I think Dean is an enigma, in that he is a symbol of humanity and a symbol of the divine. As we see in 11.21, for example, when Dean confronts Chuck (the divine) and questions him
He also acts a symbol for humanity during all of s5 when he’s fighting against his divine destiny. Dean was literally created to save humanity, as the Christ figure, the one to fight Lucifer. Which makes him a symbol of divinity as well, but he, as the symbol of humanity, becomes the voice of resistance, of free will too.
Even as fate fights to change that.
He resisted for all these years, and now he’s finally given in to his destiny, to the divine role he was given by Chuck.
But even when Dean made that choice, he tried to do it on his own terms. Told Michael he would be the driver. Of course, that blew up in his face, but Dean has always been a symbol of free will, and thereby, humanity. He’s also always been a symbol of the divine.
Dean is both. Or, if you want to look at it another, he’s neither.
Not just dark, not just light. Not just divine, not just a symbol for humanity, but in between both of those things. He’s Dean, and he’s unique.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I think it’s important to remember that the concepts of Divinity and Humanity are not diametrically opposed opposites if we’re talking about Dean in a messianic role since it inherently pits Humanism against Maltheism. I wrote about that at length in a post a few months ago.
On a related note, there’s this idea in a more mystical section of Jewish lore called the Tzadikim Nistarim or ‘Hidden Righteous Ones’. Wherein there are 36 people born in every generation and they all have the possibility of being the messiah but none of them know it.
What’s interesting about that is, in some versions of the lore, it’s for the sake of these 36 people that God doesn’t destroy the world which is interesting when you think about it in terms of Dean being The Righteous Man™ and breaking the First Seal.
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