Name: Arden Personal Journal:dancinpenguins . Contact Info: AIM: thegreatmuldini, Plurk: ardendactyl Other Characters Played: N/A, also apping Isabelle Lightwood Preferred Housing: N/A, though I have a strong preference towards giving him housemates who are also newbies? To maximize the initial WTFery.
Character Name: Mr. Dean Winchester Character Series:Supernatural Character Age: 31
Background:
Dean Winchester was the first child of John and Mary Winchester, born in Lawrence, Kansas, on Jan. 24, 1979. The first few years of his life were about as normal as you could get - although his parents had some marital problems, they were still a pretty peaceful household. These suburban formative years would become a cornerstone of Dean's emotional attachment to his family, and despite only having lived there until age four, he possesses incredibly strong impressions of this time. The truth was, however, that this 'idyllic' childhood had come at a steep price for his mother, who had come from a family of hunters, and made a deal with the demon Azazel. When Dean was four, the demon came to collect, feeding its blood to his baby brother Sam, and killing his mother when she tried to interrupt the process. Dean's father charged him with getting the baby out of their burning house, and in that moment, Dean adopted a level of protectiveness over his brother's safety that would remain for the rest of their lives.
John was irreversibly changed by Mary's death and became consumed with seeking knowledge of the supernatural realm and trade of hunting that would allow him to locate the yellow eyed demon and extract vengeance for the murder of his wife. This meant a life spent on the road, taking both his young boys from town to town, school to school, motel to motel, all in his '67 Impala, stuffed with weapons and tools of the trade in the trunk. Dean was taught from a very early age how to handle weapons, fight demons and monsters, use supernatural protection, and develop a wide array of criminal skills necessary to their job. He believed that his dad was a superhero, and never saw their lifestyle as a burden - they were helping people, as a family, and those were the two most important things to him. When Sam learned the truth about their dad, Dean helped train his brother. He never really expected their lifestyle to change, nor particularly wanted it to.
Like it or not, however, change it did.
Sam announced one night that he was leaving, going off to college, and it sparked an explosive fight between him and John. Dean felt as if his brother was abandoning the family. The relationship between the brothers became strained when Sam left, and eventually they broke off contact completely.
Dean was running some missions by himself by this time, and that's when John went missing. Dean showed up at Sam's in the middle of the night, to secure his help in locating their dad. What they found instead were clues - and their dad's notebook full of occult knowledge. When Sam's girlfriend Jessica was killed in the same manner as their mother, he agreed to help Dean track the thing down, and find John, no matter what. Along the way, John dropped more hints leading the boys to various cases, until the message became clear: he wanted them to pick up where he was leaving off. They found him again eventually anyway, and learned about a weapon their father had tracked down - the Colt, that could reportedly kill anything. This led to a confrontation with Azazel, who possessed John, attempting to secure the Colt for himself. Upon escaping from the showdown, the Impala was involved in a car accident that resulted in Dean and John being admitted to the hospital.
Dean was stuck between life and death, until his father made a deal with Azazel, trading his own life for Dean's. Before his death, he told Dean that if Sam could not be saved, it would be his duty to kill him. It was, however, Dean who saved Sam from death later, by making a deal with the crossroads demon to bring Sam back when he was killed. He, like his father, traded his own life for his brother's, but instead of dying instantly, he was granted one final year. Dean then used the last bullet of the Colt to kill Azazel, and release his father's soul - but in the process, legions of demons escaped into our world. The boys swore to track them down, and Sam vowed to find a way to save Dean before his time was up.
Dean tried to argue Sam out of any attempts to save him, though his brother wouldn't listen - and Ruby, a demon who offered to help him find a way - certainly didn't help matters. An encounter with a thief named Bela ended up with the boys losing the Colt. They learned that the demon who held Dean's contract was named Lilith, and Dean took Ruby's demon killing knife and tracked her down. They were, however, too late, and were tricked by Lilith's body hopping into Ruby. Lilith granted entrance to her hellhounds, who proceeded to tear Dean to pieces. His soul went directly to Hell.
In Hell, Dean spent thirty years being tormented by the demon, Alastair, who would eviscerate him again and again. He was made an offer every day to be taken off the rack if he would become Alastair's student. He resisted for three decades, but finally gave in, and for the next ten years, he studied torture under Alastair. Ripping souls apart for so long - and taking out his hatred of Alastair on those souls - had a massive psychological impact on Dean, who didn't believe he would ever be escaping hell, but, for Sam's sake, still fought against becoming a demon himself.
