Dean, what is in your heart?
What a child wants vs what a grown man wants
Dean's meta and Destiel meta. 14x13 spoiler
Hello my beautiful fandom! Here I'm a need this DESTIEL meta bc I'm so so excited!
So the last episode we saw, was a reminder from Regarding Dean, plus 14x05 and mostly 14x06 (Optimism). There was a mixture between healing Dad's issues and choices: Original Family and the Family you made and also Toxic Love vs True Love.
Before you started to read this I need you to read (if you want or have time) all the metas I wrote about Healing!Dean from the previous episodes, bc... I'm seeing now that my analysis from the first half of the season are so accurate with this second half. I could make a couple of spec that now are becoming true. So if you want to read it... Here...
14x04
Why Sammy's excuse for not liking Halloween is the symbolic representation of Dean getting out the closet
14x05
Guilt Heritage
14x06
Learn the lesson Dean
You love me but in your heart there's something before me
Season 14 general
And now is when we are really inside Dean's head
Dean's emotional prison. Healing!Dean vs Toxic!Dean
14x11
Quiting all my dreams
I will divide my analysis in two maybe three parts, one is this Dean's meta/Destiel meta, and I will talk about John and the boys later.
Ok, let's do this!
A 4 years granted wish
Remember when I said in this meta, that Dean had his mother's image that he has when he was a kid? And he needed to make the duel of that image, and he did? This is quasi the same situation.
When Sam asked Dean why he made that wish, Dean said to him that this was the desire that always wanted in his heart since he has 4 years.
But... The question is... Is that what he really wanted? Or was what he really need? Close the door and leave John behind.
The thing here was... They needed to have this reunion to heal. Dean mostly, bc he has all that heritage in his heart. And bc he needed to hear his father said he was proud of him...
This 👆in 14x05, Dean projecting himself in Sam (as a leader) he said the words he needed to heard from his dad. This episode was a prelude to what will be coming. The chat between Sasha and Dean, in which Dean said LET IT GO, is so applicable to last night episode. You will need to read my meta about that episode here, bc I don't want to sound repetitive 🤣🤣.
Dean had a long list of Daddy issues, but he still was longing for him and for a family reunion, to be together, happy as they were before Yellow Eyes.
That's the wish from Dean's Innocent childhood heart, bc inside of him he knew... He need to forgive John Winchester and let him go.
What a 40 years old man wants
But when they saw (Sam and Dean) the consequences of that wish, they changes their minds.
Dean was wanted by the police, and Sam a kind of guru. They begin to think that wasn't a good idea and maybe they should reverse the wish.
But is more interesting how Dean was decided to definitely choose his family and his hunting life, after they saw that Castiel didn't know him
This was a huge heartbreaking feeling for Dean, he had lost his hunting life, and now, he had lost Castiel. And that, my friends, was the thing. Not doubts. He wouldn't allow to lose, not his life as a hunter, not his family, and he would never lose Castiel again.
That's the real desire/wish in Dean's heart. That's what he, as a 40 years old grown up man, wants for real. Just remember the last phrase he said in Regarding Dean.
If happiness was losing everything what they were or what they do, then... Dean didn't want it...
And Dean saying "I have a family" to his dad... Was huge... Bc he said so with such a melancholic face... He wanted his family back... And CAS back. And I sensed too... He was showing he wasn't a ladies man... He wants another things in his life...
So now... He choose, his Family and romantic love over John Winchester, and he forgive him, and he let him go.
And he heard from his dad the thing he needed to hear : "I'M SO PROUD OF YOU." And was huge too Dean used the "L" word again with John... "I love you too."
To conclude:
John Winchester arrived in the moment that Dean and Sam needed, grown up men, empathizing with his father's failures, forgiving him, and choosing their lives, family and friends, over him. A beautiful way to let this old scars healing.
A huge step for Dean in his Healing process, and now we have to continue the path to self acceptance and self love.
I hope you like this messy thing... I'll see you in the next one!
Buenos Aires February 8th 2010 2:45 PM
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