#for me it literally only inspired me to write a more realistic faith fic shjdhsjdh

[fivefeetfangirl]

Why faith!dean is fake 😔

Me (and probably all of you) before: yeah the water and electricity, that makes sense.

Well- apparently it doesn't! Thanks to @opheliathegreekgoddess for explaining hjsdhsd sorry for taking so long to get it

So quick recap: Dean is sitting in the water, the monster stands in the water and Dean electrocutes it with some sort of taser/stun gun. The electricity goes through the monster, into the water, and then into Dean (and his heart it seems, according to the doctor in the next scene).

Most of us know electricity through water is dangerous, which it is, but it doesn't make sense here.

The short answer to why it wouldn't work: a taser gun usually has two "outputs". Like a battery, a plus side and a minus side (see picture). So the electric current goes from one of the outputs, into the body (here, the monster's) and then back into the other output.

So like, you're not supposed to be able to get electrocuted by a taser. A taser with only one output sounds kinda illegal, I doubt it would be easy to find one. (No, I don't think Dean would be able to make one, sorry).

BUT if he did indeed have a taser with only one output! He would still not get electrocuted...

So, for those of you who don't know, electricity loooveeess the ground. That's literally the place it wanna be, give it the quickest way to the ground and you'll bet it will take that road.

When Dean electrocutes the monster (with the imaginary taser lol) the electricity goes from the gun, to the monster's chest and then travels down the monster's body into the ground. The electricity literally has no business going back up from the ground/water all the way up to Dean's heart.

There is no way the electricity would take that road cause it's the slowest one!! He might not even get a bit of shock cause there's no need for the electricity to travel in the water when the monster is standing on the ground.

There could've been lots of other fun ways to electrocute Dean tho, maybe Sam did it (👀), maybe Dean could've been touching the monster, lying underneath him so the current would have to go through Dean to get to the ground, etc etc.