#Sam And Dean Winchester Are Not Human Beings

[mediamime]

if you met Dean, Cas, & Sam (or anyone from SPN I guess?) what would you say/do? You get 24 hrs in their universe—or less if you fear for your life! 😅🐸😊

I've truly never thought of myself in a "what if I was in-universe" kind of way, it's just not my style of media consumption, but it's a very interesting question!

HMMM. Assuming I can somehow get around to the characters I want to talk to and I could talk to them in the different eras of the show (let's say I can skip around in time, but I still have the cumulative 24 hour limit) AND that they would put up with me given by all rights I'm just a rando:

(putting the lil break here because I wrote TOO much and idk, spoilers for random stuff in the show?)

Later Era: I'd start by hanging out with Sam. I'd ask him to show me his favorite books in the Bunker's library, give me a tour of the things he finds neat in the storerooms. I'd just drink coffee and sit with him while pouring over the weird occult books and shit. I'd leave him be when he wants to go on his morning jog because I'm not going to drag him down to my snail pace.

Early Era (post Dean in Hell): I'd go get breakfast with Dean at his favorite diner. I'd talk to him about Star Trek and listen to him talk about fun cases he'd worked before the world went to shit. Somehow, someway, I'd mention that being Bisexual is Fine Actually and hmm the Angel seems to Really Really like you and he's handsome and- you know. I'd pay for the food so he doesn't have to worry about money and get him a whole Apple Pie to take back to the motel for later. Afterwards I'd ask him to show me all the shit in the trunk of the Impala and what all the little charms and things do. Lemme shoot the salt shotgun, please.

Later Era: I'd spend midday talking to Castiel about how he sees the world. I want to know how his perspective has changed over the years, especially after becoming human for a bit and then back to Angel. I'd want to know as much as I could about How Things Work. Cas, please explain Quantum Physics. Then I'd have him take me to his favorite place on Earth and just sit quietly next to him looking out at it all for a few hours. (I Know your favorite place on Earth is next to Dean you foolish angel, I meant to take me to your favorite location.) We can get a slurpee at the Gas n Sip before I head out.

Early Era: I'd go hang out in Bobby's house late afternoon and just let him grumble at me about whatever. I'd spend a few hours following him around and nodding while, in his own gruff way, he gushes about his idiot sons. (Yes, shots fired at John Winchester.) I'd like to have a beer with him while he begrudgingly lets me poke around the house looking at old photos. I'd leave him be when it starts to get dark.

Any Era: If I can wrap up the night by being involved in some kind of case, that would be sick. I'd love going to a graveyard and digging up a body to salt and burn it. I promise I'm not that deranged IRL, but if I'm in the universe and malevolent spirits are real, I'd have no problem helping to deal with it. (Cemeteries/the deceased don't bother me much. Fun fact, I've considered becoming a mortician. Still may go back to school for it one day!) I'd say I want to be on a case that involves Crowley in some way, just because I want to listen to him talk, but he'd probably scare the shit out of me if I actually had to interact with him lmfao.

When my time is up I'd like to poof out of existence in an eerie way that unsettles the boys. Give them something they have to research later about whether I was a ghost or a time traveler or some kind of cryptid.

Anyway, I wrote way more about this than I planned but! I liked this question. Thank you for it 💚 🐸

[lonieene]

Kinda like to think that Crowley, Castiel, Sam and Dean became codependent on each other at some point in the series, not in the sense of "oh we already make out" no!

in the sense that, Castel will be in heaven dealing with a war or something, Crowley will be in hell dealing with being king, and Sam and Desn will be in the middle of a hunt and suddenly they're all like "I need to see them again or I'm going to explode"

in the sense that, they have been through so much together that they simply NEED to meet at some point even without a specific reason, and this is about all 4, if they don't see each other at least once in 1 week they go crazy

Castiel and Crowley are literally pacing back and forth waiting for one of the Winchesters to call them to some crazy plan that will probably end badly

And Sam and Dean are looking for crazy cases just to have an excuse to call them

It's not a question of friendship, damn, they are 2 humans who have already revived more than 10 times, an angel and a demon, they should NOT be friends, but something makes a whole day without the daily madness of their encounters unbearable

It doesn't matter that the only reason they have to meet is because the world is ending, that the world ends, they need to see each other

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

...I always interpreted this as Cas seeing, and falling in love with, Dean's demon form first. So

1- Cas has known What Dean Is(tm) the whole time and has never not loved ALL of Dean's weird, demihuman/monstrous, "what if I punched God in the face", undefinable riftwalker hot boyMILF ass.

