User blog comment:Twilight Despair 5/Fan Ideas for Fanmade Supernatural Episode/@comment-5619706-20140201145023/@comment-5619706-20140202030005

I wasn't aware I was going into Marvel or DC territory. Maybe Melkor/Sauron, or the Old Gods/Cthulu mythos of some fantasy archetypes, but anyway. You don't have to reveal anything about the Elohim during the first half of the season. You could try to make it look as if it was random attacks from fairies, rogue reapers, deities, etc, with all of them simply referring about something big coming nigh, with lines like, "You think the apocalypse was bad? What's coming cannot be derailed. You can't pull your free will crap on what we're preparing. You don't know pain. Nor suffering. Nor death. After all, you're just ... mortals." And we get those constant references until the second half of the season where the story about the Last Elohim is revealed. Unless of course, you don't want this to be the way the first-half of season 6 appeared to be incoherent. Anyway, I won't push for that. This is your story, after all.

A lot of things would follow only after we establish the alignment of the Last Elohim. Your idea on the lack of morality is interesting, but I fear it would not translate well into the show. I've been trying to make a really good scenario to a similar proposal in my own story I've been trying to write for ages. What possible scenarios or lines could support such? Maybe something like, "There is no good or evil. Only actions, and your determination to carry them out," or "Good or evil is such an overrated conflict, don't you think? Thing is, none of them exist. At least not initially. Your Bible did say that in the beginning, there is only the word. No good. No evil. Just, you know, the word," or do you have something else in mind?

The ability to fuse with any being is a nice touch. How would you differentiate it from simple possession, though? And it fuses (at least partly) because it can't physically manifest, right? What happens if it fuses with a being? Does it completely fuse with it, or just a part of it, or just its consciousness? This is crucial because it could make it more vulnerable if a part or all of it actually melds into a being.

I know that weather manipulation, telekinesis, biokinesis and whateverkinesis look flashy and all, but those are overused, practically everyone and their mothers has them. What the Last needs is something that would really make it unique, far more than just being old and powerful. We have had so few exploration with the human mind, consciousness and the psyche. It has been touched on in the episodes featuring the seven sins, the wraith, and some demonic possession episodes, but I think we could go further than that (Hallucifer wasn't that great, really). If, you agree that the Last only fuses using its consciousness, then, we could give it more powers on the mental-side of things. Let it have dream walking, and really powerful and effective ones at that, ability to create nightmares. Make it powerful because it knows your own mind better than you do. Let the Last Elohim turn its opponents against themselves. Let the Last spread and instill doubt, sow self-hate and self-pity. Let the nightmares slowly project into reality warping if the victim has become weak enough. Let it claim that it was the one who gave them free will, and it was never humanity's to begin with. Let the Last claim that it was the one who freed humanity. Let's think psywar. Instead of the direct fireballs and lightning bolts into the faces of the Winchesters, they fight their reflections, they avoid sleep, they flee from their nightmares, they attack with full-force imagined enemies. This of course, is rather difficult and could not hold an entire arc together, so this could simply be one of the many tactics the Last Elohim would employ, and if all else fails, it could still breathe toxic fumes or whatever against its enemies.

Back to the nine aberrations. If what influences the Last in terms of morality is whatever being fuses with it, it could create an exploitable weakness wherein Sam and Dean allow themselves to get fused so they could influence the Last Elohim to undo itself or to finally merge with God. This could either be the one flaw in an otherwise near-omnipotent being completely invulnerable to any known weapons, but it runs the risk of being Michael-vs.-Lucifer-2.0: a fight with ancient powerful beings with no actual damage dealt--just talks and then some.

One last question before I could formulate more concepts about it--was it hiding in another plane of existence on purpose? What's keeping God or someone from forcefully summoning it or just giving it its own pocket dimension (a.k.a. prison, whatever works) and let it rule there? Or do we leave this to wisely crafted words that basically translate to "it's a magical/supernatural concept that mere mortals could not comprehend, I ain't got to explain stuff in detail" (not that I'm saying you wouldn't be able to, just pointing out that this alibi always exists and is used even by the best works in fiction and fantasy).

Unrelated: were you also the one who earlier suggested the concept of Heaven and Hell acting as 'locks' to keep an ancient entity from awakening? Because I like that and perhaps we could use that concept and modify it to fit or explain some stuff for the Last Elohim.