In case anyone wants to play--Osric Chau will bring you food if he really likes your Kevin Tran transformative work.
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Criteria: Create and be creative about it
Theme: Kevin Tran
Rules: Post your entries or a link to them in the comments section below. Three winners in total, Top two entries with the most likes and an entry voted on by a council of my friends.
Prize: I'll be taking the 3 winners out for food (of the winners' choice) before or after the Supernatural convention in Dallas in mid-late September 2013.
Good luck to all and make things that never could have been without your efforts!
What is not adorable there?
It's on.
I just had a flash of inspiration for a drawing when I read your post, and I think it's just the ticket to ease myself down with after my current deadline is met.
Symbolic image of a drowning Kevin underwater, lit by shining beams of light from above, trying to cut apron strings that are strangling him with a slide rule. Ghosted faces of Dick Roman, Crowley, and the Winchesters in the background, border of stone tablets and Da Vinci's Demons-style geometrical lines.
I like the equation of the Winchesters with the evil in his life.
I've only drawn him once. He doesn't come to mind visually (well, I do have a recurring visual of Meg babysitting him, and subsequent exasperation--I'd say it's a shame we never got to see friction or synergy with him and Garth, except a) I don't like Garth and b) I like Qualls much better on Jefferies show. Still, him and whoever is watching him would be great.) often for me.
I was thinking pressure/responsibility more than evil
per se
, but I think they contribute about as much to his stress as the villains.
They all fucked his life up, no matter how lofty their motives.
No Mama Tran? If you're talking about stress, I think that she was a bit of a contributor. Not that I didn't love her.
I'm assuming the apron strings allude to her, but I wouldn't line her up with the other stressors myself either. It's a different impact, and I think putting the Winchesters side by side with demon and Leviathan is telling in a different way from apron strings.
eta: IO9 has an article about lovable characters that became jerks, and I stayed long enough for the Castiel mention and will rebut that as long as they engage me. I was really looking for a John mention. But it was swiftly followed by Sam and Dean, and I'm out.
But but but, Cas
started out
as a jerk! Actually, at some point in his first season he became a loveable jerk, which then retroactively applied to his first appearance.
And then he became adorkable and the butt of jokes and became extra tragic and frustrating, but I don't think I'd quantify his various betrayals of Dean as "becoming a jerk". He became megalomaniacal for all of three minutes before disappearing. And then he was sad and crazy and repentant.
