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When Cas discovered Welcome to Night Vale, Sam and I barely slept for like a month. The dude would not shut up!
Apparently, Night Vale is this fake podcast about some made-up town that has like an angel infestation or something? Or maybe it was aliens, I don’t even know. Regardless, it made Clarence’s little nerdy heart sing, and he talked about it nonstop for weeks.
Sam forbade him from playing it out loud after the first couple days. He said he was too creeped out to study while it was playing. (He still talked about it all the time, though.) If I’m honest, it weirded me out, too, but I wasn’t about to tell Cas that.
One morning, I woke up and Cas had totally covered his arms and face in these crazy Sharpie tattoos, taped a drawing of an eye on his forehead, and was wearing a white lab coat from who-knows-where. He said he was “cosplaying” this guy Cecil from Night Vale, and he had “seen it on tumblr”.
After a few weeks, he was basically over it, and now he only listens to it occasionally, but those were some weird days.
Cas is definitely a little crazy, but if he didn’t have things to be so passionate about, he’d probably go actually clinically insane. So, I guess I’m glad for Night Vale, and all of his other obsessions. They make Cas who he is, and he’s a pretty cool dude.