verses page bc it's been 8 years on this blog alone and i never consolidated them in one place.
V. I WANT OUT. anything set in s1-3, concerning sam's reintroduction to hunting, john's death, the birth of the boy king, and dean's impending fate.
V. THE IALOUS SWAN AYENS HIS DETH THAT SINGETH. anything set in season 4 or 5; the apocalypse is nigh, hell is on earth, and heaven is opening the door.
V. HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISERABLE NOW. anything set past season 5, from s6 to s15. this verse will rarely be used, but i do have a soft spot for older sam + domesticity.
V. YOU ALWAYS END UP HERE. an au set in the "end" universe, in which sam succumbs to lucifer's possession; however, this au is set shortly after dean's death. in this au, sam successfully wrestles back lucifer upon killing dean, the act an ultimate mistake on lucifer's end, forever sealing lucifer inside him a la the end of swan song. (or ejecting him and forcing him to live with dying vessels. whichever.)
V. IT'S ALL FIRE AND BRIMSTONE; BABY. an au in which sam accepts his position as the boy king of hell and ascends to the throne after dean's death. whether dean returns or not is dependent on the writer and timeline. generally bases himself out of a missouri based diner; his intent is to kill lucifer once he learns of his existence and plans. boy king sam is not expressly evil, as he avoids harming innocents and wields an iron fist against demons who disobey. he'll flay them blood eagle the same as he will any hunter who wont back off.
V. MARVEL. upon emergence from mary's womb, sam is marked, like a handful of young mutants before him, as one of ch'thon's future vessels. at six months old, ch'thon kills mary in an effort to prepare sam for his future. not even a week later, the infant sam is abducted by the mutant terrorist raven "mystique" darkholme, and raised by her, as her son, in order to protect him from ch'thon, humans that would hate him, and his own family. in this verse, sam is named sam darkholme, and while raven did not raise him to hate humans, he doesn't trust them. he is indeed still a stanford student on his way to becoming a lawyer. whether the events of supernatural happen or not is determined by the thread, but dean definitely doesnt know him very well in this verse. he was raised to love and embrace his powers, not hate them, and is close with the darkholme children (to some degree, given both rogue and kurt dislike their mother whereas sam does not. he was the only one given totally favorable treatment.)
V. FALLOUT. sam is a former follower of the apocalypse who was infected with a trace amount of FEV at birth. instead of horribly mutating him, the virus granted him his abilities seen in canon. he has an instinctual draw toward the master and finding him.
V. THE LAST OF US. sam was raised by john and, thus, dean, the cordyceps outbreak happening when he is three years old. at fifteen, he runs away from the both of them, joining up with the fireflies only to become disillusioned with them by eighteen. in this verse, sam is a mobile junker for bobby singer's dakota based scrapyard, a location that is heavily fortified and mostly safe, similar to bill's isolated town. sam generally makes trades for bobby and travels to acquire supplies--food, rations, medicine, necessities--whilst trading engine parts, gas, and scrap metal from the yard. (dean, by comparison, is likely a fedra boy. they havent seen each other in years, especially as bobby has no way to 'reach out' to dean.) sam and bobby encounter a 14 year old ellie and joel in the fall of the game, helping them out before getting them on their way. in this verse, lucifer is the leader of a huge band of hunters--lucifer is obviously not his real name, but what he chooses to go by--and, similar to david, indulges in cannibalism and rape. sam is his subject of obsession. (lucifer is also a weirdo who likes the spread of the infection.)
V. DRAGON AGE. sam is a natural force & blood mage. john is a former ferelden soldier who may have died in ostaegar, whereas dean survived. they haven't seen each other in years and dean may have gone on to become a templar after his experiences. everything with azazel is pretty congruent--sam has always been highly at risk of becoming an abomination.