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Dean and Carmen's apartment.
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Dean and Carmen's apartment.
If Dean was to have a long term romantic partner who should it be ?
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Lisa
Cassie
Carmen
Amara
Benny
Sam
Crowley
Anna Milton
Baby
Castiel
Gabriel
Dream Dean Girl
Summary: Dean runs into a girl from his past a figment of his imagination.
Pairing: Dean x Carmen (except not)
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 354
A/N: Just a short and sweet little drabble. I've always wondered what might happen if Dean were ever to run into "Carmen" in the real world. In other words, the real woman from the ad that he brought into his "prefect world" in What Is and What Should Never Be. This is my little imagine of that moment. Hope you enjoy. ❤️
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“Carmen?”
Dean’s voice was incredulous as he stared at the woman he’d loved once upon a time in a land far far away.
The dark-haired beauty pulled up short as Dean stepped in front of her. She put her hand to her chest in surprise.
Her dark, almost black, eyes stared up at him, blinking in confusion. “I’m sorry?”
Dean wanted to kick himself. Why the fuck did he stop her? This woman didn’t know him; she was nothing more than a dream he’d had once, a small piece of his imagination pulled from the back of his subconscious.
He shook his head. “Sorry, you just…I thought you were someone else.”
“Oh.” She said in a quiet voice and then smiled softly at him. “Lucky someone.”
Dean felt himself flush, an involuntary reaction that always hit him when a woman flirted with him first, or someone treated him gently. He never knew how to deal with that.
Sam appeared suddenly from inside the old building where they suspected a vengeful spirit was holed up. He caught sight of his brother talking with a beautiful woman he didn’t recognize and rolled his eyes.
“Dean!” He called. “Sorry, but uh, we’ve gotta…” He thumbed towards the building.
Dean nodded at his little brother and waved him away. “Yeah, yeah.”
He looked back at the woman who wasn’t Carmen. God she really was stunning. She looked over to where Sam was standing and then back at Dean.
“Seems like you’ve got places to be, Dean.” Her smile was just as sweet and charming as he remembered from her time in his dreams. “But maybe I could give you my number and you can tell me about Carmen and how she got so lucky.”
Dean nodded stupidly and handed her his phone. She put in her number and handed it back. When her hand was empty she ran it up his arm to squeeze his bicep gently.
“Bye Dean.”
As she walked away, her hips swaying seductively, he raised his hand and gave a feeble wave. “Bye -” He glanced down at his phone and read her entry. “Carrie.”
He grinned. “Close enough.”
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Aahh I love that you're drawing the spn ladies, I love them so much <333 Could you draw Carmen from 2x20? Thanks!!
Carmen Porter
[if anyone wants to support me ☕]
It was a little hard to draw her, I hope you like it. Thanks for the request <3
Requests still open, please don't repost
↳ make me choose @naturallyathief asked: dean's djinn dream world or dean's michael dream world?
Shal, I hope you are feeling better! I wanted to add something to your Silvia-Amara meta if you don't mind me putting something into the mix as a long shot. Carmen from the djinn dream in What is and Should Never Be looks a lot like both of them. That seems like something!
Thank you. I'm feeling some better, but veeery sore and sleepless for the pain. (On the flipside, I can breathe better and already have more energy.)
This is so iiiiiiiinteresting, thank you!
I'll be honest...I had to go back to remind myself what Carmen even looked like. But yes! Carmen from the El Sol ad! Carmen the nurse! (I always thought she was a nod to one of Dean's psychosexual fixations, too; that is, films with hot men who dance like Swayze (Carmen 1983). I mean, hello Antonio Gades.
Plus, you know his thing for Spanish soap operas... ("Mi amor! Mi amor! Por favor despierta!" Poor Ricardo.)
And Dean's love for soaps from 7x03 The Girl Next-door. (Yes, the "My love, my love, please wake up!" one.)
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Ahem. Anyway. Back to our Carmen. *points* Oh, my God. Yeah, it's El Sol, but it's also the specter of the beach. I am choking on my own spit here.
There's definitely something analogous in Sylvia (from season 15's Gimme Shelter) being an idealized something that Connor maybe thought he wanted, felt comfort going after, or tried to make himself want.
For that matter, I think there's something parallel here in how Amara views her love for Dean, too. Amara's view of Dean is idealized, draped in always-or-never statements, and impersonal. Meanwhile, the Dean of season 11 has grown immensely since the djinn dream in season 2. His conceptualization of love has become less romanticized:
DEAN: I can’t explain it, but to call it desire or love…it’s not that.
Carmen was an ideal, and Amara was perhaps the network's ideal, but Sylvia is actually not quite as one-to-one to either of them here. Sylvia was a real relationship with Connor, even if was perhaps a tragic childhood misstep for Connor while he was trying to figure himself out.
Of course, Carmen Porter's own words come back to haunt the Dean & Amara and Dean & Carmen relationships. Even our idealized romantic relationships falter, and they too become as baggage-ridden as our family, and our family is imperfect.
CARMEN: Well, you don't really spend a lot of time together. I mean, I just think you don't know each other all that well.
In early days, Dean's conceptualization of Carmen is adorably immature, like a teenager's dream: someone who accepts my eating habits n' idiosyncrasies, listens to me, and loves me. Someone who is "respectable" and stable. (In season 2, Dean is still, like Amara, dealing with the core wound of his nursery.)
Sylvia and Connor seemed to know each other quite well and were "a couple." He genuinely loved her, in his own way. Their connection just wasn't exactly what Sylvia thought it was, or wanted it to be. She became angry with Connor and called him a LIAR, and then she murdered him.
Dean has carried healthy relationships with dark-eyed beauties as well, like Lisa Braeden and "I-thought-we-had-a-connection" Risa from season 5's The End.
Hmmm. Okay, yes. I think your point is a good point. And it has branching points, too. There's a lot tangled up in here! Season 15's Sylvia Jones has some uncomfortable similarities to season 5's Risa, especially.
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(REF: Here's the recent stuff about Sylvia and Amara-Silvia stuff and more Amara failing to recognize romantic love and Chuck setting Amara up for disappointment.)
Dean's girlfriend he calls the one in 2x20 being called Carmen like... we get what you love Dean..... cars and men......
Dean & Carmen - SPN // 2x20
For @aborddelimpala #SPNValentine