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[mittensmorgul]

Why do you think Cas is been mind controlling. I didnt get this impression.

So... I also got this message from another anon:

So I did enjoy the episode, but why does Cas have to be mind-controlled AGAIN? He really doesn't need any more things to feel guilty and bad about *sighs*

And figured it would be convenient to answer them both at once.

First: Why do I believe he’s being mind controlled? Here’s a bullet-pointed list:

(I apologize for the shouty capslock episodes, I am trying to contain myself but I am screaming on the inside after this episode... please bear with me, I’m not shouting AT you, my soul is screaming for Cas...)

Up to the point where Cas had the creepy gold-vein transfer of power followed by the GLOWING YELLOW FREAKING EYES, everything he’d done had been IN THE NAME OF KEEPING SAM AND DEAN SAFE AND OUT OF THIS MISSION.

He even said it to Kelvin’s face, that he didn’t give a crap about his reputation in Heaven, he was just trying to do one thing right for the Winchesters

And he 100% believed that the only RIGHT thing here was for Kelly and the baby to die and go to Heaven

He was willing to consider the grace extraction “cure” for the baby, but Kelly had already been overtaken by the child (when HER eyes flashed gold earlier)

She’d been looking for a “protector” for her and the baby, and the baby CLEARLY chose Cas

I mean it could’ve chosen Dagon at that point too, but I guess it thought Cas was “nicer” or whatever? who knows how baby abominations think

And suddenly after that moment, where Cas just magically had the power to destroy Dagon with a touch, he even ACKNOWLEDGES that it was a joint effort between him and the Nephilim.

And yet... when Dean tells Cas they can figure all of this out, Cas just... casually boops Sam and Dean unconscious and without a second thought drives off with Kelly, just leaving them there at the heaven portal, unconscious on the ground...

While talking up the nephilim like it’s their new savior

And talking about HIMSELF as if his “faith” suddenly being restored and this horrible feeling of failure and frustration that Dean had described to Sam earlier, that Dean had UNDERSTOOD Cas was suffering with, was suddenly all washed away JUST FROM THAT WEIRD GOLD VEINY TOUCH FROM THE MONSTERBABBY

I mean, really. When have the colorful veiny things EVER been positive on this show? They were in 7.17 when Cas took on Sam’s Hell Damage (in Lucifer red, complete with glowy eyes), and in 9.11 when Dean took on the Mark of Cain... THIS IS MIND CONTROL. Or at least Mind Manipulation. The kid is USING Cas, just like it’s USING Kelly and wouldn’t let her die... It NEEDS them, at least until it’s born... after that, they become disposable.

Which means one of two things... Dean’s either gonna be the one to break through that mind control to reach Cas, or the child being born and Kelly dying is somehow gonna break it.

But it will break. Because I really can’t see going into s13 with Cas a mindless slave to Lucifer’s baby. That’s just getting way too close to Fuckhands McMike territory and I hope to hell the writers aren’t planning that...