Len

♉︎ 𝖙𝖆𝖚𝖗𝖚𝖘

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you make things feel… solid. i don’t get a lot of that.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean tries to play it casual, but the alcohol betrays him immediately. he tells you he likes that you don’t rush him, don’t push him, don’t make him explain every ugly little thing. then he mutters something about missing your cooking and pretends that was the whole point of the call. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “i think you’re the closest thing to peace i’ve ever had.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam says it way too honestly, then goes silent because he knows exactly how vulnerable it sounds. you can practically hear him staring at the wall, regretting his entire existence. but he doesn’t take it back.

♊︎ 𝖌𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖎

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “i never know what the hell you’re gonna say next. i hate that. i love that.” ๋࣭ ⭑ he calls because something reminded him of you, and now he’s rambling. badly. one second he’s teasing you, the next he’s admitting you make his life less boring, and then he accuses you of “witchcraft or something” because no normal person should be that addictive to talk to. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you get my brain going. sometimes i wish you’d let it rest.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam starts off trying to have a completely normal conversation and fails within thirty seconds. he tells you he likes how fast you think, how you make him reconsider things, how you annoy him in ways that feel suspiciously important. then he says your name too softly and ruins his own composure.

♋︎ 𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖗

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you care too much. don’t stop.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean is drunk enough to say the thing sober dean would rather get punched than admit. he tells you he notices what you do for people. for him. how you check on him without making him feel cornered. then he gets all gruff and says, “anyway. don’t make it weird.” too late, babe. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “i feel safe with you, and that scares me more than it should.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam sounds tired when he says it. not sad exactly, just honest in that heavy, late-night way. he tells you he doesn’t have to perform around you. doesn’t have to be useful, smart, strong, okay. with you, he can just be a person. devastating. illegal. jail for him.

♌︎ 𝖑𝖊𝖔

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you walk into a room and it pisses me off how much i notice.” ๋࣭ ⭑ he absolutely calls you to flirt and accidentally catches feelings in real time. he says you’re dramatic, stubborn, too pretty for your own good, and then gets quieter before admitting you make him want to be seen. not just looked at. seen. then he panics and makes a bad joke. naturally. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you make confidence look easy. i don’t think it is, though.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam sees through the performance, even drunk. he tells you he admires your warmth, your nerve, the way you keep shining even when life gets ugly. then he admits he worries people take more from you than they give back. rude of him to be that emotionally accurate at 2 a.m.

♍︎ 𝖛𝖎𝖗𝖌𝖔

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you’re always right. it’s disgusting. i miss it.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean calls to complain, but the complaint is love-shaped. he tells you the motel room is weird without your little comments, your lists, your “did you clean that wound properly?” voice. then he admits you make him feel taken care of without making him feel weak. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you notice the things i hope nobody notices.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam is painfully honest with you. he tells you your attention makes him nervous because you see too much, but it also makes him feel less alone. you catch what he hides. you call him out gently. and drunk sam? drunk sam is very close to saying he needs you.

♎︎ 𝖑𝖎𝖇𝖗𝖆

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you make everything feel less ugly. don’t know how you do that.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean tries to sound casual, but there’s this softness under it that gives him away. he tells you he likes your voice, your calm, the way you can walk into a mess and make people breathe again. then he says you’re “too damn charming,” as if he is personally offended by wanting you. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you make me want to believe things can turn out okay.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam calls with that low, thoughtful drunk voice and accidentally becomes a romance novel with trauma. he tells you your gentleness doesn’t feel fake to him. that’s the part that gets him. you’re soft, but not shallow. kind, but not stupid. he notices. oh, he notices.

♏︎ 𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖕𝖎𝖔

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you scare me a little. not because i don’t trust you. because i do.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean’s drunk enough to admit you get under his skin. you know when he’s lying, when he’s deflecting, when he’s about to do something stupid and heroic and deeply annoying. he tells you he hates how much you see, but his voice says he’d be lost if you stopped looking. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you understand the parts of me i don’t like talking about.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam doesn’t waste time with small talk. not tonight. he tells you there’s something about you that makes the dark feel less shameful. you don’t flinch. you don’t make him pretty. you just stay. and that, apparently, is enough to ruin him a little.

