He was named after his mother’s Russian ex-boyfriend [x] [x].
He grew up with a single mother who was on welfare. [x]
When he was a kid, there were times they couldn’t celebrate Christmas were it not for a neighbor giving his mother money to buy him and his brother christmas presents. There were also times when they were homeless, and people helped them. Those little acts of kindness had a profound impact on Misha as kid, and he still remembers them today. Those acts of kindness are also the reason why he decided to start his charity « RANDOM ACTS ». [x]
He married his high school sweetheart.
He built his wife a house.
They made each other personalized rings.
They have 2 kids, West Anaximander and Maison Marie.
He has a BA in Social Theory.
He used to play the saxophone when he was younger, but he lost his stuff when their house burned down, and then he wasn’t able to get another one. [x]
A 300 years old maple tree fell in his mother’s yard so he made a bed out of it for his girlfriend.
He once got arrested because he went to read a book on top of a bank because he needed better lighting.
He likes green tea and kale.
He has (or probably had) two turtles.
He wore a turtle costume to his first Halloween party. It was a negative experience for him because it was handmade and done in a way he had to crawl on all four in order to move.
He smells like watermelons and cinnamon (according to people who met him)
He has spent several months in seclusion in monasteries in Tibet.
He is a certified lifeguard, EMT, and motorcyclist.
He has slept in an igloo.
He kayaks, snowboards, bicycle tours, and runs.
After a devastating forest fire in Los Angeles that killed an innocent tree, Misha and a band of visionary renegades gave it the Christian burial it deserves by planting it illegally in Hollywood.
He interned at the White House during Clinton Administration.
He made jokes on his FBI background check.
He stole security badges from the White House and made a mobile out of them.
He does a lot for charity and uses his influence to encourage his ‘minions’ to contribute.
He went to Haiti every summer for 3 years, to help build an orphanage.
He dressed in drag to renew his wedding vows. In a supermarket. With a bouquet made of vegetables.
He organized a tea party in the middle of a highway with his (amazing) friends. The cops stopped by and had tea with them.
He does Tibetan throat singing.
During a fitness test in high school, he was very proud to find out he was the most flexible boy of all boys who had ever participated in the this test. He later found out that his flexibility is due to a birth defect in his spine. After a bike accident, an MRI showed hat stretching too much could leave him paralyzed. [x]
When he was a kid, he forced himself to eat dirt because he believe it would improve his immune system.
He posted a picture of himself naked on a horse via twitter.
He dressed in drag at a high school party, he was so pretty his classmates didn’t recognize him and hit on him. His girlfriend (now wife) was not pleased. [x]
Once, he was alone at a restaurant with his son. The owner brought him flowers and wished him a happy mother’s day. And this time, he was not in drag.
He is a Guinness World Record holder.
He created the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (G.IS.H.W.H.E.S), and his minions from all over the world participated in it. We made the news for making Christmas trees fly.
He made hundreds of young women wear dresses only made of bacon. He made a calendar out of it.
He drove a motorcycle all dressed in cheese only. [x]
“I know. You’re hoping Castiel will return to you.
Seriously tho, this is the best evidence to me of Dean’s feelings. I cannot fathom how this could be interpreted as platonic, Naomi’s words are unequivocally romantic.
Cas, returning from the Bunker after some wacky adventure to find Gabriel alive and Dean and Ketch in the other world:
Somebody with photoshop skills, photoshop pizza and some flames on this gif
as you wish
Perfection.
At first i thought Cas interrupted Sam while he was cooking a romantic meal for Gabriel and Sam walked out of the kitchen holding the pot lid somehow, BUT upon closer inspection (^^^^) this is clearly a serving plate with a keep warm lid. Sam IS making homecooked meals for Gabe to help nurse him back to health (No candy, Gabe!) and I never shipped Sabriel but I am amused.
You know why this was so great though? Dean just did not give a shit. And now, because he did not give a shit, we have verbal confirmation, from Dean’s own mouth, that he wants to be wrapped in hugs.
DEAN WINCHESTER WANTS TO BE WRAPPED IN HUGS.
