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Dean and Cas every day not often enough -- 48/?
Supernatural 9x06//Heaven Can't Wait
Dean and Cas in every moment of Heaven Can’t Wait --22/?
Supernatural 9x06//Heaven Can't Wait
How often did we see Cas truly scared like this across twelve seasons? Twice? Three times?
This episode is cute six ways from Sunday, and angsty as anything, so yay fanservice, but this was the scene that stuck in my head afterwards: Cas, former angel, warrior of God, abandoning Dean's side and supporting himself against the car because he's so afraid of what they're facing. He doesn't even know how to explain to Dean how bad it is. He doesn't even twig that he himself is a likely target, not even later when he's defending the baby, until it's spelled out to him that his own pain is a beacon. So this is Big Picture scared, not, "Crap, I'm in immediate danger!" scared. This is Cas fucking daunted by a situation without his powers to fall back on. It's horror.
I guess having a soldier backstory where your reality is, "And if you're ever REALLY badly hurt fighting the righteous fight for our Father's eternal glory, this special type of angel will show up on the battlefield and euthanise you by turning you instantly and painlessly into very messy scenery paint," ... yeah, that'd leave some mental scars you didn't know you had until it suddenly mattered.
Zoiks!
Dean and Cas in every moment of Heaven Can’t Wait –4/?
Supernatural 9x06//Heaven Can’t Wait
"If I load a headcanon where they've already been lovers in the past,"
Please share the past lovers headcanon?Season/episodes?
I didn't have anything specific in mind when I wrote that. I remember getting to the early season 8 episodes before actually thinking, "Wait...did Dean and Cas fuck in Purgatory?"
Then I got overexcited about Naomi brainwashing Cas and the meta-storyline and all the lovely hurt/comfort/whump/angst, and my slash braincell wandered off for a bit.
Season 9 pinged my slash radar too, human-feels!Cas and distracted!Dean, but that season could've been intentionally written to keep the two of them physically separated. It's like a season-long chastity belt!! Nothing a determined slasher can't overcome with tenacity and a Jedi handwave, spinning time for them out of a pause for breath in the narrative (9x03 I'm No Angel and 9x06 Heaven Can't Wait being obvious choices with a smidge of offscreen unaccounted-for time), but I'm still at the stage of noodling over why the Supernatural creators made that choice for their story and characters. Cuz it plays like they just plain got spooked by the 'profound bond', there (!).
If you like a canon-compliant fanfic setting (which I usually do), most of Supernatural is thin gruel as a setting for any sustained 'shipping - for any pairing. I can think of a dozen good moments where I could shoehorn in a feels-raw PWP without difficulty, but anything lasting and exploratory between them... They're just so ridiculously occupied the whole time!
I bet there's a ton of 5x04 'Endverse' Cas/Dean fanfic, because it's one of the few opportunities to really get stuck in for any sustained smutty storyline - to give them days/weeks/years to play with. And because those two were so very obviously doing the deep rugged nasty anyway, obviously.
This episode broke my heart. In that good, 'must write 100,000 words of fanfiction immediately to process my pain' kind of way.
(End searchingly insightful Supernatural meta of the day.)
Dean and Cas every day not often enough -- 48/?
Supernatural 9x06//Heaven Can't Wait
The most therapeutic conversation Cas gets to have during his unwillingly-human kicked-puppy phase is with someone too young to a) understand, b) reply, and c) give a damn.
I love it.
Castiel every day so often -- 54/139
Supernatural 9x06//Heaven Can't Wait
Supernatural - Crowley wrestles with a vending machine (S09E16)
Dean putting on his stern dad voice and getting up to handle it like they're talking about their child who's doing something wrong while they're at a family outing 💀