Someone wrote a wonderful fic about this, but I forget who... it was basically the concept that Alastair came on the thirty-year anniversary (or what he told Dean was the thirty-year anniversary, anyway) and said that he wasn't gonna torture Dean today, because it was such a big anniversary. And right as he was about to walk away, he asked Dean if he could even remember Sam's face anymore. When Dean realized he couldn't, he completely lost it, and the next day, he agreed to torture others.
That sounded really, really plausible to me. Thirty years is a meaningful span of time as well, because it took nearly thirty years to create the Dean Winchester who went to Hell (he was 29), and it took thirty years to unmake him... to strip away his memories of his loved ones, his memories of himself, his personality and everything, until there was just pain and the absence of pain, making it an easy choice.
As for rape, I think Alastair definitely raped him, but I think it was probably just a regular thing along with the rest of the torture. I think we only got the relatively sanitized "carving, slicing" description because we're not on HBO or FX. :P
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That sounded really, really plausible to me. Thirty years is a meaningful span of time as well, because it took nearly thirty years to create the Dean Winchester who went to Hell (he was 29), and it took thirty years to unmake him... to strip away his memories of his loved ones, his memories of himself, his personality and everything, until there was just pain and the absence of pain, making it an easy choice.
As for rape, I think Alastair definitely raped him, but I think it was probably just a regular thing along with the rest of the torture. I think we only got the relatively sanitized "carving, slicing" description because we're not on HBO or FX. :P