#cas' vessel

[aheavenlycreature]

Castiel CHOOSING to let his vessel age alongside Sam and Dean. He first excuses this by convincing himself he's only doing it to not stand out and it's saving his grace. That it's wasteful to constantly keep rejuvenating cells when he could be using that power elsewhere. It simply makes the most sense, especially when he falls from Heaven to help aid Dean Winchester. The years go by and the vessel is no longer just a vessel, it's his body and he likes experiencing the human process of aging. The wrinkles he's getting at the corner of his eyes, the laugh lines on his cheeks from smiling at Dean's antics, the grey hairs starting to dust his hair. He loves experiencing this part of humanity. Sam and Dean don't notice how odd it is Castiel is aging alongside them. They're human, so they don't think anything of someone aging until it's brought to their attention by someone Castiel is an angel-- vessels don't age. Or at least, they shouldn't. Dean thinks something has to be wrong with Cas' grace, that Cas has been hiding he's hurt or something fatal but Cas tells him there's nothing to worry about. He chose it. He could at the snap of his fingers restore the body back to its original state when he first possessed Jimmy Novak but he doesn't want to. Dean asks why doesn't he. I mean, aging isn't exactly glamourous and it's something a lot of humans would want to skip out on. Cas answers by saying, "I wanted to because... because it makes me feel more like I belong", but Dean notices his stutter. Cas' answer is satisfactory, but Dean knows Cas and he knows when Cas is hiding the full truth. Which causes him to think Cas is lying about something important he should know about and he's determined to find out what.

What Cas doesn't want Dean to know is that maybe back in 2009 he started letting his vessel age to conserve grace where he could or so he wouldn't stand out amongst the Winchesters or make himself seem more alien than he already did. But the real reason he let his vessel age (which he's aware of now) is because he wanted grow old alongside the man he loves and this was as close as he could get to the fantasy.

#Destiel #Castiel #Dean Winchester #Dean x Castiel #Deancas #Casdean #Cas and Dean #Dean and Cas #Dean Winchester x Castiel #spn headcanon #headcanon #head canon #hc #SPN #supernatural #Jimmy Novak #is it gay to grow grey with the homies? #cas' vessel #castiel vessel #Cas is PINING #castiel loves dean winchester #Dean Winchester loves Castiel

[strawlessandbraless]

Possessive Castiel with a marking kink makes me feral

#marked his brothers vessel no less #cas rebuilt Dean to be his own man. not Michael’s #dean asking cas to put the handprint back while they’re having sex is my favorite headcanon #destiel #castiel #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #deancas #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #handprint #hand print #cockles #spn 4x01 #4x01 #6x03 #spn 6x03 #spn 15x18 #15x18 #marking kink #gay #dean posting #cas posting #casposting #deanposting #my writing

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Eagle effigy vessel.

Date: ca. A.D. 1450

Period: Late Postclassic

Place of origin: Eastern Nahua

Medium: Ceramic with polychrome slip

#history #museum #archeology #ancient history #archaeology #eagle effigy vessel #eagle #pottery #late postclassic period #nahua #ceramic #ca. a.d. 1450

[a-s-levynn]

"A sacred guardian" A Series of Small Offerings - IV/1 - day33

#a series of small offerings #sleep token fanart #levynn tries to draw #i had this thing in my head since i put together the small offerings challenge #that was in last november #so this was cooking in my brain for some time now #this was the only one i had a very clear idea for what i wanted #the only thing wasn't set in stone was what runes i want to put on him #this is my sistine chapel #this is the peak #we only gonna go down from here #hope you like it because i worked on this pretty much all day and i've never been this happy or satisfied with anything i ever did probably #and yes this is one of my standard ca. 13 cm tall drawings as per usual before anyone asks #also yes Darya you guessed it that was the tmbte moon rising on the missing limbs one #sleep token #vessel fanart #vessel i #i sleep token #sleep token i #vessel sleep token #sleep token vessel #sleep token band #sleeptoken #levynn tries to think