After approximately forty years in Hell, Dean was pulled out by the angel Castiel. Uncertain of how he had escaped, he found Bobby and Sam again. Between the aid of Bobby and Pamela Barnes, Dean discovered who saved him from Hell - and Castiel told him that he had been saved to do God's work on earth. He also learned from Castiel that Lilith was breaking 66 seals on Lucifer's prison - that yes, the Devil was real, and he would be freed if she wasn't stopped. Castiel sent him back to the past, where he learned the true history of his family and about Mary's deal with Azazel. Dean's attempts to change history turn out to be, in fact, a part of history itself. When he found out about Sam's new abilities to fight demons, and that he'd been bumming around with Ruby, the boys had another huge fight. After having struggled in hell against becoming something like a demon himself, seeing that his brother had walked down that path in only the few months that he'd been gone was shocking, and he accused Sam of not being human.
The boys encountered Anna Milton, who they first thought could simply hear angel voices, but they learned was actually a fallen angel herself, who had lost her grace. It turned out both heaven and hell were after her, and so they aspired to protect her until she got it back. Dean and Anna ended up getting down, which only goes to show he had some natural strange predilection towards angel booty. HMMM.
The angels later took Dean against his will, and demanded that he torture Alastair for information on who was killing the angels. He was forced to confront what he'd done and become in hell, and it was only made worse by Alastair talking about torturing Dean's father. That was nothing, however, compared to the low blow Alastair eventually gave him: that when Dean had taken his offer and become a tormentor downstairs, he'd broken the first seal and set the Apocalypse in motion.
Oops.
And then there was a clusterfuck of badassery in which Alastair and Uriel died. Dean ended up in a hospital where Castiel confirmed what Alastair said. Manly tears abound.
Another brotherly fight, the worst they'd had so far, ended up with them splitting ways again, and he went to the angels and swore to serve God. And then the angel Zachariah stuck him in a fancy room with some hamburgers so that he wouldn't meddle with the angels' precious little Armageddon. Cas grew some balls and helped Dean escape, but it was way too late. Sam killed Lilith - which was the final seal, and Lucifer went free. At least Dean got to kill Ruby.
This didn't really make him feel all that much better. :C
Dean shortly learned that he was intended to be Michael's vessel in the final battle between he and Lucifer. However, he did have to agree to it - and so began a long dance of the angels trying everything they can to get him to agree. His life, which already sucked, headed back to Hell pretty fast. Especially since Sammy was slated to be Lucifer's prom dress, and Lucifer was also attempting to get Sam to say yes.
The Four Horsemen came to town, and the boys had to fight them off as well. Meanwhile, the pattern of everyone they knew and loved getting screwed over/dying as a result of their connection to them continued and... got worse. Castiel decided their only hope was to find God who was missing, but that search didn't turn out to be very fruitful either. The angels played more time travel games with Dean, but he still said no. Sam and Dean learned that the Trickster god they'd faced down several times before was actually the angel Gabriel, who also urged them to just 'play their parts' and pointed out how their entire lives had been a shadow play of the relationship between Michael and Lucifer.
Sam and Dean faced off with Lucifer, planning to kill him with the Colt, but it didn't work. And in the process, Jo and Ellen died to save them. When the boys were killed and went to heaven, only to learn they'd been there multiple times, and had the memory erased, Dean's morale plummeted to zero - especially when he heard that God didn't care, and wouldn't be helping them. His downward spiral ended with him leaving Sam to go accept his role as a vessel. This plan, however, got cockblocked when the angels resurrected the boys' dead-half-brother Adam, to use as a vessel instead of Dean. Dean ended up stabbing Zachariah, though he did say yes, but backing out due to Sam's faith in him.
Our heroes were pretty much out of plans except for one really crazy one, so that's... what they went with. Gabriel left them a video explaining, in the wake of his death at the hands of Lucifer, that the Horsemen's rings could be used to make a prison to seal Lucifer back up. However, Sam had to drink demon blood and say yes to allow Lucifer inside him, so that he might fight him for control and walk him into the prison. Dean promised Sam that if it worked, he'd go back to a woman named Lisa Braeden and try to leave a normal life.
Surprise, the plan doesn't exactly work out and Lucifer walked... with Sam's body. Dean, Castiel, and Bobby showed up to the final fight, and Lucifer promptly disposed of the latter two. In a Lifetime movie moment, Sam managed to regain control of Lucifer who was in the middle of beating the crap out of Dean, when he saw some army men stuck inside the Impala and got a flood of memories of their life in it. The battle ended with Sam/Lucifer and Michael trapped in the prison. Castiel was resurrected by God, and healed Dean as well as bought Bobby back. Dean parted ways with them both and returned to Lisa's to make good on his promise to Sam. However, he was full of bitterness towards God over what had occurred, and dealing with the loss of his brother, when he ended up... in the game.
