casthegrumpy:

i didn’t know it was possible, but supernatural has laid a solid foundation for rebuilding the relationship between dean and cas. there has been so much shit building between them and they never talk about it. for a while i thought they never would. and how can these characters realistically just move past all the fights, the yelling, the dismissals from the person they supposedly care so much about? yes they can share a manly nod and keep it moving, but if this thing is really GOING ANYWHERE? that’s not enough to build on. there has to be acknowledgment and healing. so they took cas away. and they KEPT him away. dean has agonized over it for half a season incredibly effectively. literally his central plot in the second half has been “cas is gone and i will not rest or be happy until he’s back.” more than amara, more than the pending apocalypse, dean’s personal journey the second half has been about his fight for cas. he’s atoning for the way he’s treated his friend so that when he gets him back, things will be different.