he has to ask--]

So is like... Is all the religious biblical stuff real in your world?

By no means all of it. But some of it, yes.

The problem is that stories are considered to be open to interpretation--and so they were.

yeah, um, that makes sense. And I mean like, if any of it's true at all just going from language to language would kind of screw up some of the subtleties of the stories anyway, right?

[Also he'll just pretend the whole idea of any of it being real, even in a totally different world, isn't really unsettling to him.]

I mean... Um. There are some things that stand as truth, none the less. It's easier if you lived through them, witnessed them yourself.

[ That does help, though. ]

[That'd definitely help.]

Was it um, all a long time ago for you? I mean, Dean and Sam and Jo seem pretty... Modern, so...

[So if Castiel knows them then he's probably not from thousands of years ago timeline-wise, but who knows?]

They're the latest... My friends. My garrison was ordered to watch humanity, so we watched. I watched. For a very long time. Since you were...tiny. I mean actually tiny. Just a few cells, functioning in unison, with no comprehension of where it would lead you.

It's been fascinating.

Geez. That sounds totally crazy, but also kind of cool.

[He can't imagine being alive and around on that sort of timescale.]

It was. Of course, humanity was much easier to understand when all it did was consume, reproduce itself asexually and then die. You're all much more complicated now.

[ And then occasionally he says things like this, and you realize that maybe there is a whole other level of weird crazy person beyond his usual charming persona. ]

009 [text]

audio

audio

audio

audio

audio

audio

audio

audio

audio

audio