Application for Sirens Pull
Player Information
Name: Andi
Age: 22
AIM SN: purplexharlequin
email: brokeneternity@btinternet.com
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Currrently Played Characters: Tom Hanniger
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Supernatural
Canon Format: TV show
Character's Name: Sam Winchester
Character's Age: 27
What form will your character's NV take? BlackBerry 8800
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Raised with the knowledge of what really lives in the dark, Sam is well trained in hand to hand combat and skilled in the use of several weapons, including firearms and melee instruments. He also knows a variety of tricks that are less than law abiding, like lock picking, car jacking, computer hacking, and identity fraud. It goes without saying that he’s incredibly smart (scoring an impressive 174 on his LSAT exam) and is more or less a walking encyclopedia of the supernatural. He has a sharp memory and pays attention to the smallest of details.
Supernaturally speaking, Sam has both telekinetic and precognitive abilities that present themselves over different periods of time in the series due to his ingestion of demon blood when he was a baby. They show up right in the beginning of the series when it is revealed that Sam was having premonitions of his girlfriend dying and again later when his visions become more and more pronounced. He eventually hones his abilities to the point where he can not only exorcise a demon, but kill them outright by sheer willpower alone. What he doesn’t know, is the longer he uses his abilities, the more he draws upon his demonic impulses and the closer he gets to turning into a demon once and for all. That being said, he hasn’t had the ability to use any of these powers for quite some time, and would have to chug a hell of a lot of Demon Blood to kick start the whole cycle again. Bearing this in mind, the place I’m aping Sam from has just required him to do exactly that, so he’s recharged and rearing to go.
Weapons: Sam carries a chromed Taurus PT92 and a pistol grip 4-shelled 12 gauge sawed off shotgun, but he'll take what he can get.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
Born the second of two children to John and Mary Winchester, Sam is four years younger than his brother Dean. After his mother's death when he was a baby, the two boys were raised on the road as their father made it his life's mission to find and kill the thing that murdered her. They were raised more like warriors than children, and soon learned a skills set to rival the training of a military soldier.
Mary Winchester's death is probably the most significant part of Sam's past. Exactly on the day Sam turned six months old, Mary Winchester was killed by a demon, Azazel, after interrupting his plan to give Sam demon blood. She was pinned to the ceiling, her stomach cut and burned in a fire that was later deemed an accident by the fire department. Of course, Sam doesn't find out about his demon blood until later in the series.
Season One kicks off with Sam at the age of 22. In his late teens he had decided he was tired of the hunt and wanted to live a normal live. John Winchester didn't react well and thus the season opens with Sam attending Stanford University, having not heard from his family in a few years. Dean shows up and informs him that their Dad is missing and that they need to go find him. Sam reluctantly agrees to leave and tells his girlfriend Jess that he will be back in two days.
Heading to the place John Winchester was last known to be, they soon discover that John was forced to leave in a hurry. They also find his book of information, and inside are coordinates. After they finish the hunt that John hadn't been able to finish, Dean drives Sam back to Stanford and drops him off.
When Sam gets inside, he lays down to wait for Jess to get out of the shower. He looks up on the ceiling and there she is, cut open just like his mother. Her body bursts into flames and Dean rushes in, dragging Sam away from it. After Jess' death, Sam decides that it's time for him to get revenge on the thing that had now taken two people away from him. He goes with Dean to continue to look for their dad, and get revenge.
They finally meet up with John at one of John's old friends houses in the mountains of Colorado. Here they take down an entire group of vampires trying to attain the Colt- a gun with thirteen bullets that can kill anything. John leaves the Colt in Dean and Sam's possession and they once again part ways.
They continue to hunt, waiting for word that their Dad has found what killed Mary. Finally he contacts them from Sacramento and gives them orders for their next hunt.
Dean is all ready to go, but Sam thinks that finding their Dad is more important. They get into a fight and Sam leaves. While hitchhiking, Sam meets a girl named Meg who happens to be headed to the same place and they hit it off.