♐︎ 𝖘𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you make me feel young. which is annoying, because i’m very rugged and mysterious.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean is definitely smiling during this call. you can hear it. he tells you you’re trouble, but the good kind—the kind that makes him forget the world is ending for five minutes. then he says he wishes you were there, immediately makes a joke, and pretends he didn’t mean it. coward behavior. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you make running away sound less like fear and more like freedom.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam gets philosophical. tragic but hot. he tells you he loves how you keep looking toward the horizon, how you refuse to rot in one place just because life hurt you there. he says you make him wonder who he’d be if he stopped punishing himself. silence. emotional damage.

♑︎ 𝖈𝖆𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖓

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you act tough. i know what that costs.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean doesn’t tease much on this call. weird, right? he tells you he knows you’re tired, even when you hide it. he knows what it’s like to be the one everybody relies on. then he quietly says you don’t always have to be fine with him. and then probably clears his throat like he didn’t just gut you. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “i trust you because you don’t promise things lightly.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam respects your restraint more than he says. drunk, though? it slips out. he tells you your loyalty means something because it’s chosen, not loud. you don’t throw words around. you show up. and for sam, that’s basically a love language with a filing system.

♒︎ 𝖆𝖖𝖚𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “i don’t get you. drives me insane.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean calls because he’s thinking about you and is mad about it. you confuse him. you don’t react the way he expects, don’t need him the way he knows how to handle, don’t fit into the boxes he keeps trying to shove people into. he tells you you’re weird. it sounds painfully fond. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you make me feel less strange.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam’s confession is quieter, almost careful. he tells you he likes the way your mind works, even when he can’t follow every turn. you make space for complicated things without trying to fix them immediately. with you, his weirdness doesn’t feel so lonely.

♓︎ 𝖕𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖊𝖘

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 ⭑ “you look at me like i’m not ruined. don’t know what to do with that.” ๋࣭ ⭑ dean should not have called. we all know it. he tells you your softness gets to him because it doesn’t ask permission. you care, and it makes him defensive, and then guilty for being defensive. he says you’re too good at making him feel human. then he goes quiet for way too long. 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐦 ⭑ “you make sadness feel less embarrassing.” ๋࣭ ⭑ sam’s drunk-dial to you is tender in a way that almost hurts. he tells you you never make him feel stupid for feeling too much. you don’t rush him out of grief. you sit beside it with him. and when he whispers that he misses you, it sounds bigger than he meant it to.

It’s not very often hunters can get a break to sit back and relax, much less hang around with friends in cozy coffee shops and gossip while sipping on overpriced drinks– but hey, everyone deserves some rest once in a while.

The place is some small, family-owned shop that Jo insisted was the perfect place to spend the evening. There’s little trinkets and plants littering every wall, the sun making the whole place light up in this soft pinkish hue that almost made it look magical.

Sam’s already sitting at one of the tables when the both of you walk in, his long legs folded awkwardly to try and take as little space as possible. He’s too busy nose-deep in his laptop to even hear the little bell from the door signal y’all’s arrival, probably reading some wildly inappropriate article for this setting.

“Samuel” The blonde calls out in a huff, hand plopping Sam’s laptop shut as you take a seat– Sam most definitely flinched at the sudden interruption (not that he’d ever admit that…)

“Hello to you too” He replies, trying his best to act annoyed while rolling his eyes– though can clearly spot the indents of his dimples upon seeing you finally here. “Took you long enough” He adds with what tries to be huffy petulance but ends up being more of an amused scoff.

“Yeah, well some of us actually get ready instead of layering flannel on flannel– choosing an outfit, brushing your hair… Y’know any of those things?” Jo retorts in a teasing hum, never missing the chance to mess with Sammy’s clothing choices.

Sam shoots her an unamsed look while forcing a tight lipped smile. “Ha ha” He replies, rolling his eyes for what must’ve been the gazillionth time since y’all arrived. “On Dean it’s charming but when I do it–”

“Shut up, Sam” The blonde cuts him off with an embarrassed swat to his arm, only fueling Sam’s smugness at getting her flustered (he was grinning like an annoying little brother after telling on his sister to their mom) “Ow– ow” Sam protests, feigning hurt at her hits despite it being almost impossible for Jo to actually hurt this 6’4’’ wall of a man. “M’ just saying!” He adds between soft chuckles as if that made it any better.

“You’re an idiot” She retorts– though it lacked any real heat.

Sam hums amused, opening his laptop back up without a care in the world. “But I am a brilliant idiot” He adds, spinning around his screen so you can both see what he pulled up. “Found us a case while we’re in town”

“Boo, buzzkill” You protest sarcastically, already scrolling down the news article he had prepared. “Oh never mind, it’s demon related– good job, Sammy”

“Really, it’s that easy to get you on board?” Jo asks, glancing at you with an amused chuckle.

