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Nov 28, 2011 12:54

OOC Information;
Name; PR.
Personal Journal; prthecrazyone
Contact; Email; chaserprongs@gmail.com AIM; PR The Crazy One Plurk; prthecrazyone
Other Characters; No one!

IC Information;
Character Name; Sam Winchester.
Canon; Supernatural. Wiki.
Canon Point; Season 7 Episode 10.
Age; 28.

House; Odin.
Power; Fire Magic.

Personality;

Base Personality;

Sam Winchester is a complete and utter freak of nature. No, seriously -- it's canon. He's one of the few hunters that doesn't drown himself in alcohol, he deals with his problems in a more or less healthy manner, and when Sam screws something up (which is quite frequently, as he tends to be the source of all of the problems in Supernatural), he pays his dues and moves past it. However, there is a lot more than meets the eye to our resident smartboy -- beneath that moderately sarcastic and intelligent exterior is a very layered interior, full of flawed doubt and a genuine kindness that's pretty difficult to find in the Supernatural universe.

Sam represents the half of Team Winchester that tends to think before he does something -- in other words, he's not a 'shoot first and ask questions later' kind of guy. He tends to look at a situation more analytically than anything else, trying to figure out a problem from research and previous experience than just kicking down a door with a gun and some salt rounds (Dean). If you need an answer to a problem, Sam is your guy -- mainly because Sam will happily spend hours in a library going through historical documents in order to find one name to the body they need to salt and burn to put a spirit to rest or the location of an ancient artifact that needs to be broken to lure a demon out of hiding. Dean frequently refers to him as a 'nerd', but Sam's intelligence and perseverance has saved their sorry asses more than once. And by more than once, I mean all the time.

This attitude didn't come easily, though. Sam, when growing up, tried as hard as he could to have a potentially normal life. He excelled in school, stubbornly refused to buy into the hunter life as forced upon him by his father, and ran away to college the moment he turned eighteen. This stubborn temperament has carried Sam through his life, even when he finally succumbed to his so-called destiny (which later turned out to be his actual destiny, but he doesn't like thinking about that chapter of his life). When Sam sets his mind on something, he gets it done, and Heaven forbid if you try to tell him no. This holds true for going into a dangerous situation, sacrificing himself in order to keep the world safe, or getting Dean to stop drinking and talk about his problems. When Sam wants something, he works to get it, no matter what. And if you stand in his way, he'll move you out of his path, intellectually or otherwise. He isn't afraid to throw punches.

Along with his stubbornness comes Sam's occasional bout of temper, though his control of it displays a great amount of maturity throughout the series. When Sam was younger, he was impulsive, rash, and occassionally reckless, giving into his frustration and his temper. It was what supposedly made him a great candidate for Lucifer's vessel -- the rebellious son, who disobeyed his father, and ran away from his so-called destiny in favor of greener pastures. Now that Sam is older and has seen the results of his temperment, he has learned to try and not act on impulse and irrationality, though he has his moments of failure where he allows his temper and his frustration to rule his decisions, such as stabbing Castiel with the archangel blade of Raphael when Castiel absorbed all of Purgatory. The action was ultimately fruitless and born out of frustration and probably a great deal of anger (as Castiel was the one who broke the Wall dividing Sam's memories of Hell from the rest of his consciousness), but it was done because he felt Castiel was a threat to his brother, to Bobby, and to himself.

Sam's maturity is an ongoing theme in the series, as he is a character who constantly changes and evolves with each passing year that he is a hunter. He has made a lot of mistakes -- Sam is a recovering drug addict who accidentally started the Apocalypse and spent around a century and a half in the Cage of Hell in order to pay for it. He also spent a good period of time without his soul, had his Hellfire-damaged soul put back into his body, and is currently suffering the ill-effects of a shattered mind thanks to someone who was supposed to be one of his closest friends. But through this, and his recovery process, Sam has tried the best he can to live as good a life he can, even with the deck stacked against him. He was literally born to be the vessel of Lucifer -- a tool of the demons, infected by demon blood at a young age, and though this was out of his control, Sam has worked very hard to ensure that his life is in his control now.

