#to trench-coat or not to trench-coat

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Trench-Coat Wish List

This is a lazy and no so serious post. I basically spended half an hour looking for “trench-coats for men” on google and I made a personal selection of the ones that don’t want to be used by Castiel on Season 13.

And a personal selection of possible good options for Castiel, that I picked using my keen eye for high fashion and couture (I literally don’t have any idea of what I’m talking about).

So let’s make it Work!!!

The nononono Trench-Coats

I made a wide selection in the Trench-Coat sampling of definitively must no, never no, under any circumstance let one of these be used by Castiel Unless there is an AU where Cas is an angel by day and a 70s Porn Star by night. Let see if you agree.

Yes it includes the ugly one that He was using till season 12.

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A first Selection for Your Consideration.

What about in black?

Do you remember how good he look in that misleading Promo with a Black coat?

Now, how about options for a AU Castiel.

This selection is really just a general HeadCanon and a wide speculation about another Castiel that can belong to the AU Where Mary is right now. Or the negative of Castiel that can came out from the empty.

The nononono for a Castiel from any AU.

Look, this are cool Coats, but aren’t Castiel in any way. They have a Gothic vibe that I think Can’t resonate with any iteration of Cas. Maybe It’s just my opinion, and someone may say: Well, I would like to see a Gothic Angel of the Lord kinda Draculish, in that case this selection is for you.

This is my final and definitive proposal.

Here is a modernized and stylish version of all the Trench-Coat idea. I believe it would look really good in Castiel tailored to suit the beefed gorgeosity that is Misha Collins. Also, you can choose the color. My personal selection will be the gray, because it will symbolize what I want for him to became once he leaves the empty. Not a human, neither an Angel. I believe he will renounce a part of himself that can definitively can classify him as an Angel, but he will not choose to renounce to all his Celestial powers, because at the end, this is who he really is.

Another thing to note about this so symbolic piece of clothing, is that this version doesn’t fill any practical use, and Castiel could take it off at anytime. I will vindicate my position in the #KeepTheTrenchCoat Team, but I will say the same I stated before about my beloved ship Destiel.  Castiel is more that a Trench-Coat or a love interest, he can’t be shaped or delayed, ignoring the need for a healthy development of this character just to fulfill either a romantic Trope or a whimsical request of the fans. We know that this is mere nostalgia about the first time we saw him and he gained our hearts. Either for his overall aesthetic perfection, Trench-Coat, sex hair or quirkiness. We must let him flow, and this proposal will allow him to keep that visual reference about him that we love and miss so much, because we know that the old and Vintage Season 4 Trench-Coat will never come back because no one produce those Coats anymore. 

With a clothing as unpractical and just to fill the requirement for him to wear something that recalls his wings, we will still having that imagen we love, and this will also allow for this character to evolve according his decisions and possibilities. I can further convince you by asking you to picture a Castiel with a tight white shirt, sleeves rolled up on Misha’s beefed body(ok, is getting hot in here).

I believe at the end the Trench-Coat will stay, but don’t let this piece of garment became in a definite and absolute trademark of this awesome character. We need see more skin, and more confort for this overall newest version of our favorite Angel. Let him to wear or take off this Coat at will. But a requirement that I will demand to be reinstalled Ipso facto, is the Sex hair, Cas has no identity or purpose without that messy hair. U_U

Chaito

If your nostalgia gets a hold of you, and you are about to unfollow me because this my statement. Allow me to offer you condolences first, and this link where you can find this Vintage Coat, that is cataloged specifically as a costume or general nostalgia about Castiel.

Castiel Trench Coat

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A study in Trench-Coat

I wasn’t on board on the Castiel’s Trench-Coat discussion until this moment.

I was tagged by the lovely @gneisscastiel in this post about how the famous TrenchCoat become a symbol of Castiel’s ‘angel uniform’.

I probably never participated before on this topic of discussion, or mention a formal opinion, mainly because I kind of agree with the anon in the mentioned post.

What if for Castiel this coat has no meaning other that being a part of the complete suit he chose to wear. Maybe is because Jimmy Novak was wearing the famous Trench-coat the first time he said yes to Castiel when he was only a celestial entity. So the wardrobe of an Angel´s vessel is like a default feature that they can’t avoid, and really don’t care. Although, @bluestar86 explained flawlessly all the symbolism and real meaning in the Castiel psyche or Subconscient. So my first opinion has adapted in trying to discover what does really Castiel thinks/likes about this piece of clothing. In the mentioned post, are several and key elements about the importance and carefully choosing of the vestment for the cast in Supernatural and its basic symbolism for each character. I love how the post analyze exclusively the coat and its performance as kind of a sidekick, explained from Cas’s POV. And how is always present when Castiel has his grace and wings, even if both are faded and/or broken, he still being an angel.

