and seriously Dean is so terrifying with the way he wants to just…have Sam in every way possible like…he won’t die unless I let him, I will do everything I can to die before he does because a life without him is essentially meaningless, and after I am dead, he will continue living because I told him to do so. I’ll give him a false sense of freedom by pushing him toward women and lasting relationships, but it’s really just a test to see if he’ll choose me, and he does, every time. and if he didn’t, that would mean that I have failed. He is mine and that is almost all that I am.
and like….THAT is Dean Winchester. it’s not some limp-dick “family is everything” trope- it’s quite literally the violent and sensational possession of his little brother over absolutely everyone and everything else, and that is literally. so. fucking. appealing. to. witness.