[kimodraw]

destiel yuri btw. if you even care

#destiel #deancas #supernatural #spn #spn fanart #these were so fun lol. i love living in a 2012 mindscape sometimes #i dont actually think cas would find a devout christian girl vessel wearing this shit but i couldnt be fucked #to figure out a more accurate design #supernatural genderbend #genderbend

[bisaster-energy]

thinking about her (''you know what I like about him is that he's sarcastic but thoughtful and appreciative too" "now what is that supposed to mean" "okay okay the roAD ROAD dude watch the road")

#crazy how they just dropped cas' old vessel lore #''wait so Benjamin is a woman?'' ''benjamin is an angel his vessel is a woman'' #just like cas was an angel in his last vessel but because Jimmy's body is now his own #he's like ''im a guy now'' #anyway trans cas #lily sunder has some regrets #think dean should have also been faced with knowledge that cas too had a vessel that was a woman tho it wouldve done smth

[drulalovescas]

from enemies to friends to boyfriends to husbands

#supernatural #destiel #had cas been in a femal vessel #they would've fucked in epiosde 3 #profound bond #spn s4e1 #spn s5e3 #spn s12e19 #spn s13e6 #spn s15e12

[quietwingsinthesky]

it ever hit you out of nowhere that castiel is living in a dead guy's body and the show just does not care. it does not care. jimmy novak might as well not exist the moment he or claire is out of sight. cas stole a guy's body and his face and his life, and we can't ever talk about it or discuss it in detail because of how fucking horrifying it is that sam and dean's best friend just walks around in a dead guy suit. there's not even a human soul in there anymore. it's just a corpse. stone-cold body snatcher indeed.

#castiel spn #spn #this is not like a Castiel Crime (tm) to be clear. this is more me being (un)surprised that the show is Like This. #castiel is a horror story he is so much a horror story in the rapture #and then they just uh. never bring up again how horrifying and fucked up this is for another like 7 seasons #and when they do its to briefly go :( claire lost her dad :) but its okay! she forgives cas for it! #which!! NO SHE SHOULD FUCKING NOT!!! #but we can't have that discussion. we can't talk about that. because to acknowledge that it's fucked up would mean making cas kind of. evil #in a way that would vastly improve his later character arcs btw. if we had to reckon with not only this massive transgression #but with the fact that cas himself STILL DOESN'T SEE IT AS ONE. #that on a lot of fundamental levels. he is still functioning as he did in s4. a lot of that base programming is still there. #something something how cas never changes out of his suit under his trenchcoat #but it's like. jimmy said yes. so it's fine. that's what it is to him. #anyway. i wish they hadn't been scared of making all three of the boys more fucked up in later seasons. #thank GOD for dean being interesting in how he becomes Worse <3 because they were not bringing that for castiel. #again. good version of spn where jimmy's bloodline is an off-shoot of the lucifer vessel bloodline. explaining a) how lucifer Got In There #and b) letting lucifer possess claire later so that the two of them can have daddy issues together. #something about cas being the monster-not monster that jimmy let in that destroyed his life. #something about lucifer being the monster-not monster that castiel lets in later. the cycles. they are cycling.

[casboobs]

i am definitely not thinking about domestic destiel (me when i lie)

#destiel #jenmish #sorry i had to. do you see them. that's dean and that's cas. the vessels are just conduits #ali.thinks

[azrael08]

Currently obsessing over the idea of Michael and Adam getting separated (Like Michael leaving the vessel for whatever reason, maybe a case or something???) and Adam gets hurt or like tortured and Michael just goes fucking FERAL.

Like, they might be helping the Winchesters and Castiel out for once, just cause they need like Michael’s power or something, but then Adam and him get split from each and Adam gets kidnapped by these monsters who like beat the shit out of him and finally Michael finds them and once Michael sees what they’ve done to Adam he just- looses his fucking shit. I’m talking smiting all the monsters, breaking the windows, bursting bulbs and probably ruptures the sound barrier for a sec.

