Sam Winchester
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Full Name: Samuel “Sam” William Winchester
Species: Human
D.O.B: May, 2nd, 1983
Age Range: 22 - 35 years old
Place of Birth: Lawrence, Kansas, America
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 6.4" (1.93 m)
Father: John Winchester †
Mother: Mary Winchester †
Siblings: Dean Winchester, and Adam Milligan
Children: None (verse dependant)
Occupation: Law Student/Hunter (unemployed)
Orientation: Pansexual
Relationship Status: Single (verse dependant)
Faceclaim: Jared Padalecki
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Sam was a very smart kid growing up! Although all he knew firsthand was the life of a hunter, even from a young age, he still knew enough to know that other kids didn’t have a life like his and that he and his brother deserved better. And he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind about that to his dad!
He’s stubborn as hell and very passionate about most things and his opinions on them. He’s very selfless in that he will put others first, but unlike his brother who does the same, Sam will actually put himself next, or when he needs. At least he tries to. He’s very aware of himself, what he can and can’t do, what he will and won’t do, and what he wants and doesn’t want.
Sam’s a HUGE people person! In fact, he loves people! And he wants to help them wherever and whenever he can. He’s got a pretty big personality to go with his legitimate big physical height. He has a smile that lights up any room his in, not just because of how genuine it is but because of how contagious it is! He generally wants to see the good in people and in everything. Of course, the man is smart enough to know there isn’t good everywhere, but if you look and try you may just find it! He can be a bit too trusting of people sometimes because of it. Through the years, a shield was put up by his sub-conscious but it seemed to not be strong enough to keep some of the bad people away… Still, Sam consciously works to make sure they don’t push him to shun all people in general!
About
A.N: My versions of Sam, Dean, and Cas are canon divergent. They exist in a world where most if not all events from the Mark of Cain storyline and on did NOT happen! Cas is still and always has been an angel (except when he THOUGHT he was human coming back from Purgatory), the other angels didn’t fall, and Gabriel wasn’t really killed by Lucifer.
Sam was born into a happy home with his mom, his dad, and his big brother Dean. Things seemed to be good for the family of 4 until around the time Sam turned 6-months old. A demon from his mother’s past, Azazel, also known as Yellow-Eyes, came around to collect a debt that Mary, Sam’s mother, had promised long before either of her children were even a thought. That night, everything changed for the Winchesters; Mary was burned alive stuck to the ceiling above Sam’s crib as the house burned down. John, Sam’s dad, tried his best to save his wife passing little baby Sammy off to big brother Dean with orders to get him and himself out of the house to safety. Dean ran out of the house and waited for his dad holding Sammy safely and securely in his arms. It didn’t take John long to realize that he couldn’t save Mary but he still had his boys who still very much needed him alive at least.
From that day forward John became obsessed with what had happened to his wife. His boys wouldn’t get the most traditional of childhoods, or even the greatest ever, but they’d know how to protect themselves and keep themselves safe. John became a hunter despite to find the being who killed his wife and kill it for himself. He trained his boys to do the same the now family of 3 moving all around America quite often; moving to wherever John found a hunt.
Sam learned to reply much more on his brother than his father. John wasn’t around as much as he probably should have and Dean understood the 2 being in the same situation and all. But still, Dean was loyal to John where Sam wanted a better life not just for himself but for his brother as well. It wasn’t fair that they’d be dragged along in their father’s crusade for revenge. It wasn’t fair that Sam had never gotten to know his mother…
Dean took care of his little brother all through their childhoods and beyond. Sam excelled at school which wasn’t the easiest thing to do when they’d move multiple times during the school year (sometimes multiple times during a single term/half year). Still, Sam was smart and took to Science, Math, and English much better and quicker than his brother. He even enjoyed school!
It was during high school that their constant moving was seriously pushing on Sam’s last nerves. He’d never overly approved of his dad’s parenting methods and although he understood deep down, it was far down enough that he could ignore it, in a way. He was able to take his own wants out of his viewing of his dad, sometimes, and see what was really happening and how bad it was for him and his brother. What John was doing wasn’t right! Dean had already dropped out of school because of how often they moved and the fact that it was just assumed that after each of the boys finished school they simply join their father in his hunting fulltime. Sam had just barely convinced his older brother to get a G.E.D at least.
The main problem was, Sam didn’t want to be a hunter. He didn’t want to continue the hunt for his mother’s killer who they probably wouldn’t even recognize when they found it anyway. If they ever did. The kids in each of the high schools he’d go to kept talking about college or university afterward and Sam wanted to go too! He’d put up with so much, gone through 14 years of John’s searching, if the demon was going to be found by them surely, they would have found it by now?
Half-way through grade 9, he’d decided he was going to college. What for and where he didn’t know, but he was getting out! It was secret he didn’t even tell Dean who he told everything.
Finally, he graduated from high school. Unbeknownst to his family, he’d already set out applications to go to school for Law. That summer, he was accepted into Stanford University.
It wasn’t an easy conversation bringing it up to his dad, hell, it hadn’t been easy bringing it up to Dean, but if anything was a sign it was the acceptance letter in his hand. He was going to go to school, on a full scholarship; he was getting out of hunting.
Of course, there were some good parts of hunting. When he was younger it’d seemed so cool to travel across America, and they really did help a lot of people! But, there were more hunters than just them 3, a fact that was proven pretty easily by his dad’s friend, Bobby, who was like a surgent father to John’s boys. Bobby helped loads of other hunters! And now? Now Sam’s mind was made up. He was going, whether he got their “blessings” or not.
Dean had been sad, and angry too, of course, but he understood and had even told his brother to go no matter what their dad said. John, on the other hand, had said point blank that, if Sam walked out the door to go to school he shouldn’t bother ever coming back. And so he didn’t.
