#i think sam is not dying because it's a djinn case that dean II is on and it's my daydream and my blog so

[shallowseeker]

Sam was specifically shown to be a wonderful father to Dean Jr. He took him to the park, played baseball with him, and helped him with his homework.

And yet when Sam is "dying," Dean II is shown to have an anti-possession tattoo. The fact that it's on his forearm is both a call-back to the Mark of Cain and a suggestion that Dean II got into hunting through a connection that is not Sam. (It's not in the classic Winchester position.)

That Sam is trying so hard to be a "normal, good father" is what makes it so delicious when he fails. I'm not saying that Sam is a bad person for it. I'm just saying that his tendency to "checklist" his emotional life and dissociate from his darkness to the point of hiding the truth, as he did with Jessica Moore, could be a recipe for disaster, SPN-style. :-)

Dean II in effect becomes an ironic inversion of Sam, while embodying the same complicated emotional interiority n' base personality. If Sam pushes Dean II into "normal," or worse, pressures him into "high achieving success," Dean II's Sam-coded rebellion is to get into hunting.

(And he, like Sam, becomes driven, mean, and overconfident about it.)

And hey, it's my daydream. You don't have to like it.