User blog:FTWinchester/Darkness as the overall Big Bad

I've been lying low the past few seasons but I still follow the main arc. I don't know if this has been pointed out before but I think it would make most sense to make the Darkness the overarching Big Bad playing the long game. This would mean it will finally tie all seasons together (especially seasons 8-11, which were very messy and incoherent) and they would have a really "threatening" final challenge.

The Premise

The Darkness is basically bitter that she was imprisoned while God created, right? We know she was defeated by God and the four archangels. We also now know that the Mark of Cain was used as the seal to the Darkness' prison, and that mark was carried by Lucifer, who was influenced negatively by the mark.

What if the Darkness intentionally sought to corrupt Lucifer so as to create the schism between the archangels. It's a very elaborate plot that would take plots upon plots and ages upon ages--something very reminiscent of your videogame and epic-tale final bosses. The Darkness counted on Lucifer to rebel, create an army of demons to keep Heaven occupied. In the meantime, she could have twisted one of the Leviathan into Eve, so that monsters could be created and wreak havoc in the human populace (God's favorite creations).

Things were supposed to be all-out chaos during the apocalypse, during which she would originally unveil herself. But as the apocalypse was derailed, she was forced to resort to a back-up plan : She needed to restart the apocalypse or at least keep Heaven and Hell at each other's throats. She relied on Raphael for that, but having learned from the apocalypse, she needed another back up plan.

She influenced the remaining players to drag Purgatory into the conflict, which would eventually unleash the Leviathan. If the Leviathan were successful, she would have her revenge. The ancient powerful monsters of purgatory would buy her some time to influence more events that would lead to her escape in the future.

And so the Leviathan attempt went awry, and angels and demons were forced to uncover the tablets, which finally lead to Metatron's plot. If they reveal that Metatron was being controlled by the Darkness to continue to wreak havoc on the Natural Order by playing God, the Darkness would have made a mockery of God himself by planting a "new God" in heaven (partly inspired by the dark horse Godstiel, whose rise she would have had a hand with, regardless).

The Grand Coven and Rowena's arrival always felt off and out of the blue for me, so what if their inner circles were convinced by some prophecy or whatever to reveal themselves and once again become active players? And so all seems to be going well. If only the Darkness could get rid of one last powerful player that could threaten her masterplan--the stickler for the Natural Order--Death.

And how did Death crumble to dust again? Right. Struck by someone who was under the influence of the Mark of Cain, which again goes back to the Darkness.

And now cue dark cloud and impending doom orchestra.

What do you guys think?