Keep the guesses coming! But this one’s getting colder.
Guesses for the mystery AU!
Since no one has gotten it right, here’s a compilation of all the guesses so far to give you all a hand:
- A kid finding a cursed Dean
- A kid finding both cursed brothers (not the mystery AU, but a possibility for BL)
- Field Borrowers
- Both brothers are cursed and John saves them
- Reversed Brothers Together, where Dean got cursed and saved by Sammy
- Hitchhiking Sam, off to find his brother
- The witch gets Sam when he’s first cursed
- Sam/Dean grow to be a giant instead
- A brother is cursed and either Bobby or Gordon finds them
- Sam is cursed as an adult and meets the Watch family later on in life instead of as a child
- The trickster switches the brothers sizes (likely for a story within an AU, not an AU by itself)
- Sam adopted by a human family after being cursed
- Sam caught by other humans with no one around to save him
- Sam is cursed at a different motel
- Sam is adopted by sprites
- Sam and Dean are borrowers for most of their life
- The Winchesters genderswap
- Sam raises a family of his own that fits in Dean’s pocket (just plain adorable, really)
- Sam and Dean shrunk as adults (more likely for a canon story, since the curse in BA only works on children)
- Borrowers and humans coexist
- Sam had to survive on his own
- Dean discovers Sam earlier/later on in life
- Both brothers cursed; one has the curse broken
All good guesses but none hit the mark! If anyone gets it right, there will be a sneak peek put up for everyone to see!
Other points of interest brought up:
- The AU will involve one or both of the brothers being cursed
- The curse will happen at Trails West
- Bowman or Oscar may appear in the AU, but not as one of the central characters
- Celeste is involved to her normal extent; as the source of the curse
- One of the three campers from Fairy Tales: Bowman of Wellwood is involved in the AU
- The guesses that come closer to the mark without hitting it have been bolded!
Celeste isn’t out of the story yet, as seen by her surprise showing in The Schism of Fire and Water (x) at the end as the person that was pulling Ilyana’s strings. Sam’s ability is starting to evolve more fitting to the story, and he has the ability to know when he’s been spotted or is being tracked. It’s a tingling on the back of his neck, a solid hammer of uneasiness that can come out of nowhere the second he’s spotted. The visions are going to taper off for him slowly.
As for the rest of the story… you’ll just have to wait and see… 😉
Getting warmer, but nope, these are not what the mystery AU will be!
I might do something in the future with only Dean shrinking down being found by a kid. The interactions would be fun, and seeing how Sam comes in just as fun. Big-little brother to the rescue! Or something. But nothing on the table just yet.
A kid finding both shrunken brothers… I’m not going to say anything more than that might come up in Brothers Lost. Don’t want to spoil everything, after all. 😉
Nope, it’s nothing to do with the field borrowers! And currently, there are no plans in BT to show Sam and Dean encountering them as kids.
As shown in Taken, John would not in fact, kill the little people just because they were different. He ended up helping Dean relocate them to Sam’s old motel.
No, this is more like what Gordon would do.
And if Dean was like that, Sam would be dead.
Typo of the Day
Momsters – Mom monsters
Romance is fine, sex is not. I’m asexual, so it’s not that I’m bothered by the thought of romance. That would make me aromantic, which I am not. It’s that I don’t understand sex at all. It baffles me which is why you won’t see me write it. It’s like trying to go out and write a quantum mechanics textbook when all you got for an overview in physics was a ten minute introduction course where Sheldon got himself hung up on the beginning of his planned syllabus.
Ship who you want with Sam. In the storyline that’s planned, his romantic future is already charted out. ❤
Aww, thank you! It’s so nice to hear that X3
Brothers Switched sounds perfect. I like that name. The only other one I had was Brothers Reversed.
I think Brothers Found would fit it great. Dean has to come in eventually… hopefully. Just depends on how it happens and if he knows/realizes who Sam is. That’s currently the most likely title for the series!
Here’s hoping someone figures out the mystery AU! I’ll have to go digging for a sneak peek if that happens.
Naming this one is turning out to be the hardest yet. Brothers Together got named about a week after we conceived it, and Brothers Lost only took a few hours for my cowriter to name… Brothers Apart had the name the moment I came up with the idea. And this story has been written on and off for over four months now and I’ve got nothing.
Any ideas out there? Maybe the name is just waiting for us to find it!
Brothers Apart 