Personality: Like any person in the history of existence, Dean has his share of positive and negative traits. In Dean’s case, he’s not exactly consistent. He could be displaying one trait and depending upon the situation, it could fall into the categories of either positive or negative. Overall, he’s a genuinely good guy.
He’s been involved with hunting since childhood and this has moulded him into the man he is today; the entirety of his life since his mother’s death has been being dragged across the country. This is a lifestyle he’s come to accept, because there isn’t another option for him. He knows he has no future in a “normal” life; he dropped out of high school, and front the constant moving, he never learnt how to form meaningful relationships with anyone outside of his father and brother. What was the point? He’d just be moving again in a day, or a week, or a month. His future lies with the one thing he’s good at—hunting. Someone has to do it. If he doesn’t, who will? If he has a normal lifestyle and doesn’t hunt, more people are going to needlessly die. It’s the job no one wants and nothing good actually comes out of it.
From his years growing up on the move with his father, he’s learnt a variety of skills. He’s apparently talented at poker and has no qualms with credit card fraud; it’s the only way he can truly make an income. The investigative aspects of his job has also given him the ability to lie and act very well; put him in a suit and he could be a very convincing FBI agent, despite his young age. He’s able to get people to trust him in these situations, and not only because he’s posing as an authority figure, but because despite his lack of education, he is knowledgeable in subjects that pertain to his interests. (See: monsters, demons, supernatural things, his car—which he was able to completely restore despite being totalled.)
On the night his mother died, his father told him to look after Sammy. Since then, that’s become the mantra for his life. Obviously hunting takes a great deal of his time and energy, but there is absolutely nothing he wouldn’t do for Sam. He would give his life for him, and has done so. It could even be said that Dean is emotionally co-dependent to his brother. There are moments where it seems like Dean can’t be happy unless Sam’s with him. It doesn’t matter that they don’t always see eye to eye, he’s the older brother. Anything that happens in Sam’s life is completely his responsibility. If something bad happened? Guess whose fault it is for not looking after him well enough?
The biggest fault Dean has, apart from his obsession with food and drinking, is that he’s reckless. He has a hero complex and he tends to rush right into the line of fire without putting much planning into consideration. This typically occurs when he’s already worked up about something. Even still, the usually needs someone sensible to counterbalance his recklessness in given situations.
Another thing to note about Dean is his lack of technological prowess. It shouldn’t be surprising considering he lives on the road. Sam is typically the one to do online research. When it’s left to Dean, Mister-I-Don’t-Know-What-Myspace-Is, you can expect him to be unable to turn up any results in search databases, because he typed in something about ghost killers in a newspaper archive or something.
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He’s been involved with hunting since childhood and this has moulded him into the man he is today; the entirety of his life since his mother’s death has been being dragged across the country. This is a lifestyle he’s come to accept, because there isn’t another option for him. He knows he has no future in a “normal” life; he dropped out of high school, and front the constant moving, he never learnt how to form meaningful relationships with anyone outside of his father and brother. What was the point? He’d just be moving again in a day, or a week, or a month. His future lies with the one thing he’s good at—hunting. Someone has to do it. If he doesn’t, who will? If he has a normal lifestyle and doesn’t hunt, more people are going to needlessly die. It’s the job no one wants and nothing good actually comes out of it.
From his years growing up on the move with his father, he’s learnt a variety of skills. He’s apparently talented at poker and has no qualms with credit card fraud; it’s the only way he can truly make an income. The investigative aspects of his job has also given him the ability to lie and act very well; put him in a suit and he could be a very convincing FBI agent, despite his young age. He’s able to get people to trust him in these situations, and not only because he’s posing as an authority figure, but because despite his lack of education, he is knowledgeable in subjects that pertain to his interests. (See: monsters, demons, supernatural things, his car—which he was able to completely restore despite being totalled.)
On the night his mother died, his father told him to look after Sammy. Since then, that’s become the mantra for his life. Obviously hunting takes a great deal of his time and energy, but there is absolutely nothing he wouldn’t do for Sam. He would give his life for him, and has done so. It could even be said that Dean is emotionally co-dependent to his brother. There are moments where it seems like Dean can’t be happy unless Sam’s with him. It doesn’t matter that they don’t always see eye to eye, he’s the older brother. Anything that happens in Sam’s life is completely his responsibility. If something bad happened? Guess whose fault it is for not looking after him well enough?
The biggest fault Dean has, apart from his obsession with food and drinking, is that he’s reckless. He has a hero complex and he tends to rush right into the line of fire without putting much planning into consideration. This typically occurs when he’s already worked up about something. Even still, the usually needs someone sensible to counterbalance his recklessness in given situations.
Another thing to note about Dean is his lack of technological prowess. It shouldn’t be surprising considering he lives on the road. Sam is typically the one to do online research. When it’s left to Dean, Mister-I-Don’t-Know-What-Myspace-Is, you can expect him to be unable to turn up any results in search databases, because he typed in something about ghost killers in a newspaper archive or something.