#ruby lives au

ok but if ruby had lived and had a redemption arc parallel to cas in s5 that actually would have been such a good catalyst for a continuation of the it doesn’t matter what you are it only matters what you do themes bc then you have not only the angel being capable of love and disillusioned with heaven but also the demon capable of love and disillusioned with hell and reclaiming humanity at the expense of the divine plan. and they also would have had to follow through on sam accepting his powers as an inherent part of himself bc he didn’t need the feather to fly instead of the bizarre conclusion that they were just evil all along. ruby should have lived she would have forced supernatural to say something actually coherent for once.

ruby and cas girls night out

i DO like the idea that after being killed by lucifer in swan song ruby is resurrected in the same way as cas and implied to have been saved by god. having chosen free will and love over her god she is brought back and given that same second chance

god though ruby redemption would have forced them to allow sam to work through his own negative perception of his demonic nature because there she is being a demon and grappling with humanity and trying to be good. so in parallel to her sam would have been able to choose goodness not only in spite of his demon blood but because of it as well

ruby lives au where she drinks sam’s blood to become more human is so unbearably intimate. ruby drinking sam’s demon blood not for corruption but for redemption putting herself in the position to be taken advantage of and receiving nothing but sam’s love and his entire self in his blood, demon and all.

evil s4 samruby is about the mutual worship of the demonic parts of one another and using each other for their own personal salvation but post redemption samruby is about finding their common humanity together, specifically in the parts of themselves that are “evil” and demonic

fully invested in the idea of a resurrected ruby without a purpose finding sam again and ruminating on the idea that lucifer did not end up caring for her at all even when she invested her entire being into his freedom and realizing that sam did care for her regardless of any demonic nature or inherent evil and them finding some common ground and then they kiss.

not just ruby finding humanity and sense of self in sam but also sam finding love for the parts of himself he’s always condemned in ruby. learning from each other 🥺