#moriah

... after all, it's not nearly as much fun if he has to hang you himself.

6x20 the man who would be king / 14x20 moriah

DEAN: Where the hell have you been? CHUCK: Well, you know, it's a funny story. It reminds me of a song. (Chuck reaches down beside him, picks up a guitar and plays a few notes) DEAN: (grabs the guitar and smashes it on the floor, several times) Answer the damn question!

i've said before and i'll say again that dean "i've never had powers" winchester's anger at beings with power who aren't using them to help people is something i treasure so deeply. and that anger and frustration is such a huge part of dean's relationship with chuck.

but more than that... it's about the guitar, specifically chuck dipping for years at a time and messing around on the guitar...

because that is a dream dean has had for such a long time.

from the guitar in the background of his apartment in the 2.20 dreamworld to dean saying, "I want to be a rock star, but..." in 9.07 to fiddling around on the guitar and saying "who wouldn't" want to be a rockstar in 12.07 to this from 15.05:

ASHLEY: Did you ever want to be anything else? DEAN: Jimi Hendrix.

meanwhile in both s11 and s14, chuck choses the guitar as a way to explore and play around on earth and express himself... yet never without the context that he has so much more power than any person does:

CHUCK: I didn't really learn to play guitar. I just kind of... gave myself the ability.

just a perfect comparison of chuck and dean having the same desire and yet entirely different feelings of responsibility and commitment.