Though, seriously, the show gives PLENTY.

It's not like I haven't extra-woobified him myself, either.

there's an issue of "what to do with Castiel?" next season

My best guess is that he would become completely human, which would be fun to watch.

I would miss Bobby like whoa, but I think they wrote themselves into a corner with him at this point.

It just gets bad that I want to read fics where authors beat up on Sam because people are so heartily caught up in creating new and inventive ways to torture Dean. Also, Castiel.

I think the inclination to beat up on Sam got overshadowed by the chance to make him Really! Evil! after the whole "chosen one" thing was revealed in S3.

Have the Dean/Castiel people read strangeandcharm's Thursday's Child? I can't get to LJ to get to it to link to it from here, but I quite enjoyed it. It's set in The Endverse, but it posits that 2009!Dean never visited, and that the Colt worked on Lucifer.

Oh, and it beats up on our two leads something awful.

I'm not saying I don't flock to the whumpage like flies to honey....

It's all your fault I even read Dean/Castiel, damn you.

::wanders off to find story::

though I am perhaps overestimating the CW's interest in the show at all.

I never underestimate how weirdly overinvested they get with shows while having very little apparent clue what brought the fans to the show in the first place. If the CW is choosing, we'll keep Castiel. Misha is fan-nip...

If they wrap up the End Times bit, really I don't see where Castiel fits in next year's shows but then I'm not a writer or showrunner, so.

I don't want Bobby to die but I sort of expect Bobby to die.

I just don't want Missouri back or mentioned. It's the only way I can be sure she survives this Winchester mess and she should totally get to live.

...

They should call The Doctor. Just this once, everybody lives?

Just this once, everybody lives?

I swear, every time we discuss who might die in here, this is what goes echoing through my head.

Whose death do you think would hurt the boys the most?

Bobby's is the death they'll feel most, I think. He is a surrogate dad to them.

Whose death do you think would hurt the boys the most?

Bobby's is the death they'll feel most, I think. He is a surrogate dad to them.

I think Dean is probably equally in awe of how much each of them have invested in him (perhaps slightly more about Cas), but the history Bobby has must count for more.

Amy, I'd love to apologise, but...no! Dean/Cas makes too much sense. And End!Dean/Cas is all sorts of inevitable, and I like how she did it here.