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I’ve written about this before. Briefly. Now, partially in response to this post, I’m writing about it again.

Let’s begin with a disclaimer. I certainly am not a professional or a student of the art of television storytelling. That said, I seem to have developed a sixth sense about S9 so far, calling twists miles ahead to the point where I was disappointed to be right, and as such, I’m willing to bite the bullet and actually write this out in a proper form.

There’s something very fishy about Metatron’s choice for his second-in-command.

It looks pretty plain and obvious at first: much like Castiel, Gadreel is an angel who is desperately looking for a path to redemption, a way out of the crushing weight of guilt; something that could pay back for the sins he’s committed. In his own words, Gadreel wishes to be a hero.
Much like Castiel, he has a solid mind for tactics and can manipulate his way into and out of things with relative ease, having little trouble finding the weak spots in others to make them see things his way. And exactly like Castiel, he is a very naive, gullible thing – an oldfashioned angel, surprisingly childish for someone who was locked up and tortured for thousands of years (did I say he’s pretty similar to Castiel yet? Because, hey, Castiel was tortured too. Naomi, while being a whole other kind of a torturer than Thaddeus, was still a torturer.)

So, obviously Metatron would go for him. Except that… Metatron really, really, really would not. Out of all angels, Gadreel is the one he hates the absolute most. Huh? Why?
Well, simply put, he’s pretty much said it himself.

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I’m bringing this back to note that after 9×18, Metatron has already rendered it next to impossible for Gadreel to ever achieve redemption in the eyes of the other angels. At this stage Gadreel has aligned himself with the very reason the angels fell, the dictator seeking to establish his own heaven where only those qualified by him shall enter, and cemented this in blood of tens of his brothers and sisters. 
Because capital punishment remains the one universal law in storytelling justice, the only way he can ever pay this debt off at all now requires his own death as a payment.

Well played, Metatron. Well played.

It has also become clear, likely to Gadreel himself as well, that Metatron never had any intentions to raise him in any status in this new Heaven. His only duty is to do the dirty work and then he’ll be discarded like the trash Metatron views him as.

Reblogging this with the fixed link to the original meta because I’m having a huge, raging Gadreel!stan moment again.