"I've been on my best behavior." ↳ 13.12 - VARIOUS & SUNDRY VILLAINS
Sam and Rowena walking in the woods 😄
for @amaranthhiding
by Hiding Amaranth
Words: 7,292 (finished) Rating: Teen Relationships: Rowena/Sam, Rowena & Amnesiac Dean
Tags: Canon Universe, Episode 12x11, Missing Scenes, Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Life-or-Death Stakes, Magic, Witches, Rowena Realizes She Cares, Pre-Relationship, Sam Being a Prisoner, Amnesiac Dean Being Chaotic, Humor, Soft Rowena, Rowena Teaching Herself to Drive a Car to Save Sam
Point-of-View Characters: Rowena
Summary: When they hear Sam's blood-curdling scream over the phone, Rowena is far more affected than she thought possible. She has to make up her mind whether or not to turn her back on the Winchesters in their dire need—and how far exactly she'll go to save them. (Or my version of what happened in episode 12x11 between Sam's scream and the moment we see Dean wake up in the Impala, plus two additional new scenes at other blank spaces where the episode faded to black. And all of that from Rowena's point of view!)
Written for the Sam Winchester Rare Ships Week 2023 Day 6: "Missing Scene / Episode Tag" hosted by @spnrareships
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and I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me, the same way I think of you.
Are there any characters that think would've improved the show by being included in TFW or TFW 2.0?
Rowena is a character I would have loved to see interact more with TFW/2.0. I agree with Mark S. that the character arc with Crowley was not well set up. I think they would have been more fun as ex-lovers. She has a great... I don't know how to describe it, sensual energy? The way she flirts with all of TFW, but it's not serious, and it's clear she's also doing it as a power move.
Some of my all-time favorite scenes in Supernatural involve her. I love it when she has the heart to heart with Dean in Regarding Dean. It's a scene where she reveals a lot of herself, but we also see more of Dean. It's a great episode where the characters are peeled back and we see into the heart of who they would be without the world of hunting making them so cold. Both she and Dean are stripped of their defenses. Dean not by his choice, but the fact that Dean has his guard down, allows her to put hers down.
In Various and Sundry, she has that amazing scene with Sam where they talk about Lucifer, and later they have that scene where she's asking for the page, and Sam's hesitating to give it to her before he finally gives it to her.
As with the Dean scene, she's revealing herself to be vulnerable in a way she hadn't before. How she connects to Sam and Sam's trauma in that scene is just so powerful. There was a lot of debate in the fandom at the time if she was lying or not. Dean thought that Sam was being played by Rowena, and a lot of people in the fandom felt the same. Maybe it's just because I love her character so much, but I really, really believed her in that moment when I was watching the show. It was just so well acted, executed, and it's one of the reasons why S13 is one of my favorite seasons.
That scene where he gives her the page is a scene of Sam believing in people, trusting in people that, based on past history, he really ought not to trust, but Rowena came through for him because he came through for her.
There's so many great other scenes I could give as examples, but those two are just some of my favorite all-time scenes in the show.
It's not exactly the same as with the Sam and Dean scenes, but I love how much Rowena flirts with Castiel, especially when she's talking by phone. According to Ruth, she ad-libbed a lot of the flirting, and I would have loved to see Castiel and Rowena solve the case together.
She had a way to knock Castiel off his guard, I think that was one of the fun things about their relationship.
I think one of the things that Supernatural does really well is to take these powerful characters and show their vulnerability. It's one of the things that attracts me to the show, especially seeing these strong, capable, smart, characters struggle with their fears and insecurities.
I love how feminine she is while being strong, and I think it's just so fun to put her in situations where she's using her femininity to be powerful.
by Hiding Amaranth
Words: 7,292 (finished) Rating: Teen Relationships: Rowena/Sam, Rowena & Amnesiac Dean
Tags: Canon Universe, Episode 12x11, Missing Scenes, Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Life-or-Death Stakes, Magic, Witches, Rowena Realizes She Cares, Pre-Relationship, Sam Being a Prisoner, Amnesiac Dean Being Chaotic, Humor, Soft Rowena, Rowena Teaching Herself to Drive a Car to Save Sam
Point-of-View Characters: Rowena
Summary: When they hear Sam's blood-curdling scream over the phone, Rowena is far more affected than she thought possible. She has to make up her mind whether or not to turn her back on the Winchesters in their dire need—and how far exactly she'll go to save them. (Or my version of what happened in episode 12x11 between Sam's scream and the moment we see Dean wake up in the Impala, plus two additional new scenes at other blank spaces where the episode faded to black. And all of that from Rowena's point of view!)
Written for the Sam Winchester Rare Ships Week 2023 Day 6: "Missing Scene / Episode Tag" hosted by @spnrareships
Banner created by the author Read Regarding Sam on AO3
If you'd like to be added/removed from my taglist for Samwena and/or other SPN content, let me know in a reblog, reply, or personal message. :) @spnrarepairbunker @fanficlounge @panthera-dei @samsrowena Excerpt under the cut
Hex bags. New body. So, what, are you some kind of WITCH now?
Samwena in 13x19 Funeralia
Excuse me while I fall into another obsessive Funeralia spiral. (I swear, every single time I rewatch any scenes, this episode gets me!) Or even better yet, join me on my descent!
When Dean tells Rowena that Sam is the one who’s going to kill her in every single one of her books, she is hurt. Ruth’s acting is absolutely phenomenal, you can see the hurt in every little change on Rowena’s face. It even goes far enough for her to have that little lip and chin tremble.
Jared’s acting is just as stellar because Sam’s guilt over the whole thing is tangible in the air between them. He is so torn by guilt, he can barely look at her reaction for two seconds before he has to swallow and avert his gaze.
Battle Of The Besties
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I know we’ve gotten quite fond of each other, haven’t we?
When I cast the transformation spell, I felt something else pushing back, some other thing inside him. It's volatile magic, powerful, and it's stitched to him like some kind of parasite. I was curious before, but now I am worried, so I'll ask you again, Sam. What did you do?
❣️SHIPS FEST 2022❣️ 🔺TOP 7🔺#1 Sam/Rowena - the ultimate enemies - to - friends - to - lovers 🔻OTP: I know we’ve gotten quite fond of each other, haven’t we?🔻
@spnhiatuscreations | favorite relationships/character dynamics | week 7 (2020) ↳ Sam and Rowena
I guess I don’t deal with it. Not really. I mean, I pushed it down and, um, the world kept almost ending, so I keep pushing it down, and I don’t know.
Sam Winchester Appreciation Week | Day 4: Sam's friends and family - Sam & Rowena
I chose Sam and Rowena because I adore their complicated friendship. Watching their relationship develop was one of the highlights of late seasons for me.