After having her plans thwarted so often by Dean Winchester, Celeste decides to up the stakes in her newest attempt, this time not even trying to curse the older Winchester. Instead, she removes him from the equation completely and sends Sam far, far away.

Into a forest where a certain familiar village resides, out of sight and out of mind.

Brothers Asunder took Sam out of his usual comfort zone and sent him spiraling into the Wellwood forest, where he encounters Scar, Cerul, Bowman and the rest of the cast of Bowman of Wellwood. It’s also our first glimpse at the fact that Celeste, due to her nature as an archangel, can see past the barriers of time and space to other alternate realities.

This AU manages to keep the Winchesters apart for the first story, but Dean arrives in spectacularly-Dean fashion in the second story. The name convention for each of the stories mirrors the names that neon originally conceived for her original storyline. Sam of Wellwood parallels Bowman of Wellwood, and Dean of Nowhere parallels Tevan of Nowhere (the sequel to Bowman of Wellwood that’s in development!).

The first arc of Brothers Asunder will wrap up after the next two stories, Bobby of Far Away and Dean of Wellwood, and the second season will likely bring a large change to the AU!

Artwork by @jennilah​

While Brothers Adopted leaves off with Sam, Dean and Jacob becoming a small family of their own, Brothers Divided starts with Sam at odds with Dean. 

Not knowing who the hunter that trapped Jacob is, Sam tries unsuccessfully to rescue his adopted brother. His failure stands out, and this time Dean leaves the motel with Jacob in tow, convinced he’s captive to a hunter. 

With Sam left behind and Jacob not knowing the identity of the man that caught him, how can they untangle this mess?

Artwork by @mogadeer​

It’s been three years since Jacob Andris found himself cursed to live at barely a twentieth of his height, and his adopted brother Sam Winchester has finally decided it’s time for his first trip to the rooms without Walt Watch’s supervision. How will Jacob’s supply run go when it’s just him and Sam? 

Brothers Adopted was where Jacob was first seen as a borrower, cursed when he was 14 years old and rescued by Sammy. 

As one of the first three AUs ever created (along with Brothers Found and Brothers Lost), Brothers Adopted tackles a lot of similar Supernatural themed cases at first, but then begins to branch out. Its storyline will take a far different route from any other AU, bringing these three to confront their past and what it means to be a family together. 

Artwork by @mogadeer​

A month has passed since Sam was cursed, and there’s no cure in sight. He and Dean are left on their own during one of John’s hunts to go to school and do their best to get by. After all this time, Sam’s no more used to being small than he was before, and when Dean catches an unexpected visitor he gets the chance to learn all about his new size. 

Sometimes, a story starts as the cutest and fluffiest AU possible, and then takes a turn for the worst. Hershey Kisses and Salt Lines was the first story in the BA multiverse to be a cliffhanger story, instead of just having a cliffhanger chapter, leaving the readers hanging for over a year before the next part posted.

Brothers Together was the first of this type, building up a relationship with a special OC to star in it (Oscar, who didn’t exist before neon created him for the 2015 contest). We’ve had people asking what part of Supernatural he’s from, and had to give them the sad news that he was never in the series. When a character gains this much life, you know a story about how he grew up alone is going to be heartbreaking. 

New readers beware! Brothers Together is not the story of sunshine and daisies that it appears to be at first glance!

Oddly enough, though Brothers Together posted before other stories, Brothers Adopted, Lost and Found were created beforehand. 

Artwork by @purple-moondropgrapes​

Saving people. Hunting things.

It was what they were supposed to do. Who they were supposed to be. Instead, that life was stolen from them by a witch and a curse in childhood, stripped away and replaced by one goal:

Survival. 

Originally, Brothers Apart was written with the assumption that at least one Winchester would need to be big enough to drive the Impala. The addition of one Jacob Andris to the AUs changed all that, and suddenly the possibility of having both Winchesters cursed together arose. 

These brothers of Brothers Lost have lived in Trails West together since childhood. They watch to see if their father ever returns, all the while knowing that he might see them as non-humans, and therefore supernatural creatures to be killed. Despite knowing all this, they’ve persevered and survived together. 

Enter Jacob Andris, walking the edge between being a teenager and adulthood. He comes across these two residents of the motel and reacts as we all know he tends to; he catches Dean and keeps him confined while trying to find out more about him.

