Man oh man. So I said before that bb!Sam+other random hunter was one of my favorite minor genres, when done right, so THE EXISTENCE OF THIS FIC JUST MAKES ME HAPPY ON PRINCIPLE. I love how well-developed Sam is in this fic (particularly since I feel like reading anything--books or fic--with a younger narrator can be such a gamble, because, being so often written by people older than their narrator, that's exactly what it ends up sounding like--someone who no longer remembers how it feels, and what it sounds like to be that age). I love the disjuncture between Sam and Dean at the beginning of this, where their age difference is at just that point there it's hit that striking note of dissimilarity, to say nothing of their different relationships with hunting in general. And the way Sam regards Phil, how arbitrary he finds this friendship, based on having hunted a rugaru once back in the way and omg why do goodbyes take so long he never gets to have goodbyes this long, etc. Because whatever Sam thinks, given John's reaction to Caleb
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I have the same problem with young-person pov, that it's all too often unrealistic. I love writing young Sam especially, because he IS so perceptive, and so strong in his own beliefs/perceptions, taught not to take any crap, and more mature than most people he meets, but then he has normal kid-stuff about him, too, so it's a fun dichotomy.
Because whatever Sam thinks, given John's reaction to Caleb and Pastor Jim's deaths in 1x20, this probably does matter a lot to John. Even so, it's not Sam's world. YES, YES. He IS 14, and maybe less self-absorbed than some 14-year-olds, but in another way moreso, because he's been the black sheep for so long, living a life he's so unsuited to, and been deprived of so much of what he wants for so long that it's made him obsessed with getting at least SOME of what he wants, his life's become this battle to acquire that stuff, to the point that it's made him almost begin to define himself in opposition to whoever and whatever he's around--total teenager stuff, but more
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I have the same problem with young-person pov, that it's all too often unrealistic. I love writing young Sam especially, because he IS so perceptive, and so strong in his own beliefs/perceptions, taught not to take any crap, and more mature than most people he meets, but then he has normal kid-stuff about him, too, so it's a fun dichotomy.
Because whatever Sam thinks, given John's reaction to Caleb and Pastor Jim's deaths in 1x20, this probably does matter a lot to John. Even so, it's not Sam's world. YES, YES. He IS 14, and maybe less self-absorbed than some 14-year-olds, but in another way moreso, because he's been the black sheep for so long, living a life he's so unsuited to, and been deprived of so much of what he wants for so long that it's made him obsessed with getting at least SOME of what he wants, his life's become this battle to acquire that stuff, to the point that it's made him almost begin to define himself in opposition to whoever and whatever he's around--total teenager stuff, but more ( ... )
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