dustydreamsanddirtyscars:09x11 “First Born”10x18 “Book of the Damned”Cas + His Love for Food = Cas +
dustydreamsanddirtyscars:09x11 “First Born”10x18 “Book of the Damned”Cas + His Love for Food = Cas + His Love for HumanityQuite possibly these moments in 10x18 might have been one of the things that made me most emotional about Cas in the episode. Metatron has expertly been reinforcing Cas to reflect upon himself and his identity. Who he is and what he may not be anymore even when he gets his grace back. And all of it was heavily explored by one thing: Food.All throughout the season Dean’s struggle against the mark has been framed and explored by him indulging in junk food, feeding himself in order to not feed the mark (there is a lot more to Dean’s psychological vs. physical hunger though, see here), feeding his body, not feeding the monster. Eating, a very basic human need and nescessity.And it is the one nescessity that Cas had grown to love about being human. While eating in general was annoying, he had enjoyed the taste of food - developed a taste so similar to Dean (and may I also say here that to me Cas loving burgers in 5x14 “My Bloody Valentine” had nothing to do with Jimmy Novak’s taste for burgers at all, but only with him becoming more human and ultimatley how close he had become with Dean), for burritos, for sandwiches, for burgers.So yes, this whole thing in a twisted way to me not only showed Cas missing those human things, like the taste of food, but maybe much more what he told Hannah also is so great about being human: Hope, Dreams, Art. And most of all: love.Because in the end Cas’ taste for everything sweet has just as little to do with physical hunger than it has for Dean. No, that hunger is a hunger for safety, for comfort. Yes, it’s the longing for love. -- source link
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