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Other Characters Played: N/A, also apping Isabelle Lightwood
Preferred Housing: N/A, though I have a strong preference towards giving him housemates who are also newbies? To maximize the initial WTFery.
Character Name: Mr. Dean Winchester
Character Series: Supernatural
Character Age: 31
Background:
Dean Winchester was the first child of John and Mary Winchester, born in Lawrence, Kansas, on Jan. 24, 1979. The first few years of his life were about as normal as you could get - although his parents had some marital problems, they were still a pretty peaceful household. These suburban formative years would become a cornerstone of Dean's emotional attachment to his family, and despite only having lived there until age four, he possesses incredibly strong impressions of this time. The truth was, however, that this 'idyllic' childhood had come at a steep price for his mother, who had come from a family of hunters, and made a deal with the demon Azazel. When Dean was four, the demon came to collect, feeding its blood to his baby brother Sam, and killing his mother when she tried to interrupt the process. Dean's father charged him with getting the baby out of their burning house, and in that moment, Dean adopted a level of protectiveness over his brother's safety that would remain for the rest of their lives.
John was irreversibly changed by Mary's death and became consumed with seeking knowledge of the supernatural realm and trade of hunting that would allow him to locate the yellow eyed demon and extract vengeance for the murder of his wife. This meant a life spent on the road, taking both his young boys from town to town, school to school, motel to motel, all in his '67 Impala, stuffed with weapons and tools of the trade in the trunk. Dean was taught from a very early age how to handle weapons, fight demons and monsters, use supernatural protection, and develop a wide array of criminal skills necessary to their job. He believed that his dad was a superhero, and never saw their lifestyle as a burden - they were helping people, as a family, and those were the two most important things to him. When Sam learned the truth about their dad, Dean helped train his brother. He never really expected their lifestyle to change, nor particularly wanted it to.
Like it or not, however, change it did.
Sam announced one night that he was leaving, going off to college, and it sparked an explosive fight between him and John. Dean felt as if his brother was abandoning the family. The relationship between the brothers became strained when Sam left, and eventually they broke off contact completely.
Dean was running some missions by himself by this time, and that's when John went missing. Dean showed up at Sam's in the middle of the night, to secure his help in locating their dad. What they found instead were clues - and their dad's notebook full of occult knowledge. When Sam's girlfriend Jessica was killed in the same manner as their mother, he agreed to help Dean track the thing down, and find John, no matter what. Along the way, John dropped more hints leading the boys to various cases, until the message became clear: he wanted them to pick up where he was leaving off. They found him again eventually anyway, and learned about a weapon their father had tracked down - the Colt, that could reportedly kill anything. This led to a confrontation with Azazel, who possessed John, attempting to secure the Colt for himself. Upon escaping from the showdown, the Impala was involved in a car accident that resulted in Dean and John being admitted to the hospital.
Dean was stuck between life and death, until his father made a deal with Azazel, trading his own life for Dean's. Before his death, he told Dean that if Sam could not be saved, it would be his duty to kill him. It was, however, Dean who saved Sam from death later, by making a deal with the crossroads demon to bring Sam back when he was killed. He, like his father, traded his own life for his brother's, but instead of dying instantly, he was granted one final year. Dean then used the last bullet of the Colt to kill Azazel, and release his father's soul - but in the process, legions of demons escaped into our world. The boys swore to track them down, and Sam vowed to find a way to save Dean before his time was up.
Dean tried to argue Sam out of any attempts to save him, though his brother wouldn't listen - and Ruby, a demon who offered to help him find a way - certainly didn't help matters. An encounter with a thief named Bela ended up with the boys losing the Colt. They learned that the demon who held Dean's contract was named Lilith, and Dean took Ruby's demon killing knife and tracked her down. They were, however, too late, and were tricked by Lilith's body hopping into Ruby. Lilith granted entrance to her hellhounds, who proceeded to tear Dean to pieces. His soul went directly to Hell.
In Hell, Dean spent thirty years being tormented by the demon, Alastair, who would eviscerate him again and again. He was made an offer every day to be taken off the rack if he would become Alastair's student. He resisted for three decades, but finally gave in, and for the next ten years, he studied torture under Alastair. Ripping souls apart for so long - and taking out his hatred of Alastair on those souls - had a massive psychological impact on Dean, who didn't believe he would ever be escaping hell, but, for Sam's sake, still fought against becoming a demon himself.
