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Character Name: Sam Winchester
Canon: Supernatural
OU or AU?: OU
Canon point: Post season seven.
Setting: Supernatural is, for all intents and purposes, our modern world... with a few changes. Simply put, the supernatural exist. Ghosts, demons, angels, shape-shifters, pagan gods, the works. They're not known to exist, though, except to a select few, most usually the self-proclaimed "hunters," who... well, hunt them down. Very often, the supernatural influence the world, usually in a negative sense, but still, the knowledge of their existence isn't widespread.
History: Samuel Winchester was born on May 2nd, 1983 in Lawrence, Kansas to his mother, Mary, his father, John, and his older brother, Dean. Unbeknownst to pretty much everyone, when she was younger, Mary made a deal with a demon to bring John back to life, and ultimately promised away her own life. This deal came to fruition when Sam was exactly six months old, and the yellow-eyed demon, Azazel, snuck into his nursery. Azazel dripped some of his own blood into the baby's mouth, and was then interrupted by a frantic Mary, who was trying to protect her son. She was pinned to the ceiling and cut open, however, and John, Dean, and baby Sammy were barely able to flee the house before it exploded into flame.
For the next (roughly) eighteen years of his life, Sam spends his time with his brother and father, traveling across the country in search of the supernatural. It actually isn’t until he’s eight years old that Sam learns what’s “really out there;” up until this point, he believed their mother had died in a car accident. Thus begins the Winchester’s family outings. While other kids grow up with sports, friends, and grades, Sam and Dean grow up with cheap motels, rifle training, and a plethora of monsters. Dean is the more obedient one, knowing his duty to their father from the get-go, and it’s Sam who is the more rebellious, questioning son. He doesn’t understand why there doesn’t seem to be an option for them to live a normal, “apple-pie” life. Arguments with his father and brother, and his growing sense of discomfort at their differences, lead him to leave the family and go off to Stanford, where he studies pre-law. He begins an entirely new life there, proving to be a very successful student, and meeting Jessica Moore, who he dates for about a year and a half. Sam never tells her about his family and their “hunting,” though.
Dean shows up days before Sam has an interview scheduled for law school. Sam is stand-offish and cold toward his brother at first, until Dean mentions that their father was on a hunting trip, and that he hasn’t been back in a couple of weeks. Leaving Jessica at their apartment with the promise of being back before the interview, Sam goes off with Dean. They don’t find their father, but they do discover and defeat a Woman in White who had been haunting a town. During this week, Sam falls right back into the routine, lying to cops, investigating, researching, fighting off the monster. However, he still insists that he go back to Stanford, despite Dean’s insistence that he return to the “family business.” When Sam does go back to the apartment, though, he finds Jessica on the ceiling, just as their mother had been years and years ago. She is killed in the same way, and their apartment bursts into flames, leaving Sam standing out on the street with Dean, and with a yearning for revenge.
Over the next year, the brothers fight a ton of different supernatural beings as they search for their dad. Along the way, they do encounter him a few times, though he believes it too dangerous for them to be together while he hunts down the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother, and possibly also Jess. The three eventually reunite, and prepare to kill the yellow-eyed demon in Salvation, Iowa. It possesses John, though, and Sam isn’t able to use the Colt (a gun that can kill “everything”) to destroy it. The demon escapes from John’s body unscathed, and the Winchesters leave disappointed and injured. On the drive away a truck smashes into the car, wrecking their cherished Impala and massively injuring them all (though Dean, most severely.) They’re rushed to a hospital, where John ultimately makes a deal with the yellow-eyed demon, trading his own soul for Dean’s. So, while Dean miraculously returns to health, John is found dead, and the two brothers have to pick up where he left off.
As they continue their “saving people, hunting things” spree, searching for the yellow-eyed demon, Sam begins to develop psychic powers. It began with dreams a few months before Jessica’s death, where he envisioned her dying on the ceiling, just as it happened. Sam begins seeing others’ deaths as they occur, and then later, before they happen. Other abilities that surface are his immunity to the psychic abilities of other “special children” like himself, and to the Croatoan virus. It is revealed that before his death, John told Dean that the demon plans to use Sam as a soldier, and that if Sam becomes evil and Dean can’t stop him, he may have to kill him. As the second season continues, Sam’s powers become stronger, and he meets others like him. These “special children” all end up in an abandoned town together, where it’s revealed that the last man standing will be the one to lead the yellow-eyed demon’s army. Sam is ultimately killed by another young man named Jake, and he dies in Dean’s arms. Desperate, Dean makes a deal with a Crossroads Demon, agreeing to give up his soul to Hell in one year in order for his brother to be resurrected. Sam does come back to life, though without memory of his own death. The two confront Jake and the yellow-eyed demon, and Sam kills Jake after the latter is able to open a gate that unleashing countless other demons into the world. Dean kills the yellow-eyed demon with the Colt, but not before the demon asks if the Sam who came back to life was really his brother. After all, Jake was the first person Sam’s ever killed.
Once Sam learns of his brother’s deal, he swears to save Dean from having to go to Hell, no matter what. Sam begins to get desperate, frustrated by Dean’s ambivalence toward his impending doom, and he works fruitlessly to discover a way to save Dean from the pit. This is when he begins to partner up with a demon, Ruby, who informs him that not every demon hates Sam. Indeed, there are a lot of hunters who try to murder him: for example, Gordon, who Sam ends up having to kill to protect him and his brother. Many hunters and demons believe that Sam is the one who will lead some sort of supernatural army, and there are many gunning for his life. Sam is led by Ruby to believe that killing Lilith, one of the most powerful demons around, will allow Dean to get out of his deal. However, Ruby’s true motives have always been for Sam to embrace and develop his powers, and it turns out that there is no way out of the deal. Sam watches in agony as Dean is torn to shreds by Hell Hounds.
