#creature cas

Pigeon Cas 🐦

Maybe it was lost or torn off him, like a limb, whatever

They find pieces all around the world. They even have to charter a boat out to the middle of the ocean to haul up the breastplate or something

Some parts are 'lifesize' in that they're the size they'd be on Cas's vessel

One or two retained their true size

There's a vambrace the size of a house that fell from the sky in northern siberia. Sam and Cas have to use magic to get those pieces down to manageable sizes.

They find a piece that's meant to protect Cas's neck, but it's weirdly shaped.

Dean looks at the breast plate and realizes that ITS weird too.

The breast plate is more like four short breast plates that interlock. But when they're all in place, it looks like four sets of pecs and a weird abdominal structure.

That's when Dean FINALLY puts together that his bezzie mate is a fucking ALIEN. Hes got his two arms and the set of shoulders and pectorals that support them, normal, nice, okie doke. But he's got Six Wings. So those need support and musculature.

Dean lays the armor out on a table in the library and realizes that his friend looks like a fucking bug man with tooooo many limbs.

He looks at the helmet and realizes there are TOO many eye holes, and that the nose and mouth aren't shaped right.

Cas's face looking damn near like a roswell grey, with like, 4 eyes that are too big, and no visible ears and a small little nose and a totally androgynous face shape judging by the mask.

Dean just sitting there, looking at the closest thing to the true face of the person hes come to love and just getting knocked on his Ass by how different they really are.

Cas having to use a Deep Magic Spell to manifest his true form physically.

His halo is like a crown of bone (think Babylon 5's Minbari) and his eyes are such a deep black they shine blue in the light. His skin is such a deep blue that Dean's eyes keep sliding over him, making it hard to focus on Cas at all.

His wings have white feathers, but they conceal hundreds of small jewels, which Dean realizes are eyes. Cas is like a living sensor array. His arms are strong and four pairs of shoulders are broad and well-muscled.

There are no nipples on the pectoral structures, which makes sense, Cas doesn't need to feed children. His hips are wide and curved above strong legs. Cas's face is androgynous and superficially blank, but Dean catches little smiles and the ever-familiar head tilt.

And finally

FINALLY

Dean gets it. He SEES Castiel.

I came up with the idea for this one (hence why it's not angsty Laz), so it features a cowboy sorta setting and the rope is a lasso, because of course it is. I very rarely ever do comics, and this is like my second ever full page comic so uh yeah that's why it's a mess ig as far as the paneling goes

as a disclaimer I stupidly colored this entire thing at night with the brightness as low as it could go because ow my retinas. looking back and thinking about it for more than two seconds, that was probably a dumb thing to do but oh well. but yeah that's why Dean's boots are pink; I noticed while I was shading stuff but honestly it had aura so I kept it (they were supposed to be an orangish sort of brown to stand out from the background since I colored them in that bottommost scene first). also Cas is actually supposed to be a phoenix which is why his wings are red and orange going down something something fire. I wanted to add more bird-like features to not pull a Supernatural visual effects and go with like. dude with slightly strange features. but it looked really weird and my author tragically vetoed the bird feet so alas, we must sacrifice

plus a bonus picture of the idiots being stupid. Cas is decidedly Not Amused by this turn of events. this coloring and shading style is obviously not something I've done before but I think it actually doesn't look too bad all things considered, especially since I've had trouble in the past with getting colors to complement that specific outline color (which I picked because it seemed a bit cowboy-y). also notice how between the last panel of the comic and the bonus, Cas goes from having the magic rope wrapped around him one time to suddenly three times over, implying Dean took the time to wrap Cas up even more just to bug him a bit. I felt this was very important to point out

the fic this is made for is called 'Save A Horse, Lasso A Firebird' by @lazarus-rose for the restraintstiel week challenge

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85627236

Creature Castiel, I'm not sure what creature yet, but he meets a human Dean in a situation of some sort that Cas needs help and Dean takes care of him. Cas ends up falling in love with Dean, and his specific creature has a certain way of falling in love, like when his species falls in love, it would seem to a human like toxic love or obsessive love but it's normal for them. Creature Cas makes sure to let Dean know that he's madly in love with him.

First of all, you guys all suck. I rarely do these things, and now two in two days. Sigh. Blame @farenmaddox, @artemis-73, @imaginaryprotagonist, and @friendofcarlotta

So I'm Valandra. 40+ lunatic of the female variety. I have the hair of a 90s skater boy, but with insane curls on top, a doberdoodle (yes, it's a real dog), adult children, and an awesome job.

