Character Name: "Meg Masters"
Series: Supernatural
Timeline: Post-death in 8.17, Goodbye Stranger
Canon Resource Link: Supernatural Wikia: Meg


Character History: Meg has a long, complicated, and varied history on Supernatural. She appears to Sam midway through season one in the first of three host bodies that she uses over the years - a blonde college student named Meg Masters. The name sticks, but her characterization and motivations change quite a bit over the course of the series. She initially befriends Sam on the road, but her manipulative nature is soon made somewhat evident by her efforts to drive a wedge between the brothers and it becomes glaringly obvious that Meg definitely isn't one of the good guys when she is shown murdering a guy who picked her up hitchhiking to use his blood to perform a communication spell. She later summons ancient shadow demons and systematically has them kill people from Lawrence to lure in the boys to capture them and use them as bait for John. During this time she flirts heavily with both of them and kisses Sam, teasing him for having watched her undressing earlier and telling him how much she liked him watching. She proclaims that she's fighting for the same things they are - "Love... loyalty... family..." and mocks them for thinking their kidnapping was actually about them. When Sam and Dean escape and destroy the altar Meg was using to control the Daevas, the older, more powerful beings turn on her. She survives the seven story drop off a building, going on to murder a smattering of their closest family friends in another attempt to get to John soon afterwards. This includes mocking and murdering Pastor Jim Murphy in his own church, then slitting Caleb's throat while taunting John on the phone. She does all these things in the service of her "Father," Azazel's cause. Things go south pretty fast for Meg when her "brother" Tom shoots her to test the fake colt, a betrayal that shocked and upset her, even coming from another demon. It goes from bad to worse for her when she goes to confront the boys at Bobby Singer's house and instead gets caught in a devil's trap and sent back to hell.

The next time Meg is heard from is when she possesses Sam in an act of revenge - and rebellion - in season two. She uses his body to kill another hunter, hoping to manipulate Dean into killing his brother. When her plan fails, she kicks things up a notch and goes to Twin Lake, Minnesota to see Jo Harvelle, physically assaulting her while letting her believe that Sam is himself at the time. She ties Jo up and taunts her about how John Winchester really killed her father. When Dean tracks her there, she shoots him and leaves him for dead in the lake, then heads to Bobby's. The veteran hunter spikes the beer he gives to "Sam" with holy water and manages to overpower the demon, and when she comes to she's tied up under the devil's trap again, but somehow resists being exorcised. She proves to be even more formidable than before by having employed a binding link to lock herself inside Sam's body and a spell that causes the earth to shake and the ceiling to crack, breaking the devil's trap and proceeding to rough up Dean. She expresses her anger over having been sent back to hell, which is awful and torturous even for demons, and taunts him about seeing John in hell. She plays on his insecurities about not being able to save his father or his brother and his feelings of worthlessness. When the binding link is finally broken with a hot iron, she is expelled from Sam's body and disappears for three seasons. This is the only time her loyalty to hell's authority is questionable, since she "doesn't give a rat's ass about the cause" and definitely endangered Azazel's plans by trying to get Sam killed. Later on, Meg references her intimate knowledge of Sam's mind, desires, and emotions gained while possessing him, even though it's clearly a sore subject.

There's a large gap in her on-screen appearances, a few lines of dialogue in Season 6's Caged Heat suggest that at some point after the events of Born Under a Bad Sign, Meg apprenticed under Alastair, becoming a master of torture. She returns in season five in a new body with shiny new crazy levels of commitment to serving Lucifer, even cockier than before and inflated with loyalty and enough devotion to rival the most psychotic zealot imaginable. She also refers to him as her "Father," but more in the sense of a God and Creator as compared to the familial bond that is indicated between her and Yellow-Eyes. When she runs into the Winchesters again, they mistake her for Ruby initially, but she tells them to "go back further." At the time, one of her henchmen is possessing Bobby Singer, and she instructs the demon to make Bobby kill Dean with Ruby's knife. Bobby manages to overpower the demon enough to turn the knife on himself instead, resulting in him being wheelchair-bound for the rest of the year, only regaining his ability to walk because of a clause in a deal he later makes with Crowley. When her backup is killed, Meg smokes out of her meat and escapes (though evidently returns for the body, which is the last one she ever possesses on-screen). She appears again in Carthage when she arrives to negotiate a meeting between the Winchesters and Lucifer, sicking a pack of hellhounds on them when they opt to do things "the hard way." This directly results in Jo being fatally eviscerated. Ellen consequently stays with her dying daughter to blow up the dogs, making Meg ultimately responsible for both of their deaths. When she returns to Lucifer, she stands guard over Castiel, who is trapped in a ring of holy fire, calling him "Clarence" in reference to It's a Wonderful Life and taunting him about how hell is going to win the apocalypse. She also references having beef with Crowley, and though we never get the full back story on why she hated him so much even before it was known to most demons that he betrayed Lucifer, it's extremely clear from her tone that she absolutely loathes the king of the crossroads. While she's going on and on, Castiel manages to loosen the bolts on a large pipe and swings it down to knock her into the ring fire with him, but fails to smite her due to being cut off from heaven. She laughs and calls him an "impotent sap," wondering aloud what he can do in a suggestive tone. The confrontation is laced with sexual tension, but that ends when he throws her down face first into the fire and uses her as a stepping stone to escape, walking away as she burns, screaming in pain.

