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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Dean Winchester 
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: 5x04 "The End" - Dean is taken from an alternate timeline to his original counterpart, as seen in this episode, where his brother said yes to Lucifer and he leads the resistance against an apocalypse shaped as the Croatoan virus to 'cleanse' the earth and make way for Lucifer's new world. He is a colder, harder, meaner version of his past self, broken and twisted into something that resembles the darkest parts of his inner core.

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Back of his neck [ tattoo ]
Current Health/Status: Alive, taken just before he finds Lucifer to have the final show down.
Age: 35
Species: Human

Content Warnings:
Graphic violence - Dean often meets challenges with violence, something that's only grown with the situation he finds himself in, living in an apocalyptic, bleak future. He's quick to anger and highly likely to react quickly and mercilessly to anything he deems a threat or a necessary sacrifice to his cause. 
Religion - The apocalypse is a fight between Heaven and Hell and Dean's own opinions on religion can be inflammatory, disrespectful and blasphemous.
Mental health issues/substance-abuse - Without naming it as such, Dean suffers deeply with depression which manifests itself in alcohol-abuse, vicious emotional repression and detachment from positive relationships.
Pandemic-style apocalypse - Especially relevant given the current state of the world, his world is afflicted with the Croatoan virus; a pandemic designed to cleanse the world of the human population and make way for Lucifer's new world order.

History: General & Alternate Timeline specific (1) & (2)

Personality:

What's left of you when everything you hold dear is taken away from you and guilt twists you into something your past self wouldn't recognize? He's lost his mother, his father and his brother. There's nothing left but a world he was instrumental in bringing about the slow, painful destruction of. 

Dean Winchester used to be a good man; a righteous man. He used to know what it was to feel compassion and love and empathy. And then his world shifted; his brother Sam (the one person in the world he relied on to keep fighting the good fight) finally said yes to becoming Lucifer's vessel, and Dean hasn't stopped trying to end it all since. Somewhere along the way he's buried the thought that he never used to be an "end justifies the means" kind of man. And now he is.

Where loyalty-to-a-fault and dedication to protecting people from things that go bump in the night used to drive him, Dean is obsessed with surviving long enough to end an apocalypse he and his brother started. He justifies the cost of human life in the war he's fighting by doggedly sticking to seeing this through with grim determination - the apocalypse must end and he'll be the one to end it. He's a ruthless killer, both willing and able to deliver death to anybody he judges to be either an enemy or a risk to his resistance operation without hesitation. If he has to, he will kill or sacrifice his own people - people he used to regard as friends - in order to further his own agenda. If half the world has to die in order for there to be a world left, he'd take that result. Any shades of gray he might have developed in the past have separated out into a very black or white outlook. You're either with him or you're against him, and if you're against him, he will end you.

In his opinion, everybody in the resistance camp he leads knows what they signed up to and he takes that as permission to use them in whatever way he sees fit. People are either useful or they're not and, if they're not, Dean's not interested. His own obsession with killing Lucifer is left completely unchecked and without limits, and anybody who may have been close to him personally in the past has little to no influence over him now. Where previously he's always had somebody to balance out the extremes in his personality, now he refuses to allow anybody to insert themselves into that role out of fear that they'd try to change his mind and he'd have to do something he doesn't want to do. Despite the outward impression of being in control he wants to portray, inside he's dangerously unbalanced. He's tipped the scales in favor of getting the job done and knows there's no way back out again, even if on some level he hates what he's become.

To say that Dean simply doesn't care about the wellbeing of the people in his camp is too simplistic for how he feels. It's... complicated. Does he have respect for human life? Yes. Does he continue to shoulder the responsibility for keeping the people in his camp safe? As their leader he knows it's his duty, welcome or not. But that respect is no longer enough to eclipse the need to wipe Lucifer off the face of the planet. He's consistently driving towards the end game but has lost sight of why he's doing it beyond a twisted type of atonement and deep-seated need for revenge.

His relationship with the fallen angel, Castiel, is a particular thorn in his side. Deep down, Dean understands that he's to blame for the powerless, drug-fueled hippy that's been left in place of a formerly powerful angel and as such he allows Castiel to remain part of the camp. But the truth of the matter is that Castiel has become yet another weight of responsibility from a past littered with mistakes to shoulder. Dean resents it and while his guilt over it still exists in some form, it's something he's buried deeply to focus on the task at hand.

He's a highly-trained soldier, never far from violence and fighting to win the war against Lucifer by any means necessary. This includes resorting to torture, a skill he picked up during his 40-year stint in Hell. He's colder and more disassociated from the parts of himself that were formerly his most redeeming qualities. In their place, a tactical, driven leader willing to do anything to fix what he knows he broke.

Co-dependency used to figure heavily into Dean's very existence, but with Sam's betrayal and the harsh reality of a world afflicted with the Croatoan virus, he knows better now. He's hell-bent on killing Lucifer and, if his brother is still alive inside his Lucifer-inhabited body, he's a necessary sacrifice to the cause. Trying to save Sam is a possibility he stopped considering a long time ago. He relies on nobody but himself, and trusting other people is something that's firmly been relegated to the past. He's learned the hard way that putting his trust in anybody else results in things far worse than casual disappointment, no matter how much you love them and how quickly you'd be ready to die for them. He won't allow himself to be distracted from the cause he vehemently aligns himself to, and this makes him verging on emotionally impenetrable to anybody wanting more from him than direction and dogged leadership. He doesn't have time to allow himself anything remotely resembling positive, deeply-emotional personal relationships and casual, utterly base instinct sex is the closest he allows himself to connecting with other people. Keeping everybody at arm's length is, in his eyes, better for everyone.

Driving his core personality is a potent combination of repressed guilt and self-loathing, wrapped up in acute, self-inflicted loneliness. His penchant for joking around has buckled under the weight of his responsibilities, and he feels like he can't waste his time on focusing on anything outside of his mission. Humor is something he used to employ as a self-defence mechanism, and now the majority of what he has at his disposal is anger and contempt. A rage that burns deep and that, if he's honest, he doesn't want to or is capable of snuffing out. He needs that anger to keep him going, to keep him getting up and continuing to meet his enemies on whatever field of battle that he needs to. He's a realist, grimly aware of and facing into his current situation, and pragmatism features heavily into how he conducts himself on a day-by-day basis. His tactical skills have been honed over years of needing to stay alive, but he acts fast and without mercy in the moment.

Having met a past version of himself from the year 2009, his judgement and reaction is mostly framed by disbelief and condescension. He considers his past self foolish and short-sighted for refusing to say yes to becoming the vessel for the archangel Michael. He's angry at his past self for turning down the opportunity to put a stop to this version of the future, where the human race is being unrelentingly zombiefied by the Croatoan virus and the outlook for life on the whole is bleak.         



Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:

• Advanced weapon mastery
• In-depth knowledge of the supernatural and how to counteract it e.g. exorcism
• Excellent hand-to-hand combat 

Inventory:

• The Colt - a revolver made by Samuel Colt, capable of killing demons, monsters and gods (he'll arrive with 5 bullets - the only kind of bullets that the gun will fire)
• Beaten-up looking army green duffle bag
• Zippo lighter

Writing Samples:

» TDM (top level - x2 threads)

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Alex
Player Age: 21+
Player Contact: intobattle

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In-Game Tag If Accepted: Dean Winchester (AU): Alex
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Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes, absolutely.
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Anything that challenges the notion of reality, or particularly plays on mental fortitude as something to be broken and corrupted 
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