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Re: Doing it all again

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ayrt

I could see Dean throwing himself into school and being determined to be the absolute best he could be at that, because Dean's a perfectionist - it's just that in canon, what the family valued was hunting, and so Dean strove to be perfect at that. In the absence of hunting, would Dean strive to be the best at a "normal" life? Would he be all about his studies or sports? Or would he still shun those things, because what did he need them for anyway, he was going to work at the garage with his dad?

I think with Sam, it would depend on how Dean broke. If Dean went for academics, I don't think Sam would. If Dean played his canon role of "bad boy" teenager, I think Sam would totally try to differentiate himself with his studies.

Maybe he would have been more materialistically concerned? Class issues might have come up more? In this hypothetical situation, that's the biggest factor that I could see that would keep the Winchesters from being "normal" (and I say this, btw, as someone who grew up dirt poor myself) - instead of being the kid who moves around and wears hand-me-downs that never seem to fit properly, Sam would be the kid of the town drunk who still wears hand-me-downs that never seem to fit properly. Maybe his desperation to break away would mean he never drank and was determined to be successful.

Only I really, really love the idea of Sam growing up and running off to be a hunter. Like, I love this concept. So I'm going with the idea that Dean was very capable academically while Sam eventually fell into the hunting lifestyle because all his life, he'd craved something more than his quiet, suburban life.

So how does the pilot work, then? Does YED kill John in the opening episode, and that's what spurs Sam and Dean to go off and find him?