Depressed, drowning in alcohol, Sam can’t seem to handle life after his brother’s descent to Hell. Because no Crossroads Demon would deal with him for Dean’s soul, he’s lost the will to live. Ruby appears in a new body, and manages to convince Sam that there’s more for him to do. By drinking demon blood, his powers become incredibly strong, and he partners up with Ruby to exorcize (and eventually kill) demons around the country. The two become lovers for a time, with Sam only really speaking to Ruby, and not keeping in contact with any others in their past life. Four months after his death, an uninjured Dean appears at Sam’s door, shocking the younger Winchester to no end. They begin traveling together again, but the angel Castiel informs Dean of Sam’s demon-hunting actions, and the two have a falling-out. Sam argues that this is a better way that allows them to keep the victims of the possession alive, thereby saving more people, but Dean, who doesn’t trust Ruby, believes that something worse is happening just under the surface.
Despite his promise not to drink more demon blood, Sam has become an addict. Without demon blood in his system, he cannot use his powers, and he hallucinates and reacts violently. On more than one occasion, Dean and Bobby have to lock him in Bobby’s panic room so that he can detox. They learn that Lilith is breaking the seals that will free Lucifer from his cage in Hell, and attempt to stop her. Sam is told that Lilith herself has to break the final seal, and drinks an absurd amount of demon blood before fighting with Dean and then going with Ruby after the powerful demon. After killing Lilith, Ruby reveals that this is actually what was necessary to spring Lucifer from his cage, and that Sam has done what she wanted all along. Dean stabs Ruby with her own demon-slaying knife, but it’s too late; the two brothers are forced to watch as the seal is broken, and are barely spirited away before the door opens.
Sam and Dean briefly part ways, due to Sam’s behavior in the previous season, and his constant lying about what he was up to. During this time, it is revealed that Dean is the Archangel Michael’s true vessel, with which he will fight in the apocalypse, and Sam, too, is Lucifer’s true vessel. The Archangels can’t inhabit their vessels unless the brothers say yes, however, so the two join up again to try and figure out a plan to stop the Apocalypse. Though Dean believes his brother will end up saying yes to Lucifer, Sam has strong faith in Dean, and manages to convince his older brother not to consent to Michael in desperation. The two discover a potential plan to stop Lucifer that involves the rings of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and so they hunt down War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Their encounter with Famine requires Sam’s demon blood-induced powers, and after they kill him, he’s put back into the panic room for another bout of detox.
A plan is made (reluctantly agreed to by Dean) for Sam to say yes to Lucifer, and then to try and wrestle back control of his mind long enough to jump into the cage. Prior to the encounter, Sam makes Dean promise that after he’s locked in Hell, Dean will try and live a normal life, and won’t spend his time trying to resurrect Sam. Dean agrees, and the plan is set into motion. Sam consumes a huge amount of demon blood and says yes to Lucifer, but isn’t able to take control. Lucifer and Michael, who is possessing Sam and Dean’s half-brother, Adam, meet in a graveyard in Lawrence to have their destined showdown. Dean, Castiel, and Bobby appear to try and stop the fight, but after Castiel uses holy fire on Michael, Lucifer kills both he and Bobby, and begins to severely injure Dean. Throughout the beating, Dean reassures Sam that he’s there, and that everything is going to be okay. Upon spotting an army man jammed into part of the Impala, Sam is able to take control again, and uses those precious moments to jump into the cage, dragging Michael with him.
Fast forward about a year and a half later. Sam wakes up in the panic room of Bobby's house, in one piece, and with no memories of Hell. After a reunion with Dean, who tells him nothing of his brother's time in Hell, the two go off to work a new case. Sam, though, suspects that something is wrong, and his suspicions are confirmed when Cas (alive again, apparently,) spills the beans. The year and a half since his swan dive, Sam was out of Hell, though without a soul. Death, the Horseman, has returned his soul to his body, and built up a metaphorical wall in Sam's head to keep back the tide of his memories of Hell. So, perfectly healthy for the time being, the Winchesters get to work trying to discover what their newest foe, the "mother of all," is planning for the world. Along the way, Sam is made aware of many of the things he did while he was without a soul, including working a lot of hunts, and sleeping with people and sacrificing hostages. Though delving into that past year is dangerous to the wall in his head, Sam is still safe from the memories, for now.
As time goes on, the brothers become more and more frustrated with Castiel, who is working behind their backs in the civil war against Raphael. Meanwhile, they have the issue of Eve, the mother of all, who is creating strange monsters across the country. They manage to discover and collect the ashes of a phoenix, her only weakness, and prepare to attack her. When they confront the mother-monster, she informs them that Crowley, who they thought Cas had killed, is still alive, and is kidnapping the Alphas, or, the original monsters, for researching. Despite this, the brothers manage to kill Eve, though their suspicions of Castiel are growing as time goes on. It is revealed that Cas is, in fact, working with Crowley, and though Dean begs him to stop what he's doing, their angel friend remains firmly on the same path, hoping that he's doing the right thing. When Crowley kidnaps Lisa and Ben, Castiel works a few acts of kindness for the brothers, saving them from demons, healing Lisa's wounds from her possession, and wiping her and Ben's memories. Still, Dean knows there can't be reconciliation, and the rift between them grows.
