Something about Sam, especially in the later seasons, is that he is the first one to forgive, the first one to sympathise and the first one to understand.
After everything he's been through, being a pawn jerked around the chess board his entire childhood by heaven and hell, being tainted with demon blood, The Cage - it only makes him further believe in the persevering goodness that exists in people. Even when proved wrong, even when it comes back to bite him in the ass, still he sympathises.
After Castiel went haywire in s6/7 and broke his wall merely as a way to hold Dean back, still Sam prays to him and says that he forgives him, that he still thinks of him as family.
After Mary reveals she is working with the BMOL behind the brother's backs, the same people who kidnapped and tortured Sam for days, Sam is the first one who responds to her and meets with her to try and understand her perspective, even when he is still angry and hurt.
Once Jack is born, without Castiel and Kelly, Sam is the first one to believe in his goodness. To fight for him, even against his own brother, even though this is the son of his tormentor.
Even when they catch Ketch again in s13 and Ketch spews some crazy shit about being his twin brother, even though it's stupid and it comes back to bite him in the ass, Sam gives him the benefit of the doubt. He lets him out of the dungeon and gives him a sandwich.
He is the first to forgive Castiel again and again and the first to make an effort to understand his perspective.
I just... I love sam so much... he just believes so much in other people and their capacity for goodness and change. He knows from experience how messed up the world is and how being put in certain situations can make you do bad things, so he always gives people the benefit of the doubt.
This is my headcanon for what happened while Rosie was talking to Charlie
So bold of spn to say "Dean's happy ending is he gets to be in Heaven with his loved ones" when there's a literal episode in season 5 where Dean goes to Heaven, learns that they're perfect pockets catered specifically to the person's needs and want's AKA HEAVEN and then gets in a debate with Pamela about "dying not being so bad" where he rejects Heaven and tells her that getting to live and free will is still better than playacting your ideal moment on loop.
Dean wanted a chance at living so bad and never got it because he was too busy acting out the roles handed to him and by the time he finally has a chance to live and make of his life what he wills he's too miserable to try (and it's already been taken away from him anyway) and gets blasted up to heaven. Like, yes, Heaven isn't so lonely anymore now the walls have been torn down but he still never got a chance to LIVE and experience and grow because Heaven is still static.
SPN said "death is a cop-out not a happy ending" and then ten years later they killed the character that believed it the most.
Aziraphale *praying*: God, why must you give me the toughest battles. Why you had to make Crowley so beautiful. So brilliant. So special. And then keep on sending him my way all the time! Testing me!
God: Aziraphale.
Aziraphale: GOD?!
God: Aziraphale, you literally, on purpose, with intent, got yourself captured in France, because you knew that’s where Crowley would be, you wore your prettiest clothes and shoes, done your hair, and sat there waiting for him to rescue you instead of saving yourself which you could have done without breaking a sweat. You squeaked in happiness when he appeared. And then you invited him on a date.
Aziraphale: …
God: …
Aziraphale: Since when do you respond?
The funniest thing about Supernatural gotta be that Cas was this clueless nerdy dude who couldn't flirt if his life depended on it. and yet he somehow ended up with two wives and a husband.
the Winchesters' behavior makes so much more sense when you realize they're concussed and sleep deprived for like 90% of the show
men will say shit like "what broke the connection?" after they got on their knees in front of another man, let him hit & bloody their face while telling him how much they need him between the punches. wild.
Both Aziraphale and Crowley exude both “baby girl” and “that bitch” energy in completely different ways.
So we all know this scene, right?
And we know how Dazai tries to handle it by pretending to be a scared kid and Chuuya interrupts him to challenge the guy to a fight, because I have been thinking about these tactics recently.
Dazai is not really mafia at this point, this is his first mission. He's still somewhat naive to the world of gangs, even if he's witnessed it, he's not lived it like Chuuya has. This tactic of acting like a scared little kid, definitely feels like something Dazai pulled when trying to get away with things around regular adults. I mean, look how easily he turns on those tears, it's practiced, he's used to it working.
He's responding to what the guy is saying, he calls them "kids" and looks confused as to why kids are here. Dazai then selects the defenceless innocent act as a way to get out of being held at gun point and possibly get information.
He's used to this kind of thing working, but the fact is, if Chuuya hadn't interrupted him, it most likely wouldn't of. Because Dazai doesn't know the type of enemy he's up against, he doesn't know these people are willing to cross the line and harm kids yet.
Look at these panels closely. The panel before Dazai starts faking crying the gun is pointed directly at him,
whilst he starts his crying act in the panels previously mentioned, the gun is still squarely on him, and afterwards
In the top panel it is still pointing at him, until Chuuya speaks. His tactic isn't working. The enemy never wavers or lowers his gun, he either doesn't believe Dazai or doesn't care.
Chuuya sees that. He sees the gun still pointing at Dazai. He looks annoyed in the first panel above because this man, as far as he knows, is pointing a gun at an innocent kid.
And as soon as Chuuya speaks, the gun shifts to him. Chuuya, King of Sheep, protector and shield. A boy so used to defending those weaker than him, he smiles when he's able to get the attention of a man holding a gun. As far as Chuuya is concerned at this point, Dazai might as well be as defenceless as the rest of The Sheep. Sure, he has his ability No Longer Human, but what good is that against a grown man with a gun? So Chuuya defends him the same way he defends his friends.
And he makes sure to keep that attention on him whilst he tests this man. Yeah, we know he puts his head to the gun to transfer his ability, but I also think it's important that Chuuya waits in this moment. He doesn't just take this guy out because of a perceived threat, he waits until it's confirmed. Chuuya doesn't throw the first punch because Chuuya doesn't start fights, he fights back. Just like The Sheep said, he hits their enemies back a thousand times harder.
Dazai complains Chuuya interrupted him here, but Dazai was completely out of his depth in this moment. Chuuya didn't ruin his plan, he saved his life.
i think a lot of people don’t realise that cas pulling dean out of hell in lazarus rising wasn’t cas pulling dean off the rack, it was cas pulling dean AWAY FROM the rack, away from the people he was torturing
the first time cas touched dean he saw the pain dean was inflicting on other people, saw the way he enjoyed it, and it didn’t change how pure dean was to him, it didn’t make him any less good