#dean jr is a bit like alt john missing the absent parent and so so rebellious and foolish like sam

[shallowseeker]

Eileen: "Sam. I can't...do this. I'm not...built for this."

Look, I don't care what ANYONE says. Sam’s son Dean (Spencer Borgeson) looks a STUPID LOT like Eileen Leahy (Shosannah Stern), and no writers or actors are ever going to change my mind that it wasn't cast that way on purpose.

Like, seriously, did they use magic copy-pasta to remake her scrunchy smile and uberdark doe-eyes?!

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So, what happened? I'll tell ya what happened. Sam kept hunting for a little while, but he and Eileen had an unplanned pregnancy and she and Sam got out...for a little while. Until Eileen had a lone-wolf-hunter freakout and left. Sam's the one who stayed. And it was easier to let Dean think she was dead.

Dean drives the little red muscle car (THE red 1971 Plymouth Valiant) she left behind, "to feel closer to her."

So, you see... Sam becomes Ellen, Dean Jr. becomes Jo.

Except Bill (Eileen) is fucking alive, and Dean Jr. swears he'll never speak to Sam again when he finds out.

"Because you hid all this from me, dad! You didn't give me my own choice!"

There's all these people that know Dean's name and know so many details about his life (a Jody Mills, a Donna Hanscum, etc etc.), but he doesn't know them, and he feels lied to.

His grandparents were killed in a plane crash, or so he thought, and Dad said uncle Dean died in a construction accident (something about rebar).

They all look so normal in their family photos that Dean soon learns Sam has carefully doctored to "sell" the lie even more convincingly.

Dean Jr. doesn't know hunting or angels or about Castiel or Jack.

Sam doesn't want him to throw it all away, because what about college?! Sam would have killed to finish college! He's trying to protect him. It's not manipulation. It's love.

But Dean starts hunting with Eileen.

He starts using “Leahy” and his middle name (Mason?) instead.

And Sam's dying inside over it.

He is. He goes out to the garage, slips into the impala's front seat, and he sobs.

(Actually, I totally dig this. I'd watch it.)