Above all else, Sam is an extraordinarily kind individual who would do most anything for the people he loves. He would lay down his life for his family -- and has, on numerous occasions. Despite all of the mistakes he has made and the clashes he semi-constantly has with Dean, Sam would do anything to make sure that Dean was safe and as happy as possible. This includes saying yes to Lucifer, killing someone, and breaking him out of prison should he ever need it. Sam also has the ability of insane forgiveness because of his perspective on completely and utterly fucking up the world and everything in it. If Sam considers you family, you are family, to any and all ends. Sam eventually forgave his father, John, for constantly forcing the lifestyle of a hunter upon him, because he realized that he was only doing the best he could do in order to keep his family safe. When Dean was going to say yes to Michael out of a momentary lapse of weakness, Sam understood. And when Castiel decided to lose his marbles and break the Wall protecting Sam's Hellfire scarred soul from the rest of his sanity, Sam was the only individual on Team Winchester to reach out to the angel in order to get him to stop his murderous rampage throughout the United States, because deep down, he knew the angel was still the same member of their family that he always was.

Relationships;

Dean Winchester; To Sam, there is one person that resides above and beyond anyone and everyone else, and that is his older brother, Dean. The two brothers have something of an unhealthy co-dependence upon one another, something that Sam recognizes and even brings up numerous times in the series. Dean sold his soul in order to bring Sam back to life -- and when Dean was dragged below by the hounds of Hell, Sam was more than willing to do the same. When he couldn't, Sam shut off -- because a world without Dean around wasn't one that made very much sense. It may seem a little overdramatic, but the Winchester brothers were, for a long point in time, the only thing they had in the entire world. Growing up, it was Sam and Dean while their father hunted the monsters in the dark. Sam feels as though Dean is the one who raised him, who instilled him with the values that he carries today, and is the person Sam goes to whenever he needs anything. When Lucifer is controlling Sam and needs to be defeated, it is Dean who manages to snap Sam out of it. And when Sam is hallucinating, it is Dean to remind him, forcefully, that the world around him is real, and that Dean can be trusted above anything and everything else. They are two halves of the same coin -- you very rarely see one without the other, and even when the brothers do work their separate cases to get away from one another for awhile, they always wind up back in the Impala together at the end of it. Without each other, they would almost certainly be dead, and Sam recognizes that -- and, more than that, Sam accepts it. His brother may be an emotional rock of ridiculously crushing guilt and angst, but Sam would go to the ends of the earth for his older brother, and he knows Dean would do the same exact thing for him.

John Winchester; Sam's father is an unusually strong presence on his life, for someone that Sam feels wasn't actually really there for most of it. Sam never really knew his mother -- so from the time he was six months old it was just the three of them, living on the road, hunting whatever it is killed their mother. And Sam hated it. He is frequently shown being furious about his father's lack of involvement in their lives early in the series, mainly because Sam never got the opportunity to go to college, to marry Jessica, to live a normal life -- and Dean never even had the opportunity that Sam did to get away from it all in the first place. Upon his father's death, to save both himself and Dean from Azazel and injuries sustained from a near fatal car accident, Sam slowly begins to accept that his father was not a bad person whatsoever -- and did the best he could with what he had at his disposal. Now, Sam has a respect for his father that wasn't there previously, and carries some amount of residual guilt that his father most likely died thinking that his youngest son hated him -- even though that is far from the truth.

Bobby Singer; Bobby is the father figure that Sam has always desperately needed in his life. Someone to encourage him on the good, to knock him down on the bad, and to listen to him when he needs to bitch about... well, his life. Bobby is the backbone of their hunting family -- and someone Sam frequently relies on for support on most anything, ranging from problems about Dean to plans to save the world to just basic advice on how to kill the-monster-of-the-week. Bobby is what keeps Sam going when even Dean can't push him that one inch further. Through insanity, and hallucinations, and facing down the Devil, Bobby is the one person who hasn't doubted Sam's ability to carry what he needs to carry, and Sam doesn't properly know what he would do without it. If there is one person on planet Earth that is a strictly positive influence on Sam Winchester, it would be Bobby Singer, hands down.

Castiel; Castiel, initially, was concrete proof that Sam's belief in God and the great beyond was real. And then, Castiel represented everything Sam really did not want his life to be. And then, Castiel decided to rebel against Heaven and became a permanent member of their dysfunctional hunter family. It didn't take much longer for Castiel to become one of the team, something that Sam accepts easily, though it takes him a little bit longer for him to use his nickname rather than his full name, whereas it takes Dean about an hour of knowing the angel to decide his name is too much of a mouthful to say. Sam is of the belief -- well, okay, of the knowledge -- that Castiel likes Dean a great deal more than he likes him, something that doesn't really bother him all that much. He views Cas as something of a brother figure, as Dean's best friend, and one of his closest friends, too. Cas is always there whenever the boys need anything -- and Castiel, really, is the entire reason why Sam is alive and breathing today. Castiel faced down the angels in order to protect Sam from being killed, in order to win the Apocalypse. He pulled Sam out of the Cage (while accidentally forgetting his soul behind) at great personal risk to himself, which is something Sam hasn't forgotten.-- and it's really only in the angel's sudden absence that Sam realizes just how much the boys needed him. When Castiel was drunk with power, after opening up Purgatory, it isn't Dean, but Sam that prays fervently to the angel, in order to ask him to come home, so they could fix the balance and make things right. Surprisingly, the angel answers -- and Sam and Castiel, before the angel releases the souls back into Purgatory and is taken over by the Leviathan, have a moment of reconciliation -- right before the angel was taken over by the Leviathan and killed. Cas' absence and Dean's stout refusal to deal with much of anything resulting the angel's betrayal and subsequent repentance has left Sam in the precarious position of holding the team together, but he sucks it up and deals with it. Mainly because he has to.

