Of all the original characters that appear in the Brothers Apart multiverses, Stan has a unique place. 

He was never meant to be anything more than Dean and Sherlock’s chauffeur, much like the way Anthea picked up John Watson in the series. Yet there was something about the way he and Dean played off each other that just stood out, and we couldn’t resist bringing him back in the Consulted shorts that tie up A Burglary at Baker Street.

These days, Stan not only has a series based around his character (Brothers Chosen), he’s also become one of the main characters of Brothers Consulted. All because of one scene where he caught sight of Dean while Dean was trying to stay hidden.

Stay strong, Stan. You’re in this for the long haul now.

Artwork by @ghostquack​

Saving people, solving crimes

The flatmate business

Over a decade ago, a serious of unfortunate events led to the Winchesters, at only a few inches in height, being forcibly relocated to London. Now, they’ve adjusted to their size and found a new home to live in that just happens to be the same residence of a certain detective and his blogger…

How far out of the Winchesters comfort zone should we take them? How about across the ocean?!

When @nightmares06​ and @borrowedtimeandspace​ started writing together, we originally started out focusing on a Dr. Who crossover and called it Brothers Spaced. This didn’t pan out, as Dean and Zepheera turned out to be… incendiary, and it was difficult to get them to behave in the same room for longer than a sentence.

This issue was solved one day by complete accident. @borrowedtimeandspace​ posted a story where they had Zepheera encounter Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and @nightmares06​ just couldn’t resist going “But what if Dean…?”

Brothers Consulted started off as just a crack idea to throw Dean at Sherlock and see where it went, and as it happens, they hit it off and spawned an entire new storyline. At the time of writing the first story, night had never even seen the BBC Sherlock show! Her only experience was with the recent American movies that starred Robert Downey Jr. She was quick to remedy that after The Study of the Four wrapped up in record time, and has never once regretted watching the entire series over a weekend straight.

Artwork by @ghostquack​

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​