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[apocalypsos]

Well, it's not all of them, but, yeah. A bunch of characters, and why I love them.

Dean Winchester: Okay, this may take a while. I love Dean because for such a tough guy, the man loves with every goddamn part of him. I love Dean because I don't doubt that he and Sam kept in touch over the phone for at least a little while after he left, and that even when Sam wouldn't take his phone calls anymore, he kept emailing Sam just so Sam wouldn't worry. I love Dean because if you asked him about his family, he'd skim over the hard stuff before skipping ahead to just how great John and Sam are. I love Dean because he's so tough and so vulnerable all at once, because he doesn't want to have any chick flick moments but damn it if he's not usually the one getting hurt when they come along. I love Dean because for all that he has to suffer through standing between the oncoming storms of Sam and John, he will take any scrap of encouragement he can get from John and every moment Sam will put up with his sorry ass. I love Dean for not even being able to wrap his brain around the concept of having a life other than hunting, and even when he manages to think about it it's always tied to saving other people. I love Dean for all of the silly tricks he plays on Sam, and for every time he lets loose with that killer smirk, and for not giving up on cassette tapes, and for caring about the Impala's upholstery. I love Dean because you just know he's secretly dorky and spazzy and he needs someone to hold his hand on an airplane while he hums Metallica. I love Dean for not even knowing three kids at the beginning of the season and turning out to be damn good around them by the end of the season. I love Dean because he's not as stupid as you'd think, because he's a perfect soldier, because he runs headlong into danger without hesitation. I love Dean because he's brilliant and broken and beautiful.

John Winchester: Oh, God, I love John so much. Here is a guy who loves his wife so much he's spent the last twenty years in a quest for vengeance against her killer, and while it's not exactly healthy, it's damn romantic. He loves those boys so much it's heartbreaking, that they're the last part of Mary he's got left and for as many times as he's fucked up their lives both of them turned out to be incredible men. Yeah, he's a jerk a lot of the time, but all he cares about is keeping people -- especially his family -- safe. He didn't stop with trying to kill the demon, he found a war that needed to be fought and he joined up. He's raised two boys alone under horrible circumstances and, like it or not, made them brave and strong and capable. And I love him for that, because people give him a lot of shit for trying his hardest in an intense situation.

Sam Winchester: Heh. I want to cuddle Sam like a puppy, which is just funny as hell because the guy's a foot and a half taller than I am. There's just things he does that remind me of my little brother so much, and every time he does little brother things like get stupidly amused by Dean in uncomfortable situations and play tricks and get all stubborn and self-centered, I'm like, "YES." And I love that he's not so much looking for any specific thing -- to be a lawyer or a butcher or a baker or whatever -- as much as he's looking to do anything as long as it's not hunting. I love that he can't escape the fact that he's fabulous at it, that he's good at research and physically capable and naturally protective. I love that Dean is his best friend whether he likes it or not, less because he would have ever chosen him to fill that role and more because Dean takes care of him, Dean craves the time they spend together, and Dean is the other half of him (and I don't even mean that in a Wincesty way). I love that John's love for his boys means he can't be around them, but that Sam's love for Dean -- and Dean's for him -- means that they make a stronger team. I love Sam for not realizing that, even though I think he's an idiot for letting himself be oblivious to it.

The Impala: Dude, I don't even like cars. I couldn't even tell you what kind of car *I* have. (No, really, I once had to leave a building and run out to a parking lot to check because I am just THAT stupid.) But the Impala and I are going to run off to Vegas and get hitched. I love the creaky doors and the dashboard with the empty junk food wrappers on it and the upholstery that you just know has more than its share of bloodstains in it. I love that when the truck hit it, fandom was just as worried about the condition of the Impala as they were about the people inside it. I mean, they're not allowed to kill it, damn it. It's home.

("Chasing Cars" just came onto my MP3 player, and ... hey, my eyes are NOT welling up wth tears, damn it.

... oh, shut it. *sniffles*)

Bobby Drake: Oh, man, do I want to keep Bobby Drake at my house. You know why Bobby is my favorite X-Man? Because he's not some orphaned amnesiac ninja abducted by aliens and ripped through time, he's just a guy. He's some schmuck with superpowers. He's just that guy you know with a cheap car and a bad job and a laughable love life. He plays video games, he eats a lot of junk food, he cracks jokes and plays childish tricks. He can probably quote every Monty Python episode ever made, and yet probably forced Hank to watch Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Hey, it's just like every Twinkie run they've ever done, except they never went on trips for sliders, and they were never high (well, except that one time), and there was never an imaginary cheetah (well ... okay, you know what? Never mind). And Hank! Hank is his best buddy, for crying out loud. He hangs out with a guy he shouldn't even be able to hold a conversation with, and yet the two of them bonded. It's awesome.

