So now that I’ve exploded Claire all over the internets (ok yes. two journals is not the whole of the internet. shoosh.) it’s time for some Novak Family Headcanon!
- Castiel doesn’t think to put any protections on Claire and Amelia until after he’s started his downward spiral into humanity/losing his powers
- He doesn’t expect them to truly be targets, so he doesn’t put the same level of protection on them as he does Sam and Dean (mostly so he can conserve his powers for the fight he’s found himself in.)
- Amelia buys (and in some cases steals) texts and grimoires and anything she can think of to to protect her daughter/hide them from demons and angels alike
- But Claire is the one who winds up doing all the research and conducting experiments and eventually cloaking them from everything ever
- even though Claire still wants to see Castiel and Jimmy more than anything in the world and prays to both of them every night.
And now for some Ben Braeden head canonish stuff:
- Erasing a year’s worth of memories is no easy task. And Castiel was honestly more focused on erasing Lisa’s memories than Ben’s.
- Castiel has that whole sinning thing going for him now, so we can totally call it jealousy.
- Anyways, the point of this is that Castiel’s messing around in Ben’s brain caused some problems ala Joyce Summers & The Dawn Thing.
- Except that Ben actually manages to survive the brain surgery thing.
- This doesn’t happen until he’s like… 21, though
- So he gets his teenage years of blissful normality.
- and then after the tumor is removed, it’s like. So yeah. Cas didn’t actually remove anything. Just like… shoved the memories into the same spot that early childhood memories go.
I dunno. I just like the idea of Ben having to have brain surgery, and shaving his head to show off the scar when he finally turns hunter. Then coming up with completely random stories as to how he got it. “Oh well I was fighting a Wendigo, right? And—”