I've got to laugh here because I think I was the other anon in the thread who was posting a Dean/Gwen comment when that moment happened. I basically wrote something like "Wow, I think I like Dean/Gwen! This makes me feel guilty as a Dean/Lis- Oh holy fuck." Dean's killing of Gwen and Dean's general lack of reaction about killing Gwen sticks in my craw. Do not want.
I think Dean and Lisa would have been very good for each other if Dean had been even remotely in a more healthy place in terms of mental health and self esteem. He was actually doing pretty good at the start of the season, I think, but Dean's problem from S1 onward has been one of thinking that if he can't have something, it isn't worth trying for and he doesn't deserve it anyway.
As long as he was with Ben and Lisa and not fucking things up, everything was fine but the moment he was away from them from an extended period of time, things got shakier. And then add in vamp!Dean putting them in danger and yeah, things were done. Much as I like Dean and Lisa, things were done.
Your final part is the only thing that could get me intrigued by Dean/Cas, since Castiel is the only character besides Alistair who knows what Dean was really like in Hell. That's really the worst of Dean, the parts he's terrified about anyone else seeing. I think he associates that with hunting and with the darker parts of himself that scared him and that he was ashamed of before his death. I've got a hard time seeing Dean and Castiel ever settling down in a semi-domestic setting, though.
I don't see that with Dean and Jo, either though, now I think about it. Dean knew Jo when she was first getting started, so unless she did something major that removed his need to be protective of her, I don't think he'd ever really relax around her. But Dean and Tamara or Dean and Gwen would work really well for that. Both of them were in their prime and both were very experienced and Gwen at least had gotten her hands very, very dirty. There'd be no fears that she was not seeing the darker parts of him out of nativity or whatever. If Gwen, who knew that he'd tortured in Hell and who had done some pretty dark deeds herself, thought that Dean was a good person, it might have an impact.
If she meant more to him than she did in canon, anyway. Argh.
Finding Dean a love interest whose belief in him he'd find validating that he can settle down with in a combination hunting/domestic lifestyle is hard, yo. D:
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I think Dean and Lisa would have been very good for each other if Dean had been even remotely in a more healthy place in terms of mental health and self esteem. He was actually doing pretty good at the start of the season, I think, but Dean's problem from S1 onward has been one of thinking that if he can't have something, it isn't worth trying for and he doesn't deserve it anyway.
As long as he was with Ben and Lisa and not fucking things up, everything was fine but the moment he was away from them from an extended period of time, things got shakier. And then add in vamp!Dean putting them in danger and yeah, things were done. Much as I like Dean and Lisa, things were done.
Your final part is the only thing that could get me intrigued by Dean/Cas, since Castiel is the only character besides Alistair who knows what Dean was really like in Hell. That's really the worst of Dean, the parts he's terrified about anyone else seeing. I think he associates that with hunting and with the darker parts of himself that scared him and that he was ashamed of before his death. I've got a hard time seeing Dean and Castiel ever settling down in a semi-domestic setting, though.
I don't see that with Dean and Jo, either though, now I think about it. Dean knew Jo when she was first getting started, so unless she did something major that removed his need to be protective of her, I don't think he'd ever really relax around her. But Dean and Tamara or Dean and Gwen would work really well for that. Both of them were in their prime and both were very experienced and Gwen at least had gotten her hands very, very dirty. There'd be no fears that she was not seeing the darker parts of him out of nativity or whatever. If Gwen, who knew that he'd tortured in Hell and who had done some pretty dark deeds herself, thought that Dean was a good person, it might have an impact.
If she meant more to him than she did in canon, anyway. Argh.
Finding Dean a love interest whose belief in him he'd find validating that he can settle down with in a combination hunting/domestic lifestyle is hard, yo. D: