Samâs âdestinyâ was to be âking of the rats/riffraffââŠand he didnât really want that.
I donât exactly have textual support for this but I suspect that Sam would have more readily embraced a Heavenly destiny, because it represents rising above his class background. Whereas Hell represents thriving in a place that is literally beneath him. (Well, it wouldnât have been him per seâŠthat was a bait and switch trick where he would have been âboy-kingâ in body onlyâa sham class rank built to entice his ego into said trap with the lure of false power. But the overall point stands!)
Donât get me wrong; I support his rejection of Hell. In-text, itâs healthy to reject the nihilism and disinhibited-loss-of-free-will that Hell can tend to represent.
This is more a thought about how he originally associates it in his brain, I think. Itâs an interesting thought! And now Iâm thinking about how Rowena and Crowley view Hell as rising aboveâŠ
