(LJ ate the first comment so I'll try again. /o/ Sorry if you get a mysterious repeat!)
I’m such a huge Sam/Dean shipper. And usually when I try to listen to canon-based Dean/Cas stories, I just can’t ~feel the ship. Something feels missing, and that thing is Sam. Or Dean’s incredible devotion to him, and vice versa. I just usually can’t set aside my canon Sam/Dean feels to enjoy any Dean/Cas ones. (It doesn’t help that Sam and Dean are forever my favorites, and any interest in Cas as a character could never match the passion I feel about Sam and Dean!)
But anyway, AU settings. AU Dean/Cas stories feel more like general RPF fic than anything else. And yeah, admittedly a big part of me is sitting there wishing the story would just be real J2 instead of Dean/Cas. But even still! I’m more able to accept Sam being easily written off (or paired off) in generic AUs where there’s no hunting and the case can be made that Sam and Dean don’t share such a codependent bond. (But of course, as I try to explain this, my mind if full of What Is and What Should Never Be and shouting with wincest feels. So.)
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I’m such a huge Sam/Dean shipper. And usually when I try to listen to canon-based Dean/Cas stories, I just can’t ~feel the ship. Something feels missing, and that thing is Sam. Or Dean’s incredible devotion to him, and vice versa. I just usually can’t set aside my canon Sam/Dean feels to enjoy any Dean/Cas ones. (It doesn’t help that Sam and Dean are forever my favorites, and any interest in Cas as a character could never match the passion I feel about Sam and Dean!)
But anyway, AU settings. AU Dean/Cas stories feel more like general RPF fic than anything else. And yeah, admittedly a big part of me is sitting there wishing the story would just be real J2 instead of Dean/Cas. But even still! I’m more able to accept Sam being easily written off (or paired off) in generic AUs where there’s no hunting and the case can be made that Sam and Dean don’t share such a codependent bond. (But of course, as I try to explain this, my mind if full of What Is and What Should Never Be and shouting with wincest feels. So.)