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semirahrose:

“No one can take that much pain and not break.“
Can we please talk about this, though? They talk like they know this, like they’ve had countless bodies under the blade and they’re going to have to be willing to kill him because Sam Winchester’s resolve will stand up to pain no mortal body could ever bear.
So they have a go at his mind.
He watches his loved ones die again. He does not hallucinate the things that were done to him, the tortures he endured for several times longer than he was ever even alive. No.
As usual, Sam is thinking about other people. And he hears his own brother telling him their deaths are all his fault and he just agrees, like it’s nothing. Like he really, truly believes he did all of that. But they couldn’t break his body beyond what his will could endure and they couldn’t hurt his mind badly enough that he’d beg them to spare it. While being told that the deaths of everyone he loved were on his shoulders and believing it to be true, Sam somehow had the strength to formulate a plan and carry it out. And that’s still just a blip compared to what he endured in the Cage at the hands of the fallen archangel who’s still walking the Earth. Sam was tortured for actual lifetimes—lifetimes—and he didn’t break.
So, “No one can take that much pain and not break?” Think again. Sam Fucking Winchester can. And it won’t even be the first time.