You know what just occurred to me?!
(Probably, have to admit, thanks to the longer-than-LOTR endverse fic that is currently ruining my life?)
Apocalypse rehash or no, I suddenly feel like we’ve been led through–in painful, excruciating, let down by everyone including himself, two fucking year long detail–the hollowing out and formation of endverse Dean.
We’re there now. Agonizing but beautiful to me headcanon: what if the flaws of all the relevant characters (dean’s obsessions, sam’s arrogance, cas’s instinctive distance…) would in many timelines have catapulted Dean to that darkness? You can change the details, but it always leads here…maybe not to a militia camp on the forefront of an apocalyptic battle, but…to a lost, shut off, violent man…
I’ve been saying since last season that we’ve been in Endverse for a long time now.