Ben Braeden (Wayward Chronicles)

> "*People thought they could keep lying to me in order to keep me from doing what I want is best and that's facing the truth. I'm Dean Winchester's son and I'm a hunter.*"
> ― Ben to Claire.
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## Ben Braeden

### Occupation

Hunter
Member of Enigma
Mechanic (formerly)

### Affiliation

Winchester Family
Claire Novak
Enigma

### Family

Adam (ancestor) †
Eve (Ancestor) †
Cain (ancestor) †
Abel (ancestor) †
Henry Winchester (parental great-grandfather) †
Millie Winchester (parental great-grandmother) †
Samuel Campbell (parental great-grandfather) †
Deanna Campbell (parental great-grandmother) †
John Winchester (parental grandfather) †
Mary Winchester (parental grandmother) †
Lisa Braeden (mother)
Dean Winchester (father)
Unnamed aunt
Sam Winchester (uncle)
Adam Milligan (half-uncle)
Emma (younger half-sister) †

### Portrayed By

Drew Roy (adult)
Nicholas Elia (preteen)

Benjamin Isaac "Ben" Braeden (born May 12, 1999) is a human and hunter. And is the son of Lisa Braeden and Dean Winchester. He also happens to be an agent of Enigma as well, along with Claire Novak.

Upon having his memories return to him around 2017, he remembered about Dean Winchester and the supernatural existence. Having helped get his mom to remember, Ben did some investigation about his biological father and found out that Dean Winchester is in fact his father and his mother lied about it.

Embracing his own made-destiny and what his father taught him, Ben set out into the United States and begin the life as a hunter, but kept the secret about being Dean's son in order to keep a low profile. At some point when the world was revealed that the supernatural exists, Ben was recruited to join the independent organization, Enigma and work alongside other professionals and supernatural creatures to maintain both human and supernatural communities.

## History

#### Early Life

Ben had been born on May 12, 1999 after his mom had a fling with Dean. Ben eventually came across Dean during a case in Cicero, Indiana around his birthday on 2007 and there had been Changlings capturing kid and taking their place to feed off of their mothers. Ben helped Dean on freeing the abducted kids and bid farewell when Dean and his brother left. During his first time meeting Dean, Dean had taught Ben how to deal with bullies by using physical force, much to Lisa's disdain.

Three years later, with the apocalypse averted, Dean moved in with Lisa and Ben and Dean acted out as a father figure. Eventually with Crowley and his demons rounding up monsters to get into Purgatory and a souless Sam, along with a revived Samuel Campbell stepping into his life, Dean returned to his old ways, which eventually caused a wedge between him and Lisa, but Ben believed in what Dean was doing is right.

After Lisa finally ended things with Dean, but refuse Dean to leave and became infuriated that the man he saw as a father is walking out on his family. Ben and his mother would then be dragged into the supernatural when Crowley had his demons capture them as leverage against Dean. With him and his mom held captive, Sam and Dean came to their rescue, but Lisa ended up being possessed by a demon and holds Ben with a knife to his throat and spreads lies about his mom hating him and Dean being his father (which is a fact the demon did not lie). Dean successfully exorcises the demon, unfortunately Lisa's demon stabbed itself and Lisa slowly bled.

Despite getting his mom to a hospital, Ben is left silently angry at Dean, blaming him for putting him and his mom in danger, even though the latter had been trying to prevent that in the first place. To protect him an dhis mother, Dean has Castiel erase his memories of ever knowing Dean and thus did not know he was when he presented himself to them.

Around 2017, finally reaching eighteen years old and working part-time as a mechanic, Ben found a personal belonging of Dean in the garage and by touching it, it brought back all the memories taken from him. Remembering about the supernatural and Dean, Ben first thought is to figure out who his true biological father is and after heavy investigating and tracing Dean and his brother's hunting patterns on the cases they worked on, relating to any incidents at a hospital of any kind, he found a blood sample of Dean and ran a blood test and is shock to find out Dean is in fact his father.

At first, Ben manage to help his mother regain her memories, then he later confronted his mother about it by first dropping hints to guilt her and finally had the truth revealed to him. Ben was left angry that his mother lied to him and Dean, to which Lisa angrily retorts that Dean almost had them killed, but Ben had forgiven Dean for what happen years ago and decided what to do with his life. This placed a strain relationship with his mom as Ben left his home and went to become a hunter to follow in his father's footsteps.

Four years later, after being unaware of God having finally been defeated, Ben continued his work as a hunter as he became good at it and made it clear that he would avoid Dean as it were best not to confront the man who is his father. Ben later came across other young hunters like him such as Claire Novak and Krissy Chambers, separately and developed a close partnership with them and learned of their relation of encountering Sam and Dean and how their lives changed when they came into their lives.

Among the hunter community, Ben raised up to the ranks of being a seasoned hunter and praised by many experienced and older hunters. On 2022, with the manipulation of the "New God" Jack, the existence of the supernatural disclosed to the public by a higher organization known as Enigma, who have been aware of the supernatural, hunters, Men of Letters, and events that have taken place throughout the years and decided now was the time to have a world where people are aware of what lives among them and recruit hunters and even supernatural creatures to willingly to their ranks in order to maintain a balance among humans and supernatural.

