In Swan Song 5.22 Jimmy’s body was destroyed so completely that not only did Jimmy go to heaven but Cas died too. Cas was then brought back to life and shoved into that body, bypassing all of the angelic rules of needing consent from a living soul to inhabit a vessel.
Sam and Dean both died in season 5 and they were told that they would be brought back to life so they could say yes to Michael/Lucifer. Adam’s body was reconstructed and his soul shoved back inside so he could say yes to Michael. We saw in Rapture 4.20 and Road Trip 9.10 that if an angel gets expelled from a human vessel it needs to establish new consent to re-enter that vessel. So how is it that Cas is able to inhabit a human vessel without a human soul being present to give him permission?
The answer is that God resurrected Cas and shoved him inside of an empty vessel. How did Jimmy get that body in the first place? His soul was assigned that body (via God’s system) when his soul was created. God then re-assigned that body to Castiel after Jimmy had been sent to heaven. That body has been 100% owned by Cas since the season 5 finale and it was given to him by God. If Jimmy has rights to that vessel because God put his soul in it then you have to concede that Cas has equal rights to it because God put Cas into it.
This!
Yes. This. But the first time Cas got blown up that completely was in 4.22, in Chuck’s kitchen by Raphael and company. “I’ll hold them off, I’ll hold them all off.” That’s actually when Jimmy died and Chuck (we now know for sure) resurrected him in a newly-minted vessel created to be identical to Jimmy’s. He got blown up again in 5.22, and poor Chuck had to reassemble him again. He exploded for a third time at the beginning of 7.02 when the Leviathan walked him into that lake.
That hasn’t even been Jimmy’s body for his two most recent explosions.
the show put forth the theory that it was god himself who brought cas back and now we have it confirmed from god himself but what cemented it for me is that when cas banished himself along with four other angels outside the beautiful room in 5.18 and then calls dean in 5.21 to tell him how he’d landed unconscious on a fishing boat and was in the hospital but he’d been declared brain dead before that BECAUSE THERE WAS NO OTHER SOUL INSIDE HIS VESSEL WITH HIM TO TAKE OVER THE REINS WHILE CAS REINTEGRATED HIMSELF WITH IT he couldn’t ask for consent from an unoccupied vessel which is why the angels didn’t just use dead bodies as vessels so whatever cas’s vessel is it’s definitely not just jimmy’s reanimated corpse it’s cas’s body (via mittensmorgul)
And Lucifer couldn’t just take over that body either. Based on all of the above, and the fact that Cas was even *able* to give Lucifer permission to possess him? That is *Castiel’s* body, 100%, no one else.
Lucifer doesn’t even pause when Cas says yes, which makes me wonder if he could see just how different Cas is before that. Hadn’t Cas already been exploded and brought back the first time Lucifer first met him, after trapping him in the fire ring? (And how hilarious is it to say that, exploded *the first time*, like, how many times, omg) “What a peculiar thing you are,” Lucifer said, and he wasn’t just talking about showing up in a car with the Winchesters.
And can the other angels see it, and that’s part of why he throws them all so much? Not just his actions, or his words, or his reputation. But his physical presence, they can see and feel that he’s *different*.
::flails:: Sorry, I have sooooo many emotions about Cas and that body, gaaaah. :)YES THIS.
