#disabled benny is a whole word of untapped potential my brain is now going wrrrrrr

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

Your Disablednatural/HoH Dean headcannons are inspiring me to get back into my Disabled!Benny Lafitte truthing hours.

I’m someone that has undiagnosed chronic joint pain, and no matter what anyone says I’m convinced Benny is the same. Like, he grew up in an era where medicine wasn’t the best and there weren’t many resources for people like him, so over time he just learned to adapt and push through the pain. Fast forward to when he gets turned and things aren’t much different, because I have this thought that vampirism improves things like speed and sight for abled people (aka “improves things”) but because of the fact Benny had joint pain before he got turned it didn’t really make a difference. With his old nest he strives to become one of the top ranking members to prove to them that he wasn’t weak, that he could be just as good a hunter as any of them.

Fast forward to Purgatory where Benny meets Dean and they start becoming friends/ally’s. Dean notices Benny’s occasional winces or a limp every now and then and briefly wonders if Benny is like him (Dean is disabled in my AU too 💅🏽✨) but doesn’t have the courage to ask, until one night when they’re setting up camp and Benny makes a throw away comment about the fact the stiffness in his joints never seems to go away and Dean is just like “so it happens to you too?” and is just filled with relief because he thought maybe he was exaggerating his condition, that he was just weak. But here’s a vampire (who’re supposed to be super agile and speedy) who has the same conditions as he does and doesn’t try to hide it. They get even closer after that particular little bonding experience.

Benny goes to live with Dean in the Bunker, and because they have the same condition Dean lends Benny one of his old leg braces until he can get help him get his own, gives him creams that help the aching, etc.

This is mostly based off my own experiences, but I thought’d it be fun to share 🌸✨😁

OH I LOVE THIS ALL AND YOU'RE SO RIGHT

all your vampire & disability stuff is so thoughtful and interesting and i adore the idea that despite vampires being supposedly strong and fast, benny still has joint pain and it directly effects how he behaves around the other vampires and how he feels he has to prove himself. like godddd that hits. and dean and benny finding solidarity together in their disabilities!!!!!!! they're both such fundamentally lonely characters and while i think it's cool that disabled headcanons provide a chance to explore this further in terms of isolation it's actually all about the disabled found family when you think about it. i think because dean helps out benny with braces and creams, benny in turn also really encourages dean to get hearing aids. and then they both get mobility aids and they're disabled besties like THAT is the deanbenny content we deserve!!!