#yed kids

[caught-a-ghost]

I want to expand on my tags on ktophers' post - which discusses the psychic kids' powers as being innate (which yes! love!) - but thought it might be too off topic for an addition

I love the idea of the demon blood only serving as a way to prepare the special children as vessels, and as a way for azazel to control their powers, bc it ties in nicely with a headcanon of mine

which is that yellowed eyed demons are fallen angels who, unlike lucifer, weren't allowed to keep their grace and were corrupted by their time in hell. azazel's blood is a way to prepare sam and the other kids for lucifer because there's still a vague link to his angelic origin

[sweetpapercroissant]

the thing about john winchester is he’s fucked either way. if he trains his boys to hunt and protect themselves from the thing(s) in the dark then it inevitably creates this deeply fucked up abusive situation that only a monster would put his kids through right? but if he hadn’t they would’ve either been killed or not been able to stop the apocalypse.

[fanshitby808]

The translations are found here in the description I have Mega app for a reason andjalajalk

Damn, someone already subbed the entire fucking season of Monkie Kid Season 4. Y'all have a lot of free time. Sharing here for anyone who's interested.

[arcanesea]

colors

PAIRING: hwang hyunjin x reader GENRE: fluff, established relationship WC: 558 WARNINGS: none

"There are only 3 primary colors, right?" you ask mindlessly as you watch Hyunjin's brush glide across the canvas. You heard a low hum from him before asking, "Who named the colors?"

he rolls his eyes, and a thin smile creeps on his face.

"What's on your mind pretty?" he asks softly, still focusing on the canvas in front of him. You had agreed to be his muse today. Though a very basic muse, you must say. He doesn't even let you hold any props, so you just sit there with a flower slipped in your ear.

"Well, orange comes from mixing red and yellow, so why not call it yed?" you propose.

Hyunjin stops to look at you with his confused face. "Yed?"

"Yes? well, you mix yellow and red? Yed? Or should it be redow?"

"You're absurd," he laughs, continuing his sweep of brush. You're cute, was what he was actually thinking. Since you sat on that chair, you hadn't stopped talking about everything, from the workplace stress you're currently experiencing, to stories of stray cats in your apartment complex. Your voice was a better substitute for the music he put on every time he started painting.

"Green should be called yellue," you push forward. Laughing when the words repeated itself in your head. "Isn't that cute, Hyune, yellue?" you ask.

"Sure, my love," he answered. "Tell me everything on that pretty head of yours."

"I think, you don't need me to sit here," you said softly. Hyunjin laughs again. If he's being honest, it's his first time drawing the muse directly. He could have snapped a picture of you and used it as a reference, that's what he always does. But who he is to say no when you're the one offering to be his muse for a day?

"Weren't you the one offering yourself?" He asks, not paying much attention to you who had started to stand. You stopped in your tracks, thinking to yourself.

"Right..." you shyly said. You walked behind him, leaning down to rest your chin on his left shoulder. You are the muse, but you're certain that the scene doesn't look anything like his painting. Not in a bad way, just in a very hyperbole way that the background colors seem to be muted while he gives you the spotlight with all the vibrant colors.

Hyunjin turned his head, pressing a kiss on your cheek. "What do you think?"

"I don't think there's any word that can describe the elegance of that painting, Hyune," you answered. "I think you're a great artist, I'm pretty sure I'm not as beautiful as the person in the canvas."

Hyunjin puts down his palette on the little table next to the canvas before standing up. He grabs your shoulder, just looking at you. No matter how many times he memorized your features, he can't stop admiring your angelic nature.

It's true that an artist's eyes see colors in a spectrum that's never existed before, but you're different. Hyunjin had always thought that he already saw all the colors of life, but your existence in his life gives him a taste of a new kind of rainbow. And he wished for nothing more than you to see yourself from his point of view.

