#spn amara

[spn-rewatch-ventzone]

This show is all Dean has a weird romantic bond with Amara. AND YET every five minutes Dean is talking about how much he misses and worries about Cas

[ch3ck-mat4]

Uh. Just some practice sketches, so I drew Amara and Dean.

Ignore Dean's shoes. I was experimenting with my art style.

[omgitskaii]

spn s11

“just give in.” close up on the titties.

im so confused is he longing for the mark or for the tig ol bitties????????!?!?!?!! what da faq. i rlly dont see it.

[dna2023]

Bumper cars

ps. No life gets hurt.

[roublardise]

they're so distinguished lesbian // disaster bisexual siblings

[gayangelcrimes]

Hi everyone.

(you can pick which version of Death)

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

It's interesting how the perception of some characters, especially in the show itself, comes only from how forgiving Dean is.

Dean hates Alastair and Apocalypse World!Michael because of what they did to him, but especially because they used him to hurt other people, and they're written as unredeemable.

On the other hand, you have Crowley and Amara. They never used Dean to directly hurt other people, so he brushes off what they did (leading him to the Mark, turning him into a demon, having that "connection") and they're textually treated as greyish characters, redeemable.

If the Crowley and Amara things happened to someone else (let's say Sam) I bet it wouldn't have been treated that way by the text. The trauma of bearing the Mark, been turned into a demon, having that unwanted connection, would have lasted more than a couple of episodes. It'd have been used for far more than "I can't go down that road again, man. I can’t be that thing again." (spn 10x09) and "The real Amara does have a hold on me (…) Something happens and I can't explain it, but to call it desire or love…it's not that." (spn 11x13) It would have haunted the narrative and been referenced to seriously several seasons later.

[wetsocksinbed]

the fact crowley was a better father to amara than he was to his own son

[spntourney]

FAVORITE SPN CHARACTER: TOURNAMENT 3, ROUND 1, MATCH 11

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[shallowseeker]

Gosh, Chuck really set up Amara to trust Dean and then lose hope, didn't he?

What a cosmic dick!

The truth is: Amara's love was an immature love, a love of childhood, and even a little like Harper Sayles. In her own way, she's struggling with the Idealization of Apple Pie and the Romanticized Notion of the White Picket Fence.

In season 8, when Dean was reeling from total 24/7-360-degree war and the uncomfortable grayness of real-world civilian life, he too became fixated on an unobtainable concept of love (and people) as something that will never let you down.

In season 15, we find Amara dressed in vibrant hues and exploring life. And it's lovely that Amara has gained so much wisdom in her time spent individuating.

She encourages Chuck to see meaning in his creation. She lectures Dean about how "now is always better than then." She laments the loss of the opportunity to get to know Jack.

However, she's not integrated in terms of how she conceptualizes love, and in particular, she speaks of Dean in always-or-never statements.

AMARA: Like I told you when we first met, you and I will always help each other.

On accepting the wholeness of life, we can turn to Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön, who wrote in her deeply insightful book When Things Fall Apart:

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Amara is a long, long way from the disillusionment necessary to truly see another person as a complex individual. She's a long way from the mature disillusionment-and-choosing of real relationships.

In season 15, it's even more of a contrast than usual, as it's flanked by the disagreement-and-repair spousal dynamic that characterizes Dean-and-Cas. Dean became disillusioned with Cas as early as season 4, when Cas and Uriel attacked Anna and especially so in season 6 during the Angelic Civil War. Cas became disillusioned with Dean as early as Dean giving in to Michael in season 5.

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Chuck eases Amara into thinking that her love connection is real, in exactly the way she had conceptualized it:

CHUCK: The Winchesters have gotten to you, huh? Figures-- you and Dean have that whole weird... thing. AMARA (an awed, wondering smile): That wasn't you? Writing? CHUCK: Ugh! Not that part. Gross. Amara gives another, privately pleased little smile.

Then, once the plan he knows is brewing springs into action, he in turn snaps his jaws shut on her. He'd been grooming her for hopelessness and slaughter all along. And so, he consumes her.

AMARA: No, but... but Dean can't hurt me. CHUCK: No, but he can lie to you. He could send you into the meat grinder with a wink and a smile.

He capitalizes on and then leverages her naivete to cannibalize her. He cuts off her development in order to use her as fuel. "She's in here somewhere," is so ominous. It calls to mind how Amara talked about the beings she devoured, not an egalitarian shared mind-space of equals.

CHUCK: Look, I get it. You wanted him to care about you, but humans... they'll break your heart every time.

Chuck thrives on hopelessness.

[spn-rewatch-ventzone]

Season 11 is so crazy to watch when you realize Amara was right for hating Chuck. When she says, “You don’t know what he’s like” she’s being so genuine because Chuck is canonically the worst.

[vendettasfanfictioning]

dean meeting god it's like heads or tails, bud, He's either gonna be your father-in-law or your new brother, depending on which of his relatives you decide to marry

[omgitskaii]

SPN S11 spoilers

im so confused i was getting father/daughter vibes from amara and dean and then,,,, adult amara just kissed him. im on episode 11 rn, and i literally dont understand,,,,,was dean vulnerable to the banshee cuz hes supposedly in love with amara ??? idk i dont like it… it kinda gives me the ick, not for dean at all but for the writing for this season atm

i thought they would use all deans parental instincts he showed for claire and stuff and build off it for amara? but i guess i was wrong,,, idk maybe it’ll get cleared up, but i’m itching to google cuz i’m genuinely so so confused like what tf r they setting up

this is like the one thing i haven’t actually accidentally spoiled for myself so i’m just sitting here wondering wtf is going on here on this day…..

[idjitwithanimpala]

Sometimes I think about Dean's bowl cut in the picture Amara finds in s11 when she's in the bunker