2- Cas raising Dean from Hell was (at least to start) less the dramatic bridal carry we all envision and more like someone trying to rescue a very angry stray cat that does not know its being rescued so it has to be wrapped in a towel until it stops trying to claw its rescuer's face off.

i think a lot of people don’t realise that cas pulling dean out of hell in lazarus rising wasn’t cas pulling dean off the rack, it was cas pulling dean AWAY FROM the rack, away from the people he was torturing

the first time cas touched dean he saw the pain dean was inflicting on other people, saw the way he enjoyed it, and it didn’t change how pure dean was to him, it didn’t make him any less good

[ghostcreaturetypething]

Every time the boys call their dad ‘Sir’ I want to fucking scream

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

1.01, "Pilot" | Stephen Adly Guirgis, "The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot" " | 5.22, "Swan Song"

[hbo--spn]

what they did to castiel will forever piss me off

cas (with help ik) SAVED DEAN FROM HELL, and (part) of sam, FROM HELL. and he flounders for 6 weeks trying to save the boys from.... the american government???? ok??

[beebox-illustrations]

Sammy and Dean having breakfast for dinner, waiting for John to return.

Somehow the thought of how little Sam must have eventually stopped asking when their dad‘s gonna return makes me really emotional 🥲

Had a busy weekend so here we are with a belated post! Have a fantastic week✨🌻

[shadystranger]

What was up with cass fighting for his life to stop dean from rescusing sam (not to mention his almost enthusiastic jumping to move past sam's death) He did NOT have that energy when the roles were reversed

like summin smell fishy and it aint just cass's pussy

[s0fter-sin]

sometimes i think about how much of a waste it was to just have cas ignoring sam’s prayers in s6 instead of him actually not being able to hear him bc he was soulless and his prayers didn’t work

[harbingerofsoup]

“dean’s problematic” “no sam’s problematic” “cas is a bad character”

guys, we can’t judge them by the usual standards of morality applied to characters. the writers were all fighting each other over consistency and the network was meddling so their actions episode to episode don’t mean as much for their characters as their essence does or like the core of the characters

[ghostcreaturetypething]

“I always tried to protect you. Keep you safe. Dad didn’t even have to tell me. It was just always my responsibility you know? It’s like I had one job. I had one job…and I screwed it up. I blew it, and for that I am sorry. I guess that's what I do, I let down the people I love. I let dad down. And now, I guess I'm supposed to let you down, too. How can I? How am I supposed to live with that? What am I supposed to do, Sammy? What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do???”

[soullessjack]

i think perhaps another layer of autism in jacks character is that he’s fine with being different, but is always upset to be treated or perceived differently.

[batcavescolony]

S4 E10 Supernatural

Anna was an Angel, also Only 4 Angels have seen God. Ruby got tortured by Alastor, that's sucks. Uriel saying Castiel has a weakness and it's that he likes Dean. Dean and Anna...seem to get along. Ok OK OK and on to the heartbreaking stuff. Dean told Sam about hell, and how it's wasn't months for him it was 40years and he was given a choice to get tortured or torture others. Dean wishes he couldn't feel anything cus he cracked after 30years and he was good at it. Uggh 💔

[angelic-omega]

Depression will have you watching supernatural all the way through NOT once…not twice but THREE FULL TIMES

If you use supernatural as a means of escapism please seek therapy

[colorlessjay]

Once again back on my bullshit because fuck am I having too much fun doodling these two

@mint80s you have altered my brain chemistry with this

imagine Cas, after spending so much time with the Winchesters, basically smells like them now

So after his first fall as a human (normal animal?) and his homeless arc, the scent is gone and it just bothers Dean so much that he just HAS to fix it

"You don't get it, Sam. He's prey now! Gotta make sure monsters know he's one of us so they don't fuck with him!" Dean says as he basically rubs his entire fur onto Cas who has accepted his fate and has rag-dolled

Sam, having only left the room for two minutes to grab a scented shirt Cas could wear like a normal person "... Yeah man, whatever you say"

Sam comes back later to check on them, only to leave again when Dean starts licking and grooming Cas

Sam says it's unnecessary

Dean counters that he's just being thorough

Cas can't escape even if he wants to

[shanastoryteller]

i know supernatural is the show of missed opportunities but man. the trials really get to me - what a perfect way to reboot and reset this show that you're artificially extending for ratings. it could have been really, really good, actually

so the trials of god is a way for someone to gain the ability to seal the gates of hell and the gates of heaven

they have the translation for hell, they know that slamming the gates of hell shut means calling all the demons back home and locking the key. it's logical, then, to for them to believe the same is true of the one for heaven - that it calls all the angels back home and locks them away where they can't do any more damage

peace, for the people of earth, outside of the influence of angels and demons. that's got to be worth it, right?

so while sam is completing the hell trials, they get the angel tablet, kevin gets translating, to figure out the angel trials. or maybe metatron helps nudge them along to figuring it out, since him being the big bad here isn't really relevant and they are in a bit of time crunch

canon doesn't tell us what the heaven trials are, except that the first one involves a ritual using the heart of a nephilim. they make it sound like they're carving it from their chest, but what i would do is

have a nephilim offer you their heart from their chest (gain their loyalty in a binding ceremony)

create grace from freshwater (there is no rain that falls anywhere on earth that is safe to drink and god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters)

find a human soul to guide you to heaven (babel fell but the stairway was built and those with wings have no need of stairs)

so sam is in the midst of the hell trials when dean sort of accidentally on purpose completes the first heaven trial and then the brothers are on parallel train tracks heading in the opposite direction

