#on cas being cool

[shallowseeker]

Who called cas a pretty angel? A demon (crowley?) I know he said that cas has sex appeal, but I can't remember whether or not Crowley called him pretty . Or was it Balthazar or other angels. I remember someone calling cas a pretty angel

I was on the ao3 tag looking through some dean cas fics and came across this highschool fic and how dean was a jock, cool guy and like cas is the nerd that was basically the intro and then it got me thinking of all these other highschool intro fics that makes cas the nerd etc

And like for all intents and purposes it makes more sense for cas to be the jock. Throwback to ishm calling him an angels angel. Like it makes sense that cas would be the cool one Specifically the type who is cool but internally doesn't feel like he belongs with them since he doesn't fit in that crowd.

Why I am I ranting lol it's probably cause its 1 am lol

But cas was the cool angel right? when he was still in and accepted by the angels

I think you're thinking of Changing Channels: "No, no. *MR. Trickster does not like pretty-boy angels." :-)

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There are snide comments made about Cas's attractiveness, sure, with Gabriel and most demonic characters. But those are mostly power-motioned taunting.

You’re right about Crowley. I think Crowley's positive associations were, "Buddy Boy, you have what they call sex appeal." ("Thank you. Get to the point.") And if you squint, "You like to bend em right over, don't you?" which is the mated joke to Crowley's failed taunting, "You're the bottom in this relationship." (However, Cas on Crowley in TMWWBK? “But I was smarter than him, stronger. (I wasn't ever threatened.)")

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IMHO, Cas is canonically implied to be handsome, simply by how regular people react to him. There's the woman on the television in season 6, saying (of Godstiel) - "He was SEXY." (After which Dean quickly turns off the TV.) Although...it's hard to say whether she was simply having a "Ted-Bundy-groupie-style" fawning moment... We can point to Mandy the waitress, but maybe she was just playing along and fawning over the guy who looked most likely to leave tips...

I guess it's up to interpretation.

I happen to think Cas's sexiness extends beyond his vessel. There's the "Angel's angel" line, of course, but also in Metatron's taunting of the beautiful Hannah wanted to be "dominated" by a more rugged experienced-battalion-oriented angel.

Taken together, I think it's pretty safe to say Cas is considered handsome, rugged, strong, cool, popular etc; both in-vessel and as simply a natural way of his being among the angels.

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On your second point, I think fanfic is safe to explore just about anything, so I don't fault whatever way it wants to swing!

Cas certainly has enough dorky/“doof” moments to play with, and he's very brainy/eccentric/philosophical sometimes! Plus, I think there's some actor bleed-over with Misha Collins, honestly, who is in my head more similar to Dean than Castiel. (But that's neither here nor there.)

I do happen to think that in-world, all signs point to, "Cas is popular/cool even when he's a doof."

I actually think Cas exemplifies, "Even when he loses, he wins," more than the characters that actually long to exemplify this, especially when it comes to people and “being likable.” It frustrates characters like Metatron (probably also Crowley, Rowena, Chuck Shurley, even Sam -> "i.e. characters with have ambition but can't seem to muster up enough natural charisma to get where they wanna go").

And I think part of that is...well. Castiel has charisma. He has a natural willingness to play big and fail spectacularly. (Unlike characters like Rowena or Crowley, Cas usually puts his own skin in the game/his own self on the line as “the muscle.”)

In one-on-one battle, Metatron laments Cas's abilities to be popular. He calls him various things like, "the villain/lame/braindead puppy/stupid jock/underdog. Metatron is holding the high cards, even the angel tablet! And yet Castiel manages to match his nice guy 4D chess...somehow. “I didn't think he'd be good at it!" (NOTE: After all that, Metatron kinda…resorts to killing Dean as petty revenge.)

Metatron certainly comes off as "no fair! He's not even trying to be cool and here I am putting in all this effort to look cool and no one sees me as anything other than a loser!" Or "Why is it lame when I do it, but people fawn over Ass-stiel?! I'm a nice guy!!!"

METATRON: Well, I could get a new face. TYRUS: You'd still be you -- a nerd trying to be one of the popular kids. Mnh-mnh....my guys will go running to Castiel.

We've all been there.

So yeah. Even when Castiel's "a doof," he's cool/popular and connects with others pretty effortlessly.

But it's Cas's willingness to spectacularly fail that gets him places, canonically. It wins him points with others even when that's not what he's trying to do. It's that earnestness. I'll quote Daphne in Scoobynatural on what she looks for in a guy: "Strong, sincere..."

I mean, just look at how quickly Rowena flipped on him. :-)

Aside/// Like Dean, Cas doesn't actually want the big things, not really. He wants the horrifically mundane little things (boring family life). Not because of what it represents, "Normal Life." It's not a checklist of status symbol of "Success" or "Making It."

No, for characters like Dean and Cas, it's simply an emotional thing. And I think it's part of what makes them likeable/able to form connections so much more readily than other characters.

#on cas being cool #the angel's angel #cas is cool even when he's NOT cool #that's his whole thing i think

[birdietrait]

miri, a little elf-dryad for @buttertrait's simblr adventurers guild

miri's mother and father (a dryad and an elf, respectively) were professors in a renowned academy and raised their daughter on the school grounds. she spent her entire adolescence studying the natural world around her and although she had a deep passion for it, she would rather travel the world and experience it for herself. so, when the time was right, she said her goodbyes to her parents and joined the adventurers guild, hoping to finally see the places she's only read about in her textbooks

#simblr adventurers guild #ts4 #ts4 cas #ts4 simblr #simblr #show us your sims #my little lady <3 i love her so much #i picture her being like 5'1" and climbing trees and having a collection of cool rocks in her pack :)

[buglaur]

this is virgil

#and i think i'm gonna play growing together with him... #when i get the chance that is #ts4 #ts4 cas #because wholesome big family interactions isn't really possible with macmahons this gen #with rox not even being allowed to interact with the kids #and i know the whole save file is going to blow up #so minimal cc + bare necessity mods only playthrough with this guy! #and his spouse that i need to make #don't hold me to any of this though #i might forget he exists in a week #but rn i think he's rlly cool #/virgil

[supportingwomenswrongs]

I'm Your Man - Mitski (The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We)

#being very cool and chill about the new mitski albumn #spn #destiel #mitski #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #dean and cas #supernatural

[citrlet]

is. leave. possible?

#ts4 #ts4 cas #sims 4 #sims 4 cas #oxenfree #i wish i could make a super cool edit of them all but my editing skills are being stuck in cas :/ #anyhoo oxenfree continues to mystify me and remain one of my favorite games of all time #i have the second one but haven't played it yet i really need to

[soullessjack]

if I think too much about all of Jacks characterization and development and trauma that got rug swept by people focusing on literally anything else except jack even in his own centric episodes I start turning into Mr. Hyde.

#cal.txt #spn #jack kline #supernatural #bitter posting because my shoulder is in fucking fire #this is about Steve yockey and all he tried to do for jack that nobody fucking picked up on #wahoo so cool for us #fandom critical #destiel #sastiel #widower arc #divorce arc #‘why isn’t Cas in last holiday’ ‘lol dean in pjs’ jack is literally being targeted for murder in his own home girls #OR FUCKING OPTIMISM. #jack needing to feel useful and dwelling on how he couldn’t stop michael before and wanting to know all about love and romance #nah dean looked at a rooster he looked a cock get it guys haha #every day I am so tired

[angelsdean]

ᴄᴀꜱᴛɪᴇʟ, ᴀɴɢᴇʟ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴜʀꜱᴅᴀʏꜱ

The name Castiel means "God's Shield." He is the angel of Thursdays, protector and friend of the Winchesters, father to the nephilim, Jack Kline, and lover of humanity.

Castiel, or just "Cas", was stationed on Earth for thousands of years before he defied his fellow angels to help avert the first Apocalypse. He rescued me from Hell and returned me to life, reconstructed my body and left his handprint behind as a physical representation of the bond we share. He fought beside me when the two of us were trapped in Purgatory. After Metatron stripped him of his grace, he was human for a time, and lost the use of his wings along with all the other angels expelled from heaven.

