PLAYER Name: Cig Age: 27 Personal Journal:cig E-mail: kichiri [at] gmail AIM/MSN/etc: n/a
CHARACTER Name: Sam Winchester Canon: Supernatural Age: 15 Timeline: Pre-series; Specifically, as shown during the flashback in 7x03 after Sam and Amy have parted ways. If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: “Normal” is an ideal Sam Winchester strives to achieve, because his life is anything but. Normal kids aren’t shuffled from school to school every few weeks. Normal kids worry about test scores and acne, not werewolves and vengeful spirits. Normal kids will have a parent soothe them when they’re nine years old and they’re scared of the thing in the closet, but in Sam’s case his father handed him a .45 pistol. Nothing in Sam’s life is even close to normal, which makes him crave it that much more.
Sam’s dysfunctional family life is nothing to sniff at. He has an ex-Marine for a father, though John is only his father in a loose sense of the term. In Sam’s words, John basically treated him and his brother Dean as warriors; meanwhile, Dean is the one that while only being four years older than Sam took over as both brother and father, as John was out on a hunt more often than not. Even as a child, Sam was used to the disappointment of John not being around for important events or holidays, or even just around in general. It wasn’t until Christmas when Sam was eight years old that he learned what exactly his father did for a living, and since that point he hasn’t had a choice in whether or not he joined in on the family business. It’s no wonder he takes issue with his father, what with being uprooted and moved from town to town every few weeks like clockwork and having to fall in line like a good soldier.
Yearning for normalcy has led to Sam acting out against John and, by extension, Dean. In Sam’s heaven, some of his happiest memories have been revealed, and in them his family is never present. Instead he has memories of his first Thanksgiving with another family and of the two weeks where he’d run away and holed up in a cabin by himself. The appeal of it was to break free, to do what he wanted for a change, rather than have to remain chained to the life he was being forced to pursue. Despite all that, Sam does have a sense dedication to his family; at one point a kitsune, one of the creatures his family had been hunting, saved his life by killing her mother and asked him to leave town with her. And while Sam trusted her, and had the perfect opportunity to leave the hunting life behind, he instead chose to return to his father and brother.
Without a stable home, Sam never really learned how to make friends, what with always being moved around. He was always the new kid, the weird kid, the freak, and tended to go into a new environment with a pessimistic attitude. At one point one of his teachers had questions on an essay he’d written, and Sam’s response was that the teacher could go ahead and flunk him, stating that it wouldn’t matter because his family was taking off again as soon as his dad got back. So desperate is he to fit in that he purposefully puts up with others bullying him so he doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb. Being a teenager (with a temper) he does have limits to how much he can put up with, and will rise to the bait if someone continues to taunt him, although he’s much more likely to react if it’s someone else that’s being given trouble.
Sam has always been decently easy to sway using emotions. Unlike many brought up in the hunting world, he tends to see things in shades of gray, rather than simply black and white, good or evil. Empathizing comes naturally to him, and he can go from brandishing a knife to being off his guard in under a minute. Certainly part of that is due to his less-than-stellar people skills. Sam is shy and awkward, and even at 15 years old has to ask his brother how to talk to girls. ...And then completely bombs his opening line, stumbling pathetically while trying to manage a simple “I just wanted to say hi” and looking so horribly dejected that the girl who told him to go away then feels compelled to explain herself.
So social activities aren’t really Sam’s thing. What is his thing, however, is thinking. He’s intelligent and creative, and able to throw himself into research and do whatever it takes to find out what he needs to. If that means downing a triple redeye to get the job done, then so be it. Sam is often delegated to research duty. It’s a role that requires him to find out what John and Dean are hunting and, more importantly, how to kill it. He can spot patterns in attacks, cross-reference different source materials, and pick through and separate the useful information from the unusable. His family’s safety is in his hands, and they may continuously call and pester him for updates, but they trust his skills enough to leave him to the task and trust his judgment when he does come upon an answer. His teenaged bullheadedness certainly comes in handy when it comes to not giving up before he gets his answers, even if it does cause tensions elsewhere in his life.
