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rionaleonhart) wrote2008-03-08 09:35 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2008-03-08 09:35 am
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Actually, Were They Not Related, I Bet It'd Be Canon By Now.
Here is a question for the Supernatural fans among you, whether you're Wincest people or not: how would your perception of the Sam and Dean relationship be different if they were not related? Yes, all right, I know that half the premise of Supernatural doesn't work if the boys aren't brothers, but let's set that aside for a moment. If they had the same bantering, mocking, die-for-each-other-in-a-heartbeat relationship they do at the moment, but they weren't brothers (childhood friends, let's say), how would you react to them?
I have to confess that I probably wouldn't love them quite so much; sibling relationships really are more or less my favourite thing in fiction. I'd have started 'shipping them sooner - pretty much immediately, in fact, and I wouldn't have this 'but do I actually 'ship them, or am I just interested in pairing them up because of the mental issues that would ensue?' uncertainty - but I think I would have taken much longer to start writing fanfiction, if I ever got around to it at all. Sam/Dean fascinates me because it's twisted and destructive and more likely to all go completely to hell (quite possibly literally) than not; were it not for the wrongness, I don't think I'd find it as interesting as I do.
(EDIT: There's also the fact that I'm interested in the Sam-and-Dean dynamic as both a platonic relationship and a sexual one, but for entirely different reasons; taking away the incest aspect would make the platonic and sexual relationships less radically different, which, again, would make things less interesting for me.)
The idea of the two of them not being brothers actually distresses me, for reasons I can't quite place. Distresses me to a slightly weird extent, in fact, especially when you consider the fact that this is a hypothetical situation regarding characters who are fictional anyway. It's like Holmes and Watson never meeting; it's just wrong. This is why I can't read Sam-and-Dean AUs.
I have to confess that I probably wouldn't love them quite so much; sibling relationships really are more or less my favourite thing in fiction. I'd have started 'shipping them sooner - pretty much immediately, in fact, and I wouldn't have this 'but do I actually 'ship them, or am I just interested in pairing them up because of the mental issues that would ensue?' uncertainty - but I think I would have taken much longer to start writing fanfiction, if I ever got around to it at all. Sam/Dean fascinates me because it's twisted and destructive and more likely to all go completely to hell (quite possibly literally) than not; were it not for the wrongness, I don't think I'd find it as interesting as I do.
(EDIT: There's also the fact that I'm interested in the Sam-and-Dean dynamic as both a platonic relationship and a sexual one, but for entirely different reasons; taking away the incest aspect would make the platonic and sexual relationships less radically different, which, again, would make things less interesting for me.)
The idea of the two of them not being brothers actually distresses me, for reasons I can't quite place. Distresses me to a slightly weird extent, in fact, especially when you consider the fact that this is a hypothetical situation regarding characters who are fictional anyway. It's like Holmes and Watson never meeting; it's just wrong. This is why I can't read Sam-and-Dean AUs.
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