#i'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition

[quaccpacc]

Happy birthday to one of the most complex and layered but also refreshingly unembelleshed characters to exist in media 💕💕💕

September 18th, 2008 💙

Cas day !! Happy sweet 16th to the character that has changed the trajectory of my life significantly..

[turboheller]

dean winchester is (about to be) saved

[pl3as3hangup]

i've never met a casual spn fan, they're all crazy about it

[thereal-mainichiheiwani]

You will bow down and profess your love unto me, your Lord, or I shall destroy you.

[drfrankensteinvsthequeerborgs]

I assume someone’s done this before?

[pzychojinx]

[sapp0w0]

There'll be more to come of this silly AU. For now take this

[crownhcart]

@infernalpursuit Does your muse like music? Is there any genre they prefer? Do they sing or play any instrument? ( for any and as many muses as you want )

RUBS HANDS. oh how much i love thinking about characters' relationship with music. 👀 i won't answer for every single muse i have or we'll still be here next year, but for some of the most interesting ( for me personally ofc ):

castiel is fascinated by music. it's something entirely human, something the angels don't bother making, as the holy battle is so much more important to them. he shouldn't bother as well, but the harmony is just so... captivating. there is something in music, in what simple humans can do and how much emotion they can bring into it, that gets his attention no matter how hard he tries to ignore it. at the same time, so out of touch with his own emotions, he sincerely doesn't understand it. which, somehow, makes it even more captivating.

red likes it, but it... makes them sad. it's like a distant memory to them, a memory that isn't theirs, and therefore shouldn't feel, and yet. they won't strive away from music when they hear it - quite the opposite, it tends to make them stop and listen for a small while -, but it quite often make their mood drop in a way or another. ( is it ironic, behing them from a rhythm game? likely. still. )

they can't play any instrument. they know how to, she knew how to play a lot of them, but they feel too rigid with their body and can't play well. they also never stopped to practice, though. they have other thoughts.

for geppetto, it's not that he doesn't like music, but he's always too lost in thoughts or in his work to really listen to it. he will start to, for sure, try to remain focused long enough, but then oh i had to fix this puppet's arm actually and he WILL listen to it but as a distant sound, and as he fixes the arm oh actually, i think i can make it better, so he will look for materials but he WILL listen, he promises, and while he works he gets creative and makes the arm better and better and in the meantime the music will have ended but he won't really notice until maybe a few hours later. basically, what i'm trying to say: adhd king. but he DOES like it.

and the beheaded is the most interesting to me, because he... doesn't know what music even is? i don't think there's a lot of people left on the island lucid enough to sing and play an instrument, and he forgot everything of his life before becoming a walking corpse with a flame as a head, so he doesn't... know. he never heard it. but i bet he will adore it when he finds out what it is, and rest assured, if a guitar or a lute finds its way in his hands, he will become the BEST at playing it.

[intergalactic-garbage]

bruh ive never seen spn but every so often i get castiel's "i'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition" stuck in my head and i had no idea why? anyway i just realized it's because it's in an iambic meter (I'M the ONE who GRIPPED you TIGHT and RAISED you FROM perDItion). my mfs wrote literal poetry . did they know???

[charon-cries]

"i'm a boy" "i'm a girl" okay well i'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition

[chocolatecakecas]

they literally made his first line "i'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition" and then got mad at us when we became obsessed with him??? like they wrote it. they left it in the script. what did they think would happen???

[tenco]

I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from Perdition.

[ananke-xiii]

S10 was crazy 'cause they really had Crowley, freakiest of freaks, King of Hell and certified bloodlust lover going on a little escapade wtih Dean, letting him have all the fun and the sex and the murder he wanted hoping that he would consent to being his ruling partner in Hell... and FAILING...

while Cas was like: Dean, everybody around you will die but I won't (big lie) and I'll be your partner whether you like it or not and there's nothing we can do about it, that's JUST how it's gonna be from now on.

The angel literally went from "I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition" to "I'm the one who will have to watch you murder the world" and he was totally fine with it and I love that for Dean, LOL.

