Dadstiel Mini (Reverse!) Bang

A Mini Bang celebrating Castiel as a parental figure. 2025 round posting now! Moderated by @haus-seeblick, @hawkland, and @tsujiharu. Email: [email protected]

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2025 Masterpost

And just like that, the Dadstiel MiniBang (Reverse edition!) is complete for 2025. Thank you again to all of this year's writers, artists, betas, readers and rebloggers.

Here is the master list of stories & art for this round:

Murder the World - story by Avonlady (@avonlady42); art by WitchyWorm (@witchy-worm)

Doomed - The End is Nigh - story by seidenapfel (@seidenapfel); art by sidewinder (@hawkland)

Operation: Save the Bees - story by notreallyaroad (@notreallyaroad); art by TwinOne (@twinone1221)

F is For Firefighter Fantasy Fling - story by Rex_Writes (@krexhatespushups-blog); art by Melle-Otterwise (@melle-otterwise)

Pappa Bear Mode - story by Hectatess (@hectatess); art by Golby Moon (@golby-moon)

After the Rapture - story by FriendofCarlotta (@friendofcarlotta); art by jiguurten (@jiguurten)

AristoCa(t)s: Angel of Purrsday - story by Mulletbro (@mulletbro); art by golby moon (@golby-moon)

Damocles - story by sidewinder (@hawkland); art by MercurialKitty (@mercurialkitty)

The Light of New Day - story by tsujiharu (@tsujiharu); art by MercurialKitty (@mercurialkitty)

takes one to know one - story by stayawake (@9x20); art by stonelions (@stonelions)

I hope you all enjoyed the ride! Please keep following this blog for news on any future rounds of this event, and thank you again from your mods! @tsujiharu, @haus-seeblick, and @hawkland

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takes one to know one

Author: stayawake (@9x20)

Artist: stonelions (@stonelions)

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Claire Novak, Castiel, Dean Winchester, Jack Kline, Sam Winchester

Featured Relationships: Castiel/Dean

Length: 15,616

Tags: POV Claire Novak, Post-Episode: s13e06 Tombstone, Grief/Mourning, Case Fic, Angst and Hurt/Comfort

Summary: Claire’s taking life day by day, trying her best to not let herself be defined by everything she’s lost. Some days are better than others.

She was happy keeping Castiel at arm’s length, pulling him close when she was missing her dad, and pushing him away when her anger called for it. Then he decided to get himself dead, only to come back to life and adopt Lucifer’s bastard nephilim.

Nothing like a good old fashioned ghost hunt to bring everyone together.

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The Light of New Day

Author: tsujiharu (@tsujiharu)

Artist: MercurialKitty (@mercurialkitty)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Castiel, Jack Kline, Dean Winchester

Featured Relationships: Castiel & Jack Kline, Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 8,166

Tags: Alternate Universe, Workaholic Castiel, Father-Son Relationship, Family Feels, Family Fluff

Summary: Castiel Winchester-Novak works hard to provide for his family. But after over a year of late nights and working on weekends, he's beginning to see that his commitment to work comes with a price.

After missing an important event at Jack's school, he vows to make it up to his son and his husband.

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The first camping trip of the year is an annual extravaganza that has always been a Dean and Jack activity, but perhaps some hiking and fishing is exactly what Castiel needs to slow down, take a breath, and reconnect with his family.

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Damocles

Author: sidewinder (@hawkland)

Artist: MercurialKitty (@mercurialkitty)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Jack Kline, Castiel, Dean Winchester

Featured Relationships: Castiel & Jack Kline, Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 6,330

Tags: Jack Kline as God, Jack Kline Needs A Hug, Heaven, Good Parent Castiel, Character Study, Family Feels, Post-Season/Series 15, this story is largely vibes

Summary: Heaven is no longer failing under the weight of its ever-growing number of souls. Jack is the golden thread that weaves together the tapestry of this universe—not just in Heaven, but on Earth and throughout the multiverse.

But the burden is heavy for Jack to bear alone. Castiel helps, as best as he can, but he can see the son he loves struggling with the responsibilities of a godhood he never desired.

Castiel feels certain there must be a way to free him from God’s throne, but he’ll need Dean’s help in convincing Jack it’s alright to come home again.

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AristoCa(t)s: Angel of Purrsday

Author: Mulletbro (@mulletbro)

Artist: golby moon (@golby-moon)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Castiel, Dean, Jack, Claire

Featured Relationships: Castiel/Dean, Castiel & Jack & Claire

Length: 17,190

Tags: Aristocats AU, Fluff, Family Fluff, Everybody wants to be a cat

Summary: Cas and his kittens, Claire and Jack, have a great life. A warm home, a loving human to take care of them, and all the toys they can play with. The luxurious life of a house cat fits this family purr-fectly.

But when they end up outside all alone, they have to rely on a street cat named Dean to help them get home. Will the charming tabby wiggle his way into their hearts? Or will the allure of the street stay strong?

A tale of family, love, and tails.

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After the Rapture

Author: FriendofCarlotta (@friendofcarlotta)

Artist: jiguurten (@jiguurten)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Castiel, Dean, Claire, Jack, Kaia, Meg, Sam

Featured Relationships: Dean/Castiel

Length: 23,536

Tags: Modern AU, Alternate Angel Lore, Hunter Dean, Found Family, Grief/Mourning

Summary: What begins as a standard hunt for Castiel and his adoptive children, Jack and Claire, becomes a rescue mission when they find a man named Dean and a girl named Kaia being menaced by mysterious shadow creatures.

It soon becomes apparent that the creatures have a personal connection to both Dean and Castiel. To solve the case, the two of them must set aside their mutual suspicion and animosity… and find out if there is a future for them beyond the hunt.

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Pappa Bear Mode

Author: Hectatess (@hectatess)

Artist: Golby Moon (@golby-moon)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Castiel, Dean, Jack, Sam, Rowena, Donna, Original Female Character

Featured Relationships: Castiel/Dean, very background Donna/Jody

Length: 5,630

Tags: Age Regression/De-Aging, Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Donna Hanscum/Jody Mills, Blink And You Miss It Slash, de-aged jack, Worried Castiel, Worried Dean Winchester, Love Confessions

Summary: When Rowena interrupts a peaceful morning in the Bunker with questions about Jack’s whereabouts, Castiel gets worried. While the others are debating what could have happened, Castiel flies off to find his son, without consulting or even telling anyone. When he does find Jack, he also finds a heap of trouble. Can he get himself and Jack to safety?

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F is For Firefighter Fantasy Fling

Author: Rex_Writes (@krexhatespushups-blog)

Artist: Melle-Otterwise (@melle-otterwise)

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: No Archives Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel Novak, Charlie Bradbury, Meg Masters, Jack Kline

Featured Relationships: Dean/Castiel, Charlie/Meg

Length: 5,736

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Preschool Teacher Dean Winchester, Firefighter Castiel Single Parent Castiel, Past Benny Lafitte/Dean Winchester, Benny Lafitte and Dean Winchester are Roommates, Charlie Bradbury & Dean Winchester Friendship, Flustered Dean Winchester

Summary: His thirties are not what Dean expected they would be, and he's certainly not where he expected to be. He has a good job and great friends, but his love life is definitely lacking. It doesn't help that he's been pining over a fantasy for years. Is there a chance for him, or is he doomed to be single forever?

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Operation: Save the Bee

Author: notreallyaroad (@notreallyaroad)

Artist: TwinOne (@twinone1221)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Featured Characters: Castiel, Lucifer, Jack, Dean, Sam, Bobby, Charlie, Garth, Dagon

Featured Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 27,295

Tags: Omega Verse, Toddler Jack Kline, Private Investigator Dean Winchester, Domestic Violence, Murder, Dubious Consent, Mpreg, Angst With A Happy Ending

Summary: A murder attempt brings Castiel face to face with the most profound form of grief: the loss of a child. A strange man that calls himself Batman scrapes Castiel up off the side of the road and takes him on a journey to find his son — a journey that leads to both of them finding much more than they bargained for.

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Doomed - The End is Nigh

Author: seidenapfel (@seidenapfel)

Artist: sidewinder (@hawkland)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Featured Characters: Endverse Castiel, Endverse Dean Winchester, Original Child Characters

Featured Relationships: [Endverse] Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 8,877

Tags: AU - Croatoan/Endverse, Recreational Drug Use, Orphans, Supply Runs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst

Summary: It’s an ordinary supply run. All by himself, Castiel has spread his wings, too high on drugs to care in the ruins of a nameless town, when he hears it. A sound that doesn’t belong.

Children.

Two of them. Alone and helpless.

As he reaches them, it’s almost too late. At the blink of an eye, the alley is flooded with croats.

Castiel grabs the kids and runs. Even though they narrowly escape, they still have to face their worst adversary: Dean.

Will Castiel find a way to crack the shell of his fearless leader? Or will Dean force him and the kids to leave Chitaqua for good?

