Hes In Love...with Humanity

He’s in love...with humanity

I was curious and decided to look up what people thought about 9x22, and the “he’s in love…with humanity” line with the benefit of hindsight. I saw a fair few comments that basically amounted to, “but why can’t it just mean that Cas is in love with humanity?” I honestly can’t believe that this is an argument we’re still having. I understand people who say that Dean only has platonic/brotherly feelings for Cas. I don’t agree with them, but I can see how they would come to this conclusion. I can also understand when people say Metatron was a villain, and his words aren’t the exact truth. Again I don’t agree with it, particularly given the events of 9x23, but I get it.

What I truly cannot get my head around is the idea that, Metatron’s words literally mean, Cas is in love with humanity at large. 

Naomi didn’t make him kill thousands of humans to brainwash him into heaven’s weapon, she made him kill thousands of copies of Dean.

It wasn’t humanity that knelt before him, gripping his hand and broke the connection Naomi had with him, by telling him how important and needed he was by humanity in general. It was Dean, and how much he was needed by Dean that did that.

When Cain revealed his plans for culling 1/10 of the human race, Cas was horrified but he tried to talk to him, make him see reason. But the second Cain mentioned Dean:

Cas drew his weapon, prepared to fight. A gesture that did not go unnoticed by Cain, and what lead him to “suspect” what Castiel was to Dean, if ascribing him the Colette role in his prophecy to Dean is any indication.

If it’s humanity that Cas is so in love with, why would he be willing to stand back and watch Dean “murder the world” rather than bring himself to hurt him?

Ishim didn’t refer to humanity in general as Cas’ “human weakness”. He knew that his own human weakness was one individual in particular, Lily, the woman he was in love with. It’s why he recognised that Cas’ human weakness was also one individual in particular, Dean, the man he is in  ______ with?

In 14x01 Jack proposed that to defeat Michael, they needed to be prepared to kill Dean as well. Michael was a deadly threat to all of humanity and Jack recognised that he needed to be stopped at any cost. And of course Cas, who’s so in love with humanity, was completely on board with sacrificing one man for the sake of the human race in general right? Hmmm.

And then we circle back to the context of the line in question in relation to the episode it was in, 9x22. Metatron addresses the angels that are following Cas. He reveals some of the unsavoury things that Cas has done in order to turn them against him. And yet, there is only one thing Hannah asks of Cas: to punish Dean Winchester. Not Sam and Dean, not any other human, just Dean. Of course he refuses. He gives up an army for one guy and Metatron says those words:

“And then after a rousing speech, his true weakness is revealed. He’s in love…with humanity”.

There was no mention of ‘’humanity’’ or any other human after Metatron’s video call to Cas’ angel headquarters. There was no moment where Cas’ love for humanity was what caused the angels to turn against him. It was his love for Dean, it’s always his love for Dean. The action of giving up his army for Dean could have been construed as gesture based purely on platonic love, but it was the show itself that said he did this because he was ‘’in love’’.

Cas revealed his feelings for humanity in 4x07:

He loves and admires humanity, like one would admire a work of art. 

But Dean on the other hand:

(obligatory singular plural)

There are many things about Destiel the show has fostered a sense of ambiguity around, but the notion that for Cas, it is always Dean above all else? That, has never been in question. After all Metatron said it best in 9x23:

And the Angel tablet, arguably the most powerful instrument in the history of the universe, is in pieces, and for what again? Oh, that’s right: to save Dean Winchester. That was your goal, right?

Does Cas look like he disagrees?

@mrsaquaman187 @magnificent-winged-beast @emblue-sparks @verobatto-angelxhunter @metafest

Thanks for organising this metafest! It was a really great way to spend the hiatus, thinking back over the show and reading other people’s thoughts on all the various topics too :) 

Important!!

It’s okay to be bad at things. If you like drawing, but none of your art is aesthetically pleasing to anyone, keep doing it. If you like singing, but you can’t hit any of the right notes, keep doing it. If you like dancing, but you don’t have a good feel of the music, keep doing it. Don’t stop doing the things that you love just because you aren’t good at them and don’t ever let anyone shame you for it. 

Fuck yes!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 make this happen! At least somebody write this fic, because fuck this is an awesome idea ❤️❤️❤️❤️

EPISODE WHERE DEAN GETS THROWN BACK IN TIME BY ACCIDENT AND HE MEETS THIS WOMAN THERE AND HE CAN’T QUITE PUT HIS FINGER ON IT BUT FOR SOME REASON HE JUST FEELS REALLY CLOSE TO HER.

AND WHILE THE TWO ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET DEAN BACK TO HIS OWN TIME, THEY GET CLOSE

AND ONCE IT’S TIME TO LEAVE, DEAN REALIZES THAT HE’S IN LOVE WITH HER…

AND, BECAUSE SHE LOVES HIM TOO, SHE DECIDES TO REVEAL HER TRUE IDENTITY.

SHE’S AN ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND HER NAME IS CASTIEL.

AND SUDDENLY EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE.

ALL THE SILENT STARES, ALL THE TIMES CAS HAS STOOD JUST A LITTLE TOO CLOSE, THE BROKEN-NESS IN THOSE BLUE EYES THAT DEAN COULD NEVER QUITE EXPLAIN…

THE WHOLE TIME, CAS WAS JUST WAITING.

WAITING FOR DEAN TO KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED ALL THOSE YEARS AGO.

WAITING FOR DEAN TO FEEL THE SAME.

It got better 😂

How did cas go from ‘show me some respect’ to wearing cowboy hats cause dean said so

I’m definitely saying this from now on 👍🏻

my mom asked why i don’t read as many books as i used to and i just said it was because i read a lot of unpublished stories from independent writers online and she thinks that’s very good of me to give undiscovered authors a chance

hahaha

i just read gay porn

sam winchester would be so blown away by our support of him that he wouldn’t even be able to talk about it for a minute, okay

he’d be so grateful and so touched

and we’d all scramble for some kleenex from our purse just in case he needed it but he probably wouldn’t omg