More Supernatural fanning (and I really need an icon for it)

[sholio]

Curse you, xparrot and derry667! Dean Winchester has stolen my BRAIN!

You know, I didn't even really LIKE Dean in the first couple of episodes. And then, well ... there was a string of episodes culminating in "Faith", and by the point in "Nightmares" when he tells Sam that he won't let anything hurt him, I was just a fannish goo-puddle on the couch.

The eyelashes don't help. I think he gives Rodney McKay a run for the money in the "awesome eyelashes" department. Well, just his eyes in general, really ...

If I were to have a "type" (and being that I'm married, I probably shouldn't) Dean Winchester would not be that "type". I know the kinds of guys that appeal to me, on TV as in real life -- the sarcastic geeks. I'm not drawn to the macho gunslingers. At all. Usually.

Obviously it's a whole different story with sarcastic macho gunslingers with a soft marshmallow center that go all protective for their little brother.

I realize that I'm only up to about episode 15 or so at this point, so I'm still getting a handle on the characters and who they are. What made me fall so hard for Dean, I think, is the glimpses that we get of the side of him that is both incredibly self-sacrificing and someewhat self-hating. As my husband pointed out after we watched "Faith", in the reaper scene at the end, "he didn't try to run away." And I really do think that he would have just stood there and let the reaper take his life, knowing that in doing so the girl's life would be saved, and also feeling that he didn't deserve to live at another's expense.

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I know how you feel!

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I don't really know what attracts me to certain personalities in certain series. With Supernatural, I was immedietly drawn to Dean. It was instant. The same came with Rodney. But strangely, when I first started watching SGA, I really thought that I would be drawn to John, but nope, McKay was the one that captivated my attention, which was weird because Jack was the one in SG1, I guess I go for the wounded hero type. BTW, I found this wonderful story on the boys of Supernatural that is so good I just have to share it with all. It is well written, save for a few errors here and there, but the story line and the personification of both characters is flawless.

Here's the link, I know you'll love it:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2787883/1/

Re: I know how you feel!

[sholio]

Well, hi! :)

I know what you mean about being immediately attracted to certain characters. Some have done that to me. Others have been what I think of as "slow burn" (like Dean), where I start out indifferent or even disliking them, and then fall like a ton of bricks as I get to know their personality on the show.

About the fic you recommend above ... does it have any spoilers? Because I've only seen up to about season 1, ep 16, at this point, and don't want to read anything that has spoilers past the part of the series that I've seen.

Re: I know how you feel!

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The story takes place right after Faith, and since you said that you already saw all the episodes leading up to Faith. It's really great. It brings both of Sammy's worlds into a collition course that I have never seen done in such a realistic insightful way. There's a lot of brothers pathos and it lets you view the relationship between in the brothers and gives us glimpses into what life was for them during and before Sam leaves for Standford. There's no "fixes" or anything AU, you can read this story and feel it would fit nicely in the continuety of the show.