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Murder the World

Author: Avonlady (@avonlady42)

Artist: WitchyWorm (@witchy-worm)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Featured Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Bobby Singer, Charlie Bradbury

Featured Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 35,857

Tags: Alternate Universe; CEO Castiel; Dean is retired from Special Forces; Castiel is Claire Novak's father; kidfic; murder husbands; Explicit Sexual Content; Bottom Dean/Top Castiel

Summary: Castiel Novak’s dream of the perfect family and the perfect life went to shit the day his wife was killed in an automobile accident. He is left to raise his 8 year old daughter, Claire, on his own. He struggles with balancing being a father to his daughter and running the company (military weaponry) he started with his wife, Amelia, on his own. When he starts receiving threats on his life from his competition, he hires a bodyguard to protect Claire. He just hadn’t planned on falling in love in the process.

Dean Winchester didn’t know where his life was headed when he left the Army. He struggles with finding employment when the only job experience he has is being Special Ops and having too many kills to count. When his surrogate father, Bobby, tells him that the CEO of the largest supplier of military weaponry is looking for a bodyguard for his 8 year old daughter, Dean figures he has nothing to lose and accepts. He just hadn’t planned on getting emotionally attached to the girl and falling in love with her father.

When Castiel is away on a business trip and Dean is shot and Claire is kidnapped, both men make it their business to get her back by any means necessary, even if they have to murder the world to do it.

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Guardian Angel

Author: Sparks & Shadows Artist: sidewinder

Posting Date: October 20, 2025

Summary: Jack is in charge of the universe and Castiel is no longer dead. There’s a new plan with a new system linking Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory together to create a fair afterlife for all. Dean enters Heaven six months later, which is bittersweet all around. But none of that is as difficult as the task Jack assigns to Castiel, declaring him the only angel for the job, which is to take in reborn angels and raise them like human children with a present father in a loving home, earning their loyalty through affection and guidance rather than orders and punishments.

Besides the mission assigned to him to become a parent to his former siblings, Castiel also has to figure out what the two unfulfilled desires he has according to Jack, and how to achieve them once he does.

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takes one to know one

Author: stayawake Artist: stonelions

Posting Date: October 17, 2025

Summary: Claire’s taking life day by day, trying her best to not let herself be defined by everything she’s lost. Some days are better than others.

She was happy keeping Castiel at arm’s length, pulling him close when she was missing her dad, and pushing him away when her anger called for it. Then he decided to get himself dead, only to come back to life and adopt Lucifer’s bastard nephilim.

Nothing like a good old fashioned ghost hunt to bring everyone together.

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Damocles

Author: Sidewinder Artist: MercurialKitty

Posting Date: October 15, 2025

Summary: Heaven is no longer failing under the weight of its ever-growing number of souls. Jack is the golden thread that weaves together the tapestry of this universe—not just in Heaven, but on Earth and throughout the multiverse.

But the burden is heavy for Jack to bear alone. Castiel helps, as best as he can, but he can see the son he loves struggling with the responsibilities of a godhood he never desired.

Castiel feels certain there must be a way to free him from God’s throne, but he’ll need Dean’s help in convincing Jack it’s alright to come home again.

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AristoCa(t)s: Angel of Purrsday

Author: Mulletbro Artist: golby moon

Posting Date: October 14, 2025

Summary: Cas and his kittens, Claire and Jack, have a great life. A warm home, a loving human to take care of them, and all the toys they can play with. The luxurious life of a house cat fits this family purr-fectly.

But when they end up outside all alone, they have to rely on a street cat named Dean to help them get home. Will the charming tabby wiggle his way into their hearts? Or will the allure of the street stay strong?

A tale of family, love, and tails.

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After the Rapture

Author: FriendofCarlotta Artist: jiguurten

Posting Date: October 13, 2025 Summary:

What begins as a standard hunt for Castiel and his adoptive children, Jack and Claire, becomes a rescue mission when they find a man named Dean and a girl named Kaia being menaced by malevolent shadow creatures. It soon becomes apparent that the creatures have a personal connection to both Dean and Castiel. To solve the case, the two of them must set aside their mutual suspicion and animosity… and find out if there is a future for them beyond the hunt.

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Pappa Bear Mode

Author: Hectatess Artist: golby moon

Posting Date: October 10, 2025

Summary: When Rowena pops up at the Bunker and asks after Jack, Castiel tries to contact his son. When Jack answers, he gets the shock of a lifetime and his Pappa Bear Mode is engaged.