Adding to your "does Jared know" post: let's not forget his slip up at DallasCon 2014 (gifs at bettydays. /post/99536660782) There's no mention of Misha, but really, who else?
Hi!! I have a cockles-related question and i'm sorry if i've you've already been asked this, so please feel free to tell me to go look for it, I will :) So I've always thought Jared knows about their secret. It's in the way he looks at them, plus I think they need someone to cover for them, and he is their best friend after all. But i was wondering, how many cast members do you think actually know? [Part 1/2]
Anonymous said: Like, i’ve always thought that if it’s such a big secret, the less people know the better, but then there’s that line in “Fanfiction”, “No, they’re a couple in real life” and i’m too trash to believe it was a coincidence. So what do you think? Thank you, sorry for the long message, love you and your blog! xx [Part2/2]
Hi anon! I do indeed think Jared knows. And I think he’s supportive, because that’s the sort of person he is. that-fucking-flamingo-shirt answered the question quite succinctly here. I suspect Jared covers for them a lot. Probably a lot more than we’ll ever know. Although sometimes he’s not so subtle, like that time at MinnCon this year when Jensen was talking about Misha being naked - when Jared called Jensen out for making it sound like a porno, Jensen exclaimed “It was a family trip!” and Jared said “I’m surprised”. (+ this + this + this) (One time at a con, a fan asked Jared about Jensen and Misha’s relationship and he gave a Cockles-positive answer. I can’t find that post, though, which is killing me because I tag everything so this never happens…)
As for the other cast and crew members… well, it’s a tight-knit group, and I think they all know Cockles exists as a fandom concept, the same way they all know Destiel and Wincest exist as concepts. However, I’m pretty sure there’s nobody on set who would deny Jensen and Misha have a little thing going, whether it’s seen as friendship or something else.
Then there was that one time that Richard Speight Jr. and Rob Benedict basically called them a couple at comic con. The bit they did was mainly about Destiel, but see, the thing about winning awards for having chemistry, is that it goes well beyond what’s in the script and what’s seen on camera. That award was for Jensen and Misha as much as it was for Dean and Cas, and Mr. Speight and Mr. Benedict knew this very well.
And yeah, Robbie Thompson’s “they’re a couple in real life” quip happened in 10x05, which was 100% a Cockles shoutout doubling as Destiel. And then there was that other time Robbie Thompson wrote Sam and Dean’s aliases as Gabriel and Collins (like the members of Genesis, but also very cleverly like Sabriel and Cockles). Robbie knows the fandom like the back of his hand (probably better, because who even knows where all their freckles are), so I’ll be damned if that wasn’t done entirely on purpose. Robbie either low-key ships the thing, or he knows we do.
All in all, no, I don’t think Cockles is a secret on set. I do think that cast and crew members’ interpretations of their relationship vary as much as the fandom’s interpretations, but that’s just a guesstimate on my part. There’s always a chance everyone on set knows there’s a full-blown affair happening - or, just as equally, the only people who know the real truth are Misha, Jensen and Jared, and everything else is pure rumour.
My favourite thing about the MinnCon boat story vid though has to be Jared’s reaction.
That is the response of someone who either knows that something is going on between them, or has seriously strong suspicions and either way it is beautiful.
Jared’s reaction is basically the reaction of your best friend listening to a story you’re telling about you and your crush so… :D ‘What??? what happened then — did he kiss you?? what went down and how’. did he– WHAT??? tell me more’ :D
also his reaction to Jensen’s “it was a family trip, it’s a family story’ and Jared just smirking, mouthing ‘ i’m surprised’ …. :’D
My favourite thing about the MinnCon boat story vid though has to be Jared’s reaction.
That is the response of someone who either knows that something is going on between them, or has seriously strong suspicions and either way it is beautiful.
Lolllllll omg that entire conversation was a train wreck. I assume Jensen was trying to say that the boat got stuck on a crab trap, and Misha either got into some swim trunks or took some of his clothes off so he could dive into the water and detach the crab trap, but Jensen was just able to reach in and get at it. But the way Jensen was explaining it, it literally was like he had said a bunch of words in an order that didn’t make any sense. One other fan called it “word salad” and it’s so true. So Jared was basically just summing it up to highlight how ridiculous and sexual it sounded. I mean Misha stripping down? Jensen and Misha being “attached”? Crabs (as in the STD)? lololol oh Jensen you are absolutely precious.
the best thing was that Jensen didn’t even fight it. Jared went and teased him for how sexual it sounded and Jensen didn’t attempt to fix it, he just got all blushy and babbled “Misha’ll tell you” and never actually fought to make it sound less like he banged Misha, despite Jared giving him at least two chances to get the story straight.
