Mask or Menace App
Jul. 8th, 2014 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hadtoperishtwice〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Sam Winchester
CHARACTER AGE: 27
SERIES: Supernatural
CHRONOLOGY: The end of 5.22, Swan Song
CLASS: Hero, all the way
HOUSING: Residence #32 (Alone, I think.)
BACKGROUND:
Sam was born on May 2, 1983 in Lawrence, Kansas. He has an older brother named Dean and his life probably would have been pretty perfect if it hadn't been for the demon that pinned his mother to the ceiling over his crib and set her on fire. This was an action that would send Sam's father, John, on a quest for vengeance. John became a Hunter, one of a group of men and women who fight against the forces of the supernatural where they rear their ugly heads, usually with death and destruction following behind.
Sam grew up knowing that his life was different. After all, most of the other kids his age didn't change schools once or twice a year and their older brothers didn't basically take care of them all the time while their dads went off and did who knew what. It was isolating and Sam came to rely on Dean as one of the only constants in his life. John, on the other hand, was barely tolerated, especially when Sam found out the truth of what they were doing at age eight. Once Sam knew, John started training him as much as Dean. It ended up intensifying the animosity Sam had for his father, something that would turn to shouting matches later in his life and put Dean, the good soldier, in the middle. The fights culminated when Sam was accepted to Stanford and John told him that if he left, he wasn't welcome back.
Which was the last Sam heard from his family for almost four years. He made friends, got excellent grades and met a girl named Jessica that he moved in with by his senior year. He was about to interview for law school when Dean came back into his life, saying that their father was missing and asking Sam for help. He did so, though they didn't find their father, and returned to school in time to find Jessica on the ceiling over their bed and bursting into flames. Almost twenty-two years later, Sam set out on the same sort of vengeance trek that John started on.
Travelling with Dean, they criss-crossed the map following the "family business"--saving people and stopping the things that go bump in the night. They eventually met up with their father again, which lead to a confrontation with the Yellow-Eyed Demon who was responsible for the deaths of Mary Winchester and Jessica. It was a confrontation that would lead to Dean being on death's door and John making a deal with Yellow-Eyes to save Dean's life in exchange for his own. Sam would regret that he never got a chance to really make amends with his father.
Yellow-Eyes wasn't through with Sam, though. Sam had some psychic powers, the ability to see things happening in the next few days or weeks, or sometimes at the same time. This would lead him and Dean to other psychic kids that Yellow-Eyes was grooming. Eventually, Yellow-Eyes grabbed up Sam and others and put them to a test, last one standing would lead the armies of Hell. It wasn't Sam. He was stabbed in the back and died. It took Dean making a deal with an angry Crossroads Demon to bring him back. The cost was that Dean only had one year left to live.
This, of course, didn't set well with Sam. He turned his attention to trying to save Dean's life, sometimes with the help of a mysterious woman named Ruby. Who turned out to be a demon, but a good demon. (Not so much, but he wouldn't learn that for a while.) It turned out that she wasn't really trying to help save Dean, but to help turn Sam into the kind of hunter he would need to be when Dean was gone. At least, that was the story to Dean. The truth was more sinister. She wasn't trying to turn Sam into a better Hunter, but rather into a better vessel for Lucifer. And had Castiel not pulled Dean out of Hell and back to Earth four months after he died, it's likely she would have succeeded. As it was, she got Sam addicted to demon's blood, which boosted his powers so that he could banish and kill demons with barely a thought. She got him used to using those powers and turned him and Dean against each other for a time. Just enough time to use him to kill Lilith, a demon who had been hunting the brothers for a while. It turned out that instead of killing her to save Dean and himself, her death was the final seal that would open Hell and let Lucifer out.
He and Dean were saved from certain death by some power (God, as they later find out), who cleared Sam's system of demon's blood but either didn't or couldn't fix the addiction. On the heels of that revelation came another, worse one: that he and Dean were meant to be the perfect vessels for Lucifer and the archangel Michael, meant to fight and start the Apocalypse. Which would, in turn, kill about half the population of the planet. With the help of Castiel, no longer in the good books with those upstairs, they set about trying to change things, including stopping the Four Horsemen and trying to find a way to put Lucifer back in his box. Along the way, they tried to get Gabriel on their side, only for the archangel to fall against Lucifer as well. But he gave them the information they needed to get Lucifer back in his Cage.