[CANON] Sam Winchester || Supernatural || Reserved || 1 of 2
Name: Cig
Age: 27
Personal Journal:
E-mail: kichiri [at] gmail
AIM/MSN/etc: n/a
CHARACTER
Name: Sam Winchester
Canon: Supernatural
Age: 15
Timeline: Pre-series; Specifically, as shown during the flashback in 7x03 after Sam and Amy have parted ways.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality:
“Normal” is an ideal Sam Winchester strives to achieve, because his life is anything but. Normal kids aren’t shuffled from school to school every few weeks. Normal kids worry about test scores and acne, not werewolves and vengeful spirits. Normal kids will have a parent soothe them when they’re nine years old and they’re scared of the thing in the closet, but in Sam’s case his father handed him a .45 pistol. Nothing in Sam’s life is even close to normal, which makes him crave it that much more.
Sam’s dysfunctional family life is nothing to sniff at. He has an ex-Marine for a father, though John is only his father in a loose sense of the term. In Sam’s words, John basically treated him and his brother Dean as warriors; meanwhile, Dean is the one that while only being four years older than Sam took over as both brother and father, as John was out on a hunt more often than not. Even as a child, Sam was used to the disappointment of John not being around for important events or holidays, or even just around in general. It wasn’t until Christmas when Sam was eight years old that he learned what exactly his father did for a living, and since that point he hasn’t had a choice in whether or not he joined in on the family business. It’s no wonder he takes issue with his father, what with being uprooted and moved from town to town every few weeks like clockwork and having to fall in line like a good soldier.
Yearning for normalcy has led to Sam acting out against John and, by extension, Dean. In Sam’s heaven, some of his happiest memories have been revealed, and in them his family is never present. Instead he has memories of his first Thanksgiving with another family and of the two weeks where he’d run away and holed up in a cabin by himself. The appeal of it was to break free, to do what he wanted for a change, rather than have to remain chained to the life he was being forced to pursue. Despite all that, Sam does have a sense dedication to his family; at one point a kitsune, one of the creatures his family had been hunting, saved his life by killing her mother and asked him to leave town with her. And while Sam trusted her, and had the perfect opportunity to leave the hunting life behind, he instead chose to return to his father and brother.
Without a stable home, Sam never really learned how to make friends, what with always being moved around. He was always the new kid, the weird kid, the freak, and tended to go into a new environment with a pessimistic attitude. At one point one of his teachers had questions on an essay he’d written, and Sam’s response was that the teacher could go ahead and flunk him, stating that it wouldn’t matter because his family was taking off again as soon as his dad got back. So desperate is he to fit in that he purposefully puts up with others bullying him so he doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb. Being a teenager (with a temper) he does have limits to how much he can put up with, and will rise to the bait if someone continues to taunt him, although he’s much more likely to react if it’s someone else that’s being given trouble.
Sam has always been decently easy to sway using emotions. Unlike many brought up in the hunting world, he tends to see things in shades of gray, rather than simply black and white, good or evil. Empathizing comes naturally to him, and he can go from brandishing a knife to being off his guard in under a minute. Certainly part of that is due to his less-than-stellar people skills. Sam is shy and awkward, and even at 15 years old has to ask his brother how to talk to girls. ...And then completely bombs his opening line, stumbling pathetically while trying to manage a simple “I just wanted to say hi” and looking so horribly dejected that the girl who told him to go away then feels compelled to explain herself.
So social activities aren’t really Sam’s thing. What is his thing, however, is thinking. He’s intelligent and creative, and able to throw himself into research and do whatever it takes to find out what he needs to. If that means downing a triple redeye to get the job done, then so be it. Sam is often delegated to research duty. It’s a role that requires him to find out what John and Dean are hunting and, more importantly, how to kill it. He can spot patterns in attacks, cross-reference different source materials, and pick through and separate the useful information from the unusable. His family’s safety is in his hands, and they may continuously call and pester him for updates, but they trust his skills enough to leave him to the task and trust his judgment when he does come upon an answer. His teenaged bullheadedness certainly comes in handy when it comes to not giving up before he gets his answers, even if it does cause tensions elsewhere in his life.