#sometimes totalitarianism shoukd just be gross and cringe

[shallowseeker]

Apocalypse World Cas has a milky white left eye, calling to mind Naomi’s experiments. But it also calls to mind Lily Sunder.

Conclusion: Jimmy’s still in there, stitched to Cas by Naomi. (That’s why he still has Jimmy’s hairstyle. It’s a nod to Hitler, Naomi, and Jimmy hair.) It’s a nod to the horrific Josef Mengele. Jimmy and Cas are perma-glued together like a bad experiment.

And Jimmy is now soulless, but still with Castiel all the same. Jimmy helped generate the Nazi cartoon, as he’d always been afraid of them, plus he was a WW2 history buff.

And just like Lily’s May is dead, so is Jimmy’s Claire.

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In AU earth there was a civil war within the civil war. But they lost.

And here, Castiel and Raphael were on the same side. Perhaps, they enlisted Lily Sunder, maybe tried to use Lily Sunder’s magic to tap the human souls cohabitating with them (like Jimmy’s soul).

But just like in The Trap, Claire’s death will always be Castiel’s downfall. When Cas killed Amelia and Claire with his own hands, the despair brought him (and Jimmy) to his knees. We know that Cas rebelled over and over throughout his angelic life. Here, he just lost.

And so, after a glimmering moment of hope, they lost.

That’s why Raphael is now missing. Key players like Cas are now grounded angels. They use vehicles, because they have no wings. (The ones with useful skills were salvaged but speak in cartoonish accents. They glitch.)

They were re-programmed to scare the humans. To hunters like AU Bobby, that re-programming just looks like turn-coating. It explains why they thought the angels were helping but, “One by one, the angels turned on us. He will, too.”

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Canonically, there are barely any women in Apocalypse World. They consistently reference the lack of women and baby-killing (“necklace full of baby teeth”) carried out by angels. That’s because the angels did away with them as a response to Raphael’s war.

Despite his best efforts, Michael could not discover Lily’s secrets. So Michael, fearful of Raphael amassing more loyal human souls/power batteries, simply “eliminated the means of (soul) production.”

Tragically, this included Amelia and Claire and, of course, Lily Sunder.