Some cute J2 from Jared’s birthday video created by Misha’s friend Darius. Filmed right before JIBCon
Jensen checking on Jared during the JIB9 Orion concert. Jared had tears in his eyes from listening to Briana Buckmaster sing a song calledBetter Than That.
In 2015, Jared didn’t go to jib because he was having personal issues with depression. He and Jensen had been in England for the Asylum convention the week before but sometime the next week, he tweeted that he was in desperate need of his family and went to Texas rather than continuing on to Rome. He wrote about it in the Fangasm book Family Don’t End With Blood. It’s…I don’t want to rehash it because it was hard to read and I can’t even think about it without tearing up. But his chapter is heartbreaking and he clearly felt no one needed or wanted him around. That’s pretty much a direct quote from the book. Ever since then, it seems like JIB is hard on both of them. That’s why Jensen was super protective when Jared didn’t feel good Saturday. Here’s a couple of gifs from the end of Jib7 and Jib8. I think these reveal a lot about how it effects them.
Jared and Jensen acting out how Sam and Dean would react if they met AU!Castiel.
from the JIB9 panel that was supposed to be Jensen and Misha but became a J2M panel 5 minutes in.
Jared didn’t feel good on Saturday. He said it in the morning J2 panel.
Later, he mentioned not feeling great to several people in his photo ops. When they had autos, people saw him pull Jensen away and they held a private conversation that ended with Jared saying something like “No, I’ll be fine.” Right after that was Jared’s solo panel. Except it wasn’t a solo panel at all. Jensen left his autos and got Rich and Rob and they ALL went out with Jared.
And then this:
Which wasn’t even true really?
He then spent the entire beginning of the panel deflecting questions:
And providing a distraction for Jared who clearly didn’t feel great. He sang KISS acapella :
He blew bubbles at Jared:
Close up of that:
He said this after the first question got interrupted by all the joking around, which was interesting:
He cooled himself off with a fan:
And poured Jared water:
Which they both drank. Very sweet.
He played the guitar:
He flicked bubbles off of Jared:
And told him not to show off his butt:
Honestly? I think Jensen would have ridden a unicycle and juggled if it helped Jared.
And Jared clearly did need him there.
When Jensen acted like he was going to leave:
Jared reaches out to stop him.
Jensen stayed there until Daniela showed up and LITERALLY dragged him off stage to go back to autos:
I know JIB weekend is hard on both of them. It’s the anniversary of a very bad time. It just warms my heart that Jared felt sick and Jensen went into full protective mode, even making sure Rob and Rich would still be with him if and when Jensen had to go. As my friend described it, Jensen was all MAYDAY MAYDAY ALL HANDS ON DECK JARED NEEDS US the second he realized Jared was a little off.
I think this gif of the big screen behind them sums it up best. Jensen over Jared’s shoulder protectively having his back:
Btw when the fan said Jared was a lion, he got very excited and said he might have news about that in a few days. I have no idea what that means. Just throwing’ it out there.
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