Dean Winchester

⊹✿🍨 Insane chocolate brownie triple chip anything

⊹✿🍨 He hides it in the back of the freezer behind the peas

⊹✿🍨 Charlie finds it and takes it but only has a little and puts it back perfectly, driving Dean insane because he keeps thinking that he ate more than he remembered eating

⊹✿🍨 He puts ALL of the toppings imaginable on there, except nuts. Health does not belong here

⊹✿🍨 Seriously, chocolate sauce, fudge, caramel sauce, chocolate chips, it's diabetes city and Dean's always first on the bus

⊹✿🍨 When he finds out about bacon ice cream it blows his mind and he sits in shock for a moment

Sam Winchester

⊹✿🍨 Some vegan crap fest, that's the nicest way I can put it

⊹✿🍨 He buys those low cal dairy free keto nightmares and Dean goes off at him for ever calling that ice cream

⊹✿🍨 Once when Kevin was having a shitty day, he took out what he thought was caramel ice cream but the second he had a spoonful he felt sick. He went off his nut at Sam and told "that over-grown keto diet puppy-dog pansy" to buy some real ice cream for once. Everyone was surprised that Kevin was the one to say it, but they all agreed

⊹✿🍨 Eventually he moves on to sorbets and everyone is happier, his favourite is lemon

⊹✿🍨 He will occasionally have boysenberry swirl ice cream, very rarely

Castiel

⊹✿🍨 Vanilla all the way.

⊹✿🍨 He doesn't really eat ice cream because he doesn't really eat but he likes to join in with the others and he remembers from his time as a human that he liked vanilla the most. It's also the least offense since he can taste the molecules in everything

⊹✿🍨 Occasionally he'll borrow one of Dean's toppings but he prefers it plain

⊹✿🍨 Sometimes he'll add some fresh fruit, his favourite has to be strawberries and raspberries. Everyone thinks he'd love blueberries but they're kinda eh to him

⊹✿🍨 Every six months he'll have a spoonful of Dean's ice cream and say in that familiar monotone "Still far too sweet" as he puts it back. Somehow, he's the only one Dean doesn't get mad at. Hm….

⊹✿🍨 He'll sometimes get mint choc chip. When he told Dean he got ice cream with chocolate chips in it Dean finally thought he had brought him over to the chocolate side before seeing the green ice cream and stating "Mint? Seriously?! That's not even ice cream, 's practically toothpaste!"

⊹✿🍨He thoroughly enjoys honey on vanilla ice cream

Bobby Singer

⊹✿🍨 Rum 'n' Raisin

⊹✿🍨 Nothing else

⊹✿🍨 Just Rum 'n' Raisin

Crowley MacLeod

⊹✿🍨 He honestly doesn't like ice cream

⊹✿🍨 But he will steal everyone else's

⊹✿🍨 Doesn't mind gelato, often opting for a coffee flavor

⊹✿🍨 But he prefers stealing it just to piss everyone else off

Charlie Bradbury

⊹✿🍨Eats anything

⊹✿🍨But has a soft spot for chocolate, specifically Dean's chocolate

⊹✿🍨 Her favourite is a bit of Sam's raspberry or strawberry sorbet and some of Dean's choc abomination

⊹✿🍨 Bit of a wild card but I think she like butter pecan ice cream. And pronounces it pee-can, as it should be pronounced

Claire Novak

⊹✿🍨 She's a perfect mix of Dean and Cas (obviously)

⊹✿🍨 She loves vanilla ice cream with an absurd amount of toppings

⊹✿🍨 Seriously, slathering on the fudge sauce with a trowel

⊹✿🍨 She also thinks mint ice cream is an affront to all that is good about ice cream

Lucifer

⊹✿🍨 Anything decadent or fancy, like those blended flavors and the one's you'd never think of like passion fruit pavlova

⊹✿🍨 His favourite of all has to be strawberries and cream because it's pink and he doesn't give a fuck (if you get the reference you're fucking awesome)

⊹✿🍨 He will absolutely steal Dean's ice cream and eat the entire thing in one sitting just to spite him - while using his magic to keep Dean back, wearing a shit-eating grin the entire time

⊹✿🍨 He once put a lemon sorbet in the freezer without saying a word, a form of silent peace offering to Sam

