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Character Name: Dean Winchester
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: S8E11 | "LARP and the Real Girl"
Character Age: 35 (roughly)
History: here! Dean Winchester's convoluted-ass timeline...

Division: I'm genuinely so torn that I'm leaving this one up to fate... AKA mod's choice bc no matter what it's a good choice

Edict: The Sorrowweld. This Edict stood out to me for Dean immediately. "Caught in an endless battle" has more or less been his life since he was four years old. There's always another battle to fight, there's always another huge impossible win that they need to work towards: the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, whatever it may be. The thing about Dean is, he'll make himself keep fighting for as long as he can, like any soldier. Partly because a lot of the time that's all he thinks he's good for, and partly because the only alternative is to just... give up.

Powers: N/A. Despite the canon name, this man has zero innate superhuman powers. Only the human powers of training, weapons (some regular, some magical which I'm not gonna list out because I think he's a lot more likely to try to use credits on like. Guns smh), and research.

As the Ascendants deemed your character worthy of being on this exploration voyage, what qualities did they observe in your character that they found appropriate for the mission?
Dean has a lot of very practical skills, first and foremost: his father was training him to be a hunter (of monsters specifically, not wildlife) from very, very early on in his life, and he's well-trained at that. Quick on his feet, good with firearms and knives, close-quarters brawls, observant and able to think on the fly, to say nothing for being able to talk his way into and out of places in a way the average joe couldn't manage. As much as he can be impulsive, impatient, and reckless, he's used to having to step back from that to get through stressful situations. To quote canon, "Dean thrives on trauma." Especially if there's some sort of mission at stake: Dean is very mission-oriented and honestly feels more settled when he has a goal to work towards.

Practical skills aside, he's also just... a good guy overall. Far from perfect and carrying way too much baggage, but good. He likes being able to look out for people and to take care of them, and he's loyal to a fault. And honestly, he's got a ton of untapped childlike excitement that he won't be able to help bringing to the table. He's curious almost in spite of himself! Dean always wants to be able to have a little fun, and it's rare that life gives him or his brother enough of a break to do that. Plus like, this guy grew up using TV as enrichment-- old cartoons, Star Treks, action movies... I think if someone looks into his heart they'll see an inner child trying to play it cool even though he is over the moon about literally being able to go off on a space adventure.

What is your character's best quality, what is their worst, and how do these two qualities affect each other?
Dean's best quality, hands down, is his sheer capacity to love and care for other people. He'll put his loved ones before anything and the entire world before himself without a second thought. He'd do anything for them: lie, cheat, steal, kill, sell his soul, you name it and he's canonically done it. He'll get between his brother and a gun and make himself the most annoying target there. He'll get beaten bloody by family under the influence of someone else and appeal to them to the bitter end, tell them it's gonna be okay. Almost anything Dean Winchester does stems from having a big heart: whether he thinks it does or not.

Which unfortunately clashes a lot with his worst quality: being so emotionally beaten down and repressed that his self-expression muscles have atrophied nigh out of existence. For as much as Dean does love and care, as much as he genuinely desires a soft place to land and the ability to let his guard down... he can't. He pushes things down until they explode instead, usually in a fit of anger or some kind of violent outburst. He brushes off and deflects kindnesses, he refuses to talk about the things that hurt or bother him until he literally can't hold them in any longer, he struggles to tell anyone how much they mean to him, and deep down he doesn't believe he deserves to learn how to do all that. This man spends life in a stalemate with himself.

Your character's Edict appears in front of them, and agrees to grant them one wish: what does your character wish for?
Unfortunately, Dean don't trust like that™️. He'd spend a lot more time than necessary trying to demand answers to other questions he has instead, or trying to interrogate the motive behind even offering to grant him some wish. Like, what's the catch? How's the monkey's paw gonna shake out on this deal, because god knows he's got more than a few shady cosmic deals under his belt already. Does he really want to deal with another one when (he assumes) the bill comes due down the line???

And then he'd either get tired of talking and wish for a burger just to get this whole thing over with, or go for broke and try to put only his wellbeing specifically on the line wishing for everyone on this mission to be able to go back home. Which one really depends on the conversation.

The Theorem has broken down, and is drifting toward a black hole. There is very little hope of outside rescue. What does your character do?
Well, this ain't Dean's first rodeo by a long shot. Except for the sci-fi of it all being new. If the ship is in this position? Dean does every single thing he can contribute to either fix the Theorem back up, or to buy a little bit more time for that long-shot outside rescue to come in. However big or little the task, however demeaning or self-sacrificial or seemingly pointless or brutal or outright crazy it is, however low the odds are that it'll make a difference at all: if it seems like there's a fraction of a shred of a chance that Dean doing whatever it is could help save the day on this one, then Dean will do it. His self-worth issues don't factor in when there are other lives at stake, which means he'd be fighting tooth and nail all the way up to the bitter end. If it doesn't work and someone finds the wreckage a few billion years later, then they're damn sure gonna find Dean Winchester's claw marks all over it.

And of course, most importantly, he'll be fighting tooth and nail to make sure that nobody sees him and thinks he's scared. Obviously. He'll be going out of his way to try to make people feel less scared by acting confident and unafraid the whole time. Save his regrets for the afterlife.

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