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[liptonrm]

I've been sitting on this bit of meta for quite a while and now seems like as good as any time to finally put my words down into some sort of physical form. Enjoy.

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[liptonrm]

just to the idea that it's so logical Dean would see himself as Mulder (the archetypal hero figure) because Dean revels in certain heroic traits, enjoys it, cultivates the door-kicking heroic facade even if he doesn't demand to be called a hero.

Oh, absolutely. Dean definitely sees himself as The Hero of the piece. What's funny is that Mulder isn't the sort of hero that Dean would pattern himself after. He's way too emo and disturbed. Though he totally feels for the guy over that whole 'my little sibling was stolen from me' deal.

but I think Dean has a larger hero role in his own right than Scully does. Not that TXF never gave her a unique arc or quests for herself, but Mulder had his crusade, and Scully followed Mulder following his crusade.

I did think of this while I was putting everything into some coherent order. It really does benefit Dean as a character to be a brother rather then an FBI partner because for as much as they did to entangle Scully in the conspiracy everything always happened because of Mulder.

There definitely are many parallels between all of them. Meta isn't an exact science, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. ;-) They're the same, except when they're not. Man I love our show.