Aww, we’re so happy you enjoyed it! Dean sees all those bitty, innocent kiddos and instantly switches into big brother mode for all the smols. He just has no evens. And now he’s been adopted.
Tag: brothers apart
They have not run into this situation yet, aside from with Rumsfeld. And it would all depend on the dog. Rumsfeld adopted smols as his family from the start, other dogs would not have the same reaction. The dogs might not give a damn or they might decide that someone Sam’s size is a chew toy or a baby of their own. It all depends on the pup.
Sam had a very difficult time coping at first. He woke up in a strange home with two strange people and the first thing he did was ask to see his family. When they couldn’t do that, he got very upset and tried to run away. Walt had to chase Sam all the way to a motel room he got himself stuck in with people staying there. It was only then that Sam could even begin to accept that his life had been flipped upside down and try to deal with his new situation. Dean and John were gone and they weren’t coming back.
Things I do in my free time: draw Dean saving small sprites from drowning.
This won’t be a prompt I’m doing at the time, but @chewbaccaaah actually did a cute short story of exactly this for the contest! Check it out for some sick!Dean and caring Sammy:
This can be a tough one! For myself, a lot of my best parts depend on inspiration. I listen to music at work during the day, and there will be moments where I just see an entire scene in my head. I keep a notebook to the side and scribble down every bit I remember. A lot of times these drabbles turn into 2k word story parts, and that’s a lot of how I write. Completely unorganized, too. I’ll have an entire story out of order in bits and pieces at first.
The collabs I do with neon, we build off of each other’s ideas. What starts out simple will end much more complicated with fun storylines we never would have come up with on our own.
It’s true. With collaborations, stories come together a lot faster just because, when you might be having a block, your partner is there to help bring you out of it. Nightmares and I have hardly slowed down with the writing since we started working together, and it’s great!
For solo writing, I tend to do things a little differently. While I also keep a journal nearby all the time for shorter stories and scene inspirations, I usually end up writing my stories in order. I develop an outline of major points I’d like to see happen in my story, so that I don’t get into a corner that I can’t write myself out of. From there, it’s a matter of making sure everything the story needs is there. Some scenes that seem like they’ll be bigger end up shorter than 2k words (on the flipside, some small things end up at 10k words).
Word count, in my opinion, isn’t as important as content. For example, the conclusion to Hershey Kisses and Salt Lines is around 1.7k words, and yet it got the most explosive response out of any chapter in the whole story. It accomplished exactly the goal in less than two thousand words.
That said, here’s how you can expand word count: give the scene more details. And I don’t mean details that add nothing to the scene itself or take away from the flow of things. Details that put the reader right there can help with the experience while also fleshing out the scene in general. I personally specialize in sensory details and painting the picture of the world that the characters perceive. Nightmares is the queen of getting their thoughts and feelings on point. Both are valid and helpful for telling the story, and it’s ultimately up to you to decide which you’d like to focus on (or put both in there!). Once you start noticing the places where you could add to one or the other, it becomes easier and easier and before you know it you’re considering splitting one chapter into two. 😉
Dean must save the tiny sprite kiddo. And Vel promptly decided that the human is his now. We’ll find out soon whose leaf boat will win the race!
Fun fact: Vel’s wings flutter involuntarily a lot because of their development. Wood sprite wings are full of nerves, and once they’ve uncurled from the leaf bud shape of early childhood, they’re extra sensitive to everything, which makes them twitch and flutter. Vel is just barely six, so his wings wouldn’t have been uncurled for very long at all.
Of course!
He actually already knows how to pick locks, he just hasn’t had the chance. When he was kidnapped in Taken, he lost his supply bag. Without it, he didn’t have the paperclips he keeps stored to work the lock to their crate. All he could find was a splinter of wood, and it was too short to reach the lock on the door. Dean made sure that picking locks was one of the first skills he made sure Sam remembered from childhood.
All I can say is anything is possible in the future!
Walt for sure has never forgotten the only good human he met before Sam and Dean came along, and that particular case stands out in Bobby’s mind. It’s a driving force in him, and a huge reason for the way he reacted to first discovering Sam during Shadows and Reflections.
I drew @neonthewrite’s character Bowman Leafwing when he defends Sam from a wolf in the story “A Lich of Sense”, which is written by both @neonthewrite & @nightmares06. I just love the story so much! 😍
Bowman to the rescue!
Brothers Apart 