I Have Literally Been Thinking About This (because I Got Stuck In A Cycle Of Watching Supernatural Amvs)

I have literally been thinking about this (because I got stuck in a cycle of watching supernatural amvs) but like in the first few seasons of supernatural Misha Collins managed to nail his mannerisms so much that Castiel did legitimately feel strange.

I don’t know how to explain it but he legitimately look like nothing we had ever seen before.

He felt strange ,otherworldly like he wasn’t quite put together right and it just added to the unnatural ness of angels. The feeling like there was nothing quite like them.

Like I don’t know what exactly he was doing to his face to make it that way (maybe it’s just the inherent unnatural ness of such vivid blue eyes) but it’s not exactly that he lacked expressions and more that the expressions were done wrong like they were cobbled together by someone that was barely paying attention. It’s so cool honestly and just stands to show how good of an actor Misha is.

Because it’s something that no other spn angel ever really managed to match (even when they were aloof like castiel they felt more like Jack who was just learning everything for the first time instead of the inherent weirdness of Cas) and the writers just kind of abandoned that along the way and just started writing the angels like humans honestly. But it was exciting to see.

The only other angels I felt exuded the unnaturalneas like castiel were;

Matt Cohen’s Michael who just exuded unnatural levels of power. Like look at that expression those are the expressions I would expect someone second only to God to make.

And

This Raphael which just gives “I’m playing a game you couldn’t even hope to understand.”

Like these exude primordial being that I just didn’t get from the other Angels. The inherent strangeness of being an angel but looking uncannily human.

Modern Mishanks

Something I love, and this is by no means a new or unpopular observation, is that Nanami really is a parental figure to Yuuji more so than he was a teacher or mentor. And not to say that Yuuji didn’t learn anything by working with Nanami or that Nanami is a bad teacher his work with Ino obviously disagrees with that. But it’s more so that he recognized that Yuuji didn’t need a teacher in that time he needed someone to reassure him that his being alive isn’t a bad thing, to reinforce that he is someone worth protecting, that he is a child and it doesn’t matter how strong he is or the destiny set out for him he is a child and in these moments they have together Nanami will do his very best to keep him safe.

During their time together Yuuji doesn’t learn any new techniques or learn how to get rid of divergent fist or even better control his cursed energy. What he does learn is that after 2 of the most devastating moments in his life there was someone he could turn too someone who showed him comfort, an adult that taught he being treated like a child does not mean you are stupid or weak. Nanami tells him straight up “it is not a crime to be a child” and that’s not something you hear a lot from these genre of shows were you have kids fighting all the wars. To me this is only matched by Reigen’s speech to mob that he’s not responsible for the adults around him and it’s okay to run.

Yuuji might not have improved his fighting style in those months with Nanami, he may have not technically advanced as a jujutsu sorcerer but he was quietly reassured of his worth as a person independent of his worth as a sorcerer. Yuuji wants to honor his grandfather and that takes the shape of wanting to save everyone and Nanami simply tells him that he should be part of that everyone too. That he is worthy of being saved, of being protected. And you can tell when Yuuji rejoins the others there’s a marked difference to how he approaches curses and transfigured humans and people he couldn’t save.

Nanami took this unmoored child, who just came back from the dead and is being hidden away from all his friends to avoid being killed again and decided he didn’t need a teacher, or a sorcerer. He needed a parent and he tried to offer that comfort as best he could. And maybe it wasn’t perfect but he tried.

Made a chart about my three favorite families. Hope this helps. 

At last, the culling game can finally start

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Nobara, Yuuji and Megumi all, I feel, represent three different ends of the morally good spectrum and I just think that is so intriguing . Like Yuuji is a bleeding heart, Megumi is a tsundere and Nobara is dangerously close to apathetic. I could write essays about their moral inclinations and how fascinating they are. Especially Nobara who, and this may be an unpopular opinion and some of y’all are not ready to hear, of the trio is the most like Gojo. Come on they are practically the same person especially when he was younger. And in this essay I will-