#destiel climber au

[minetowalkonglass]

gabriel is 100% dirtbag he has a van not an apartment his gear looks hella worn but is meticulously looked after. he DOES however have the vibes of that old guy why smokes as he solos past a trad team and stops to comfort the leader who's freaking out while placing a cam - does sometimes insane and risky things but trusts himself to be good enough that it will be fine. it's a big part of the reason why kali wants him to scale back

cas is less unhinged than gabriel. enjoys technical climbing a lotttt and is percieved as less strong bc of this preference but is also plenty strong. good planner, high risk tolerance which is why climbing with gabe worked out p good

jo got her first sponsorship and is working on her first film. cassie isn't really a climber but she's studying journalism and media production and she is copiloting the film production. or maybe she's a freelance journalist already? don't know how old they are yet. ash is bouldering dirtbag and camera crew. Eileen is a coworker of Dean's and Jo's primary climbing partner. dean knows fuck all about cameras but he can set up rope systems for charlie and ash

jo and cassie are an item & they are the love of my life if you even care. cassie and dean dated for a while when he was just out of school & looking for jobs but they decided they didn't really work out and half a year later jo and cassie started dating. dean is secretly freaking out about it a little but not really

start of the season jo's working on a route with a crux sequence that is similar to one of the not cruxes but difficult sequence for jo bc it's her anti style on her big scary difficult 5.13a (7c+ french) she's working on the first female ascent of (it's very very ambitious and she's impatient so she wants to get it THIS SEASON). dean is belaying when jo breaks off a hold & the shard hits his head & lands on his foot (he's in sandals) smashing his foot up p good. he faints (he's using a grigri and it cams so jo is fine) briefly and it quickly becomes evident he needs stitches. he's like it's fine the weather window is too good you stay here jo ash will belay you i'll drive myself to the er but gabe & cas are headed back from their route & cas insists on taking him. jo sends the route sans 1 hold the same day & dean feels very validated in forcing his frinds to stay! gabriel ditches them p quickly but cas stays

like ofc it's in the cards that dean will be joining cas on some stuff but this will probs go over like a year ++. (jo's project probably turns into her moby dick.)

One of their first attempts at a multi pitch route on gear they have a miscommunication causing Cas to fall & have a nasty but lucky broken leg

This leads to dean not trusting himself & blaming himself, completely ignoring how he was the sole reason cas got safely back to where paramedics could attend to him Cas is angry as fuck at him for this, not for the fall (he's had worse recoveries and more serious falls w Gabriel) but because Dean blames himself alone and he doesn't want to find another climbing partner and because Dean saved him!!!! Were it not for Dean's knowhow in rescues he would be SO much worse off

Cas talks Dean into letting him coach him on sports and trad to develop his skills as soon as the doctors tells him he can walk on it. Dean isn't happy abt it and insists cas isn't allowed to belay until his leg can actually take a hit Dean improves his climbing and gear placing skills while cas heals up

i'm not great at figuring out conflicts/how to build tension in the story tho so far jo's proj is the most high stakes thing maybe this needs to be a jo-centric thing but then the climbing film which ends up being not only epic climbing film abt persistance and friends cheering you on and believing in yourself even though you fail multiple times, but ALSO with side content of the slow coming together of cas and dean. . Cas has a dream wall he wants to do but he needs a skileld partner? it could be a forbidden love-thing bc of either society or obliviousness or repression? maybe dean struggles a lot with trusting himself and therefore trusting his own gear is difficult for him (among other things) but his journey to start trusting himself more is the thing? idek man

sam is studying/is practicing physiotherapy. As is Pamela.

do you wanna hear abt the destiel climber au i made up in my head

too bad you're gonna hear abt it anyway

cas is a big waller and dean is an arborist who sometimes sport climbs but he's not like. good-good he's a pure hobbyist & he mostly belays jo who is a BEAST

anyway they meet at a point. get aquinted but not like super friendly. attraction but they either don't realise or just is repressed.

fast forwards cas's partner gabriel gets engaged to kali on the ONE condition that he stops big walling. (they strike a compromise that he can sport climb all he wants and as long as he skips the sketchiest routes trad is fine as well.)

so anyway now they start frequenting sport crags more and cas is prowling for a new partner for big walls

and i gotta run for the bus maybe tbc

[minetowalkonglass]

do you wanna hear abt the destiel climber au i made up in my head

too bad you're gonna hear abt it anyway

cas is a big waller and dean is an arborist who sometimes sport climbs but he's not like. good-good he's a pure hobbyist & he mostly belays jo who is a BEAST

anyway they meet at a point. get aquinted but not like super friendly. attraction but they either don't realise or just is repressed.

fast forwards cas's partner gabriel gets engaged to kali on the ONE condition that he stops big walling. (they strike a compromise that he can sport climb all he wants and as long as he skips the sketchiest routes trad is fine as well.)

so anyway now they start frequenting sport crags more and cas is prowling for a new partner for big walls

and i gotta run for the bus maybe tbc