yeah that doesn’t stop the fact that when sam knew dean was under the effect of the siren but thought you need to have sex with the siren sam wasn’t at all like “eww dean had gay sex.” as a matter of fact sam seemed unfazed.
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It’s funny how the plain text of the episode says that the Siren looks like “what ever floats the guy’s boat”, and then it looks nothing like his brother. If only we had other episodes to teach us about Dean’s type….
Before the Siren went after Dean, we saw 2 more guys under its spell, and in both cases the Siren substituted the person they loved the most and made them kill this person. The first guy killed his wife, the second guy killed his mother. Both of them had sex with the Siren – but note that sex is not necessarily the reason why they were eventually persuaded to kill their loved ones.
When the Siren impersonates Belle for Lenny (the second guy), it does not lure him in promising sex. Belle tells Lenny how impressed she is with him taking care of both her and his invalid mom, calls him ‘amazing’, tells him she loves him. Then she promises they can be together forever – she might be a stripper, but she’s no ‘bitch in a G-string’. She fulfills a very real emotional need Lenny has, and succeeds in taking his mom’s place in his heart. Note, the Siren does this not – NOT – by turning itself into an exact copy of his mom. It turns into a girl who needs someone to love, to take care of her. It isn’t the promise of sex that convinces Lenny to kill his mom – and yet, lo and behold, they have sex even though ‘Belle’ is a substitute for his mom, and sex is not the point for him.
Also, like f-ckyeahfutbol notes, Nick is nothing like Dean’s brother. He’s impressed with Dean’s car, likes the same music he does – he’s not, by any stretch of imagination, a little brother who looks up to Dean and trusts him. Nick does show trust in Dean, and he also does make a show of being impressed with Dean, but if what the Siren was going for was Sam, then it failed completely, because Nick is nothing like Sam, in looks or character. Like, at all. He’s not Little Brother Sammy™, he’s the type of guy Dean would easily befriend, maybe let his guard down around, maybe flirt with. And the writers may have gone with the silly sharing a drink thing to exchange saliva because they weren’t willing to do anything more textual, but this episode is a bi Dean subtext galore, and it’s fine if you interpret Nick/Dean just as a brotherly thing, but between Nick being nothing like Sam, Lenny having sex with Belle even though she was technically trying to substitute his elderly mother who was the most important person in Lenny’s life, and the fact that Sirens are inherently sexual creatures… a non-platonic reading of Nick/Dean is definitely valid and plausible.
Note also that this is the second Cathryn Humphris episode (cf. Dream a Little Dream of Me) in which Dean sharing his saliva with another man is an actual plot point.
reblogging for this excellent comment
and also to fix all those typos/mistakes I made before, that response was awfully rushed and it shows omg
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