Lucifer; Sam Winchester is the Chosen Vessel of the archangel Lucifer. And Lucifer, for a good part of time that he walked the Earth, frequently reminded Sam of it. He showed up in his room disguised as his dead girlfriend, Jessica, in order to explain to Sam the terms of their bond. And when Sam went to Detroit, to say 'yes' to the Devil, in order to give him a proper mental battle to seal him away in his cage, Lucifer dismissed Sam's efforts entirely -- until Sam managed to overpower the Devil and swan dive into the Cage of Hell, locking him within, trapped. When Sam was released, that was the last he thought he would see of Lucifer -- until the Wall seperating his memories of Hell from the rest of his mind broke, and they manifested themselves into someone Sam Winchester legitimately fears: Lucifer. As it stands now, Lucifer seems content on mostly screwing with Sam's head, casually inferring that what Sam is in is nothing more than a fever dream hallucination, though he did manage to try and get Sam to shoot his own brother. He also tends to hang around Sam a lot, though no one else can see him, and is frequently shown as a dull whispering voice in Sam's head, that he can almost constantly hear. Lucifer represents the side of Sam that he desperately wants to forget about -- the hatred, the anger, the loneliness -- all manifested within a single shadow of an angel that Sam long since defeated. He regards Lucifer with hatred, a special sort of loathing and disgust that Sam has otherwise long outgrown for every other individual in his life, save for the Devil -- and the Devil, or this shadow of him, preys off of it.

Note; These hallucinations will continue in Asgard, as the damage to Sam's head is still intact, though how bad they will be will depend on how stressful his time is in the city.

Samples;
Network Sample; [Sam looks a lot less freaked out than someone rightly should be, after being deposited in a brand new world and being told you're a warrior of some God somewhere.]

Hey... so, I'm Sam. I think I'm doing this right -- if you can't see me, sorry, I've kind of had a long day and I'm sort of making this up as I go.

[He pauses a little awkwardly before continuing.]

I know a lot of people just got here and everything, and there's a lot going on, and we need to start figuring out why we're all here -- but I need to know if anyone's seen a guy named Dean Winchester. And, if anyone here can tell me anything they've learned about this world, that'd be a help, too.

[He takes a quick breath before offering a smile, though it's obviously nervous, and distracted -- like he's not really actually giving a damn about anything he's saying, but he's trying his best to sound it.]

Thanks and -- Dean, if you're here, let me know.

Log Sample; Sam was oddly not afraid.

He had been in this kind of situation before -- wind up in a weird new world that wasn't your own, told you were to follow brand new rules... it was practically a Tuesday to him. It was normally the fault of the angels (or the Trickster, but even he was an angel, Sam corrected himself as he thought), in some weird attempt to get something out of the Winchesters, but this time felt different. There was no Balthazar to laugh at him, or Raphael, or Lucifer, or even Cas -- because they were all dead, Sam thought somewhat bitterly to himself as he looked around the hall, hands in his pockets, trying to calm down and think.

He had already called out for Dean, but hadn't gotten a response. He almost prayed to Cas, as an instinctive reflex whenever he was in way over his head, but he stopped himself before he could. It wouldn't really do much good. Prayers couldn't reach the dead.

The hunter let out a long sigh before he ran a hand through his hair. He hadn't moved from his spot, not quite yet. It was better to figure out where he was and what to do before he started wandering around. The hallucinations were manageable, but still not underneath control, and the last thing he needed was Lucifer accompanying him on a nightly stroll through Norse mythology-land. On top of the already shitty day he had been having. And out of the corner of his eye, the permanent market, the sloppily scrawled numbers on the palm of his hand --

And Sam shoved his hands into his pockets quickly with a deep shaking breath.

"Great," Sam muttered, closing his eyes to think. "Life just keeps getting better."

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