SAM WINCHESTER APPLICATION FOR scorched
Out of Character Information
player name: Dha / D
player livejournal: twenty_til_12
playing here: None yet.
where did you find us? Through a friend!
are you 16 years of age or older?: Yep yep (21).
In Character Information
character name: Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural
Timeline: Post-season 3, between killing the crossroads demon and meeting Ruby v.2
character's age: 25
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
No longer has any supernatural powers but has advanced weapons training from his time as a hunter. His father trained him and his brother to be warriors in all situations and while that was extremely useful while he hunted, Sam now sees it almost as a hinderance; he can't walk into a bar without first identifying all the exits, potential threats, where salt would normally be stored and which weapon would fight off said threats the best. If, though, he were exposed to demon blood, he would become able to hold people against walls with his mind as well as exorcise and even kill demons without need for an incantation. This power, though, is incredibly intoxicating and greatly changes his personality. Also, he has the ability of pre-cognitive dreams but they haven't occurred much as of late and when they do, he rarely speaks of them.
canon history:
Sam was born on May 2, 1983, only a matter of months before the fire that killed his and Dean’s mother. Growing up, he was taught to be a soldier and hunter, to expect the supernatural to be behind every twist and turn in the world such as when he told his father about the monster he thought lived in the closet; John gave him a .45 to take care of himself. Throughout his life, Sam changed from school to school as his family traveled all over America, defeating the things that go bump in the night. He hated the constant change and general inability to make lasting friends and this is what initially drove him to butt heads with his father. When old enough, Sam enrolled in Stanford and walked out on his family to attend school in California.
During his time at university, he met and dated Jessica Moore. She helped him to realize his dreams of becoming a lawyer and encouraged him greatly to pursue this career path during college. With her death in 2005, though, he became inconsolable and willingly accepted his brother’s offer to look for their dad so Sam could take a personal revenge for the pain inflicted upon him. While on the road, beginnings of precognition and telekinesis begin to manifest when he is under great duress but when pressured to by the Yellow-Eyed-Demon who killed his mother and girlfriend, can’t seem to. His family (Dean and John) is tortured and nearly killed by said demon. They are rushed to the hospital but before they can reach it, a semi plows into their ’67 Impala.
At the hospital, Sam becomes distraught at the potential of Dean’s death and realizes just how close he and his brother have become. He is the first to recognize that Dean’s spirit remains in the hospital and utilizes a ‘talking spirit board’ to communicate with his comatose brother. When Dean is brought back, Sam stumbles across his father’s dead body; John gave up his soul so that Dean might survive. Over the next few months, Sam slowly copes with John’s death and pressures Dean to do the same. Instead, his brother becomes more and more violent and reckless, which disturbs Sam deeply. He worries and frets over the mental state of Dean continually until he finds out that John’s last words to Dean were about potentially having to kill Sam for his ability to sometime in the future turn evil. In a plot by the demon who killed his family, Sam is trapped in Cold Oak in South Dakota in a sort of battle royale-esque free-for-all to survive. His spinal cord is severed by another "gifted child" Jake and he dies in his brother's arms.
Dean brings Sam back to life, though, by means of a crossroads demon. But it is not long before the younger figures out what his brother has done. Sam vows to help Dean find a way out of his deal. Enter Ruby. She gives him hope that he can indeed save his brother from the torments of Hell. With her help, he tries to advance his latent demon abilities but well too late. Despite his best attempts to help Dean weasel out of his deal, Sam ends up failing and watches his brother be torn apart by hell hounds. The four months that follow are the worst of his life. He begins to drink excessively and lose contact with all of the hunters he came to know, including Bobby.
personality:
Sam is very much a kind-hearted and empathetic individual. He listens to even the smallest of problems from those around him, despite their age and even those that he's supposed to hunt (such as when he listens to Lenore despite all of his hunting instincts telling him to not believe her). His beliefs in good are firm and rigid, but what people and things fall into that category of good is quite fluid. He very much likes to look for the good in people, even if they themselves don't see it. His passionate desire to believe in good, period, is quite a strong trait in him during the period in the series and is incredibly moral. He believes strongly in God as a higher power and that there is some genuine good out in the world. Justice and good will defeat evil in the end. Sam reacts very commonly with his emotions, especially when his moral values are challenged. He's often mentioned as being the Luke Skywalker to Dean's Han Solo and very much embodies that comparison. He holds Dean's leash, whether or not he knows it, but when he does know it, he knows exactly how to yank it. When he's been around people for a while, he starts to pick up on their subtleties and trying to make sure they're alright.