"Believe me, my love, no colors can do justice to paint you."

a/n. Ramadhan Kareem everyone! We're well fed this month by the amount of skz record the kids released and some said we're getting cb announcement at fanmeeting😃 can't wait!!!!!!

[hexedwinchester]

Supernatural S04E03 In The Beginning

Wait a minute.. Dean finds out the man next to him in the diner is John because John's acquaintance Mr. D calls him Winchester. Just as Mr. D is about to leave he says "Say hello to your old man for me." Now, remind me again, didn't John's old man, Henry Winchester die or whatever when John was 4? Which old man is Mr. D referring to? We never hear John mention a step dad. So I guess there were massive holes in Henry Winchester's plot then

Dean nudging John to buy the Chevy 67. Love the touch of origin story for the car!

Mitch is so much younger here than in Walker..

Ok so.. the YED says that he's making deals because he needs permission to be invited to their houses.. kinda weird.. but it got me thinking.. in earlier seasons when the show explained the whole shebang behind the YED's special children, it says not all kids saw the same fate as the Winchesters.. so people are making random deals without realising that?? That easy?? Really??!!

okay why am I only seeing this now? Jessica kinda looks like Mary! I guess you really attract your parents in your partners (oh take your minds out of the gutter.. that's not what I meant)

[sentientcave]

Hello hello! I’m interested in hearing more about your Rugby fic! What’s it about and who does it feature?

Hey there, howdy, hi!

Rugby is a Ghoap x 2ndPOV FTM OC/Reader (He's got a name and a nickname (Ripley/Ripper), but it's not clear if it's a first or last name). Astonishingly little actual rugby happens. It's mostly just silly boys being boys in love (Ghost and Soap are actively trying to date Ripper and he is like, hahaa they're such good friends).

Here's a lil snippet (There's also a few lil snips in the list of WIP Wednesdays listed at the bottom of my masterlist if you'd like to know more). This is mostly a texting bit that I don't think I've posted before.

You text Johnny and Simon as soon as Liv gets off you, opening the group chat that Johnny set up, which is mostly just Johnny sending you tiktok links and Simon sending pictures of dogs and cats that he sees.

Ripper: hey lads. Asking a big favour, but could you put me up for a week? Roomies got family coming and their accommodations fell through. No problem if you can't/don't want to, won't be pressed about it.

Soap: !!!!!!!!!!!

Soap: r u fukkin kiddin me rn Rip? Course ye can stay

Ghost: Only got one bed though.

Soap: Rip's just a wee feller we can squeeze him in

You laugh. As if you’re going to be choosy about the sleeping arrangements when they’re doing you a big favour.

Ripper: Lads, I will gladly sleep on the couch. Or the floor tbh. Bathtub even.

Ghost: Nah just kidding.

Ghost: We have a guest room.

Soap: we've got a playroom 2 if yed like to see it

Ghost: Johnny

Soap: Yeh LT?

Ghost: Shut up.

Soap: Get yer arse over here n make me

Ghost: In a minute. When do you need to come over?

"Hey, Liv, what day are they coming?"

"Wednesday, they'll be here in the evening."

Ripper: Wednesday. Could come home with you after practice.

Ghost: We'll pick you up so you don't have to lug your bag to the pitch. Be there 6:30.

Ripper: Thanks, lads. You're lifesavers.

Soap: nythin 4 u Rip.

Soap: n I mean ANYTHIN

Soap: jcudheiks

You figure that's Simon making good on his promise to make Johnny shut up.

[i-cant-stop-fandoming-help]

Headcanons of the 6.5 cas as like,, coworkers after the events of the chapter?

RAAAH YES YED YES

-ryutaro and midori ended up beginning to live together. Iirc, not much is said about the yamaguchi parents, so i tend to HC they died in the tragedy and thats why Ryutaro let Midori live with him-- that, and he had grown somewhat attached to her and was worried about her.

