I can’t say too much without giving storyline away, but Sam of Wellwood is its own standalone (ish) AU– as much as any of the BA multiverse is standalone– and Celeste has her own plans for these brothers that she sometimes lets me in on. This is one of the first stories where she started acting out on her own. She’s a little fed up with Sam and Dean.
One of the prizes this year will actually be a special sneak peek at the background of Celeste, and where she came from, so be sure to participate in the contest!
Known Abilities: Keeps a steady head in trying times and very good at both calming Christian down and keeping Kara in check. He’s become a consistent part of their family in recent years to the point where Kara considers him “Uncle Mikael!.”
Very adept with first aid, helped Sam with his broken arm.
Background: After losing his wife to a rat, he took to staying with Christian and Kara to help care for things. Both he and Christian lost their wives, Christian years ago and Mikael very recently. Things begin to go smoother for them when he starts living with them, at least until he’s taken by the humans first.
Known Abilities: Somehow trying to keep up with Kara, who insists on making friends with any humans she can. Try not to startle him. He’s a nervous wreck.
Background: After losing his wife to humans years back, and Mikael’s wife to a rat, Christian was afraid to leave his young daughter Kara alone at home. With the humans taking people like him and Mikael away from the motel, the insects began to encroach on their homes, leaving it a dangerous place for a little girl to be without her father. All of this was rendered moot when Christian was captured, leaving Kara on her own anyway.
Dean pinched the bridge of his nose. “Do your parents know you’re here?”
“Mother sent me! She wanted to make sure you two boys were getting along, especially since you haven’t visited in six months, Dean! You can’t make them worry like that.”
Dean sighed. “We meant to come visit, we just got… busy.”
Yep! He was just a wee thing– Bobby is older than Walt. Just a kid trapped in a cage, his young wife pregnant at home with Bree, and Bobby made sure Walt got home.
For anyone that missed it:
Walt
Things are looking grim for Walt when he’s captured by humans and trapped in a cage… what does fate hold in store for the man that stands under four inches tall?
Known Abilities: Quick and quiet, it’s hard to keep Kara in one place. She’s a great climber and may give Sam a run for his money once she grows a little. Since she’s barely half his height, she’ll have to work twice as hard to cover the same ground.
Background: Kara grew up in an underpopulated motel out in Hibbing, Minnesota. When her dad was taken away by humans, she did a very unexpected thing and went to find help– from a hunter staying at that same motel. Lucky for her, it was Dean.
Quote: Someone as big as you shouldn’t be afraid of anything!
Known Abilities: An adept seamstress who makes all the clothing for her family, and took the time to teach their neighbor Krissy how to sew just as well. She would have done this with her daughter Bree, but Bree was taken away before she was able to pick up the necessary skill.
Mallory is also quite good at getting her boys to get along, and has steamrolled right over Walt in the past when he grows intransigent. Don’t underestimate her just because she’s 3 inches tall.
Background: Mallory has been with Walt since she was a teenager, and had a child with him, Briella Watch. They’ve stayed in the Trails West motel for years, and lived in the bed and breakfast that it was before renovations. She may have passed away in Brothers Apart, but she is forever remembered by the children she raised and the husband she left behind.
Quote:
“Be careful. For me. Remember, just because he’s your brother doesn’t stop him from being dangerous, even just by accident.”
Known Abilities: Jacob has grown up with a quiet patience that enables him to read a social situation very well. He doesn’t often see a need to push things in any direction, but he can see signs and trends through observation and is able to roll with almost anything. Part of it stems from his size. At his height and breadth, he can make other humans nervous just to be around him. He’d become an expert in toning down his intimidation factor the best he can in order to avoid making people feel threatened around him.
The size has its benefits, too. He is built for strength and stamina, and is essentially a wall of a person, more defensive in fights unless something really drives him to go on the offensive. It can make him seem like an unintelligent thug, but Jacob is decently smart, definitely enough to be perceptive (though not enough to pull off very convincing lies).
When Jacob is under the curse, his relative strength is even greater. He’s also just as perceptive as before, though in the isolation that comes with being small he can’t put it to use as well. He is diligent in learning the skills he needs to survive.
Jacob’s loyalty and gentleness are some of his greatest assets. Earning his respect is earning someone who will stand up for you no matter what. His level-headedness comes in handy quite often as well, especially when dealing with more excitable people.
Background: Jacob grew up and lives in Carlisle, Iowa, with his mother and father until his father lost a battle with cancer when Jacob was eight. His mother Mariana is second generation Greek-American, and his father Nicholas was first generation, and Jacob has many relatives overseas (with whom he occasionally talks on the phone, so he is proficient in Greek if not fluent).
His father’s illness and death resulted in a lot of medical bills and the loss of an income to the household, and Jacob and his mother spent a few years struggling financially. Since then, Mariana has found more stable work, and her second marriage to police officer Michael Ellison has helped take away some of the burden. Jacob has a decent relationship with his stepfather, though there will never be a replacement in his life for his dad, whom he tries to emulate in everything that he does.
Knack: Enhanced strength factor
Quote: You really wouldn’t mind hanging around Godzilla all the time?
You can’t do something like that to a person, no matter what the hell you think of him!
Known Abilities: Quiet when among her own people, she’s imprinted on humans more than others are comfortable with. She still retains some of her climbing skills, but they’ve waned since she lived free.
Background: Bree was a carefree spirit, wanting to live up to her father’s skills at slipping in and out of motel rooms. Because of this, she was caught by a human family and given to their daughter, Beth, as a pet. Walt was forced to watch his baby girl be torn from his life with no way of stopping it.
Bree was even taken from Beth when her family was overcome with greed, agreeing to sell the tiny girl off to Mina Chandler with the others they’ve caught.
Quote: It’s all so different from here… it looks so… small.
Known Abilities: Walt is lean and spry, a fast climber (though he can’t keep up with Sam at his best), and ready to fight. He is the one that teaches Sam and Dean how to take on rats at their size, assisted by his handy exacto razor he found in a motel room years back.
Walt is a tanner, able to work the pelt of any rats he kills into various objects, including but not limited to satchels, jackets and boots.
Most of the passages and entrances in and out of the walls of the Trails West were designed by Walt. He lived in the building before it was turned into a motel, and took the time to guarantee access for all the others of his size living there.
Despite his stern appearance, he is very good with children, often acting as a surrogate father to those who lost their families– Sam, Dean, Krissy and Sean all owe him their lives.
Background: Walt is one of the littles who has lived at the Trails West for the longest. So long that he remembers the days it was a bed and breakfast on the side of the road and remembers the hunters that nearly captured everyone there. Thanks to help from a certain Bobby Singer, nothing came from that.
Walt has been with the love of his life, Mallory Watch, since he was 18, and with her he raised a daughter, Briella Watch.
Though they lived for years in peace, it didn’t last. Bree was captured by humans when she was still a kid, and taken away from her family. Since then, Walt took in any estranged child as his own and helped raise them, doing his best to make sure the children had the best chance at survival. He doesn’t even flinch from raising cursed humans as his own, and has allowed actual humans into his family, like Dean Winchester after the hunter rescued Bree from her captors and brought the lost daughter home.
Brothers Apart 