Cas asks the boys to stop going after him, and when they refuse, he takes down the wall in Sam's mind. Unconscious, Sam has a long and involved dream in which he meets a girl whose death he was responsible for when he was without his soul. Additionally, he fights Soulless!Sam, absorbing his memories from that time. Before he awakens, he meets the Sam who remembers Hell, and takes those memories, too, for without them, he couldn't wake up. He arrives on the scene just in time to try and stab Cas with an angel-killing blade, after the angel has absorbed the souls from Purgatory and killed Raphael. Their former friend is a self-proclaimed god now, though, and the blade has no effect. Unless they bow to him, he says that he'll have no choice but to destroy them.
While Cas starts to spread his word as the new god, Sam begins to have hallucinations of Lucifer, as a result of his memories from Hell flooding back in. Lucifer tells him that he never really escaped Hell, and that everything he sees is an illusion: just more torture. As this happens, Castiel realizes his mistakes, and tries to send the monsters inside him back to Purgatory, but the first beasts, or Leviathan, remain, and take over his body. Cas is essentially dead, and the monsters escape into the world, posing a new threat. Sam's visions, meanwhile, begin to drive him to the point of suicide, as Lucifer goads him on without ceasing. Dean, thankfully, is there to try and work realism into his brother's head. Sam begins to try and manage his hallucinations, and while working a case, comes across a woman from his past: Amy, a kitsune. She confesses that she had to kill to heal her son, and Sam lets her go, due to her saving his life when he was young. The brothers later face an angry god, Osiris, who confronts Dean with his past mistakes, trying to get him to own up to his guilt, and face the consequences. They are confronted with the ghost of their old friend Jo Harvelle, though she doesn't blame Dean for her death. Sam is called as a witness, too, though he doesn't blame his brother, either. Later, Sam confesses that he no longer feels guilt for his past actions, because he believes his time spent in Hell makes up for things.
Sam and Dean are then framed for a string of murders by Leviathan who have taken their forms. During this time, Sam is told by the Dean Leviathan that the real Dean went back to kill Amy, the kitsune that Sam let go. Angered by his brother's lies, Sam and Dean part ways for a while. Later on, after their reconciliation, Sam is slipped a love potion by their crazed fan, Becky, and decides to get married to her. They manage to defeat the rogue demon that has made a deal with Becky, however, and Sam returns to normal. Later on, they discover that the Leviathan are trying to make the human race more complacent through food consumption, and the brothers have to rescue Bobby from Dick Roman, the Leviathan head. However, Bobby is shot in the escape, and slips into a coma. He only wakes long enough to write a few cryptic numbers on Sam's hand, and then their father figure passes away, to their great grief.
During one of their hunts, Sam allows his hallucination of Lucifer to help him, and therefore allows the vision a stronger hold on his mind. After suffering worse and worse hallucinations and big-time insomnia, Sam is committed to a mental institution. Trying to save his brother, Dean stumbles across a faith healer named Emmanuel, who is actually Castiel, minus his memories. He convinces the former angel to come with him, and Cas eventually regains his memories and powers. Sam manages to assist a girl in the ward, but is taken for electroshock therapy afterward, and is tortured by a demon. Castiel shows up and though he can't heal him, the angel takes upon himself the horrific experiences of Hell to himself, and stays in the institution while Sam is released.
Things progress, and the brothers go on more hunts, occasionally teaming up with another hunter named Garth. Dean begins to think that Bobby's spirit is haunting them, much to Sam's dismay, as he believes Dean to be pining after their lost mentor. It's revealed that this is true, and Bobby's ghost helps them with a case or two, despite their insistence that he shouldn't have stayed behind as a specter. They work with a bright hacker named Charlie, who retrieves many of Dick Roman's confidential files and plans for them, and then goes into hiding. They soon meet a prophet named Kevin Tran, who has the ability to read a tablet that the boys found in an archeological site that Roman was investigating. Castiel wakes up as this happens, with his memories, though decently insane. The Leviathan manage to kidnap the prophet, but the Winchesters are made known that the tablet spoke of how to defeat the Leviathan. They get to work gathering the necessary ingredients for the spell, including going after the Alpha vampire, who gives it to them upon realizing that they have a common enemy.
The final fight begins while Sam, Dean, Cas, and Meg break into Sucrocorp. Meg distracts the outside guard while the others head inside. Sam rescues Kevin Tran, and Cas, who can tell the Leviathan apart, works with Dean. The two manage to kill Dick Roman, but disappear to Purgatory, where monsters go when they die. Sam is left alone in the building, and Crowley reveals that he's planning on becoming the next big baddie, and leaves the younger Winchester to face an empty world of strangers.
Personality: In his own words, Sam is a "mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a taco." Decently true, as he keeps so many things about himself to himself, not even sharing all of his thoughts with his brother. In this way, Sam Winchester is built on an initial foundation of introversion, angst, thoughtfulness, determination, and morality. Though the extent of each characteristics bends as the series progresses, due to the various events he faces and lives through (or doesn't live through.) There is a definite resolution imbued in the younger Winchester that remains despite the horrors that he experiences, and that drive pushes him to move from thinking and following to acting and questioning. Though Sam rebelled against his father's wishes early on, he does go on to follow Dean's orders for a long time when they begin hunting together. However, he later moves to develop a stubborn doggedness and starts making decisions for himself. This determination makes him appear strong-willed, which he certainly is, though it also causes he and Dean to butt heads on more than one occasion, and creates both tension and anger between the two.
