You're in my veins, and I cannot get you out

Patsy + Delia VI

I mean, let’s be real honest here, Richard Castle willingly and knowingly cheating on his wife is not only character assassination, it’s show suicide. There is absolutely no scenario short of things like an evil twin, a human clone, honest to God “I don’t remember you or that we are married”, or some other trope straight out of a bad soap opera that would make that accurate. I don’t know what the hell certain sections of this fanbase think they are playing at, but we clearly aren’t watching the same show and haven’t been since its inception. 

Richard Castle is a man who has been cheated on. He walked in on Meredith in bed with her director when Alexis was a baby (Always Buy Retail) and, presumably, saw his marriage completely disintegrate into something that couldn’t be put back together. His daughter, the love of his life for twenty-one years, grew up in a broken home and if you honestly think Castle is the sort of person who actively cheered for that you need your head examined. 

Over the course of the series he’s admired beautiful women, but this concept that he’s going to hop into bed with one is the stupidest and most juvenile line of thinking. I know it’s hard to understand to people who think relationship are inherently supposed to be fucked up and consist of two people always at odds and sniping at each other about what they did wrong, but you CAN actually look at another member of the opposite, or even the same, sex, find them attractive and not want to throw them up against the nearest flat surface and have your wicked way with them. Beckett has freely admired just as many men over the series (Josh and Demming not included, though if you count them she’s shown her appreciation for males not named Castle far more than Castle has shown for women not named Beckett.), but somehow she’s so rarely tossed into the deep end for thinking someone is attractive. To my knowledge, no one shouted about how she was going to fall into bed with Danny Valentine last season when he flirted with her and she flirted right back. 

And, honestly, if people seriously think he’s gonna leave Beckett because she might decide she doesn’t want a baby or can’t have one? I’d like to refer you to the opening scene of 7x14 where there are a couple of lines that freely dispute that notion because Richard Castle does not give a shit if they have children, and that it’s up to Kate to decide when and if they do. Also, for people who think he’s forcing her into it? The first time there is a mention of future children is from Simon Doyle who says they are going to have three. Beckett’s surprise is not because they have children, but because they have three of them. 

Richard Castle loves Katherine Beckett. He loves her enough that he’s risked his life for her multiple times, he loves her enough to wait for a year just for the hope that she might scale her wall of fear and love him back, he loves her enough to come back and work with her after she broke his heart. He loves her enough to take a bullet for her in a world where she DIDN’T love him back. And if you think that he’d so easily and so readily drop her then I feel sorry for you because you apparently don’t understand the bond and the depth of the emotion and love that these two people have with one another. 

Recently, in another fic, I wrote a scene where we had Castle and Beckett facing an issue where they couldnt see eye to eye immediately and it resulted in a kind of complicated situation where they both had excellent arguments and it was hard to reach a compromise. Man, did I get TONS of hate for the both of them! People were literally reviewing other ppl reviews arguing about who of them is the worse - selfish, manipulative and cold beckett (vs. poor, loving, always selfish Castle) or childish, immature, self-centered jackass Castle (vs. poor, considerate, thoughtful and always right Kate).

It was sad to see, how A - these people clearly dont see the characters for what they are, two ppl who are a perfect match for each other, but see the versions they created of them in their heads, B - how they root for one or the other character by being AGAINST the other one, I mean ppl, the point of these characters is that they FOUND each other. Castle or Beckett are not there as a bad version mirror to show the other in the wonderful light by how horrible they are, but to play off each other to show what a perfect MATCH they are. A great team. Partners. Not great individuals (but always only the one, the other is yukk in all regards,of course). 

Spreading hate on one doesnt make the other ultimately more beautiful, more perfect. Cause they arent. Thats they beauty of the show, they arent perfect, neither of them, but together, they are the perfect match that makes them stronger, the other smoothing out the imperfections and flaws of the said character and ultimately making them better.

Beckett or Castle are not great DESPITE each other, but FOR each other.

I just see this stark difference where Kate haters hate Kate whereas Castle haters hate that he loves Kate.