The popular TV series Supernatural , which has won millions of fans around the world, including among Russian viewers, talks about the journey of two brothers exterminating evil spirits in the name of saving the world. The series became fertile ground for fan art, and many talented but unrecognized authors began to create fanfiction based on the supernatural fandom, which express their vision of the plot and their attitude to the series, fantasies and thoughts, and make it possible to redraw the lives of the characters to their taste.
What is fan fiction?
Fan fiction is a free continuation of a favorite fiction or literary work, a fictional story that the author develops at will. He builds a story based on a fictional world, takes ready-made heroes and their personality, builds on the original plot.
Today amateur art has gained unprecedented popularity among people. They have no commercial benefit, since by and large they violate copyrights. Most often, the creators of fan fiction are teenagers or young people, on whom the series, anime, book or comic book made a lasting impression.
The Story of the "Supernatural"
The popular mystical series Supernatural tells about the adventures of two brothers - Dean and Sam Winchesters. Their life is filled with mysticism, paranormal phenomena, the confrontation between good and evil, the enmity of hell and paradise. In a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala car, they drive around small cities in the United States of America, investigating mysterious crimes and destroying evil spirits. On their way they fell into serious alterations: they died, fell into hell, lost their souls, released demons, moved in time.
Fandom series
To date, 14 seasons of the cult film project have been released. During this time, anime, comics and books were published, and the characters of the “Supernatural” became frequent guests of the Comic-Con, so millions of fans from all over the world, imbued with the fantastic life of the brothers, create their own adventures, write fanfiction on the supernatural fandom.
Outwardly attractive and charismatic characters have acquired a large-scale string of fans who tirelessly fantasize about stories with their participation, come up with frank love scenes, combine characters into romantic couples, invent new villains, tell everyday incidents from the brothers' past lives, for example, how a father flogged his sons. Supernatural fan fiction gives a wide scope for a fantasy flight.
Fan art
Fandom allows writers to show their creativity. The authors draw their storyline, create a completely new story, adding characters from other franchises, include themselves in the story, unite the characters they love, develop the episode they like more deeply, rewrite the endings invented by the scriptwriters.
A written story may be:
- storyline;
- prequel or background;
- sequel or subsequent events;
- triquel, quadriquel, interquel.
The size of an amateur work has no restrictions: from small ones on one page, to an average novel of 70 or more pages. At the same time, different age categories are distinguished: for children, adolescents and adults.
Many sites on the Internet offer authors the opportunity to express themselves and share their work with other fans. Supernatural fan fiction on Fickbook is one of the prime examples.
Categories, couples and genres in works on the TV series Supernatural
The main characters and events that the authors describe in their works have only a distant resemblance to the original stories that the scriptwriters created. Over the years of development, such creativity as fan fiction has provided great opportunities for writers, allowing them to bring men into romantic and sexual relationships, add the main character - Mary Sue, unite characters from different fandoms, transfer events to the past or future.
The slash - the relationship between men, as well as jen and geth - gained great popularity in the work of fans of the "Supernatural". One of the most popular but morally controversial couples is Dean / Sam Winchester. Fans so succumbed to the charm of the heroes that the fantasies of their brotherly love grew into something more and forbidden - incest.
The storyline of all fan fiction can be built on a romantic and sexual relationship between the characters, complement the mystical battles of good and evil, increasing the rating.
Equally popular is Peyring - Castiel + Dean: a person saved from hell becomes a lover of an angel, and Cas, helping and accompanying his brothers, takes care of them. No less attractive is the fierce and emotional pair of Lucifer + Sam, being even more controversial. Internal monologues are inherent in her, the struggle with himself, because a fallen angel beckons so.
But not only male relations were developed in fan fiction, so femleslash - a female romantic couple, is also very popular. The favorite heroines for this were Ruby and Anna - good and evil.
Popular site - Fitbook
One of the most popular and sought-after sites for fan fiction authors is the Supernatural fan fiction book, which has over 36,000 works, which are updated daily with new chapters.
Users are available for commenting, reading recommendations, criticism and evaluation. The most famous works are in the "Popular" column. Depending on taste preferences, you can choose:
- genre;
- Peyring, that is, a combination of a pair (m / f, m / m, f / f);
- focus, that is, what is the main theme in the plot: love, friendship, sex;
- development of events: from the most incredible and fictional, to as close as possible to the plot of the series.
Navigating the site allows you to find and read any fanfiction on the Supernatural fandom: John ripped off his sons, turned Dean into a demon, individual stories with Castele or Crowley and much more.
In order to understand what the story will be about in the story, you can familiarize yourself with the Sammari, that is, a brief description. Some authors insert into it an epigraph from their own or already published works.
Crossovers and Original
Any author can share his work with other people. Crossovers, that is, a combination of stories and heroes from different series, games and movies, have become a popular trend among the creators of their own stories. Fanfiction on the "Teen Wolf" and "Supernatural" fandom successfully combined storylines and characters. The result is a vivid and epic narrative filled with fantasy characters: werewolves, demons, and people. In addition, crossovers are widespread: "The Vampire Diaries", "Original", "Doctor Who", "Harry Potter", as well as the superheroes of the Marvel universe and computer games.
Adding a real character to the story, most often with his words, the author narrates, allows you to fulfill a dream and travel to the fantasy world, becoming the main character and getting to know the idol.
Much has not yet been written
The fanatics on the series “Supernatural” have gained popularity among many writers who enthusiastically delight readers with interesting creativity, acquiring their own fans. Mystical wars, original characters, beautiful actors give rise to interesting narratives that can become an independent plot for the series. Many genres, categories and ratings allow you to invent incredible events where you can recognize a character only by name, but from this they do not become less interesting.