Still, despite the personality shifts he makes progressively after he's brought back from the dead the first time, he's still Sam. He buries himself in books and research often, working fervently on cases, and without much complaint. In most cases, he comes off as more rational and level-headed than Dean, brooding more over situations rather than jumping headlong into danger. Of course, having looked up to Dean all his life, Sam has obviously adopted some of his older brother's mannerisms, and does make reckless and questionable decisions on more than one occasion. Typically, he opts to be well-prepared and sufficiently informed before going after a monster, and though his moral compass becomes increasingly confused while he hunts for Lilith in the fourth season, Sam has been known to place a high value on human life. He asks questions before shooting, most often with a desire to come out the other side with as many people saved, rescued, and alive as possible. In this way, he works doggedly to protect.
Speaking of protecting, working to fight for loved ones even to the point of self-sacrifice is a big part of his life (and is really "the Winchester way.") Dean is the biggest influence in Sam's life, and the most important person to him. He would do anything for his older brother, whether it be taking a bullet, lying to keep unsavory truths in the dark, or trying to make a deal with a demon to bring Dean back from Hell. In the same way, Sam was compelled to action and to start hunting again so that he could avenge both their mother, and his girlfriend, Jessica. He's plagued by nightmares of the latter's death for a long time, and is still stricken with the guilt of not having been able to save her. The same applies to Madison, a werewolf that he has feelings for in one episode, and though he did kill her for everyone's benefit, his grief was immense, and evident.
Underneath the angst and forehead creases, though, Sammy has more than one characteristics of a typical young man. He and Dean bicker like all siblings, he falls for girls, he struggles with his inner demons. Of course, he isn't a normal guy, and he's long since given up that concept. Even when he was younger, Sam fought with his father over his right to a "typical" life, and broke away from the Winchester trifecta with every intention on building the life that he wanted to achieve. His inborn stubbornness which first drives him away from hunting eventually brings him back to it, and with a passion. Whether it's finding and killing "yellow-eyes," or doing the same for Lilith, or working to stop the Apocalypse, Sam is hard to shake once he latches on to an idea. When he begins developing his powers and drinking demon blood, even Dean's concern, discussions, and anger can't shake him, as unfortunate as it is. Though deep down he is aware of the consequences of the dangers he's been flirting with, it seems next to impossible for him to stop moving down the path he's chosen. It isn't just an addiction that leads him down this road, however; there's a drive for individuality and independence that pushes him on. He wants to protect Dean, if only from the truth of what he's been up to, and works in any way possible during this time to handle everything alone. Whether it be developing his powers despite the repercussions, or collaborating with Ruby despite Dean's dislike of the demon, Sam makes choices based on how best to keep his brother from harm as a result of his reality. And, as they attempt to stop the end of the world from taking place, he'd like to apply the same principal, somehow putting himself in the line of fire to keep the world at peace.
Abilities: Sam has proficiency with various firearms, is skilled in physical combat, can pick locks (etc.,) is very athletic, and is a skilled hacker. His abilities are his immunity to Croatoan virus, his inability to be possessed by demons (due to his anti-possession tattoo,) and in some respects, his status as Lucifer's true vessel. Other abilities are limited to after he's drunk demon blood, and these include telekinesis, silent exorcisms, torturing and killing demons. In Rapture, he will only use the physical abilities, as the latter don't really apply.
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Sam had taken to going on long, solitary walks around the City since his arrival. Not during the night, mind; he didn't face off against the monsters unless it was necessary, despite the monster-hunting experience he had under his belt. It was just too much energy and weaponry spent to be worthwhile, especially when it seemed the fighting was doing some good. And, it wasn't like home, where he and Dean could just go off and fight the damn things for the sake of peace in the area... no, this was something completely different from what they were used to. And that was saying something. Just recalling the particulars of the situation in which he now found himself, Sam felt a wave of exhaustion wash over him, and heaved a sigh. Between the Port itself, and all of the people from back home who were stuck there with him... well, there wasn't much time for a break.
But, he had to make time. He realized this quickly in, when headaches began to develop, and his nights became less about catching up on sleep and more about worrying about things, about everything. So, he had these walks, now, to get his mind off things, during which he'd amble around the city with his hands in his pockets and his forehead wrinkled, as was typical of him. Additionally, Sam told himself that these jaunts would give him a good idea of certain aspects of the city. Locations, and such, at the very least. Information. So, there was a thin guise of productivity backing the reasoning of safeguarding his own mental stability. He'd never really taken any little mental health day before, back home, because it was the hunter way to stuff all the terrible things way deep down, and to never bring them up again. That was how you didn't end up twisted into insanity, they said. Speaking of twisted, though... there was a slight pinch in his head at present, and Sam winced, raising a hand to massage his temple. Headaches like those from years ago had started to plague him again, rising and falling without much warning at all. Just another side effect of their hectic life style, maybe? Or...
"You're giving this too much thought," he muttered to himself, and he dropped the hand slowly before he resumed his measured pace. It was probably his anxieties that were giving him migraines, he reasoned. That seemed normal enough, right? People worried too much, and got headaches. ... Though, when had anything in his own life ever been explained by normality? He scrubbed wearily at his face at this thought, drawing another heavy breath as he continued around a corner. He'd finish the walk, get back to the apartment, down some painkillers, and chug some water. Self-medication and practiced cognitive therapy were his way. Yeah, he'd be fine... probably.
The younger Winchester brother stopped for a moment, eyes flitting across his surroundings. It was strange to think of this place, his new found prison--don't think like that, it's just depressing--as a regular city. In a lot of ways, it was... the bustling streets, the hordes of people, the general atmosphere. If it wasn't for the nighttime incidents, well... he could be led to believe that they were just on another hunt, spending a lot of time in a place where people needed them.
"Except, this isn't the usual gig," he chuckled mirthlessly, setting his jaw. Well, what was one more disturbing, new experience, right? They'd find a way through this... one way, or another.
