Orpheus’s gay Cajun vampire sidepiece
Destiel fans pointed out parallels between Dean and Castiel's arc in Purgatory to that of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in Greek mythology.
From a meta essay that also looked at the Purgatory spell in 15.08 Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven, drsilverfish observed,
- "Orpheus (Dean) could not bring Eurydice (Cas) with him, not because, like Orpheus, he doubted and looked behind him (thus trapping Eurydice in Hades) but because Cas did not think he deserved happiness topside with Dean, because of his sins as Godstiel, and so he tragically let go of Dean’s hand deliberately at the last moment."
Fans noted, however, that this left out an important figure in Benny. So donnasweettttttttt coined the delightfully descriptive term "Orpheus’s gay Cajun vampire sidepiece" to refer to Benny.
External Links
- The Purgatory Spell in 15x08 - Love, Death and an Underworld Journey by drsilverfish (December 14, 2019); archive link
- what if orpheus and eurydice had a third guy with them who was orpheus’s gay cajun vampire sidepiece by donnasweettttttttt (November 18, 2020); archive link
