Poor Sammy...
Jul. 13th, 2006 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieJust because a lot of my Supernatural posts seem to center on the fact that Dean is a woobie, doesn't mean that Sam's life doesn't suck. So, let's take a moment to peruse Sam's life so far. Because it definitely sucks.
His mother got immolated on the ceiling above him when he was a baby, and that was the end of it. He grows up with not much of a childhood (still, better than Dean's but...), dragged from one seedy motel to the next, basically a latchkey kid, with his father leaving him in his older brother's care, no stable family life, no roots, no normalcy. As father-son bonding time he gets gun training and probably ends up doing pretty dangerous things by the time his age barely hits double digits (if Dean's experience is anything to go by). Any time he wants to do anything semi-normal, like play soccer, it means a huge family row with Daddy Dearest.
When he states he wants to go to college (surely, a normal enough wish, and it's not like he is asking Dad to pay for it), it brings on row of rows, and his father tells him to never come back.
He goes to college and despite his FUBAR upbringing, because of the sheer niceness of his personality, manages to have a nice normal life with friends and a cool girl he falls in love with. And hey, even law school.
Well, enjoy those four nice years Sam, because it looks like those are the only ones you'll get. Because when Sam returns from a trip with his brother, to find his girlfriend Jess imitating his mother, flambeed on the ceiling, her blood dripping on his face. And bye-bye any hope of normalcy. Now he is driven by revenge and guilt and loss (when I found out that he was going to propose to Jess and was shopping for rings, for some reason it just felt worse than before: sort of he ha a nice life he wanted and was within reach of and then...) He is not going to law school, heck, he didn't even get to finish college, and that is a kid who wanted to learn so badly, who seems to be quite bright (he always has his nose in a book, and if he went to college without family help, he must have gotten some scholarships or such).
He is on a never-ending road trip with a brother he loves but is only now getting to know and whose personality is very different. He begins having visions and developing freaky powers. He almost gets killed repeatedly and watches his brother almost get killed. He can't get close to any woman, because he is justifiably afraid that they will be harmed. And he learns that his Mom's and Jess' deaths are his fault, they are dead because the demon who killed them wanted nothing between himself and Sam (I do love how earlier Dean tries to convince Sam it's not his fault). Hello, can you say ISSUES? He felt guilty even before he knew that.
So, yeah, sucks to be Sam.
His mother got immolated on the ceiling above him when he was a baby, and that was the end of it. He grows up with not much of a childhood (still, better than Dean's but...), dragged from one seedy motel to the next, basically a latchkey kid, with his father leaving him in his older brother's care, no stable family life, no roots, no normalcy. As father-son bonding time he gets gun training and probably ends up doing pretty dangerous things by the time his age barely hits double digits (if Dean's experience is anything to go by). Any time he wants to do anything semi-normal, like play soccer, it means a huge family row with Daddy Dearest.
When he states he wants to go to college (surely, a normal enough wish, and it's not like he is asking Dad to pay for it), it brings on row of rows, and his father tells him to never come back.
He goes to college and despite his FUBAR upbringing, because of the sheer niceness of his personality, manages to have a nice normal life with friends and a cool girl he falls in love with. And hey, even law school.
Well, enjoy those four nice years Sam, because it looks like those are the only ones you'll get. Because when Sam returns from a trip with his brother, to find his girlfriend Jess imitating his mother, flambeed on the ceiling, her blood dripping on his face. And bye-bye any hope of normalcy. Now he is driven by revenge and guilt and loss (when I found out that he was going to propose to Jess and was shopping for rings, for some reason it just felt worse than before: sort of he ha a nice life he wanted and was within reach of and then...) He is not going to law school, heck, he didn't even get to finish college, and that is a kid who wanted to learn so badly, who seems to be quite bright (he always has his nose in a book, and if he went to college without family help, he must have gotten some scholarships or such).
He is on a never-ending road trip with a brother he loves but is only now getting to know and whose personality is very different. He begins having visions and developing freaky powers. He almost gets killed repeatedly and watches his brother almost get killed. He can't get close to any woman, because he is justifiably afraid that they will be harmed. And he learns that his Mom's and Jess' deaths are his fault, they are dead because the demon who killed them wanted nothing between himself and Sam (I do love how earlier Dean tries to convince Sam it's not his fault). Hello, can you say ISSUES? He felt guilty even before he knew that.
So, yeah, sucks to be Sam.
