Dean Winchester

**Dean Winchester** is the older son born to John and Mary Winchester. He is the older brother to, Sam Winchester and the older paternal half brother to, Adam Milligan. He and Sam are also the surrogate son to Bobby Singer.

## Background

Dean Winchester was born on January 24, 1979 to John and Mary Winchester. John is from a long line of Men of Letters but later became a hunter. Mary is from a long line of hunters. He is the older brother of Sam Winchester and the older half brother of Adam Milligan.

He is a well known supernatural hunter. Trained throughout his whole childhood by his father, after his mother was murdered by a yellow eyed demon.

* Early Life
* You and Me

Dean Winchester was born on January 24, 1979 in Lawrence, Kansas. He was the eldest child of John and Mary Winchester.
Dean lived in relative peace for the first four years of his life. When his parents had an argument when he was about three, Dean comforted his mother, promising her that John still loved her. Dean was soon joined by a brother, Sam. Six months later, Azazel visited the house to feed Sam demon blood. Mary tried to stop him, leading Azazel to set the nursery on fire with Mary pinned to the ceiling. John came rushing in and took Sam from his crib and handed him to Dean. He then instructed his son to get out of the house as fast as he could. Dean ran out and watched as the flames destroyed his home, his childhood, and his mother. John left Lawrence with Dean and Sam before Dean's fifth birthday.
When Dean was 6 or 7, John took Dean out shooting for the first time, using bottles as target practice. According to Dean, he bulls-eyed every one of them. Dean has cited this story as one of his fonder memories of his father.
In 1991, hen John was hunting a Shtriga in Wisconsin and left Sam and Dean alone in a hotel room, Dean got bored and went out. When he came back, he found the Shtriga feeding on Sam. John returned in time to scare the Shtriga off. For a long time Dean was haunted by his failure to defend his brother. That same year, when Dean was in sixth grade, he made his first sawed-off shotgun.
When 12 year-old Dean was left to babysit Sam (8 years old) while John was on a hunt, Sam began to interrogate Dean about what it was that their dad actually did. Dean responded with "You know that. He sells stuff." When Sam moved on to ask about their mother, Dean got angry and stormed out after yelling, "Shut up! Don't you ever talk about mom! Ever!" Upon his return, Sam revealed to Dean that he had found and read their dad's journal, and demanded to know if monsters are real. Dean finally resigned himself to telling Sam the truth. Dean continually excused his father's flaws while the tension between Sam and John was clearly starting to take root. Disappointed with John's lying and absence, Sam gave Dean a Christmas present intended for his father: an amulet. Dean wears the amulet from this time on.
In 1995, Dean lost all of his and Sam's food money in a poker game and was caught stealing food. As a result, he was sent to a reform school run by a man named Sonny who is an ex-con that turned his life around and eventually got the charges against Dean dropped. While living at the home, Dean flourished. He became a high school wrestling champion, made friends and was doing well in school. Dean met a girl named Robin who was Dean's first love interest. She shared Dean's desire not to go into the "family business". Dean's dreams at the time was to become a rockstar or a mechanic and he was supposed to go to a dance with Robin, but his father returned the night of the dance to pick him up and refused to delay even for one night. Sonny offered Dean the chance to stay permanently, but Dean reluctantly left because he couldn't leave Sam.
