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tomurakii · 16 days ago
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Seeing Silco and Vander together in the AU lowkey feels like watching your based nonbinary best friend get back with their shitty ex boyfriend who misgenders them. Girl he's a centrist and he tried to drown you stfu about "forgiveness"
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shirtlesssammy · 2 years ago
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The Winchesters 1x04: Masters of War
Hannibal Park Hospital
St. Joseph, Missouri
Mysterious Anger Management Dude™ gets kicked out of Super Cool Meeting, only to end up dead in another, cooler meeting. Errgg. 
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“Fighting the battle between good and evil isn’t easy. Especially when the first monster you have to face is the one inside yourself”
Lawrence, Kansas
Mary and John work out some “frustrations” while sparring in the front yard. 
Carlos arrives and calls it what it is:  Hetero Mating Ritual. Also, he has a case. 
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John continues to murder Boris with his spot on Sam impression. 
Carlos was out with an old Navy buddy when he told him about a strange death at Hannibal Park Hospital. John does a modest spit take when he learns that Carlos is a veteran. The man, Thomas “Patches” Pasternak, a WWII vet,  was found dead in a locked room in the psych ward. Carlos’ buddy, Manny, saw scorch marks in the room and that’s raising some alarm bells for Lata and Carlos. Time to check out the hospital! 
Carlos heads off to gather costumes and John heads to the bathroom Maggie’s room to clean up. Mary is a little too fast to slam that door on him. She then runs off but still hears Lata explain to John whose room it was and that no one has been in it since she died. 
Paging Dr. Sexy Quincy M.D.
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Team Monster Club infiltrates the morgue to get a look at Patches. We learn that Carlos is as bad at Rock-Paper-Scissors as Dean is. (Parallels? What parallels??) They quickly assess the wounds and realize that they come from a blade. John finds Patches’ cross necklace (identical to Murph’s cross) and he flashes back to his friend’s last moment again. 
And in a bizarre (and inappropriate?) turn of events, Mrs. Pasternak shows up at the morgue(!) to collect her husband’s effects. John is still clutching the cross necklace, but when she asks about it he hands it to her and thanks her for her husband’s service. And then bolts. Mrs. Pasternak tells Mary about her husband’s anger issues and how he fought with a doctor the day he died. 
John ends up in the bathroom having an epic panic attack. I think for all our sanities’ sake we have to separate this John from who we knew in Supernatural. (Boris Rants: I know the press talk has been throwing around Walter White, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul references but we were never supposed to find sympathy with Walter White, and we always were supposed to find sympathy with Jimmy McGill. John doesn’t really fit either mold. I have great sympathy for this young man who is suffering from the trauma of war and losing friends. He is not yet who he becomes later. It’s heartbreaking to see how he doesn’t know how to cope with everything – and knowing 12 years later he suffers the loss of Mary completely breaks him. There is no excuse for how he treated Dean, how he treated both his sons, but as we watch this show unfold, I can’t help but ache for the potential lost. And let’s add the layers that Dean is telling this story and something happens because John DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT THE MONSTER WORLD in Supernatural.) 
John’s having a meltdown at the sink when he sees an armored dude with a spear behind him. He spins around and nothing is there!
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He violently pounds on the metal waste bin and that calms him down! Nothing like a little unhinged aggression to settle the mood!
When Mary asks if he’s ok, he’s already pushed the emotions ALL THE WAY DOWN. So, yeah, he’s peachy. Mary then surprises him with the brilliant and not at all problematic plan for Carlos and him to go undercover to the group meetings. 
*Men in Uniform Alert*
John gets all gussied up to head to the memorial for Patches and then to therapy. Carlos pulls up in his van. The music starts, the camera slows, and we get a full body pan up of him in his sailor uniform. John also appears to notice the spectacle. And the internet caught on fire? I’m not sure what the fuck is happening. Millie and John banter back and forth about how it’s all “Dad’s fault”. Remember how Dean is telling the story? The boys get signed up for the inpatient treatment. 
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Meanwhile, Lata and Mary start to process Maggie’s room and Maggie’s death. They’re also meeting a reporter that talked with Patches’ widow. He also happens to be the dude Mary saw Omega Man with the other week. She asks about why he talked with Mrs. Pasternak. He didn’t like the suicide label and thought there was more to the story. He also lets her know that this isn’t the first veteran death –they’ve been happening in psych units all over the country. 
At the therapy meeting, John meets Jimmy Mixon, and we hear Carlos’s story. He was arrested and had a choice: the slammer or service. He chose the service and got a ticket to Vietnam as a bonus. Carlos opens up easily, but leaves right after (to check out medical records) leaving John to talk about his time in Vietnam, and his survivor’s guilt. 
Meanwhile, Carlos digs through Doctor Z’s files and finds mentions of a horned, masked figure. 
John starts to break apart in the therapy session, hands shaking. Jimmy explodes and storms away. John follows him, only to have Jimmy disappear on him. He trails him to a closed room, through which Jimmy demands that someone mysterious identify themselves and then - BLOOD CANNON. John breaks into the room too late, and discovers Jimmy’s body. Scenes of John’s trauma splice together in his head. 
Over the phone, John and Carlos talk over the case details with Lata and Mary. The doctor may be absolved of directly murdering people, but he still knew about the masked visage.
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At the clubhouse, Lata and Mary need to research the monster. Lata inventoried the bunker’s library already, and has judged it somewhat useless for researching pre-christian mythic figures. Lata has another idea.
