Cas is not Superman's story. Cas is a robot created after Dax Novu was created and then split into two, and Dax Novu itself was created after the Flaw, where within the Flaw, precisely at its heart, there already existed a "Superman story" which was an indestructible story. Unlike Cas who was damaged beyond repair, Superman's story isnt. Cas is a robot that was meant to protect the flaw with the stories inside it, that
revolves around Hero & Crime/villain or good and evil. As well thought robot activated by fusing a
two opposite energy of its stories, superman as selfless act Hero(good) and Ultraman as crime(
Evil who wants to burn the world)
And there's evil story that wants to destroy this harmony, just like Morrison said that he want to tell about nature of DC story that always homeostatically reset it. With his final crisis event :
Mandrakk after Final Crisis superman beyond(after cas broken): "I saw the book of Limbo, the end was all flames and shadow"
Nix : "THIS MULTIVERSE HAS NATURAL DEFENSE none of you could imagine"
What does this mean?
morrison(inside the mind of morrison interview):
A.) "Unmaking DCU to the point of destruction and showing HOW ITS INTERNAL RULES HOMEOSTATICALLY RESET IT. SUPERMAN ALWAYS SAVES THE DAY OR HE'S NOT SUPERMAN, ITS A SELF PERPETUATING IDEA. So I wanted to get in everything I felt about that, and I knew it was ambitious, but I actually do think we nailed it." (Inside the
B.) "In a lot of ways it's yet another twist on this relentless idea of realistic superhero comics, because the 'realism' in this one comes from the reader's acknowledgment that what he holds in his hands is a section of a real, alternate universe of superheroes, living out lives across decades."
The self perpetuating idea of Superman(internal rules of story)causing a "flaw" that contains DC stories to stabilize itself(homeostatically reset it)[Interview 1] This has been going on for a long time, how this story or this multiverse can outlast its own writers[B & Interview 2]. So it doesn't just happen during the final crisis or the final crisis of Superman beyond, this has been happening for a long time how DC stories still exist today.
Final Crisis is how Morrison reveals what's been in his mind, about the nature of DC stories[A], where the self perpetuating idea of Superman are already embedded in real-life humans, especially readers, so he can live through many decades and outlast their writers[B & Interview 2]. So when the reader read Final Crisis that "unmaking DCU to the point of destruction", they will think :
"Oh they will survive like the previous stories that ended with To be continued"
That's why even though Cas is supposed to be the protector expected to be able to overcome threats "
instantly" instead, he can't protect the Flaw with himself. As we see, he becomes a punching bag for Mandrakk until he is damaged beyond repair, and
this is normal because the story at that time dictates that evil will win & cas also feels that story trying to destroy him. But after many blows, the internal rules of the story begin to stabilize themselves, fixing everything so that Cas also feel it and said "
The inexorable logic of living story drives us to its conclusion". After Cas aware of this inexorable logic of stories, cas says "
there's something about Stories you should know" and he writes "
To be Continued" and says "let them be a warning". He(cas) tells and reminds/warns to monitors that Stories will fix everything to stabilize back to the initial harmony, exactly as prime said as a reader:
It will end like the others, with a to be continued,
so what does anything matter, they got rebooted and
this, he has read superman die in the comic but he always comes back.
Many people misunderstand about living story here. Living story does not mean that cas is a living story, but how Morrison considers DC stories to be alive because it can stabilize itself through its internal rules, which is the self-perpetuating idea of superman that creates an indestructible story (how its internal rules homeostatically reset it). This is what Morrison meant by why DC stories are "living or "organic"
So it should be clear after statement from Cas & nix that Cas didn't change the stories in the final crisis Superman beyond, the story was still corrupted and was stabilizing itself until the end of final crisis #7 how nix uotan said "This multiverse has NATURAL DEFENSE NONE OF YOU COULD IMAGINE" & Monitors are amazed at how this Multiverse can survive.
Again, It's NATURAL DEFENSE of the multiverse who alters the stories, not CAS. It was stated after CAS is broken. As CAS said "there's something about Stories you should know" this all happened because of the nature of the story itself, CAS didn't really protect the flaw by rewriting the story. He was helped by the nature of the story. Where the nature of the story is always "to be continued" with its internal rules that work to stabilize the story itself, which is the self-perpetuating idea of Superman that forms the indestructible story of Superman.
So the conclusion is, cas doesn't rewrite the story, he's assisted by the nature of story(self perpetuating idea of superman)
This is repetitive because IM tired explaining that cas is assisted by the inexorable logic of DC story or nature of DC story(natural defense)not rewrite the story. That's why he warns to monitors about stories that always to be continued even though he's destroyed beyond repair. But to be continued is an inexorable logic via SELF PERPETUATING IDEA of superman
