[beyond the rift] Application
About You - The Player
Name: Emily
Age: 21
Contact: iluvroadrunner6@yahoo.com / iluvroadrunner6 on AIM
Past Role Playing Experience: paradisa lately. I was at lawandorder_siu for about three years, and I play PSLs and other kind of RP in the muse journals.
The Character
Name: Castiel
Age/Birthdate: at least 2000 / Unknown
Species: Angel
*Type: Wanderer
Canon: Supernatural (TV Series), post the Season 5 finale
*Pre-existing powers:Teleportation, self-healing, super strength, can burn your eyes out just by existing unless he’s in a vessel. On occasion there is also time travel. Pre-arriving through the rift, he could also raise people from the dead with a touch because God made him Super Angel.
*Rift Change, if applicable: Castiel is losing his resurrection powers. He can heal people, but no raising them from the dead. Also, time travel is a no-go.
Livejournal: sitherequietly
Played By: Misha Collins
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Appearance: Simply put, he looks like a run of the mill tax accountant. In his true form, Castiel is a bright brilliant ball of light that’s so blinding bright it can melt a person’s eyes out (See: Pam, 401: Lazarus Rising). However, angels are allowed to take vessels, and Castiel is currently inhabiting the body of a man named Jimmy Novak. He’s about six-feet tall, slim, but not scrawny. He has messy dark hair that looks like he hasn’t done anything with it because … he hasn’t, and a slight five o’clock shadow. He’s usually dressed in a dark three piece suit, a partially loosened tie and a beige trenchcoat. He doesn’t change his clothes, so it’s really the same thing every time.
Personality: On first glance, Castiel is the socially awkward kid who knows all the answers to the tough questions, but you ask him who Britney Spears is and the best you’ll get is a curious head tilt. Most pop culture references go over his head unless explained, and while he will try to use them in context, it still feels awkward to have him being the one saying them. There’s something almost child-like about him most times, and is mostly shown in his curiosity about humanity and the way they relate to the world, but at the same time, it is very clear that there is very, very dangerous about him. He’s still a warrior, and will take you down if you threaten him or the people he cares about.
He spent the first two thousand years or so of his life as an angel, which is a rather monotonous walk of life. He followed orders without question, and he still has some of that soldier still in him. However, unlike most of his angels angelic brethren, Castiel believes in the job assigned to him, which he believes is to protect and watch over the human race. While most other angels refer to the humans as “mud monkeys” and treat them like most humans would treat as rats, Castiel actually reveres them. He sees them as the image of his Father, and to be treated with respect. Castiel is also fiercely loyal to whatever cause he has set himself too. In the beginning of season four, when he first was introduced to the show, Castiel was loyal to the cause he believed God had given him and stayed true to that cause-which he believed was stopping the Apocalypse. He held onto the belief that he was doing God’s work, even to the point where he chose humanity over his family, joining up with Dean and Sam in order to stop the Apocalypse.
Castiel’s form of loyalty isn’t just to the Winchester’s cause, however, but also to the people themselves. When faced with the choice between leaving becoming Lucifer’s vessel and granting him full power to Sam’s choice, or killing him in order to avoid giving Lucifer the opportunity, Castiel opted to save Sam, citing the reason as Sam being his friend (513: The Song Remains the Same). He trusts them without reservation because he has to. He gave up his family and everything that he knew in order to support the idea of free will and choice, and what he saw as God’s plan, while the rest of the angels believed God was dead.
However, once Castiel is forced to question your loyalty to him? It’s very hard to win it back. He trusts almost the way a child trusts. So long as your behavior is in his favor and towards what he expects of you to do, he will follow you to the end of the earth and back. However, break his trust and betray him? And it is very, very hard to earn it back. After Sam and Dean returned from Heaven and told him that God refused to help them with the Apocalypse, Castiel disappeared for weeks, and when he did return, he was drunk (he drank a liquor store) and belligerent, almost as though he had given up himself (517: 99 Problems). When Dean abandoned him and Sam to try and say yes, a process that involved sending Castiel back to Heaven in the process, Castiel channeled that anger at him into bringing him back, beating him to a pulp and showing him just how angry he was with the choices that Dean had made. After that, he made it quite clear that his faith in Dean was broken, and that he no longer expected Dean do follow through with the plan as stated (518: The Point of No Return). His loyalty to the cause, however, remained the same. He sacrificed what was left of his grace in order to give Dean and Sam a fighting chance of finding their brother (also 518: The Point of No Return) and returned to Heaven after Lucifer was sent back to Hell in order to restore order, despite how Heaven had betrayed him.
Castiel is bluntly honest and forthright, and even more so when drunk. He speaks with a very distinctive pacing that’s both awkward and if anything, clinical. He is also not a sexual being. If anything, he is scared of that kind of contact, and needs to be eased into the idea very slowly-even if it’s just simple romantic contact like a kiss. On that same note, however, he has no concept of personal space and will often teleport thisfarfromyourface. It’s something Dean’s trying to work with him on.