When this confrontation clears and the dust settles, Sam and Dean have a new friend, and Jacob is the one to bring them out of the shadows and back to their old lives. With the Impala restored and the road before them, they search for their father and they work to help both borrowers and humans alike in the world. 

Artwork by @rerak-sketchbook​

Bowman and Jacob have come a long way, and I certainly never could have imagined they’d end up in something as prolific and fun as the Brothers Apart Multiverse! After Bowman fluttered his way into a case in A Lich of Sense, more ideas came. It didn’t take @neonthewrite​ and @nightmares06​ long to imagine more stories with the plucky sprite and the Winchesters.

Of course, when Bowman’s involved, Jacob isn’t far away. He’s one of the biggest humans, and also one of the chillest, and sometimes he’s the only thing tempering Bowman’s wild nature. Once Bowman flitted into the multiverse, Jacob walked in casually behind him.

Where Bowman and Dean circle each other in endless snark, Jacob and Sam try to keep the peace. It doesn’t always work out so well for Jacob … he and Dean rarely hit it off right away. Persistence with his own snarkmaster has helped Jacob figure out the ornery elder Winchester in a few AUs.

You can find the story from which Bowman and Jacob originate on Amazon or Lulu (or other online bookstores, if you’re feeling adventurous).

Artwork by @lotminx​

Kara first came into the stories while on her own, just a bitty child who had lost her father. Dean, a natural with children on his own scale, fell right into the protective big brother role when he found the wee little girl hiding in his room. 

All good, right?

Actually, I didn’t expect that Kara would find such interest in the readers of Brothers Apart! When Taken was first beta’d, the beta reader gave her a very lukewarm review, and a response of “There’s not enough Sam and Dean here.” Therefore, when she drops out of the story for several chapters on a cliffhanger, I wasn’t expecting there to be a large amount of outrage in the reviews.

But there was! She became one of the most loved characters in the stories, and now gets to appear in multiple AUs. She wouldn’t have developed without such support from the readers, so we have you all to thank!

Artwork by Heartstores

Sam Winchester has lived at only four inches tall since a curse struck him when he was just a kid. Now, years later, he’s learned to adapt and survive. Out in the rooms to grab food for his adopted family to eat, he slips up, and gets caught.

And it’s not Dean.

In the beginning, Brothers Apart was a standalone story. Though it had branched far beyond its original one-story arc, it remained one of a kind.

What changed that was when @neonthewrite​ came along. 

Her story, Pizza and Hexbags, was the winner of the first contest back in 2015. From there, neon and nightmares started to swap story ideas and A Lich of Sense grew out of these ideas.

A Lich of Sense remained in the Brothers Apart universe, but it also gave birth to something more. Now, with every story that the two writers had, they also asked the question “But what if this…“

This is what lead them to throw Jacob into the mix with Sam in the beginning of Brothers Found. That AU began very similar to Brothers Apart, even to the point where the characters relived the events of A Lich of Sense, but then it all changed. The horror story rose from it and gained a life of its own, the longest story the writers had ever written. All 74 chapters, 220,000 words, were created in just over a month’s time, and from there the cowriters didn’t stop, creating more AUs and more ideas for each. 

Soon the fallout from the horror story will be seen, as Clash of the Hunters is posting next!

Artwork by @mogadeer​

You read it right. That story was completely written while @nightmares06 was visiting family for Thanksgiving, was given an entire bottle of champagne, and didn’t move from the couch for the entire day. After which, she ended up with a story written based on her fear of being followed at work.

Later on, there was a realization that the ‘footsteps’ heard in the work stairwell all the time were caused by the creak of a door, so it was a happy ending on all fronts. 

Picture credit to @nightmares06​‘s mom, who caught a picture of her daughter before she ran off with the champagne and came back with a story.

From forgettable side character to a series staple

Walt Watch, the person who dared to venture into a room where John Winchester was fighting a witch, all to save one very small child. 

Suffice to say, without Walt, Sam wouldn’t have made it far in his new life. As a small, cursed child, he needed someone to teach him survival at his new size. Walt and Mallory became his adopted parents, and sheltered him from a world that had changed in more ways than one. 

In a way, Walt is one of the luckiest characters. During the first Brothers Apart story, he was originally slated to die when Mallory was killed. The reason he came back in the end was when I was reading over the story and realized that it was never implicitly stated that he died. 

Therefore, the door was open for one of the most shocking returns for Sam, who was convinced he was looking at a ghost when Walt was waiting for him in the walls of Trails West. 

Artwork by @ghostquack​