In New York, Dean, Sam and John were working on a haunting in Long Island when Dean and Sam asked John to let them go out into the city and enjoy the sights. After convincing John, they all go out, see the sights, ride on the subway, eat a lot of pizza, etc. Then one night at midnight, when Sam and John are tuckered out and sleeping, Dean snuck away from them and went to CBGB where he gets completely drunk for the first time, despite being *"way underage at the time"*, according to Sam. Dean snuck in to the bar, and he describes it as *"nuts."* He saw people drinking, smoking, etc. Dean says he saw a *"500-pound guy on stage with a mohawk just screamin'."* Dean's mind was blown and was not sure of what to do. Then a woman walks to Dean and asks him to join her and her friends at a table, which Dean immediately agreed to. Though they get him drunk, Dean says it wasn't *"fun drunk."* He wasn't sure what was in the drink, but after drinking, he saw that the room started spinning and he even felt like he was gonna throw-up, forever. But at that same moment, John then shows up, and when he says "Dean Winchester", everyone around Dean is suddenly afraid of him, nobody was even looking at him. Dean was freaked out because John was just standing there not saying anything. Even a boy with a safety pin through his nose and a "Kill Everything" tattoo says to John, *"Sorry, Sir"*. So after getting him out of there, Dean yelled at him for embarrassing him and tells John he hates him. But John stopped, turn to Dean, and responds, *"Son, you don't like me? That's fine. It's not my job to be liked. It's my job to raise you right."*
Sometime later in 1995, Dean goes on a hunt with his father and burns the monster they were hunting in the nearby woods. As it burns, Dean thinks to himself he's only sixteen and he's seeing things normal teenagers would never even know of. From that point, Dean chooses to forget being regular and embraces the hunting life.
During the summer of 1997 John, Dean, and Sam were hunting a werewolf. In November 1997, John "parked" the kids in a small town in Indiana where they attended Truman High School. While Sam was having trouble with a bully named Dirk, Dean got a girlfriend, Amanda. He became uncomfortable when she asked him to meet her parents. When she caught Dean cheating on her with another girl, she challenged him, charging that his "cool", persona was just a cover for his pathetically sad loneliness.
Dean never graduated high school, but did manage to get his GED. Around 1998, Dean and John left Sam alone to go hunt a Kitsune. At this time, Dean also gave Sam advice over the phone on how to talk to girls.
In 1998 or 1999, Dean went on a road trip that was supposed to be "5 states, 5 days" while Sam was "in Orlando with dad, wrapping up that banshee thing". However, he spent most of his time in Lisa Braeden's loft.
Sometime between 2001-2005, Sam left for Stanford. While there, he became estranged from Dean and his father and didn't speak to them for at least a couple of years. During this time, Dean met Cassie Robinson while he and John were in Athens, Ohio, for a hunt. She and Dean dated for a couple of weeks. Before Dean left, he told Cassie the 'big family secret' about hunting. It was then that Cassie promptly called him 'nuts' and dumped him. Dean hunted a Vetala by himself during this period.
On June 21, 2003 in Nyac, New York, Dean hunted Edward Trenton, a man who had become an unknown species of monster that ate livers. Dean never encountered Edward's race of monster before or since but was able to kill him by slitting Edward's throat with a silver-coated steel knife. After killing Edward, Dean was found by his 13-year-old son Cole who believed Dean had murdered his father.