The only way they could find to force it, however, was for Sam to say "yes" to Lucifer, regain control of his body and then open the Cage and throw himself in. A risky plan without much hope of success, perhaps, but one that they had to try. One that didn't work, at first, leaving Sam trapped in his own body and only able to watch. Lucifer did talk to Sam several times, including once when he offered Sam revenge on people from his past that Lucifer said had been demons all along. He turned Sam's anger at the way his life had been manipulated against him and later asked Sam if he had enjoyed it.
It's ultimately Sam's love for his brother that allowed him to overpower Lucifer during the final battle, the memories of their lives giving him a chance to wrest control of his body away from Lucifer. Not before Lucifer killed Bobby by snapping his neck and exploded Castiel for molotoving Michael away to buy Dean time, though. Sam was able to open the Cage once more, telling Dean that it would be okay. The last thing he remembered was Michael, wearing Sam's half-brother Adam's body, returning and Sam grabbing him, pulling the archangel and Adam into the Cage with him and Lucifer.
More information, up to the end of season five: http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Winchester
PERSONALITY:
In pretty much every way, Sam is Dean's complete opposite. He's quieter, more sensitive and much more studious. People like to talk to him and tend to trust him on sight. Of course, he's also a very smooth liar, which helps a lot with gaining that trust. He also has the worse temper. Better control of it, maybe, but much worse when he's provoked. Sam is very protective of his brother and if the temper shows, it's generally because Dean's in danger. Given that they are the only blood family either has left, the protectiveness can't be that surprising. He's also about as stubborn as they come, which has often put him at loggerheads with Dean. And their father. And Bobby. Push him and he's likely to push back just as hard. Either that or go off and do what he was warned not to, just to prove he can. He's a very intelligent man, but sometimes he certainly doesn't seem very bright. Especially if riled up.
Despite how difficult their lives have been and everything that he and Dean have seen and gone through, Sam tends to believe the best in people. Even the monsters. Luckily, he also seems to have a good sense of the one which are good and telling the truth, such as Lenore and her vampires in Bloodlust. He doesn't see the world in the same black and white way that Dean often does, reminding his brother that they're meant to fight evil, not just monsters. And while they've met with a lot of evil monsters, they've met more than their share of evil humans as well.
In general, Sam believes in...pretty much anything more easily than Dean does. When all they knew in their lives was hunting and monsters, Sam prayed every night. He believed in angels and God long before they ever knew that either was real. He believes in his brother far more than Dean believes in himself. He's never become as jaded as Dean is, despite the best efforts of angels and demons alike.
Sam is an incredibly forgiving person. For the most part. He's willing to forgive just about any slight against himself, but more likely to hold a grudge over something done to Dean. Which is probably one reason why he can't forgive himself for the things he's done.
Right now, though, Sam's driving focus is atonement for his obsession with destroying Lilith (the demon who sent Dean to Hell) and letting Lucifer out of his prison. Sam has something of an addictive personality, leading him to make Bad Decisions (trusting Ruby, drinking demon's blood, beating up Dean). Because of these Bad Decisions, he doesn't trust himself, leading him to leave Dean and the Hunt behind twice. He's become afraid of himself and what he could do. Thanks to the Winchester Unhealthy Devotion to Family (tm), though, he always comes back when Dean calls. Or Dean's in trouble. Or Dean's in danger.
There's still a part of him hoping that there's something more normal on the other side of all the possible death and destruction, the possible Apocalypse. He knows that this will never happen for himself now, since he's said yes to Lucifer and is heading for the Cage. But he made Dean promise to leave hunting behind and try for it with Lisa Braden. The only reason he was able to say yes and try to stop the Apocalypse was by knowing that somebody would be there for Dean. Even if it isn't him.
POWER:
Thermokinesis - Cold: Sam can make the temperature in his immediate area (approximately 10-foot radius or the immediate room) drop to freezing in a few moments. Incredibly strong emotion can expand the radius of this power to closer to a city block. Water and anything that freezes at or just above 0°C/32°F will almost instantly do so. Things will take the usual time to unfreeze, of course. He also doesn't feel the cold as much as he does back home, but will feel heat more keenly. (Canon, kind of - It's one of Lucifer's powers, but Lucifer was wearing Sam just before he found himself in Heropa.)