When the apocalypse is averted and Lucifer is locked back in the cage, Crowley takes over hell and the loyalists, including Meg, are forced to go on the run. As Sam points out in their next meeting, it's "him or her," and Meg is nothing if not determined to survive as evidenced by the way she keeps turning up like a bad penny, despite having so much blood of those dearest to Sam and Dean on her hands. In Caged Heat, she kidnaps the boys once again to find out Crowley's location since she's aware that they've been working with him, and steals Ruby's knife in hopes of using it to kill the King. Sam (sans soul) strikes a deal with her, agreeing to let Meg torture and kill Crowley once she gets "some information" for them. She agrees, not yet knowing that they're trying to get Sam's soul back out of the cage. When Castiel reluctantly gets involved in the mission Meg overtly flirts with him, asking if he remembers her and telling her that she remembers him, using the "Clarence" nickname again. He asks why they're working with such an abomination, and she tells him to "keep talking dirty" because it "makes her meatsuit all dewy." When they arrive at the prison compound and realize they've walked into a trap, she attempts to bail on the entire thing, only to discover that she's stuck there, locked in her body and doomed to fight it out alongside team free will. She insists that the boys take Ruby's knife because it's their best shot at Crowley and stays behind to fight off the hellhounds since she can see them. The boys look on dismayed as she suddenly kisses Castiel, but even Meg is entirely caught off guard when he reciprocates by emulating a porno he'd been watching out of curiosity earlier and questions him despite obviously having enjoyed herself. When Castiel explains that he "learned that from the pizza man" her response is "well, A+ for you... I feel so clean." At that point it's revealed that the entire thing was a rouse for her to swipe his angel blade, even though she doesn't know for sure that it will work against hellhounds. She stays behind, fighting off the dogs successfully while the others escape that particular trap. She gets pretty beat up in the process but manages to come out on top. She is, however, disabled enough at that point for another demon to easily sneak up and knock her out, strip her naked, tie her down to a table and torture her by slicing her up with the demon-killing knife. Even though it's clearly a painful experience, it's obviously not the worst she's been through by a long shot. She laughs through the entire ordeal and taunts the other demon until Dean sneaks up behind and kills him. Being that they still need her at that point to take on Crowley, he unties her and she makes enough of a rapid recovery to get back on her feet and show off her own skills in torture. With a simple curl of her hand she's able to make Crowley double over and cough up blood, claiming that "the best torturers never get their hands dirty." When the Winchesters deem him useless for getting Sam's soul back, they give Meg the go-ahead to kill him. She gleefully struts into the devil's trap and states that "this is for Lucifer" before lunging at him, but Crowley quickly overpowers her, grabs the knife, and breaks the trap. She's only saved when Castiel appears again and seemingly kills the other demon, giving her the chance to disappear. Unfortunately for Meg, Castiel was actually working with Crowley at the time and didn't really kill him, leaving her biggest problem very much alive. At this point she goes on the run, laying low for another year before popping up again.