Ben is the first of many to join Enigma, along with Claire. The two worked together in solving many cases and stopping supernatural entities that are equivalent to those of mobs, terrorist, criminals, and corrupt politicians, as well as rogue hunters who do not join Enigma and continue to kill the supernatural that are innocent and have not broken the new laws set upon the world. Ben and Claire were then assigned under the command of a Cambion named Dante Eden and Ben was recognized by his fellow peers in Enigma, including Dante.

## Physical Appearance

Ben has dark brown-colored eyes and light brown hair as a child, Overtime, reaching his adulthood, Ben's eye color and hair color switched and now has light brown-colored eyes and dark brown hair. He is 5'10" and noted by a few women to be the definition of dark, tall, and handsome.

Much like Dean, he seems to share his type of wardrobe such as wearing plaid shirts, leather jackets, jeans, and boots. Like Sam and Dean, he carries an anti-possession symbol on his chest.

After being recruited into Enigma, Ben is seen often wearing a fully sophisticated geared equipment such as a com link, bullet-proof vest, utility belt, and packing serious ammo at all times.

## Personality

Noted by Dean, he observed how Ben seems to act like him in terms of licking cars, AC/DC, checking girls out, and dressing similar like him. This was first to be dismissed by Lisa that Dean believing Ben to be his son is false and its a coincidence that Ben is acting like him.

This turned out not to be the case as Ben is in fact Dean's son, thus Ben shares various similarities to Dean such as being funny, mischievous, but isn't immature as dean is. During as an 11-year-old, Ben was very stubborn on wanting to help Dean and showed potential of wanting to be just like him as Dean had taught Ben a few tricks on dealing with supernatural creatures, just for protection and self-defense. He shows admiration and Dean as this father-figure (ironic that Dean is his father), going far as to call him when his mother had moved on from him and is dating someone else. He expressed anger at Dean when he left, telling him he's walking out on his family and that for leaving them, Lisa and him got captured by demons and Lisa almost died.

Ben had his memories wiped clean but eventually finding a belonging of Dean's, Ben was able to recover his memories and thus Ben was set on finding out the truth of who his biological father is. He is very determined as he was willingly to commit illegal acts into finding his father. This determination is so great that it drove him to embracing his life as a hunter and doing what he can to help people, like his father.

Unlike Sam and Dean, Ben is willingly to work with supernatural creatures and is more sympathetic then to act immediately distrust worthy just because one is different and not human. Ben has hunted and gone through traumatic experience with the people he's lost and individuals he's fought that he can differentiate who is truly a monster by their actions and not for what they simply are.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Master Hunting Skills** - Picking up some lessons from when Dean got back into his hunting life, Ben knows the basic hunting tips such as demonic testing or other monster test. After regaining his memory and learning Dean is his biological father when he was eighteen, Ben spent the next 23 years polishing his skills and experience as he's gone against monsters, demons, witches, and typical creatures. After joining the Enigma organization, Ben faces off against formidable opponents such as powerful Cambions, G.R. Corporation's genetically enhanced supernatural creatures, Eldritch Horrors, Leviathans, and angels. Some have said that Ben is perhaps on both the Winchester's league or maybe greater.
	+ **Master Hand-to-Hand Combat** - Starting his journey as a hunter, Ben only relied on natural fighting skills such as bar fights or anyone that annoyed him in general. Realizing he would need to step up his game, Ben took martial art classes and trained himself to use knives, and gain experience with the monsters he fights, whether armed or unarmed. After joining the Enigma organization, Ben received military training against highly proficient Marine or U.S. soldier training, thus boosting his fighting skills.
	+ **Master Marksman** - Ben is a well-versed marksman with multiple firearms, especially joining Enigma as many weaponry from the armory were provided, including mystical weapons, those similar to what the BMOL constructed to fight the supernatural. He is shown to be able to use a rifle itself to fend groups of creatures or people. Ben is one of those people that brings a gun to a knife fight and is lucky not to end up dead since many do.
	+ **Master Swordsman** - Ben is somewhat proficient in using knives or bladed weapons in combat, but is mostly seen relying on firearms. He does handle a Demonic-Killing Knife or an angel blade very well and has used machetes to decapitate many monsters.
	+ **Tactician** - Joining Enigma has taught been to gain tactical skills, especially when leading a team of hunters and is a proficient tracker. Ben is able to handle solo situations on his own and quickly think in a limited time circumstance. Even faced with those might greater than him, Ben is excellent at using the environment to his advantage to even overcome the strongest.
* **High Level Intelligence** - Ben possesses excessive knowledge of supernatural mythology and protocols used in the Enigma organization. After reclaiming his memory, Ben was able to thoroughly investigate his biological father and track any records of Dean's blood samples that were kept at the mental institute when Dean and Sam were working on the Wraith case. He found out his father is Dean and manage to get his mother to confirm the truth after throwing hints that began to guilt his mother into telling him
* **Leadership Qualities** - After rising into the ranks of Enigma, Ben had been promoted to becoming a commander and is a natural born leader like his father as he's lead his own team and motivate independent hunters, Men of Letters, and supernatural community into stop the Inner Circle. Like any leader that cares for his people, Ben fights hard to ensure everyone makes it out alive, whatever it takes.
* **Strategist** - Ben is able to develop improvising methods, depending on the environment he's in. He formulates strategies to help take down formidable foes such as Dante Eden, the Inner Circle members and set up basic traps to ensnare the creatures he's hunting. Some of these plans have down well to take down those who are master strategist themselves.
* **Electronics and** **Mechanic Expert** - Before reclaiming his memories, Ben was studying on how to become mechanic and around his high school years, he'd work part-time at a auto-repair ship and knows how to handle all sorts of vehicles and has learn how to hot wire or tamper with one's car. His expertise later help him manage air crafts. He's even learn how to manufacture EMF devices and learn a few to built devices or construct objects.
* **Indomitable Will** - Like Sam and Dean, Ben has gone through various traumatic experiences in losing people and seeing so much death, yet he manages to keep sane and continue the good fight. When reclaiming his memories, he's very determine in getting the truth no matter what it took as finding out about his father was something that held him back before he could figure out what to do with his life after remember about the supernatural life. He's strong enough to keep fighting, even when damaged and unable to move. As an acting leader, Ben refuses to fail his people as he tries to ensure he gets them out alive at all cost.