After approximately forty years in Hell, Dean was pulled out by the angel Castiel. Uncertain of how he had escaped, he found Bobby and Sam again. Between the aid of Bobby and Pamela Barnes, Dean discovered who saved him from Hell - and Castiel told him that he had been saved to do God's work on earth. He also learned from Castiel that Lilith was breaking 66 seals on Lucifer's prison - that yes, the Devil was real, and he would be freed if she wasn't stopped. Castiel sent him back to the past, where he learned the true history of his family and about Mary's deal with Azazel. Dean's attempts to change history turn out to be, in fact, a part of history itself. When he found out about Sam's new abilities to fight demons, and that he'd been bumming around with Ruby, the boys had another huge fight. After having struggled in hell against becoming something like a demon himself, seeing that his brother had walked down that path in only the few months that he'd been gone was shocking, and he accused Sam of not being human.
The boys encountered Anna Milton, who they first thought could simply hear angel voices, but they learned was actually a fallen angel herself, who had lost her grace. It turned out both heaven and hell were after her, and so they aspired to protect her until she got it back. Dean and Anna ended up getting down, which only goes to show he had some natural strange predilection towards angel booty. HMMM.
The angels later took Dean against his will, and demanded that he torture Alastair for information on who was killing the angels. He was forced to confront what he'd done and become in hell, and it was only made worse by Alastair talking about torturing Dean's father. That was nothing, however, compared to the low blow Alastair eventually gave him: that when Dean had taken his offer and become a tormentor downstairs, he'd broken the first seal and set the Apocalypse in motion.
Oops.
And then there was a clusterfuck of badassery in which Alastair and Uriel died. Dean ended up in a hospital where Castiel confirmed what Alastair said. Manly tears abound.
Another brotherly fight, the worst they'd had so far, ended up with them splitting ways again, and he went to the angels and swore to serve God. And then the angel Zachariah stuck him in a fancy room with some hamburgers so that he wouldn't meddle with the angels' precious little Armageddon. Cas grew some balls and helped Dean escape, but it was way too late. Sam killed Lilith - which was the final seal, and Lucifer went free. At least Dean got to kill Ruby.
This didn't really make him feel all that much better. :C
Dean shortly learned that he was intended to be Michael's vessel in the final battle between he and Lucifer. However, he did have to agree to it - and so began a long dance of the angels trying everything they can to get him to agree. His life, which already sucked, headed back to Hell pretty fast. Especially since Sammy was slated to be Lucifer's prom dress, and Lucifer was also attempting to get Sam to say yes.
The Four Horsemen came to town, and the boys had to fight them off as well. Meanwhile, the pattern of everyone they knew and loved getting screwed over/dying as a result of their connection to them continued and... got worse. Castiel decided their only hope was to find God who was missing, but that search didn't turn out to be very fruitful either. The angels played more time travel games with Dean, but he still said no. Sam and Dean learned that the Trickster god they'd faced down several times before was actually the angel Gabriel, who also urged them to just 'play their parts' and pointed out how their entire lives had been a shadow play of the relationship between Michael and Lucifer.
Sam and Dean faced off with Lucifer, planning to kill him with the Colt, but it didn't work. And in the process, Jo and Ellen died to save them. When the boys were killed and went to heaven, only to learn they'd been there multiple times, and had the memory erased, Dean's morale plummeted to zero - especially when he heard that God didn't care, and wouldn't be helping them. His downward spiral ended with him leaving Sam to go accept his role as a vessel. This plan, however, got cockblocked when the angels resurrected the boys' dead-half-brother Adam, to use as a vessel instead of Dean. Dean ended up stabbing Zachariah, though he did say yes, but backing out due to Sam's faith in him.
Our heroes were pretty much out of plans except for one really crazy one, so that's... what they went with. Gabriel left them a video explaining, in the wake of his death at the hands of Lucifer, that the Horsemen's rings could be used to make a prison to seal Lucifer back up. However, Sam had to drink demon blood and say yes to allow Lucifer inside him, so that he might fight him for control and walk him into the prison. Dean promised Sam that if it worked, he'd go back to a woman named Lisa Braeden and try to leave a normal life.
Surprise, the plan doesn't exactly work out and Lucifer walked... with Sam's body. Dean, Castiel, and Bobby showed up to the final fight, and Lucifer promptly disposed of the latter two. In a Lifetime movie moment, Sam managed to regain control of Lucifer who was in the middle of beating the crap out of Dean, when he saw some army men stuck inside the Impala and got a flood of memories of their life in it. The battle ended with Sam/Lucifer and Michael trapped in the prison. Castiel was resurrected by God, and healed Dean as well as bought Bobby back. Dean parted ways with them both and returned to Lisa's to make good on his promise to Sam. However, he was full of bitterness towards God over what had occurred, and dealing with the loss of his brother, when he ended up... in the game.