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shallowseeker · 9 days ago

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this whole episode is cas thinking about what he himself is and the brutal "heartless" role he will undertake out of necessity to protect his loved ones

War is what Michael does, he says.

War is what my family does.

And when Dean says: "Well, then we do what we do"

what Dean means is stick together. Protect one another. Find another way.

BUT

Dean's family hunts

But Cas...

Cas's (angel) family wars.

And Cas wants to protect them FROM that, and with very, very good reason. (I mean.. .They're literally going to a world that is THE Heaven family on steroids. Even Ketch changes his tune about angels after seeing them fight for real.)

So, Cas...

During all this, Cas decides pretty much this: I AM A SOLDIER AND I WILL OUT-SOLDIER MY WHOLE STUPID WAR-MONGERING FAMILY TO KEEP MY HUMAN FAMILY SAFE

"I'm not Sam and Dean." I'm not human. (Goodbye, coat of humanity.)

Love and protectorship can be very

very

scary indeed...

"I'm an angel. I'll be the monster so you don't have to be."

also LOL sam forever taking cas's side and winning negative brownie points for it

script via @spnscripthunt-inactive

#spn 13x14 #this isn't just as simple as a fight about the hypocritical charge of WHO GETS TO MAKE THAT CHOICE FOR A HUMAN OR A MONSTER #i think also abt cas rising away from humanity & pulling away from the human fam to become more like his angel fam and it's DElicious #dean does this too a fair amount when it comes to doing the *hard thing - the ugly thing* in ref to normies #it's the thing that isolates dean from human civilians* for example and it IS referenced in-series a fair amt...#it's just easier for him to chafe against seeing that change in ppl he loves and wants better FOR #and yeah I'm getting VERY philosophical here but #and it's also a thing ... like a plane of existence... that separates them FROM one another on the food chain / the business of living and #it's also difficult for dean because he wants to stay beside his angelic family members... like in the same mode of existing ykwim???#i sometimes wonder if dean can FEEL when the angel-human distance grows and it scares him #more and more this wish feels like a tragic impossibility #with cas and especially with jack who is separate even from cas #cas in war mode

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