#cas + tenchcoat

[shallowseeker]

Castiel's coat of arms

Chuck really, really wanted Castiel’s story to be reminiscent of The Overcoat (fictional short story written by Nikolai Gogol in 1842).

Jimmy Novak is a lot like the main character Akaky, insomuch as he's disenchanted by mundanity, working a soul-sucking, unfulfilling job.

Theme: Average, unimportant man working an unfulfilling job wants to matter, to be a part of something bigger--something like God’s work.

Ultimately Jimmy, Like Akaky, is diminished by the higher powers (angels) and dies quietly. Barely anyone notices.

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However, when Cas dons the overcoat, it becomes a powerful symbol, and Cas hijacks the narrative

When Castiel dons the coat, he experiences it not as a link to Heaven’s bureaucracy and rank, but as a prominent indication of his outsider status.

While the coat narratively connects Jimmy to something greater (Heaven), it connects Cas to something lesser (Earth).

It’s a prominent visual marker of difference among thousands of angels in plain suits. It’s a connection to his human family.

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In some readings of The Overcoat, the coat functions as a sublimation of longing for a spouse.

The writer of The Overcoat is a bleak guy. He typically depicts spouses as the ultimate downfall of his characters. In The Overcoat, when he names emotions his main character has in connection to the coat, he sets him up for ruin and death.

Indeed, through the coat, the main character begins to notice sexuality and desire, but he is punished for this newfound sexuality (Akaky gets verbally chastised by his superiors for visiting a brothel).

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Akaky is supposed to be a loser through and through. But, to Chuck's chagrin, neither Jimmy nor Castiel are are exactly like Akaky.

While Akaky is obsessed with copying documents for work, neither Jimmy nor Cas want to simply get through life copying work and being in stasis.

Jimmy wanted to be important but realized too late that he already was to his family. And Cas has never followed orders correctly. They are both imbued with the ability to change their minds and exert their creativity through narrative-changing events.

Cas in particular is a spanner to the point that Chuck eventually dares not elevate his name. As a fellow celestial, Chuck would take issue with Castiel’s name being invoked as a receiver of prayer.

Castiel is an escalating threat, and Chuck makes a concerted effort to remove his name from the narrative. That’s why he’s “barely mentioned” and often degraded verbally as a "loser" in later seasons.

So in summary, they’re not Akaky. But you could argue that that’s what Chuck wanted them to be.

Jimmy learned to appreciate his family (albeit too late). Both his wife and daughter cared for him.

Castiel is loved. Even in season 6, "Castiel's villain arc," Sam prayed to Cas hoping he was still one of the good guys. Bobby sounded broken after Cas appeared to die releasing Purgatory souls (“He’s cold.”)

And Dean? Kept the coat.

This was the most damning blow to Chuck’s script, as it was a reciprocating sublimation of desire for a Cas-as-spouse (or "protector," if you prefer).

The coat thus becomes, not an indictment of Cas, but a symbol signifying the enduring connection to his human family. Cas's coat symbolizes his role within family unit. He wears it immediately upon reuniting with The Winchesters in season 7, even though it's dirty and bloody. When it tears in season 9, Cas sews it back together, samurai-like in his devotion to his vestments.

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THE COAT is a powerful symbol in literature. It often signifies:

a call to adventure (Jimmy, wanting to matter)

hidden subterfuge (Castiel obtaining dubious consent; war)

the comfort of an old life (Dean post-season 6 with his complicated longing for the guardian figure, now represented by Castiel)

a soldier's call to arms/coat of arms (Castiel, whenever he suits up to go to war as the family-anchored soldier)

to signal attraction and longing for a partner that protects (Dean, again, keeping the coat; Jimmy wrapping his coat around Claire for protection; Castiel, wrapping his coat around Jack for protection)

protector of the family hearth (Cas as bunker sentry to Dean's hearth)

king (as in The Man Who Would Be King, or throw in the Balthazar connection, which means “protect the king”)

familial masculinity in the Father-Protector sense (the ultimate role Cas finds his sense of purpose within; indeed, seasons 10-12 are the long road to becoming "dad material")

The coat is a staple of Cas’s identity. He sacrifices the glory of Heaven to be a family man.

For Jimmy, it’s his doom. He sacrifices his family man status for the glory of Heaven.

/images courtesy missyjack/

#shal meta #the overcoat #destiel #Jimmy Novak #Castiel #coat meta #castiel's overcoat #dean/cas #spn clothing stuff #overcoat #cas + overcoat #cas + tenchcoat #spn season 6 #dean/cas + married dynamic

[cowboycunt]

society if…

#so is crocstiel just cas wearing crocs or a crocodile wearing a tenchcoat. real talk #i just want cas in crocs please #no but actually i dont favor human endgame but if cas ended up human. he would 100% garden in crocs #no doubt #and he'd have the coolest giblets (sp??) #cas #castiel #fish.media #spn shitposts #spn #supernatural

[deanwasalwaysbi]

Wait.

Cas died in the overcoat with a striped tie

When Jack woke Cas up in the empty he was wearing what he died in, but he woke up in the meadow in a trench with a blue tie.

Jack or the Empty ... or Cas himself, brought Cas back as his projection of himself.

If Dean was wearing Cas's striped tie in the finale (he wasn't but it was close) does that mean he removed and kept Cas's tie before he burned the body and has kept it all this time?