Boo: Oh, come on. She's Boo. She's adorable and sweet, and yet she is so totally a typical two-year-old. All she does is cause trouble left and right, and it's not like she's trying to. She's just curious and a little ball of energy. And she calls Sully "Kitty" and pets his fur and plays with his tail, and I'm sorry, but that is just the cutest thing on the planet. I'm going to be horribly disappointed when I have kids one day and they're all evil brats and none of them are the least bit like Boo. (And if they're not naturally brats, I'm sure my parents and brother will make sure they end up that way. *snickers*)

Sarah Connor: Okay, here's why I love Sarah Connor.

Let's say the same damn thing happens to me. Some guy from the future shows up, tells me the same story Kyle fed her, knocks me up, and dies, and all of this while some psycho cyborg is chasing after us. You know what I would do? I would sit in a corner and I would cry. I'd probably get really wasted while I was at it, because fuck it, I want to and obviously if the kid is going to be the leader of the human resistance it won't fuck him up that much. And maybe I would hold a teddy bear the whole time. There'd probably be a lot of whimpering, while I was at it.

I don't think I would have been half as proactive as she turned out to be. I mean, yeah, she ended up in a mental institution, but I would have been surprised if she HADN'T ended up in one at least for a little while. She's not a cuddly bunny rabbit, she's a hardcore bitch and for a damn good reason. Hell, John Winchester's more likely to give his kids a hug than Sarah Connor ever was. John Connor doesn't need coddling, John needs training. I always picture the Winchester boys as having to learn how to fight the supernatural because they needed to protect themselves first and foremost -- jobs came later. With the Connors, Sarah's training is offensive rather than defensive. She has to be the strong one, and she has to show John how to be the man he's going to be in the future. It's his fight, not hers, and yet at the same time whatever she can do to keep him from having to get to that fight, she'll do.

And that's why I love Sarah.

That, and she could SO kick my ass. And your ass. And everybody else's ass, too.

Comments

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

"Dude, I don't even like cars"...yeah same here. And yet...the Impala. it makes me want to KNOW about cars and it makes me want a black on black 67 Impala.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

No you don't. :P At least, not really. The lack of effective air conditioning + black leather + black mirror-finish paint? Second degree burns on the back of your legs if you park in the sun in August. OW.


-Cait (who had not an Impala but a 72 Mercedes in the same color scheme and dammit, she was SO Cool except for the ouchlegburnage issue.)

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

haha. yeah okay maybe i dont. but itd be cool if it werent for all those factors.

[tigriswolf]

I agree with everything.

I never really liked Sarah all that much, but now I do a little more. (But John Connor was my fictional crush for awhile.)

And Dean--Dean, Dean, _Dean_.

Boo? Is adorable. She(and Sully and Randall) were the best part of that movie.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, thank you for these. I was cranky and sulky and you've made much of it better with the fandom love.

Oh Dean, oh John. He didn't stop with trying to kill the demon, he found a war that needed to be fought and he joined up. He's raised two boys alone under horrible circumstances and, like it or not, made them brave and strong and capable. Yes. yes. yes.

And the Impala? you just know has more than its share of bloodstains in it I can't believe I hadn't thought of that before, but of *course* they've bled and come all over it. They are *so* slowly bringing that car to life. Like Christine minus the evil!killer.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Also, I've only seen the second half of Monster's Inc, and even though that's probably meant I missed out on a lot of the setting, and the chracter development and stuff? The scene where Sully has to take Boo back? I cried. *gets misty all over again*

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

*loves all of these*

I wish I still had my Sarah Connor icon in rotation...

[lunardreamed.livejournal.com]

I love why you love Sarah Connor. I love your comparisons between her and John.

I love that John's love for his boys means he can't be around them, but that Sam's love for Dean -- and Dean's for him -- means that they make a stronger team. I love Sam for not realizing that, even though I think he's an idiot for letting himself be oblivious to it.

Yes! I love that for being such a tough guy, Dean does get it.

