I do very rarely watch clips of my favorite characters on youtube when the mood strikes.
Mostly Death.
Anyhoodle, watched some from last season.
I have a shaky understanding of the show itself, I get my knowledge from stuff I see on my dash. But basically, Dean has a curse, and it’s so bad he wants to die, I think it’s been making him kill people against his will or something. So he summons Death and gives him an offering of food he made himself (awwww) and asks Death to kill him (is that flirting with Death in the literal sense.)
And Death apparently can’t, but he does offer to put Dean somewhere where he’ll still be alive, but unable to do any harm to anyone else.
Um. Would that be Death’s realm? He never specifies but like, they’ve had a very odd relationship over the course of this show. It sure sounds like “come live with me forever and ever and I’ll keep you safe.” That sounds as close to flirty as it’s gonna get.
Of course Death has to fuck it up by telling Dean to kill Sam, which, I don’t know a ton about Supernatural but I knew that wasn’t gonna work.
And then Dean kills Death.
Which … IDK if I buy that. Killing Death? Yeah, no. Death is probably still around, just like, reforming somewhere, mildly annoyed at Dean, plotting maybe.
I mean is it so wrong that I want Dean to walk off into the sunset with Death and that’s the end of the show. That’d at least be an ending. Or at least Death showing up at the very end like “you thought you killed me? Ha ha ha no. I get everyone eventually.” And them BOOM, the end.
Please someone join me in rarepair hell.
There’ve been plenty of times Dean shipped himself with Death, let me tell you what.
Please tell me everything I don’t watch the show I watch clips and then found myself shipping this rarepair. I’ve read all the fanfic. There is so little.
#yeah i’d ship it what a terrible ship though
I KNOW, RIGHT?! WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF.#MY GOD IT WORKS SO WELL WITH THE SHOW
Muahahhahahaaha! Dean just, flirting with Death, all the time …#Dean walking off into the sunset with Death is probably EXACTLY how it should end
Did I just convert an old fandom friend to a new rarepair?*stretches* Yeah, I’ve still got it.
Haha, well, I didn’t mean that last bit exactly in a shipping way. But I mean since Death IS a character…
Tell you everything, dear god where would I begin. Okay, so keep in mind my knowledge of Supernatural only goes up to the middle of season 6. I stopped watching not long after the original storyline ended (Kripke’s original storyline was plotted out to be a five season arc, and after that he left the show and turned it over to his team, who’ve done everything since).
The first thing you need to know is that in Supernatural, Death is both the individual you occasionally see on-screen, and the act of death. He is the moment of the soul’s passing, the moment of ultimate fear yet release from all burdens. He is everywhere, and he knows everyone. Dean never has to introduce himself. By the time they come face to face at the end of S5, Dean and Sam have both already passed through Death once. And so while Death as a character is in a total of…I think 8 episodes? And most of them for not more than a scene, Dean has been in a relationship with Death for his entire life. Death has shaped Dean’s life: his mother, his father, his brother, all the people they’ve seen die, all the creatures and people they’ve killed, almost every choice he has ever made.
Dean has a big stonking death wish.
My god this man hates himself SO MUCH. Being there for his family is Dean’s sole reason for living. He’s spent his whole life since he was four obeying his father and protecting his little brother. You can find all the meta on his Godzilla-sized daddy issues with a quick search, but what they sum up to is that Dean’s entire sense of self-worth is bound to two things: how well he can serve his family, and how well he can kill monsters. When his ability to do these things is thwarted, there are times during the series when he becomes passively suicidal. (A quick review of my own memories doesn’t call up any times he became actively suicidal, although it’s been a few years since I last watched the series so I could easily be forgetting.)
Special mention for this is S1E12, “Faith.” (Which BTW is one of THE BEST eps of the entire series; the one where I first sat up in my living room and realized there was really something to this show.) In which Dean goes to his knees and nearly lets a Reaper take him without a fight, when the choice is between his life and an innocent woman’s. This isn’t framed as a moment of heroic self-sacrifice. It’s surrender. It’s exhaustion. It’s “Why should I try so hard to fight for my life when others deserve it more?”