Meg resurfaces around the time that Dean finds "Emmanuel," who is really just Castiel sans memory. She bails Dean out by killing a demon that had attacked him in a convenience store and then talks Dean into working together to protect Castiel and save Sam. At this point there's a price on her head, she's running low on allies, and certainly running out of places to hide. She claims that she'll take power where she can get it and points out that Dean is doing the same thing, and that he shouldn't keep going with no backup. To gain access to Sam, Dean and Meg bring Cas to the hospital where Sam is being held in the psych ward. She's the one to explain to Castiel that he's an angel and encourages him to smite the demons, which jogs his memory. When Dean expresses doubt that Cas can pull it off, she disagrees, saying she "believes in the little tree topper." She acts very proud when Castiel succeeds, and appears somewhat concerned for him once he regains his memory but hangs back to let him talk it out with Dean. After the angel discovers that the only way he can help Sam is to absorb his memories of hell, he begins to suffer hallucinations and it becomes necessary for him to be admitted to the psych ward. Meg elects to stay behind and watch over him, manipulating her way into a job as a nurse. Sam questions whether they should kill her, and Dean argues that they can use her because it's mutually assured destruction.

She stays there and watches over a comatose Castiel for several weeks until he is woken up by the Winchesters unearthing a tablet that turns out to be the word of God. At the very moment that Cas wakes up, Meg is sitting by his bedside listening to music and flipping through a gossip magazine, with her feet propped up on his legs. She's still wearing her signature leather jacket and black studded boots with her scrubs. She calls Dean the following day and explains that Castiel is not quite himself and tells him that if they want answers, they should start driving. When the boys show up with the tablet and discover the full extent of the situation, a mentally altered Cas expresses affection for his caretaker, citing that all her "thorny pain" is "so beautiful." She fires back that they had been over this, she hates poetry, and that he ought to put up or shut up. Despite Cas' glowing review of her apparent nursing skills, the Winchesters refuse to keep her in the loop of what's going on. This irritates her and she threatens to take Cas and leave, pointing out that he would do what she said since she was the one who stayed by his side. Everything essentially goes sideways when the newly minted prophet Kevin and the angels sent to retrieve him show up. Meg incapacitates Kevin when he tries to run away with the tablet then fights off Inias and Hester, revealing that she has scavenged an angel sword of her own. When Hester insinuates that she's with Sam, Meg protests, clearly unimpressed with the idea despite her previous flirtations. After Dean banishes all the angels, Meg once again insists on safety in numbers, and he begrudgingly allows her to come with them to Rufus' cabin. She doesn't say anything when she realizes that two other demons have spotted them at a truck stop gas station, but is visibly anxious. After they've been back on the road for a while, Castiel calls her, confused about his whereabouts - a dog track in Perth, Australia. She explains the concept of a dog track, calms him down, and then gives him their exact location so he can re-join the group. Her tone of voice when speaking to the angel is uncharacteristically soft and kind, in sharp contrast with her snapping at Dean to shut up when he interrupts the phone call from the front seat. She also tells Cas to shut up when he appears and asks her if she's hurt, albeit with less vitriol than she directed at Dean. Once they get to the cabin, she grabs Ruby's knife and sneaks out. She determines that the other demons didn't tell anyone else about her location, then kills them both and heads back. Sam and Dean are skeptical and have a Devil's trap waiting for her just inside the front door when she returns, but Cas vouches for the fact that there is other demons' blood on the knife. Meg gives a speech, insisting that she's simpler than they think, and explaining her philosophy that "you find a cause and you serve it." She tells them that her current cause is bringing down Crowley, and insists that he is always a problem, wondering aloud why they don't get it. Sam lets her out of the Devil's trap, but moments later the angels return, having been alerted to their whereabouts by Meg killing the other demons. She disappears at first, but resurfaces when Hester seems intent on ending Castiel's life. She kills the other angel, saving him. In answer to everyone's shocked expressions, she shrugs it off and says that "someone had to." At that point, with Castiel safe, she opts to disappear and lay low again.

Her whole plan of disappearing and hiding out halfway across the globe is disrupted when Cas brings her back to the cabin once again, alerting everyone that the angels who had taken Kevin home were dead and that the prophet had been taken by the Leviathans. She sticks around and is mostly shown drinking beer and berating the boys for their failed strategies. When she realizes that they summoned Crowley and he never showed, she panics and claims that she's "outtie," but it's too late and the King of Hell appears, remarking on the "embarrassment of riches." He acts offended that the Winchesters would be working with Meg and Cas, and threatens both of them. He looks disgusted and Meg looks genuinely surprised when Castiel tells Crowley to leave her alone, and Crowley leaves, opting to make his move later so that they can help on the Winchesters' end of things with killing Dick Roman. Meg scolds Dean when he gets angry with Castiel and points out that the angel is the only one who can see past the shape-shifting Leviathans and discern which one Roman really is, and does end up sticking around to help. She speeds into the Sucrocorp parking lot in the Impala and crashes through the sign, takes a few bullets and personally annihilates Roman's security brigade with borax and a machete. Unfortunately for her, two of Crowley's men are waiting to take her prisoner once she has fulfilled her role in causing a big enough distraction to let the guys slip in and take care of Dick.

Crowley holds her prisoner and tortures her for over a year after this. At some point it becomes known to him that the angel tablet is in an old crypt of Lucifer's. Being that Meg is the sole surviving demon that was ever close enough to Lucifer's inner circle to see the location of his crypts, Crowley attempts to get the information out of her. She lets a few details slip here and there to give herself a break from the constant torture and send his men on a wild goose chase. Eventually, team free will crosses her path again and frees Meg when she agrees to help them. When they find her tied up in a hotel bathroom, she jokingly references Star Wars, telling Dean he's "a little short for a storm trooper." She's in bad shape at this point, beaten and bruised and wounded seemingly beyond her normal demonic healing capacity. Dean questions her new blonde hair color and she explains that it was Crowley's idea, and that it's "just another reason I want to stab him in the face." Sam calls her out the fact that several innocent people had died so she could buy herself some time, and her response is a sarcastic "Hi, I'm Meg, I'm a demon." They agree that they need to find the crypt and obtain the tablet, and ask for her help. Meg looks surprised and pleased to be included, smiling at Cas before agreeing to help.

Once they get back to their temporary safehouse, she cleans up a little, finds the location of the crypt for them, and wanders off to find some booze. Castiel follows her and tends to her wounds further and they talk. The demon questions the angel about why he's "so sweet on her" and inquires about his state of mind. He confirms that he's himself (even though he's under Naomi's control at the time) and that he does remember kissing her. He states that it's a good memory, and she looks happy to hear that he remembers it the way she does. Meg then talks about missing the apocalypse, when she was bad, he was good, and everything was simpler. She calls the current state of affairs messy and points out that she's "kinda good, which sucks" and that he's "kinda bad," which she cites as being "all manner of hot" and proposes that if they both survive going to the crypt to get the tablet, she'll order a pizza and they'll move some furniture around, insinuating that she wants to sleep with him. Just as what she's saying clicks for Cas, they're interrupted by Sam and Dean, and the four of them go off to retrieve the tablet. Meg stands guard with Sam while Castiel and Dean look for the crypt and they talk. The demon expresses her displeasure that they didn't come looking for her, which Sam doesn't really acknowledge. She's curious about the trials and acts miffed when Sam refuses to talk about it with her. Even when he points out that she hasn't been "the most trustworthy person" in their lives, Meg keeps trying to get Sam to talk, even if he won't give her details. She points out that she spent time in "that walking corpse of yours" and that she knows all of his "sad little thoughts and feelings." Even when she states that she remembers his desire to live a long, happy life "away from creepy old things like me," Meg questions Sam about bailing on being a hunter because he met a girl and fell in love, and remarks that she must have been one rare creature. Despite not understanding why he stopped his car when he hit the dog that led to him meeting the veterinarian Amelia in the first place, she sums up Sam's story in her own special way, declaring that he fell in love with a unicorn. "It was beautiful and then sad and then sadder. I laughed, I cried, I puked in my mouth a little." She then admits, "honestly, I kinda get it." Their chat is cut short when some of Crowley's demons find them. Meg and Sam get rid of them, but then Crowley appears. Meg tells Sam to go save his brother and her unicorn, admitting in a roundabout way that she really does care for Castiel.

She and Crowley talk, and even when he reveals to her that Sam is trying to close the gates of hell and thus kill every demon, she grins and laughs, replying, "You had me at 'kill you,' Crowley." There's nothing left for the two of them to discuss at that point, and Crowley lunges at Meg with an angel sword. They fight hand-to-hand, with her at a serious disadvantage, and she's beaten to a bloody pulp as Sam escapes to go find Dean. He drags her up from the pavement, saying he could beat on her for eternity. Shes slurs at him to "take all the time you want, you pig." As the boys make their escape, Meg taunts Crowley about Cas escaping with the angel tablet, and takes her shot at killing him. Her blade misses and hits his shoulder. A look of horror and dismay crosses her face and then it's over for Meg. Crowley drives an angel blade up to the hilt in her gut and her meatsuit flashes orange as the demon dies at the hand of her hated arch-nemesis.