-After sdra2 omake 2, keisuke and rei ended up getting into a lot of fights. One escalated into a physical fight after rei said "what would Satsuki think of you now? Would she still see you as great, or would she be scared and think youre a monster?" (Inspired by a convo with @ihearticecreamcakes )

-Ando bought a toy doctors kit for kanata when she was a kid because she had begun asking what he did to save people.

☆despite being very busy as a surgeon, he still comes home to try to spend time with his wife and all of his kids.

-despite acting like she never cared for kizuna, minako cried at her funeral, and even moreso when the bodies were discovered. Despite how sickening of a sight it was, she insisted on seeing her daughter one last time. All the decay was disgusting, but she got to see for herself what killed her daughter.(despite being told already)

☆after that, guilt began to haunt her since she wasnt a better mother, causing her to quit smoking and be more friendly.

-Ryutaro is really good at claw machines but not a big fan of stuffed animals. It led to him setting up a table at the office where he would be the prizes he got for anyone to take. (He doesnt know that rei keeps taking a good chunk of em)

-after the hostage incident with syobai and iroha, midori admitted to ryutaro that she wasnt afraid of death because of how often she has come close to it.

-in the helicopter ride away after 6.5, midori held onto Ryutaros arm.

-when everyone was told the news of the death of their families, keisuke and ando consoled the bunch as best they could despite their own grief.

-keisuke and ryutaro were there when tsurugi killed his father.

I would throw in blatant ryudori headcanons but you didnt come here for that lol

[roughentumble]

btw you know what concept i loveeeeeeee i love? john killing the yellow-eyed demon earlier in the timeline, and going to live with the milligans while dean and sam are still minors. and obviously brings his boys with him.

its so cheweyyyyyy its so juicyyyy like they wake up one day and are rold they have a BROTHER and their dad(<-based his entire life around being unable to move on from his dead wife) has actually had a girlfriend all along. theyre in a normal house watching their dad be normal and play kickball with a normal little kid who doesnt know how to shoot or identify a haunting or survive in the woods. and dean feels betrayed and confused because his whole life was hunting and trying to be his dad and now his dad is someone he doesnt recognize and surely he should be happy YED is dead and their mother is avenged, but who is he if he's not on the road? and sam is twisted up because all he ever wanted was a normal life but he's in a normal house and he still doesnt FIT, it doesnt feel RIGHT and its all like some sort of twisted mockery, this is what he always wanted so why does it make him feel SICK why does he RESENT it so much? they can act normal in the real world to keep from being questioned but they dont know how to behave in this house. adam is an innocent, adam is a betrayal, adam is treated right by their father as he /should/ be because he'd be a deadbeat otherwise, why does adam get only the good parts of their father when as the years dragged on it felt like they only got the bad? adam wants to know them, adam doesnt trust them, adam drew a picture of his new big step-brothers dont they want to see? they hate him. theyre neutral towards him. they feel obligated to care because he is their brother by blood, and for so long brother was a mantra that got them through everything. but is he brother? is he? brother means something else when it's lived-in, when it's battle-worn and soft with time

and KATE, kind enough to not try and be their mother because of their age, because of the situation, and still they bristle and yearn in equal measure. because they wanted mom but she wasnt mom, she's some stranger who's house they've invaded, theyre past the point of needing it but that means they need it more than ever but she ISNT "mom" she's just. some woman. and she's nice and her house is nice and they lived in shitty apartments and it isnt right to resent but they do, they resent the niceness while also looking down on it because what was so wrong with their life, huh? especially dean, the pride in it, in saving people and put up or shut up and follow orders and being strong. and now he has a bed and his own room, or perhaps shares with sam because there was only one spare room but each bed is a real bed. and what is he supposed to DO? he was going to hunt forever. he lived outside the world and was proud of it. what now? what now?

its sooooOoooOOOOOOO wild and i could keep going but i just.

