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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-12-06 06:50 pm

[ SECRET POST #2530 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2530 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
This is the thing that seems to escape so many fans. It can't be denied that John was a fairly shitty parent, but a big part of that derives from the fact that under the same circumstances (including not only their post-Azazel situation, but also his own abandonment issues with his father Henry, his unhealthy obsession with Mary that was instilled in him by angelic intervention and he could not help having, and his time in Vietnam in the Marines) ANYBODY would likely have been a shitty parent.

As Sam and Dean have both observed, the guy did the best he could and it could have been a lot worse. Not only could he have spiralled into extreme drunken abuse and made their less-than-happy childhoods a living Hell, but if he'd actually tried to settle down and raise them in some sort of normal fashion, Sam would almost certainly have wound up surrounded and influenced by Lucifer's demons much younger than he did.

To me it says a lot for John that he raised two boys (granted, with help from Bobby, God bless him) who've stood up to Heaven, Hell and all other comers, lived to tell the tale, and haven't lost their humanity in the process.

(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)

To me it says a lot for John that he raised two boys (granted, with help from Bobby, God bless him) who've stood up to Heaven, Hell and all other comers, lived to tell the tale, and haven't lost their humanity in the process.


I don't really watch SPN religiously (I've watched bits of the first few seasons and know enough about the rest to follow newer episodes here and there), but I love this.