Precognition: Sam possess the power to see the future and to see people who are in danger. (Canon)
Immunity: Because of his physiology, Sam has a high amount of immunity to mind control. (Canon) He and Dean (and possibly Adam and John, should they ever arrive) should be immune to each other's powers. (Non-canon, cadged from X-Men.)
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The video turns on, showing Sam Winchester. Hair a bit shorter than the previous one, looking a few years younger, wearing a green, light jacket and a blue and white check shirt.]
[He looks surprised. And a little lost.]
I've got to say. I expected Hell to look a lot less metropolitan. [He holds up a hand.] I know, I know. I read the packet. Not Hell, just Florida. Though I'm pretty sure more than a few people back home would have said that there wasn't much of a difference.
[The smile he gives his own joke is wan. Yeah, he knows it's a bad one. It's what he's got for the moment.] I didn't see it in the file, but are you here, too, Dean? Not sure if I should hope for that or not, actually. But if I'm hallucinating, I'm pretty sure I'd drag him in, too.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
If there was any deciding factor in the 'Hell/Not Hell' decision Sam was making, it was the humidity. He was absolutely certain that Hell would be a dry heat.
Well, other than the areas around Lucifer himself. Sam knew those would be cold.
He shook himself, shoving his hands into his pockets as he walked down the street toward where he was meant to meet Dean. His older brother who had somehow gotten pulled into this screwball situation before him. Which sucked in about a thousand ways because wasn't that why Sam had said yes to Lucifer in the first place? To get the world out of danger of the Apocalypse, sure. But part of that had been to keep Dean out of harm's way.
Sam snorted, rolling his eyes. "Winchester luck," he muttered to himself. They both had it. Just when they thought the universe had thrown everything it could at them and they'd found a way around it, it threw them into a NEW universe with all NEW things to throw at them.
A woman walking past him suddenly shivered, pulling a light cardigan tighter around her shoulders. Sam frowned, watching her go before realizing that a puddle nearby had frozen solid. He rubbed his eyes, then ran his hand back through his hair. "This...this is going to take some work," he muttered to himself with a sigh as he walked faster.
Once he was with Dean, it would be easier. At least he'd know for certain that his brother was safe.
FINAL NOTES:
CHARACTER NAME: Sam Winchester
CHARACTER AGE: 27
SERIES: Supernatural
CHRONOLOGY: The end of 5.22, Swan Song
CLASS: Hero, all the way
HOUSING: Residence #32 (Alone, I think.)
BACKGROUND:
Sam was born on May 2, 1983 in Lawrence, Kansas. He has an older brother named Dean and his life probably would have been pretty perfect if it hadn't been for the demon that pinned his mother to the ceiling over his crib and set her on fire. This was an action that would send Sam's father, John, on a quest for vengeance. John became a Hunter, one of a group of men and women who fight against the forces of the supernatural where they rear their ugly heads, usually with death and destruction following behind.
Sam grew up knowing that his life was different. After all, most of the other kids his age didn't change schools once or twice a year and their older brothers didn't basically take care of them all the time while their dads went off and did who knew what. It was isolating and Sam came to rely on Dean as one of the only constants in his life. John, on the other hand, was barely tolerated, especially when Sam found out the truth of what they were doing at age eight. Once Sam knew, John started training him as much as Dean. It ended up intensifying the animosity Sam had for his father, something that would turn to shouting matches later in his life and put Dean, the good soldier, in the middle. The fights culminated when Sam was accepted to Stanford and John told him that if he left, he wasn't welcome back.
Which was the last Sam heard from his family for almost four years. He made friends, got excellent grades and met a girl named Jessica that he moved in with by his senior year. He was about to interview for law school when Dean came back into his life, saying that their father was missing and asking Sam for help. He did so, though they didn't find their father, and returned to school in time to find Jessica on the ceiling over their bed and bursting into flames. Almost twenty-two years later, Sam set out on the same sort of vengeance trek that John started on.
Travelling with Dean, they criss-crossed the map following the "family business"--saving people and stopping the things that go bump in the night. They eventually met up with their father again, which lead to a confrontation with the Yellow-Eyed Demon who was responsible for the deaths of Mary Winchester and Jessica. It was a confrontation that would lead to Dean being on death's door and John making a deal with Yellow-Eyes to save Dean's life in exchange for his own. Sam would regret that he never got a chance to really make amends with his father.
