If we could figure out Sam completely owned Dean before the first half hour of the pilot was over Sam could figure it out by four. And to a four-year-old running away to join the circus is a perfectly good excuse.
It really is. Maybe even, depending on how much sugar the kid's eaten that day, be a great excuse.
Because he's Dean and he doesn't really understand the concept of "selfish" except as something you call little brothers when you're mad at them.
AWWW! But so true, too.
I don't have kids but I know this choice. Do what you have to do and piss someone off or do what you want to do and suffer the consequences. John doesn't like his son being mad at him, doesn't like being told he's hated but he can live with it. If people died because he could prevent it and just decided not to though I don't know that he could've lived with that. He's a Marine. Semper Fi.
And that really comes across right there, excellent characterisation of John.
John knows because he is a good father and because he knows Dean. I just had to say that because I am constantly amazed by how many people don't seem to realize that.
I know, it's interesting isn't it? Sam's so pissed at his Dad, but for the first half of S1 he's the one nagging Dean 'we have to find Dad', because when everything's fucked up and he wants to avenge Jess, his Dad's the guy to go to.
And that Hello, boys? The smile, and their reactions? Yes, John is a total bastard at times with a pechant for completely thoughtless verbal cruelty, but he's also someone both his sons look up to, if not always as a father, than as a man.
I kinda love that last line. I'm really conscious of how Sam and Dean and John think of and refer to each other in my fics, and when John thinks about their safety they're his little boys; six months old and for years old again, helpless and in danger from the whole wide world. Bonus piece of canon: This is a big part of why Sam left. I am of the firm belief that John (and to a lesser severity, Dean) essentially treated Sam like a little kid up until he left. He could shoot a gun at six and helped with hunts at 11 but he's walked home from school by himself only time in his life that Dean wasn't gone on a hunt with John. He's never spent the night at someone's house without Dean there to protect him but he's stayed awake alone waiting to see if his family would make it back alive.
I've always thought something similar. That's the sort of stuff family does that makes you crazy.
Dean, Dean, Dean. Dumb fuck has this habit of getting caught--he thinks he's so much smarter than the cops that he barely even bothers trying to hide (that's totally why they never wear gloves, y'know?) and is honestly a little shocked when he gets nabbed.
And the ridiculous aliases he comes up with some time. "Agents Ford and Hamill"? OMG.
The fact that he still refers to him as "Sammy" at this point tells you just how scared he is. He trusts him in theory but he still thinks of him as the little boy who cried at the McDonald's commercials.
Cool, you've done it again!
It really is. Maybe even, depending on how much sugar the kid's eaten that day, be a great excuse.
Because he's Dean and he doesn't really understand the concept of "selfish" except as something you call little brothers when you're mad at them.
AWWW! But so true, too.
I don't have kids but I know this choice. Do what you have to do and piss someone off or do what you want to do and suffer the consequences. John doesn't like his son being mad at him, doesn't like being told he's hated but he can live with it. If people died because he could prevent it and just decided not to though I don't know that he could've lived with that. He's a Marine. Semper Fi.
And that really comes across right there, excellent characterisation of John.
John knows because he is a good father and because he knows Dean. I just had to say that because I am constantly amazed by how many people don't seem to realize that.
I know, it's interesting isn't it? Sam's so pissed at his Dad, but for the first half of S1 he's the one nagging Dean 'we have to find Dad', because when everything's fucked up and he wants to avenge Jess, his Dad's the guy to go to.
And that Hello, boys? The smile, and their reactions? Yes, John is a total bastard at times with a pechant for completely thoughtless verbal cruelty, but he's also someone both his sons look up to, if not always as a father, than as a man.
I kinda love that last line. I'm really conscious of how Sam and Dean and John think of and refer to each other in my fics, and when John thinks about their safety they're his little boys; six months old and for years old again, helpless and in danger from the whole wide world. Bonus piece of canon: This is a big part of why Sam left. I am of the firm belief that John (and to a lesser severity, Dean) essentially treated Sam like a little kid up until he left. He could shoot a gun at six and helped with hunts at 11 but he's walked home from school by himself only time in his life that Dean wasn't gone on a hunt with John. He's never spent the night at someone's house without Dean there to protect him but he's stayed awake alone waiting to see if his family would make it back alive.
I've always thought something similar. That's the sort of stuff family does that makes you crazy.
Dean, Dean, Dean. Dumb fuck has this habit of getting caught--he thinks he's so much smarter than the cops that he barely even bothers trying to hide (that's totally why they never wear gloves, y'know?) and is honestly a little shocked when he gets nabbed.
And the ridiculous aliases he comes up with some time. "Agents Ford and Hamill"? OMG.
The fact that he still refers to him as "Sammy" at this point tells you just how scared he is. He trusts him in theory but he still thinks of him as the little boy who cried at the McDonald's commercials.
No man is a hero to his valet.