Quite a few years into his schooling Dean popped by except not as a normal brother would visiting their sibling at University. No, Dean broke into the apartment Sam was living at with his girlfriend, Jessica, in the middle of the night.
“Dad’s on a huntin’ trip, and he hasn’t been home in a few days.”
Sam knew the code well; it meant that John hadn’t checked in during his last hunt, that Dean wasn’t able to get a hold of him, and that he was assumed missing or worse. It’d been over 2 decades now; John didn’t just stop telling Dean where he was or what he was doing, he didn’t just disappear which meant that something bad had happened.
Sam was reluctant to leave and help but it was his family that was in need and Dean had traveled all the way to him to get him ‘cause he needed his help. No matter how badly he wanted and tried to walk away from the life of a hunter, he couldn’t turn away at his brother’s pleads. And so, Sam promised Dean to help him look for 1 weekend as he needed to be back that Monday for an important appointment with his school.
Their search for John turned up empty the boys doing their best to follow the elder man’s tracks and even pick up a few small hunts on the way, but eventually, Sam needed to go back to Stanford. He didn’t want to leave his brother hanging and left to search alone, but if he missed his appointment, the past 4 years would have been for nothing. It was important not just to his schooling, but to his career afterward, to his life after University, and to him. Dean let him go back, of course, he could never say no to his little brother no matter how much taller then him the kid was now, he was still his little brother, Sammy. And Dean took care of Sammy!
Sam went home to Jessica. It was a little later into the night and so, as soon as he walked through the door he went straight into the bedroom to lay down and rest from the car ride back. It was then that he’d realized that Jess wasn’t actually answering him back, and he’d been talking to her since the moment he’d walked through the front door. A split second later and Sam found her.
Although he wouldn’t remember, being too young at the time to keep a memory of it, when he looked up now at his girlfriend stuck back-flat to the ceiling, her stomach cut and bleeding, a parallel could be connected to his mother dying the same way about 22 years easier in the house fire that changed his life. Another second later and the ceiling Jessica was stuck to caught fire as well.
Dean had stayed around just to make sure his little brother got in and home safe, and stayed that way. It was a good thing too cause as Sam laid on the bed he’d shared with his girlfriend looking up at his girlfriend dying on the ceiling which was catching on fire, Dean had enough time to run up and burst through the apartment’s door. Sam was taken to safety once again by his brother as his home with a loved one trapped inside burned. From the stories of their mother’s death, both of the boys knew right away that it was the work of Azazel.
It really didn’t take much after that to convince Sam that you couldn’t just walk away from the life of a hunter, no matter how badly he wanted to or how well the last 4 years of his life had been. He agreed to go back on the road with Dean in search of their missing father and picking up hunts along the way.
Eventually, the 2 found John, which in of itself came with much more stories than they’d know prior. The family of 3 teaming up again brought a lot of old, sour memories back to the surface. It was like they’d tried to fall back into the same routine they’d had before Sam left. Except, now Sam wasn’t a kid anymore and John couldn’t just make him to do anything and everything. The 2 seemed at each other’s throats more they’d once been, the taste of freedom just too fresh to the younger son.
Just like most things for the Winchesters, it didn’t last. As Sam and John had been starting to rekindle a better relationship, John died, taking Dean’s place on a reaper’s ‘To Reap’ list instead.
The brothers kept hunting on their own ever since. Despite not having their dad by their side anymore, they weren’t ever alone for long, if at all. They still had Bobby, their surgent father, as well as all of the good people they’d meet along the way. Some of them would die as the years past, while others would come and go. It was a life of a hunter, and much sooner rather than later, the boy making their own rules now and doing it all their way, Sam accepted it.
So much had happened to the 2 of them including the fact that they’d both died and come back quite a few times and in various ways. (too many times according to some reapers!). When Dean died the first time being dragged down into Hell by Lilith herself in Sam’s place, he was brought back ‘topside’ by an angel named Castiel. Cas wouldn’t be the only angel the boy would meet, but he’d be the first to join their fight against the supernatural. Team Free Will they’d dub themselves jokingly.
Later on, Hell opened up, and they did their best to close it, the soul of their father coming through the opening to help, giving the ‘door’ that last push to seal it and all the demon inside, as well as himself. They stopped the apocalypse a quite few times as turned out Sam and Dean were destined to be the vessels of the Archangels Lucifer and Michael, respectively. Of course, they weren’t completely on board with that right away but Sam saying yes to Lucifer was their only way to stop the apocalypse. At least this first one. Sam was able to take control of his body for just a little while, long enough to throw himself and Lucifer, as well as he and Dean’s half-brother Adam who was possessed by Michael, into the pitch in Hell to trap them all. That’s how Sam was first tortured in Hell.
Somehow, Sam was able to get out of the pit, only to be back on Earth without his soul. They got it back after Dean finally found out, but it allowed Lucifer back into his mind where he’d be tortured once again for quite a while.
He’d get addicted to demon’s blood, drinking and being in a relationship with a demon named Ruby only for it to come out that she was using him fro Hell’s bidding, who would have guessed? The boys actually had a pretty big relationship with Hell through the years, mostly a love-hate sort of relationship with the 2 of them even teaming up with the new “King” of Hell, Crowley, on multiple occasions!
During a hunt back in Lawrence, Kansas, Sam and Dean met their paternal grandfather, Henry, who used to be a Man of Letters back when their father had just been a boy. It was said that he’d just gone missing one day, but, turned out he’d actually time-traveled to the 21st-century. That how was Sam and Dean found the Men of Letters bunker, where they currently reside leaving when needed to follow a hunt not close by.