Giles ,'Selfless'
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Two more things that fic writers don't need to include:
1) "I was named after the angel of Thursday. My parents were very religious." 2) "Huh, I wonder why I just suddenly started calling this guy 'Cas'?"/"Dean! Why did you give Castiel a nickname?!"/"What did you just call me?"
"Huh, I wonder why I just suddenly started calling this guy 'Cas'?"/"Dean! Why did you give Castiel a nickname?!"/"What did you just call me?"
OMG YES. I'm a bitch for the moment where Dean first calls him Cas, every time, but stop calling it out so much, people.
I especially hate "Castiel is a dumb name, I'ma call you Cas instead." Urgh, guys. Way to hang a flag on it.
Huh. Took some time aside and read Luminous. My god, could she beat up on Dean more and not have character death?
That having been said, I totally fell for it--not precisely enough to rec, because I didn't enjoy it. But she had me in the emotional rollercoaster. I just didn't feel good about it at the time.
So I'm conflicted. As H/C, lots of H, and the C was a bit...weird.
If I can't handle the smattering of other End!verse fics out there, I doubt I can handle Luminous.
Way to hang a flag on it.
Seriously, Show got by just fine with just having it arise unremarked-upon
I adore Endverse fics (although I have to space out my reading), and Luminous was appalling to me. So definitely steer clear.
I went through that author's other Dean/Castiel, and she reuses a line of Dean dialogue in Luminous. Hmmph. I like her BAMF Cas, though, so I will definitely read other things she writes. And she did schmoop the hell out of the comfort part of the h/c. But still, the damage she had to do to our boy to get there...
Okay, so I might read the comfort part again sometime. Whatever. Don't judge me.
What exactly is Luminous about?
Lucifer possesses Jimmy Novak and pretends to be Castiel and leads Dean far astray. Like, real far. PTSD, Stockholm syndrome, the whole deal. I had to skim bits because I didn't want to imagine all that trauma.
Oh, holy mother of crap. Yeah, no thanks.
I peeked, I couldn't help it, so I bring some sweet schmoop for the first time Dean says "I Love You" to erase my own and others trauma: [link]
After three parts, I have to admit the whole thing feels kind of rushed.