#hellers dean is uprootly detached from sam and virtuous with no wrong

[shadystranger]

I've noticed there's a significant difference in how Dean is portrayed between the Wincest and Destiel fandoms.

In the Destiel fandom, Dean is seen as a righteous, tragic figure who loves humanity deeply but has never truly been himself. Every waking moment he suppresses his true nature and hides from god-knows-what through pretending to be someone else thus the finer specfic details like the water he drinks tells you much more than his flagrant acts. He's a scapegoat who goes unnoticed and unappreciated.

On the other hand, the Wincest fandom views Dean as a deeply flawed character who strives to be good but fails miserably. He is a doomed man, both a victim of his circumstances and a perpetrator. He is a good man, too good when it matters or counts but not too much. A person that your evaluation of them exceptionally changes depending on how you look at him and from whose eyes it is that you're seeing him.

With Dean being someone who intentionally fundamentally alters and changes his attitude, the extent of his compassion, tolerance, the intensity of his criticism, disapproval, the lengths of his love, and devotion based on who you are and what you are to him. He is a man full of sin, but his extreme devotion and consecration for his brother are his greatest virtue. Dean is true to himself, and that self is repulsive. He resents the weight-of-the-world he carries, does not want to be a savior or hero but a no-man who does good in the shadows and protects his loved ones. He's a disbeliever. He is selfish and hedonistic, and his circle of loved ones is incessantly enclosing on itself and othering. Family doesn't end with blood expect it does and there's a hierarchical order of importance he ranks people in with Sam being on the further top with a gap between him and everyone else that's trailing below. Dean is judgmental and unsympathetic. Yet observant, and caring, capable of both deep kindness and causing great hurt.

His love, devotion, and empathy are conditional; he will disregard all your good deeds for a bad. He won't extend a hand unless you align with his views. He sorts people in categorizes, chooses, and picks apart and discriminates. The love he has is oh-so terribly selective. A hypocrite to the extreme. All in all, the antichrist to Hellers' Dean, who is portrayed as ultimately faultless and noble. Wincesties' Dean is rotten, an anti-hero who commits many wrongs but is layered, complex, and human. His brother, the sole force that pushes him to become the antithesis of everything he stands for or upholds.