However, there seemed to be emotions involved, some kind of demon-bond. It was "you and your kids hurt me and my kids." So, either it was just framing it that way because it wanted John to understand how serious it was, or it FEELS something.
Maybe a bit of both -- it knows that talking about family is likely to get to Dean, after all. But I think we can find a middle ground between having an emotional tie and understanding love. Demons generally do see unconditional love as a weakness, but that doesn't mean that they have no emotional ties -- just that they're contingent. And the Demon might be angry that its children were hurt (or killed, in the case of the boy) because in a way, this is a blow against itself, or its pride or status. There might well be a qualitative difference between the kind of love Dean feels for Sam and the kind of love YED feels for Meg.
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Date: 2007-02-09 05:16 pm (UTC)Maybe a bit of both -- it knows that talking about family is likely to get to Dean, after all. But I think we can find a middle ground between having an emotional tie and understanding love. Demons generally do see unconditional love as a weakness, but that doesn't mean that they have no emotional ties -- just that they're contingent. And the Demon might be angry that its children were hurt (or killed, in the case of the boy) because in a way, this is a blow against itself, or its pride or status. There might well be a qualitative difference between the kind of love Dean feels for Sam and the kind of love YED feels for Meg.