sam works to close the gates of hell

dean works to close the gates of heaven

demons and angels both working to stop them

sam completes the trials. he restores crowley's humanity and he dies and the gates of hell are closed

but that's not the end

metatron says they can close the gates if they're willing to pay the price. canon says the price is sam's death, but frankly that doesn't make any sense. what's the death of one human against the horrors of hell? and remember, metatron doesn't know the winchesters. maybe another angel would make this comment, knowing how the winchesters have weighed the safety of the world against their brother and left the world out to dry, would think this a price worth warning for. but metatron wouldn't bother, wouldn't even think of it, if that was the only price

the gates of hell close and malevolent spirits explode across the globe, evil spirits and angry ghosts causing death and destruction everywhere

hell serves a function and now the gates are closed and every evil human soul is forced to stay on earth, causing as much destruction as it can

that's the price for closing the gates of hell

except. except. aren't the hell trials interesting?

kill a hellhound. rescue an innocent soul and return it to heaven. purify a demon and restore their humanity.

the trials are not to prove if someone is worthy of closing the gates of hell. it's to prove they're capable of setting hell to rights

the trials are if things got too out of hand, if things were taken too far, and hell had to be put back in it's place. sam dies and ends up exactly where azazel wanted him - ruler of hell. all the demons and souls are trapped with him and what he has to do, while he has them all there, while they can't escape, is exactly what he did to get there

he kills the hellhounds, leaving only those meant to patrol hell. he releases every innocent soul bound there. he purifies the demons one by one, who he either releases as innocent souls or who to pledge to do their job as demons of hell - punishing evil, containing evil - in penance for what they did before (how do i even begin to make up for what i've done, crowley had asked, and this is the answer)

meanwhile, dean, heartbroken, completes the heaven trials and dies

and the gates of heaven slam shut and all the angels are stripped of their grace and expelled from heaven and dean finds himself in charge of an empty heaven

the trials are for when things have gone too far and heaven must be rebuilt, after all

good souls pile up, no one who dies able to truly leave earth, and given enough time they become twisted things that must be hunted along with the spirits of evil men and women who cause chaos from their last breath

dean has work to do. he has one angel - the nephilim whose loyalty he earned in the first trial - and this is what he has to do. he recruits more, to replace the ranks, he creates grace and hands it out judiciously. he sends them to guide the good souls home, using the stairway that the former angels wouldn't be able to use even if they wanted to, and each good act and deed earns them a little more grace. former angels throw themselves into the fight for humans, because they know it's the only way that dean will return their grace to them and lift them back into heaven

and in fighting for them, in living like them, they learn to love these creations of their father that they'd despised. they see what he saw and the thought of destroying this place in a civil war becomes unthinkable to them. they are once more the angels god intended them to be

in this, dean and sam fulfill their destiny as lucifer and michael's vessels. not in letting them in, but in pushing them out, in doing the work each was intended for but refused

only when there is only evil human souls being punished and caged, only once the demons are once more working to run hell and earn their release to heaven, does sam reopen the gates of hell

only when there's a full choir of angels once more, committed to their cause, only once there are souls working with reapers as it once always was, does dean reopen the gates of heaven

they're called the god trials for a reason. above and below, sam and dean act as god, putting things back in their intended places

they could stay. they should stay. keeping house, making sure it all goes smoothly, eternally keeping earth safe from angels and demons both

they're called the god trials for a reason. not even god could resist the paradise inbetween that he'd created

dean doesn't know if sam is going to return to earth. he might stay in hell, and if dean becomes human once more, then what's the point? he'll live and die a human, get stuck in heaven, and be forever separated from the brother he loves

sam doesn't know if dean is going to return to earth. he migh not be able to, might be stuck doing his work - sam assumes if the hell trials did this to him, then the heaven trials did the same to dean, and the idea that dean could have failed the heaven trials after he dies doesn't even cross mind. if he returns and dean's not there then he loses it all, he never again gets to see the brother he loves

but when, exactly, haven't they been willing to risk everything for each other?

dean falls as lucifer fell, throwing himself towards earth

sam rises as michael did after the fall, pulling himself towards earth the same way michael once pulled himself to the top of heaven

what's the use of being a god without his brother, after all?

dean and sam are reunited on earth, human once more

no more angels, no more demons, heaven and hell functioning once more as they should. we're back to basics, a clean slate, all of the rest remade and set aside by their own hands (it's literal and a metaphor, the way the show could have remade itself with the trials, after setting aside kripke's plan while at the same time recognizing that the design of it - two brothers who love each other going across america and fighting evil - is the thing that made it worth watching to begin with) and now it's them again, brothers forged in blood and sacrifice and love, and a new appreciation for the humanity they gave up and returned to

and then we get my beloved monster of the week with no stupid too high stakes, convoluted bullshit involved, beyond the occasional angel who dean refused to reinstate and demon tracking down miscreant souls and, every once in a while, a person or creature or something in between squinting at them and going - weren't you two gods?

nah, they say, all corn fed grins and the dimples their momma gave them, we're brothers