Yellow-Eyes wasn't through with Sam, though. Sam had some psychic powers, the ability to see things happening in the next few days or weeks, or sometimes at the same time. This would lead him and Dean to other psychic kids that Yellow-Eyes was grooming. Eventually, Yellow-Eyes grabbed up Sam and others and put them to a test, last one standing would lead the armies of Hell. It wasn't Sam. He was stabbed in the back and died. It took Dean making a deal with an angry Crossroads Demon to bring him back. The cost was that Dean only had one year left to live.
This, of course, didn't set well with Sam. He turned his attention to trying to save Dean's life, sometimes with the help of a mysterious woman named Ruby. Who turned out to be a demon, but a good demon. (Not so much, but he wouldn't learn that for a while.) It turned out that she wasn't really trying to help save Dean, but to help turn Sam into the kind of hunter he would need to be when Dean was gone. At least, that was the story to Dean. The truth was more sinister. She wasn't trying to turn Sam into a better Hunter, but rather into a better vessel for Lucifer. And had Castiel not pulled Dean out of Hell and back to Earth four months after he died, it's likely she would have succeeded. As it was, she got Sam addicted to demon's blood, which boosted his powers so that he could banish and kill demons with barely a thought. She got him used to using those powers and turned him and Dean against each other for a time. Just enough time to use him to kill Lilith, a demon who had been hunting the brothers for a while. It turned out that instead of killing her to save Dean and himself, her death was the final seal that would open Hell and let Lucifer out.
He and Dean were saved from certain death by some power (God, as they later find out), who cleared Sam's system of demon's blood but either didn't or couldn't fix the addiction. On the heels of that revelation came another, worse one: that he and Dean were meant to be the perfect vessels for Lucifer and the archangel Michael, meant to fight and start the Apocalypse. Which would, in turn, kill about half the population of the planet. With the help of Castiel, no longer in the good books with those upstairs, they set about trying to change things, including stopping the Four Horsemen and trying to find a way to put Lucifer back in his box. Along the way, they tried to get Gabriel on their side, only for the archangel to fall against Lucifer as well. But he gave them the information they needed to get Lucifer back in his Cage.
The only way they could find to force it, however, was for Sam to say "yes" to Lucifer, regain control of his body and then open the Cage and throw himself in. A risky plan without much hope of success, perhaps, but one that they had to try. One that didn't work, at first, leaving Sam trapped in his own body and only able to watch. Lucifer did talk to Sam several times, including once when he offered Sam revenge on people from his past that Lucifer said had been demons all along. He turned Sam's anger at the way his life had been manipulated against him and later asked Sam if he had enjoyed it.
It's ultimately Sam's love for his brother that allowed him to overpower Lucifer during the final battle, the memories of their lives giving him a chance to wrest control of his body away from Lucifer. Not before Lucifer killed Bobby by snapping his neck and exploded Castiel for molotoving Michael away to buy Dean time, though. Sam was able to open the Cage once more, telling Dean that it would be okay. The last thing he remembered was Michael, wearing Sam's half-brother Adam's body, returning and Sam grabbing him, pulling the archangel and Adam into the Cage with him and Lucifer.
More information, up to the end of season five: http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Winchester
PERSONALITY:
In pretty much every way, Sam is Dean's complete opposite. He's quieter, more sensitive and much more studious. People like to talk to him and tend to trust him on sight. Of course, he's also a very smooth liar, which helps a lot with gaining that trust. He also has the worse temper. Better control of it, maybe, but much worse when he's provoked. Sam is very protective of his brother and if the temper shows, it's generally because Dean's in danger. Given that they are the only blood family either has left, the protectiveness can't be that surprising. He's also about as stubborn as they come, which has often put him at loggerheads with Dean. And their father. And Bobby. Push him and he's likely to push back just as hard. Either that or go off and do what he was warned not to, just to prove he can. He's a very intelligent man, but sometimes he certainly doesn't seem very bright. Especially if riled up.
Despite how difficult their lives have been and everything that he and Dean have seen and gone through, Sam tends to believe the best in people. Even the monsters. Luckily, he also seems to have a good sense of the one which are good and telling the truth, such as Lenore and her vampires in Bloodlust. He doesn't see the world in the same black and white way that Dean often does, reminding his brother that they're meant to fight evil, not just monsters. And while they've met with a lot of evil monsters, they've met more than their share of evil humans as well.
