#Top Gadreel

[spnrareshipbang]

"His Faithful Love"

Author: SamandDean76 (@samanddean76)

Artist: DemonicSoulmatesArt (@demonicsoulmates-art)

Beta(s): Jld71

Rating: Explicit

Featured characters: Dean Winchester, Gadreel, Abner, Zachariah, Sam Winchester

Featured relationships: Dean Winchester/Gadreel

Length: 7.391

Tags: Alternate Universe, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Dean Winchester, Alpha Gadreel, Orphaned Dean Winchester, Protective Gadreel, Human Dean Winchester, Angel Gadreel, True Mates, First Time, Claiming Bites, Knotting, Inferred Mpreg, Revenge, Or Justice, Transformation, Implied/Referenced Non-Con, Non-Graphic Rape/Non-Con, Past Rape/Non-Con, typical of Omegaverse, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Love, Top Gadreel, Bottom Dean Winchester

Warnings: Rape/Non-con

Summary: Dean had been an orphaned Omega since the night of the fire, when he had been mysteriously rescued by an unseen force, left to be cared for by the firefighters. His entire life, all that Dean truly needed was provided for him, the sound of fluttering wings, the only thing stranger than the mysteriously appearing food and clothes.

As Dean stands in the line, serving food to those who stay at the Omega House, he comes face to face with the Alpha who had helped him through his first heat. With the assistance of Abner, he escapes that night and wanders the dark streets, hoping desperately that his mysterious savior will rescue him once more.

Gadreel has known all his life that his mate needed his protection, that the more malevolent Alphas would do anything to cause him pain, even after Gadreel had paid for his lack of judgement. When he receives Abner’s prayer, he leaps into action, as the Alpha who stole away his mate finally overplayed his hand and Gadreel will get the justice he deserves.

Gadreel is reunited with Dean, and then he makes certain that all of their dreams come true, including giving his Omega the greatest gift of all. An endless love and the ability to protect himself from all future threats.

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[samanddean76]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Gadreel/Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Gadreel (Supernatural) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, A/B/O, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Dean Winchester, Alpha Sam Winchester, Alpha Gadreel (Supernatural), Protective Dean Winchester, Hurt Sam Winchester, Rape/Non-con Elements, Non-Graphic Rape/Non-Con, Threesome - M/M/M, Knotting, Spells & Enchantments, Stolen Angelic Grace (Supernatural), Dean Winchester Bears the Mark of Cain, Bottom Dean Winchester, Top Sam Winchester, Top Gadreel (Supernatural), Dean Gets All The Revenge For Sam, Dean Will Stop At Nothing To Save Sam, Established Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Summary:

Dean is willing to do whatever it takes to save Sam. Even if it means working with the angel that betrayed them. Can Gadreel be trusted this time? Or will Dean need to be prepared for whatever circumstance might crop up?

@spnrareships @spncreatorsdaily

[seasononesam]

I cannot promise, but there is a chance I can fix your brother from the inside.

[daddario]

it drives me fucking crazy that Dean gets an entire fucking monologue about being possessed by Michael but Sam, a character who has been possessed by at least THREE different beings, one of which he was tricked into by someone he trusts, and one of which was the devil himself, gets one fucking line at the end of s9 that isn’t even about the experience itself but rather a cursory mention of the psychological fallout of his body being used to murder Kevin in a season that otherwise seems to disregard his experience entirely.

[quietwingsinthesky]

"Your insides reek of shame and weakness." hey buddy, you're the one who just called him your mirror <3

[deancasbigbang]

The Duke's Exchanged Fiancée

Author: verobatto

Artist: Diminuel

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Dean/Cas (Chuck/Naomi, Hannah/Gadreel)

Length: 22785

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: Royalty AU, enemies to lovers, emotional hurt/comfort, arranged marriage, top!Dean/bottom!Castiel, case fic, healthy relationship, time travel, bickering, slow burn.

Summary: What would you do if you could go back in time and fix what went wrong? After Castiel Novak and his parents die at the hands of the Duke Winchester for treason to the Emperor, Castiel returns to life two days before the catastrophe and tries to stop the tragedy by asking to be taken by the Duke instead of his sister, Dean's fugitive fiancée, as a financial advisor. The Duke accepts the offer and spares the Novaks' lives. However, Castiel will soon discover that the Duke has not taken him to his dukedom to be just his advisor.

