Snarky, younger-brother-protecting Michael was pretty obviously Dean-esque in Something Wicked, too.

Consuela, if you would take up the banner for nilchance, I'd read it, and trumpet your praises far and wide. I'm frustrated by there not being more there, too.

I think I'm going to re-read Gimme Shelter and Paint it Black, follow it up with Cartography in Empty Spaces and Edge of the Known World and go to bed.

Point: is it okay to put links to SPN fic in the SPN thread? Or should I confine them to the fic rec thread, even if they're to older stories?

::bounces:: But you know it would be even better pain? If Sam knew also (I don't know how he found out) and never told Dean.

Which can play into the "Sam taking care of Dean" role reversal that I also want for S3.

On one hand, I was thinking I'd like to see Dean interacting with a younger kid, and that a ten year old would be not so ready with the affection and wooby factor. Old enough to be weird, maybe. And definitely old enough that taking them out of their normal life and onto the road would be a major culture shock. But on the other hand, perhaps just old enough for Dean to try slapping a gun in the kids hands and teaching her (or him) to shoot.

Bev, could you pretend that you're discovering the fics for the first time and post the links?

(IOW, I don't mind you posting old links and selfishly don't want to have to wade through a bucket fic thread to find one or two fandoms I like. I like this one central location for all things SPN. But that's just me.)

Cartography in Empty Spaces, followed by Edge of the Known World. There's a "prequel" to Cartography, from Dean's POV, here, but I'd read it after Cartography, for more sense-making. And there's an author's commentary on Cartography, here, if you like that sort of thing.

Personally, I hope any children that might appear outside of Sam & Dean flashbacks will be monster chow by episode's end. I'm hard pressed to think of a show less tonally suited to spending time with the leads cooing over cute little Cousin Oliver.

I'm hard pressed to think of a show less tonally suited to spending time with the leads cooing over cute little Cousin Oliver.

Word.

Sam: "Name three children that you even know."
Dean: ::thinks, scratches his head::

cooing over cute little Cousin Oliver

Ouch. You brought out the big guns.

Juliebird is me wrt fic and all things SPN.

Matt, what if the kid was someone like Jordan Hinson (Zoe, Eureka)? Not cutesy but just a good actor/actress. Eureka started with Carter being an awkward father although most of that was lost. Locking his daughter in a jail cell while he went to see about his car would totally be something Dean would do.

Word.

Sam: "Name three children that you even know."

Dean: ::thinks, scratches his head::

The Carter and Zoe dynamic from the pilot of Eureka is something that I enjoyed. I think it was similar to how Dean would try and figure out parenting. Because as Sam pointed out, they are aliens to Dean.

That said, I'm not advocating adding a child actor to the series. I'm quite happy with the way things are. If handled correctly though, I do see some awesome possibilities for stand alone episodes, or just really good fic. With.Lots.Of.Pain.

Matt, what if the kid was someone like Jordan Hinson (Zoe, Eureka)?

Fine with Eureka's premise, poison on Supernatural.

I have to agree with Matt on this one. On-show, it would be awful.

Fic, however, remains at the discretion of the writer(s), and is where a lot of wonderful stuff happens. Lotta dreck, too, but it is a venue for plotlines and characters that would never work in series canon.