Maybe Too Much Netflix

[dime_liora]

As I struggle with what I'm calling The Great Inspiration Apocalypse of 2013 I have been watching a large amount of Netflix. I've realized that this may be bad for me.

Do you know what the difference is between a Monarch and a Viceroy butterfly? Dean's a Monarch, and Sam's a Viceroy. Now excuse me while I go back to watching The West Wing for the first time and having Word mock me.

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[sammichgirl]

wait - what is the difference? I don't wanna google. I'd rather curl up for story time. :D

[dimeliora.livejournal.com]

Visually the Monarch and the Viceroy are the same butterfly. They have incredibly similar markings, coloring, and size. The difference is in the function of the butterfly itself. The Monarch is poisonous. The Viceroy on the other hand evolved and adapted to look like the Monarch since it is not poisonous. A bird will eat a Monarch butterfly and become ridiculously sick. After that the bird will never eat another Monarch because it connects that sickness with the butterfly. In this way the Viceroy population has grown, and in some cases, surpassed the Monarchs because birds assume they are also poisonous and avoid them.

The lesson being that if you cannot be naturally dangerous (or in this case poisonous) you must make the predators think you are. :)

[sammichgirl]

So Dean is poisonous and Sam appears to be but isn't?

Dangerous, lethal, insert any word here. I can totally see this in them.

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[dimeliora.livejournal.com]

I was thinking originally (because the question comes from Lie to Me) about doing the AU of Lie to Me as a J2, and then I thought about the implications. In the show a very tough female character gets blessed out by a pompous asshole and the main character asks her the questions, and then later tells her to be a Viceroy since she can't be a Monarch.

So then I got to thinking about Sam and how gentle he was at the beginning, and how that gentle quality still shows up but it's tempered by something else now. How he acts more and more like Dean, and how that imitation has made him capable of surviving in a world that otherwise would have literally destroyed him mentally and emotionally. Mostly I thought of that scene where Sam's drunk and begs Dean to kill him.

Yeah...thought processes all akimbo.

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