He has helped us, saved us, betrayed us, healed us, and left us...but he's always returned. He is my comrade in arms, and the best friend I have in the world. I know he will always have our backs, no matter what, and we'll always have his. He's family.

Cas gave up his life to save me, one last time, but that's not the end. I'm coming for you, Cas. I love you.

--Dean 

#ok creator notes: so i wanted to do a re-imagining of despair / cas being taken by the empty and also draw on those parallels to cas's intro #also. my anti-late-seasons-trenchcoat meant i absolutely HAD to use his original coat in this bc the parallels and. i hate that other coat ! #i hate that coat so much jdfjkhd. anyways i also wanted to give him his wings back and just make him look cool ok #finally. the prayer card aspect was like. a Vision i've had for a while and wanted to finally bring to fruition #and of course i had to have dean write the card description ! i took a lot of it from the entry he writes in the Men of Letters Bestiary #but obvs made some changes took those creative licenses lol #deancas #destiel #15x18 #spn 15x18 #despair #castiel #edits #myedits

[enbysiriusblack]

imagining non war au where wolfstar think they're the cool uncles to hari.. but they aren't.

"Hey Hari, how do you wanna go to your first ever concert! We've got tickets to see Lou Reed!"

Hari looked up from his nintendo with a frown, "Uncle Pads, I've already been to several concerts. Besides, I've never heard of Lou Reed, what is he? 30?"

"Your parents took you to a concert, what was it, an ABBA cover band?" Remus laughed, ignoring the fact Lou Reed was actually in his 50's and since when is 30 old?

Hari shrugged, "Aunt Marls and Cas took me. We saw Oasis with Ron."

"They took you?", Sirius spluttered out, his hand on his heart, "but we're meant to take you to that sort of stuff! We're the cool uncles!"

Hari laughed, covering it with a cough.

Sirius's eyes narrowed, "What was that?"

"What was what?"

"You don't think we're cool? I ride a motorbike!"

Hari winced, putting down his controller and turning to his uncles, "It's just that whenever you two look after me you go on walks in the park, stay at home to do puzzles, and go to those weird bars that smell like old people. You make me tea and biscuits and still use those records instead of just getting cds. But Marls and Cas are cool! They take us to live music, and play knock, door, run with us! Marls even said she's going to pierce my ear next week!"

Remus' eyes widened, "You're too young to get a needle stabbed in you!"

"I've seen pictures of you as a teenager!" Hari argued back.

"We're not cool anymore, Moony." Sirius gasped, hand on the back of the sofa.

Remus looked at them, "Were we really that cool, Padfoot?"

"You do have weird nicknames for each other, and Mum said you all had a weird motto you'd say to each other before one of you would go leave."

Sirius nodded with a grin, "Exactly! We were the pinnacle of coolness! I mean, I ride a motorbike!"

Hari frowned, "Motorbikes are kinda cool, but you do also go to a knitting class and joined the neighbourhood watch."

"That protects people, Hari!"

Remus sat next to Hari, his face solemn, "I used to drugs, you know? Sold them, not just taking them."

Hari sighed, "But can you play the keytar?"

"Keytars are not cool, I know that much."

"Maybe not", Hari muttered, picking his controller back up, "But you know who my father is. Keytar's being cool is ingrained in my brain."

#marlene and cas are not kid ppl. so they don't have a concept of a kid being too young for something. making them the coolest aunts EVER. #marlene gives hari piercings and alcohol and dyes his hair. dorcas lets him have parties at theirs and gave him a fake id when he was 15 #sirius and remus are SO the type of ppl who never let go of their teen years. they're so 'the 70s were so much better' ppl. #also james thinks the keytar is cool. yes he can play it. ofc he can. #marauders era #marauders #wolfstar #hari potter

[orbitsuns]

the vatore siblings for pride month because i am bisexual

#fuck you *puts caleb in a corset* #this is also my first pride since being out so thats cool #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 cas #sims 4 cas #ts4 simblr #sims 4 simblr #simblr #show us your sims #create a sim #cas