I will never, ever be over this. Do you remember this great scene, in 13.03?
After this happened, I joked about Dean being a hug monster (but, actually, I wasn’t joking because I knew that’s what Dean actually wanted, to be wrapped in hugs–i’ve said all along that boy is touch starved). And now? Yeah, that’s actually now been canonically confirmed. Dean is a hug monster. He just wants all the hugs.
*Coughs at Andrew Dabb deep into Dean’s psyche 5×16*
I finally watched 13×17 and what the HECK, the resurgence of S8/S12 romance tropes (alongside Davy’s Kurt Russell & The Thing homage in the ep itself), parallels, Destiel exposition and role subversions has me going—
BLESS PEREZ!!
I mean, Dean focused on the mission to get Mary and Jack back just like Cas in 13×14, which was a heavily thematic episode that touched upon MISCOMMUNICATION, HEART vs HARD CHOICES, and the constant vacillation between what one WANTS to do/say versus what one NEEDS to do/say. Tonight’s episode pretty much laid it on thick again.
Dean was mirroring Cas’ choices. Largely reminiscent of and intentionally emulating Cas’ absence from 12×15–12×19, he was consumed with the decision to go off on his own and do the wrong thing for the right reasons: for both HIMSELF, CAS, and Sam.
He didn’t notify Cas of his reckless plan (I say ‘reckless’ in that Ketch can choose to double cross him anytime. He can die in Apocalypse World. TIME MAY RUN OUT. The chances of survival aren’t high).
Dean refused to put Sam in danger. He verbalized WHY. As @thetwistedwillow pointed out, Dean’s TEXTUALLY telling Sam what he’s not telling Cas —> he’s doing this to prevent the people he loves from doing it themselves, even though they ‘don’t need babysitting’. It’s not a matter of babysitting, but of loyalty and devotion. Dean has FAITH. He wants, not needs, to do it.
Dean explicitly stated he doesn’t care about Ketch dying as long as Sam (and Cas, in the ep’s negative spaces) don’t die. Sound familiar???
At the same time Dean’s actions boil down to one person—the person behind the purpose: Cas.
Dean’s doing this to protect him.
There’s the characteristic reversal. Dean and Cas have been each other’s direct parallels like we’ve observed this season with “I have faith” and “I needa win”. I’m choking on the storytelling brilliance of this ep; I can almost FEEL an impending textualization of sorts on my taste buds *YELLS* The unsaid FINALLY being said, but I digress a bit—
Let’s be real, here. Dean ain’t letting Cas walk near nor touch a rift with a ten foot pole ‘cause God knows how broken, hollow, and hopelessly depressed he was post-12×23.
On that note, there were two instances: 1. when Sandy stabbed the cloaked cultist through the chest from behind, and 2. when Sandy was dragged through the rift.
Look at his stricken expression in each case.
Dean’s not over it. He will never be over it.
The love of his life getting stabbed in the chest—dying right before his eyes—is seared within his brain. It’s traumatizing. We know it’s the stuff of Dean’s bottomless nightmares.
Never again would Dean want to suffer the nihilistic soul-crushing grief he’s experienced from 13×01–05.
Losing Cas (at least where interdimensional rifts are concerned) was the Rock Bottom of Rock Bottoms for Dean—so unbearably tragic that he called it a Hallmark movie.
(Listen, Dean absolutely fucking knows him and Cas hit nearly every goddamn romance trope in the books. He LOVES books. He ACKNOWLEDGES and RECOGNIZES subtext. He ADORES romcoms)
Yep, a canon romantic couple once again narratively paralleled to Dean and Cas.
It’s currently Cas’ turn to occupy the position of Worried and Stressed BF that S12 Dean did. And once Dean returns and/or they reunite? *cue similar narrative notes of “Where the hell have you been?” “You can’t just go dark like that.” “I was worried. That’s not okay”*
There’s a LOT to unpack and I hope I can elaborate on additional things I forgot to mention later, but right now Destiel and the HIGH POTENTIAL these two possess in emerging out of subtext into text has me flailing. We’re so close!! 😉
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