All the yes to this. I think it is actually not so terribly impossible that we will see this sort of Demon!Dean (and with that one that Crowley never counted on Dean becoming and with that really far harder to ~control than he expects). Not a mindless killing machine, but a Dean without inhibitions, without any walls, without any barriers, without any chains and self-doubts weighing him down. Unleashed. And I very much would like it, if all of that goes hand in hand with Dean not being bound by the usual demonic stuff like devil traps, holy water and whatever else.
In fact, not only would it be the much more compelling story to tell, but it would also be something I personally think canon has pushed as a notion as well. Demons were never presented as emotionless on SPN and neither have angels btw iny my opinion. Meg very clearly had emotions, Ruby very clearly had emotions and Crowley even before he was dosed up with human bloodd had emotions. None of them were mindless killing machines. They had their own twisted agendas. Cruel and violent and sometimes downright evil, but they were never puppets on strings (or at least I feel that way).
Now you could say all of those feelings were pretend, but I highly doubt it, because in the end what makes demons such perfect ~opponents in my opinion is not that they don’t feel, but rather that they have embraced the darkness they have become and don’t feel the restraints of norms, but feel free to act on their impulses, their ids, which happen to overshadow and overpower the other emotions and their superego.
So I absolutely agree with what 4persephone says above and very much believe - if the show doesn’t turn everything around about demonhood due to Dean being an exception not bound by the regular demon stuff, because he also carries the mark of Cain - we should see a Dean like this. Dean finally freed, allowing all of his feelings and maybe at the beginning being overtaken by everything he had previously pushed down (which would be his darkness and urges). The blade did that already, but I could imagine we could possibly see a bit more of it. Though of course Cain becoming a demon helped in controlling the blade and his bloodlust…
Anyway, this is getting way too long, but apparently I am having a lot of thoughts and feelings about this this morning. 0_0 Just imagine how amazing this would be, Dean embracing himself in his fullest (but needing to find a way to balance it out eventually) and expressing himself (love and love is all I am saying). Wounding his loved ones and every other person around him not with sheer brutal violence, but with words. Because in the end, it’s not their powers that make demons so ~dangerous and effective (at least imo), it’s their ability to get in your head (and I don’t mean by possession) by telling the truth. Honesty. That’s their biggest asset in a way. Brutal honesty, no matter how hurtful. After all right in the first season - if I remember correctly - Azazel says something along the lines of
"I give you that Dean. We demons lie when it suits us, but we don’t lie nearly as much as people think we are."
And if Dean - even if he might not be bound by the typical things demons are bound by (demon killing knife, devil traps, holy water) - is similar in this regard, then Demon!Dean might be the most honest (and therefore possibly the most painful but also amazing) we will ever see Dean…
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