I love the look on his face in that wedding photograph. It's so consummately creeper. Yes, he will sneak into your bedroom and rape and kill you. Is there a question?
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'Sleeper'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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§ ita § - Feb 02, 2011 12:54:09 pm PST #17414 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Feb 02, 2011 12:55:58 pm PST #17415 of 30002
Because books.
Wow, I scrolled right by that. And then I was distracted by her super!80s! bangs.
Way to skeeve, Misha. Excellent work.
Juliebird - Feb 02, 2011 1:08:41 pm PST #17416 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm actually peeved that he thinks Castiel can read minds. YOU'RE WRONG!
§ ita § - Feb 02, 2011 1:19:11 pm PST #17417 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm actually peeved that he thinks Castiel can read minds. YOU'RE WRONG!
Except...somehow he knew about Chastity's father. I'm kinda stuck on that. I don't want it to be true, but he did know how she felt about him.
Juliebird - Feb 02, 2011 1:23:26 pm PST #17418 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
crap
Juliebird - Feb 02, 2011 1:26:49 pm PST #17419 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Wait, but it's not surface thoughts he's reading, not like the way fanon has it. He's seeing the sum of a person and their basic fears hopes and life experience and all the shit surrounding that. I'm pretty sure Chastity wasn't thinking about her dad as she was getting to ready to get to work on Cas.
I think that's the big difference for me.
§ ita § - Feb 02, 2011 1:30:41 pm PST #17420 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty sure Chastity wasn't thinking about her dad as she was getting to ready to get to work on Cas.
Unless she was. I mean, we can't rule it out. I don't think it's unlikely enough.
Is it really a defining characteristic of her? Or did she have a fleeting thought about men and her father? I think textual interpretation can go either way, pretty fairly.
There's also his "You don't think you deserve to be saved" up for consideration.
As noted, I'm not of the camp that likes angel telepathy. I think it makes things too easy, but doesn't explain enough. But if they could read minds and still sucked at what they did the way they did, that's pretty funny. Because Dean straight up lied to Zach.
Calli - Feb 02, 2011 1:34:49 pm PST #17421 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maybe a mind is like a book to Cas. He has make the effort to open it up (in a non-physical manner, judging by Chastity's appearance) and read it. Rather than a radio where he hears the thoughts whether he wants to or not.
Amy - Feb 02, 2011 1:39:49 pm PST #17422 of 30002
Because books.
There's also his "You don't think you deserve to be saved" up for consideration.
That seemed like an effort to understand, to me -- just voicing his thoughts aloud.
But I do assume Cas has some deeper knowledge of Dean anyway. If you put someone back together from scratch, you know his hands were all over Dean's soul, and all that it might contain.
Juliebird - Feb 02, 2011 1:42:11 pm PST #17423 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I like that, Calli.
The "don't deserve to be saved" came off, to me, as more of a surprised conclusion to seeing different aspects of Dean, and not a parroting of something Dean was thinking.
I also think the writer's didn't really think this through. As we discussed before, with Zacchariah's dumb-assery with how he handled them and other instances where mind-reading/soul-reading/life-experience-reading would have been really handy and saved them a lot of trouble.