[fandom-hoarder]

Shower Thoughts:

What if Mary survived and John died, and Mary took the kids on the road. Hooked up with Bill Harvelle on a job and got pregnant with Jo. Sent Jo with Bill to be raised by Ellen like a freakin foundling, because she didn't want to bring another child into this -- Dean and Sam shouldn't even be in it but she knows they ARE because of the YED deal.

Mary still dies saving Dean just like John.

Dean still meets Jo.

Ellen never tells them.

Especially not when she finds out they slept together.

[locke-esque-monster]

What exactly were Meg's orders or her plan in Scarecrow?

Was she told to go to Indiana, knowing she'd meet Sam there or was it a chance meeting? Narratively, it makes more sense she was there on purpose. But she also didn't question the orders until the end of the episode after she met Sam, so either she was reiterating the argument, or this was her first shot to question orders.

Let's assume she's there on purpose. Did she get her full orders prior to meeting Sam and playing aloof at first was either her specific instructions or her personal choice on how to enact her orders? Was the aloof thing to hook Sam in or was she just supposed to get a glimpse of him and report back?

I ask report back because she described the van driver as a creep - did she kill him too to use his blood for follow up orders? Seems likely based on her being at the bus station - I can't imagine with Meg's personality she'd be eager to leave him alive.

But following that, was Meg supposed to convince Sam to come with her to CA? Because presumably old Yellow Eyes is also there with John tracking him. Was Meg supposed to plausibly break the brothers apart and get him to the YED, or just to test the waters to see how easy it would be?

I'm wondering if all this is because I'm curious if Meg was supposed to be a prototype for Ruby. With what we know about the other special kids getting seduced to the dark side, was Azazel trying to see how easy it would be to get Sam? And when that failed, Lilith was put in charge of that task and tried a different more subtle tactic? Aka by Lilith using a tactic that used Sam's love for Dean turned into revenge, versus his love of freedom from his family expectations (a little more of a classic Lucifer move - as presumed possible by Azazel when trying to recruit the Lucifer sword).

And is there an entire alternative plot line where Sam follows Meg and the pieces of the puzzle of the apocalypse fall into place differently? Dean still sells his soul (maybe for John instead) and Sam opens the door for Lucifer, maybe a little more willingly?

Structurally it's likely this all wasn't planned out yet, but the implications of the Sam-goes-off-Meg and that version of the apocalypse starts are fascinating.

[sweetpapercroissant]

everybody makes such a big deal about dean making the demon deal for sam, how much he must love him to sign up for an eternity of torture for him, how he can’t live without sam, and that’s all well and good. but where’s that energy when it comes to john huh? everybody writing all these thinkpieces about how john never really cared for dean or whatever. did you see his fucking smile when he came into the hospital room and saw that dean was awake? did you think about how he was preparing for the deal almost immediately after he gained consciousness and got updated on dean’s condition? did you think about him sitting by his dying son’s bed regretting all the bad times, wishing he would’ve given him more? did you think about how he was fully prepared to give up their only shot at killing yed, the mission that supposedly came before everything, to save his life? did you think about how he didn’t hesitate to condemn himself for dean? did you even think about how dean’s the last thing he saw before going to hell and the last thing he saw before going to heaven? and how there was no regret in his eyes either time about what he sacrificed for him? john winchester loved that kid more than anything in the world and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[kanayatherainbowdrinker]

Hi kanaya!! What are some of your favorite ships :0

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[liamgallaghermpreg]

SPIKE but what if John gets Dean pregnant in late s1 and somehow. SOMEHOW the baby survives YED’s attack and they find out in the hospital after John dies and he has to burn his daddy’s (and babydaddy’s) corpse just standing there. and Sam doesn’t know who’s baby it is. What do you think would happen 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

STOPPP THIS IS SO GOOD I would read the fuck out of this fic. The ANGST. GOD. Really makes Devil’s Trap even more dramatic with the “don’t you let it kill me, Dad” scene OOF. Ok like. I think Dean would insist to Sam for a long time that it was a one night stand or he doesn’t know the father. And this needles at Sam because while it doesn’t sound like an overt lie, he knows something is off. And Dean, well…if needled just enough at the right time will break.