## Appearance

Dean has green eyes, light freckles on his face and short-cropped Ivy-league hair that is dark blonde. He is 6'1"--ironically making him shorter than his younger brother Sam--and muscular. Dean is noted to be "handsome" or even "pretty" by others constantly.

He usually wears a plaid shirt over a T-shirt, jeans, and boots, unless he has to wear a disguise in order to impersonate someone. Dean often wears his father's leather jacket, he also wears a watch and a silver ring.

## Personality

Dean Winchester is an understanding, funny, mischievous, and, in contrast to his younger brother, a little immature.

At an early age, Dean was trained by his father, John Winchester, to hunt and kill creatures of the supernatural. However, unlike his brother Sam, he did not resent his father for having him "raised like a warrior". He seemed to prefer hunting the supernatural over any normal "apple pie" life. Though when he was sixteen, he did in fact desire a normal life: He just couldn't leave Sam. This did not last long, as later on - while still sixteen - following a werewolf hunt, he realized just how unique his life was.

## Name

* **Dean** is a masculine name of English origin. The meaning of the name is "leader" or "valley". Which is quite fitting, as he normally leads the events of the hunt. His name comes from his maternal grandmother Deanna Campbell.

## Skills

* **Expert Hunting Skills:** Trained by his father from early childhood, Dean possesses excellent combat and hunting abilities; he is established throughout the series as an extremely dangerous individual, and he is more than capable of taking a stand against even the most formidable of opponents. Sam lists Dean as the best hunter he knows of beyond more experienced hunters such as Bobby Singer and their own father.
	+ **Expert Hand-to-Hand combat:** Dean is adept with martial arts, and knife fighting as well; he has subdued several human assailants with ease in multiple episodes and bested physically more powerful creatures, often unarmed or equipped with only a blade. Dean has also beaten his younger brother Sam in a fight a few times.
	+ **Marksmanship:** Dean is well-versed with multiple types of firearms and is an expert marksman, he seldom misses his intended target and can efficiently put down anything vulnerable to bullets.
	+ **Master knife wielder/Knife-thrower:** Dean is highly skilled with knives. Dean has used a variety of knives to successfully kill numerous counts of supernatural enemies. Dean is also a skilled knife thrower.
	+ **Tactician:** Dean is also a proficient tracker and possesses prudent tactical skills. Highly resourceful, he frequently utilizes improvised weapons and explosive devices; on December 3, 2006 he demonstrated in constructing Molotov cocktails and improvised explosive devices.
* **Intellect:** Dean possesses extensive knowledge of supernatural mythology. He is well-versed in how police, fire departments and various government agencies (FBI, CDC) typically operate and conduct investigations. He also knows how to both impersonate and evade them effectively. Dean is a virtuoso of escape, evasion, silent movement, and when the situation requires, subtlety and stealth. Lastly, he is also alarmingly skillful in many areas frowned upon by the law: lock picking, breaking into security systems (not so much computers, which often falls on Sam), car jacking and gaining an 'advantageous purchase' comes naturally to him. Dean states that he believes himself to be a simple grunt but according to Sam, he's a lot smarter than he gives himself credit for.
* **Leadership Qualities:** Dean has shown on several occasions to be a natural leader, when operating in groups, he commonly takes command, unless the group includes someone who he himself sees as a leader, such as his father or Bobby. Between him and Sam, he nearly always calls the shots, and acts as de facto leader. Dean also has a skill for motivation, and is a capable orator, being able to motivate others to remain strong and carry on, even in darkest moments, with mere words. This skill also allows him to inspire trust in others, something which comes in handy, when he has to explain the existence of the supernatural to non-believers.
* **Strategist:** Dean is also shown to be quite a capable strategist, able to come up with many quite clever, and unorthodox methods of defeating his more powerful opponents.

## Health and Vitals

* Almost died from a car accident caused by Azazel as well as prior injuries from Azazel [July 18, 2006]

## Deaths

* July 19, 2006

Dean came close to death and almost went with the reaper Tessa when in a coma from the car accident, only saved because Azazel resurrected him as part of his deal with John.
## Notes

* Dean has road rage when stuck in traffic.
* Dean is a big movie buff. Sam stated that Dean knows all of Clint Eastwood's movies line for line, especially the "the monkey movies." He is also a huge fan of Chuck Norris. He also claims "Untouchables" is one of his favorite movies.
* Dean suffers from pteromerhanophobia (fear of flying).
* He is allergic to cats and he also strongly dislikes dogs for some unknown reason.
* He is into hentai (anime porn).
* He sometimes watches Oprah.
* Dean's favorite food (with the exception of pie) is a bacon cheeseburger which, in his heart, believes to be as good as sex.
* One of his favorite weapons is a two shot sawed-off shotgun.
* He is a good cook, which impressed both Sam and Kate.
* Dean's favorite song is a tie between Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" and "Traveling Riverside Blues."
* 1983 - Prior to Mary's death, Dean played t-ball.
* Dean's Impala was a gift from John, which is why he's so protective of it.