New SPN Fic: Prayers to Summon the Destroying Angel

[esorlehcar]

I seem, kind of bizarrely and completely accidentally, to have ended up with a 'verse, which I suppose I should get around to naming, at some point. Anyway, um. More. Though you don't really need the other stories and there isn't really slash and I don't really know what more to say beyond that this kind of wrote itself without a lot of active

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[esorlehcar]

Oh, John fucked Sam and Dean in HUGE ways, and in many ways Dean more than Sam simply because Sam was able to make the break (which clearly John fought tooth and nail) and Dean never even tried. I love John, too, and I hate it when people try to make him into the boogeyman -- as with both his sons, he's a complex character with strengths and flaws and anyone who ignores either not paying attention or a lousy fucking writer.

I'll go you one better, and say I think adding John on a regular would kill the show. I like the character, I do, but what makes the show amazing is Sam and Dean, their relationship with each other and the evolution of that, and what makes it fun is them being boys and brothers. You add John in all the time, you lose all that. They become sons and soldiers; it's more dour, more angry, more fraught. Which can be very effective for episodes here and there, but would be torturous as a weekly exercise.

I think he would feel completely unhinged. I really would like a fic where we get to see the damage done by Sam's absence when there was no 'buffer' between him and John.

Your mouth to god's ears, man. That could be amazing.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it really would. John's just too....suicidally focused to ever be lighthearted or let the boys play pranks... And i think Dean would just sink right back down into himself if John were there all the time.

I think that's what happened a lot - Dean just goes on automatic soldier around John, particularly 'pre show', and all of *him* just...goes away. I think maybe Sam saw that and it freaked him out - made him panic and made him mad at John *and* Dean. I think he sees how important it is for Dean to fight his dad so he fought *for* him, and Dean's finally seeing it, too.