Name: Kai
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kairaptorAge: 20
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☞ Character Information;
Character Name: Sam Winchester
Canon: Supernatural
OU or AU?: OU
Canon point: Post season seven.
Setting: Supernatural is, for all intents and purposes, our modern world... with a few changes. Simply put, the supernatural exist. Ghosts, demons, angels, shape-shifters, pagan gods, the works. They're not known to exist, though, except to a select few, most usually the self-proclaimed "hunters," who... well, hunt them down. Very often, the supernatural influence the world, usually in a negative sense, but still, the knowledge of their existence isn't widespread.
History: Samuel Winchester was born on May 2nd, 1983 in Lawrence, Kansas to his mother, Mary, his father, John, and his older brother, Dean. Unbeknownst to pretty much everyone, when she was younger, Mary made a deal with a demon to bring John back to life, and ultimately promised away her own life. This deal came to fruition when Sam was exactly six months old, and the yellow-eyed demon, Azazel, snuck into his nursery. Azazel dripped some of his own blood into the baby's mouth, and was then interrupted by a frantic Mary, who was trying to protect her son. She was pinned to the ceiling and cut open, however, and John, Dean, and baby Sammy were barely able to flee the house before it exploded into flame.
For the next (roughly) eighteen years of his life, Sam spends his time with his brother and father, traveling across the country in search of the supernatural. It actually isn’t until he’s eight years old that Sam learns what’s “really out there;” up until this point, he believed their mother had died in a car accident. Thus begins the Winchester’s family outings. While other kids grow up with sports, friends, and grades, Sam and Dean grow up with cheap motels, rifle training, and a plethora of monsters. Dean is the more obedient one, knowing his duty to their father from the get-go, and it’s Sam who is the more rebellious, questioning son. He doesn’t understand why there doesn’t seem to be an option for them to live a normal, “apple-pie” life. Arguments with his father and brother, and his growing sense of discomfort at their differences, lead him to leave the family and go off to Stanford, where he studies pre-law. He begins an entirely new life there, proving to be a very successful student, and meeting Jessica Moore, who he dates for about a year and a half. Sam never tells her about his family and their “hunting,” though.
Dean shows up days before Sam has an interview scheduled for law school. Sam is stand-offish and cold toward his brother at first, until Dean mentions that their father was on a hunting trip, and that he hasn’t been back in a couple of weeks. Leaving Jessica at their apartment with the promise of being back before the interview, Sam goes off with Dean. They don’t find their father, but they do discover and defeat a Woman in White who had been haunting a town. During this week, Sam falls right back into the routine, lying to cops, investigating, researching, fighting off the monster. However, he still insists that he go back to Stanford, despite Dean’s insistence that he return to the “family business.” When Sam does go back to the apartment, though, he finds Jessica on the ceiling, just as their mother had been years and years ago. She is killed in the same way, and their apartment bursts into flames, leaving Sam standing out on the street with Dean, and with a yearning for revenge.
Over the next year, the brothers fight a ton of different supernatural beings as they search for their dad. Along the way, they do encounter him a few times, though he believes it too dangerous for them to be together while he hunts down the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother, and possibly also Jess. The three eventually reunite, and prepare to kill the yellow-eyed demon in Salvation, Iowa. It possesses John, though, and Sam isn’t able to use the Colt (a gun that can kill “everything”) to destroy it. The demon escapes from John’s body unscathed, and the Winchesters leave disappointed and injured. On the drive away a truck smashes into the car, wrecking their cherished Impala and massively injuring them all (though Dean, most severely.) They’re rushed to a hospital, where John ultimately makes a deal with the yellow-eyed demon, trading his own soul for Dean’s. So, while Dean miraculously returns to health, John is found dead, and the two brothers have to pick up where he left off.
As they continue their “saving people, hunting things” spree, searching for the yellow-eyed demon, Sam begins to develop psychic powers. It began with dreams a few months before Jessica’s death, where he envisioned her dying on the ceiling, just as it happened. Sam begins seeing others’ deaths as they occur, and then later, before they happen. Other abilities that surface are his immunity to the psychic abilities of other “special children” like himself, and to the Croatoan virus. It is revealed that before his death, John told Dean that the demon plans to use Sam as a soldier, and that if Sam becomes evil and Dean can’t stop him, he may have to kill him. As the second season continues, Sam’s powers become stronger, and he meets others like him. These “special children” all end up in an abandoned town together, where it’s revealed that the last man standing will be the one to lead the yellow-eyed demon’s army. Sam is ultimately killed by another young man named Jake, and he dies in Dean’s arms. Desperate, Dean makes a deal with a Crossroads Demon, agreeing to give up his soul to Hell in one year in order for his brother to be resurrected. Sam does come back to life, though without memory of his own death. The two confront Jake and the yellow-eyed demon, and Sam kills Jake after the latter is able to open a gate that unleashing countless other demons into the world. Dean kills the yellow-eyed demon with the Colt, but not before the demon asks if the Sam who came back to life was really his brother. After all, Jake was the first person Sam’s ever killed.
Once Sam learns of his brother’s deal, he swears to save Dean from having to go to Hell, no matter what. Sam begins to get desperate, frustrated by Dean’s ambivalence toward his impending doom, and he works fruitlessly to discover a way to save Dean from the pit. This is when he begins to partner up with a demon, Ruby, who informs him that not every demon hates Sam. Indeed, there are a lot of hunters who try to murder him: for example, Gordon, who Sam ends up having to kill to protect him and his brother. Many hunters and demons believe that Sam is the one who will lead some sort of supernatural army, and there are many gunning for his life. Sam is led by Ruby to believe that killing Lilith, one of the most powerful demons around, will allow Dean to get out of his deal. However, Ruby’s true motives have always been for Sam to embrace and develop his powers, and it turns out that there is no way out of the deal. Sam watches in agony as Dean is torn to shreds by Hell Hounds.
