Supernatural fanfiction: description, features and interesting facts

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The popular series "Supernatural" (Supernatural), which has won millions of fans around the world, including among Russian viewers, tells about the journey of two brothers, exterminating evil spirits in the name of saving the world. The series has become a fertile ground for fan creativity, and many talented but unrecognized authors began to create fan fiction for the Supernatural fandom, which express their vision of the plot and attitude towards the series, fantasies and reflections, allow you to reshape the lives of the characters to your liking.

What is fanfiction?

Fanfiction is a free continuation of a beloved work of art or literature, a fictional story that the author develops at will. He builds a story based onon a fictional world, takes ready-made characters and their personality, builds on the original plot.

Today, amateur creativity has gained unprecedented popularity among people. They do not have commercial benefits, since by and large they violate copyrights. Most often, the creators of fanfiction are teenagers or young people who have been impressed by a series, anime, book or comic book.

The story of "Supernatural"

The popular mystical series Supernatural tells about the adventures of two brothers - Dean and Sam Winchester. Their life is filled with mysticism, paranormal phenomena, the confrontation between good and evil, the enmity of hell and heaven. On a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala, they drive around small cities in the United States of America, investigating mysterious crimes and destroying evil spirits. On their way, they got into serious alterations: they died, fell into hell, lost their souls, released demons, moved in time.

Series fandom

Today, 14 seasons of the cult film project have been released. During this time, anime, comics and books have been published, and the characters of "Supernatural" have become frequent guests of Comic-Con, so millions of fans from all over the world, imbued with the fantastic life of the brothers, create their own adventures, write fan fiction for the "Supernatural" fandom.

Outwardly attractive and charismatic characters have acquired a large-scale string of fans who tirelessly fantasize about storieswith their participation, they come up with frank love scenes, combine characters into romantic couples, invent new villains, tell everyday incidents from the past life of the brothers, for example, how a father whipped his sons. Fanfiction of the "Supernatural" fandom gives a wide scope for the flight of fantasy.

Fan art

Fandom allows writers to express their creativity. The authors draw their own storyline, create a completely new story by adding characters from other franchises, include themselves in the narrative, unite favorite characters, develop their favorite episode deeper, rewrite the endings invented by the writers.

Written history can be:

• main storyline;
• prequel or backstory;
• sequel or subsequent events;
• threequel, quadriquel, interquel.

The size of an amateur work has no limits: 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, teenagers and adults.

Many sites on the Internet offer artists the opportunity to express themselves and share their work with other fans. Fanfiction of the "Supernatural" fandom on Ficbook is one of the clearest examples.

Categories, couples and genres in works on the TV series "Supernatural"

The main characters and events that the authors describe intheir works, have only a vague resemblance to the original stories that the writers created. Such creativity as fanfiction, over the years of development, has provided ample opportunities for writers, allowing them to bring men into romantic and sexual relationships, add the main character - Mary Sue, combine characters from different fandoms, transfer events to the past or future.

Slash has gained great popularity in the work of Supernatural fans - the relationship between men, as well as jen and geth. One of the most popular, but morally controversial couples are Dean/Sam Winchesters. The fans so succumbed to the charm of the heroes that fantasies about their brotherly love grew into something more and forbidden - incest.

The storyline of all fanfiction can be built on romantic and sexual relationships between the characters, complement the mystical battles between good and evil, thus increasing the rating.

The pairing Castiel + Dean is no less popular: a man saved from hell becomes the beloved of an angel, and Cas, helping and accompanying the brothers, takes care of them. The furious and emotional couple Lucifer + Sam is no less attractive, being even more controversial. She has internal monologues, a struggle with herself, because the fallen angel is so beckoning.

But not only male relationships have been developed in fanfiction, so femslash - a female romantic couple, is also very popular. Favorite heroines for this were Ruby and Anna - good and evil.

Popular site -Fitbook

One of the most popular and sought-after sites for fanfiction authors - the fanfiction book for the fandom "Supernatural" has more than 36,000 works, which are updated daily with new chapters.

Users can comment, recommend reading, criticize and rate. The most famous works are in the column "Popular". Depending on taste preferences, you can choose:

• genre;
• pairing, that is, a combination of a pair (m/f, m/m, w/f);
• direction, 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 Supernatural fanfic: John flogged his sons, Dean's transformation into a demon, individual stories involving Casteel or Crowley, and much more.

In order to understand what the story will be about, you can read the summary, that is, a brief description. Some authors insert an epigraph from their own or already published works into it.

Crossovers and original

Any author can share their work with other people. Crossovers, that is, the combination of stories and characters from different TV shows, games and movies, have become a popular direction for the creators of their own stories. Fanfiction of the Teen Wolf and Supernatural fandoms successfully united in storylinesand characters. The result is a vivid and epic narrative filled with fantasy characters: werewolves, demons and humans. In addition, crossovers are common: "The Vampire Diaries", "The Originals", "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 the author narrates from his words, allows you to fulfill your dream and be transported to a fantasy world, becoming the main character and meeting an idol.

Much more to be written yet

Supernatural fan fiction has gained popularity among many writers who enthusiastically delight readers with interesting work, acquiring their own fans. Mystical wars, original characters, beautiful actors give rise to interesting stories 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 this does not make them less interesting.