An opinion
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fufarawI like Castiel. As he's the third lead on the show, I wish we would get more of his storyline. I'd really like to see more interaction between Cas and Sam, as well as some more focus on his story. The Naomi storyline is interesting, but show isn't really devoting enough time to it to give it any importance.
I tend to sit with the Wincest folks because their knowledge of and respect for show canon reaches back to first season, and the stories they're interested in involve both Sam and Dean. I can't buy into Destiel for many reasons, but the main one is, I can't accept a storyline that sidelines either brother, or one that separates them.
My own opinon is canon: they're soulmates. Neither is able to function as well alone as they do when they work together, live close enough together that while not necessarily in each other's pockets, the other is reassuringly in sight, sound, and scent most of the time.
Since season one I've accepted the knowledge that they grew up entwined, emotionally dependent on each other, physically intimate due to living conditions and familiarity with each other's bodies from wound-tending and training. I don't necessarily believe they have, or have ever had, a sexual relationship, nor do I believe they have not. I don't think, in the long run, that that detail is important. What is important is that they are interwoven personalities; they depend on each other like a limb, or eyes, or ears. If one is missing, it handicaps the other, if the absence is long enough, the handicap becomes a chronic pain of absence. Neither functions well without frequent proximity to the other, but, nothing about that proximity requires sex.
Sex is obtainable, either in friendly one night stands, or in a friends-with-benefits arrangement with one or more people--people of either sex. I don't see sexual attraction being any more of a problem to Winchester men than obtaining sex would be. Bisexual, het, gay…in the long run, it doesn't matter, as long as the other person's warm, willing, and welcoming, with no strings. Because, there's the catch. Neither of them can commit to a marriage, or a relationship, or a lover, because the commitment's already been made--to his soulmate.
What matters is that when it counts, when he needs a hand at his back, when he needs a warm presence in the room, when he needs to know he's not the only one who remembers…motel rooms, a tough, demanding parent, hard times, hunger, the rough reassuring grumble of the car in the middle of a night-time drive to a new hunt, hell. When he needs to know that somebody's there who understands and needs his understanding back, he needs his brother. And that's enough.
Friendships? We always hope they'll hold and last. Sex? Nice to scratch that itch once in a while. But having the one person at your back that's like your other half? No wife or husband, no lover, no picket fence or apple pie is ever going to take the place of that.
I tend to sit with the Wincest folks because their knowledge of and respect for show canon reaches back to first season, and the stories they're interested in involve both Sam and Dean. I can't buy into Destiel for many reasons, but the main one is, I can't accept a storyline that sidelines either brother, or one that separates them.
My own opinon is canon: they're soulmates. Neither is able to function as well alone as they do when they work together, live close enough together that while not necessarily in each other's pockets, the other is reassuringly in sight, sound, and scent most of the time.
Since season one I've accepted the knowledge that they grew up entwined, emotionally dependent on each other, physically intimate due to living conditions and familiarity with each other's bodies from wound-tending and training. I don't necessarily believe they have, or have ever had, a sexual relationship, nor do I believe they have not. I don't think, in the long run, that that detail is important. What is important is that they are interwoven personalities; they depend on each other like a limb, or eyes, or ears. If one is missing, it handicaps the other, if the absence is long enough, the handicap becomes a chronic pain of absence. Neither functions well without frequent proximity to the other, but, nothing about that proximity requires sex.
Sex is obtainable, either in friendly one night stands, or in a friends-with-benefits arrangement with one or more people--people of either sex. I don't see sexual attraction being any more of a problem to Winchester men than obtaining sex would be. Bisexual, het, gay…in the long run, it doesn't matter, as long as the other person's warm, willing, and welcoming, with no strings. Because, there's the catch. Neither of them can commit to a marriage, or a relationship, or a lover, because the commitment's already been made--to his soulmate.
What matters is that when it counts, when he needs a hand at his back, when he needs a warm presence in the room, when he needs to know he's not the only one who remembers…motel rooms, a tough, demanding parent, hard times, hunger, the rough reassuring grumble of the car in the middle of a night-time drive to a new hunt, hell. When he needs to know that somebody's there who understands and needs his understanding back, he needs his brother. And that's enough.
Friendships? We always hope they'll hold and last. Sex? Nice to scratch that itch once in a while. But having the one person at your back that's like your other half? No wife or husband, no lover, no picket fence or apple pie is ever going to take the place of that.
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