#rising hell

Rising Hell is a heavy gothic metal roguelite action platformer where you unleash furious combos as you fight your way up through a tower in Hell!

Like. REALLY GOOD.

Like. How has no one even talked about it this is almost Dead Cells level fun good.

Ghost Situation: 

-Alright, I was thinking that maybe, just like it happened in the Season 11 finale “Alpha and Omega”, they will take advantage of the ghost situation in “Rising Hell” and build a soul bomb with the help of Rowena, but instead of using it with Amara, this time they will attack God/Chuck with it.

This is what I think it’s what Rowena’s got in her hands (Promo pic from 15x02 “Rising Hell”)

Another important thing is that after Dean and Sam left Waverly Hills in 11x23, the haunted asylum where they fished all the souls for the bomb, we saw as Billie was observing them. And this is important because I’m about to talk about her next. 

Billie/Chuck Rivalry: 

The scene that I will refer too is also from Alpha and Omega (11x23). Billie wasn’t Death yet, she was just a reaper so this scene is curious. She said she will reap god herself, I mean... was she in the top of the hierarchy of Reapers at that time? 

Why would a simple reaper REAP GOD? 

From where I recall, The Death told Dean He will reap god when it comes the time, but then Dean killed him, so the place was left available. Billie always works by the book and it’s very respectful with the natural course of life... EXCEPT when it comes to the Winchesters, despite saying otherwise. He hinted Sam about being impure in the biblical sense in 11x02 Form and Void, knowing he’s smart enough to found out the cure, he teased Dean letting him know Sam was alive in 11x17 Red Meat, and telling him that she will say NO everytime they try to make a deal with her, like she’s closed and unreachable, but in Alpha and Omega 11x23 she offers herself to help them, she follows them to the bunker and offers the souls from the veil to end with Amara. I mean, she keeps teasing about the definitive death but she never gets to do it, and when she finally has a chance, she gets killed by Cas.

She’s not a simple reaper, and Chuck knows it, but he cannot say a lot without giving a lot about himself either so he just stares at her with angry eyes while she didn’t even looked at him, not even ONCE. 

He does NOT LIKE HER. Why would that be?

Now the theory about Billie teasing the guys with death constantly to make herself being killed to become The New Death actually makes sense.

Now we can see the full picture, because in that moment we didn’t have all the information about what Chuck was and have done. Now we can say for sure he hates her because she’s unpredictable, she’s not manageable. She’s impossible to write and she makes her own choices, and that pisses Chuck off. 

I mean, we’re sure He hates her, like he said in Moriah (14x20)

The old Death was all about “Fried pickles and tickle porn”. That’s something pretty... personal to know about someone, right? Chuck and the old Death were old pals and they knew each other pretty well.  In my opinion, Old Death knew EVERYTHING CHUCK WAS DOING. Why? Because he allowed Dean and Sam to die and come back again and again, because Chuck “rebuilt Cas more times than he could count”, because Death gave Dean his ring in season 5, just to fit his old friend’s narrative. 

Thats another reason why Chuck doesn't like her maybe, because she was evidently plotting to take his place as soon as it was left available, and that not only will end with his association with Death but also give her too much power. Power she will use against him.

This is a piece of dialogue from Form and Void (11x02) Billie tells Sam: 

“You and Dean . . . Dying and coming back again and again. The old death thought it was funny. But now there's one hard, fast rule in this universe. What lives . . . dies. So the next time you or your brother bite it, well, you're not going to Heaven . . . Or Hell. One of us -- and, Lord, I hope it's me -- we're gonna make a mistake and toss you out into the Empty. And nothing comes back from that. I know you're dying. I can feel it. You're unclean in the biblical sense. So I'll be seeing you again, Sam . . . Seeing you real soon. Name's Billie, by the way.” 

Alright, she’s pretty clear with this: “Now that the old Death is dead, let’s hope I am the next one to die to take his place... take this, it’s a little hint for you to cure yourself, I’m Billie, remember me” 

She told something similar to Dean in Red Meat 11x17:

“I'm not here to bargain with you, kid. I'm here to reap you. And the kicker is... Sam's not dead. But you are. Or will be, soon enough. Trust me. If the big “W” bit it, I'd get a call. Come along now, Dean. It's time. The Empty... it's waiting.” 

I MEAN, without the old Death to rule the reapers, who is the “Lord” or the Reapers? Why did she took the lead? Maybe because she has a very powerful association with a cosmic entity just like Chuck had with the old Death? 

Even when he keeps teasing Dean and Sam about their soon deaths, it appears to be she can always find a way to help them (Celebrating the life of Asa Fox / Advanced Thanatology / Nihilism) but when Rowena tried to ask her to bring his son back in Funeralia, she refused...

How can she refuse to bring Crowley back when his soul would be DEEP INTO THE EMPTY ‘cause he was a demon? and according to the Shadow itself, not even GOD had power in there... why would Billie? 

What’s Billie Association with THE EMPTY and HOW WILL THIS AFFECT THIS SEASON?

My evident speculation is that Billie already knew who Chuck was, what he does with his drafts and how he destroy worlds, and for some reason, she sees in this particular world a glimpse of hope now that She’s the New Death. 

That glimpse of hope is JACK.

Billie’s quotes from ADVANCED THANATOLOGY (13X05)

Billie: I didn’t say it was up to you. I said it depends on you. Word on the interdimensional street is you’ve been slipping between worlds, Dean. I wanna know how you did it. Now. Dean: Well, I thought Death knew everything. Billie: Then you can imagine how this one little blind spot is really bothering me.

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Dean: How do I know I can trust you? Billie: You don’t. But then again, I’m not the one breaking cosmic bargains left and right, now, am I? Dean: Yeah, it’s not like you to hold a grudge. Billie: Don’t I? So… spill. Dean: Lucifer’s son. Jack. When he was born, it created a little rip.

I need to call your attention to this dialogue because just then, in that precise moment, Billie found out about how powerful Jack was... not only He could woke up a being sleeping in the empty but he also created “a little rip” to walk amongst worlds and realities.

“Because... this whole multi-versal quantum construct we live in, it's like a house of cards. And the last thing I need is some big, dumb Winchester knocking it all down“

“Since I got this…new job, I stand witness to a much larger picture. Do you know what I see? You. And your brother. You’re important.”  

“You have work to do. That’s all you need to know. And trust me, having my eyes opened to the necessity of any humans, especially Winchesters, is not a thrill. So…you wanna die, but I say…keep living.”

(Excuse me, does this ring a bell to you?)

Do you know what also happens in that episode, right? Cas comes back from the empty. 

Cas wakes up in the Empty thanks to Dean’s desperation that moved Jack in a way that made him possible to wake him up, so Jack has power in the Empty. Cas awakening was in episode 13x03 “Patience”, in Episode 13x04 “The Big Empty” we have Cas fighting against the Shadow and convincing him to bring him back to earth and in 13x05 “Advanced Thanatology” Cas comes back to Dean and Sam. Evidently Billie found out about God’s twisted nature when she took her Job as the New Death and KNEW Sam, Dean and Cas with Jack’s power could defeat him, that’s why she told them they’re important. 

That’s why she probably advised the Empty to release Cas too... she knows ONLY Sam, Cas and Dean Winchester’s nurture and influence (no pun intended, come on) will make Jack reach his full power to kill Chuck and restore the peace amongst multiverses.

But Chuck killed JACK before they could do something about that, so now She needs to talk with the kid in the Empty at the end of the season (14x20 Moriah) to orchestrate a new plan. 

She made the mission of her existence to balance the multiverses but Chuck it’s like a small kid throwing a tantrum and it’s ruining her plan. 

This season will be a huge mess of unresolved stuff: Adam/ Michael/ Amara/ Cas’ Deal with the empty/ Will Rowena die in Sam’s hands?/ will Jack come back? 

All we know is that, despite everything she says about them, Billie TRUSTS the Winchesters to fight against God and she believes THEY CAN WIN. Now She need to convince her bussiness associate, The Shadow, to release Jack at the right moment and to deal with his soul situation. 

Okay, thanks for reading my very long ramble and I would really like to hear your own specs about this situation. 

This is a vertical roguelike I discovered during the pandemic. I rarely meet anyone who’s heard of it. Crack this up. The soundtrack is fire. I failed twice but completed the game on the third run. I had the difficulty cranked up to level 4. The default is level 1. Enjoy!

Happy Friday! Jammin’ out to some Rising Hell. Even if you’re not a gamer, it’s an epic soundtrack! There is a brief intermission toward the end. I had someone at the door! Thank’s for watching The Rev’s Retro Arcade! I just like to play around here; nothing serious…yet. I hope you enjoy the videos! Check out my books and other projects at RevDareCloud.Com or find me on other social media…