Levianthan blossoms as hearts
Leviathan blossoms as the heart of creation, ugly and born of destruction
The Leviathan blossoms ARE hearts. They're three-pronged hearts. Wrapped in husks (bodies), with blood-red centers (heart/soul). Look closely, and each Levianthan blossom sports three chambers. It's reptilian, like the Leviathan sea serpents, like the heart of an (Immortal) Snake.
WARNING: Gore (Ketch's heart getting ripped out, mainly)
Like the triparted road that has become the "heart" of our narrative, the Leviathan blossom also symbolizes what's left of Team Free Will: Sam, Dean, Cas:
These are familial flowers, signifying the eternal message that family makes you stronger, but it also makes you vulnerable.
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Hearts are delicious?
Everywhere you look in season 15, Gods and Angels are consuming hearts. Hearts are a classic food of the Gods. (Nectar, ambrosia are legendary as well, and they're after nectar for their spell.) Also, in some versions of Biblical literature, it is the body of the Leviathan that God uses both to feed his chosen ones in the Wilderness and/or create Earth & Heaven.
(1) Ardat kills Ketch by taking his heart. She does this once his heart becomes strong and courageous--once he refuses to give up his friends. (2) The witch screams, "I'll grind your heart to dust." (3) Jack devours a heart.
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Leviathan flowers + the miracle of death, decay, and rebirth
So. Sprung forth from the Leviathan body of God's oldest enemy, this is the fruit that would allow them to Cage God. It's a betrayal in every sense of the word. It's using the miracle of death, decay, and rebirth against Him.
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Cas + the little heart he saved
Even though all the other familial hearts were destroyed (reduced to ashes, in fact), Cas saved this one. He stole this little heart, and he fought for it. "Once I had the blossom, I fought." (The blossom was timed to the prayer. The blossom is, in many ways, symbolic of the prayer, too.) It's also the mixtape. He heard it.
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Later in the episode, we cut to where the blossom is being prepared for the Mark Spell. And two lobules are mostly missing. One is entirely missing, and one is open and weeping, mortally wounded. It resembles a dissected aorta. Only one is intact.
Two hearts are being crushed by this pestle, though only the blood of one party is being spilled.
Cas has saved it, but he's doomed its happiness.
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Even when you win, you lose
When Sam chooses not to smash the globe, Sam isn't just losing hope. He's choosing not to break Dean and Cas's hearts. Because that's what winning will do.
*looks between them, on the cusp of realizing something*
"I can't. I'm sorry, I just can't."
Even when you win (war), you lose so much that it no longer feels like victory.
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Too bad Chuck was always going to crush them. (How's that for pacifism, eh, Sam?)
Starting with those two.
Cas.
And Dean.
Note the grace-like smoke emission of the orb, as well as the meaty gruesomeness of its guts.
Kill the story by weakening its heart.
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Alright here’s my idea for Reeve in Kingdom Hearts.
A man with a natural ability to find (or perhaps create) hearts in otherwise heartless objects, Reeve was researching and experimenting to try and figure out if it was possible to return hearts to those who fell to the heartless, with his main experiment being himself and a toy cat, named Cait Sith whose heart became closely connected to Reeve’s.
He was then attacked by heartless, but instead of becoming a heartless, Cait Sith took in and protected Reeve’s heart, the man semi-sleeping within the cat (KH1-ish time). Their world fell to darkness, leaving Cait to wander worlds.
Later (KH2), Reeve’s nobody was killed and his body reappears in his home world - but his heart stays now stuck in Cait Sith, leaving Cait and Reeve to continue travelling in search of a way to get home as well as to free Reeve from the cat plush’s body.
(I also think it’d be so fun if he was, like, also the Mayor who adopted Kairi, but that seems so fanfiction-y, but also like, why not have fun? Alternatively, he worked as Radiant Garden and was out getting coffee when everyone died - and then the world fell to darkness.)
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[ID: two gifs from lupin zero. in the first, lupin the second pulls a gun and points it towards the camera confidently. his expression turns to shocked surprise as the gif ends.
in the second gif lupin the third is staring back defiantly, and the camera shifts to reveal jigen behind him with his gun aimed over lupin's shoulder at lupin the second. end id]
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