oh, is it time for another game of “if cas were a woman”? fun.
imagine dean standing over a female cas’s dead body and saying to her “cas, you child, why didn’t you listen to me.” imagine dean yelling “just kill her now.” imagine dean saying “without your powers, you’re basically just a baby in a trenchcoat” and a female cas being visibly hurt and upset by this. imagine dean repeatedly referring to a female cas as being a baby or a child. imagine dean yelling at a mentally ill, suicidal female cas in a childlike mindstate while she dries the dishes. imagine dean telling her that nobody cares that she’s broken. imagine dean knocking a board game to the ground while a female cas moves away from him and lowers her head and eyes. imagine a female cas on the ground picking up that board game. imagine a female cas backing away from dean when he’s angry. imagine dean trying to keep a female cas in an amnesiac state so it’d be easier to use her. imagine dean agreeing to let meg use a female cas in exchange for her help. imagine dean referring to a female cas still in a catatonic state as being the same “down to the drool.” imagine dean pressuring a female cas into having sex while she’s visibly uncomfortable and doesn’t want to be there and says as much. imagine dean trying to pressure a female cas into returning to heaven, her saying no, dean laughing that off, and cas shouting “i said no” at him. imagine dean automatically refusing to help a female cas every time she comes to him for help for little to usually no reason whatsoever. imagine dean pretty much making a female cas beg him for his help. imagine dean pretty much threatening to take their relationship away when a female cas can’t help him. imagine dean ordering a female cas around and telling her what she is and isn’t allowed to do. imagine dean telling a female cas “oh, you think you have a choice.” imagine dean seeing a female cas on the ground, cowering against a wall in the middle of a panic attack, and saying to her “cas, anytime now.” imagine dean telling a female cas that she can’t come with them and that, unlike her, “even banged up, sammy comes through” and that they don’t need her help. imagine a female cas trying to appease dean’s anger and prove her usefulness by going grocery shopping. imagine dean constantly criticizing, belittling, yelling at, and being dismissive of a female cas.
imagine dean beating the shit out of a female cas, almost killing her, and then threatening to kill her. imagine a female cas having panic attacks about that. imagine dean hallucinating a beaten female cas in front of him—because he’s the one that beat her—and asking her if she’s there to say sorry to him. imagine dean threatening a female cas with violence twice—once while pointedly handling a weapon that can kill her—and then following through on his threats of violence by slamming her against a wall and holding her there. imagine a female cas dying and then dean trying to kill her child within the first few minutes of his life by shooting him. imagine dean saying that the only reason why he’s taking a female cas’s child back to the bunker is because he hasn’t found a way to kill him yet—and all within earshot of her child. imagine dean yelling about how a female cas’s child is evil and her child running away and hugging his knees to his chest. imagine dean finding a female cas’s child stabbing himself because he’s afraid of what he is and that he’ll hurt people and dean telling her child that he doesn’t think he can be saved and that dean’ll be the one to kill him. imagine dean blaming a female cas’s son for her death and using that to justify abusing him—y'know, just like how max miller’s dad (and uncle) abused him and justified it because of his mother dying.
imagine dean telling a female cas that she’s dead to him. imagine dean angrily stalking toward a female cas and sam getting between the two of them to stop dean before he assaults a female cas. imagine dean angrily breaking a chair in a female cas’s presence after that’s happened. imagine dean manipulating a female cas’s son into locking himself in a box and planning to trap him there forever. imagine dean telling a female cas that he’s locked her son in a box, a female cas responding “no,” and dean telling her that’s where he’s going to stay. imagine dean trying to convince a female cas that her son wanted to be trapped in a box—and when a previous scene just showed her son scared and saying “i don’t think i like this” while trapped in the box. imagine dean telling a female cas that he didn’t even want to lock her son in a box and that he wanted to kill him instead. imagine dean rubbing in a female cas’s face that he’s going to kill her son. imagine dean picking up a gun and telling a female cas that he’s going to kill her son with it and that she can either “get on board or walk away.”
imagine how that entire exchange would look like if cas were a female character instead. imagine how it would look for a female cas to be sitting there with her son, telling him that they need to run away together somewhere safe where no one (dean) can find them, then to have her son look off in the distance and a female cas look to where he’s looking, too, only to see dean standing there with a gun, ready to murder her son.
imagine dean being incredulous that a female cas doesn’t want to work with the demon masquerading as her dead son. imagine dean asking a female cas if she’s all right but only for the purpose of showing her how much he doesn’t care about her and how she’s doing at all. imagine dean implying to a female cas that she doesn’t try her best. imagine dean telling a female cas that she’s going to go to hell with the demon masquerading as her son—a plan that could result in her death, and one that would place her with someone that deeply upsets her—then a female cas saying “it sounds like i don’t have a choice” and dean replying with “good.” imagine dean telling a female cas that she’s the reason everything goes wrong. imagine a female cas finally walking away from dean once she realizes that he doesn’t care about her. (imagine that event being what prompts tv guide to call their relationship out on being toxic and abusive. which is what actually happened. when it was a male cas. oop.) imagine dean still never actually apologizing to a female cas for the way he’s treated her at all and excusing all of his actions on how he just can’t control himself—y'know, like how abusers actually do. imagine dean not even being able to tell a female cas’s son that he doesn’t think he’s a monster. imagine dean outright saying that he doesn’t consider a female cas’s son to be family. imagine dean encouraging a female cas’s son to kill himself. imagine dean pulling a gun on his brother and assaulting him because he wants to drag a female cas’s son off to his death and a female cas witnessing this.
then imagine the culmination of all of that—and oh so much more that i didn’t even mention—is a female cas’s entire existence being made about a man. a man that treated her and her child like that for a decade. while she proclaims him to be the most selfless and loving man. that somehow being her moment of true happiness. and then dying for him. and that’s how, for all intents and purposes, a female cas’s story ends on the show.
