Imagine Jack asking if Dean would play dress-up with him in an attempt to connect with Dean in some kind of way, since Dean *clearly* loves dressing up so much.
And Dean would scoff and act all offended that something as serious as their under-cover gear is being referred to as silly dress-up clothes.
But then Dean begrudgingly agrees and (being a true LARPer at heart) gets really into it and they start playing playing a game of Cowboys and Outlaws.
Cas would just be confused at how he was talked into being tied up for the entire afternoon, sitting on top of a chalk outlined railroad track waiting to be rescued, while Jack and Dean have pretend shoots out in the hallways with plastic plastic guns, it all eventually leading to a quickdraw duel on top of the library tables.
Dean of course playing the dastardly, gunslinging outlaw who’s wanted Dead or Alive to Jack’s shiny new Sheriff who just wants to protect the good and honest folk of Bunkerville, Kansas. (Population: 4. 5 if you count Miracle.)
cas and jack sitting in the kitchen slow blinking at each other. dean walking in, grabbing a beer, and walking back out. sam is like what the fuck are they doing. dean is like yeah they do that. they’re bonding. leave them alone.
jack winning connect 4 against cas but cas winning chess against jack. dean walking by and making some snarky remark ("gee, cas, who's winning?") but cas shuts him down immediately ("i'm not going to go 'easy' on him, dean, that would be an insult to my perception of his intellgence." then, cheerfully from jack, "i don't mind losing.")
and then dean sighs ("well, kid, let me at least try to help you out") and bends down next to jack, who is watching in admiration as he assumes dean is coming up with something clever. he is not. ("move that one there," he says nondescriptively, and cas captures the piece just as quickly as jack sets it down.) jack shoots dean a look of betrayal, and dean is torn between laughing at the childish competitiveness that cas holds with their son and abandoning the situation entirely. embarrassed, he elects for the second option, and walks off to the kitchen, asking what jack wants for lunch.
Why are there no SPN/TWD crossovers where dean and Sam are Negan’s kids??? Like am I the only one who thinks that’s a good plot idea?? And would make a lot more sense??? Please??????
it’s rlly interesting to me that so many villains try to manipulate jack by saying that they’re just trying to control him or that they taught him to fear his powers and that he’s only kept in the bunker as a prison to protect the world basically , and pretty much every time he either ignores it & doesn’t respond . but he also doesn’t outwardly disagree (Duma asked if they’d taught him to fear his powers and he fucking shrugs ) and on one hand
> it’s crazy how often the writers will try and hint at their dynamic being kind of fucked up or question if it’s still on a “you only care about what he can do for you” basis — like when jacks own psychotic hallucination insisted that he was only ever their pet monster weapon muscle whose only value came from being useful — only to never go anywhere with it, never have jack actually take that question into consideration
but on the other if we’re assuming that jack is like wordlessly agreeing that he is in fact being contained and controlled and isolated from the world as a safety precaution by the people he explicitly views as both his fathers and his friends? and that he’s supposedly just okay with all of that ?? because he knows that he’s legitimately dangerous? what am I supposed to do with this? what were the writers trying to do with it??? why didn’t they actually do something with it?
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Dean: "He saved me. Billie was coming after us, and Cas summoned the Empty. It took her, and it took him. Cas is gone."
I think this episode's relative silence about Cas is actually one of the most interesting things about it because it really draws attention to the major hole in Dean's story, which is how he summoned the Empty. The Then for this episode doesn't include the "I love you" and most of the other mentions of Cas are moved to the deleted scenes, and then the one time we think he's back it's actually Lucifer doing his impersonating-your-dead-lover routine, basically what I'm saying is the lack of acknowledgement of what Cas said is the acknowledgement, it's the one thing they can't talk about, because he's still everywhere in this episode--Dean's whole "that's not who I am" indicates he hasn't simply been forgotten, however much Chuck might be trying to erase him, like I do think on some level the execs were trying to downplay what happened in the previous episode but that makes the fact that Dean internalizes what Cas said so much more poignant: the reason they don't talk about Cas is there's nothing to say; he loved Dean, and he's gone now, and Dean's still here, so he's spending the rest of the series trying to be the man Cas died for.
and so dean is projecting himself onto jack, which is such a fascinating way to play this episode (first with jack imitating dean, and now this). the parallel is structured such that dean can't see a difference between his own relationship with john and the relationship he perceives between jack and lucifer. it makes a strong statement about how he perceives himself (trying to impress john by following in his footsteps made dean a monster) and it also creates a perfect hole into which jack can insert himself into dean's life—by subverting dean's expectations, thus chasing away the idea that both he and, consequentially, dean are not the monsters he perceives them to be.
Cas and Jack hunting together is so chaotic, I love it! you put your two most autistic bitches on the case alone and they're rapid firing the weird questions at law enforcement with no lead in, they're discussing how confused they are by social media while they summon a demon, they're walking right up to the church group leader and asking where the kool aid is. they've gone rogue to solve a normal murder but still revealed the existence of the supernatural to some bystanders. we don't get a ton of them hanging out one on one and I think that's because they're too powerful.
Every year on the anniversary of the day Jack brought them back from the Empty, the angels have a family picnic somewhere. Because Jack was excited about doing that with his extended family after watching a bunch of cheesy sitcoms on TV, and had no idea the angels weren’t that kind of family before. There’s even a three-legged race that everyone competes in, and Jack doesn’t know it, but everyone cheats.
Balthazar pressures Gadreel into using their wings, Uriel and Zachariah sabotage their siblings by covertly moving things into their path, while Gabriel sneakily alters the ground he lands on to make it super bouncy as he and Raphael move along. Castiel overlooks this so long as it is understood that no one can cheat to beat Jack. Jack deserves to win. It’s strictly a race for second place.
(Naturally, Michael and Adam are disqualified for having only two legs between them. Projections don’t count!)
No one, however, ever told Dean about the rule. And with every reunion, the angels find him a little more insufferable when he brags about how he and Jack manage to beat them every year.
Some additional artwork for my fic ‘We Talk Too Much’, written for the Profound Bond Gift Exchange: Hot Entity Summer, and the lovely @deliciousblizzardshark !
The little animation was to kind of depict how I imagined Castiel’s rings to act, both in an aggravated and calm state.