mishalocked24:

Did we really need the Destiel Hug in 14×03

Let’s start from the beginning and let’s check the meaning of the word “hug”.

Urban dictionary uses the word friendliness to describe it, so… when can we really say that a hug is between two friends and not between two lovers?

Analyze with me:

Same exact scene. Same exact moment. Same exact character. Two different emotions.

The first one is about two friends happy to see each other again after a long time of separation, two friends that would love to catch up with their lives and to spend time together.

It’s a quick hug, with a hand on the shoulder and a big smile on the face.

The second one is about desperation, clinging and longing, two lovers that cannot bear to be separated again, two lovers that have finally found their place again.

It’s a lingering hug, with a hand that is anchoring their bodies and that doesn’t want to let the other go.

We had tons of this, even more heartbreaking:

So why didn’t we need a Destiel Hug in 14×03?

What was so different about their interaction that made us feel satisfied?

What made us feel their love?

This:

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They made love with their eyes, they talked with their gazes, they promised with their lingering and pining stares.

We didn’t need a Destiel Hug, because it’s not ours to see, because Dean and Cas’ hug is just theirs to be lived, their emotions, their feelings, their desperation and their love.

We didn’t need a Destiel Hug because it wouldn’t have been just a simple hug, but it would have been with their hearts on their sleeves, with the vulnerabilty written on their faces, with the heartbreak of two lovers that after a long time have found each other again.

We needed the stares, though, because we understood all this.

Dean and Castiel are no longer friends and they’ve finally realized it.

They know what they’re feeling, they know what the other is feeling and maybe they’ll act on it.