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I want you to look at the last three gifs. Misha is playing this so well cause you can see a certain disappointment - like he wished to hear something else. Cas of course appreciates that he’s a brother to Dean cause he knows how much that means to Dean. To Dean his family is his world and being a part of this means a lot. But when you look at his expression in this scene he seems so sad and disappointed that Dean can’t see that he is more than just a brother to Cas he is his whole life the only thing why he keeps doing what he’s doing. And his eyes wandering slowly to Deans hand like he wants to grab it and hold it just to let him know how he feels but then he regrets that thought because he knows now that he’s “just” a brother to Dean.
06x20 // 11x14
I want an episode where they see Cassie Robinson (Dean’s girlfriend from Route 666) again, and she’s moved on and is happily married or something like that, and she sees Dean (who is human again) look at Cas and she smiles and shakes her head a little and Dean asks why and she says “I remember when you used to look at me like that,” and Dean is left speechless.
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Sure. It should be noted that I believe Mildred is talking about Dean’s uncontrollable feelings towards Amara in the “pining” scene tho, textually. Those feelings, as a vulnerability, either physically, or through Dean’s secrecy towards Sam, are what caused Dean to be attacked imo (by a cleavage-clad, dress wearing, tongue wielding, controlling monster with dark hair, mind you).
With that in mind, I rewatched the scene, trying to understand the people calling it a Dean/Cas situation, because I did not understand it that way at all. It was then that I noticed how weird it was for Mildred to be shot with such a space between her and Dean, almost as if what was in the background was meant to be seen as something between them, in the same manner cages and walls separated Sam and Dean visually in S9.
Between Dean and Mildred is a shuttle van, a human transport vessel, if you will, to take residents back and forth. And it bears the name of the home, “Oak Park”. So as far as visual subtext goes, this simplifies into “a human vessel at Oak Park” and where does Cas’ human vessel go this episode? To walk about the oak trees in the park. Visually, Cas is between Mildred and Dean here, present in their conversation through Casifer’s earlier strolling scene.
Regardless of who Mildred is textually talking about, the show’s visual subtext suggests it could also be Cas.
and goes on sleepwalking past h o p e