The last like millisecond of the second gif makes it look like he has smudged eyeliner due to his eyelashes and the shadows 💪
Supernatural S5E01 Sympathy for the Devil
I don't know if this is an unpopular or rare perspective on Jack, and I'm a huge over-analyzer, but I think that he purposefully makes himself more naive as a way of making himself likeable/less intimidating.
Like at first he's genuinely new to everything and doesn't understand what's going on, but I think he starts "masking" fairly early as he notices people react well to certain things and react poorly to others.
An example that stands out to me is his expression and the way he holds himself.
At the start, he has a "scary" expression reminiscent of the Kubrick stare. His head is tilted down, chin in, and eyes furrowed. It seems to be his default state, as he reverts to it when he's overwhelmed or just focused strongly on something else, like when he uses his powers.
However, at the police station he ends up getting his first positive feedback (lack of fear/nervous response) from his body language
Being down on the ground, he looks up at the officer and ends up with his head tilted up and his eyes unfurrowed. With his mouth full his expression also changes compared to how slack his face was before.
Then when he wakes up in the cell with Sam, he's back to his normal expression and angry about Sam tazing him, and Sam apologizes and explains why.
What's interesting to me is what Jack does next -
He sits crosslegged like he did earlier, despite being on a bench, and apologizes back. Because he just learned from Sam that if you hurt someone and regret it and want them to forgive you, you apologize and explain why it happened.
And he gets into the last pose that worked for him - legs crossed and tilting his head up, because it makes him look less threatening. And it works, it relieves some of Sam's obvious fear.
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Feeling really sad rn y’all should show me your favorite spn pictures or something 🥺
Do you think that because Jack is Lucifer’s son, he was able to sense that Sam is his true vessel and that’s why he called him father? Sam probably felt familiar to him, like how dogs can always recognize their moms, even after months/years without them. I’m sure that’s why he gravitated towards Sam physically more than anything, even if he tries to copy Dean. Jack is trying to be good, so of course he’d copy the Michael Sword rather than Lucifer’s true vessel.
it's literally so insane to me like jack is introduced calling sam father. he's the son of lucifer. his relationship with sam is directly tied with fatherhood. he's like sam in all the ways that put him at odds with his father figures growing up and throughout the show. he specifically chooses be his caretaker on the basis of trying to do better by child who is like him. jack's textually referred to as sam's son by other people and by himself and by jack and by his actual father lucifer and they have a confrontation about it literally part of the plot hinges on the conflict between jack being sam's son and lucifer's (sam's tormentor) son. like. being jack's father has narrative significance to sam. if anything the show refering to dean as jack's dad is a favor to him as the ProtagonistTM. we DID watch a completely different show godbless
i think a reason why people find sam boring is because he’s not written with a lot of traits that make him seem more ‘quirky’ or personable, unlike dean. for example, dean likes cowboys and westerns, he’s into outdated pop culture, dean likes to play dress up, dean loves scooby-doo, dean likes to cook, deans really protective of his car, dean likes wearing women’s underwear. dean is given a lot more personal details and information that doesn’t contribute to the show or narrative, where as sam’s unrelated traits are reading, exercising, decently healthy, and researching.
So tfw 2.0 have just wrapped up a case when Sam finds another one just a few towns over and since they're already there, they won't call up another hunter to do the job. But Cas, who was so on board for another hunt, is suddenly so cagey about it when he finds out which town specifically and he absolutely doesn't wanna go and keeps making up excuses and Dean confronts him like heyyy what's going on buddy, but Cas being Cas doesn't say anything. Eventually they get there and y'know they do their case thing, and somehow it leads them to going to a church. And Cas is EVEN MORE cagey about this and doesn't wanna go and tries to make excuses but they have a case to solve!! So eventually the four of them walk into the church, Cas dragging his feet the entire way and once they're inside, Jack's like "hey Cas, is that you?" and points to the stained glass self-portrait Cas made as godstiel and everyone turns to look, including other members of the church who were THERE when it happened and Cas can't fly away anymore but he does run
my toxic trait is that I judge every spn blog I see or meet by their opinions on jack so like if you see me in ur blogs going through specific posts that’s why sorry . I’m like a shark sniffing out a diver but also I’m totally normal okay
OH MY GOODNESS THAT POOR LITTLE BABY BETTER NOT DIE I WILL CRY, TINY ONES ARE MY WEAKNESS