Sam ends up changing his mind and heads back to Dean and they continue to hunt. They end up in New York where Sam runs in to Meg in a bar and they soon find out that Meg was scoping Sam out for Azazel. The episode introducing Bobby Singer is the episode that they finally send her back to hell after she had captured their father.
After Meg is sent back to hell, Azazel surfaces. He contacts John and informs him that if he doesn't meet him with the Colt, he will kill every last one of John's friends. John reluctantly agrees but makes a fake Colt to take to Azazel.
John gets possessed by Azazel and Dean and Sam are forced to fight with their father. They come out on top, John no longer possessed. Dean however is in need of hospital care and they get into the Impala to take him there. On the way, a demon driving a semi crashes in to the car. The trio is sent to a Las Vegas hospital.
Season Two opens with Dean in critical condition, and John and Sam freaking out. Dean realizes he's on the brink of death when he gets out of his own body and is wandering the halls of the hospital. A reaper comes for him and tries to convince him that letting go isn't all that bad, and that it is his time to go. However, John decides to summon Azazel and give him the Colt for Dean's life. Azazel isn't just satisfied with that however and demands John's life in place of Dean's. John agrees and is given a few minutes to say goodbye to his kids. Dean is revived and John whispers to Dean that if the time comes, he may have to kill Sam. He dies and the Winchester boys are left to mourn.
John makes a deal with the Yellow Eyed Demon to save Dean and dies, leaving the two boys to mourn and carry on. Along the way, Sam began to realize he had certain powers within him. He began to have visions of the future and a kind of telekinesis that allowed him to move objects with his mind. Unsure of the extent of his powers and how to use them, Sam stayed on the road with his brother in search of the demon and answers to questions of his new abilities. His role in Azazel’s plan became more pronounced when he finds himself transported to a ghost town along with several other ‘special children’ in a Darwinian game of survival. He is the last man standing, or would have been, but he was attacked by a man named Jake and died in Dean’s arms.
Dean goes to the crossroad in Greenwood, Mississippi, and summons the demon for a deal to save Sam. Then the Winchester brothers meet Bobby and Ellen arrives, delivers the documents Ash left in the safe. They find that there is a huge demon trap in the Wyoming built by Simon Colt. Meanwhile the Yellow-Eyed Demon gives the colt to Jake and forces him to open the protected gate of hell to unleash an army of demons.
Sam spends the next year trying to find a way to break Dean free from his deal but is unsuccessful. Dean dies, and Sam falls into a deep depression. He buries Dean and wanders around for the next few months drunk, angry, and violent--often sending himself on reckless missions kamikaze style in an attempt to go out fighting Lilith. Ruby shows up and finally gets through to Sam, making a deal to help him strengthen his abilities if he lays off the sauce and gets his grip on reality back. There’s also a little monkey action but that’s rally so important. The important thing is that Ruby shows up and slaps Sam’s head out of the ground and gets him back on the right path.
Dean suddenly returns from the grave and seeks answers to his return with Bobby's help. Finding that it isn’t a trick, but having no actual explanation, Bobby tracks down Sam and reunites the brothers. They carry on in an effort to find and kill Lilith, getting involved in powers way over their pay scale. Angels appear on the scene and start handing down orders and ‘divine tests’ for the boys to wade through on top of all the other shit they have to deal with. They’re told that they have to help keep a series of seals from breaking or Lucifer, the one and only, will be set free. Guess who’s breaking the seals from down under? That’s right. Lilith.
Despite being told by Angels, twice, Sam keeps using his abilities but hits a mental wall for a while. Needing Ruby’s help, he cozies up to her for a while leaving Dean in the dark (or lying his ass off, you can pick one). It’s later revealed that the reason Sam’s powers have been becoming stronger is because he’s been drinking Ruby’s blood. And, yeah shocker, he’s become addicted. Sam can now restrain demons with his mind, as well as outright kill them rather than just send them back to hell as other spells and weapons do. Sam recognizes that developing his powers is wrong, yet wants it anyway. After using his powers to torture Alistair into revealing who is killing the angels (or, who isn't), he kills him.
