ita, I was going to promise not to write your tumblr on bathroom walls, but after finding the dildo, I just might out of pettiness.
ION, I was rewatching The End, and the scene where End!Cas recognizes that Dean is not his Dean, it made me wonder. End!Cas is not human, but he's cut off from Heaven and is mortal. Yet he still retained the ability to sense something about Dean that immediately told him Dean was not of his time. Which then got me thinking about what season 4 Cas could sense about Dean, see in him. What falling season 5 Cas could sense and see.
We had discussions before about whether Cas could read Dean's mind, or sense his surface thoughts or read his emotions, and maybe discounted that because if Zacchariah could do either, his game was way off when it came to choosing the right pressure points on Dean in getting him to say yes to Michael. But I think those conversations were before Cas' announcement of their profound bond. Or, shoot, maybe it was posited that Cas being the one to raise Dean from Hell connected him to Dean in a more intimate way that the rest of the angels didn't have access to.
Oh, nevermind me. I just had a moment of "Gosh, Cas must have been super attuned to Dean this whole time!" even if it was sort of forgotten after his first appearance by Show for two seasons.
He's not completely mortal in The End, even if he's close. And I think it's simply an issue of him knowing Dean so well -- in 2014, they've been together in this close-knit group nearly every day, so a Dean without the usual brooding angst is probably going to strike him as odd.
Also? The writers aren't completely consistent with the angels' powers in the first place. In Cas's second appearance on the show, he tells Dean that angels died on the battlefield that day, but later, everyone is shocked! that angels are dying, and no one can figure out how they're doing it.
Well, he says he "went mortal" and is "all but human" and "not an angel anymore". Also, when he goes all WHOA on Dean, he's looking at Dean's feet (or crotch), not his relatively less tortured face. So, uh, Cas recognized Dean's boots as ones he hasn't worn in five years or more, perhaps?
Definitely writer inconsistencies. As for the angels dying, maybe there were rogue angels on the side of Hell? /wank. And then Dean killing an angel. Maybe there's a difference between angels dying in vessels and angels dying in their true form? Although, I'd think it more logical that an angel dying in a vessel to be less surprising than them dying in battle on a celestial plane.
I thought it would have been angels in vessels dying, because at that point the rift between the angels wasn't yet known. Unless I'm not remembering right.
I should rewatch.
Even Raphael had a vessel killed out from under him, so it is possible that really competent demons were able to surprise a few angels and inconvenience them with unexpected vessel shopping during the whole 66 Seals mess.
Matt, when was that? I only remember Balthazar using the Sodom and Gommorah crystal on him.
I'm assuming that was it. His vessel was killed.
Yep. Raphael himself (itself?) was merely inconvenienced, but apparently the host was killed dead enough that resurrection wasn't practical.
I'd set that as a different instance, in that it was an angel that wielded the weapon, and that it was a heavenly weapon.
serial: fic people, PSA, Cas' hair, even in The End, has never been long enough to "flop into his eyes".
I'm rereading fossarian's mafia AU to make up for the two dreadful recent entries, and even she makes this mistake. I can forgive an AU for giving Cas longer hair. But in a fic that makes Cas such an effiecient killer, having hair a length that gets in the eyes is just a professional blunder. And he wouldn't wear the trenchcoat. It'd be like high heels and skirts and long hair on a badass girl (realistically, not on TeeVee).