Gabriel

⊹✿🍨 Salted caramel. Nothing can beat salted caramel, nothing

⊹✿🍨 Sometimes he gets salted caramel macadamia, a close second

⊹✿🍨 Really anything sickeningly sweet but caramel and butterscotch flavors are his go to's

⊹✿🍨 He and Garth go to town whenever they're together, always getting the richest flavors and toppings to match

Chuck

⊹✿🍨 Bacon ice cream forever

⊹✿🍨 One of his favourite human creations

⊹✿🍨 Seriously, proud dad moment when they came up with that

⊹✿🍨He and Dean silently bond over it, it's quite sweet

Rowena MacLeod

⊹✿🍨 Not an ice cream person

⊹✿🍨 She's never really liked it

⊹✿🍨 But she will take the ice cream of others, just to annoy them, and never eat it

⊹✿🍨 Sometimes she gets Sam a sorbet. Sometimes

Arthur Ketch

⊹✿🍨 Vanilla for sure

⊹✿🍨 Often topped with nuts just to piss Dean off

⊹✿🍨 He's also a big fan of liqueurs on ice cream, something he introduces Dean to in a moment of kindness. Which he heavily regrets

⊹✿🍨 He doesn't mind a nice nut flavor, usually something with macadamias

Balthazar

⊹✿🍨 Same as Luci and Gabe, luxury all the way

⊹✿🍨 Though sometimes he'll enjoy a gelato with Crowley, but Balthazar prefers the fruity flavors

⊹✿🍨 Dean makes a joke

⊹✿🍨 He ends up stuck in a tree

⊹✿🍨 All is well in the world

Kevin Tran

⊹✿🍨 Kevin's an anything goes kind of fella but bubblegum is a personal favourite

⊹✿🍨 He'll steal from anyone, it doesn't matter who

⊹✿🍨 But he will NEVER get his own ice cream. Ever

⊹✿🍨 He especially likes to steal from Crowley on the rare occasion Crowley isn't stealing from someone else. It keeps the cycle going

Jody Mills

⊹✿🍨 Loves something fruity

⊹✿🍨 Mango has to be her favourite

⊹✿🍨 Sorbets are great, she and Sam pick them out together and whenever she comes by she brings him a lemon one, he brings her a mango one in turn

Donna Hanscum

⊹✿🍨 Strawberries and cream is top tier for her

⊹✿🍨 She loves Dean's monstrosity of chocolate though

⊹✿🍨 She'll eat most ice creams but she likes nut and coffee flavors the least (girl after my own heart)

⊹✿🍨But she'll always steal Jody's sorbets with a cute little smile, avoiding any chance of Jody getting mad at her

Jo Harvelle

⊹✿🍨 Jo is Dean coded all the way

⊹✿🍨 She steals his chocolate

⊹✿🍨 He steals her chocolate

⊹✿🍨 Ellen and Bobby think they're idiots and buy a spare tub

Ellen Harvell

⊹✿🍨 Either Vanilla or Rum 'n' Raisin

⊹✿🍨 Vanilla is classic and sometimes she'll have one scoop of each

⊹✿🍨 She and Bobby sit in silence while they eat their ice cream together, both very happy despite the looks on their faces

⊹✿🍨 On occasion, like when she's feeling a little sad but never says anything, she'll get some rocky road

Ash

⊹✿🍨Anything goes

⊹✿🍨Chocolate, fruit, caramel, nuts, the whole bag

⊹✿🍨 He likes those crazy candy flavors like banana lollies with actual candy in it

⊹✿🍨 He never shares, except with Kevin, on occasion

Cain

⊹✿🍨 Vanilla, nut flavors or liqueurs

⊹✿🍨 But sometimes he had very odd combinations

⊹✿🍨 He's very happy to sit by himself and enjoy his ice cream while people look at him strangely for combining mint choc chip with macadamias, caramel sauce and Bailey's

⊹✿🍨 But he's just a happy camper

⊹✿🍨 He very randomly sits with Cas and they have honey on their ice cream together

⊹✿🍨 Until Cain makes another strange combination and weirds him out. Cas' of all people, that's saying something

Gadreel

⊹✿🍨 Matcha and Ube

⊹✿🍨 He's into the more, specific flavors

⊹✿🍨 He's an acquired taste and so is his ice cream

⊹✿🍨 One of the turning points for him and Sam was when Sam asked to try some of his Matcha ice cream. It was small, but a start

Metatron

⊹✿🍨 Who gives a fuck?

