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It wasn't established any degree of remembrance, either way. This assumption is just fanon.
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Yep, IA. The show is entirely ambiguous as to whether Dean remembered everything from the start or not.
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How do you know he didn't remember from the beginning? I believe that he did remember it all from the beginning and lied about it. His lie to Sam was a pretty obvious one. Regardless, the show has not established otherwise.
Trauma often takes time to hit. Even if you remember something well it can take time for the full impact to hit you.
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He said he didn't, he didn't know anything about how he got out, and he generally didn't act like someone who had just emerged from 40 years in Hell when he woke up. That isn't allowing the full time for trauma to hit. Trauma was Dean's normal. He'd spent more time in Hell than on Earth, but he didn't act like that when he was first resurrected. He acted like S3!Dean. Not to mention that when he got to a mirror, he pulled up his shirt to look at where the Hellhounds had torn him apart. Why would he have done that if he remembered Hell and being ripped completely to shreds over and over again? Why would his death wound have been what he checked on?
He did lie to Sam about remembering nothing, but we saw him having those microflashbacks. It was clear to me that was what he was lying about remembering, not all of Hell.
It's not stated outright, but it's not stated outright that he was suicidal in S2, either. I didn't think it would have had to have been.
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He did lie to Sam about remembering nothing, but we saw him having those microflashbacks. It was clear to me that was what he was lying about remembering, not all of Hell.
That's a leap you're making though. It wasn't as clear to many others in this thread (hence the discussion) so, for many of us, the microflashbacks were indicative of greater flashbacks they just weren't showing us, not any representation of the degree of memory at Dean's disposal.
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I think either way works with canon, personally, so it becomes something of a fanon preference rather than a black and white canon thing, since canon is ambiguous.
I think not remembering until later or gradually remembering is more consistent with his behavior, but can totally see how other people see it the other way.
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It would've been pretty wild, actually. The way they ended up doing it was quite controlled and subdued by comparison... Dean's trauma was almost completely buried under the brother vs brother drama, and only came out in slight visual cues (sleeping with his clothes on on top of the covers, heightened drinking) and the occasional barb from Castiel (plus the eps with Alistair, although only the third really had anything to say about Dean's PTSD).
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I'm curious whether canon!Dean remembers the rescue at all. We've never had any sort of description of that scene and all we know is that Dean doesn't know what happened in 4.01. Dean remembering Cas from the beginning might have saved Pamela her sight because he might have been able to give her some info to go off of instead of having her wander in blind. Pun very much not intended. D ( ... )
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