I had so much fun when all the cool kids did it....

[aerilex]

From ilfirin_estel and cymbalism219
Pick a character I've written/am likely to know about and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing/imagining that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

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[aerilex]

Right, because asking me to talk about my favorite character (and the character I connect to best) is totally evil. :D

Okay:

- Cas is a soldier. A tactician, really. Up to meeting the Winchesters, all he knew was receiving and obeying orders and faith in his Father. He's intelligent. More important, Cas is wily. He's slyly devious and he knows how to play the system, as it were, to get what he (read: Dean) needs and get around what red tape he can. If he can't get around it, he'll go through it and suffer the consequences.

- He's relatively inexperienced when compared to his brothers. His level of naivete and adorable cluelessness when it comes to things that most of the other angels grasp relatively easily really lends a heavy amount of creedence to the whole "baby angel" perception. Also, it probably wouldn't hurt his feelings so bad to be compared to a baby if it didn't hit close to home.

- He's just so full of faith. Faith in God, then in Dean. He needs to have faith in something because if he doesn't, then there's no point to hope for anything past the pain that he sees. That's his tragedy, more so than what happens when his faith is proven fruitless - without faith, he's in serious danger of becoming the hapless, hopeless creature Dean glimpsed in Zachariah's future.

- From the time he saved him, Dean has been very intriguing - and then treasured - to Castiel. The idea that Dean doesn't think he deserves to be saved baffles Castiel - because he doesn't understand how Dean could mistake both the intent of Hell (to break all that enter) and his own genuine qualities of good. Because of Dean and through his own time spent with Sam (and the trial-and-error feel of their sometimes tumultuous friendship), Sam becomes a good friend to Dean, as well. Both Winchesters, and by proxy Adam, are very important to Castiel. Sometimes, he fears they're too important.

- He's terrified of giving up all he does for Dean. Even more so, he's terrified of knowing he's going to do it anyway.

[cymbalism219]

OMG, you did that so fast! It took me *days* to answer for Cas! Man, you're a champ. (And, damn, I forgot about faith in my answer. doh!)

Dean has been very intriguing - and then treasured - to Castiel
Oh, Cas. *wibbles* Come back and make Dean whole!

[aerilex]

Haha, like I said - I definitely connect best with Cas. Secondly to Dean. But Cas. He's my baby.

<3!