Dean/Cas Reverse Bang

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DCRB 2026 masterlist

THANK YOU to all our wonderful artists, authors, and beta readers who helped make such incredible art and fics for this year's round of the Dean/Cas Reverse Bang! Come check out the full collection on Ao3 here! (Or view the masterlist of works on Airtable here!) Sad to have missed out? DCRB will be back for another round with sign-ups opening in December after the Dean/Cas Big Bang! We hope to see you then Can't get enough Dean/Cas? Join the DCBB as an author, artist, and/or beta reader now!

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Profound Rivalry

Artist: witchy-worm

Author: a_diamond

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Dean/Castiel

Length: 4165

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Alternate Universe - Hockey, Inspired by Heated Rivalry (TV), Enemies to Lovers, Russian Castiel (Supernatural), John Winchester's A+ Parenting

Summary: The winter before they get drafted to the NHL, top prospects Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet on the ice for the first time. Even though Dean's been anticipating it for years, it feels anticlimactic compared to what happens when they meet off the ice.

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salvation

Artist: Wommie

Author: dothraki_shieldmaiden

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel

Length: 47684

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, references to past noncon

Tags: Priest!Castiel, Hunter!Dean, Cults, Religious Rituals, Heavy Angst, Psychological Horror, Body Horror

Summary: Castiel is the priest and holy man of the small settlement of New Haven. It is his job to shepherd the faithful and to help protect their settlement from the demons that constantly threaten them. When Dean Winchester arrives at their town with weapons in his car and lies on his tongue, it is obvious that he is just another demon. And there is only one fate for demons: a ritual execution. But Castiel thinks he has a better idea. He knows of a ritual from his late father that was said to be able to purify a demon. The ritual requires both parties to descend into the depths of Hell before the tormented soul can be gripped tight and raised from Perdition. Castiel knows the risks: his own father died from attempting the ritual. Completing the ritual will require both Dean and Castiel to purge themselves of all sins as they push themselves to the limits of their endurance... and possibly their lives. Castiel should listen to the voices of caution telling him to simply allow Dean to be executed. But something about Dean makes Castiel feel as though he might be worth the risk.

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Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Artist: Vee

Author: MaraschinoSqueeze

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel

Length: 10882

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: Fae Castiel (Supernatural); Fairy Tale Curses; Explicit Language; John Winchester’s A+ parenting; Dubious Consent; Dean and Castiel’s profound bond but make it fae; Inspired by Beauty and the Beast; Hunter Dean Winchester; King of loopholes Castiel

Summary: Dean really should not be meeting a fae lord in the forest, no matter how handsome he is. What he should do is his job. He should get rid of Cas. Permanently, if his father has anything to say about it. Cas has probably got him under some kinda spell. That's gotta be why he's being such an idiot about this. What else could it be?

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Will They, Won't They? (They Will)

Artist: Wommie

Author: Deancebra

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 33582

Warnings: N/A

Tags: 2000’s setting, straight!guy!Dean, Gay!Castiel, Castiel wears makeup, alternative universe, Hunter!Castiel, Student!Dean, they are horny for each other

Summary: Dean is a very straight college student, running into a tree because he's too busy ogling at Castiel's ass doesn't change anything, okay? A good ass is a good ass. Castiel is a very gay hunter with makeup skills as sharp as the knives in his trunk. And he's gonna teach Dean so more than just how to hunt ghosts.

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Coaxial Evisceration

Artist: saudade

Author: stonelions

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Dean/Castiel

Length: 24049

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Canon Universe, Fusion (with I Saw the TV Glow), POV Castiel, Case Fic, Homophobia, Transphobia, (not from our mains), Mutual Pining, Cosmic Horror, Quote: Multidimensional Wavelength of Celestial Intent

Summary: Team Free Will can’t seem to catch a break. Metatron is in the wind. The brothers are at an impasse. Dean is succumbing to The Mark, and Castiel is on angelic borrowed time. So when Dean finds a missing persons’ case that might just be a lead, Castiel is all too happy to go along for the ride. Their so-called milk run takes a sour turn when they discover that the missing teen’s old CRT TV is a conduit for an unknowable force that wants, very badly, to make itself known to them, and worse, their secrets known to each other. And it’s going to use every available wavelength to do it. Including Castiel.

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Marked by You

Artist: onowey

Author: TwinOne

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 7869

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Merman Castiel, Human Dean Winchester, Near Death Experience, magical healing, Longing, Yearning, ambiguous ending

Summary: The blue-eyed merman didn’t just save Dean Winchester’s life, he marked Dean with his healing touch and bound him in an unexplainable way. Years pass and Dean returns to the depths of the ocean, chasing a bond that never let him go… and a love that was never meant for the surface.

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Bound by the Hunt

Artist: Aceriee

Author: Arduinae

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 26510

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Hunter Dean Winchester, Mage Castiel, Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Fade to Black

Summary: Dean Winchester has hunted monsters his entire life. One rogue mage shouldn't be a problem. The bounty is generous. The job should be easy. Dean catches him on a cold night and thinks the hard part is over. Castiel Novak doesn't expect mercy. He's made his peace with what's waiting for him in the capital. He hasn't made his peace with his failure at Carver's Hollow, but that's a different kind of sentence. The road to Alderwatch is long. Long enough for Dean to start doubting everything he was sure of. He has hunted things that wanted to kill him, but he's never hunted anything that kept saving his life instead.

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Unexpected Desires

Artist: Deancebra

Author: 4stackedfrogs

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 8523

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Police Officer Castiel (Supernatural), Bar Owner Dean Winchester, Hurt/Comfort, Pink Panties, Lingerie, Sexual Confusion, Light Angst, Hopeful Ending

Summary: When Castiel, a demoted cop on desk duty, gets a special assignment the Chief only trusts him with, he gets more than he bargained for. Dean is not who Castiel expected him to be and when things get too real and Dean gets too close Castiel has to take a step back to protect his peace (and sanity). After two weeks, Chief Singer can't stand the mutual pining between his officer and son anymore and tells Castiel to call Dean, forcing him to deal with his desires.

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Understanding the Assignment

Artist: Vee

Author: writer_geekgirl

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 18328

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Bobby Singer (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Milton the Guinea Pig, Fluff and Humor, Alternate Universe - College/University, Light Angst

Summary: Dean Winchester doesn’t do group projects (especially not poetry). Still, an assignment handcuffs him to Castiel Novak, a trench-coat-wearing poetry nerd with serious eyes and a habit of saying the quiet part out loud. Between late-night drafts, unwanted feelings, insane work hours, and caring for his little brother, Dean is barely holding it together. When Sam gets seriously sick, Dean’s guilt threatens to blow up the best thing that’s happened to him in a long time...until he and Cas figure out how to talk, with help from Gabe’s chaos, Sam’s puppy-dog eyes, and Milton the guinea pig’s unsolicited commentary. This art is inspired by the art of LongCat\AtTheEndOfEverything (Tumblr) for the Dean/Cas Reverse Bang.

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i shook the hand of doubt

Artist: Mas | Masoena

Author: TheTwistedWillow

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester

Length: 77346

Warnings: Canon Typical Violence

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Paramedic Dean Winchester, Paramedic Sam Winchester, Injured Castiel, Stranded, Love Triangle, Domestic Fluff, Homesickness, Angst with Happy Ending, Set in Season 6

Summary: Dean is a medic with a heart of gold, always ready to lend a helping hand, but when a stranger crash lands in his life and insists that he’s an angel from an alternate universe, Dean learns to take a leap of faith.  Castiel is an angel who struggles with self-doubt while torn between two worlds and two men.  Dean has one goal and one goal only when Castiel goes missing: find his angel and bring him home.

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The Boiling Point

Artist: stonelions

Author: bethmints

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 28820

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: s10e03 Soul Survivor, Demon Dean Winchester, POV Castiel, Case Fic, Canon-Typical Violence

Summary: Demon Dean, in the middle of the purified blood ritual to make him human again, escapes the bunker. Castiel corners him just outside of New Orleans, but there's one big, pointy problem: Dean has mysteriously grown horns. Okay... two big pointy problems, technically. Castiel is ready to manhandle Dean back to Kansas and file the damn things off... until a case they can't ignore falls right into their laps: A bizarre, blue-skinned creature has been luring innocent people to their deaths in Lake Pontchartrain. As they hurry to work the case before another person drowns, newly uninhibited demon Dean sets his sights on Castiel. It's not long before the tension between them completely boils over. (A retelling of 10x03 'Soul Survivor' in which Dean is very horned and Castiel is very horny.)

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sinner like me

Artist: KaylieMalinza

Author: Faren Maddox

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 11697

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Case Fic, Post-Canon Fix-It, Lighthouses, Ghosts, Miscommunication, Castiel's Angelic Grace (Supernatural), The love is requited they're just stupid

Summary: Dean has been avoiding Castiel as much as possible since the dust settled on the end of the world. When forced together to go investigate a haunted lighthouse, things start to thaw, but Cas’ confession still hangs over them, and they’re still not talking about it. Cas’ choice to trust a ghost and risk his life (again) might be the thing that pushes them over the edge.

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Ghostfacers! Ep 327: KILLER NUN ATTACKS - YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!

Artist: Solstheim

Author: Cheesecakekiss

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel

Length: 30904

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: The Ghostfacers (Supernatural), Dark Comedy, Ghostfacers Reverse Verse, Horror Comedy, Ghost Hunters Dean and Cas, Gratuitous violence against your least favourite characters, Charlie's fine though, Also there's facefucking, Dean/Cas Reverse Bang 2026 (Supernatural)

Summary: Hi guys!! Ghostfacers here!!! We’re here again in our quest to uncover the supernatural, and oh boy folks, have we got a CRAZY one for you today! You gotta see it to believe it!! We couldn’t believe it and we were THERE!! Dean, you gotta look at the camera, not Cas, the- yeah, that’s it. Perfect. And if you enjoy today’s spooOOooky tale of MURDER and NIGHTMARES, then you know what to do!! Mash that like button, stab that subscribe, and above all else you gotta hit that FOLLOW so you can see all our INSANE videos!! Strap in and buckle up, what’re you waiting for?!

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School Hard

Artist: Hellion Cat

Author: FriendofCarlotta

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 36714

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Alternate Universe - 1990s, High School, Childhood Friends, Second Chances, Coming of Age, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary: When Castiel Novak's mother dies, leaving him an orphan, his foster father Bobby Singer enrolls him at a public high school for the first time. Ill at ease and slow to make friends, Castiel finds himself assigned to work on a school project with one of his new classmates, Dean Winchester. Dean is handsome and funny and struggles with a bad situation at home. In other words, he's impossible to resist. Years after their tumultuous relationship and a bad breakup, Dean and Castiel meet again as adults. Can they leave the past in the past and make a new start?

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Alter

Artist: Valdelion

Author: Owco

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 17814

Warnings: temporary major character death

Tags: They/Them Pronouns For Castiel (Supernatural), supHERnatural, Temporary Character Death, Female Castiel (Supernatural), Female Michael (Supernatural), Female Lucifer (Supernatural), Female Castiel/Male Dean Winchester

Summary: Castiel has been sneaking down to the lower city to meet their lover, Dean Winchester, for months now. They're certain that if any of their many sisters (especially Lucifer or Michael) were to find out, they'd be disinherited to say the least. When Dean's brother is found dead and Dean calls Castiel for help, they made shocking discoveries about both their families that threatens to change their relationship forever. 

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Grand Pas de Deux

Artist: Mas | Masoena

Author: seidenapfel

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 8057

Warnings: N/A

Tags: AU - Modern Setting, Ballet Dancer Dean Winchester, POV Castiel, Social Anxiety, Loneliness, Power Imbalance, Recluse Castiel, Mild Smut

Summary: Castiel lives his life as a recluse, hiding from the world in his penthouse on top of the Novak tower. Yet his privacy comes with a catch. In order to stay unbothered by his family, he has made a deal: One night in exchange for the rest of the year in freedom. As the host of a charity event at the Metropolitan Opera that carries his name, he has no choice but to abandon his refuge. Little does he know that the moment the curtain opens, his life changes irrevocably.

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