Tag: dean winchester

rizlow1:

dreamsfromthebunker:

jinkieswouldyoulookatthis:

dreamsfromthebunker:

deanwnchestcr:

Dean, you’re covered in ghoul, man, and- and- and wraith. And I think you have a piece of siren in your hair.

I’ve seen a lot of complaints about how the characterisation of Dean was off in 12×15, offering this scene as a big bit of the evidence.

But you know what? Maybe it was on point if Dean’s feeling depressed at the moment and hardly keeping things together, because so much crap has gone down over the past year.

I know I wouldn’t be okay after getting ready to finally die and then not dying.

I think a lot of people mischaracterize him when they label him a neat freak or a germaphobe. They are taking a few instances we are shown and using them to oversimplify his personality. If we look at everything we’ve seen about Dean it becomes pretty apparent that he’s more complex. A germaphobe, to the degree that some seem to claim Dean is, couldn’t sleep on the sheets in the motels that Dean has always lived in. They would frequently need to wash or wipe their hands after touching the tables in the greasy spoons that he seems to prefer eating in. They wouldn’t be ok with disinfecting wounds with liquor or any of the other “medical” techniques Sam and Dean use on themselves. And have you seen some of the bathrooms they’ve shown him using? But these everyday things don’t seem to really bother him. Instead, I think the moments they’ve shown us of him being skivved out by a phone booth, a stair rail, etc., better illustrate how dirty and gross those specific places were. Pay phones were filthy at the best of times. Ones still around in the late 00’s, if still functional, would be even worse. That stair rail could have been actually greasy, or sticky. We were supposed to infer from that that the entire place was unsanitary to reinforce Dean’s unease at letting Dr. Kruger (I forget the character’s actual name) perform any sort of medical procedure on him. In other words, these moments are meant to show us that the situation is extraordinarily disgusting rather than that Dean is extraordinarily clean by nature. Now, even taking this view, I still think it is more than a little odd that Dean went from hunt to hunt to hunt without showering any of the blood and bits off of himself, even as an attempt to explain the rapid series of cases Sam (the BMoL) found for them to tackle, because Sam clearly took some time to clean up and change his clothes. This is where, perhaps, Dean’s mental/emotional state comes in. Dean is unhappy with Mary working with the BMoL, because they captured and tortured Sam. He finally, finally got his mom back and he doesn’t feel like he can fully trust her. I am sure he is worried about Cas, dude almost died badly and was only saved because Crowley chose to. And what’s up with Crowley helping them after they had sent his son back to the past to die? And then he almost lost himself to some stupid witches’ spell and Lucifer’s baby is still alive somewhere. I mean, he’s got a lot on his mind and maybe he just isn’t taking care of himself like he should. Plus, the scene was funny and gave us some great sibling interaction, which is always a plus.

Definitely on board with all of this @jinkieswouldyoulookatthis. Dean would not have been able to have cope with their lifestyle at all if he was as big of a neat freak as people have made out.

Plus grave dirt. Grave tallow. Falling into the river in 1×01…

It’s when he doesn’t clean himself up that people should worry about Dean. And there is definitely a lot on his mind right now.

Agree, Jinkies! Also, as I’ve said before – sometimes I think Dean enjoys yanking Sam’s chain a little. I think he gets some big brother enjoyment out of grossing his little bro out occasionally (rubbing Sam’s toothbrush in his armpits, farting on his pillow :D).