History: Castiel wasn’t so much born as came into being. No one’s really sure if angels are born or not, and if Castiel does have a birthday, no one knows when it is as angels don’t celebrate. According to lore he’s the angel of Thursday, and spent thousands of years watching over the Earth under the watch of Anna until she fell, and working with his friend Uriel. No one knows Castiel’s exact age, however there were mentions of him being around in the time of the prophet Luke, so that puts him around 2000 years old at least. Being an angel, Castiel has a larger understanding of the way the world works. He also has the names of all the prophets seared into his brain, and is responsible for making sure that they do what they need to do.
Castiel was content to watch the world until August of 2009, when Dean Winchester broke the first seal in order to set Lucifer free. Castiel was ordered to travel into Hell and pull Dean Winchester out, placing him back in his body. At first, knowing that Dean was Michael’s vessel, he tried to communicate with Dean in his true form, but when that didn’t work, he took a vessel named Jimmy Novak and used him to communicate with Dean. In the process of that, however, the Winchesters tried to summon him and see what exactly it was that had brought Dean back from the dead, using a psychic named Pamela Barnes. Pamela tried to see him in his true form, and she lost her eye sight in the process. After he obtained his vessel, Dean Winchester summoned him to an abandoned warehouse to question him. There he revealed he was an angel and that he had raised Dean from the dead because God had work for him. After the second seal was broken regarding the raising of the witnesses, Castiel told Dean that Lilith was trying to release Lucifer, and if all of the sixty-six seals were broken, Lucifer would start the Apocalypse. He also sent Dean back to the year 1973, so that he could see how everything started.
The next time Castiel returned to Earth he brought Uriel with him. The angels were trying to stop the raising of Samhain, however they couldn’t find the witches and were intending to destroy the town in order to prevent the seal from being broken. Their orders were to follow whatever Dean wanted to do, and they were forced to leave the town be while Dean and Sam tried to find the witches. Ultimately they failed, but Castiel was glad they did, because he felt that humanity should be saved. When Anna, as a human, resurfaced, Castiel and Uriel were sent to kill her for betraying the garrison. She managed to escape, however, reclaiming her grace and becoming an angel again. From that point on, trust was thin between the Winchesters and Castiel was forced to impersonate Bobby on the phone in order to help the Winchesters save a seal that involved killing two reapers, and proceeded to capture Allistair, one of Lilith’s most trusted demons. He recruited Dean to try and torture information out of Allistair, but Uriel double-crossed him and released Allistair, hoping that he would kill Dean and keep him from stopping the Apocalypse. Uriel was later killed by Anna, who had warned Castiel that the angels were not on the right side. Castiel then told Dean that because Dean was the one who started the Apocalypse, he was the one who had to stop it.
After the betrayal of Uriel, Castiel was starting to question things more, and play things a little looser in terms of the information he gave Dean. He told Dean about how the archangels were tethered to Chuck and let him infer how do use them against Lilith. That move, however, cost him his trust with the garrison and he was recalled the Heaven and imprisoned until he promised to stick to his orders and follow through on Heaven’s end of the Apocalypse. When he returned to Earth, he was back to the original Castiel that they had seen, stiff and sticking the Heaven’s orders. When Sam was stuck in the panic room, detoxing on demon blood, Castiel was the one who let him out and helped him get back to Ruby. He then brought Dean to a holding room to wait for Sam to release Lucifer, and Dean convinced him to do the right thing as oppose to following Heaven. He took Dean to Chuck who told him where to find Sam and to try and stop him from releasing Lucifer. He remained with Chuck to hold off the archangels, and was subsequently blown to pieces.
Castiel was resurrected, presumably by God, to help the Winchesters stop the Apocalpyse. He saved them from Zachariah and engraved sigils onto their ribs in order to hide him from all angels, including himself. He was then forced to get himself a cell phone so that he could keep in contact with them. Dean began bonding with Castiel more closely in the aftermath of Sam’s choice, trying to introduce him to the world, or what was left of it before it ended. Over the course of the year, Castiel slowly began to lose his angelic abilities from his separation with the garrison, so much so that one small bout of time travel left him unconscious. He began to grow closer to his human “family” which came to include the Harvelles before their death, Bobby Singer, and the Winchesters. Lucifer attempted to recruit him onto his side, but Castiel resisted, choosing the Winchesters over Lucifer’s plan.
When the Winchesters were killed by hunters and sent to Heaven, Castiel attempted to guide them through to the garden so that he could speak to Joshua, who was said to communicate with God. When he heard the message that God wasn’t going to help them, he cursed his father and proceeded to drink a liquor store in order to actually get drunk. Soon after, Dean left him and Sam to say yes, and Castiel tracked him down and helped keep Dean from doing so, taking out a lot of his frustration on his charge, mostly beating Dean to a pulp. Despite his lack of faith in Dean, however, he sacrificed the last of his grace by carving the sigil to banish angels onto his chest, which banished himself as well. He woke up a few weeks later on a barge in the Mediterranean, barely conscious and very human. He called the Winchesters to try and get a ride, but instead wound up taking a bus in order help Sam and Dean stop Pestilence. When it came to the final battle, Castiel used a bottle of holy fire in order to banish Michael from the field so that Dean could try and get through to Sam. In retaliation, Lucifer blew him to pieces.
After the battle was done, God brought Castiel back again, this time with better abilities than he had before, for all intents and purposes promoting him to archangel. Castiel used his abilities to heal Dean and bring Bobby back to life, and then returned to Heaven, presumably to restore order to a garrison that was in chaos without Michael.
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