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At the hospital, John COMPLETELY loses his cool, storming into the doctor’s office and demanding that he tell him about the masked figure. Doctor Z tries to reassure John that there is no man in a horned mask. Carlos talks John down - just barely. John storms off, and Carlos drops a line about appreciating the therapy session before heading after John. 
John “Internalized Trauma” Winchester disses the therapy session, but Carlos leaves himself open and confesses that the therapy session was helpful for him. They decide to split up to try to find more information. 
Back at Mary’s house, Lata and Mary head into Maggie’s room to investigate her stash of ancient mythology - and to grieve. Mary finds a shoebox under the bed stuffed full of postcards written in Maggie’s hand. 
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The cards are full of hunting debriefs - two bad things and one good thing from each hunt helped Maggie to stay positive. Lata finds a book under the bed and thumbs through it quickly to find an illustration of a man with a horned mask. A Celtiberian deity, the masked entity Neto carries around a spear and a whole host of godly powers. This is the Scooby Gang’s first takedown of a god.
At the hospital, Carlos paces down the hallway when the hospital suddenly gets a lot more dramatic. Lights flash and the ghost of chopper and radio chatter fill in the silence. Carlos peers into a nearby hospital room window, and sees the red glow of cigarette butts winking back at him. In the next moment, he gets sucked into the room.
John looks for Carlos, and winds up the psychiatric unit door that sucked Carlos inside. He opens the door and suddenly finds himself in a thick, green jungle.
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Lata, Mary, and Millie speed towards the hospital.
For Beautiful Trees Science:
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They establish the lore on the god Neto, including his attachment to a vase - an item linked to his immortality. Lata speculates that smashing the vase will allow John and Carlos to kill Neto. Millie worries about John. “John’s been a fighter since he was four years old,” she begins, and I gnash my teeth extremely dramatically. John will ALSO run straight for an enemy. 
In the jungle, John calls for Carlos and then suddenly, shockingly finds him. Carlos has been trapped in the hallucinatory jungle as well, and can’t find his way out. He speculates that they have to face the monster in the jungle to escape. John takes this literally - they need to hunt the monster he saw. John storms off and Carlos tries to stop him only –
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Carlos steps on a land mine. In an echo of John’s traumatic memory, Carlos says, “John?” The masked god arrives, and pulls off his mask to reveal…Jimmy! He faked his own death and stoked a fire under John’s trauma to prepare him for the Akrida. (I did not see THAT coming.) Neto thinks that John could be turned into a powerful weapon against the invaders. Neto offers John a deal: he’ll spare Carlos if John will spar with him to first blood. Carlos can spot a terrible deal from a mile away, but John agrees. 
At the hospital, Millie confronts Doctor Z, pulling the worried parent card. 
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Millie then trots out the “I’ll tell the press about your hospital’s drama” card, and that works. While John fights Neto, Millie, Mary, and Lata zero in on Jimmy’s room to try to find the vase. Mary notices that the dresser has been moved. Above the dresser, there’s a misplaced ceiling tile. 
Meanwhile, Neto demands that John set free his anger, citing centuries of violence and rage in his family history. Things are looking poor for John until Neto lowers his spear to John’s arm and…heals him? John’s PHYSICAL war scars heal, as do the cuts he got in the fight. 
Mary finds Neto’s vase and hands it off to Lata, who nerds out on it for an inappropriately long period of time (for Millie, at least). Millie knocks the vase out of her hands, smashing it. 
Neto tries to get John to claim his helmet, but John keeps fighting as Neto falters when the vase breaks. He gains the upper hand, takes control of the spear, and jams it right through Neto. With a terribly satisfied smile on his face, John begins beating Neto into a pulp. “You’re ready for the war against the Akrida,” Neto decrees moments before dying. John, covered in blood, faces Carlos (who’s now free from the mine).
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The jungle fades around them until the only trace of the battle is the blood covering John from head to toe. Later, John and Carlos leave the hospital together but…separate. 
They debrief with the ladies. Carlos reports the mysterious tidbit that Neto “saw something in John” but gets sidetracked from more by Doctor Z. The doctor promises to do better to help veterans, and Mary connects him to her local boytoy reporter. He tells Carlos that he sees a lot of potential for growth and healing, and that resonates with Carlos. Mary invites Carlos to stay with her, in Maggie’s room. Mary’s ready to confront her grief. Lata and Mary try to warn Carlos about the Donny Osmond posters, but Carlos is ready for the cheese. “Sounds quite soothing.” 
Mary offers to drive John and Millie home. Before they leave, Carlos thanks John for the fight and offers to be a sounding board in the future. John slams an extra iron bar over his feelings in response. HE’S FINE.
We fall into a montage of our characters dealing with their trauma. Mary, packing away Maggie’s belongings. Carlos at therapy, with an empty chair for John sitting symbolically nearby. 
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Lata writes postcards with Mary. Millie and John— Wait. It’s just Millie hauling out takeout alone. She finds John suffering through a panic attack while crouched in the shower. She looks upon him lovingly, and embraces him as he cries.
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Quotes of War:
There is no logical world where paper beats rock
Watch the hair! Watch the hair!
I’ve been doing inventory on the clubhouse’s library and shocker, a bunch of old white men weren’t big on pre-christian lore and myths
Your scars are holding you back
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