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[randomfandomsoup]

They should have let Castiel hold Sam gently and kiss the top of their head and caress their face and rub their back after Cas had to stop trying to extract Gadreel's leftover grace... I'm just saying

[destielsoulmatebang]

Touched With Grace

The first touch between soulmates leaves a mark on their skin. Dean has resigned himself into accepting that maybe he and Sam just don’t have soulmates, which tracks with how much Heaven has intervened in their lives and supposed destinies. When the angels fall, and Cas becomes human, Dean discovers just how wrong he was. After Dean touches Cas’s shoulder and a soulmark appears, he realizes the handprint he has carried on his own shoulder since Cas raised him from Perdition is actually a soulmark. Castiel, the angel of Thursday, a seraph that sacrificed his life, his place in Heaven, who gave everything for the cause, for a couple of “mud monkeys,” is actually Dean Winchester’s soulmate. After years of repressing, hiding certain feelings that, deep down, Dean wanted to experience differently, or even for the first time… He’s finally going to get that chance, in the arms of a former angel. Rating: Explicit Tags: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Ezekiel a.k.a. Gadreel, Canon Universe, But With Added Soulmate Rule, Romance, Slow Burn, Season 9 Re-Write, Post the Angel Fall, Human Castiel, Destiel Soulmates, There Was Only One Bed, John Winchester's A+ Parenting, Internalized Homophobia, Mutual Masturbation, First Time, First Kiss, Oral Sex, Roadhead, Anal Sex, Bottom Cas, Top Dean Winchester, Yes the Title is a Schitt’s Creek Reference, Fuck the SPN Writers, Dean Never Would Have Kicked Out the Guy Whose Goddamn Trenchcoat He Carried Around in Multiple Different Cars Through Most of Season 7, ANYWAY, Don’t Think of Sex While Golfing Coming October 3, brought to you by the @destielsoulmatebang, @anyreiart, @queerwolfsstuff and @spn-fanfic-reblog-writes!

[ardentpoop]

top 10 evilest dean moments To you (for example. Killing amy+lying. Panic room. what made you go the most DAMN)

questions I must only answer when I’m not actively taking poison damage from da fandom (or the narrative) so I can be cool and calm abt it <3 not that ppl wouldn’t get unnecessarily pissed off by the very framing of the question. alas. in order of how shocked/angry/hurt I felt:

easily the panic room. it is the turning point in samndean’s relationship for me, it is a deeply deeply horrific act if you understand the psychological implications for sam bc you can confront the biased framing of the events of s4, and it makes me ill if I think abt it too hard so I usually have to eat it in small bites only.

how dean treated sam throughout s5 following the events of s4. I can’t get into it bc it’s too painful for me; like I actually can’t watch s5 without getting really agitated and upset. I tried giving it another shot after completing my rewatch this year and had to stop bc it was making me miserable :)

the entire “fight” scene at the beginning of metamorphosis. “you know what that means, sam? that means god doesn’t want you doing this.”

gadreel. I hope I don’t need to elaborate on why at this point. “I’d do it again.”

killing amy behind sam’s back, threatening her son, then lying to sam about it. then calling sam a “bitch” for wanting space from him after he found out. then letting sam apologize to him and agree that dean was right all along.

fake distress text to sam from amelia and subsequent lack of remorse for it.

beating soulless!sam bloody before he even knows he’s soulless. bonus: “you tell me everything whether it’s important or not, because trust me, you can’t tell the difference” (underrated imo)

“I think it [burning corpse] should be you up there, not her.”

“we are not a team. this is a dictatorship.”

dragging out his trusty list of Sam Transgressions when sam didn’t know what Sins to confess pre church scene in sacrifice.

[bardicious]

Some of my most hated Supernatural villains:

The Alphas

Leviathen + Dick fucking Roman

The evil witch from Oz...

the fucking Frankenstein family

Angels 2.0 (Post s5)

Eve? Boring!