## Relationship

#### Ben and Claire Novak

Ben and Claire came across one another when both were following the same case and had butted heads the first time. Claire being stubborn and protective of the case, she had told Braeden to be off and leave it to her, but like her, Ben was too stubborn to drop the case and so both ended up working together when they realized they needed each other's aid.

With the case solved, both were surprised and apologized for being rude to one another and saw how they had struggled. They parted ways, telling the other they might see each other again, to which they laugh as they hardly believed it. Ironic about the situation is that unknown to each other, both had their lives etched to the supernatural thanks to Sam and Dean, and that they would be catching each other soon in the future on another case.

Ben encountered Claire some time later and this time Krissy had came along. Funny about the situation is that Ben and Claire found themselves coming to a disagreement with Krissy's lone wolf and it was this second case that the three learn of their relation with Sam and Dean. Ben asked Krissy and Claire that if they were to run into Sam and Dean, they would keep his secret of reclaiming his memories and him being Dean's son. Both didn't say a word. During this case, Ben and Claire became close friends when they worked with Krissy as they had tried offering their help to which they were turned down. Both talked on how it reminded them of their first encounter and shared their life stories.

After solving the case, Ben and Claire would stay in touch for a long time and asking favors. Claire had helped Ben further understand the hunter community and higher ups of hunting creatures he's never encountered due to her time with the Winchesters. In the year 2022, Ben and Claire had been among a handful of hunters to willingly join Enigma to help protect both communities and work in a Black Ops Division to stop supernatural terrorism or individuals misusing the supernatural mystical means that threaten the world. For the next eight years, the two are thick and thin with each other, extremely loyal as they always have each other's back and know how the other functions. They care deeply, making this relation seem more than friends but like family.

#### Ben and Krissy Chambers

During his second encounter with Claire, Ben met Krissy and he admitted that Krissy was worse than how he dealt with Claire as Krissy was more ruthless in telling him and Claire to back off and even got into a fight with her. Eventually Ben and Claire had to help Krissy, during which Ben would act sassy with Krissy and mocks her for her mistakes.

Despite not meeting each other a lot, they did run into each other at any bar in the United States and shared their stories of how Sam and Dean changed their lives. Krissy is one of the people to keep Ben's secret about being Dean's son and how he had his memories erased. When Enigma revealed the supernatural to the world, Krissy is among to be recruited willingly, though she works part-time as she isn't fully committed to Enigma as Ben and Claire are. Both Ben and Krissy become close, but not in the same way as Ben is with Claire as they grow friendly with each other and Ben seems to be protective of Krissy when she's in danger, despite Krissy chastising on how she can take care of herself.

Claire has teased Ben about him and Krissy having a thing, to which Ben replies truthfully that there is nothing going on between the two, to which she does not believe. After their case at Rockswell Mansion, Ben asked Krissy if she's interested in dinner, to which to his surprise, she answers with a yes.

#### Ben and Dante Eden

After joining Enigma, Ben was working his way to the top and assigned under Dante Eden, a Cambion and captain of his team. Ben had proven himself multiple time and taking charge when Dante isn't around. Dante noted Ben's rebellious behavior and praised him on how he got the job done without putting anyone in danger.

When Ben finally was promoted to be apart of the Special Division with Dante as his leading commander. Both seem to get along until all that changed when Dante revealed he had simply been playing everyone at Enigma as a fool and has his won agenda by bring the world to its end by working alongside with Rockswell in using illegal mystical means. Dante had used the special division team Ben was apart of as his puppets, to which Ben grew angrily hateful towards Dante.