[bisaster-energy]

I have to know what nut allergy means 🤲🏻

god i had forgotten about this one til u tagged me💀i got the idea cos of some tiktok someone made about putting ghost pepper in their food to catch whichever coworker was stealing their food and ppl in the notes were freaking out cos "wHAt iF sOMeOnE iS ALlErGiC" me and my friend luke were like "god how funny would it be if you just went in someone's fridge drank all their milk and shit yourself cos ur lactose intolerant and then blame them for trying to poison u that logic is so crazy...what if it was a destiel au"

it's really just a silly hospital au i never got around to finishing it's cringy and basic but it's funny to me so i kept it

so cas is a doctor ofc i have to reward dean somehow.

he's neurosurgeon because i did watch grey's anatomy and dr. sexy being a parody of derek shepherd who's played by patrick dempsey who also played a guy named cass who was in a polyamory with jensen ackle's character and marilyn monroe. i had to put it in

i couldnt decide if i wanted dean to be a doctor too or a nurse but i know i wanted him in peds

basically it's one sided enemies to lovers with dean having beef with cas for no reason (he's hot and this frustrates dean to no end). meanwhile cas has a crush bigger than texas on that man

maybe a competitive aspect too like derek and burke had but less animosity. i try to lean into the soap opera aspect of it as if they're in a medical drama more than a REAL HOSPITAL because it's easier than doing extensive research <3

so maybe dean is a bit more of an asshole to cas than strictly necessary and no one else gets why. cas essentially gives up on trying to have a normal conversation w/dean and thinks he really hates him so he settles to only talk to him in a professional capacity so he wont encroach on his space more than he has to

dean takes this personally. i love misunderstandings

etc etc it comes to a head when maybe something happens that really sets dean off about cas (i haven't figured what yet) and so to get back at him he nabs a cookie from his lunch (cas already established that anyone can indulge in them but dean missed the memo ig)

anyways ruh roh! his dumbass is allergic to one of the ingredients cos it came into contact with walnuts or smth idk

dean's embarrassed as hell and cas finds him all swollen and fucked up and i haven't gotten past this part but yeah i just wanted cas to stab dean with an epi-pen really

overall very mid and silly and dumb but here's an excerpt anyway:

The neurosurgeon is, in Dean's humble (but also right) opinion, the only one worthy of the term Asshole around here, with a capital A.

Well, not the only one. But still.

And it's not like Dean didn't try to get to know him! New doctor shows up, windswept hair tousled to perfection, lab coat flaring behind him like some sort of superhero, gaze focused and intense, and eyes so so blue-

Ahem. Of course Dean is going to be intrigued he's a human being! It's not like Castiel was interested anyway. Barely said three words to Dean before rushing off somewhere else, probably to bless some other coworker with his angelic ass sculpted by god. Dean tried a few times after that and still ended up with nothing more than stilted small talk. Dude made talking to a brick wall seem like a cake walk. There was always something going on that had to cut their conversations short, and Dean thought Cas was just a shy guy at first, nothing wrong with that. But he's seen Dr. Novak easily chat with other staff for longer than two (painfully awkward) minutes. Especially Masters. God that snake just loves to hang off Novak, like that's her job instead of being a damn nurse. Even Balthazar, their own personal sleazeball of an anesthesiologist, allegedly manages to drag the uptight doctor out from time to time.

Not that Dean has been stalking them or anything. He just heard it through the grapevine like every other godforsaken rumor at this high school of a hospital. And if the grapevine happened to just be Balthazar himself bragging about their nights out in the breakroom, well that's Dean's business.

"I still say you need to give him a chance, Dean," his mammoth of a brother insisted, brushing his mane out of his face. Seriously, dude, just get a haircut. "I don't get what your problem with him is. Castiel is great! A little awkward maybe, but it really adds to his charm." Dean rolls his eyes.

"Sammy, you do realize you sound like you're trying to get me to adopt a dog that's about to be sent to the pound? It didn't work when you were eight and it won't work now. And, for your information, I've given Cas plenty of chances to talk to me. He's the one with the issue. You should be selling him all this kumbaya bullshit. And don't you have some lawsuits to prevent?"

