Friendly reminder that Jensen was just the actor, not a writer or the showrunner. The actual writers of the show have confirmed and shown the exact opposite: yes, Dean did reciprocate.
There are multiple deliberate parallels between Dean and Cas and other couples on the show, which clearly confirm that their relationship was written romantically.
In the final season, the writers repeatedly used Sam and Eileen’s romantic relationship as a mirror for Dean and Cas’s. One example: when Eileen tells Sam she doesn’t know what’s real anymore because of Chuck, Sam kisses her and says “I know that was real.” This directly mirrors the scene earlier in the season where Dean tells Cas that nothing in their lives is real because of Chuck, and Cas replies, “You asked what about all of this is real? We are.”
Another clear parallel: Sam loses Eileen and Dean loses Cas literally in the same episode, 15x18. In fact, the entire episode where Castiel confesses was built around characters losing their love interests, starting with Charlie losing Stevie, specifically to set up and mirror Dean losing Cas at the end. The writers genuinely could not have made it any clearer.
On top of that, they introduced Adam and Serafina — a human and an angel who were deeply in love — literally one episode before Castiel’s confession. That was obviously not accidental. It was clear foreshadowing and an extremely direct parallel to Dean and Castiel. Everyone knows the biblical Adam and Eve story, but Supernatural deliberately changed the narrative specifically to mirror Dean and Cas — a human and an angel, just like Adam and Serafina.
They did the exact same thing with Cain. They didn’t even cast an actor to play Abel. Instead, they created an entirely new character, Colette, Cain’s great love, specifically so she could mirror Castiel in Dean’s life. Cain literally tells Dean, “You’re living my life in reverse,” and says that Dean will kill Cas first and then Sam. Since Cain killed his brother first and then his love interest, Dean living the story in reverse means Cas is his Colette (the love interest) and Sam is his Abel (the brother). That was extremely explicit. That is not subtext — that is text.
And finally, in episode 15x19, right after Cas’s confession and death, Lucifer impersonates Cas in order to manipulate Dean into letting him in. That is the ultimate confirmation that Dean reciprocated. The show had already established Lucifer’s consistent method: he always impersonates the person’s dead love interest in order to manipulate them into letting him in. He did it with Nick by impersonating his dead wife Sarah, with Sam by impersonating Jessica, his dead girlfriend, and with Vince Vicente by impersonating Jen, his dead lover. And he did it with Dean by impersonating Cas.
Therefore, Castiel is canonically Dean’s love interest. Destiel is canon. You cannot argue against these canon facts.
lol the script by Berens LITERALLY said Dean does not reciprocate. The rest of your "proof" is fanfiction. Colette was not mentioned for 1.5 seasons, the general audience does not remember her. The season Colette was mentioned, Sam literally told Dean to "stop", and Dean did. Cain said Sam's death will hurt Dean the most, not Cas.
🤣🤣 OP, those aren't "canon" facts. They're delusional "parallels" that mean nothing out of context.
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How are the words of irrelevant actor canon or even worth consideration when the actual canon never implied Destiel doesn't exist?
Yes Dean loves Sam same way Cain loves Abel and loves Cas same way he loves Collete, literally the script you posted show's that, Dean couldn't reciprocate because he wa stunned and confused, no where is it stated he doesn't reciprocate.
Where is Sam the most important to Dean, he literally offered to kill him it get Cas back,not to mention he seemed way higher on Dean's priorities both in Purgatory and not only.
Also random quotes an emotionally distressed character is giving are your proof? Dean also said he would rather Sam being dead over Charlie in s10, well I guess he cares for everyone more than Sam using your logic.
Anti destiels stop embarrassing yourself,go write your fanfiction on Ao3 and leave people talk about the canon romantic plotlines of the show alone
Lol He’s not irrelevant because he played a huge part in crafting Dean in bringing him to life, and literally lived and breathed Dean Winchester for over 15 years.
Cass was never Collette, Dean barely tolerated him most of the time and I don’t think he ever once stopped for Cass, in the entirety of the series, except maybe if Cass threatened harm to him. If anyone was a Colette parallel it was Sam and Dean actually took back control of the mark and stopped when Sam called out to him to stop.
If Dean’s lack of reciprocation was purely due to being stunned it would have said “didn’t” or at least would have left it at “too stunned to respond” not “couldn’t” as “couldn’t” in this instance means “not capable”. The way it was worded is truly damming because: “could have, but didn’t because too stunned to say anything in that moment” vs “couldn’t, because sexuality not compatible” regardless of time constraints.
No, Sam and Dean offered to kill each other to get Chuck to bring EVERYONE including Cass back, with no indication that Dean had any intention to live on regardless of which scenario Chuck chose. Also, the only reason that Cass was specifically mentioned is because he wasn’t disappeared by Chuck like everyone else on earth, he was slurped away by the empty, so if they left it at “bring back everyone you disappeared” Chuck definitely wouldn’t have bothered with Cass, and as it was their friend, they had to at least ask.
Those quotes are proof because Dean meant them with his whole heart, and proved it too, as by Dean’s actions, certainly no individual person or being was ever more important to him than Sam.
The first time in purgatory he had no reason to think that Sam was in danger, so of course he was’t going to just abandon his friend without even trying. The second time however, when Dean knew for a fact that Sam was in danger from Chuck, he was literally going to abandon Cass in purgatory to run to Sam, and the only reason Cass made it out that time was because he got himself out of the mess he was in and back to Dean before Dean hopped out of the portal. Also, when he said that to Sam over Charlie, he had the Mark of Cain, was grieving Charlie and was being petty and hurtful over that, but not serious, as he’s never even considered sacrificing Sam for anyone, and would trade literally anyone for Sam (and has).
Sam was both Abel and Collette, and not. Dean could not kill him. Thus, he was not simply a parallel to Abel. Sam is the only one who could stop Dean, and his death would hurt Dean most. Thus, he is like Collette. He is not wholly either parallel, and Castiel is neither.
When your whole argument is based on parallels, your ship is not canon.
When Dean says he doesn’t not swing “that way,” and Castiel identifies as male and looks male, and Dean sees him as male, your ship is not canon.
When the script says Dean "can’t reciprocate”. It’s not because he doesn’t have time. It’s because he doesn’t feel the same. YOUR TRASH. SHIP. IS. NOT. CANON.
Cry about it.
Good lord, hellers are oblivious and deliberately obtuse.
I hope Jensen continues to spit facts.
No one cares what you ship. Ship all you want. But your feelings and magic and bi lighting and cake and parallels and bullshit don’t make a ship canon.
Finally, if parallels to couples made a romance between chracters canon, Wincest would have been canon 40x over, since season 1.
