What I said about you being delightful still stands.
Black Winchesters could be racist if we stop at skin color, I think, but I also think it can be handled in such a way that it could be a pretty illuminating story. You can't just copypaste white Dean and Sam's story onto black Dean and Sam's story, you can't ignore the race story. The racist truck story would be way different, for one XD, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Like the thefourthvine's quote says up there, here we got a couple of black felons rolling through small-town Americana with weapons in the trunk, and what racist sentiments lurk deep (or not so deep) in America, y'know? What would they not be able to get away with? What situations do they avoid just because they would be more conspicuous there?
A few weeks ago I was nursing a similar AU idea wherein the Winchesters are first-generation Indonesian immigrants to the US (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/140846.html) (how's that for self-indulgent), and THAT is even crazier as far as adjusting the narrative goes. I still kinda want to drabble it out, in bits and pieces.
Here's who I envision for Indonesian Dean a.k.a. Dimas:
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Black Winchesters could be racist if we stop at skin color, I think, but I also think it can be handled in such a way that it could be a pretty illuminating story. You can't just copypaste white Dean and Sam's story onto black Dean and Sam's story, you can't ignore the race story. The racist truck story would be way different, for one XD, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Like the thefourthvine's quote says up there, here we got a couple of black felons rolling through small-town Americana with weapons in the trunk, and what racist sentiments lurk deep (or not so deep) in America, y'know? What would they not be able to get away with? What situations do they avoid just because they would be more conspicuous there?
A few weeks ago I was nursing a similar AU idea wherein the Winchesters are first-generation Indonesian immigrants to the US (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/140846.html) (how's that for self-indulgent), and THAT is even crazier as far as adjusting the narrative goes. I still kinda want to drabble it out, in bits and pieces.
Here's who I envision for Indonesian Dean a.k.a. Dimas: