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⏵ player information
name and pronouns: dmitri, he/him
age: 30+
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⏵ character information
name: Castiel (AU)
canon: Supernatural
age: 4.5bn
canon point: 2011, from the canon AU seen in S5EP04 The End.
history: This is a canon AU version of Castiel.
This version of Castiel shares the same history up until 2009, the year when the Biblical Apocalypse is meant to occur. In this series of events, the timeline splits when Sam and Dean part ways at the end of S5EP02 and don't reunite. (In the main timeline, they do.)
Instead, Sam Winchester says yes to Lucifer, allowing Lucifer to use his body as his vessel. However, as Dean doesn't allow the archangel Michael to possess him, this causes a stalemate between Heaven and Hell. The Croatoan virus quickly spreads via Hell's machinations, turning the infected into violent, mindless beasts. Society breaks down as a result, and eventually, the angels give up the Earth as a lost cause, leaving much of it to ruin.
Castiel, however, stays with Dean, while Dean hunts his brother, determined to kill the Devil at all costs.
When we meet this Castiel, it's 2014, five years in the future. He's long since lost his powers, and now is a broken shell of a man who regularly imbibes in drink, drugs, and sex in order to ease the pain of his current existence. In the end, he goes to his death when Dean orders him and a group of his men to act as decoys.
I'll be taking Castiel from slightly earlier than the events of the episode itself, after the angels have left Earth and Castiel has become mortal, but before he's lost all hope.
abilities:
• The sense to perceive timeline distortions. (He's able to immediately tell by looking at a person when someone is not from their rightful timeline, for example.) This is his one remaining angelic power. He's otherwise mortal.
• Hand-to-hand Combat
• Firearms Handling
• Can speak and write most Earth languages, with the exception of modern conlangs
• Can speak and write Enochian, the angelic language
personality: Castiel lost his way after losing his powers.
Isolated from his his home, Heaven, and from his own kind, who have abandoned the Earth, he has nothing left but Dean— his steward into becoming a member of humanity. But Dean's loss of his brother has also rendered him bitter, so Castiel follows suit.
In fact, by the time the apocalypse has sunk its teeth in, Dean is the only thing that Castiel has left. Castiel could have easily left while he still had his powers. He tells Present-Day Dean that when the angels returned to Heaven, he became mortal, and it's something he appears to be quite regretful of ("I used to belong to a much better club"). But he chose, despite everything, to stay, wordlessly demonstrating his loyalty and determination.
Unfortunately, where Castiel once was prideful and self-assured, his loss of power and control, and his isolation from Heaven, have all greatly impacted his self-worth. We see Castiel disparage himself several times throughout Season 5 after his rebellion, (and, notably, after that aforementioned drinking binge), saying outright that he's "a poor example of [an angel]". In The End he states that he's "basically useless" without his powers. He calls himself "hapless" and "hopeless" and uses this as reasoning for his irreverent behavior. So we see that his loss of self-worth also causes him to spiral into defeatism, which results in a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, as he sheds his own standards, and acts in ways that only make him hate himself more.
Castiel has always cared about being a model angel, or at least his own idea of what a model angel should be — someone self-sacrificing and morally outstanding, someone who fights for the greater good, someone who helps. Even after he rebels at the end of Season 4, this idea remains important to him. In Season 6, Castiel returns to Heaven with renewed powers and renewed purpose with the intent to heal the corruption endemic to his home. But this alternate version of Castiel has given up all illusions after the losses he's endured. He no longer has any faith in himself to be what he aspired to be.
Worse still, his idealism has clearly been irreparably damaged. He abuses substances like drugs and alcohol despite the precarious situation they're in (and unlike Dean, he isn't a "functional alcoholic"), he states outright that he believes he's hopeless.
But defeatism is a feature that the original Castiel also displays, so it's easy to see how this trait is not learned but inborn — The original Castiel gives up on Dean when it appears that Dean is going to give in to Heaven's demands. Castiel then even gives up on the world — Suggesting that they all imbibe copious amounts of alcohol when it looks like there's nothing they can do to stop the apocalypse. The difference is Sam and Dean's influence on him. The present-day versions of Sam and Dean continue to fight for the world no matter the circumstances, and Castiel follows by example.
But Dean in this universe has become a different person. In losing his brother, he loses his hope and his compassion, and his focus becomes revenge. And so Castiel follows, believing that Dean was meant to be a great man — and that he was meant to be something else.
Because he can do nothing about the state of the world, Castiel loses sight of his determination. And yet he still retains a certain angelic sense of duty, working unerringly as Dean's second in command, at least in spirit if not in name. Rallying the "grunts", as he calls them, and leading the final charge when Dean sends them off as a distraction. Castiel is a soldier, through and through, even if his way is long since lost.
samples:
1, 2, 3
name and pronouns: dmitri, he/him
age: 30+
contact:
⏵ character information
name: Castiel (AU)
canon: Supernatural
age: 4.5bn
canon point: 2011, from the canon AU seen in S5EP04 The End.
history: This is a canon AU version of Castiel.