[give-bucky-his-boyfriend-back]

Hey how are you✨️Dean...my name is 💙Castiel🌈I'm the one who gripped you tight🌟💚And raised you from perdition🐝☁️right now🫢🥵And hoping you to💞 be the Michael Sword❤️😍[HYPERLINK]🔥 please be✨️ fast🍕 I'm 😉waiting for you💫 here🌸

[icaruspendragon]

remember in 1x12 (faith) when dean has the conversation with the faith healer and he says, "why? why me? out of all the sick people, why save me?" and the healer answers, "well, like i said before, the lord guides me. i looked into your heart and you just... stood out from all the rest." and dean asks, "what did you see in my heart?" and the faith healer answers, "a young man with an important purpose- a job to do. and it isn't finished."

and then remember when in 2x13 (houses of the holy) when sam asks dean, "why can't you even consider the possibility?" and dean says "what, that this is an angel?" and sam says "yes. maybe we're hunting an angel here, and we should stop. maybe this is god's will." and then dean says "okay. all right. you know what? i get it. you've got faith. that's -- hey, that's good for you. i'm sure it makes things easier. i'll tell you who else had faith like that -- mom. she used to tell me when she tucked me in that angels were watching over us. in fact, that was the last thing she ever said to me." and sam says, "you never told me that." and dean responds, "what's to tell? she was wrong. there was nothing protecting her. there's no higher power. there's no god. there's just chaos and violence. and random, unpredictable evil that comes out of nowhere and rips you to shreds. so you want me to believe in this stuff? i'm gonna need to see some hard proof. you got any?"

and then remember in 4x01 (lazarus rising) when dean meets castiel and asks "who are you?" and castiel says, "i'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition." and then again dean asks, "who are you?" and castiel responds, "castiel." and dean says, "yeah i figured that much, i mean what are you?" and cas says, "i'm an angel of the lord." and dean says, "get the hell out of here. there's no such thing." and cas shows him the fearsome wrath of heaven and later dean says, "look pal i'm not buying what you're selling, so who are you really?" and cas says, "i told you." and dean says, "right. and why would an angel, rescue me from hell?" and cas tells him, "good things do happen, dean." and dean says, "not in my experience." and cas asks him, "what's the matter?" and then tells him, "you don't think you deserve to be saved." and dean asks, "why'd you do it?" and cas tells him "because god commanded it. because we have work for you."

and then remember when in 4x16 (on the head of a pin) when cas is talking to dean in the hospital and dean asks, "is it true? did i start all of this?" and cas has to say, "yes. when we discovered lilith's plan for you... we laid siege to hell, and we fought our way to get to you before you --" and dean cuts in to say "jump-started the apocalypse." and cas' gaze turns skyward as he says, "but we were too late." and dean asks, "why didn't you just leave me there, then?" and cas, with eyes still upward says, "it's not... blame that falls on you, dean. it's fate." and cas turns his gaze downward once more as he says, "and the righteous man who begins it is the only one who can finish it." and then he turns to dean, looking at him for the first time, and says, "you have to stop it." and dean asks, "lucifer? the apocalypse? what does that mean?" and cas looks away from him and says nothing so dean says, "hey. don't you go disappearing on me, you son of a bitch. what does that mean?" and cas is staring resolutely forward as he says, "i don't know." and dean exclaims "bull!" and cas once more says, "i don't." before looking at dean again and saying, "dean, they don't tell me much. i know... how our fate rests with you." and then dean, with tears in his eyes says, "well, then you guys are screwed." and then he says, "i can't do it, cas. it's too big." and then he says, "alastair was right. i'm not all here. i'm not -- i'm not strong enough." and then cas looks back and dean and dean looks away from cas for the first time since the conversation started and says, "well, i guess i'm not the man either of our dads wanted me to be." and cas looks away and dean says "find someone else. it's not me." and the tears dean has been trying so hard to hold back finally fall.

anyway. i just thought all of that was kinda interesting.

[rainsongdean]

CASTIEL ✯ 18 SEPTEMBER 2008 ✯ I'M THE ONE WHO GRIPPED YOU TIGHT AND RAISED YOU FROM PERDITION

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