Top tier villains:

Lucifer and Michael

Gabriel (when he's being mean)

Amara

Cain (not used well but he was great)

Yellow Eyed Demon

Crowley

Ghosts

Monsters

Gadreel <3

Ones I'm on the fence about:

Anything fairy tale related (it usually makes me laugh so it gets a pass) (DnD, Dragons, Fairies, etc)

Metatron (complicated feelings, I don't care about him so much, but he fits)

Future villains I know I'm going to hate:

British Men of Letters. >:(

[bugmeyer]

What are the top three most popular angels, and what are your top three angels?

So that first part is really easy. My most popular angels are: Gadreel, Angel of War

Zuriel, Angel of Libra

and Azrael, Angel of Death (of course)

My personal top are a little harder.

I do really love Azrael

I even gave him a house at one point, the Driftwood Cathedral.

After that, it would have to be Raziel, Angel of Mystery

He's an angel I really love exploring just as a character, and the one I think I can personally relate the most to. That probably comes as no surprise to anyone.

[imthedr3amer]

I just read...

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Supernatural

Relationship: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester

Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: Humor, Comedy, Brotherly Bonding, Brother Banter, Top Dean Winchester/Bottom Sam Winchester, First Time, Therapy, Misunderstandings, Anal Sex, First Time Bottoming, First Time Blow Jobs, Playful Sex, Roughhousing, head hopping, Wrestling, Anal Virgin Sam Winchester, Little Shit Sam Winchester, Hurt Dean Winchester, Hurt Sam Winchester, Figuring Out Sex, Top Dean Winchester, First Kiss, Blow Jobs, Barebacking, accurate portrayal of brothers fucking, as accurate as possible anyway, Heart-to-Heart, Smut, Bottom Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester First Time Having Sex, Bickering, Funny to Serious, Angst, Denial of Feelings, Second Time, Dean Winchester and Sam Winchester Use Their Words, Anal Fingering, POV Alternating, Bottoming from the Top, Topping from the Bottom, Author's Favorite, [Tag @imthedr3amer would suggest: Season/Series 09 Spoilers]

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2020-05-28 Completed: 2020-09-27 Words: 16,663

Well Jung

by alwaysthrowsscissors

Summary: The brothers are faced with their broken relationship in the aftermath of Gadreel’s possession and Kevin’s death. In an act of desperation, they go to couple’s therapy to try to work things out. It may bring them closer than they bargained for. This fic starts off funny and becomes more intimate and serious as the boys navigate their first time and process it with their therapist.

[Don't forget to toss kudos and a comment to the author. 🫶]

[hoziernaturalevents]

MEET THE AUTHORS!

Here's a peek at our list of authors and some of their past works to give you a taste of what you can expect from them in the coming months!

@amypond45

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Title: If We Live Through This Rating: Mature Words: 13,421 Relationship(s): Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer, Castiel, Lisa Braeden Additional Tags: Post Season 6 AU, Wincest, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed, Cuddling & Snuggling, Post-Lucifer's Cage Summary: Dean feels like a failure when he can’t get Sam out of the Cage. When Sam just shows up one day, with no memory of how he got out, Dean is beyond grateful but wracked with guilt too. Sam’s too traumatized to hunt, so he and Dean settle down in a cabin in the woods, near a lake. But Sam has nightmares of the Cage, and Dean’s guilt makes him desperate to atone for his failure to get Sam out by giving Sam everything and anything he needs, even if it means crossing that line Dean swore he’d never cross.

@avalonsilver

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Title: Once Upon a Blue Moon Rating: Teen and Up Words: 9,347 Relationship(s): Castiel/Sam Winchester, Jimmy Novak/Sam Winchester Characters: Sam Winchester, Castiel, Jimmy Novak Additional Tags: Canon Divergence, Mystery, Angst, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Shortly after Gadreel's exit, Cas and Sam spend time in the Bunker so Cas can heal him. With trepidation, Cas also returns a memory that Sam doesn't know he'd lost years ago. It’s an old memory of a chance meeting with Jimmy Novak when Sam was nineteen and on his way to Stanford. The memory's effect on Sam is one neither had been expecting.

