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Once a week, every Monday, for 21 weeks… I will post a different “shade” of Castiel. ^_^
12/21 : Homeless "Food. Sleep. Passing gas. It’s all new to me. And it’s occurred to me that one day I’m going to die."
Hope you all enjoy!
All the others: http://sempaiko.tumblr.com/tagged/21-shades-of-cas
"And hold me still, bury my heart next to yours." [x]
The endless list of things that should’ve happened in season 9: Cas finding his way back to the bunker, collapsing into Dean’s arms and both of them holding onto each other for dear life, thank you, bye. [x]
also that song is so beautiful and so about them, I’m gonna cry…
Every Mumford & Son’s song was written for them! So much so, I swear they get their inspiration from these two.
Grumpy / sick Castiel
I eagerly await seeing hobo Human!Cas this upcoming season.
Happy Birthday RJ! u3u Here’s Cas adopting a stray.
Let’s go home.
This was meant to be for Kami as part of the url project but she changed her url while I was still doing this.
I like how the fandom seems to be united by our love for grumpy Cas
Prayer circle for Cas in Dean’s hoodie in S9.
I think that one of the most important steps we are going to take towards Castiel being something other than comic relief is going to be seeing him in different clothing.
As much as I like the ill-fitting overcoat and suit - it’s comforting, the silhouette immediately recognizable - it has become such a defining characteristic that some are unable to picture him in other garments. It’s the suit, overcoat, and blue tie. That’s Castiel.
But let me lead you on a mental adventure. I’d like you to picture a cartoon character. Any cartoon character.
Did their clothing ever change for anything more than a one-off gag? Did they have a wardrobe of different outfits? Or was it the same clothing, episode after episode, because the clothing was a part of the character?
Sure, the Winchesters are more often than not swathed in some concoction of plaid and canvas and denim, but rarely do they wear the exact same clothes even throughout the span of an episode. They change clothes to show time passing, to show their characters advancing, to show them becoming other people entirely when the occasion calls for it.
But Castiel has always just been Castiel. The only variation we have gotten was Castiel in the white scrubs of the mental hospital, which was also a constant for several episodes - done, I think, to differentiate this broken Castiel from the one that we knew so well. Which is my point - the clothing was used to show that Castiel was different.
(I refer to Castiel exclusively here - his time as Emmanuel of course had a wardrobe change because Emmanuel was a different character, and note how as soon as he was Castiel again he donned the overcoat; Jimmy is also another matter. Both Jimmy and Emmanuel were discrete characters, decidedly not Castiel.)
Castiel has always been somewhat frozen in time and plot development. He has always furthered the Winchesters’ plots, never truly his own. Even in the rare story arc focused on him, the context has always been in the frame of the Winchesters’ current goals.
He’s been comic relief. He’s been a cartoon character, a constant we as an audience did not need to see grow or develop because the story was never about him. He would swoop in to save the day - a superhero uniform, another immutable costume - or get the Winchesters through some convoluted plot device, but as a character, he was a caricature.
I think that this coming season, that may change. Unless he lines his closet with overcoats and black suits, we can probably expect to see his clothing closely reflecting the Winchesters’. Stripped of the constant, he will change. Grow. Develop.
He’ll cease being Castiel and begin being Cas. And while heart-wrenching in a way, it’s also a great thing to look forward to.
What I’m really afraid of is that the boys take him shopping for clothes and it will be all cute at first, then he finds that light blue shirt from The End and buy it and Dean will freak the hell out.
