bangingpatchouli:

yaelstiel:

No, you don’t need that, Dean, but your brother does.

Dean placing the smulet right there, in this intimate moment they share in the car, after this intense day, shows me that he learned that the samulet was never about a god, nor was it a reminder for Dean that he loves Sam. No. It was his, but it was about them, it was about Sam as well. And when he sees Sam’s expression, this realization hits even deeper. 

Agreed. It was never really about God. It was about them. Placing the prop Samulet on the rearview mirror of the Impala, their home, is saying, “I believe in you. I believe in us.” As Sam put it, “What she said” — the two of them against the world. For the first time in a long time, they are on the same page, and that is due in large part to the perspective they got of themselves and each other through the musical. They are, first and foremost, brothers. The hunters and heroes part is another layer, and they aren’t as far apart on that as they thought. Sam sees it when Maeve tells him that if he cut his hair a little, he’d make a great Dean, and Dean gets it when Marie talks about “sweet selfless Sam” and in the song that she sings as Sam. Maybe instead of focusing solely on differences and how they’ve let each other down, they’ll start to see their similarities and their commitment to one another.