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05x04 “The End”
10x22 “The Prisoner”“No matter what choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up… here.”
Cas summed it up with one word: “Life.” Really though, I feel the more accurate answer would have been: “You.” Because essentially that’s how kind of everything started for Cas as the “famous spanner in the works”, the “one with the crack in his chassis”, the “one with too much heart”. Dean happened to him. Dean, the one person that Cas experienced humanity by for the very first time in millennia. And he fell for him, yes, as Hester said “in any way imaginable”.
In 2014 we see Cas in jeans and henley, scruffy cheeks, sarcasm and defeat written over his features, a bottle of wine in one hand, a bottle of pills in the other. He’s the very mirror image of all the very human things Dean struggled with at his core and who he – to say it with endverse in the back of your mind – used to be. Especially when thinking about the end of S10 and the situation they are faced with right now, which is framed as a sort of apocalypse reloaded, looking at 5x04 “The End” one can’t help but think that Cas kept the promise he gave Dean in 10x22 “The Prisoner”, that he’d be the only one still by his side even if everyone he knew and cared for would be long gone.
Of course Dean never spotted a mark on his arm in endverse or became a demon, but he lost touch with his humanity just the same. First he lost his brother – not to Gadreel or because of the mistakes he made when he was at the end of his rope, but Lucifer. Then he lost his father figure – not to leviathans, but the croatoan virus. Dean for all he knew and cared was alone in the world, his family “dead” – for all except one. One, who remained by his side - who said “No, I can’t. Because I’m your friend.” in another timeline - even when he started to turn to violence, became the hardened version and broken shell of the man he assumed him too be when they first met, when Dean slowly but steadily muted his humanity a little more, bit by bit.
I love the difference between this Cas and the Cas we have now. Like when Misha first started on the show I think he did such an amazing job of portraying something alien inhabiting a human container. Like back in seasons 4/5/6 whenever Cas talks or moves it looks like he is having to make a conscious effort to remember to at least try to look a little bit human.
Like in the second gif here - and we see it a lot in the first few seasons - Cas starts to talk and then remembers you’re supposed to look at people when you talk to them - and he doesn’t always remember to do that, something he just keep on talking to the air in front of him - so he turns his head and then it looks like a split second later he’s like, “Oh, right, the eyes, gotta move the eyes too.” so his gaze turns to Dean but it’s a fraction delayed from the movement of his head.
I dunno, I always noticed that about early Cas but it’s bled away now, he’s more comfortable in his body and moves more naturally.
(Source: some-people-call-it-tragic)