So I DO think he’d eventually admit it was John in a very “are you happy now!?” way to Sam, who is genuinely unsure if he was maybe happier not knowing. Having no idea what to think of his father. Was it consensual!? COULD it be consensual!? And is Sam just as bad, for wanting Dean? And why does Dean want to keep the baby!?

It’s a mess, I think. Then after the baby is born, they fight about how to raise it — in the life or not. It’s one of those fights that peters out. Sam & Dean know they can’t really be apart from each other and now they have a kid to raise.

I think it would take a LONG time for S&D to actually get together in this universe because 1) kid and 2) Sam’s immense guilt over not noticing John/Dean was happening would fuck him up, and make Dean angry whenever it was brought up

[dotthings]

I did have some theories at some point about angelic memory wipes to explain the differences concerning John's back story and mothership canon, although I also always realized unreliable narrators was a factor, but the more I see of The Winchesters the less I think it has to do with angelic memory wiping. More and more I think it's about unreliable narrators and how traumatic memories work and also the innate ways family history gets told selectively.

It wasn't perfect until after she died.

To some extent John may have even believed his own revisionist history he told his children. Idealizing the marriage, sainting Mary, and sainting the idealized white picket fence life they had before a demon ripped his world apart, and left out the part where John already spiraled, John already knew about monsters, John had already faced down monsters and knew they were real. John and Mary thought they could escape, but the YED's deal came due.

John told his children a fairy tale about the perfect life they had.

John went to Missouri and learned the truth. Missouri lifted the veil. Can mean something other than John not already knowing monsters exist.

And it is far more complicated than "John lied." Maybe to some extent he purposefully crafted an idealized version of the past to cope with his own trauma and process his own grief and it helped fuel his anger of what was lost. Maybe also he wanted to give Sam and Dean the good parts of his marriage to Mary. To help keep her memory alive for them. Kids don't usually learn the full truth of family history until they're older, and when they learn too young it can be traumatic. But in the end, better to know the truth.

But in part. Trauma and memory.

Like, say, Dean's brain rewiring his own memories of Purgatory I because he couldn't deal with his own trauma over Cas pushing him away and Cas being lost in Purgatory. The grief, the guilt, the loss. And the sadness of having to know that's how Cas saw himself--as not worthy of being saved. Dean would rather blame himself and believe he let Cas's hand slip from his grasp than face that, and face that Cas chose not to return with him (due to Cas's own sense of guilt and wanting to pay penance).

Which doesn't mean the angelic memory wipes we saw in mothership canon didn't happen either--but there is so much we don't know. How long did they stick? If they were memory wiped, why was Mary sneaking out to hunt after her first child was born? Did Mary get her memories back and not John? Or was the memory wipes about Anna's visit and the angels only, everything else was intact? & they both knew monsters were real.

The events of The Winchesters are real, although filtered through a certain lens or emphasis and deeply thematically connected to Dean.

But this is Dean uncovering the real story. What really happened. Dean is telling the full version, filling in the gaps, past the idealizations and ommissions or unreliable narrators.

[antigonewinchester]

15x20

And we come to it... The End of Supernatural.

But we’ve got a double feature this time: because I watched 1x20 too. With 15x20 calling back to that ep so specifically, I thought I’d see what the finale looked like in its context.

There’s a lot of talk of how the early vs. later seasons differ visually in terms of lighting, cinematography, etc., but I was also struck in their difference in tone. There’s a sincerity to 1x20, not just in what’s happening but in how the writing takes itself & the situation seriously, while 15x20 is much lighter and humorous, verging into bathos at points. It’s exactly the same as the contemporary MCU/Disney blockbuster humor: never letting the tension build for too long and breaking it was jokes. Maybe I’m just a bit too earnest but this kind of humor rings really hollow to me. It often feels self-defensive, like the writer(s) are hyper aware of their audience & its reaction and so they make fun of themselves before the audience can make fun of them.