It's Sam's turn to roll his eyes. "Whatever, Dean. If you gave up on talking to him then why the hell do you call him by a nickname?" With another flip of his mop, his brother left Dean spluttering for a reasonable answer. Which there is, of course. But Sam's long gone by the time he manages a weak "Castiel is a mouthful, okay?" "I'll say," came an annoyingly sultry voice from behind. Without turning Dean lets out a sigh. "Can I help you, Masters?" He asks flatly, already resigning himself to an unpleasant encounter. "Oh, don't be like that, Dean," God, he can practically hear the obnoxious pout he knows she's wearing right now. "I thought we could bond over what a mouthful Clarence is!" That has him spinning around.

meg is cas' bestie she can't understand why he's hung up on dean but she supports his terrible terrible taste. and if she can manage to convince dean they're fucking in the meantime well. god forbid women do anything

the reason sam seems so invested is cos the hospital has a betting pool over if these 2 get together and when. bros tryna make bank

#asks!! #wip #supernatural #destiel #it's soooooo dumb but sometimes a fic is junk food #dean deserves to have his doctor kink well and truly fulfilled #also the patrick dempsey lore actually kills me like every time i think about i cannot believe how it's all connected... #jensen ackles poly relationship with marilyn monroe and guy named cass in blonde. years pass #dempsey moves to grey's anatomy while ackles goes on to spn both airing in 2005. #dean is secretly into a show clearly parodying grey's anatomy. dr. sexy is definitely based off of dempsey's mcdreamy and is dean's fav #s4 of spn castiel is introduced. dean calls him cas. #14x12 has cas dressed as a doctor. 15x15 has cas talking to a pastor that played dr. sexy who tells him being gay is cool. what the fuck.

[forestofsprites]

hi hi! i think i saw a post from you a bit a go about autistic cas fics? perhaps you just read one or were going through the tag- if this was you, i dont suppose you could link the name of it/them please (id rather read fics someone else said were decent)? if this wasnt you and i’m mistaken, please ignore!

hello!! it very much was me, and i'd be happy to pass those along :]

so, quite a few of these aren't explicit autistic cas (i.e, they're not tagged that way by the author), but being autistic and reading the fic and knowing cas etc etc it reads as autistic cas to me- so i've bookmarked it as such for future reference :]

i'll make a note below of which fics are tagged outright as autistic cas, and which are just me understanding cas' behaviour in such a way!

tagged autistic cas:

you don't need to worry - hedderstheowl

i sing the body electric - hedderstheowl

all things please the soul - hedderstheowl

weird but confident - almaasi

perceived by me as autistic cas:

echoes in the dead of dawn - casfallsinlove

aspersorium - fleeceframe

stories are made of mistakes - wildhoneypie

teachable moments - violethaze

sam accidentally sees the whole picture - almaasi

some people would all this romantic - almaasi

ceramic figurines - majorenglishesquire

the ao3 of knowledge - fellshish

the yee to my haw - emeraldcas

#hello to the mutuals whose fics i've listed above<3 you're all very cool and your fics are bookmarked so extensively and so sweetly #i have gone through the entire autistic cas tag + related (sensory overload/angels being weird/etc) and these are all the fics i've ended u #bookmarking and tagging with my autistic cas tag #and ofc by autistic cas i don't mean he didn't get a sarcastic line- it's also just... me relating to the worldview cas exhibits and whatno #so i hope you like them too anon!! #ask #spn #spn fic recs #autistic cas

[dead-gay-angel]

castiel can be a hot girl, but dean can only ever be pathetic

#stop making dean cool in fics!!! he's pathetic!!! especially when it comes to cas!! #i want to be clear that cas can also be pathetic for dean #but dean being a hot girl just doesn't compute in my mind #destiel

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Steven Universe.. hit different and I don’t really understand why? Thinking about any of my other old hypefixations, I smile. But Steven Universe just makes me a deeply uncomfortable kind of sad that latches onto my brain like a leech and doesn’t let go for many hours. And I have no idea what it did to deserve that lmao