Dean finds out Sam has been slurping, and locks his ass up in Bobby’s panic room to detox. [Enter here a montage of Sam freaking out--think Trainspotting because that’s how it went down.] After Sam is telekinetically thrown around the room, Bobby and Dean restrain him to the bed to stop him from hurting himself. Castiel (an aforementioned angel) releases the restraints and breaks the seals, allowing Sam to escape. He does, and finds Ruby and drinks to drink her blood again. Ruby explains that if he kills Lilith, that that will stop the apocalypse, but he must consume more blood to be powerful enough to do so. Dean tracks him down and attempts to attack Ruby, but Sam stops him. Sam and Dean argue about how to stop the apocalypse, whereupon Dean tells Sam that he is changing into a monster, leading to a vicious fight. Sam kicks his ass and leaves, walking out even after Dean warns him with a foreshadowing “If you walk out that door right now, don’t you ever come back.”.
He pretty much loses it at this point and stomps off to be a big damn hero and kill Lilith once and for all. He does, but (and this is a big twist here) finds out a little too late that she was the last to the 66 seals keeping Lucifer in hell, and Sam has completed his destiny as the ‘special child’. It also turns out that Ruby was stringing him along the entire time. Dean wastes her right after Sam kills Lilith and the two are left to reconcile as the last seal breaks and Lucifer is set free upon the world.
What should have been immediate death turns into an unexplainable escape as the two find themselves on an airplane. They have no idea how they got there, but it saved their lives. The two then discover the only weapon that might give them a fighting chance of putting Lucifer back in the box is the Archangel Michael’s sword, and they spend a while searching for that only to run into War, one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. After a nasty bout of hallucinations for all, the boys manage to take a ring from War, the one that happens to hold all his power (Yes, we saw that one coming a mile away) by cutting off his finger and hightailing it the hell out of there. Having been particularly affected by the hallucinations, Dean no longer trusts Sam, and decide it would be best to split up for a while, so they head their separate ways.
During said separation, Sam isn’t sure he can trust himself any longer, and decides to give up hunting to pursue a normal life. He is visited in his sleep by Jess, his dead girlfriend, who works it into his head that people can never change. There is always fate at play. On the other side of the fence, Dean teams up with Castiel in an effort to track down God, or at least find out more about the Michael sword. Finny enough, the sword turns out to not be an actual sword at all, but rather Dean himself. Sam is visited by Jess again, but it turns out that it has been Lucifer, disguised as Jess, all along. Lucifer makes a bid to earn Sam’s trust and explains to him that he is Lucifer’s true vessel. In other words, Sam was born to be Satan’s earthly body, just like Dean is Michael’s. Naturally, Sam tells him to get stuffed and calls Dean, wanting to reunite. They eventually meet up again, and continue hunting down ways to deal with Lucifer and the impending Apocalypse, working cases and dealing with their broken relationship along the way. Having previously decided that The Colt is their best bet in literally killing Lucifer, the continue searching for it, but end up running into the Archangel Gabriel who is, more or less, a gigantic pain in their ass. Having previously met him under the pretense of a Trickster, a demigod, they have a battle of wills and finally win. At first Sam thought that he might be on their side, but it turns out that Gabriel is standing at the sidelines of his own warring brothers, the parallels of which are seen in The Winchesters. Is it is in Heaven, so shall it be on Earth, etc.
Then, after being submitted to the horrors of a Supernatural convention, Sam and Dean finally get a lead on the missing Colt, and go off in search of a demon named Crowley who supposedly possesses it. He does, indeed, and willingly hands it over, claiming that he wants Lucifer dead and gone more than anyone. Now armed with a real weapon, the boys go to find The Devil as the winds of Armageddon begin to blow. In a huge showdown, they lose two good friends, Jo and Ellen Harvelle before confronting Lucifer just as he summons Death, the Horseman. The Colt has no effect, as Lucifer is one of the five beings the gun can not kill. Castiel transports them back to Bobby’s and they continue looking for a way to short circuit The End. The come across The Horseman Famine, and defeat him, taking a similarly magic ring like the one they yanked off War.