#angel in a tenchcoat #spn headcanon #spn meta #castiel #I love that they just went with any excuse to get Cas/Misha back into a better outfit but it ended up being #accidentally good #instead. #clothing meta #spn 12x23 #spn 13x04 #cas in the meadow #original content #wait #cursed thoughts #trenchcoat 2 #trenchcoat 3 #spn clothes meta

[corvidcas]

cas and dean live in a cabin on a pretty little piece of land with a pond in a small neighborhood in south dakota and there’s stray, outdoor, and farm cats all over the place. cas has taken over the role of guardian angel for the cats, watching over them on their adventures and healing them when they’re sick or wounded. he also sometimes follows them around and makes tik toks exactly like this one

#my posts #deancas cabin #i wanted SOOOOO bad to put this in the tags of that post but i was like no. absolutely not. too embarrassing #it is 3 am oh my god go to bed #cas #the cats LOVE him btw. his magic healing and his homemade cat food #dean pretends like he hates them but cas will catch him petting one when he thinks cas isn’t looking #cas is always looking. his true form 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁 on dean 24/7 #he’s a creep. he’s weird. he’s a weirdo. have you ever seen him without that stupid suit tenchcoat? #i’m sorry i’m high and sleep deprived and probably dehydrated AND cracking myself up #having a great time over here 🥰 #destiel #deancas #castiel #spn

[waffles-for-brunch]

Imagine if in 15x19 we see dean go into Cas’ room and there’s not much in there save for a spare tenchcoat, an angel blade, a few photos of them with jack that dean had forgotten they’d taken, and the mixtape on the desk. He wonders if Cas ever really listened to it. He didn’t see a tape deck, but then he looks in a drawer and there’s one lying there with headphones. And dean realizes that he kept the tape on the desk separate because that’s where Dean, too, puts the things that remind him of his family. All that was left of the angel now was a few old photos and one gifted mixtape, and a lot of words left unsaid.

#Destiel #Castiel #supernatural #deanwinchester #deancas #15x18 #15x19 #spn #spn 15x19 #spn 15x18 #gay

[stainedglasscas]

1, 8 and 16?

1. What is the best episode?

This is tough so im gonna pick 2:

1. changing channels. Its hilarious what can i say. Dr. Sexy. bi dean. sam has genital herpes. pretty boy angel. etc. This episode is probably the most enjoyable to watch for me bc its just so funny and i think a lot of times spn is at its best when it doesnt take itself too seriously

2. Lucifer rising. This episode has EVERYTHING. all of cas and dean’s conversations in the beautiful room. unhinged demon blood sam. Ruby’s “im awesome” speech. the horrifying dramatic irony of the altered voicemail. Cas pinning dean against the wall. Dean knocking down the ceramic angel when calling cas (get it cuz hes f hes falling guys)  Also, in my opinion the moment when cas says to chuck “were making it up as we go along” and dean gives him that Look is the moment dean falls in love, even if he doesnt realize it yet. 

8. Favorite Cas (ex. Casifer, endverse, honey, etc)?

Kripke era cas my one true love. the messy hair. The og tenchcoat. A celestial weapon slowly learning to feel and think for himself through his faith in one man. Doubtful yet unwavering in his devotion (whether that devotion is to god or dean or humanity, thats up for debate). I love how badass and unhinged early seasons cas is. 

Honey cas is a close second. wife material. 

16. Which fanfic trope would you force onto Dean and Cas in a canon episode?

FAKE DATING OF COURSE. For some reason they need to act like boyfriends or husbands for a case. If this were an episode in the spn i percieve in my minds eye they would both realize they really Really like acting like a couple and both keep finding increasingly ridiculous excuses to draw out the case so they wont have to stop pretending. Then they realize maybe they arent pretending. It still takes them a whil to figure things out but this would elad to them getting together down the line

realistically, if a fake dating episode were actually written by spn writers and aired on the cw it would probably involve a lot of homophobic jokes and stereotypes that would be painful to watch but it would still be a very fun episode and i do think depending on who wrote it they might  still imply (even if just as a joke) that dean and cas both enjoyed being a couple a little Too much for a pair of entirely platonic str8 men 

send destiel asks

#thanks for sending!!! i can always count on u to ask me things bless u #destiel #asks #lilahlefae

[jesterofalltrades]

Wait!! Wait was that Cas’ tenchcoat???? Dean, honey are you carrying around one of Cas’ coats again????

#spn 15x20 #supernatural #spn

[ao3feed-destiel]

Trenchcoat

Read it on AO3 here!https://ift.tt/2LJBvaR

by I_bleed_Jensenite

Dean was left with nothing but a wet trenchcoat and a heavy heart. Cleaned and repaired, what use was the trenchcoat without Cas. This story tells of the unseen events after 7x17, when Cas returns and Dean returns the trenchcoat.

Words: 6377, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Sam Winchester

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: tenchcoat, Angst, Light Bondage

Link: https://ift.tt/2LJBvaR

#ao3feed #ao3feed destiel #destiel

[ao3feed--destiel]

by I_bleed_Jensenite

Dean was left with nothing but a wet trenchcoat and a heavy heart. Cleaned and repaired, what use was the trenchcoat without Cas. This story tells of the unseen events after 7x17, when Cas returns and Dean returns the trenchcoat.

Words: 6377, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Sam Winchester

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: tenchcoat, Angst, Light Bondage

via AO3 works tagged 'Castiel/Dean Winchester'

#IFTTT #AO3 works tagged 'Castiel/Dean Winchester'