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).
Unless you're literally in battle, as opposed to first line of urban defense, I will give a guy hair long enough to flop in his eyes (not in his mouth) . And the coat--plenty of them on fighting men. That's not a rarity,