As well, he has some insecurities that he turns to face. He's not a closed book in any way around his brother and, more often than not, will speak his mind well before Dean even asks. If something comes up in his life, he's more than willing to address it and to not keep secrets. However, to the normal person, he knows he has to keep secrets in order to keep people innocent. He doesn't want to have to expose them to the darkness that lies just behind the supernatural curtain. As well, he has to lie in order to pose as a police officer, federal agent, and the like and has little problem in that area. He doesn't mean for it to be deceitful in any way and generally takes it hard when people get angry at him for lying in the first place. Despite that, he rarely acts out of spite, except when he kills Jake after his own death. This is definitely still the first warning of something darker in Sam.
One of his potentially annoying traits is that he's very light-hearted and optimistic, except when drunk. Even when he's about to face Dean's death, he continues to work hard and to keep hope that his brother will survive. He turns to every possible avenue to keep him alive and this desperation doesn't dampen that hope until literally the last minute. I believe that this is one of the things that sends him off the deep-end as well once he realizes that Dean is dead 'for good.' All that hope is what sent him down into his drunken and disorderly behavior. Everything that defined Sam as Sam fell to the wayside and he got a good look at what it took to be Dean for all those years. His emotions still tend to get the best of him and he turns into a reckless drunk that puts himself on the table for any demon in the area. However, even when intoxicated, he keeps his guard up and can act intelligently despite that.
Because, more than anything, Sam is a hunter through and through, and an intelligent hunter at that. His experience in hunting has only continued to allow him to help people. He may seem jaded to some, but his resignation to continuing his job comes second to his passion to explore the unknown and loyalty to his brother. There's nothing quite like the personal joy at saving someone's life or preventing them from being in danger in the first place. He would love nothing more than for people to believe him from the get-go; his life has never been about endangering other people, despite the fact that this happens a lot. Dean's death only catalyzed that guilt into a full-on complex that gives him 'permission' to turn into a drunk.
However, seeing Dean alive and mostly well will help him to re-orient himself and be just Sam again, instead of a dark, angry drunk who spends more time in shambled and broken houses instead of talking to people. Being with his brother will really help him to work on himself and being just Sam and not the Sam-without-Dean.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting?
Sam is pretty used to the unusual. Not many things surprise him anymore, especially where he's taken from in canon. He's seen hunters be 'evil,' he's had his own premonitions, he prays, and altogether is pretty open-minded. As well, he can adapt very well to the situations he's presented with and over time would be able to deal with the steampunk environment quite well.
Writing Samples
Network Post Sample:
Hey, uh, this might be a little weird to ask, but where am I? I didn't go to sleep here and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be feeling as good as I am now. [He pauses for a moment.] Does anyone know a Bobby Fisher? Or if someone has a phone? I should call him right about now. [Sam has the number memorized, even if he hasn't used it in a month or so.]
Well, anything weird happening recently around here? How long have people been here? I, uh, I just got here and I'm pretty confused.
Third Person Sample:[Done in a previous game.]
Sam delicately sliced into the fruit with the hunter’s knife Dean leant him. The bright orange, sun-ripened fruit gave way easily to the combination of his strength and the sharp edge of the knife. Despite his older brother’s warnings to concentrate on the task at hand, the tall Winchester quickly became distracted by the things his brother had told him. Sam couldn’t believe that he apparently had come from directly before he died. It was almost impossible to consider in his mind as he cut through the fruit and, as such, Sam accidentally sliced into his finger.
“Oh crap,” the hunter put the fruit in the turtle shell sitting next to him before any blood could ouch it.
He held the finger in his other hand, trying fervently to stem the blood that was now dribbling over his fingers. He cursed lightly under his breath as he wrapped his shirt around the digit and he got to his feet, pushing the knife off of his lap. He reluctantly made his way back to the grove to his brother. Dean had told him in no uncertain terms to report any and all injuries.
The island had piqued all of Sam's curiosity, especially with the rumors of legendary and supernatural forces causing the catastrophes that seemed to happen again and again: the torrential rain that had wiped half of the population out, the volcano eruption, none of it could simply be coincidence. As well, from what he'd seen so far of the temple, besides a very deep pit, all of those rumors were true. Distracted by his own musings, the hunter accidentally pressed into his finger and he winced.
Well, that wasn't going to go over so well with Dean, especially after having a concussion a couple weeks before.
Anything else? …puppies are cute. c: