I'm not a big fan of love at first sight, but what I DO happen to like is disruption at first sight, like...
someone else on my dash put it better than me but there has to be some kind of magnetic fascination to it, almost... THAT is what makes a really juicy beginning
what happens between Dean and Cas isn't birds singing or rasping violins
no, it’s a kind of interference pattern... signal distortion and static that scrambles everything for a few seconds click click shhhhh, like a sound that doesn’t make sense, and now the whole world has to recalibrate itself because these crossing signals that shouldn’t harmonize...
Cas disrupts Dean's certainty.
Dean disrupts Cas's certainty.
This isn’t romance. This isn’t even trust—not yet.
It's almost like recognition without comprehension.
In a lot of ways, it's kinda scary and at times veers towards over-corrective posturing, resulting in a bunch of mean stuff that can dip into glib or cruel as they prod and and insult and threaten and test one another...
...ofc as they try at the very same time work to draw each other in
It's the "I wanna know what you're thinking" of it all
They fascinate each other because they don’t make sense TO one another in so many ways and yet, they make sense of each other in deeper, almost irrationally deep, critical ways.
They don’t know what they are yet.
But the moment they meet, the oldest story in the universe cracks open and something ancient and impossible writes itself in without permission
And because of all that, they bend the world around them
("This isn't supposed to happen. You're not in this story.")
They shatter mirrors, rip out pages, and warp would-be parallel lines until they loop de loop
