So, about that angel that is sending me to a very special place in hell right now...

[bigmamag]

I'm confused.  I was rewatching some season four episodes, and I don't get the whole "angels have no emotions" thing.  Are they supposed to be carved from marble, as Anna says, or is it more that they can't feel the complete depth of what we call emotions?  For example, Uriel gets pissed a lot.  Anna said that Castiel didn't know what sorry felt

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[twasadark]

About the emotion thing, I decided in my little brain that Anna was wrong. She's like an emotional purist or something. One of those people who can't just empathize with being poor, she has to give up everything and wear sackcloth and wander around being poor before she can really know what it's like to be poor.

Here's a little snippet I wrote dealing with this.

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Castiel knows how Anna feels about Heaven, about their work as angels. The two of them used to be … friends? No, not that. Companions. Fellow warriors. Commander and subordinate? He can’t explain their relationship in human terms. We’re so cold, she’d raged to him once. We’re fake and hard and emotionless and I hate it! Always so passionate, dear Anna. He sometimes liked to point out the logical fallacies in her words - how can you hate if you don’t have emotions? But he suspects that would only set her off worse, so he keeps silent and - in his better moments, which are fewer than he’d like to admit - just loves her as the wondrous creation he knows her to be.

He does feel. He does care. True, he does not understand things in the same confused, frightened way as human beings do, but that does not make him heartless. It makes him different. Physical love is only one form of the emotion - the action of love. He knows it in so many ways. Companionship, compassion, sacrifice, selflessness, obedience. He’d tried to tell her that once, and she’d scoffed at him. You think you know, but you don’t. You’ve never truly been tested. How can you know?

Oh, Anna. If only she’d known how she herself had tested him. With her anger and defiance and stubborn insistence on physical form. He had had to choose, over and over again, to bear with her, to listen and not rise to the bait of her angry challenges, to respond with love instead of defensiveness and anger. It had not been easy sometimes

[bigmamag]

LJ didn't give me this comment! *glares in its direction*

So in short, your theory is that Castiel is able to feel and Anna is kind of like an unreliable narrator, or rather an unreliable character because she's basically saying angels feel nothing at all, just because they don't feel as much as humans, when it's obvious that Castiel does feel things. Filing it away for thought later. I'm also wondering if the emotion we have seen could possibly be manufactured and Castiel just thinks he has emotion. Like take anger, for example. Anger comes from something happening that is against your thought processes, which can be someone arguing with your logic, someone purposefully disobeying what you told them to do, etc. Castiel watches humans, knows anger, gets that when Uriel almost blasphemies, it's against Castiel's beliefs, so he is curt. Geez, what a total mindfuck I put myself in. I'm just going with your logic completely because my god, it makes my head hurt less. :)

Yay drabble, Castiel trying to refrain from bitchslapping her approach her derisive attitude with ♥. :D