Depressed, drowning in alcohol, Sam can’t seem to handle life after his brother’s descent to Hell. Because no Crossroads Demon would deal with him for Dean’s soul, he’s lost the will to live. Ruby appears in a new body, and manages to convince Sam that there’s more for him to do. By drinking demon blood, his powers become incredibly strong, and he partners up with Ruby to exorcize (and eventually kill) demons around the country. The two become lovers for a time, with Sam only really speaking to Ruby, and not keeping in contact with any others in their past life. Four months after his death, an uninjured Dean appears at Sam’s door, shocking the younger Winchester to no end. They begin traveling together again, but the angel Castiel informs Dean of Sam’s demon-hunting actions, and the two have a falling-out. Sam argues that this is a better way that allows them to keep the victims of the possession alive, thereby saving more people, but Dean, who doesn’t trust Ruby, believes that something worse is happening just under the surface.
Despite his promise not to drink more demon blood, Sam has become an addict. Without demon blood in his system, he cannot use his powers, and he hallucinates and reacts violently. On more than one occasion, Dean and Bobby have to lock him in Bobby’s panic room so that he can detox. They learn that Lilith is breaking the seals that will free Lucifer from his cage in Hell, and attempt to stop her. Sam is told that Lilith herself has to break the final seal, and drinks an absurd amount of demon blood before fighting with Dean and then going with Ruby after the powerful demon. After killing Lilith, Ruby reveals that this is actually what was necessary to spring Lucifer from his cage, and that Sam has done what she wanted all along. Dean stabs Ruby with her own demon-slaying knife, but it’s too late; the two brothers are forced to watch as the seal is broken, and are barely spirited away before the door opens.
Sam and Dean briefly part ways, due to Sam’s behavior in the previous season, and his constant lying about what he was up to. During this time, it is revealed that Dean is the Archangel Michael’s true vessel, with which he will fight in the apocalypse, and Sam, too, is Lucifer’s true vessel. The Archangels can’t inhabit their vessels unless the brothers say yes, however, so the two join up again to try and figure out a plan to stop the Apocalypse. Though Dean believes his brother will end up saying yes to Lucifer, Sam has strong faith in Dean, and manages to convince his older brother not to consent to Michael in desperation. The two discover a potential plan to stop Lucifer that involves the rings of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and so they hunt down War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Their encounter with Famine requires Sam’s demon blood-induced powers, and after they kill him, he’s put back into the panic room for another bout of detox.
A plan is made (reluctantly agreed to by Dean) for Sam to say yes to Lucifer, and then to try and wrestle back control of his mind long enough to jump into the cage. Prior to the encounter, Sam makes Dean promise that after he’s locked in Hell, Dean will try and live a normal life, and won’t spend his time trying to resurrect Sam. Dean agrees, and the plan is set into motion. Sam consumes a huge amount of demon blood and says yes to Lucifer, but isn’t able to take control. Lucifer and Michael, who is possessing Sam and Dean’s half-brother, Adam, meet in a graveyard in Lawrence to have their destined showdown. Dean, Castiel, and Bobby appear to try and stop the fight, but after Castiel uses holy fire on Michael, Lucifer kills both he and Bobby, and begins to severely injure Dean. Throughout the beating, Dean reassures Sam that he’s there, and that everything is going to be okay. Upon spotting an army man jammed into part of the Impala, Sam is able to take control again, and uses those precious moments to jump into the cage, dragging Michael with him.
Fast forward about a year and a half later. Sam wakes up in the panic room of Bobby's house, in one piece, and with no memories of Hell. After a reunion with Dean, who tells him nothing of his brother's time in Hell, the two go off to work a new case. Sam, though, suspects that something is wrong, and his suspicions are confirmed when Cas (alive again, apparently,) spills the beans. The year and a half since his swan dive, Sam was out of Hell, though without a soul. Death, the Horseman, has returned his soul to his body, and built up a metaphorical wall in Sam's head to keep back the tide of his memories of Hell. So, perfectly healthy for the time being, the Winchesters get to work trying to discover what their newest foe, the "mother of all," is planning for the world. Along the way, Sam is made aware of many of the things he did while he was without a soul, including working a lot of hunts, and sleeping with people and sacrificing hostages. Though delving into that past year is dangerous to the wall in his head, Sam is still safe from the memories, for now.
As time goes on, the brothers become more and more frustrated with Castiel, who is working behind their backs in the civil war against Raphael. Meanwhile, they have the issue of Eve, the mother of all, who is creating strange monsters across the country. They manage to discover and collect the ashes of a phoenix, her only weakness, and prepare to attack her. When they confront the mother-monster, she informs them that Crowley, who they thought Cas had killed, is still alive, and is kidnapping the Alphas, or, the original monsters, for researching. Despite this, the brothers manage to kill Eve, though their suspicions of Castiel are growing as time goes on. It is revealed that Cas is, in fact, working with Crowley, and though Dean begs him to stop what he's doing, their angel friend remains firmly on the same path, hoping that he's doing the right thing. When Crowley kidnaps Lisa and Ben, Castiel works a few acts of kindness for the brothers, saving them from demons, healing Lisa's wounds from her possession, and wiping her and Ben's memories. Still, Dean knows there can't be reconciliation, and the rift between them grows.
