Editor's edition:
Angels are weird.
They don't slowly grow and develop—start as babies, go through the terrible twos, become rambunctious kids, to angst ridden pre-teens, indestructible teens, young adults who know everything, middle aged people who know nothing, ect.
They don't exist, and then they do.
That's not to say it's arbitrary. Sam and Dean know very well that nothing's ever really arbitrary.
It's just-Castiel isn't there, and then he is, right when and where he should be. That's confusing isn't it? It's hard to explain something that even I don't really understand.
It's like; Angels are a thought or feeling (desire?) given shape. Sometimes long after the emotion that sparked their existence, sometimes at the same instant, and sometimes lifetimes before it.
I like to think Castiel was made out of the desire of love from a little boy who grew into a man who didn't think he deserved it.
-Nancy, editing does not mean making comments on my life choices. I was going for the whole metaphysical feel, I'm not drunk.
Angels present another, more practical problem—aside from the whole incomprehensible being thing (I can't really describe something we literally don't have words for very easily), is that they don't have genders. That's not to say they're genderless, just that calling them 'he' or 'she' isn't right. But I can't exactly call them 'it'.
I think I'm going to go with the male pronoun for all the angels. I mean, He uses it, and He's not a guy either, so…
-Yeah, I guess it would go better in the forward, but I don't know, should I just not include it at all?
Like is says, it's the editer's edition, so the little asides are Chuck's notes to Nancy, his editer after she's reviewed his work. (do you like this way of doing it? or do you want strickly a story?)
anyway, i thought I'd already posted this bit, but then I realized I haden't! sorry abou that! I
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