alrighty, time to go off i guess, since i’ve seen a few posts floating around in response to gabriel in 13×20
torture is torture is torture, whether it’s 7 years or 40 years or 100 years. it is still going to have a massive impact on someone
dean never properly processed or dealt with his trauma, which is why his self-image is lower than rock bottom, which is why he sees himself as so expendable, which is the reason for a hell of a lot of his behaviours. he’s also been out of hell now for 10 years
sam also never properly processed or dealt with his trauma, which is why he’s in a depressive, borderline suicidal spiral now. he also had cas who took the edge off sam’s trauma, and has been out of hell for 8 years (although repeatedly having to confront lucifer since then hasn’t helped him at all)
gabriel has been out of hell for a grand total of TWO WEEKS. where sam and dean knew the consequences of their decisions, gabriel was betrayed and sold like an object
of course he’s going to respond differently, the experience is a hell of a lot fresher for gabriel. and to people saying “well sam and dean are fine and they had longer!!”, re-evaluate their characters bc those two are the exact opposite of fine, and years of pushing down trauma is a big reason why
tldr: s13 is the most realistic spn has ever been when it comes to dealing with trauma. gabriel has been away from his suffering for TWO WEEKS, cut the dude some slack
I’d like to mention that there has been very little interaction between Sam and Gabriel throughout the show in comparison to the amount of time Cas and Dean have had together, so it’d be rad if people could stop complaining about there being one whole episode of Sam and Gabriel being around each other. Y’all have had nine seasons of Destiel material. We haven’t even had nine episodes of Sabriel interaction. For the love of god, let us have this.
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