Cas asks the boys to stop going after him, and when they refuse, he takes down the wall in Sam's mind. Unconscious, Sam has a long and involved dream in which he meets a girl whose death he was responsible for when he was without his soul. Additionally, he fights Soulless!Sam, absorbing his memories from that time. Before he awakens, he meets the Sam who remembers Hell, and takes those memories, too, for without them, he couldn't wake up. He arrives on the scene just in time to try and stab Cas with an angel-killing blade, after the angel has absorbed the souls from Purgatory and killed Raphael. Their former friend is a self-proclaimed god now, though, and the blade has no effect. Unless they bow to him, he says that he'll have no choice but to destroy them.
While Cas starts to spread his word as the new god, Sam begins to have hallucinations of Lucifer, as a result of his memories from Hell flooding back in. Lucifer tells him that he never really escaped Hell, and that everything he sees is an illusion: just more torture. As this happens, Castiel realizes his mistakes, and tries to send the monsters inside him back to Purgatory, but the first beasts, or Leviathan, remain, and take over his body. Cas is essentially dead, and the monsters escape into the world, posing a new threat. Sam's visions, meanwhile, begin to drive him to the point of suicide, as Lucifer goads him on without ceasing. Dean, thankfully, is there to try and work realism into his brother's head. Sam begins to try and manage his hallucinations, and while working a case, comes across a woman from his past: Amy, a kitsune. She confesses that she had to kill to heal her son, and Sam lets her go, due to her saving his life when he was young. The brothers later face an angry god, Osiris, who confronts Dean with his past mistakes, trying to get him to own up to his guilt, and face the consequences. They are confronted with the ghost of their old friend Jo Harvelle, though she doesn't blame Dean for her death. Sam is called as a witness, too, though he doesn't blame his brother, either. Later, Sam confesses that he no longer feels guilt for his past actions, because he believes his time spent in Hell makes up for things.
Sam and Dean are then framed for a string of murders by Leviathan who have taken their forms. During this time, Sam is told by the Dean Leviathan that the real Dean went back to kill Amy, the kitsune that Sam let go. Angered by his brother's lies, Sam and Dean part ways for a while. Later on, after their reconciliation, Sam is slipped a love potion by their crazed fan, Becky, and decides to get married to her. They manage to defeat the rogue demon that has made a deal with Becky, however, and Sam returns to normal. Later on, they discover that the Leviathan are trying to make the human race more complacent through food consumption, and the brothers have to rescue Bobby from Dick Roman, the Leviathan head. However, Bobby is shot in the escape, and slips into a coma. He only wakes long enough to write a few cryptic numbers on Sam's hand, and then their father figure passes away, to their great grief.
During one of their hunts, Sam allows his hallucination of Lucifer to help him, and therefore allows the vision a stronger hold on his mind. After suffering worse and worse hallucinations and big-time insomnia, Sam is committed to a mental institution. Trying to save his brother, Dean stumbles across a faith healer named Emmanuel, who is actually Castiel, minus his memories. He convinces the former angel to come with him, and Cas eventually regains his memories and powers. Sam manages to assist a girl in the ward, but is taken for electroshock therapy afterward, and is tortured by a demon. Castiel shows up and though he can't heal him, the angel takes upon himself the horrific experiences of Hell to himself, and stays in the institution while Sam is released.
Things progress, and the brothers go on more hunts, occasionally teaming up with another hunter named Garth. Dean begins to think that Bobby's spirit is haunting them, much to Sam's dismay, as he believes Dean to be pining after their lost mentor. It's revealed that this is true, and Bobby's ghost helps them with a case or two, despite their insistence that he shouldn't have stayed behind as a specter. They work with a bright hacker named Charlie, who retrieves many of Dick Roman's confidential files and plans for them, and then goes into hiding. They soon meet a prophet named Kevin Tran, who has the ability to read a tablet that the boys found in an archeological site that Roman was investigating. Castiel wakes up as this happens, with his memories, though decently insane. The Leviathan manage to kidnap the prophet, but the Winchesters are made known that the tablet spoke of how to defeat the Leviathan. They get to work gathering the necessary ingredients for the spell, including going after the Alpha vampire, who gives it to them upon realizing that they have a common enemy.
The final fight begins while Sam, Dean, Cas, and Meg break into Sucrocorp. Meg distracts the outside guard while the others head inside. Sam rescues Kevin Tran, and Cas, who can tell the Leviathan apart, works with Dean. The two manage to kill Dick Roman, but disappear to Purgatory, where monsters go when they die. Sam is left alone in the building, and Crowley reveals that he's planning on becoming the next big baddie, and leaves the younger Winchester to face an empty world of strangers.
Personality: In his own words, Sam is a "mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a taco." Decently true, as he keeps so many things about himself to himself, not even sharing all of his thoughts with his brother. In this way, Sam Winchester is built on an initial foundation of introversion, angst, thoughtfulness, determination, and morality. Though the extent of each characteristics bends as the series progresses, due to the various events he faces and lives through (or doesn't live through.) There is a definite resolution imbued in the younger Winchester that remains despite the horrors that he experiences, and that drive pushes him to move from thinking and following to acting and questioning. Though Sam rebelled against his father's wishes early on, he does go on to follow Dean's orders for a long time when they begin hunting together. However, he later moves to develop a stubborn doggedness and starts making decisions for himself. This determination makes him appear strong-willed, which he certainly is, though it also causes he and Dean to butt heads on more than one occasion, and creates both tension and anger between the two.