The two are then ambushed by a group of angry hunters and killed. They find themselves in Heaven and talk to Joshua, the gardener of Heaven, who has supposedly talked to God. He tells them that it was God who put them on the airplane when Lucifer was freed. They met up with an angry Zachariah before being resurrected and returned to Earth with their memories. They find Castiel and tell him what happened. Downtrodden, they continue their search and, among other things, deal with the panic inducing fiasco of Dean deciding the only thing he can do to stop The Apocalypse is to agree to let Michael possess him. It’s a little late, though, and Heaven has decided that instead of having to deal with all of Dean’s shit, they’d rather resurrect their dead half brother Adam, and have him serve as Michael’s vessel. The Horseman Petulance also rears his ugly face and they eventually gain his super magic ring as well by way of one of Sam’s old friends who was a demon all along. It is becoming more and more clear that Sam’s world is literally and figuratively falling apart, and that everyone he’s even known, save Dean and Bobby for the most part, has been lying to him his entire life.
Death corners Dean, and offers to give him his ring, all four being the key to Lucifer’s prison, on the one condition that Sam says yes to Lucifer and lures him into the trap. Dean really has no choice but to agree, though he tries to wiggle out of the deal, cheat Death, and still come out on top. Which, obviously, isn’t going to happen. Knowing there is, at the end of the day, no other choice, Sam takes it upon himself to take on Lucifer head to head, and say yes in order to trap him once and for all. He also makes Dean swear that he won’t try to free him from Hell, or go back on the deal in any way, that he will go and find Lisa, and live happily ever after. His dying wish, if you will.
The last thing Sam remembers before entering the game, is drinking gallons of demon blood in preparation for saying yes to Lucifer, saying goodbye to Bobby and Castiel, and walking with Dean towards The Devil’s den.
Point in Canon: 5x22 Swan Song. He enters the game just before walking into The Devil's den.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: Sam spent a few months in a game called The Long Now. Mysteriously transported into a hotel on supernatural lock down somewhere in the English countryside. This occurred in his canon timeline between the last episode of season 4 and the first episode of season 5. In The Long Now, the world began to crumble and the captives of the hotel were returned to their own world as if no time has passed. Sam remembers, but never breathed a word of his strange adventure.
Character Personality:
Unlike his brother Dean, Sam is friendly and sociable. He’s your all around ‘nice guy’ and given his upbringing, he’s relatively normal. His defining moments lie in contrast to his brother, as he’s basically everything that Dean isn’t. Quieter than his brother by nature, Sam is less talkative and chooses his words instead of talking just to make noise. A firm believer in healthy living, Sam is clean cut and tries hard to take care of himself. He has strong convictions and always tries to do the right thing, even if it doesn’t seem like it. That being said, he’s also easily lead astray. For example, Sam is lead off the path of righteousness by a demon named Ruby because she convinces him it’s the only way to achieve his goals. One of his strongest, and perhaps truly Winchester trait, is his willingness to self-sacrifice. His father sacrificed himself to save his children, Dean sacrificed his soul to save Sam, and likewise, Sam has sacrificed himself to save both his brother, and the world. He would give up everything he has and is in a heartbeat if it means keeping his loved ones safe. This is taken a step further when he decides to sacrifice himself as Lucifer’s vessel in an attempt to cast him into Hell once and for good.
To be honest, Sam is full of complexities and contradictions. He loves his family, and is aware of his duty as a hunter to kill as many supernatural beings as possible, but wants to have a normal life and rebels against everything he’s ever known in order to do so. He is fiercely loyal to his brother and would (and has) die for him, but isn’t willing to be completely honest with every aspect of his private life (what little privacy that might be). There seems to be a gray area in Sam’s mind when it comes to telling the truth. He’d rather sit in silent agony than trouble Dean with his problems, but some things are better out in the open. He’s not shy about making his opinion known, but he’s spent his entire life in Dean’s shadow and knows when to give up and let Dean have his way. Just to go ahead and make it known, Dean is much the same way and given enough moody quips and ‘younger brother puppy eyes’, he’s quick to fold and give in. The beauty in their neurotically twisted sibling relationship, is the way they react off each other with checks and balances. Practically attached by the hip, it isn’t often that Sam finds himself alone. And when he does, he’s likely to get in serious trouble. What is also interesting is the fact that he holds family in such high regard when he’s never really felt like he belonged. Because of his fate as Lucifer’s vessel, he’s always felt out of touch with his family but never really known why. He would never admit it, and rationalized the feelings as wanting to escape life on the road as a hunter. Lucifer makes the point in 5x22 that Sam has always felt alienated because the Winchesters aren’t his real family, Lucifer is, and that every time Sam has run away from them he was actually running towards The Devil, where he belongs.