And then after all this damage he quickly goes over to Adam and cradles him so softly and with such gentle care he heals all his wounds and soothes him and asks if he’s okay and then re-posses him so he can wrap himself back around Adam’s soul and find peace again. All the while Dean, Sam, and Cas just watch on like tf happened? Two seconds ago you were ready to kill everything within sight???

#idk if he takes one of the brothers as a vessel or if he takes Jimmy’s body and Cas goes into Dean for like side-story Destiel #midam #midam spn #proctective trope I adore you #the ‘who did this to you?’ trope but Michael already knows who did this to Adam and he obliterated all of them #supernatural #adam milligan #michael spn #Michael *taking notes*: NEVER leave Adam again

[threshasketch]

In a dire situation, Dean agrees to be Castiel's vessel to smite the threat. There's no hiding the tattered wings and broken halo ever again now, though...

#hi yes I looked at some of my chibi art from 2019 and got nostalgic and here are are #new SPN chibi art in our year 2024 #enjoy? #LOL #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #castiel #vessel!dean #angel #wings #halo #smiting #chibi art #threshie #threshasketch #get 'em cas

[insanesonofabitch]

What

What

What.

#I was talking about the possibility of them putting Cas in a female vessel before making destiel canon #and was thinking about how Dean would react to seeing fem Cas #well it turns out he DID see her skidjdwkskdkdk #she’s fucking pretty though. I also love how she pulled off Cas’ permanent bitchface #donning that grim face of angelic constipation #supernatural #spn #spn 6x05 #live free or twihard #spn 12x10 #lily sunder has some regrets #castiel #1901!Cas #jessa danielson

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Vessel.

Date: ca. 1539-1295 B.C.

Period: New Kingdom

Medium: Glass

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient egypt #ancient history #archaeology #egyptian #egyptology #egypt #vessel #glass #glassware #new kingdom #ca. 1539 b.c. #ca. 1295 b.c.

[blueiskewl]

Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Cat Middle Kingdom Ca. 1990–1900 B.C. Egypt

The cat first appears in painting and relief at the end of the Old Kingdom, and this cosmetic jar is the earliest-known three-dimensional representation of the animal in Egyptian art. The sculptor demonstrates a keen understanding of the creature's physical traits, giving the animal the alert, tense look of a hunter rather than the elegant aloofness seen in later representations. The rock-crystal eyes, lined with copper, enhance the impression of readiness.

Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), copper, quartz crystal, paint. H. 14 (5 1/2 in.); l. 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); w. 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.).

#Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Cat #middle kingdom #Ca. 1990–1900 B.C. #Egypt #sculpture #egyptian sculpture #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient egypt #egyptian art

[girlwithonegoal]

sorry but the only reason destiel even works is because wincest did it first and also better

i've been thinking a LOT about this and want to get it all out so here it is. if dean was truly in love with cas, he would not have hesitated to tell him so when he literally knew cas was about to DIE. we don't see that. we see shock, grief, disbelief (an angel loves me!), we see him trying desperately to process his best friend is leaving him but nowhere does dean say, or imply, with his eyes, or words, that he's in love with cas. of course he loves cas - cas is family - and cas is not exactly his brother, (closest is brother-in-arms), despite his insistence in an earlier episode - but he's not in the kind of soul-crushing love that cas is with him. he's not in love with cas, and can't be, because he's already in love with sam.

when dean dies, he gets as close as he possibly can to confessing to sam he's in love with him without actually crossing the line. he would never to that to sam - he would never do to sam what cas did to him - because he would NEVER do anything to make sam lose his agency (sidebar: not that cas doesn't respect dean. but his love confession is almost wish fulfillment - i'm going to confess to dean i love him and go out in a blaze of glory and then leave without dean ever even having to reciprocate because i know he doesn't love me back. and he's absolutely right).

