Dean Winchester/Alastair

Pairing
Pairing:	Dean Winchester/Alastair (also "Alistair")
Alternative name(s):	Destair
Gender category:	Slash
Fandom:	Supernatural
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Dean/Alastair is the pairing of Alastair and Dean Winchester in the Supernatural fandom.

Canon

Following Dean's death at the end of Season 3, he spent several months in Hell. From Dean's perspective, these months were actually 40 years. During this time, he was tortured, by Alastair who was the Grand Torturer of Hell. He tempted Dean with the opportunity to let another take his place. After 30 years, Dean agreed. He became Alastair's student and spent the next 10 years torturing souls in Hell.

Fandom

If you have any major triggers this is not the pairing for you.... This is not a happy ship. This is a pairing that makes the more traditional foe yay pairings look like sunshine and butterflies and happy puppies. This is not a pairing that produces fluff, schmoop, or curtain!fic. (Although if you happen to write Dean/Alistair curtain!fic I'd be most grateful for a link.) This is a ship filled with pain, blood, obsession, and anything else that comes from twisting romantic love inside out."

Common Tropes & Storylines

• Darkfic: The majority of works in this pairing are dark and full of angst. They often feature torture, non-con, and/or rape.
• Mentor Alastair: Alastair mentoring Dean is a common trope. These vary in tone from reluctant and bitter Dean, to a broken Dean eager to be a good student. Indeed some fics are gen and focus only on their twisted teacher student relationship.
• Torture: Many works focus on the Alastair's torture of Dean in hell. They may be tagged noncon, dubcon, Dean whump, and often imply Dean suffered from a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
• Post-Hell: Works often focus on Dean coming to terms with the trauma and abuses he suffered, and inflicted, in hell. Dean is often haunted by his time in Hell, and Alastair is determined to bring his boy home. In other works, Dean wants to return to Hell and a simpler life with his Master.

Example Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Fanfiction

• Images of Broken Light by amaresu
• Sense Memory by entanglednow

Meta

• A Match Made in Hell, a Dean/Alastair ship manifesto essay by amaresu. (2009)

Archives & Fannish Links

• Alastair/Dean Winchester works on Ao3
• Alastair/Dean Winchester works on ff.net
• Spn_SuchPromise is a Alastair LiveJournal community that often shares Alastair/Dean works.
• DeanAlistair community on Livejournal