He can be playful and does enjoy a good prank, but gets moody and is easily irritated when his brother takes it too far (and he always does). Although Sam does try to have a life outside his brother, it gets smaller and smaller the longer the two are on the road. He has a few remaining friends from Stanford but only speaks with them on the rare occasion. At the beginning of their journey, Sam was very much the green-back college boy - trying desperately to put his past behind him, but becomes dramatically darker and closed off over time. He’s had to deal with more than one man should, and falls to the mercy of his demonic blood on several occasions. He thinks he’s special, and maybe he is, but he near refuses to think that maybe the fate of the world doesn’t rest on his shoulders. He has died, made deals with demons, sold his soul, and carried massive amount of grief and guilt, and just can’t understand why he would be given the gifts he has if he wasn’t meant to do something with them. It frustrates him to feel so powerless after everything he‘s been through, especially in the middle of the apocalypse that his family is responsible for starting. By the end, Sam has undergone something of a dramatic personality change. He's colder, brutal, closed off, overburdened, and blatantly lies to Dean's face on several occasions about everything from his whereabouts to his extracurricular activities. It might have something to do with resigning himself to the idea of being born to carry The Devil inside him, but that’s a whole other story.
Somewhere midway through Season 3, Sam comes to the conclusion that his brother is going to die and in order to survive, he needs to be more like Dean. He does, but it’s not that pretty and Dean freaks out a little with a whole host of interrogating questions--“Where’s my brother? What’s happened to you? You’re not acting like yourself” to which Sam can only answer “I know, but I don’t have a choice”. It really only gets worse from there as he has to deal with the pain of his brother’s death and live every day with the knowledge that he couldn’t save him no matter how hard he tried. He’s alive and left to deal with the aftermath and his father and brother are being tortured in Hell. The very Hell whose army Sam is supposed to lead. When Dean suddenly shows up alive (4x1) Sam can hardly believe it and after too many painful conversations, they get back to work. Some of the tension he’s been carrying around breaks and glimpses of the old Sam start to come back with Dean by his side again, but he‘s got the weight of the world on his shoulders, and it shows. In a nut shell, Sam really is a genuinely nice guy. He’s caring, sensitive, and loyal to the death, but there’s a darkness in him that lays just beneath the surface, and sooner or later it’s going to escape.
As far as strengths and weaknesses go, oh, where to start. His most glaringly obvious weakness is his brother, Dean, for whom he will do absolutely anything - even if he doesn’t particularly want to. After his father’s death, Dean is Sam’s only living relative and he’s been raised to be fiercely protective of his family, even if it means sacrificing himself to keep them safe. Sam and his brother share one of the most unhealthy sibling relationships ever, and have become so reliant on the other that they are almost useless on their own. Not literally, but separating the pair makes it hard for either one to function normally in a social setting, and they easily become insecure about their decisions. Sam has had to live with the pain of his brother dying before (several times actually) and he really goes off the deep end. In Mystery Spot (3x11), the brothers are trapped in a Groundhog Day type situation by Gabriel (The Archangel posing as a Trickster, a kind of demigod), Sam is forced to relive Dean dying over and over again, and he powerless to stop it. This takes his toll on Sam and he eventually finds Gabe and forces him to release them, only for Dean to actually die the next day by unforeseen events. Befallen by utter despair, Sam spends the next several months in an obsessive military style routine to hunt down the Trickster and force him to being Dean back to life. Despite it all, Sam is still unable to keep Dean alive as he is hunted down and killed by Hellhounds at the end of the year - the toll of a Crossroads deal Dean made a year earlier to revive Sam from similar circumstances. This time, knowing Dean is really gone and there is no hope of ever bringing him back, Sam falls into a pit of depression. Completely out of control, he develops a heavy drinking problem and flings himself head first into every hunt he can. It’s stupid, and suicidal, but he doesn’t care. And maybe that’s the point.
Sam wants so badly to always do the right thing that he often ends up making things worse. If he can’t find a kosher way to go about it, he will explore other possibilities, and usually ends up using underhanded methods. When he does this, he’ll try to cover it up, and will lie through his teeth until he has no other choice but to admit what he’s done. It could be classed as both a strength and a weakness, but he has the ability to look someone right in the eye and lie until he loses his voice. Which is never. There are several examples of this within the series, but a great big one is his relationship with the demon Ruby, and her manipulation of Sam through his desperate need to keep Lucifer to Hell. She convinces Sam that he won’t be strong enough to do it as he is, and introduces him to demon blood (basically acting as a performance enhancing drug), gets him flat out addicted, and then uses his faith in her to facilitate the very thing he’s trying to stop.
His faults aside, Sam is a strong leader and is able to take control of a situation when he has to. He’s used to working in a duo with his brother, but is capable of leading a team and is quick to step up to the plate when responsibility calls. Where he used to try to rationalize killing on the job, he has now just accepted it, and no longer objects to the idea of killing one for the good of many. That being said, Sam believes in justice, seeing himself as the final stopgap between everyday life, and all the things crawling around in the dark. He has become his job, and will do anything it takes to keep that darkness from hurting innocent people.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: His personality didn't change much, but he found being trapped frustrating and became more irritable. He also became intimately involved with a woman named Rose Taylor.
Character Plans:
Having been plucked from an incredibly pivotal plot point in his canon, the sky is the limits with Sam Winchester. I'm really keep to explore his physiological state having been ripped away from what is essentially suicide in the name of the greater good, only to end up in a city full of corruption and darkness. I want him to have a blow out face off with Lucifer (fingers crossed you accept Vil's App!), meet back up with Rose (accept her app too!) and begin hunting the darkness while he tries to sort out his life and get back on track. Then there's the matter of sorting out what was going on with his brother Dean, and dealing with the immense population of angels in the city.
Appearance/PB:
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This is his tattoo: http://www.supernatural.tv/gallery2/s3/jusin/wmplayer%202008-02-22%2016-15-37-85.jpg
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[Just a note, but Sam likes to keep his queries short and sweet. Or not at all if he can help it. Sam is more of a watcher than a poster, so while his network posts may be few and far between, his logs will not. If you'd like a more expanded example of his voice, I would be more than happy to link you to a post or two from his previous game thelongnow_rpg]
[Voice]
[There’s a tentative pause after the recording begins. A pause newcomers might know all too well. After all, they’ve been there before, too.]
It might sound crazy, but I have no idea how I got here…
I don’t know if anyone can hear me… But-
[a sigh of exasperation, he clearly doesn’t trust a single thing he’s seen today.]
I need information.
Third Person Sample
Sam sighed with a heavy heart, taking what he thought were his last few breaths. He felt hot, sweaty, and it was difficult not to turn and run the other direction. Two gallons of demon blood was running through his veins and Dean was by his side. This was it. He was going to take Lucifer head on in the battle to end all battles. He was the one, the only one, who had a chance at cutting off the head of the snake, and Hell be damned he was going to give it his best shot.
"Hey!" He heard Dean shout into the cold air. "Come out you sons of bitches!" Though the words were tangled, as if they were screamed through a vast body of water.
His hands were shaking, clenched into tight fists in an attempt to keep them steady.
This is it, Sam thought, over and over and over again. You can do it.
And then, in an instance, inside a blinding flash of light, the stand off was gone - replaced by a barren baseball field bathed in a pool of darkness. His breath, again, caught in his throat as he whipped around, right hand immediately going for his gun. He was alone.
Everything felt wrong.
"Come out!" He yelled. Lucifer had to be there somewhere. This was another game. It had to be.
"Show yourself!"