@cautiouslycas

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Title: The Toy Soldier Tattoo Rating: Teen and Up Words: 17,999 Relationship(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester, John Winchester/Mary Winchester, Jo Harvelle/Anna Milton Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Casitel, Benny Lafitte, Anna Milton, Jo Harvelle Additional Tags: Missing Persons, Hospitals, Mentins of Wounds, Mentions of Kidnappings, Mention of Character Death, Nightmares, Tattoos, Tattoo Artist Castiel Summary: Two years after Sam disappears, police officials inform Mary and Dean Winchester there are no more trails for them to follow. The case is cold until new evidence makes its way over to them. It’s the day Dean gets his first tattoo. In honour of Sam. That night, he walks out of the tattoo shop with not only a brand new toy soldier tattoo on his thigh, but also with a crush on his ridiculously cute tattooist Cas. As life continues and his relationship with Cas unfolds, life proves it will keep going on even without his brother and maybe, he should move on too.

@lazarus-rose

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Title: This Tainted Love You've Given Rating: Explicit Words: 17,100 Relationship(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Jessica Moore Additional Tags: Murder Husbands, Serial Killer Dean Winchester, Witch Castiel, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Bottom Castiel/Top Dean Winchester, Topping from the Bottom, Choking, Barebacking, Blow Jobs, Murder Kink, Temporary Character Death, Minor Character Death, Dark, Innocent Castiel, well not that innocent but kind of, Blood and Violence, Torture, they're both unhinged but there's also the power of love, Sort Of, Mentioned Animal Murder, Naked Castiel, Immortal Castiel Summary: Everyone has their hobbies—Dean’s just happens to involve a lot more blood and screaming than most people’s. And sure, maybe murder isn’t the nicest way to blow off steam, but Dean’s always thought that being nice is overrated anyway. His latest victim, a pretty guy with startling blue eyes, should be nothing special, just another nameless body on Dean’s list. But then, after Dean kills and buries him, he turns back up at Dean’s house again the next day. What’s a guy to do when they’ve accidentally gotten an immortal witch convinced that they’ve got some kind of profound bond?

@mbqnoyolo

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Title: Rutting Moon Rating: Explicit Words: 16,961 Relationship(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester, Cesar Cuevas/Jesse Cuevas Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Cesar Cuevas, Jesse Cuevas Additional Tags: Childhood Trauma, Generational Trauma, Child Loss, Indigenous Practices, Indigenous Language, Magick, Mpreg, Non-Omegaverse, Ojibwemowin, Shape Shifting, Bisaan, References to Residential Schools, Pregnant Castiel, Original Characters, OC Indigenous Person Summary: In Grassy Butte, North Dakota an old woman remembers her long walk home after being torn from her family as a child and a young woman mourns a loss no parent should know.

@masoena

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Title: Guardian Angel Dean Winchester Rating: Explicit Words: 13,456 Relationship(s): Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Post-Season/Series Finale, Angelic Grace as Lube, Top Dean Winchester, Bottom Sam Winchester, Implied Switch Sam Winchester, Safe Sane and Consensual, Gay Sex, Angel Dean Winchester, Grief/Mourning, Affection, First Time Bottoming, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Case Fic, Suicidal Thoughts, Mentioned Miracle the Dog, Mentioned Castiel, Mentioned God | Chuck Shurley, Mentioned Jack, Wing Grooming, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Communication, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Protective Dean Winchester, Hurt Sam Winchester, Emotionally Hurt Sam Winchester, Hurt Dean Winchester, Taking Care of Sam Winchester, Taking Care Of Dean Winchester, Anal Sex, Boys Kissing, Romantic Fluff, Romantic Soulmates, Requited Love, Wincest, Sibling Incest, Brother/Brother Incest, Smut, Sex, Past Bottom Dean Winchester, implied bottom dean winchester Summary: Sam is in over his head on a solo hunt about a year since Dean passed way, he finds himself on the forest floor bleeding out and pretty much welcomes death as it would reunite him with his brother. Moments later he is tucked in a blanket in the backseat of the Impala and someone is in the front seat bench waiting for him to wake up. Big brother instincts never die, not even in literal death."

@sammichgirl

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Title: All Too Familiar Rating: Explicit Words: 7,160 Relationship(s): Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Rowena MacLeod Additional Tags: Wincest, Witch!Sam, Soul Bond, Sex Magic, Post 15x20, Canon Divergent, Mutual Pining, Requited Love, Slow Burn Summary: Sam's new hobby has consequences they never saw coming. Turns out, that's OK with Dean after all.

