About Wincest....
Before embarking on my tumblr adventure I had, of course, heard mention of Wincest. I made the appropriate faces and noises. How could they have a relationship like that? I mean, come on, they’re brothers.
Exactly.
Let’s analyze said brotherly relationship. First there’s the younger brother. Sam, who never knew his mother. Who knew his father as an absentee, paranoid and sometimes drunk, larger-than-life figure. I’m not saying John was a bad father. He was being the best parent that he could in the circumstances. He knew what was out there in the dark and faced it everyday. And he was petrified that something would come for his two sons. And he still left them alone for days on end.
What was constant in Sam’s life was Dean. Dean was simply everything. He was brother, father, mother, caretaker, playmate, teacher, hero, friend. Sam grew up worshiping his older brother, studying him, wanting so much to be like him. Sam never had a normal relationship. There was never anything normal about his life which is why I think he craved it so desperately. Why he tried to escape. And what happened when he did finally find a nice girl and develop a relationship? That person died horribly. Who was there to pick up the pieces? Dean.
Then there’s Dean, who from the time he carried Sammy out of their burning house had one thing drilled into his brain by the father he idolized. PROTECT SAMMY. He’s your responsibility. Take care of him at all costs. And Sam is all Dean has from that normal life he used to have. Dad has become a different person. Mom is dead. Sammy is all. Sammy is everything. Sammy.
Almost everyone they have ever loved has been taken from them. They live an isolated life unable, or maybe unwilling, to form normal relationships. One night stands work for Dean while Sam takes the opposite route and only seeks out companionship sparingly. And god help the poor girl when he does. The spend almost every day, every minute together either in the impala, in cramped motel rooms and on the job. They can’t talk anyone else about their work, only to each other.
And they will do anything for the other.
They will sell their soul and go to Hell to save the other. They will turn into someone unrecognizable if the other is not there. Their love for each other literally saved the world. And they can forgive each other anything.
Yes, they are brothers. But neither one is normal and neither is their relationship. Taking all this into account it’s entirely possible, even likely, that they would love each other as more than brothers.
Because they are soul mates. They share a heaven and they share a bond that neither Heaven nor Hell can break.
Their love is a beautiful thing to see. There’s nothing shameful or disgusting about love between two adults who need one another like they need air to breathe.
This turned out being way longer than I anticipated but this what I think about when someone says Wincest.
“Look in my eyes and you will find me, but look in my heart and you will find you.” Unknown author