can i just rant about all the stupid fucking bullshit that cas haters still hold against cas and use to justify dean abusing him.
“cas let sam out of the panic room! he knew that lilith was the final seal! he tried to start the apocalypse!”
cas was literally tortured back into obedience by heaven and did all of that under orders. orders that if he were to disobey, he’d either be tortured again or killed. and the latter of which did happen to him when he disobeyed to try and stop the apocalypse. and then cas died again to help stop the apocalypse. (also, honestly. cas gave sam the opportunity to leave the panic room. but he didn’t force him to. cas opened the door and everything that happened after that was, actually, all free will.)
“cas worked with crowley! and he did it behind samndean’s backs!”
cas was working with crowley to stop the apocalypse. the winchesters also worked with crowley to stop the apocalypse. they even worked with crowley to stop godstiel after they disowned cas for working with him. and if it hadn’t’ve been for cas working with crowley and getting the souls from purgatory, raphael would’ve killed cas and cas’s followers and started the apocalypse again.
cas apologized for that—to dean and sam—and went above and beyond fixing the problem by taking all of sam’s cage trauma into himself.
“cas let out the leviathans!”
cas did not let out the leviathans. he did not even know they were possessing him initially. he tried to put them, and all of the souls, back into purgatory but the leviathans took control of him and then broke free of his body. the leviathans breaking out were an unintended consequence of stopping raphael and the apocalypse. and cas helped defeat them in the end, anyway.
“cas made all the angels fall!”
wrong. metatron made the angels fall. cas was not only manipulated by metatron into thinking he was closing the gates of heaven but he was then betrayed by metatron and used as the last ingredient for the spell. and cas not only tried to help the angels get back into heaven afterwards but he helped stopped metatron as well so.
“cas said yes to lucifer and let him out of the cage!”
cas was seconds away from lucifer killing him (while the winchesters did nothing to save him, might i add) when he said yes. and cas said yes because lucifer was the only viable option they knew of at the time to defeat amara, an even greater threat than lucifer. and lucifer did, actually, try and help them stop amara so. and afterwards cas helped put lucifer back in the cage so. (or at least he thought he did, and would’ve, had it not been for crowley’s interference.)
“cas betrayed the winchesters and went behind their backs and stole the colt!”
cas did not betray the winchesters. he went off on his own with the colt because he would rather face the danger and emotional turmoil of killing kelly and the nephilim rather than subject the winchesters to it. that’s not cas betraying the winchesters. that’s cas sacrificing himself, once again, for their benefit at his expense.
“cas betrayed them by going off with kelly!”
cas (and kelly) wanted jack to be born with his powers; the winchesters did not. the winchesters outright told cas that they would not let him (and thus kelly and jack) leave. that is why cas knocked them out in the first place because they are the ones who didn’t give cas a choice. (and why the fuck is cas not consulting them or getting their approval on everything he does held against him? that just makes his relationship with them/dean sound as abusive as it actually is tbqfh.)
like, every fucking thing that cas haters use to justify their hatred of cas and dean’s abuse of him are either things that cas isn’t even guilty of in the first place or they’re things that cas has already taken responsibility for, already apologized for, already rectified, and already made amends for. it’s fucking bullshit that all of this shit is still held against cas. (and what’s even more bullshit is that dean has virtually never taken responsibility for any of the times he’s hurt cas, he has almost never apologized to him let alone genuinely, and he has never really tried to make amends, either. but, yeah. somehow cas is the one that’s a horrible, terrible, awful person and pwoow babby dean just keeps giving cas chance after chance. if, y'know, you call always holding cas’s mistakes against him despite cas repeatedly apologizing and trying to make things right giving someone a chance. which, js, ain’t that.)
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