after that “josh hutcherson could be a winchester” post, i now cannot stop thinking abt that silly fourth winchester idea. the amount of parallels i could give u

starting w his name, which i honestly couldn’t rlly pin down until i rlly thought abt it - i was obvi thinking smth biblical to go w the ongoing theme, even considering dumb shit like john jr or michael. however, bc i am a sucker for symmetry/shit that matches, i think ‘evan’ works. as in adam & evan (like eve)? even though he and adam wouldn’t share the same mother, i like the idea of the parallel between them and adam & eve (wasn’t my intention to trans code him like that but fate works in mysterious ways) w one being the favoured and one being the punished/forgotten one. like maybe he made a mistake when he was young, or john thought of him as a mistake entirely and just never talked to him again. i was originally thinking since john knew abt adam, maybe he didn’t know abt evan but we like it heavy on the angst here.

i feel like they’d stumble on him so accidentally. like sam went nd did a 23&me and boom he popped up and they’re just flabbergasted. dean is more horrified that dad got around this much n he never realised it?? sam is obviously like “omg!! redemption time let’s not send this one to the cage. we can totally be good big brothers” but deans more hesitant bc of that. bc last time, adam was just another way to manipulate them and they still managed to fail him.

he’s definitely a late seasons character, not very book smart but definitely street smart. older than adam bc middle child angst. tempted to say he knows abt monsters, maybe john warned him or his mum as a courtesy, but he’s sort of a stationary hunter - like he’s got a steady (read: shit) retail job and he only goes after any baddies that happen to roll into town. but he’s just so “ugh, fine” abt it, despite being rlly good at it?? maybe he has a gaggle of brothers n sisters he has to take care of - opposite of adam being an only child. definite mommy issues bc every winchester child needs a matching set. sam n dean would show up doing the whole “we’re ur family” song n dance and he’s just like?? ok and. u want a cookie or smth?

“don’t u wanna kn-“

“no thank u.”

like GRRR maybe he doesn’t have the most to be mad abt as a winchester but he still has the right to be a little angry at the cards he’s been dealt but he’s not he’s just. so weary. he’s the most patient guy in the world but blunt as a fucking baseball bat. no interest in knowing his dad bc he forgave n forgot that shit ages ago. nd what interest he has in his half brothers is squashed bc god forbid he do smth for himself n not his siblings. bc he’s always been the eldest, never known anything else

idk how oc content works around here but i just wanted to put out my idea bc i hate doing it into my notes app