dean has already had years and years of not having his own agency from john his whole fucking life! john did whatever he wanted to dean and dean took it because like hell was he going to subject sam to that bullshit. which brings us to sam and dean's childhood - not much is known of their early years before sam went to stanford and that's fully on purpose. we can almost see dean as not only a brother figure to sam but also a father figure. john leaving for weeks maybe even months at a time - how the hell did dean and sam manage to survive? by dean doing whatever he had to do. emphasis on whatever.

you see, john absolutely knows that dean is beautiful. whether you read their relationship as purely abusive or abusive with a sexual component - dean definitely did questionable things to get food on the table for sam, an aspect that's more in fanon that canon but reads true to the heart of the show. sam doesn't know because dean wanted a normal childhood for him. and dean would rather die and go to hell for 800 years than force sam to make a choice, make any choice, of a romantic and/or sexual nature related to him.

back to dean's death. this is again the closest thing to a love confession that dean can make - my baby brother - take out the word brother and it would be not only romantic but stunningly true - he raised sam, this child who grew up to be a man, this child who loves him - waiting outside sam's dorm for hours - can you picture him pacing in the snow, waiting for the one thing he wants but can't have??? why does that sound familiar? oh, right, because that's what cas said but in dean and sam's case it would be actually true. how cruel and unbelievably insane it is to find your soulmate in your brother, the one person you have that you love unconditionally, not just because they are your family but because you are in love with them, and you can never have them as long as you live.

re: american gothic and soulmatism. very different from crimson peak where thomas fully realizes the unhealthiness of the codependent incestuous relationship with his sister and wants to be free and happy with edith. but sam and dean don't want to be free. in their minds, they already are free as long as they have each other and only each other. not getting in all the other romantic relationships that the brothers have with other people bc it would take too long, but they already fulfill that need for each other and don't need anyone else...like i'm sorry i love my sister but i want to get married one day to someone else. if you read their relationship as purely platonic, it doesn't work at ALL.

the kripke early seasons fully leaned into the gothic horror aspect of it all and incest is definitely a part of that...dean and sam literally cannot live without each other. they can't do it! sam dies in dean's arms and dean can't even wait five fucking minutes without making a deal with a demon lmao. he can't eat. he can't sleep. their love is a perpetual resurrection; they keep killing each other and bringing each other back to life. because they don't know how to stop. they are a singular mangled fucked up entity. i read a fic once where the author described sam as hating his own body because it was separate from dean's and dean's whole presence was a phantom pain. and yeah. just yeah. they can't live without each other because they ARE each other.

seasons 1-3 to me are spn at its soul. that's it. cas only works as a side character, if he's a brother (like, purely platonically) to both sam and dean or just unrequited romantic love for dean. the trope of an angel falling in love with a faithless man who can't pray only works if dean hasn't been in love with sam the whole time.

#wincest #anti destiel #supernatural #dean/sam #deansam #samdean #supernatural meta #spn #spn meta #meta #* #i actually don't hate destiel but come on....everything about destiel can be applied to wincest. everything! #“i'd rather have you cursed or not” - like are you kidding me? who is more cursed than sam #the vessel of lucifer?!?!?! #also destiel is too sweet for me. there i said it. cas makes dean better and a little less codependent with sam #but i want dean and sam to be fucked up for eternity #buried alive together. #arms reaching out for each other. do you get me #this also works SO well if you keep in mind cas was insanely rude to sam when they first met #because he fucking KNEW that sam was in love with dean #and dean felt the same way

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

Akobel, Seraphim of the Sixth Choir, you have lain with a human and you fathered a Nephilim.

1901!Castiel in Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets (12x10): Best of SPN Ladies [404/?]

#Obviously this is absolutely stressing the definition of 'ladies' here #and just so we're clear Castiel's inclusion here isn't intended to support or disagree with any interpretations on cas's gender #he/him 1901!Cas is still valid here! #series 2 #spnedit #spngif #spn 12x10 #castiel #castieledit #female vessel!Cas #1901!Cas #and her gay little hat #supernatural #my gifs spn/// #*stretching