obsessionisaperfume:

hearseeno:

larinah:

I’ve seen several people mention the tattoo, but I haven’t seen much analysis on it. 

The star part does bring to mind all the other stars we’ve seen this season.  I’m thinking they mean more than one thing: shining stars as guiding lights, fallen stars as poorly chosen paths, hope, destiny, the renewal and rebuilding of Heaven and angels, even something to do with the Americana/patriotism/civil war stuff.  As the season progresses, maybe they’ll coalesce into a tighter meaning, but for now I’m keeping all those ideas on the table.  There’s also the very real possibility that they go along with all the sun and moon stuff happening in the last couple of seasons.

The rose part is an interesting addition.  thevioletcaptain wrote a very nice meta about Cas and his connection with flowers (which I can’t find the link for at the moment). 

Roses, in particular though, have shown up several times that I can recall off the top of my head, especially this season.  Rowena had an orange rose near her when we first saw her. 

The guy in the roadhouse in Paper Moon had a red rose on his jacket. 

Colette the maid fell into a bowl of white roses when Olivia killed her.

A couple of times I can remember in past seasons are that Mary had red roses embroidered on her shirt when Dean went back to the past, and Cas used a red rose to cut his hand so he could make a sigil to get rid of Ephraim. 

I honestly don’t know what to make of all these roses showing up all of the sudden in different colors and associated with very different people, victims, friends of victims, and villains.  This is the first time I can recall that the stars and the roses have been presented together.

So….uh….I guess at the moment, I got nothing.  I do think you’re right that they are very relevant to the story, though.  If anyone has any ideas or interpretations they’d like to add, please feel free!!

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And then flowers and Claire:  I did a bit of screencapping of that scene in Randy’s house and boy, once you lighten the images, they are EVERYwhere.

So, yes, here in the room with Claire, there are red/pink roses, but there are yellow roses as well.

That wallpaper in the background has red and yellow roses taking into account how orange the lighting is.  I’m betting those lace curtains have flowers on them too, but I can’t tell from this pic. 

And there are red and yellow flowers on that area rug under Salinger.  

1. Someone noted (I wish I could remember who), that his blood seems to be black where the others’ was dark red. 
2. I find it really interesting that, sure red flowers presage danger, but also demons? 
3. Yellow flowers were initially associated with the psychic children, but have gone on to be associated with supernatural beings more in general. 
4. Then we have the character name “Salinger,” whose most famous work is a story all about someone who loses it in the midst of an identity crisis.
5. And then we have the fact that this all came down because Randy made a deal, which has all kinds of history in Supernatural.

I wonder if this whole thing with Randy and Claire wasn’t a setup, that there isn’t some supernatural element to what happened there. Hmmmmm, I wonder what Crowley has been up to lately?

Re: 1, that was probably me.  (I make note that the VFX guy said that the blood pools were actually dark red, but he said they didn’t actuallly do the pools themselves, so… )

I noticed the roses on the wallpaper in Claire’s room (I pretty much always notice flowers now), and I have a feeling that they’re to do with the remnants of Castiel’s grace that she’s carrying around.  And because of the red roses, I don’t imagine that’s going to go very well.  (I’ve been saying for years that RED = BADNESS COMING.)

LOL  I know, RIGHT??  

Oooooo, that WAS you.  

Yeah, red flowers and Claire in blue= sacrifice.  Ack!  I know what’s coming, but I do NOT like it.