This version of Castiel shares the same history up until 2009, the year when the Biblical Apocalypse is meant to occur. In this series of events, the timeline splits when Sam and Dean part ways at the end of S5EP02 and don't reunite. (In the main timeline, they do.)
Instead, Sam Winchester says yes to Lucifer, allowing Lucifer to use his body as his vessel. However, as Dean doesn't allow the archangel Michael to possess him, this causes a stalemate between Heaven and Hell. The Croatoan virus quickly spreads via Hell's machinations, turning the infected into violent, mindless beasts. Society breaks down as a result, and eventually, the angels give up the Earth as a lost cause, leaving much of it to ruin.
Castiel, however, stays with Dean, while Dean hunts his brother, determined to kill the Devil at all costs.
When we meet this Castiel, it's 2014, five years in the future. He's long since lost his powers, and now is a broken shell of a man who regularly imbibes in drink, drugs, and sex in order to ease the pain of his current existence. In the end, he goes to his death when Dean orders him and a group of his men to act as decoys.
I'll be taking Castiel from slightly earlier than the events of the episode itself, after the angels have left Earth and Castiel has become mortal, but before he's lost all hope.
abilities:
• The sense to perceive timeline distortions. (He's able to immediately tell by looking at a person when someone is not from their rightful timeline, for example.) This is his one remaining angelic power. He's otherwise mortal.
• Hand-to-hand Combat
• Firearms Handling
• Can speak and write most Earth languages, with the exception of modern conlangs
• Can speak and write Enochian, the angelic language
personality: Castiel lost his way after losing his powers.
Isolated from his his home, Heaven, and from his own kind, who have abandoned the Earth, he has nothing left but Dean— his steward into becoming a member of humanity. But Dean's loss of his brother has also rendered him bitter, so Castiel follows suit.
In fact, by the time the apocalypse has sunk its teeth in, Dean is the only thing that Castiel has left. Castiel could have easily left while he still had his powers. He tells Present-Day Dean that when the angels returned to Heaven, he became mortal, and it's something he appears to be quite regretful of ("I used to belong to a much better club"). But he chose, despite everything, to stay, wordlessly demonstrating his loyalty and determination.
Unfortunately, where Castiel once was prideful and self-assured, his loss of power and control, and his isolation from Heaven, have all greatly impacted his self-worth. We see Castiel disparage himself several times throughout Season 5 after his rebellion, (and, notably, after that aforementioned drinking binge), saying outright that he's "a poor example of [an angel]". In The End he states that he's "basically useless" without his powers. He calls himself "hapless" and "hopeless" and uses this as reasoning for his irreverent behavior. So we see that his loss of self-worth also causes him to spiral into defeatism, which results in a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, as he sheds his own standards, and acts in ways that only make him hate himself more.
Castiel has always cared about being a model angel, or at least his own idea of what a model angel should be — someone self-sacrificing and morally outstanding, someone who fights for the greater good, someone who helps. Even after he rebels at the end of Season 4, this idea remains important to him. In Season 6, Castiel returns to Heaven with renewed powers and renewed purpose with the intent to heal the corruption endemic to his home. But this alternate version of Castiel has given up all illusions after the losses he's endured. He no longer has any faith in himself to be what he aspired to be.
Worse still, his idealism has clearly been irreparably damaged. He abuses substances like drugs and alcohol despite the precarious situation they're in (and unlike Dean, he isn't a "functional alcoholic"), he states outright that he believes he's hopeless.
But defeatism is a feature that the original Castiel also displays, so it's easy to see how this trait is not learned but inborn — The original Castiel gives up on Dean when it appears that Dean is going to give in to Heaven's demands. Castiel then even gives up on the world — Suggesting that they all imbibe copious amounts of alcohol when it looks like there's nothing they can do to stop the apocalypse. The difference is Sam and Dean's influence on him. The present-day versions of Sam and Dean continue to fight for the world no matter the circumstances, and Castiel follows by example.
But Dean in this universe has become a different person. In losing his brother, he loses his hope and his compassion, and his focus becomes revenge. And so Castiel follows, believing that Dean was meant to be a great man — and that he was meant to be something else.
Because he can do nothing about the state of the world, Castiel loses sight of his determination. And yet he still retains a certain angelic sense of duty, working unerringly as Dean's second in command, at least in spirit if not in name. Rallying the "grunts", as he calls them, and leading the final charge when Dean sends them off as a distraction. Castiel is a soldier, through and through, even if his way is long since lost.
samples:
1, 2, 3