I’d forgotten The Twilight Zone reference early in 1x20; love that. All of the John - Sam - Dean family drama is so compelling -- Sam still hotheaded & angry, John caring but not willing to give up his authority, Dean the peacemaker in the middle of it all. (The rest under a cut because it got long.)

DEAN: What happens if you die? Dad, what happens if you die, and we coulda done something about it? You know I been thinking. I ...think maybe Sammy's right about this one. We should do this together. [SAM nods.] DEAN: We're stronger as a family, Dad. We just are. You know it. JOHN: We're running out of time. You do your job and you get out of the area. That's an order.

Kripke’s idea of ‘family as everything’ is the foundation of this ep. It’s also obviously about healing the original family estrangement in Sam leaving and John rejecting him for it--John has to relearn how to “believe” in family again, which first starts to happen when Sam & Dean rush into save him, and then he saves Sam, using a bullet from the Colt to kill Luther holding Sam hostage, even though it means one less chance to get the YED. If, as SW analyzed, Dean takes on John’s narrative role in S4/5 with Sam, then Dean is in this narrative position thru the entire rest of the show. For ex, in Dabb’s seasons, so much of the writing focuses on Dean not “believing” in or resenting/rejecting family, which drives almost all the emotional conflict. And then cue Dean’s heartfelt deathbed speech in 15x20 about how much he loves Sam & thinks Sam is such an amazing guy, right? The ultimate “I believe in family & love you so much” speech. Dean’s speech even parallels what Sam’s son tell him as he’s dying, so framing Dean in a parental role to the end: (”SAM No. / DEAN (softly pleading): Look at me. Look at me. I need... I need... I need you to tell me that it's okay. I need you to tell me... Tell me it's okay. / SAM (through tears) Dean... it's okay. You can go now.” versus “DEAN II: Dad. It's okay. You can go now.”)

With the Colt, what stood out on this watch was how even though it’s a weapon that can “kill anything,” it’s not divine or blessed or anything like that; it was just a gun made by Samuel Colt for ordinary human hunters. Given how fantastical the show gets by the end, the Colt is grounded in a satisfying way. In order to fight creatures stronger than they are, people will make a tool that’ll allow them to overcome all that, just through sheer human ingenuity & stubbornness.

Jenny is the obvious throughline between these two eps, but there’s also John being integral to both (returning in 1x20, Sam & Dean figuring out the case thru his journal in 15x20) and both eps dealing with vampires. In 15x20, the situation is clearly meant to be a mirror reflection of Sam and Dean’s family tragedy: vampires invade a house, kill the father instead of the mother (but leaving her traumatized and unable to speak, literally & metaphorically) and steal the 2 kids away, but ending more happily with Sam & Dean saving the kids. There’s also again shades of sexual violence against children, in the vampires not just killing the kids but keeping them alive for years, both to feed and feed on them. If it’s more alluded to in 15x20, then it’s literal in 1x20, with vampires intertwined with sexual violence all over the ep: Kate & Luther making out / getting ready to have sex while Jenny watches, with Kate then turning Jenny by assaulting her with a kiss (complete w/ incestuous undertones in Luther then saying “Welcome home”); John looming over Kate and Luther like a creepy stalker when they all invade the vampires’s nest; Dean playing bait and drawing the vamps out, with Kate assaulting Dean very similarly to how she did Jenny. The ‘Dean playing bait’ scene was also interesting in that Dean is very much vulnerable (what if Kate had just gone for his neck?) while the masculine violence of the Winchesters is highlighted as well... John & Sam shooting Kate and the other vamp, John coming in with “sweetheart” to Kate when he confronts her, Dean taking Kate off in a bridal carry, a parody of the real thing. They’re both the hunted and hunters.

