Why Destiel is the most tragically beautiful (and canon) love story on television:
1. They met in the most romantically epic way possible.
Cas wasn’t even supposed to be a main character when he was introduced – I’m serious, he was initially supposed to have a six-episode arc and then be killed off. I find that surprising, because his relationship with Dean almost immediately became one of the most complex and meaningful on the show.
First of all, Cas met Dean by pulling him out of hell (and in the process, literally marking him on as his own. You will never convince me that the hand-print wasn’t some angelic way of calling dibs). But seriously, is that not some of the most romantic shit you’ve ever heard?
For one thing, it immediately establishes that no matter what happens, whether he’s a leviathan or a human or high on black goo and claiming to be God, Cas will always be the angel that gripped Dean tight and raised him from perdition. That in and of itself immediately gives them a bond that simply can’t be taken away or replaced (Sorry, Amara).
Cas evidently holds Dean to an equally high regard, considering that he rebelled against hundreds of thousands of years of strict programming for Dean literally weeks after he met him. For this, Cas was dragged back to heaven and tortured back into submission, only to revolt AGAIN after spending virtually five minutes alone with Dean, and ultimately literally dying for him immediately afterwards.
2. Dean loves Cas unconditionally.
I’m going to say it. Dean is very, very bad at expressing his feelings towards people. Personally, I blame it on his upbringing.
But whether Cas knows it or not, Dean obviously cares for him no matter what: After his release of the leviathans, for example, Dean was angry at Cas for a long time, but his feelings for him never diminished. Just look at his face after his initial submergence into the lake.
Let alone the fact that after Cas’s supposed death, Dean fell into a depression similar to the one he suffered after his excursion to hell in season four, complete with all the binge-drinking and insomnia.
And the fact that he kept Cas’s trench coat afterwards, even though at that point, he never expected to see him again.
Then look at Dean’s face after he sees Cas alive again for the first time. So many frickin’ emotions.
Of course, that doesn’t stop him from giving him a quick, completely platonic, “eye-fuck for luck” literally moments afterwards.
Finally, at the end of season seven, we have this infamous line.
Then we have season eight, one of the most Destiel-heavy seasons of them all. First and foremost, we have the fact that Dean refuses to leave purgatory without Cas, and spends almost a year looking for him.
Even better is the passionate, completely platonic “bro-hug” he gives him, complete with lots of unnecessary touching.
3. To Cas, Dean is unambiguously the single most important thing in the world.
We’ve already established that Cas pulled Dean out of hell and then fell for him very, very quickly, but let’s take a look at what he’s done afterwards:
For one thing, there is nothing Cas won’t risk, give up, or endure for Dean’s sake. Heck, by the end of season five, he’s already exploded for him. Twice.
In season six, Cas’s number one priority appears to be keeping Raphael from freeing Lucifer and Michael and re-starting the apocalypse, but by the end of the season, it’s clear where his true priorities lie.
And then we have season seven. This was a dark time for everyone, and there wasn’t nearly enough Destiel (or Cas, for that matter) for my liking, but we do have some pretty telling, poignant little tidbits, like this one.
Or the fact that Cas had basically sworn off fighting until he realized that Dean was going to be putting himself in danger fighting the leviathan alone.
We’ve already covered that season eight had absolutely no chill, but most importantly, it had Naomi, who appeared to understand that Castiel’s love for Dean would be the greatest obstacle in maintaining her control over him.
But even after forcing him to slaughter countless copies of Dean, Cas STILL refused to follow through with the real thing.
In season nine, we see Cas give up an entire army of angels to ensure Dean’s well-being, and Metatron, while possibly TV’s biggest asshole since Joffrey, was surprisingly adept at revealing what Cas’s priorities were at. From his love for…”Humanity,” to the real reason why he’d rallied the angels to begin with.
In season ten, we didn’t have nearly enough interactions between Dean and Cas, but what we did get was pure, heart-breaking gold. First and foremost, we have the fact that Cas basically told Dean straight-up that he planned on staying by his side for the rest of eternity, even if he became a mass-murdering demon.
Next, we have the fact that Cas was literally prepared to be brutally killed by Dean just to avoid having to fight him.
And more subtly, we have this interaction with Metatron. Keep in mind that by this point, Metatron has caused Cas an insane amount of suffering: from stealing his grace, to his months of homelessness, to alienating him from his entire family/species. But literally all Cas is angry about is the fact that Metatron hurt Dean.
Lastly, we have the fact that whenever something Cas does goes horribly wrong, from letting out the leviathans to indirectly causing all the angels to fall from heaven, his first instinct is to apologize. To Dean.
And if that doesn’t work, well. There’s always this.
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