I remember being in highschool watching Supernatural and seeing all the imagery of Sam Winchester with snakes and demon blood despite being the “Good brother who eats healthy and makes normal life choices and thinks about ethics and morality”
And of Dean Winchester’s association with angels and self-sacrifice despite being the “Simple brother who likes porn and strippers and pie and doesn’t mind killing”
And I kept thinking that with all the violent escalation against both heaven and hell that it would be so poetic and inevitable for them to defeat both God and the Devil only to realize that the natural order exists for a reason, and that someone has to fill those roles,
And I thought it was so inevitable that Sam, the good and righteous one with dark impulses would resign himself to ruling Hell while Dean, the brash and violent one so anxious to know that he might be good would rule Heaven, and neither would die but instead remain diametrically opposed yet tied together in eternity in undeath just as they were in life, a master of heaven and a master of hell maintaining the balance of life and death as brothers, equals and opposites
And that seemed like such a foreshadowed and bygone conclusion that I was certain that it was what the writers had planned
And then it……. didn’t