⊹✿🍨 No literally

⊹✿🍨 He's mentioned it many times but whenever there's a grocery store run, somehow his ice cream gets left off the list

⊹✿🍨 And whenever he gets it himself, everyone eats it before he gets a change to

⊹✿🍨 Even Cas. Who will look him in the eyes while he does it. Baby's petty, it's one of the things I love most about him

Rufus Turner

⊹✿🍨 Pistachio

⊹✿🍨 Bit of a wild card, but so is Rufus

⊹✿🍨 No one, and I mean NO ONE, gets near his ice cream

⊹✿🍨 Sometimes he'll steal Bobby's Rum 'n' Raisin

⊹✿🍨 Who are we kidding? He always steals Bobby's Rum 'n' Raisin

Pamela Barnes

⊹✿🍨 Cookies and Cream

⊹✿🍨 I will say this until the day that I die

⊹✿🍨 No reason, she's just a cookies and cream lady, and I love her for that

⊹✿🍨 She will also steal Dean's chocolate, but she only ever has a small scoop with her cookies and cream because its too sweet, even for her

Benny Lafitte

⊹✿🍨 Does NOT like it at all

⊹✿🍨 Absolutely hates it

⊹✿🍨 His teeth are too sensitive

⊹✿🍨But back in his human days, he liked vanilla topped with pecans or peanuts

Garth Fitzgerald IV

⊹✿🍨 Big butterscotch fan

⊹✿🍨 Caramel too but butterscotch is the front runner

⊹✿🍨 Reminds him of his nana

⊹✿🍨 He always sits around and tells stories about her while sharing the ice cream with the kids (Claire, Alex and Kevin) whether they like it or not. Cas' always sits in too and sometimes Dean leans in the doorway and pretends not to care but he always loves hearing Garth's old stories

⊹✿🍨 Garth is the king of milkshakes along with Benny even thought he doesn't like ice cream and the two of them make the kids milkshakes whenever they like. Dean and Charlie line up every time

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There is an argument to be made that the boys "needed a mother", as that is something they never had, but not only is that not a job application that needs filling, but also a double standard on their need for a father. After John, and then Bobby, died there was no clear fatherly figure introduced in their lives, it was never treated as an expectation of the men around them like it was with the women. It is not common for characters like Ketch, Mick, Ash or even Samuel to be regarded as fathers to them, and most have focus' outside of their relationships to the boys. Hell, we get get characters like Rufus who barely seem to interact directly with them.

Even after Mary returned there was constant comparisons thrown her way, even within the show, with characters such as Jody and how she was the better mother figure- she is only three years older than Dean! So, lets talk about the "mother" figures within the show and fandom.

First up was Ellen, who I personally think had the most natural role within the boys lives. As far as I remember, she is never directly referred to as a motherly figure to them, and that works best. She is not immediately assigned this role, she isn't suddenly there for them 24/7, but she is someone willing to take the Winchester's in and look out for them. She is Jo's mother first and that is not forgotten, her prioritising her own daughter over them when necessary. What feels most natural about Ellen is that she is not a direct replacement or (at the time) one of many. She is still her own person, with her struggles of parenting Jo in the life, her bar, the loss of her husband, her history with John and her own hunting capabilities.

This is another thing that makes her stepping up feel so natural, she had a history with John and had met the boys when they were really young. She has history with them and is closer in age with John than she is Dean. It feels less like an expectation for the only woman in their life to be motherly towards them and more like an already existing mother taking in a couple more kids when they need it. Yet, she does not baby them because they are grown adults, something I fear the fandom forgets.

Then comes Jody, who is immediately less compelling due to being a pale imitation of Ellen. That isn't to say she isn't a good character, and I enjoyed her initial introductions, but later in the seasons she gets a more direct title of "mother" and that just feels forced. Particularly, the scene where Mary (under the influence of the Men of Letters) accuses her of trying to be a mother to her kids which is, questionable at best. As mentioned previously, she is closer in age to Dean then she is their parents!

Supernatural has a, somewhat indecisive, theme of found family, but an obsession with putting characters into nuclear family roles. And the behaviour of the Winchester boys around her is bizarre! Showing up unannounced expecting to be fed, being scolded by her in the exact same way she parents her own kids, being grossed out at the concept of her having a romantic life. There is nothing wrong with her having a familial role, but the expectation that she mother them, and even sometimes baby them when they are both 30+ at this point is just weird. It creates this idea that women in their life are there to make up for the mother they never had. Which, given their mommy issues, would not be a massive narrative flaw if that were the characters belief, but instead it is treated as a narrative fact, something I am forced to assume the writers believe instead. And frankly, this seems particularly out of character for Sam who has always made more of an effort to be respectful and never had that same devotion to the concept of a mother.