SAM (crying) Then don't leave me. Don't leave me. I can't do this alone. DEAN Yes, you can. SAM Well, I don't want to. DEAN Hey. I'm not leaving you. I'm gonna be with you... [DEAN is crying as he places his fist over SAM’S heart.] Right here... every day. ... DEAN Goodbye, Sam. Goodbye.

Telling that it was Jackles and Jarpad who added in those callbacks to Sam & Dean’s dialogue in the pilot, not Dabb. Good for them, tho.

I’m surprised I’ve never seen a comparison made between Dean’s death and Jack’s departure in 15x19! If Jack is a Christ figure, then Dean is a messiah figure, and those figures very often die; both Dean and Jack gave up a chance at a normal life to save the world & protect the people they love, Dean as a hunter & Jack as God; they both do the “I’ll still be with you, in your heart” gesture; it ends with both Jack and Dean saying goodbye, and they both then go onto to ascend to Heaven or a heavenly place. People talk about how Jack’s ending is messed up because he’s just a kid with too much responsibility put on his head, but the show idealizes / does the same thing with Dean, in how much it valorizes Dean’s protection of Sam. I think back to Jarpad’s quote talking about the finale that got people in a huff (“It was a success story — it was Dean’s success story,” Padalecki reflects on the “Supernatural” series finale. “This guy gave his life for years and years and years and ultimately gave his life to have his No. 1 on the planet live as normal a life as possible.”) but like? Doesn’t this attitude seem exactly how the show viewed Sam & Dean at this point?

I’ve also seen people talk pretty cynically about Dean’s death and as much as I’m not a fan of Dean dying I also just cannot read it as cynically as some people do. Dean didn’t die because he “couldn’t live a normal life,” he died because the show set up the “Dean = chooses the hunting life, Sam = wants a normal life” framing back in S12, Dabb’s first season, which culminates here in Dabb’s last, with Dean dying on a hunt after saving 2 kids from something horrible, and Sam going on to live without Dean and having a ‘normal’ life, wife, a son, even if he deep down he longs to be with Dean again. If Dean most represents “the family” in the narrative, then of course he couldn’t get a wife and kid like Sam could; that would be Dean choosing to have another family over Sam, and that wouldn’t work with Dean’s narrative role. In S15 too, Dean’s death also fits thematically with the emphasis within the last season on making sacrifices and dying for what you love and the people you saved living on after that sacrifice. Ketch, Rowena, Cas, Jack (sort of), Dean, to name some major ones. There’s also that Sam dying & Dean living on would be a repeat of Swan Song, so I can see why they would’ve wanted to avoid that plot beat because they’d already done it once. If anything, I’d say Dean’s death echoes his one in 3x16: telling Sam to carry on without him, Sam being unable to prevent his death, but this time instead of going to Hell, Dean ends up in Heaven. And Dean gets narratively rewarded with the perfect, best Heaven ever! The one that is stated he deserves!! I just don’t see how that translates into the writers seeing Dean as not normal or having something wrong with him?

OKAY last few things: I actually like the regular “Carry On Wayward Son” and then the cover version, what can I say. Despite ppl saying Dean spent however many odd decades in Heaven waiting for Sam, it’s clearly implied he only waited a short time in Bobby saying “Time up here, it's... it's different,” which is calling back to Hell’s time dilation, Dean’s 40′s years, and his now only spending a few minutes separate from Sam in comparison. And while I 100% understand not liking the finale, it’s kind of fascinating to me that the finale basically framed it as a final, fantastic Happy Ending for Sam & Dean, they are at peace for all eternity, isn’t that so nice, and parts of the fandom somehow read it as a tragic or unhappy ending. It’s just... so clearly not. It is if you wanted to the story to end another way, but c’mon, the story wasn’t going to end another way. It ended as it started, the Epic Love Story of Sam & Dean.