FAVORITE DESTIEL MOMENT SPN 07x17 -  The Born again Identity 

I believe that, and you can call this my HeadCanon, the importance or main symbolism about the coat that Castiel learn to appreciate. Comes from the fact of how was delivered and carefully returned by Dean in this episode .

Before that, the coat was just a part of the vessel. As Cas explained about  being an angel, he “will never perspire under any circumstance” so he will also will not experienced the cold. Therefore the real and useful propose for this trench-coat loses any meaning or practical importance.

When Chuck brought him back twice, it was like the snap of his fingers reassembled and broken vase containing petunias, and as the wish of the master of this universe was to “put together” this vase. He effectively reassemble the broken vase, gathered the water and didn’t care if the petunias were already dead or started to rot, he just put the whole vase together.

The objective for the reassembled of Castiel was to bring him “as it was before”.

Maybe because this is how Castiel saw himself as a whole. This image that is so iconic of him with this sometimes beloved and hideous piece of clothing, is the self-image that Castiel came to build in his mind as human representation of and Angel wearing a human vessel. In a way, he also saw reflected his rebellious decisions post Season 4, as an element that differentiated and separated him from his, at that time “brothers”, whom were never observed wearing this type of coat or color.

That was until Dean gave a deep meaning to this garment when he returned it. This was just a piece of fabric until that moment for Cas. When it was so carefully delivered, and as he tried to understood Dean’s sentiment of why he keeped this dirty and old trench-coat, when he return this coat like a precious item to Castiel. From that point, Cas took this old piece of rag as a vital protection to cover his “persona”. This self-image that he learned to manifest while trying to understand the emotions and sentiment that Dean Winchester transmitted him. First because this was the physical manifestation of the role and importance that Cas assumed as being part of the Winchester’s family.

This kind of relationships are built first through friendship and deep feelings of caring. This I believe was the main symbolism that Cas put in this famous coat. Precisely in this moment:

In that occasion,witnessing this act of caring for this dirty garment plus the way it was preserved for him, just as he left it, and the way Dean deliver it to him. Was the anchor Cas needed for really care for this old rag.

Later, this classic coat had to be changed because of his transition from angel to human, and back again to angel. As the mentioned post at the beginning observed, the Tench-Coat become in a symbol of Castiel’s ‘angel uniform’ and this is accepted as canon for the fandom.

But what about the sentiment that Cas could have for the old and dismissed coat that he tossed when he became a human. Maybe he thought this condition will be permanent, that is why he choose to just let it go, because his true meaning was already lost  if he will no longer could be an angel again.

The interesting and discovery for me, was to realize how and why he choose the hideous current coat, that only has the resemblance of the old because of his symbolic function and “similar” color.

The current sack of potatoes wasn’t a random decision of this Seraph with 3 sets of wings whose true voice could make a build crumble and be destroyed from its foundations. The ex-commander of a celestial garrison made this poor choice of garment, guided by the familiarity of the original one. The resemblance of color, the altogether function in all this “physical persona” that he hopes will be wearing for long. Exactly what he need to use, so he can be recognized always by his  hunter. As a wavelength, Castiel’s True!Form is basically a blinding beam of light, easily to mistake with the sun or any other source of pure light.

For Cas, wearing any sign that portraits the original presence that first met with Dean Winchester in that barn is vital. In his “mind”, Dean will always recognize him as this: “Holy Tax Accountant” that he met 9 human years ago. “I will dress like this so you can always know this is me, so you can always be able to find me" I think it resonates in Cas’s mind.

So, for Castiel physical/human persona, this trench-coat is his True!Form identifier of the vessel that he choose to wear years ago, and from which he was brutally expelled in front of Dean. Now that there is an imminent possibility that Castiel’s body will be burn. The burning of the Trench-Coat, if Dean allows it, will be a key factor in resolving the actual mystery of Which Castiel will return, once he resolved several issues with himself in The Empty.

I wold like to think that the Trench-Coat has to go Pronto!, so new beginnings as is the promise of this season may allowed to happen, in the overall arc of the show, and at last but not least new promises and openly identifiable meanings could happen between this two. (drying a little shiper tear of happiness :’D)

Thank you @gneisscastiel for inspire this inner dialog, so I can reach this HeadCanon, and this accidental Favorite Destiel Moment.