#I guess this show was a much more massive part of my life than I realized? #it's not my favourite show but I think it's. part of me now #if I'd watched it all in one hit for the first time now I'd think ''woag that was awesome'' and proceed to be normal about it #I had a hard time being normal about things I really liked as a kid and 'cause this show went on for so long and I followed it religiously- #for the ENTIRE time it was airing- #I think it became a permanent resident in my brain along with the emotional state I was in when I started watching it #when I think of Steven Universe I'm flooded with all the ways my childhood self took it way too seriously #I think about things I just MADE UP about the show through theories and implied backstory- all the deeper things that never even happened #and it gives me this unscratchable itch. this weird sense of longing #wughfgdh anyways #my ears ache from getting weirdly choked up about this lmao #just did a shortened rewatch of the whole show through watching Scoot's reaction videos #and like #bruh #the show is y'know. REALLY GOOD. But not THAT good jesus christ #nothing is THAT good #it's kinda cool that I used to have such deep emotions about literally everything but man I'm glad I'm not 13 anymore bahah #mannnnnn I really set this show up for failure by expecting it to reach this impossible unachievable level of depth #and then being kinda bummed when it didn't #it's a CARTOON Cas. a reallly fucking good one just the way it is. calm down child #anyways might draw Greg because he's the goat #steven universe #rant #(?)

[aturnoftheearth]

would give anything to get back the december 2020 - august 2021 vibes around here

#i dont know how to word this but like. I MISS !!!!!! everyone being so wrapped up in love haze that the vagues about things like #happy domestic endgame or human cas endgame were so minimal #like there weren’t many posts that said things like ‘you’re stupid if u think dean and cas would ever be happy post-canon’ is that??? not ?? #why we’re here ??? #and yeah it’s cool to explote different topics and outcomes etc whatever but like. we can also just enjoy the idea of them being in love…… #of them not being bound by the constraints of writers trying to make everything platonic or even canonically: god controlling their entire #lives …….. anyway. good morning my other new shoes get here today i hope i dont have to go looking for them again !!

[soullessjack]

How do you think it would go if Jack met Godstiel- very curious on your thoughts on that

well of course the abject horror of seeing their beloved idolized admired role model chosen father guide protector Cas in one of his absolute worsts and “monstrous,” moments is the first thing that comes to mind

and then (assuming this is post-soulless-jack) there’s also the second abject horror of seeing their beloved idolized admired role model chosen father guide protector Cas in an absolute worst and “monstrous,” moment that almost completely mirrors Jack’s own stint with Duma. it’s definitely not some kind of pattern or repetitive cycle tho, I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about ^_^

but all that aside I think Jack would’ve genuinely wanted to help Cas in the same way Dean did, holding out hope because this is a person near and dear and that they know is good and well intending

#holdthypeace.txt #spn #jack kline #castiel #godstiel #soulless jack #tbh we could’ve had a leviathan Cas 2 with jack being possessed by the empty or something #that would’ve been soooo cool but nah we can’t let Jack have shit here #not even a proper villain arc #anyways

[mujori]

time to gut out some stuff out of my mods folder

#so much Bloat #I do not need 30gbs of just Hair... #mate... #i updated my game last night & that was a journey (updating mods was not fun. it was never fun.) #also downloaded that rly cool chalk'd ui last night #spend some time trying to make the More traits in CAS mod work with it without sacrificing the dark mode text. #it worked but it's kinda cooked. just had to load the traits mod after text-standalone and before texture-standalone (by renaming it w/ 0's #but visually the trait slots in CAS show 3 when rly there's 5. minor ui issue there but whatever idc i want the darkmode text everywhere! #i was gnna open the files and dissect/tweak it myself but Lord i was not doing that at 4 in the bloody morning #i think i may waddle back onto simblr #and back to posting on publicCCfinds 💀 #(i dont even think ive posted consistently the entirety of 2023 compared to the first 6months of that blog being established) #(me posting 1 cc i find on my feed once every 8 weeks) #looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool #yap yap yap yap yap #ramblings