Abilities/Special Powers:

Telekinesis: Meg can move things with her mind. Example: Throwing Dean and Bobby simultaneously against walls in Born Under a Bad Sign.

Biokinesis: She is able to torture/manipulate internal organs. Example: causing enough pain and damage to make Crowley keel over and cough up blood in Caged Heat.

Super-strength: Kicking in solid wood doors, overpowering grown men, etc.

Teleportation: Meg can disappear and reappear in different locations. Example: In Reading is Fundamental she is nowhere to be seen as soon as the angels burst into the cabin, but she reappears out of nowhere and kills Hester when she is about to kill Castiel.

Witchcraft: Meg is often seen casting spells - Examples: communication spells, controlling the daevas, using a binding link, breaking a devil's trap, manipulating the air/electromagnetic fields around herself.

Possession: Meg can possess human beings and control their actions.

Flight: In her true form of black smoke, Meg can fly.

Invulnerability/Healing/Regeneration: Bullets, seven story drops, knife torture, and severe beatings are a few examples of things that don't actually slow her down much. She even eventually heals from being burned by holy fire.

Immortality: Demons are dark and twisted immortal souls. Though they can be killed by angels, leviathans, and of course with certain spells and weapons (angel blade, ruby's knife, colt, etc.), but they otherwise have potentially unlimited lifespans.


Third-Person Sample:

Meg groans as she comes to, finding herself sprawled out on the floor of a strange room. Her hand goes to the gaping wound in her gut and she stares at the blood glistening on her hand, confused. The last thing she remembers is dying - or so she thought? Not that she's complaining, but what the hell? She's already got one afterlife under her belt, and last time she checked? One was all anybody got to work with.

The demon sits up, cursing under her breath at the pain radiating through her middle. "That's gonna leave a mark," she mumbles to herself, wondering how damn long it would take to heal from being run through with an angel blade, provided this isn't all some cruel joke. She gets up slowly, reaching out and leaning up against a nearby wall for support. Moving at all is kind of a bitch at the moment, but weakness doesn't suit her. Meg grits her teeth and takes a few steps toward the nearest door, hesitating for a moment. She doesn't trust anything about this, but if she's as dead as she thinks she is, she hasn't got a damn thing to lose.

When she turns the knob and peeks through, she sighs at herself, exasperated. It's only a bathroom. She doesn't know what she had been expecting, but it isn't an unwelcome sight. She slips inside and flips on the light, taking a moment to stare at herself in the mirror above the sink. Her meatsuit is almost unrecognizable; battered and bruised worse than before, blood flowing freely into her matted blonde mess of hair. She begins to strip mechanically, hissing in a sharp breath as she peels her ruined blouse from her wounded torso. Even if she could see the girl in the mirror that continues to stare at her with unblinking black eyes and a creepy smile fixed on her face, the jolt of pain might have been enough of a distraction for even Meg to miss it. Leaving her clothes in a pile on the floor, she steps into the shower and turns it on, closing her eyes as she enjoys the shock of cold water before the warmth starts to kick in.

As the water tops out at almost scalding temperatures, she takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly - and it finally starts to sink in. She's alive. Against all odds, she survived. A smug sense of satisfaction comes over her and a smirk plays on her lips as she tips her head back under the stream of water, letting it do its work to remove any evidence of fragility. Meg would worry about the how, the why, and where the hell she was later. With all she's been through, the demon isn't bothered; all that matters at the moment is that she's still kickin' somewhere - and how good it feels to wash off over year of torture and one hell of a beatdown - no thanks to that smarmy dick. If she never sees Crowley again, it'll be too soon.

First-Person Sample:

So lemme get this straight -

[After taking some time to explore and discovering that she ain't exactly in Kansas anymore, Meg is marginally less impressed with her situation than before. But hey - she's alive... so... there's that. Her tone is flat, expression calm. By this point she's scored some new clothes and patched herself up. Nurse Masters, indeed. Overall, she's looking a little more Fight Club and a little less Carrie after the prom.]

Wonderland, huh?

[The demon sighs, shaking her head, looking simultaneously irritated and amused.]

Guess down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass is better than dead as a doornail, unless I'm missing something big here. Anyone care to fill a gal in? Do me a favor and skip the tea party, though.

[She takes a swig from the now mostly-empty bottle of whiskey that she rescued from a dusty liquor cabinet and gives it a disapproving look for no longer being full.]

There any more booze in this dump?