@samanddean76

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Title: Joyous Memories Amongst The Sorrow Rating: Mature Words: 878 Relationship(s): Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Bobby Singer Additional Tags: Hurt Sam Winchester, Protective Bobby Singer, Dead Dean Winchester, Sam Just Needs to do This One Thing, Post-Episode: S03E16 No Rest for the Wicked Summary: The hellhounds killed Dean. Now Sam needs to bury him. And he has the perfect spot all picked out.

@sevensugars

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Title: Every Living Thing by Askance Rating: Mature Words: 36,144 Relationship(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester Additional Tags: Ambiguous/Open Ending, Medicinal Drug Use, Disturbing Themes, Animal Death Summary: When a pair of hunters on the eastern coast witness the arrival of a very disturbing omen, it isn’t long before the news hurtles across the country, piquing the interest—and fear—of people everywhere. In a matter of days, the new, safe world that Sam, Dean, and Castiel have been inhabiting is flipped upside-down. Something enormous is coming—and this time, it’s something they can’t fight. Faced with rapidly diminishing prospects, holed up in a tiny, empty Nebraska town, they are forced to confront fears, secrets, and emotions that might have otherwise never seen the light of day. It seems every story must end somehow, and the only thing that remains to be done is to make the most of what little time they have left.

@thisisapaige

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Title: Non Solum Rating: Explicit Words: 16,061 Relationship(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester Additional Tags: AU-Fantasy, Witch Castiel, Hunter Dean Winchester, Hurt/Comfort, Strangers to Lovers, Huddling for Warmth, Injury, Minor Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-War, Sexual Content, Frottage, POV Castiel (mostly), Suicidal Ideation, First Kiss, First Time, Touch-Starved Castiel, Bad Parent John Winchester (or at least the residual effects of it because he's dead) Summary: Castiel lives a quiet life, a solitary life, a lonely life. He cannot risk anyone finding out he is a witch, lest any hunters seek out his isolated cabin in the frozen Northern Wastes. Interacting only with those who require his healing services, Castiel constructs an existence that ensures he will be alone. Alone, that is, until a bloodied, dying man crawls up to his front door and threatens to tear down everything Castiel has built.

[crossover-enthusiast]

IM BACK IM BACK WE ON THE COMPUTER

OKAY GADREEL AND ROY

it is. become my new favorite thing i think.

I first imagined them with like the yknow Say My Name song where its just Roy sikeing Gadreel out BUT I ALSO LIKE IT IF THEY ACTUALLY MADE A DEAL OR SOMETHING

so heres my timeline

Roy gets into a fight with his parents, and runs out the house in the middle of the night :(( he goes to a playground and chills at the top while he cries and occasionally kicks the playground

GADREEL SHOWS UP WOAH SPOOKY

Roy is confused and angry by him but Gadreel just says all the right things and makes Roy more comfy, eventually exchanging names. Gadreel pretends to relate to Roy's parent issues

I also. picture Gadreel pushing Roy on a swing, like he's at the top and is swinging him back and forth with his tail. They have a found family vibe AT THE BEGINNING DO NOT BE FOOLED

anyway they eventually crack a deal!!! Gadreel tells Roy he'll make his life soooo much better!

Gadreel keeps to his word! He helps Roy in school and probably just- straight up murders his uncle idk man

Gadreel eventually begins asking Roy to do things, starting small like stealing religious items from around his school and disposing of them so Gadreel can roam more freely, but it slowly gets more.. dangerous and/or illegal. whether for Gadreel's entertainment or to benefit him

Gadreel is sort of... hiding in Roy. like he's having Roy do all his dirty work and hiding under his.... vibes.... to avoid detection from Morthy whose like.. nearby idk

thats. where im at. LOTS OF DETAILS I HAVENT SHARED BUT THIS ASK IS ALREADY REALLY LONG IM HGBGUDSBF </333

OOOO!!!!!!

Oh this is SO interesting!!!