(Reapers are Death’s assistants. He’s a busy guy.)
Dean nearly dies once (and meets another Reaper, a very pleasant and professional woman named Tessa), and is saved only by his father selling his soul to save him. Cue crisis. Dean is told he might have to kill Sam in order to save the world. Cue crisis. Sam dies (cue crisis) and Dean sells his own soul in order to bring him back, and spends all of S3 waiting for the contract to kick in. (He has a year before he’s to die and go to Hell. OMFG S3 is one of my favorite seasons of any show ever.) He spends the whole first half of it passively suicidal, because fuck it, why not? and is called on it repeatedly by other characters who are trying their damnedest to keep him alive and find a way out. He finally confronts his own self-perceptions–an attack dog, a ‘good little soldier,’ his father’s pathetic little clone, how he deserves everything he gets–and realizes he doesn’t think he deserves to to die and go to Hell just in time to, you know, die and go to Hell. And then he comes back from Hell, and tells us this story: the damned souls are spared torture if they, in turn, agree to torture others. In this way, souls become corrupt and turn into demons. Dean was…a good study.
So Dean, he’s got HISTORY with Death (as well as self-destruction, which is another but somewhat related thing), and then they come face to face. In S5, they’re chasing the Devil himself. Partway through S5, the Four Horsemen arrive, heralded by perhaps the most badass teaser trailer I have ever seen. (Extended scene from the show itself.) You get to meet Death himself at last in S5E21, “Five Minutes Till Midnight.”
It. Is. Glorious. He calls Lucifer a bratty child, and tells the Winchesters to go kick the gigantic baby’s ass.
Death is the oldest being in Supernatural’s universe, give or take God. Death himself says he can’t remember anymore which of them came first, and that one day he imagines that even God will die and Death will be there to reap him. With God effectively out of the picture on the show (it’s complicated), Death is the one being who knows where all the bodies are buried.* Starting with the end of season 5, he occasionally gets summoned or bound, or once or twice just turns up, to offer information that no one else could possibly know, about things like the Mark or Cain or what lies at the bottom of Purgatory. He doesn’t show up often. He’s always courteous, though occasionally exasperated.
He isn’t arrogant, but he has no tolerance for arrogance in others.
He’s never impassioned. When he gets fed up, he’s an immovable object surrounded by a very soft and squishy Creation. He doesn’t need to be emotional. He’s the final, inarguable answer. He is the caretaker of the universe, and though he is a cool creature, there’s a sense of a deep, abiding responsibility and love for his charge. But it’s a very large charge, and humans are very, very small parts of it. Even so, he seems…tolerant of the Winchesters, amused, maybe even compassionate to their sufferings in a cold, ancient way.
In S6, Sam returns to life but his soul doesn’t come back with him, and so in S6E11, “Appointment in Samarra” (you may want to watch this one), Dean makes a bargain with Death: he will wear Death’s ring and does Death’s job for one day, and Death will retrieve Sam’s soul for him. It’s the most we ever see of Dean and Death in a shippable way. Death wants Dean to understand what he’s asking for. And yet despite his own reluctance, in the end Death grants it. Why? That’s a question. Loneliness seems unlikely, and yet he goes out of his way to teach Dean to understand him in some small way.
It’s not necessary to the favor.
It can make no material difference to Death whether this tiny human understands him or not. It may make some small difference to Dean…but that’s predicated on Death caring to spend effort on Dean growing and learning as a person. And yet…he inarguably does.
I’ve always wondered what that was about.
* I’m not apologizing.
(For real though, if you like Dean bloody/tied-up/on his knees/making that helpless face, then this show is the MOTHER LODE. Dear god, he spends so much time being at least one of those three things, I could rec you half the series before I even had to start thinking about whether the remaining eps had enough “quality content” to bother adding them to the list.)
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