Still, despite the personality shifts he makes progressively after he's brought back from the dead the first time, he's still Sam. He buries himself in books and research often, working fervently on cases, and without much complaint. In most cases, he comes off as more rational and level-headed than Dean, brooding more over situations rather than jumping headlong into danger. Of course, having looked up to Dean all his life, Sam has obviously adopted some of his older brother's mannerisms, and does make reckless and questionable decisions on more than one occasion. Typically, he opts to be well-prepared and sufficiently informed before going after a monster, and though his moral compass becomes increasingly confused while he hunts for Lilith in the fourth season, Sam has been known to place a high value on human life. He asks questions before shooting, most often with a desire to come out the other side with as many people saved, rescued, and alive as possible. In this way, he works doggedly to protect.
Speaking of protecting, working to fight for loved ones even to the point of self-sacrifice is a big part of his life (and is really "the Winchester way.") Dean is the biggest influence in Sam's life, and the most important person to him. He would do anything for his older brother, whether it be taking a bullet, lying to keep unsavory truths in the dark, or trying to make a deal with a demon to bring Dean back from Hell. In the same way, Sam was compelled to action and to start hunting again so that he could avenge both their mother, and his girlfriend, Jessica. He's plagued by nightmares of the latter's death for a long time, and is still stricken with the guilt of not having been able to save her. The same applies to Madison, a werewolf that he has feelings for in one episode, and though he did kill her for everyone's benefit, his grief was immense, and evident.
Underneath the angst and forehead creases, though, Sammy has more than one characteristics of a typical young man. He and Dean bicker like all siblings, he falls for girls, he struggles with his inner demons. Of course, he isn't a normal guy, and he's long since given up that concept. Even when he was younger, Sam fought with his father over his right to a "typical" life, and broke away from the Winchester trifecta with every intention on building the life that he wanted to achieve. His inborn stubbornness which first drives him away from hunting eventually brings him back to it, and with a passion. Whether it's finding and killing "yellow-eyes," or doing the same for Lilith, or working to stop the Apocalypse, Sam is hard to shake once he latches on to an idea. When he begins developing his powers and drinking demon blood, even Dean's concern, discussions, and anger can't shake him, as unfortunate as it is. Though deep down he is aware of the consequences of the dangers he's been flirting with, it seems next to impossible for him to stop moving down the path he's chosen. It isn't just an addiction that leads him down this road, however; there's a drive for individuality and independence that pushes him on. He wants to protect Dean, if only from the truth of what he's been up to, and works in any way possible during this time to handle everything alone. Whether it be developing his powers despite the repercussions, or collaborating with Ruby despite Dean's dislike of the demon, Sam makes choices based on how best to keep his brother from harm as a result of his reality. And, as they attempt to stop the end of the world from taking place, he'd like to apply the same principal, somehow putting himself in the line of fire to keep the world at peace.
Abilities: Sam has proficiency with various firearms, is skilled in physical combat, can pick locks (etc.,) is very athletic, and is a skilled hacker. His abilities are his immunity to Croatoan virus, his inability to be possessed by demons (due to his anti-possession tattoo,) and in some respects, his status as Lucifer's true vessel. Other abilities are limited to after he's drunk demon blood, and these include telekinesis, silent exorcisms, torturing and killing demons. In Rapture, he will only use the physical abilities, as the latter don't really apply.
How did your character arrive in Rapture? Oops, teleport plasmid...
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Sam had taken to going on long, solitary walks around the City since his arrival. Not during the night, mind; he didn't face off against the monsters unless it was necessary, despite the monster-hunting experience he had under his belt. It was just too much energy and weaponry spent to be worthwhile, especially when it seemed the fighting was doing some good. And, it wasn't like home, where he and Dean could just go off and fight the damn things for the sake of peace in the area... no, this was something completely different from what they were used to. And that was saying something. Just recalling the particulars of the situation in which he now found himself, Sam felt a wave of exhaustion wash over him, and heaved a sigh. Between the Port itself, and all of the people from back home who were stuck there with him... well, there wasn't much time for a break.
But, he had to make time. He realized this quickly in, when headaches began to develop, and his nights became less about catching up on sleep and more about worrying about things, about everything. So, he had these walks, now, to get his mind off things, during which he'd amble around the city with his hands in his pockets and his forehead wrinkled, as was typical of him. Additionally, Sam told himself that these jaunts would give him a good idea of certain aspects of the city. Locations, and such, at the very least. Information. So, there was a thin guise of productivity backing the reasoning of safeguarding his own mental stability. He'd never really taken any little mental health day before, back home, because it was the hunter way to stuff all the terrible things way deep down, and to never bring them up again. That was how you didn't end up twisted into insanity, they said. Speaking of twisted, though... there was a slight pinch in his head at present, and Sam winced, raising a hand to massage his temple. Headaches like those from years ago had started to plague him again, rising and falling without much warning at all. Just another side effect of their hectic life style, maybe? Or...
"You're giving this too much thought," he muttered to himself, and he dropped the hand slowly before he resumed his measured pace. It was probably his anxieties that were giving him migraines, he reasoned. That seemed normal enough, right? People worried too much, and got headaches. ... Though, when had anything in his own life ever been explained by normality? He scrubbed wearily at his face at this thought, drawing another heavy breath as he continued around a corner. He'd finish the walk, get back to the apartment, down some painkillers, and chug some water. Self-medication and practiced cognitive therapy were his way. Yeah, he'd be fine... probably.
The younger Winchester brother stopped for a moment, eyes flitting across his surroundings. It was strange to think of this place, his new found prison--don't think like that, it's just depressing--as a regular city. In a lot of ways, it was... the bustling streets, the hordes of people, the general atmosphere. If it wasn't for the nighttime incidents, well... he could be led to believe that they were just on another hunt, spending a lot of time in a place where people needed them.
"Except, this isn't the usual gig," he chuckled mirthlessly, setting his jaw. Well, what was one more disturbing, new experience, right? They'd find a way through this... one way, or another.