luxshine:

I was going to answer that person again, but hey, if they keep doing snide remarks about my tags in individual posts outside the argument, without actually sustaining them in the discussion, it is not worth the time. Especially as the end result is that they are working from the premise “Sam and DEan are soulmates, and no evidence to the contrary will be admitted”, while I am working with the premise “If you want to prove that Sam and Dean are soulmates, then you need better evidence than Ash’s words and the fact that after Castiel gave Dean instructions on how to find Sam, Dean and Sam were together”

For the record, in case anyone cares: The soulmate trope, as it is used in fiction, is 99% of the time used to refer to romantic pairings, even if the actual fiction work is not romantic in nature. It is very possible to have genre works (like say, horror stories) where they use romantic tropes for the story (for example, the fact that Freddy Krueger in Freddy’s Revenge is temporarily vanished with the power of true love, or the many, many heroes who sacrifice themselves for their ladies). Supernatural itself HAS used romantic tropes, and in fact, their only examples of soulmates in text, have been romantic in nature.

Second: The whole point of the episode in question, Dark Side of the Moon, is how family abandons you. God abandons Castiel, and Dean realizes that no matter what? Sam will always abandon him. Hence him throwing away the leash, I mean, the ammulet, at the end. Dean stands alone, and it’s part of the broken arc that was never finished, how little by little Dean figures out that if anyone is going to fight for him? Is himself. And thus,  in order for that to make sense, yes, the brothers’ heavens are separated. Because if they had the same heaven, then the throwing of the ammulet would make no narrative sense. Also, if they were soulmates, the writers would’ve simply put them in the same heaven at the beginning, then whisk Sam away if they needed them separated (like they did with Castiel in Purgatory. Let him stay long enough to establish that yes, Dean and Cas are in the same physical place, then whisk him away so that Dean is alone)

Bottom line is: If you want to believe that Dean and Sam are non-sexual, non-romantic soulmates (which is not the same as Platonic, as the meaning of that word has been warped beyond recognition by now and it didn’t originally meant “non sexual friendship” as the dictionary has defined it now), you are free to do so. Just a) don’t claim it’s canon, and b) don’t  harass and belittle the people who actually follow canon and know they are not by insisting that they are.