I love your view of Bobby Drake. And it's always nice to find a fellow comics fan. You wouldn't think the fan world could make you feel like a dork for liking something, but . . . oh well. My friends wanted to rent "V," and I'm all, but that's based on a comic book. You hate those, I don't think you'd like it. And they're all, but it doesn't look like a comic book movie. And they liked it and they still don't get why I like comics. Anyway, on Bobby, that's a great POV. I've never thought about it like that.

And I love that SPN is probably the only fandom where in a meme like this, the Impala would come up as a character on every single list. Beat that!

[lunardreamed.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I like how you pointed out that Dean and Sam couldn't have turned out so great if John hadn't been at least a halfway decent father, in the circumstances he had.

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

And that's why I love Sarah.

That, and she could SO kick my ass. And your ass. And everybody else's ass, too.

I second, third, and fourth this! *runs from Sarah* hee

[mcee.livejournal.com]

oh, WINCHESTERS. ♥

[penyn-1600.livejournal.com]

Oh, Boo! OMG! She's just the cutest little thing. And with the "Kitty!" and at the end when Sully opens the door and you can hear her say, "Kitty!" God, I'm getting chills right now, that's how much I love that movie and Boo. :D

[audrey1nd.livejournal.com]

I feel really stupid for asking this, especially since I know all the others, but what fandom is Sarah Connor from?

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

Just...oh Dean.

You summed him up perfectly. :)

And this about Sam: Sam's love for Dean -- and Dean's for him -- means that they make a stronger team. I love Sam for not realizing that, even though I think he's an idiot for letting himself be oblivious to it.

is just perfectly put.

And oh yay the Impala! That car is half-sentient at this point, I swear.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

There's this character in my book who's a gigantic terrifying-looking demon with the personality of a three-year-old girl.

For some reason, every time I think of the Impala, I think of her.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That sounds about right. She could be like Dora the little girl ship from the late Heinlein books!

When I first started watching Supernatural, I wondered what would happen if the Impala were possessed by a succubus/lare/pentare? It may be the only Supernatural 'fic I ever end up writing because the idea always, always makes me giggle. ;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I took a prompt kind of like that for spn_halloween. :)

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

I agree about Dean, Sam, and the Impala. John, however: I dislike him for stealing his boys' childhood.

Sarah Connor: I absolutely love her. I still wants arms like LH had in T2. And I loved the scene (even though it's sort of icky) where she is escaping the asylum and clobbers in the teeth of the guard that licked her and made a ruckus all night long so no one could sleep. I love the way SC rose to the occasion once she got to know about the future. I loved that she drove a pink vespa in T1 and then come T2 she was a bad ass (and before, in T1.) I love Sarah Connor. She's all that and a bag of chips: smart, and cool headed, and knew that she had to perform well to SAVE THE FUTURE! I wold have just cried, like you said.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

See, I always think of it less of having stole his kids' childhood (which sounds so malicious to me) as not being able to let them keep it. We're talking about a guy with severe post-traumatic stress disorder following the death of Mary who wasn't about to let that happen to anybody else. It's not exactly a profession where you can stop your work from following you home, and if Missouri told him something evil had killed Mary in Sam's nursery, then he may have suspected that it would come again. And at that point, it's either train them how to protect themselves or leave them helpless.

I don't know -- I've got a different perspective than everybody else, I guess. I've got a character in my original fiction whose life is in constant danger who was raised by a man who treated him much like John Winchester, training him how to defend himself instead of letting him have a normal childhood. Sean would love to be bitter about that, but he's too grateful being alive.

I do think John tried to steal Sam's adulthood, though, but at that point Sam was old enough to fight back and did.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

You're right on all points, true. But it's this gut feeling that I have about John, you know... I can't help it.

[skylee.livejournal.com]

Aww, lovely list. I think John made a lot of mistake as a father and I still think leaving Dean like that without any explanation was the cruelest thing he could have done to him, but aww, Winchesters boys. And the Impala. And Sarah Connor. And Boo. Awww.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

Actually as the single mother of a son aging with John in the film, Sarah is very loving towards him and their relationship is very realistic. I laugh out loud at some of the mother-son moments.

She checks him for injuries after the asylum, it starts as a hug, andends with an indignant "I'm fine!" Been there done that. (Not the loony bin, but the rest)

When John hands her the money on the way to Enrique's. The childish attempt at showing off and and the adult kibosh on it ("Aw Moooom!") That is so a ten/eleven yo!

When Sarah covers John in the bullet proof vests, she kisses him quickly. You do that with an older child.

People misunderstand motherhood. It's not cute babies and hearts and flowers. All mothers are lionesses. Because you have to be.