#cas and jack

[4ever-feral]

Damn, They are literally the same person 🥹

Like father like son

[sheydi0]

happy family :3

[ananke-xiii]

Jack choosing Cas as his father: why I love it.

a. Children choosing their parents is a concept that just... moves me. Yeah, of course parents don't get to choose their children and Jack is not technically a child but. As. like. a symbol, an image, an idea that the offspring can claim and decide who their parents are... I just find it beautiful and that's reason enough for me;

b. according to some esoteric schools of thought we choose are parents, our destiny or our reincarnation. We, humans, don't usually remember it but Jack's not human, he does remember it and he clearly voices what he remembers and I think it's a cool aspect of both Otherness and of the infinite possibilities inside the human mind;

c. The reason behind the usage of the verb "to choose": Jack can literally choose from a pool of potential/actual fathers and he chooses Castiel and keeps choosing him once he's born;

d. Castiel is chosen by someone. I repeat: CASTIEL IS CHOSEN BY SOMEONE. SOMEONE CHOOSES CASTIEL. I don't want to go Meredith Grey on him but that angel man needed someone who chose him, picked him;

e. Being chosen is the number one fixation among angels. Jack doesn't know it but he's already acting like a God;

f. it says fuck you to "Mater semper certa est, pater semper incertus est". Yeah, sure Jack's father is not uncertain but. like. he also is a little bit? The unfortunate circumstances in which Jack was conceived leave interpretations open (not to the show because it doesn't go there but I do);

g. Jack chooses an absent father who, he thought, was supposed to keep him safe and protect him. And this father died doing just that, or foolishly thinking he was doing that, by trying to kill Jack's pseudo-actual father. This is "All about Eve" Supernatural edition and parapapapa I'm loving it;

h. Jenny Holzer's "Men don't protect you anymore". I won't elaborate on that.

I could and will go on.

[snevinsspn]

cas really said “i will invent free will to fall in love. i will invent it again to be a father” and just expected me to be normal about it

[velcroedshoe]

My grandma used to interlock our pinky fingers during prayers in church, I’d like to think these two can comfort eachother in their own angelic way

[thenameisgul]

i hate, hate, hate when someone even insinuates, yet alone says it outright, that jack brought Cas back because he saw how cas’ death was affecting dean (and somehow that’s proof that dean loved cas)

my siblings in christ, jack did bring Cas back bc of dean but not because dean was upset 🥺

jack begged for Cas to come back because dean in his grief genuinely made Jack feel so insecure and endangered that Jack desperately called out for one person who ever made him feel safe i.e Castiel.

[soullessjack]

personally i don’t think we do enough about the fact that jack is narratively symbolized by snakes like five different times in s14. one of his few centric episodes is called ouroboros where the MOTW is a snake based monster who compares jack to a black snake in a fable, and later on in the same episode his soul-sacrifice to kill Michael is paralleled to both the ouroboros and the black snake simultaneously. both of his conversations with dean and cas in peace of mind are literally just, “okay clearly we’re both talking about me but we’re using snakes as a placeholder here to avoid the emotional baggage of what we really mean.” like there’s so much of it just Sitting there gathering dust and nobody ever talks about him like a functional person I’m gonna rip my fucking face off

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

Policeman: You're Mister Yamashiro's kid?

– spn 1x05

Lucifer: Castiel. Did you just Molotov my brother with holy fire?

– spn 5x22

Policewoman: [skeptical glance]

– spn 15x15

The Holy Trinity of being calling out for a lie…

…and persisting because they'd sell it with a little smile… right?

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

this pic is all silly goofy haha angel getting drunk until you remember the reason he’s drinking is because he just lost his kid after tfw tried so hard to save him but were let down over and over again until all they could do was watch him die, helpless to do anything to stop it, so the only thing left to do is try to numb the pain.

[jackklinemybeloved]

I think sam and cas (as the ones who canonically read parenting books for jack) should’ve thrown around like. parenting therapy speak around dean. I want to see dean hear the words “gentle parenting” and have an aneurysm.

[gay-mooshrooms]

haven't gotten to him in the show yet but i am unbelievably excited to meet jack for several reasons but primarily

a. i've seen clips and he's adorable(plus we seem very similar)

and b. that was the best possible thing they ever could've done with cas's character

they really said ok, we've made the most perfect and lovable character in tv history, what could we possibly do to make him better...LETS GIVE HIM A SON!!!

AND THEN THEY DID!!!

[13x02]

there's something about people constantly yelling about the box but never talking about castiel having planned to put jack in the cage. in hell.

[emilydesjardins2006]

And yet we wonder where he got it from.

[shallowseeker]

"it sounds loony" is such a funny comment from castiel. i hope he said it intentionally bc he was like "dean likes cartoons... haha looney tunes."

I too love Cas’s forays into human wordplay/culture. <3

It almost feels like he makes more of an effort when he’s entertaining the thought of of staying permanently. He watches TV, he plays along a little more, etc. In Hunter Heroici, Castle is completely goofing off, and it’s so fun!

Alas. In Cas’s mental framework, he decides that his dream of becoming a hunter was just a pipedream. That becoming one was just a balm he was using to fantasize about running away from his responsibilities in Heaven.

///

By Ouroboros, another episode where Cas plays with human sayings, the shift is clear. He’s not just observing anymore—he’s grounding himself in humanity. Back in season 5, he called human emotion “dangerously crippling,” and as late as season 12, he said humans often make interactions “needlessly difficult.” But by Ouroboros, Cas is using more human metaphors, a sign that he’s becoming more comfortable integrating with them.

But with Jack on Earth, everything changes. Jack becomes a new mission for Cas—a holy excuse for Cas to stay. It gives Cas permission to settle on Earth in a way he never had before.

[angelsdean]

thinking again abt fetus jack possibly / probably brainwashing cas to some extent as a defense mechanism and specifically showing cas visions that appeal to his own personal wants and desires. and i'm imagining cas eventually finding out that's what happened and how that plays into his previous experiences with brainwashing and manipulation via heaven / naomi. how in both instances the brainwashing served to get cas on side and to fulfill a certain goal / mission. for heaven / naomi that goal was to keep cas serving heaven and going against the winchesters (and ultimately to kill dean, specifically). for fetus jack, the goal was to have cas become his protector and ensure his survival, basically to serve him and kelly (for the duration of her pregnancy), and again turn against the winchesters, whom he previously was in agreement with re: the jack situation. i imagine he'd feel some complicated emotions about it. because he's come to care for jack, obviously, but i think he'd start to wonder if he's still being influenced by jack, whether consciously or not on jack's part, especially after seeing how powerful jack truly is, how easily he can make the world bend to his will (like how he stopped the whole world from lying)

[thenameisgul]

If new supernatural writers were a little more brave they would’ve made jack being soulless as cruel and terrifying as they made Sam.

Mary’s death should not have been an accident. Sam almost killed Bobby when he was soulless. He would’ve gone through with it if Dean didn’t stop him. So Jack should’ve killed Mary out of complete apathy because he simply can’t feel anything.

Then, dean trying to kill him in Moriah would’ve been somewhat justified and Chuck wanting to kill him because he was simply too powerful would’ve made sense and Sam would’ve sympathized with Jack because he knows what it’s like to be soulless.

Cas would’ve still stood by Jack because it still technically wasn’t his fault and Cas has experience not abandoning his family even when they do bad things.

That would’ve been interesting to watch.