diadem app

[hellunbounded]

Player Information

Player: Reid
Contact: PM or ladybastet92
Invitation OR characters played: Dee godjr
Are you over 18?: Very much so.


Character Information

Character: Sam Winchester
Canon: Supernatural, after season 13 episode 22
Age: Physically 35, but has several centuries worth of memories due to his time imprisoned with Lucifer.
History: godspeed
Possessions:
- a brown jacket, a set of button-ups and jeans, and a pair of boots.
Weapon: Smith & Wesson Model 4006

Powers/Abilities: Sam is a mundane human at this point of the story, albeit one with a strong history of combat, weaponry and supernatural lore, including some practical witchcraft, though he only uses witchcraft in extreme circumstances involving life or death. With the mod's permission, I'd be interested in potentially exploring his season 2/3 powers returning, which revolved around telekinesis and seeing visions of the future. (Visions would all be coordinated with mod's permission, of course.) If the mods would rather, however, I'm happy to keep Sam a normie!


Application Questions

Who is the most important person in their life and why? What might be different if this person hadn't been around?

The most important person in Sam's life has always been and will always be his older brother, Dean. His brother has acted as his guiding light and anchor since before Sam can remember, serving both a parental and a sibling role, since their father was frequently absent and negligent to them both growing up. Sam was raised and trained since he was six months old (when his mother was murdered by a demon and their home was burnt down) to hunt monsters, which involved never staying in one place for longer than a few weeks. As such, Dean became the only source of safety and the only reliable figure in his otherwise untethered life, as well as his best friend. Even when Sam rebelled against his father and tried to abandon the hunting lifestyle, and despite the fact that he and Dean often have conflicting views that can sometimes morph into fights and stand-offs, he never stops loving and admiring his big brother. When everything else in his life falls apart, he can make it through it if he has Dean.

If Dean hadn't been there for Sam growing up, he most likely would have turned into what Heaven and Hell most wanted him to be: Lucifer's vessel. Like Lucifer, he would have let his anger towards his father bubble into resentment, and most likely wouldn't have resisted Lucifer's offer of understanding and kinship as a way to tempt him into ending the world. It is Sam's bond with Dean that averts the Apocalypse; it's his love for Dean that gives him the strength to break out of Lucifer's possession and lock him away, averting the end of the world.

Dean has died a few times by this point of the story, but every time it happens, Sam's character falters, usually abandoning an aspect of himself (his morality, his safety, his own life entirely) in desperation to get his brother back or, on one rare occasion, try find a way to live without him, which ended poorly. The first time Dean dies, Sam is manipulated in his grief and anger to seek revenge and cross lines he had never considered before, including working with demons and becoming addicted to demon blood. When Dean was about to succumb to the Mark of Cain, Sam was fully willing to sacrifice himself so his brother could live, and that's a choice he's made numerous times over the years. He has killed and died and literally gone to Hell for his brother, and he would do it several times over again, even after everything he's suffered for it.

After over a decade of almost everyone Sam has grown close to dying because of him one way or another, Sam now rarely opens himself up to new relationships, telling himself he's satisfied with the (basically codependent) one he shares with Dean. The few exceptions are an angel called Castiel, who defied Heaven's orders to join their side in the war against Armageddon and has been an ally to the Winchesters ever since, and a half-human half-angel nephilim named Jack that Sam took under his wing after his unusual birth, even though he was Lucifer's son. He considers Castiel his closest friend and thinks of Jack as his son, even if he hasn't quite admitted it to himself yet. The four of them make up "Team Free Will 2.0", and Sam would give his life for any of them. A witch named Rowena has slipped past his defenses and become a strange friend as well, especially after they bonded over their trauma from being abused by Lucifer.

Is there an event in your character's life that they'd do differently? How so and why?

Sam's life is littered with so many regrets, it's difficult to narrow it down to just one, but the most notable event he wishes he could undo is killing Lilith, his brother's murderer, and unintentionally starting the Apocalypse because of it. This set off a chain of events that caused many innocents to suffer and die, including some of Sam's own loved ones, and it damaged the trust Dean once had in him, as well as the trust Sam used to have in himself. But the root of this event is what he regrets the most: that he chose to trust Ruby, a demon, instead of his brother. Their relationship was fraught and fractured at the time, by both of their actions and by the actions of Heaven and Hell trying to divide them, but Dean still tried to stop Sam. Sam heard him pound outside the door and turned to him, faltering on his quest for revenge for a pivotal moment. Sam would give almost anything to go back in time and follow through with that moment, to go open the door and let his brother in, instead of what he ended up doing: letting his need for revenge for his brother's death overpower any rational thought.

What's the greatest challenge you foresee your character facing in the setting?

The greatest challenge for Sam will be, unsurprisingly, being taken away from Dean. He believes and hopes Dean is still alive, and getting back to his brother will be his ultimate goal, no matter how impossible. At a minimum, Sam will be antsy, off-kilter and lightly paranoid until he's reunited with his brother. He also has lingering trauma from his centuries of being tortured by Lucifer, so if any experiences in this world remind him of that time, Sam will have a hard time staying emotionally and mentally stable, and might experience hallucinations.

Being taken from his cache of weapons and limited to just one gun will also be frustrating for him, as he's used to having an arsenal at his disposal, but he's been in worst straights before. Finally, dealing with cosmic horror, particularly elements that don't follow any set rules or expectations, will be difficult for the logic-driven Sam, especially if the ability to properly learn about such cosmic horror is limited or non-existent. But he has ample experience of everything he thought he knew being upside-down at this point in his life, so he might struggle, but will find a way to adjust.

What's the easiest thing you foresee your character adapting to in the setting?

Sam was raised in a transient lifestyle; the only true home he'd ever known was the car his father drove them across the country in, the Impala. Remaining uprooted will be simple for Sam, as he doesn't even consider the bunker they live in his true home. He's also very used to operating in seedy or run-down parts of old towns, especially motels. Sam isn't interested in participating in violent crime, but he's used to environments where it thrives, so remaining on guard to threats comes naturally to him. Thieves and raiders won't phase him after decades of hunting monsters. He's also very familiar with the process of trying to solve whatever mystery is unfolding around him, and he'll be aware that this entire universe is one big mystery. Despite his anger over the situation, he's still a naturally curious person, and will enjoy decoding what this universe holds.


Samples

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