I'm still stuck on the discussion of Castiel's handwriting from before, so now I'm going to throw in my two cents' worth.
Enochian is actually really hard to write. Or at least it is for me because I am artistically challenged. Especially if I'm using a ballpoint pen or a pencil instead of a brush pen or a fountain pen. The lines are all of different thicknesses and there are different serifs and flourishes that make each letter unique.
There's also, as I have recently discovered, a "script" version that is much easier to draw/write on the fly with a simple pen. The lines are relatively the same thickness and most of them are similar shapes to the original letters, but they can be written much more quickly and by someone with less skill.
My first thought was that Cas would surely use the "cursive" version like I do. It's faster, easier, and more efficient.
But then... I think Castiel is an artist at heart. I think he likes the poetry of the lines and the weight of the brush strokes. I think he'd enjoy writing "real" Enochian more than the quick-and-dirty version. Because Cas is smart, pays attention to details, and sees the beauty in small things. 💙
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I will forever love Gadreel.
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horror is always like oh no they're possessed by a demon well what about possessed by an angel? angelic possession is also horror.
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Feared by Life and Death
There lays a place cast far away
Burning with Lucifer's cold rage
Locked in hellfire's tight embrace
Yet, Warmth ousts the infernal flames
Amidst pandemonium
Celestial lightning strikes
Ordered by the Gods themselves
Cast down into the pits of evil
An Angel in search of light
For there's a man in hell
That deserves to be saved
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I wanted to draw a badass Cas (again) and this time I also wrote a little poem about him saving Dean :D
I hope you like this simple piece! 💙🧡
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Peak character development is the angel spending enough time on earth (with his disaster husband) to become That Guy
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OK but it occured to me this morning (why just now? I dunno) that objectively, angel blades are kinda the worst weapon. There's no way that the hilt isn't too slippery to provide decent traction, especially without having more than just that little ridge as a crossguard. The shape is actually pretty decent for stabbing but there's no way that they're balanced well at that length, plus they're too short for effective combat except at dangerously close range that would put one well within smiting distance.
If we're assuming that they were designed for angels to be fighting in rank-and-file lines, the size would make marginally more sense, but even Medieval quarter-sword combat calls for a longer blade.
Of course, these blades do have the advantage of being highly portable and easy to use, as well as being small enough and light enough on resources for (relative) mass production.
Even so, they're more like a dagger than a sword and that limits their versatility somewhat. A knife can be thrown instead of used to cut, but the angel blades are oversized for that purpose. They could be aerodynamic if thrown despite their size, but that usage isn't exactly explored and it would also require specialized skills and training to achieve that level of accuracy with such a large weapon.
I realize that in show production terms, they were probably using the coolest and most convenient prop that they could, but in the SPN universe, it would make more sense to have a variety of weapons with the short angel blades being reserved for bodyguards, assassins, and other close combat fighters. Not garrisons full of soldiers.
My first thought was, perhaps only one angel (or god or entity or what-have-you) was in charge of building weapons for the angels and subsequently was killed. Similar to the situation of Hephaestus in Greek mythology (whose death would be very bad for the Olympians). However, that doesn't hold water because surely some of the weapons they made would still be around, yet we don't see any rare angelic spears or anything apart from 1 that I saw in a clip of an episode I haven't watched.
*Unless* those weapons were part of the cache of celestial weapons that Balthazar was going to find in "The French Mistake" and they were either shown off-screen or destroyed in the angelic civil wars.
Thoughts??
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