The idea of Gadreel acting like a supportive figure so Roy trusts him is so kdsjnfksdnkfsj

Yes I like this a lot

[xfriki26]

WITH GADREELS EARS HE CAN PROBABLY HEAR REALLY WELL WHICH IS. Also terrifying

On top of thermal vision he can also hear the PITPTITPITPTITPTITPTITPITPITPTIT of someone's scared heartbeat or their breathing. He probably naturally tunes this all out but he can tune back in yknow

If he doesn't see you he's gonna hear you

GOD I FUCKING LOVE GADREEL

LITERALY SCREAMING RIGHT NOW

YES, MAKE GADREEL AS OP AS POSIBLE, YOU CANT SCAPE HIM BUT HE WILL PROBABLY GIVE YOU FALSE HOPE JUST TO HAVE MORE FUN

Try to hide? THERMIC VISION DIPSHIT

Stay quiet? HE CAN HEAR YOUR FUCKING HEARTBEAT

HES DRIVING ME INTO INSANITY I SWEAR /silly

[eisforeidolon]

Heller: Explain to me how Dean wasn't totes in lurve with the angel when he went into a deep depression every time Castiel died and was totes happy every time the angel came back?!?

Why bother? It's not like they listened the first fifty times, but hey, I'm bored today. Let's ignore the blatantly wrong hyperbole of Dean doing anything "every time" Castiel died. Fundamentally, you can break this down into two equally stupid categories of assertions:

How People Work: A person would only be devastated by the death of someone they were in love with.

What Even Is Canon: Dean was genuinely devastated by Castiel's deaths even given the comparisons to times we saw Dean actually devastated, devastated by Castiel's death alone in any of those situations, and glad to have Castiel back for himself and not what he could do for them as a semi-indestructible ally.

The first is hellers demonstrating their usual pointed ignorance of normal human behavior and relationships in service of pretending their ship is the undeniable center of the universe. Only someone who has never had a genuinely good friend - or is too young and/or lucky to have never lost one - would assert you can only be devastated by losing a romantic love. Whether it was pure lipservice or not, the show repeatedly told us Castiel was the Winchesters' "best friend" who was "like a brother". So the only thing further thing that needs to be said about it this is: fuck right on out of here with that weird-ass antisocial bullshit.

The second is hellers ignoring literally everything in the canon that they can't make about Dean and Castiel - so they can pretend a storyline actually exists between Dean and Castiel. They can keep acting like context is an entirely foreign concept, but that doesn't do anything but make them look like fools over and over.

We've seen Dean actually devastated - when he lost or was going to lose Sam. He told Bobby to let the world end, sold his soul, made deals with Death and random angels, etc. I could go on, but the basic underlying point was that he literally never went to similar lengths over Castiel. Not only that, but for every single time Castiel died and Dean was upset? Bigger and far more devastating things were going on contributing to his overall mindset and alcohol abuse.

The first two angel explosions, Dean barely has time to react. So let's jump directly to the Leviathan fiasco. First, Dean's not just upset Castiel's dead, he's upset Castiel was fucking lying and going behind their backs for a year and is now dead after breaking Sam's brain and declaring himself God. Again, going back to a lack of understanding of how people work? If you don't get why being mad at a dead friend would fuck you right up ... well. Which doesn't even get into the fact that Dean is ALSO very upset about having to go on the run from seemingly invincible monsters from Purgatory (including ditching his beloved car), Sam currently barely holding on to his sanity, more guilt over lying to Sam about Amy, and then Bobby dying on top of it. As to him being happy to have Castiel back? He's happy - to find someone with the potential to fix Sam, after which he ditches Castiel's comatose ass with Meg in an asylum without looking back. When the tablet wakes the angel back up? I'm not even sure you could call his reaction "happy" so much as willing to take advantage of someone with knowledge and powers to try and fix the still ongoing shitstorm of the Leviathans.

There's an interim death where April the reaper stabs him, but since Gadreel immediately heals him - just as he did with Charlie an episode later, except Dean actually asks for Charlie to be resurrected, Gadreel brings Castiel back on his own initiative? There's again not much of a reaction to speak of. Except in the sense that Dean's very next action, after seeing the consequences of Castiel being on his own mostly human in a world full of angels out for his head? Is to kick Castiel out of the bunker without even giving him money or pointing him towards one of their safe houses because he's not as important to Dean as Sam continuing to be healed.