Then there are characters, such as Rowena, who are not treated as a motherly figure in the narrative, but instead taken as one by the fandom. Certain fans are obsessed with Sam and Deans needs and wants to the point that they're willingly ignorant of the actual characterisations. Now, if you simply want to head-canon her as their mother, go for it- who am I to stop you? My issue is not with head-canons but those who treat it as a fact, or even argue she was more a mother to them than Mary. Rowena's introduction to the show makes one thing abundantly clear, she is a terrible mother. That is a defining trait of hers, and not an easy one to ignore given she spends 90% of her screen time plotting how to manipulate or maim her only son.

This is the issue within the fan-base, of defining female characters by what they could give the boys and forcing patriarchal, nuclear family roles on them. In reality, she is a mentor to Sam at best, a selfish manipulator at worst. When she does begin to care for the boys it is because they are friends, a word a large portion of the fandom doesn't seem to remember can be used between a man and a woman.

Finally, there is Mary herself, a character constantly demonised and torn down for not being the perfect mother. As a character, she is split in two: pre-resurrection and post-resurrection.

Kripke era Mary is on a pedestal, haunting the narrative and mostly made up from John and Dean's memories. In a way, she is not real, perfect in the way she is remembered. However, as the show progresses we see her flaws and the truth of her past, shattering the perfect memory we are originally presented with and instead giving us a real, fleshed out character with fears and flaws. Here, the narrative handles her quite well, giving us a character similar to Sam. She is stubborn and independent, something that is presented as a positive in her younger self yet punished in the later seasons after her return.

Already, a portion of the fandom turned against her, no longer seeing a perfect victim and instead holding her to impossible standards, she is criticised for being an imperfect mother before she even is one and held responsible for Sam and Dean's misfortune when many forces were at play. This feels like a particularly pungent example of misogyny within the fandom when compared to Dean's deal to save Sam. In almost identical positions of making a deal with unforeseen consequences Dean is forgiven, not expected to know it would lead to the first seal breaking, whilst Mary is often criticised for ruining Sam's life in a circumstance she had no way to predict. Not to mention, both also had the influence of angels and demons manipulating the situations. The double standard is in place due to Mary's role as a mother and the impact it had on the boys, yet again boiling a female character down to how she impacts their lives.

Then comes her return, where even the writers turn against her. This is the most blatant example of a woman existing solely to mother the Winchesters, the show explicitly bringing her back as a gift to Dean- something that could of been a fascinating internal struggle from Mary who has been torn from heaven for a version of her son she doesn't know. Instead, the focus is almost solely on Dean and a lot of Mary's struggle happens off screen until we're at the point where it turns into a fight, the narrative continually focusing on Dean's feelings and trying to make the audience take his side in what should be a nuanced situation.

Mary's thoughts and feelings are not so well explored, to the point where a lot of fans I have spoken to seem to either forget or ignore the scene that shows her joining the Men of Letters with good intentions to try and help her sons, instead arguing she did so out of selfish reason because from the boys perspective (who never got an explanation) she did! Even the conversation about her role in their lives and her admission that she is "not just a mother," is turned against her, when its true and should be considered as part of her character! At times it felt as though the writers acknowledged that she can't just slip into this role and must have her own struggles only to decide they can't be bothered to actually go into it.

Almost every time Mary has an issue to confront, it is done so off screen, the main exception that comes to mind being when Dean goes into her head to snap her out of the brainwashing she endured, which again shifts focus to Dean and how her absence affected him. Obviously, a show has a right to focus on their main characters, but introducing a reoccurring character and not allowing any nuance or focus from her perspective is lazy and dismissive.

Mary is often more harshly punished by fans than even John, a character who actively neglected and endangered Sam and Dean when they were only children. She is held to an impossible standard to dote on their every move when neither son actually requires that anymore, having lived without a mother for over thirty years. And this is with no focus on the horror of her situation, she is now younger than her sons and still mourning the loss of her husband and the kids she knew, yet the focus is only on how the brothers feel. Even Mick gets more of a backstory and chance to unpack his feelings on screen than she does.

After the season that initially introduces her, it feels as though they run out of ideas, constantly giving her reason to leave and pushing her back into the role of mother. She is not perfect still, but she is a lot more subdued in order to fulfil her expectations- be there when the writers remember and dote on her boys with less of a focus on any other goals.