I wrote an embarrassing amount of Twilight Fanfic, have been self- and trad-published, and enjoy the most deviant of DDDNE fics in the Destiel fandom, although I don't write them. Almost all my fics are HEA, and you can find them on my AO3 Author Page. I'm on Discord a lot as Valandra, but other than that don't really do social media.

The challenge? The last 10 fics I published with the first line. This outta be fun! I have a number of new fics coming up, including the CrossOver Bang (Aug 7th!), HorrorFest, and BangBang, plus working on a companion piece for Driving Sideways. There's more I'll be signing up for, too! Keep an eye out and subscribe to my author page for new fics as they post.

CURRENT WIP: Stull Prison Blues (E), posting on 1-2 times a week as I'm able. Thanks to @darcydelaney's BETA work, it's mostly readable :) Stull Maximum Security Prison wasn’t what Dean had expected: there was no cat-calling, no arms reaching through bars, no kissy sounds, nothing like what he saw in movies. 

Driving Sideways: Words: 39,338 (E) - Art by @witchy-worm Dean roared as he jerked awake and yanked his arm away from the vice grip holding him down. 

Angels of the Red Sand: Words: 29,256 (M) co-written with @bleuzombie - Art by @kisris Dean burrows deeper into his pillow when Sam’s shrill alarm fills their shared room, slicing through his hungover brain like a jackhammer, with a serrated blade on the end, right next to a gong.

Darwin Never Tried This: Words: 10,757 (E) co-written with @bleuzombie - Art by @kayliemalinza Dean’s boots landed heavy, sand flying behind him as he chased after the chupacabra.  Bette Davis Eyes: Words: 22,769 (E) - Art by @kingdumbass I draw deeply on the last embers of my Chesterfield before stubbing it out, the acrid smoke waltzing in graceful curls toward the dingy plaster ceiling. 

Cyborg Savior: Words: 79,674 (E) - Art by @squirrelofcelestialintent Dean hoisted the tray above his head, weaving through the crowd at The Bunker, Cyn City’s most notorious club.

The Omega Classifieds: Words: 73,161 (E) - Art by Nootussy Dean slapped The Omega Classifieds onto the worn kitchen table before hefting his too-light basket onto the counter. 

Dean Winchester, Professional Cockwarmer: Words: 43,169 (E) - Art by @laili As Castiel entered his too-large, too-cold home, a change in the air drifted toward him: apple orchards in full harvest and zesty citrus tinged with the slight bitterness of a spilled Old Fashioned. 

The Sin Eater: Words: 113,906 (E) Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.

Big Alpha Energy (BAE): Words: 100,977 (E) - Art by @sissyray84 Dean paced at the end of the alley before finally pulling up his fuckin’ big boy panties and walking down toward the unnamed, unnumbered door. Terror gripped him again when he saw the triskelion spray-painted discreetly on the brick wall above the black door. 

---There are so many more I could list, 10 felt like so many, but, wow, I write a lot. But the plus side is now I get to go read everything ya'll listed and read them!---

---I wonder what it says that almost all my stories start with Dean's name... I should work on that...---

Not it's my turn mwahahahah. I'm trying to tag people who haven't been tagged yet, so get ready: @bleuzombie, @entropic-saudade, @akaalaisabel, @zationao3, @bowlegsandbiceps, @wanderingcas, @allmystars-i, @malicmalic, @casblackfeathers, @ltleflrt

Title: Shasta

Rating: E

No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Dean Winchester/Castiel, mentioned Garth Fitzgerald IV/Bess Myers

Tags: AU, Western, Late 1800s. Case Fic, Klamath Legends and Lore, Creature!Cas, Monsterfucking, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending

Summary:

While everyone else eagerly ate up the land looking westward, Dean had a hard time envisioning much of anything for himself on the horizon. Dad was dead. Sam had left for the stability of Californian settlements. Loneliness was Dean’s steadiest partner now as he carried on the torch of the family business

That is, until a simple ghost hunt in the railway town of Ashland, Oregon, turns into a tangle with a god, and Dean begins thinking he should’ve been looking skyward instead.

‘Cause sometimes, the sky looks back—and it wants.

Notes:

For the @dcwildwestfest. Thank you to Birdy for all your work in running the bang!

Thank you to @onowey for the beautifully haunting art which inspired this work, and the prompt which sent me on a research rabbit hole that I thoroughly enjoyed. I'm in love with your creature!Cas and all his forms, I hope I brought it justice. <3

Thank you also to @ryanackins and @aty-altiria for being my betas! Your feedback really helped in shaping the final story. I appreciate all of you always. <3