When Castiel is stabbed by Lucifer at the end of season 12, sure Dean is upset. But it's fucking insane to pretend that he's not more upset about his recently-returned-to-life mother, the trauma of whose original loss basically shaped his entire fucking life, being yanked into a rift to an alternate universe with Lucifer! FFS. Then there's the part where Lucifer's super powerful Nephilim child has just been born and might kill just them or maybe the whole world, too. Sure he prays to Chuck for Castiel's return - right along with Mary's and even Crowley's. But he doesn't offer anything for it and immediately gives up when there's no answer. When he meets up with Billie a few episodes later after temporarily killing himself on a case, despite their meta it was in despair over the angel? He asks immediately to go back to life, and when Billie prevaricates? He asks for the ghosts in the house to be freed. He admits to feeling fatalistic because of his inability to save Castiel BUT ALSO Mary AND EVEN the rando VotW kid that just died in the house with equal weight. He asks for information about Mary. He does not ask for Castiel to be resurrected or to be reunited with him in any other way. Sure he's glad Castiel returns shortly thereafter - but it does not stop any of his angsting the rest of the season over Mary and Jack. I think his pulling a gun on Kaia is deeply OOC, but that's well after Castiel's resurrection and they're gonna pretend that's happy, well-adjusted Dean totes fixed by Castiel's return? LOL. Not even to mention that after one episode of the angel being back, Dean is perfectly happy for Castiel to fuck off out of his presence to search for Jack - and when Castiel promptly gets himself kidnapped? Dean doesn't notice the person who is calling to check in every single day about the search, who it is explicitly canon he personally talked to on the phone, is not Castiel. Just like Dean didn't notice him being possessed by Lucifer in season 11, oops.

Then we get to the final one. Yeah, Dean is upset Castiel died after his brain reboots from having to listen to Misha queerbait the shit out of his sheep Castiel's derpy, rambling goodbye speech about ambiguous love. But he was already upset and drinking for pulling a gun on Sam, for Billie's plan being a double-cross, for Chuck having turned full villain and absorbed Amara making him more powerful than ever while Jack got de-powered, for the overall questions he's struggling with about destiny and free will when Chuck has been manipulating their entire lives, for Chuck disappearing seemingly every-fucking-body on the planet except him, Sam, and Jack. Sure Dean mentions Castiel specifically when he and Sam offer to fight to the death for Chuck's amusement if he puts everything back - probably because he was killed in a different way from the rest of the vanished. But it's not more of an impassioned plea than Dean gives birds or showing more upset than when Chuck vanishes Miracle right after they find him. Then there's having to deal with Michael again, so sure, Dean is hopeful that Castiel might return for a hot second when they need all the help they can get. But once it's all said and done and they've tricked Chuck and installed Jack as the new God who brings the rest of the planet back? Dean doesn't ask Jack to bring Castiel back one last time. When Sam is sad about missing Jack and Castiel, Dean waxes philosophical about how they need to just enjoy their lives without them and is more interested in his pie. They can write all the bad meta they want about Dean intentionally impaling himself on that rebar, but he's clearly happy with no Castiel in sight. When Dean arrives in heaven, even when Bobby explicitly mentions Castiel, Dean shows literally no interest in asking about or seeking out the angel. His car, on the other hand comes immediately to mind. If that isn't clear enough, we see exactly what reunion makes Dean's heaven more than "almost perfect" and brings full closure to his story. Since they desperately wanted to count TW when they had delusions of it canonizing their ship, let's throw in that TW's meddling ghost Dean is still fixing things so Sam can have a full life, looking up random AU versions of his parents, and hanging out with ghost Bobby - while literally no one even mentions Castiel anywhere in his vicinity. Everything he could ever want or need or dream? Doesn't include Castiel. Totes twue lurve, yeah?

While I think that makes the point as clearly as anything could, I'd also like to mention in passing that I didn't even go over several additional times when Castiel was maybe going to die and/or Dean basically shrugged it off because he didn't care that much or bigger shit was going down elsewhere. This is already long enough already, and ultimately no amount of actual canon is ever going to matter to people who pretend anything that doesn't fit into their fantasies about YA romance tropes and the secret meaning of wardrobe and pastry magically doesn't exist.

Still, it's very easy to explain, it's all right there in a basic human understanding of relationships and the show's canon.