In general, Sam believes in...pretty much anything more easily than Dean does. When all they knew in their lives was hunting and monsters, Sam prayed every night. He believed in angels and God long before they ever knew that either was real. He believes in his brother far more than Dean believes in himself. He's never become as jaded as Dean is, despite the best efforts of angels and demons alike.
Sam is an incredibly forgiving person. For the most part. He's willing to forgive just about any slight against himself, but more likely to hold a grudge over something done to Dean. Which is probably one reason why he can't forgive himself for the things he's done.
Right now, though, Sam's driving focus is atonement for his obsession with destroying Lilith (the demon who sent Dean to Hell) and letting Lucifer out of his prison. Sam has something of an addictive personality, leading him to make Bad Decisions (trusting Ruby, drinking demon's blood, beating up Dean). Because of these Bad Decisions, he doesn't trust himself, leading him to leave Dean and the Hunt behind twice. He's become afraid of himself and what he could do. Thanks to the Winchester Unhealthy Devotion to Family (tm), though, he always comes back when Dean calls. Or Dean's in trouble. Or Dean's in danger.
There's still a part of him hoping that there's something more normal on the other side of all the possible death and destruction, the possible Apocalypse. He knows that this will never happen for himself now, since he's said yes to Lucifer and is heading for the Cage. But he made Dean promise to leave hunting behind and try for it with Lisa Braden. The only reason he was able to say yes and try to stop the Apocalypse was by knowing that somebody would be there for Dean. Even if it isn't him.
POWER:
Thermokinesis - Cold: Sam can make the temperature in his immediate area (approximately 10-foot radius or the immediate room) drop to freezing in a few moments. Incredibly strong emotion can expand the radius of this power to closer to a city block. Water and anything that freezes at or just above 0°C/32°F will almost instantly do so. Things will take the usual time to unfreeze, of course. He also doesn't feel the cold as much as he does back home, but will feel heat more keenly. (Canon, kind of - It's one of Lucifer's powers, but Lucifer was wearing Sam just before he found himself in Heropa.)
Precognition: Sam possess the power to see the future and to see people who are in danger. (Canon)
Immunity: Because of his physiology, Sam has a high amount of immunity to mind control. (Canon) He and Dean (and possibly Adam and John, should they ever arrive) should be immune to each other's powers. (Non-canon, cadged from X-Men.)
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The video turns on, showing Sam Winchester. Hair a bit shorter than the previous one, looking a few years younger, wearing a green, light jacket and a blue and white check shirt.]
[He looks surprised. And a little lost.]
I've got to say. I expected Hell to look a lot less metropolitan. [He holds up a hand.] I know, I know. I read the packet. Not Hell, just Florida. Though I'm pretty sure more than a few people back home would have said that there wasn't much of a difference.
[The smile he gives his own joke is wan. Yeah, he knows it's a bad one. It's what he's got for the moment.] I didn't see it in the file, but are you here, too, Dean? Not sure if I should hope for that or not, actually. But if I'm hallucinating, I'm pretty sure I'd drag him in, too.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
If there was any deciding factor in the 'Hell/Not Hell' decision Sam was making, it was the humidity. He was absolutely certain that Hell would be a dry heat.
Well, other than the areas around Lucifer himself. Sam knew those would be cold.
He shook himself, shoving his hands into his pockets as he walked down the street toward where he was meant to meet Dean. His older brother who had somehow gotten pulled into this screwball situation before him. Which sucked in about a thousand ways because wasn't that why Sam had said yes to Lucifer in the first place? To get the world out of danger of the Apocalypse, sure. But part of that had been to keep Dean out of harm's way.
Sam snorted, rolling his eyes. "Winchester luck," he muttered to himself. They both had it. Just when they thought the universe had thrown everything it could at them and they'd found a way around it, it threw them into a NEW universe with all NEW things to throw at them.
A woman walking past him suddenly shivered, pulling a light cardigan tighter around her shoulders. Sam frowned, watching her go before realizing that a puddle nearby had frozen solid. He rubbed his eyes, then ran his hand back through his hair. "This...this is going to take some work," he muttered to himself with a sigh as he walked faster.
Once he was with Dean, it would be easier. At least he'd know for certain that his brother was safe.
FINAL NOTES:
